[POLL] On examination quotes

[Cheggf]

Title. Thread. Body. Discuss. 

[_mylilsunshine_]

I inspect things because I'm role-playing as Walter to my audience (yoochube viewer). Inspecting things helps me learn the personality of the character and what kind of vocabulary they use, which makes the role-playing experience better.

Also Waltuh has the best voice and best lines, no questions no argument just facts.

[Zima Blue]

I inspect things all the time, the quotes are so cute 

[Cheggf]

13 minutes ago, _mylilsunshine_ said:

I inspect things because I'm role-playing as Walter to my audience (yoochube viewer). Inspecting things helps me learn the personality of the character and what kind of vocabulary they use, which makes the role-playing experience better.

Also Waltuh has the best voice and best lines, no questions no argument just facts.

Walter has some great lines. I love how he sings a parody song when he eats a tallbird egg or glommer goop.

[Evelo]

All the time. Personality.

More friends.

[42violets]

I'm so used to just examining everything whenever I have downtime that I need to remember to cool it when I'm playing with others so I'm not spamming them lol. I love the quotes and the characters' personalities so much

[hyoton123]

How else am i gonna know if these meatballs are meatballs?!

[NPCMaxwell]

VOICE VOICE VOICE!!!

(and everything else ^^ asides the scrapbook)

[Wormboi]

examination quotes are probaley the coolest thing about this game. What other game where you can examination everything and every character has something unqine to say?

[Swiyss]

If I'm farming and fruit fly appears, it's muscle memory at this point. Every time deerclops comes, bearger show up, giant depth worm etc..

Also, every single time I get a new item, I examine it. Like for example, when wormwood kills brightshade, he says "sorry", and I think that's adorable. So every single time I kill a brightshade, I'll automatically examine the husk on the ground.

Or as willow, for some reason I'll always examine the Stagehand , as she says "What's a weird table doing out here? Let's burn it!".

And her quote for pipspook gets me on a great mood every single time "What are you looking at, pipsqueak?". I always think like who wrote this lol. 

[Crimson Hollow]

“nitre here nor there. heh....”

[Radicaljoe]

Usually inspect things when I'm just walking around to keep me occupied because the quotes are usually always something interesting about a character, like Walter can make a grass whistle, or Woodie saying Willow doesn't bathe. Or they're a pun, which is always fun to read while walking from A to B. 

The other time is when it's something interesting, like the atrium portal, or the lunar extractor.

[Guihhza]

The survivors' characterization is one of the things I like the most about don't starve in general, I feel like individually they all embody somewhat unidimensional tropes but its done with so much care and attention that it just becomes really charming idk

[Cheggf]

Only 5% of people inspect things because it's helpful. Is it because everyone looks up guides, or do they not know about the helpful quotes? A lot of the inspection quotes can actually help you figure things out. Just off the top of my head they point out the moon stone needs to be repaired, they point out something goes into it, they point out that the suspicious statues are missing a piece, they point out certain interactions like needing to dig magma piles instead of pickaxe them, they point out that traders want to trade, they point out what to do with distilled knowledge (if you're Wormwood), and they point out when an assembled skeleton is correct or incorrect (although this is a little redundant since I don't know how you're supposed to get to this point by yourself).

[Valase]

9 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

Only 5% of people inspect things because it's helpful. Is it because everyone looks up guides, or do they not know about the helpful quotes? A lot of the inspection quotes can actually help you figure things out. Just off the top of my head they point out the moon stone needs to be repaired, they point out something goes into it, they point out that the suspicious statues are missing a piece, they point out certain interactions like needing to dig magma piles instead of pickaxe them, they point out that traders want to trade, they point out what to do with distilled knowledge (if you're Wormwood), and they point out when an assembled skeleton is correct or incorrect (although this is a little redundant since I don't know how you're supposed to get to this point by yourself).

This is a result of 5% of inspect-able items being needed for the world progress, and world progress alone. As in: your character tells a joke for every grass/twig/log/stone that you pick so when you inspect the rook nose to see what will be the joke, the character will tell the ominous message "it must be assembled on the new moon alongside its peers"

[gaymime]

meanwhile i'm just here like

 

[Mysterious box]

Personally I find some quotes interesting due to their implications. Like Wanda's quote for the aligned Wurts seem to imply Wurt usually decides to side with Charlie but when she sides with the lunar side and merms become Enlightened it goes very bad for the survivors.

