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admanb posted:That could be an interesting variant, but you'd have to rebalance money and VPs to stop big money from being the only viable strategy. Black Market gives me all the quirky random card availability I need in my Dominion.
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Me: Oh cool, a Ghostebusters Boardgame! Brain: Kickstarter + Cryptozoic + Minis Me: 
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djfooboo posted:Me: Oh cool, a Ghostebusters Boardgame! Why are you and your brain different people?
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Feb 11, 2015 20:51
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Vlaada Chvatil posted:Why are you and your brain different people? Cartesian dualism.
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Some Numbers posted:As has been said, if you're hanging out with your friends and drinking and just want a thing to do while you drink and socialize, a lot of "bad" games will fit the bill. You've hit the nail on the head but the thing is that this leads to conflict when the distinction isn't clear, and every now and again it plays out here. One side looks at things the one way but the other assumes the other way. For example - this thread mostly wants to talk about boardgames from a technical side but people will come in and want to talk from the 'hey I had fun with...' side. Then they get told that game xyz is actually a bad game which really just comes across as a bunch of people telling them they're not entitled to the good feelings they had (and often reveling in doing so, for some reason.)
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BL, how come there isn't a kickstarter level for retail stores to get multiple copies of Final Attack? My FLGS regularly donates to KS games if they know they can get multiple copies to sell.
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Big McHuge posted:BL, how come there isn't a kickstarter level for retail stores to get multiple copies of Final Attack? My FLGS regularly donates to KS games if they know they can get multiple copies to sell. edit 2: it's live. Broken Loose fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Feb 11, 2015 |
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:You really don't need to. The shuttle puck thing is a cool concept (and the slight board edges are fine if everyone is cool with the odd "anomaly" sending their scouts spiraling out of the galaxy), but the game itself is pretty underwhelming once you get beyond the thrill of flicking spaceships around. A game like catacombs did really creative things within the dexterity mechanic (e.g. a shield is a wooden token you put in front of your dude, or an arrow is a smaller token you put within an inch of your piece and flick). Ascending doesn't really do any of that, and the empire building game going on in the background is really uninspired. So what are the best dexterity games? Crokinole, Catacombs, ..?
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Broken Loose posted:edit 2: it's live. Awesome, I'll let my local store know about it the next time I'm in (probably within the next week or so).
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fozzy fosbourne posted:So what are the best dexterity games? Crokinole, Catacombs, ..? Bamboleo
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fozzy fosbourne posted:So what are the best dexterity games? Crokinole, Catacombs, ..? PitchCar? If tossing is more your thing then flicking, Dungeon Fighter is pretty great.
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Based on the setting and tone of that video my assumption is that the loser of Bamboleo is put to death.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:So what are the best dexterity games? Crokinole, Catacombs, ..? Jenga   Holy poo poo that's awesome I need a copy of that game
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admanb posted:Based on the setting and tone of that video my assumption is that the loser of Bamboleo is put to death.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:So what are the best dexterity games? Crokinole, Catacombs, ..?
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Bambelo is awesome. This is a fact. I like to keep Ghost Blitz in my bag at all times (along with Coup and Hanabi), because it's the perfect match of dexterity, pattern recognition and phallic objects for any beer drinking situation. It does kinda separate people into those who get it and those who don't.
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Click Clack Lumberjack is the best dexterity game. Then Pitchcar, but it's incredibly expensive. Then Rampage/Terror at Meeple City, but the length of the average game is easily twice as long as it should be.
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Rutibex posted:Jenga I just snagged one off eBay, it is straight up amazing.
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Look at these fools who have never played Riff Raff
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So, thinking about getting Dungeon Lords. What is the difference between the base game and the Anniversary edition? I know it includes the expansion in a bigger box to hold it all, but is that it? Seems like it's cheaper to just get the two separately. Well the expansion is currently out of stock on CSI, but it could be bought later also. I know I got the big box of Galaxy Trucker and haven't really used the expansion components at all yet. Okay, so the first game we played had cards from the expansions mixed in because they don't include a list of which cards go with which set. Good way to lose super fast btw.
