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PaybackJack posted:Know that feeling. I can't wait for the expansions already. TAKE MY MONEY drat YOU!!!! I'm more interested in the prospect of reclaiming an entire closet that is currently full of game boxes, condensing all the games into 2 bags that would be a permanent storage solution, and throwing the boxes the gently caress out. Because face it, the packaging for modern games is far more concerned with ease of manufacturing, shipping, and warehouse/store-shelf stocking/display than with anything like being useful for storing the game pieces for the end user in any sort of useful manner. Edit: okay maybe throwing them the gently caress out is a bit extreme (might want to break up the collection or trade/sell something at some point), but I could at least put them up in the attic or something. St0rmD fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Oct 8, 2012 |
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St0rmD posted:I came across this Kickstarter for a pretty awesome storage system for game collecting. I'm definitely intrigued by the idea of condensing a dozen game boxes into a messenger bag, but on the other hand, it's a little pricey. Still on the fence about whether I'm going to kick in, but I figured there'd be interest in this thread. I needed this two weeks ago when I was camping. I took a huge plastic bin filled with games. This would have been a lot easier, and saved more room for beer.
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Oct 8, 2012 21:39
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I like the way you camp! 
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Oct 9, 2012 00:56
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My loving mind just exploded.  Words with Friends, which began life as a IP-skirting knock-off of Hasbro board game Scrabble… is now a Hasbro board game. 
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Oct 9, 2012 17:05
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Beelzebozo posted:My loving mind just exploded.  More evidence of my conclusion that the majority of people on the planet with Internet connections have, paradoxically, no loving memory span whatsoever.
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Oct 9, 2012 19:50
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Last year, I hit the Craigslist roommate jackpot and moved into quite the boardgame collection: 7 Wonders Biblios Blokus Bohnanza Carcassonne (Inns and Cathedrals) Cards Against Humanity Catan (Cities and Knights) Citadels Dominion (Intrique, Prosperity) Hey! That's My Fish Lost Cities Pandemic Race for the Galaxy Tichu Ticket to Ride Torres Quiddler In an attempt to start pulling my weight (I was primarily the electronics/home theatre guy), I've since added: Agricola (new in slightly-dinged box for $28 at GenCon) Glory to Rome: Black Box In the Year of the Dragon Morels The Resistance Stone Age Space Alert I'm looking to continue expansion of our collection, but would like to round it out. 7 Wonders, Carcassonne, and Dominion probably get the most group play, but my girlfriend and I play Lost Cities and Morels the most. I'm also looking for a more complex "gateway" game that I can leverage to get my casual board gaming friends (who mostly play Catan) to bite on something a bit more meaty. Candidates for my next purchases that I've been considering are: A Game of Thrones: Second Edition or Battlestar Galactica as a means to lure my casual friends (who are huge fans of both shows) into trying something with a bit more depth. Innovation or Jaipur to play with my girlfriend. We tend to like two player games, and she hates anything with dice. Poor girl rolls far below what should be statistically realistic. Needless to say I don't get to play bar dice much anymore. Ingenious or Hive: Pocket as we are lacking in travel games beyond Lost Cities Any thoughts? I'm also taking general suggestions for things to try that would even out the collection a bit. I'd say we are more than good on worker placement games for the moment.
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Oct 9, 2012 20:08
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Love Innovation, and my girlfriend is always up for a game. I also love Hive Pocket, but I seriously can't find anyone who enjoys strategy/chesslike games. Annoying.
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Oct 9, 2012 20:52
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Tenderloin posted:I'm also looking for a more complex "gateway" game that I can leverage to get my casual board gaming friends (who mostly play Catan) to bite on something a bit more meaty. At the risk of aggroing half the thread, I am going to suggest with full sincerity that Small World has managed to fit this bill for me in the past.
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Tenderloin posted:Candidates for my next purchases that I've been considering are: Definitely pick up Battlestar. GoT is fun, but it can be complex and offputting to relatively new players, at least in my experience. Battlestar is complex too, but I think a bit easier to grasp, and everyone is immediately invested from the getgo. With GoT, it's not hard for a player to essentially get backed into an unwinnable position early game, especially if they're not regular board game players.
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Oct 9, 2012 20:58
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Beelzebozo posted:My loving mind just exploded. Ahahahaha. I can't wait for the Draw Something boardgame.
