RE: DWARF FORTRESS!
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Also, in an unrelated subject: the game isn't that difficult as people make it sounds. The most difficult part of it is bypassing the ASCII-graphics (that you always were able to, just by installing a graphics pack), and navigating the terribly-designed, most user-unfriendly UI in existence. And the Steam version fixed the UI (now you can do stuff with the mouse, etc.), so you're good to go.
Case in point: the most popular Dwarf Fortress tutorial Youtube series all focus 10% on "here's the strategy to be good at the game" and 90% on "here's how you do the stuff that you wanted as the button is hidden in a stupid 4th-layer menu with a totally unrelated name that you would never find out by yourself". The Steam version is 100x better now.
I had a feeling.
Thanks for validating.
tbh just being able to click around and play using the mouse already makes the whole gameplay experience way, WAY better. There were even mods (like DFHack) that tried to incorporate mouse-controls in the old version, but it was just trying to do something that the game wasn't designed to do (so lots of bugs, limited control, etc.). Nonetheless, being able to click around is SO good that all the community tolerated all the problems and bugs and kept using DFHack anyways.
Now that the game UI was recreated from scratch to allow mouse... superb!
LoL, is your avatar from Koncur's Bad Fur Day?
Yeah I get the feeling I'll get the hang of the game pretty quick with some direction.