DungeonCraft is designed to run excellently on a Pentium-100. We don't want to leave anyone out of the DungeonCraft experience. Although sometimes we poke fun at people with slow computers, the truth is that PII300MHz systems with not only a high end 2D video card but also an add-on dedicated 3D card are the exception rather than the norm. Locking out low end computers is not the answer. Relying solely on fancy effects or 3D acceleration is also not the answer.
Game play is very important.
But those games are at the top of their categories in terms of popularity. Who cares about an incredible 3D explosion, when after the explosion dies out you are left with a plain sky and a bare terrain with no detail. All the 3D in the world can't replace the simple power of the lines of text that appear in the text panel when you search a statue in DungeonCraft. A 3D interface does not convey smells, or your character's intuition about what kinds monster left those tracks. Now dont get me wrong, the visuals in DungeonCraft are just incredible.