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Oct 9, 2012 23:36
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Quidnose posted:Ahahahaha. I can't wait for the Draw Something boardgame. http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_US/shop/details.cfm?R=2BB5C200-5056-900B-10EE-7B498EF948AA:en_US
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Oct 9, 2012 23:39
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Ahahahaha WHAT THE poo poo.
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Oct 9, 2012 23:42
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Harlock posted:You don't have to wait (buy now) Zynga posted:The top mobile drawing game has been brought to life! How anyone drew anything before this product is totally beyond me.
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Oct 9, 2012 23:54
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Siroc posted:How anyone drew anything before this product is totally beyond me. That's silly. It was called Pictionary.
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Oct 10, 2012 00:05
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First they made an Angry Birds board game, and I said nothing, for I acknowledge that it could be converted into a game of dexterity...
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To be fair, Hasbro is still pocketing a chunk of money for selling these games, and their rise in popularity is directly due to Zynga's efforts in pushing them. It's like Star Wars Monopoly, except instead it's Mobile Phone Scrabble/Pictionary.
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Oct 10, 2012 02:56
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I just saw this add on BGG.  Clearly what has been holding back the board game industry from really taking off is the lack of lateral marketing strategies into kitchen wares.Variant rule: Must play the game wearing a full pair of oven mits.
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Oct 10, 2012 07:38
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Cocks Cable posted:I just saw this add on BGG. Obviously if Monopoly, America's favorite game, ties its marketing to lovely-rear end McDonald's then Catan, nobody's favorite game, needs to tie itself to wholesome self-prepared meals.
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Oct 10, 2012 07:55
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I think there's some potential in synergizing board games with food. For instance, I think Dominion would work well with cross-promoting all-you-can-eat buffets. e: I'd probably apply Catan more to putting frozen meals in the oven myself.
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Space Hulk: Death Angel rules clarification? If you have a location card on your bottom marine and on your second from the bottom marine (both locations on the same side of the formation) and the bottom marine dies, do you move the bottom swarm AND location card up so that there are two location cards on the same side of your new bottom-most marine? Or does the swarm move up and the location card stays put with no corresponding marine next to it? I've really been enjoying Death Angel as a solitaire game but man, I don't think they could've made the rule book more disorganized and confusing if they'd tried. The BGG FAQ helps but I still can't quite work out the correct way to move locations and swarms around when someone dies.
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Lawen posted:Space Hulk: Death Angel rules clarification? When I play, I limit it to one location per side per player, so I'd move the other location up too.
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mongol posted:When I play, I limit it to one location per side per player, so I'd move the other location up too. Well now I'm even more confused. So if you have a situation like: M# = Marine and number in the formation L = Location card S# = Swarm and number of genestealers in swarm code:And Marine2 dies, should the board look like this: code:Or like this: code:E: VV Makes sense, thanks! Lawen fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Oct 10, 2012 |
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It's the second one. mongol just has a houserule because otherwise what happens is that location, once united together always remain together. Rules as written, if the marine on the bottom row dies and had a location/swarms they both move up and all other location cards stay where they are.
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Tenderloin posted:Candidates for my next purchases that I've been considering are: Definitely going to recommend Battlestar. My game group are fans of both shows and own both of the games but only ever play BSG. Then again, my group is really passive when it comes to games with direct conflict and are too paranoid to make/break alliance. If that's not an issue with you guys you'll probably enjoy either one of the games a good bit.
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Cocks Cable posted:I just saw this add on BGG. I've seen more than one set of pictures detailing a game of Catan played with cupcakes, so oven mitts almost make sense.
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CoolStuffInc is having a October sale with Descent 2E going for $42 with free shipping. Seems to be a good bit cheaper than I've ever seen it.
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For those of kickstarted Zombicide, I just sold my used copy on ebay for $300. I didn't think the game was as good as $140 merited, but it certainly isn't $300 good. So for anyone else who was disappointed by the final product, there is a lot of cash to be made right now.
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Quick opinions on Alien Frontiers? There's a copy at my local store and I've seen some video reviews that make it look pretty fun.
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pbpancho posted:Quick opinions on Alien Frontiers? There's a copy at my local store and I've seen some video reviews that make it look pretty fun. It's okay. I don't really get excited about playing it, but it doesn't offend me to play it. Being a game with a lot of dice, you can get royally screwed by "rolling poorly," (read: not getting doubles by turn 2 or 3, which allows you to get another ship/dice) and there are a surprising number of "screw you" elements, which some people may not be a fan of. The aforementioned hostile elements make the late game kinda chaotic, as colonies are exchanged or displaced or whatnot, making scores fluctuate turn by turn pretty greatly. Again, not a bad, medium-light weight game, and I don't generally turn down a game of it, but it's not something that I actively want to play. My tastes tend to swing away from Euro games, though, so take that as you will.
