Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good
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The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?

I always just point to Dwarf Fortress. Extremely complex mechanics that all work together (sometimes in unexpected ways; see cats dying of alcohol poisoning), all with ASCII graphics or simple 2D tilesets.

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Except for the thousand keyboard binds you need to remember

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Most things work via menus, the key bindings just speed things up.

Up until the Steam version of the game, the menus were solely controlled by the keyboard.

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I last played before the Steam release

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Yes, but you don’t have to memorize the keys.

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I don’t really know any of the binds and I’m having a good time.

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