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After Valve says no, Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs unite to get "very serious" about their very silly demand for a dwarf tag on Steam, and they want your help (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think it's more that it's a meaningless tag. Dwarf fortress and drg are totally different games. Do all games that have any amount of dwarves get this tag? Does LOTR count for Gimli, or total war Warhammer for having a Dwarf playable race, or elder scrolls for the dwemer which are dwarves?

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a huge dwarf lover, this would be great for me. I've loved playing dwarves ever since I played Golden Axe at the arcade. Whenever there's a dwarf as a playable character I'm more interested in the game. In fact, I dislike Skyrim for having elves but no dwarves.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Elder Scrolls lore, the dwarves are elves. So are the orcs.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

dwarves are elves

Blashphemy!!

[–] PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let me upset you further. Dwarves are just short humans, elves are just skinny humans, and orcs are just green humans. Halflings are human children, and gnomes are mischievous human children. We don't talk about the aarakocra.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Such clearly incorrect information doesn't bother me. It's not like you said elves were better than dwarves. THAT would upset me.

[–] PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, they are better than dwarves at basketball.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are lots of tags about themes, not gameplay. This would be one more.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is Dwarf really a theme though? Even in theme the sci-fi drg isn't really similar to traditional fantasy dwarves in Dwarf fortress.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

They diggy hole.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be the main theme, just something that's present in the game. As some of the other commentors have shown, there would be people interested in tags like that, so why not?

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

The article even says that in a similar vein there's official vampire and werewolf tags

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

You're damn right it is, cloud brained Umgi.