[Echsrick]

alsol to see what is a......thing

[_mylilsunshine_]

how could you not love this boy...

[BezKa]

I love characters in this game, and the "just check what your character has to say" thing they've done is fantastic. Incredible way to shape a personality when there's no option for dialog, and makes the whole "all alone in the wilderness talking to myself" atmosphere even better. And there's even different quotes for other players depending on if they've done something recently.

In short, how could I not examine everything in my path?

[AliceShiki]

Can't say I ever paid any attention to Inspection Quotes.

Fluff can be cute, but it's usually not the kind of thing I care much about when I'm gaming.

19 hours ago, Cheggf said:

Only 5% of people inspect things because it's helpful. Is it because everyone looks up guides, or do they not know about the helpful quotes? A lot of the inspection quotes can actually help you figure things out. Just off the top of my head they point out the moon stone needs to be repaired, they point out something goes into it, they point out that the suspicious statues are missing a piece, they point out certain interactions like needing to dig magma piles instead of pickaxe them, they point out that traders want to trade, they point out what to do with distilled knowledge (if you're Wormwood), and they point out when an assembled skeleton is correct or incorrect (although this is a little redundant since I don't know how you're supposed to get to this point by yourself).

Well, DST is a very wiki-dependent game, so it's understandable that people would look up everything that matters on the wiki.

[Hollow soul 3]

If you're playing with others, you can use them as an extra chat. As a wortox, I love telling people they blew it before using the twintale 

[Cheggf]

3 hours ago, AliceShiki said:

Well, DST is a very wiki-dependent game, so it's understandable that people would look up everything that matters on the wiki.

That's not true. The only thing you need to look up is the final step in how to summon the Ancient Fuelweaver. 

[Chewabacca]

23 hours ago, Cheggf said:

Only 5% of people inspect things because it's helpful. Is it because everyone looks up guides, or do they not know about the helpful quotes? A lot of the inspection quotes can actually help you figure things out. Just off the top of my head they point out the moon stone needs to be repaired, they point out something goes into it, they point out that the suspicious statues are missing a piece, they point out certain interactions like needing to dig magma piles instead of pickaxe them, they point out that traders want to trade, they point out what to do with distilled knowledge (if you're Wormwood), and they point out when an assembled skeleton is correct or incorrect (although this is a little redundant since I don't know how you're supposed to get to this point by yourself).

Probably some sampling bias going on. Most people who come to the forums to talk about the game are already deep enough in it that the chances of them learning something new from the quotes is not high, or they're the sort who don't mind looking stuff up online anyways. There are also some quotes that are outdated/misleading, which can cause people to overlook the others: I got burned early on by Wilson saying that the science machine "breaks things down into their scientific components", which is probably a holdover from the era of research points that makes no sense anymore.

[AliceShiki]

3 hours ago, Cheggf said:

That's not true. The only thing you need to look up is the final step in how to summon the Ancient Fuelweaver. 

And that you should just put a sign out there and put a campfire right next to it to beat Deerclops without losing your base, and how to make basically any Crock Pot Recipe, and to get information on why armor is so important, and to figure out why some random craters appear in your base in summer, and to learn how to fight Antlion, and that you can feed monster meat to pigs to turn them into Werepigs, and to find out what the Pig King does, and to find out what each mushroom does, and to find out what's the point of going to the ocean, and to find out how insulation works and what are the good/bad items for insulation, and to find out how to free the Nightmare Werepig, and to find out how they're supposed to get eggs to get their Pierogis... And so on and on and on.

Sure, it's theoretically possible to play the game without the wiki, but let's not kid ourselves, the wiki is almost compulsory to play the game.

And no, the scrapbook is not a substitute for the wiki. Nobody playing with friends or in a pub will look at the scrapbook when it doesn't pause the game. They'll look stuff up in the wiki after they play and get confused about what they were meant to do.

(some of the things I mentioned aren't actually wiki knowledge, but more like guide knowledge that the person would probably get on youtube, but it's close enough)