I think they could have solved a twitter protest buy going with dwarves instead.
Rock and Stone
ROCK AND STONE BROTHER
We fight for rock and stone!
Did I hear a Rock and Stone!?
FOR KARL!
Rock and stone brother
Strike the earth
Okay… Thanks for the update.
LOL right? Like… neat. Cool that it finally got this random tag… Seems like a slow news cycle for gaming.
See? Valve does listen to its customers.
Huzzah!
Rock and Stone!
Rock and stone to the bone.
Big win for gamers
I for one went and marked 100% of my dwarf games with the custom title yesterday.
Glad to see that now that I helped, they’re gunna change it
How many dwarf games could there really be?
Is there an entire genre that I’m unaware of?
More than you would think…
The biggest two that pop into my head are Deep Rock Galactic, and Dwarf Fortress.
Both amazing games btw
In Warcraft 2 you can get dwarves and they make things asplode. That is all.
Warhammer Vermintide 1&2
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I was surprised to not see Baldur’s Gate 3 on there since you can play as a dwarf.
Sadly Baldur’s Gate primarily focuses on weak human city problems they got from being weak and human, the conflict of the Forgotten Realms dawi single handedly holding back hordes of goblins, orcs, giants, kobolds, duergar, and dark elves must be addressed by a different series I am now sad will never be made.
For rock and stone!
Thoses were the ones that actually campaigned for the tag.
Um… Mario…
Yet Smashmouth never ate the eggs…
Okay.
So basically this means there is a significant demographic of gamers that will play a game largely because it features dwarves?
Im sorry, I missed all the fuss about this.
I guess look forward to Dwarf Cart Racing and Dwarf Chess and Dwarf MilSim Tac Squad.
I was gonna say A Dwarf And His Horse but uh… well maybe it would work with dwarf horses. Thats probably got some appeal.
A Dwarf MilSim Tac Squad would be nice
Some Warhammer dev is taking this to a meeting right now.
Uh i call dibs on the idea.
Pay me, because I am a very creative modern game high level idea generator.
Oh, the state of modern games and game development.
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If you think vermintide in any way resembles a milsim tactical combat game, you are either delusional or have never played like RavenShield, SWAT 1 or 2, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (not fucking Seige), the ARMA series, even Squad, or Americas Army or hell even the NeoTokyo mod for HL2 way back in the day, or anything like that.
Vermintide is basically L4D2 with a thematic facelift.
Tooootally not a milsim or squad based tactics game where planning, preperation and training are key because one or two minor mistakes and basically mission fail, everyone dies.
MilSims and Tacitcal Squad Based Combat games are hugely defined by very tense periods of going as by the book as you can, punctuated by extremely intense moments that you often cannot predict will occur.
Vermintide, like L4D2, is more or less long sustained periods of intense, largely unrealistic, much more forgiving (far lower average TTK for the player) combat, with many more fantastical elements, and then the down time is generally minimized, unless you are an absurdly good team or are astoundingly lucky.
My bad, I keep forgetting some couch warriors keep trying to make “milsim” mean something besides shooter.
Ahahah ok so you obviously havent played many shooters, beyond the more or less generic slop of very popular fps games thatve come out in the last few years with basically very similar gameplay but different IPs/themes, ahaha.
It would simplify the control scheme somewhat as there would basically be no point whatsoever for a dwarf to crouch. Prone might make sense?
Can dwarves lean left and right around corners without going off balance and just falling over?
The idea of a a Ready or Not styled game with the comedy and tone of Deep Rock would be killer.
I would lol
A dwarf and his horse would rapidly become a dwarf and his lifetime supply of jerky
I hope to god you are not implying that the dwarf strips meat off the horse when its so cold the horse cannot feel it, ala valley forge us army survival tactics.
Absolutely. I love dwarves
Slippery slope guys. Soon we have tags like “windy” or “landscape” or “table”. :)
I think they did it because “let’s play along” but it’s still not a smart move. I guess they had to go along.
Seems like short headline.
Short headline, but goes deep.
Too deep, some might say 🔥
You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum… shadow and flame.
Lmao that happed so fast. Deep rock galactic and dwarf fortress teaming up really worked!
Steam gets free publicity (not that it’s really needed) and it all cost them was 5 letters.
WE DID IT!!!