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Tenderloin posted:CoolStuffInc is having a October sale with Descent 2E going for $42 with free shipping. Seems to be a good bit cheaper than I've ever seen it. You got my hopes up it was real free shipping and not spend $100 free shipping.
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pbpancho posted:Quick opinions on Alien Frontiers? There's a copy at my local store and I've seen some video reviews that make it look pretty fun. In my experience it's horrible when played with someone who's prone to analysis paralysis since you only roll your dice at the start of your turn which makes it impossible to plan ahead. My last four player game took 4 hours because of a single AP guy who locked everything up. I like the game, but it can really drag on for far, far too long.
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quote:My last four player game (...Alien Frontiers..) took 4 hours because of a single AP guy who locked everything up. Wow - that's nightmare time. I would have faked a reason to leave at the 2 hour mark. We've played a fair bit of 4 player Frontiers, and never had a game take more than an hour. Alien Frontiers is fine. It's pretty much "the American worker placement game", with far more politics (and explicit randomness) than other placement games I've played (which have all been proper Euros where placement scarcity is the prime method of interaction, and it's non-political). It's light. There's a number of strategies to try (and they're made more variant based on rolls, cards, and opponent behaviour), but there's not infinite replay possibility. There's only so many ways you can approach the game, and those ways are pretty clear. Once everyone has the basics down and has a good state heuristic (ie. they can tell who's ahead), you'll find it coming down to politics and luck most of the time (which may or may not be OK for your group).
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Tenderloin posted:A Game of Thrones: Second Edition or Battlestar Galactica Skip Game of Thrones. It's great, but I hang out with a lot of board game people and I can still hardly ever get it on the table. There are always at least a games worth of people ready to play BSG. I've only ever played with all the expansions, so I can't speak to the base game. If she doesn't like dice with numbers, have you ever considered dice with symbols? For a 2-4 person, light, fast game, I love Quarriors.
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Electric Hobo posted:In my experience it's horrible when played with someone who's prone to analysis paralysis since you only roll your dice at the start of your turn which makes it impossible to plan ahead. My last four player game took 4 hours because of a single AP guy who locked everything up. It's at least less AP than Kingsburg, the other dice-as-workers worker placement game.
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Poopy Palpy posted:It's at least less AP than Kingsburg, the other dice-as-workers worker placement game. That's interesting as we played Kingsburg a while back and nobody seemed to take forever at it. I'll have to think about Alien Frontiers though, $50 can go a long way!
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Tenderloin posted:CoolStuffInc is having a October sale with Descent 2E going for $42 with free shipping. Seems to be a good bit cheaper than I've ever seen it. Hmmm. Considering to go for this. What's the consensus on Descent 2nd Edition? Have only played the 1st edition game once and it was kinda fiddly.
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Cocks Cable posted:Hmmm. Considering to go for this. What's the consensus on Descent 2nd Edition? Have only played the 1st edition game once and it was kinda fiddly. I think it's fantastic. It's really a lightweight tactical miniatures game with advancement rather than a dungeon crawl but it's easy to explain and learn (5 minutes to show people how to play) and fast and fun to play. Setup is quick and encounters take way less time than D1ed. I think it will have a lot of longevity with expansions
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I desperately wanted Descent 2e for my birthday and instead got buried in Arkham Horror expansions. Which are good.
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pbpancho posted:Quick opinions on Alien Frontiers? There's a copy at my local store and I've seen some video reviews that make it look pretty fun. If youve got one, theres an iPad version that just came out. Very basic but it's only 5 bucks and you can see if its a game you'd want to own.
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Electric Hobo posted:In my experience it's horrible when played with someone who's prone to analysis paralysis since you only roll your dice at the start of your turn which makes it impossible to plan ahead. My last four player game took 4 hours because of a single AP guy who locked everything up. Ugh I have had this. Most of my AF games go for about 2 hours because there's always someone who doesn't know what the hell to do with his dice, or that the number on the opposite side of a 2 is a 5, or he works out his plan just right then realizes he's one energy short and spends the next 5 minutes working out how to get it in the same turn.
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