Fafhrd on 31/1/2010 at 05:40
Yeah, it's not really a fun game, but it's been one of the most fascinating game experiences I've had in a long, long time.
I'm on cycle 23, and a brother is coming to kill me. But it's a different one each time I load that save, and I'm not sure I have enough usable colour to kill him, unless I'm very careful and very lucky. And I refuse to use the cheats, even if they were provided by the devs in acknowledgement that maybe they made the game too hard.
Pardoner on 31/1/2010 at 21:10
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
Yeah, it's not really a
fun game
Yeah, I remember feeling the same way after restarting for the third time because I just didn't have enough color to get shit done. It gets better once you have a few more glyphs (Ritual, Owl, Tumbleweed). The Brother fights can be fantastic or extremely tedious (Mantid) depending on who you're fighting. If you're having trouble gathering enough color, you may want to go back to a slightly earlier save, and try being more efficient.
Mr. K. on 2/2/2010 at 08:36
I'm playing the game too, up to cycle 14 or so, and it is GODDAMALICIOUS!
It's definitely not for everyone, though, you have to learn to chill out, plan ahead, don't trust too much what you're told about the world and sometimes just say "oh, fuck it, I'm gonna do this and to hell with the consequences!". Which usually leads to FUN (in the Dwarf Fortress definition of fun, of course!). It's not a game about your skill, it's more like a survival simulator in which you hace to do the best with the incomplete, flawed view of the world you're given. Kinda like being in the middle of a detective book.
So, you have to accept that you're going to fail sometimes (or, rather, going to have FUN) and that's okay. I actually think there's a good message there. Fuck. This game is awesome! If you're the kind to enjoy this kind of thing.
With this said, I don't really get how people are having so much trouble with it. Besides a couple of fuckups totally to be blamed on me, I haven't been thrown into a situation I couldn't get out of.