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Anniversary Edition has all of the expansion content to date, in a very nice box with very nice components. Get anniversary edition.
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If you order the anniversary edition it will get to you before mine gets to me, so I will tell you not to get it out of spite.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:So what are the best dexterity games? Crokinole, Catacombs, ..? Click Clack Lumberjack. I weas going to say Jungle Speed, but I guess that's more of a reflexes/pattern matching game. also it rules poo poo
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Jungle Speed is better than Spartacus if you're looking for bloodsport.
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Zveroboy posted:Oh BoardGameGeek, you do brighten my days. To be fair literally almost everyone replies with the befuddlement that you express in your post. It's not like it's a bunch of people agreeing with him. That post was just a one off by a newish board gamer that could have very well been made anywhere, including here.
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This just in: Archipelago is hot fire. Hot hot fire. Lots of moving parts, but it fits together so nice.
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Bubble-T posted:I know I've seen at least one person here say they enjoyed To Court The King, details about a 'remake' of sorts from Tom Lehmann and Bezier Games have just come out: https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/38707/new-game-round-lehmann-courts-power-favor-pharaoh Thanks for the tip... Part of the appeal of TCTK for me was the relative simplicity -- news that this one comes in a Ticket To Ride sized box is somewhat bizarre, but hey, I'll be checking it out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGk3U6CpWM0 France has cloned TableTop. More attractive people speaking a language I don't understand already means it's 10x more watchable than Wheaton's show.
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Bubble-T posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGk3U6CpWM0 It's only because you don't understand what they're saying...
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ETB posted:It's only because you don't understand what they're saying... I'm well aware of that.
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Got to try out my copy of Argent tonight. Only had one run at it so far and I'm still processing, but here are a few opening thoughts. - The game is dense. Even reading through the manual a couple times in advance and going over details with my players, our first round took easily twice as long as any of the subsequent rounds, entirely due to questions and trying to keep everything straight. - While there are a lot of details to consider, you quickly realize that each individual turn can only directly interact with a couple of them at a time, and stuff gets considerably faster once you know what you're looking at/trying to accomplish in that particular action. - Secret objectives and hidden knowledge add to the game considerably. Removing a bit of the transparency of goals that most worker placements have makes you second guess a lot of your opposition's moves. Is that person stockpiling mana just to throw out more spells later in the round, or is the 'most mana' objective in play and I just haven't seen it yet? - While at a glance I think each element of the game is useful to the overall big picture design, I think AP prone players are going to have a loving aneurysm trying to play this. There is so much to consider and so many potential things you can be doing each turn, certain people are going to just freeze up trying to play this. - The art and components are really pretty.
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ETB posted:It's only because you don't understand what they're saying... There are ever "better" Tabletop clones out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_xC6zwnItA
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Rutibex posted:There are ever "better" Tabletop clones out there: Those people are loving hideous.
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Man why can't boardgamers just be normal people, this hobby is making me feel dirty and shameful.
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snuff posted:Man why can't boardgamers just be normal people, this hobby is making me feel dirty and shameful. Rahdo is pretty normal. He's my go to review guy. Also that French tabletop is uncanny. They got a smarmy looking guy with a lame beard, a pale read head and a couple goony fellows. It even has the same set design concept and show layout.
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PyroDwarf posted:Rahdo is pretty normal. He's my go to review guy. Also that French tabletop is uncanny. They got a smarmy looking guy with a lame beard, a pale read head and a couple goony fellows. It even has the same set design concept and show layout. Few things are more painful than watching Rahdo try to make a move and spend like 5 minutes deliberating on what he should do, then take it back after he performs the other player's turn, all while the cam shakes all over the place. If you can tolerate that though, his videos are pretty good for learning games and I appreciate that.
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