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Backed the Canvas sequel, even though I haven’t been able to play the original yet*. I believe in it that much. *Because it’s currently in a different country from me
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StarkRavingMad posted:I don't know if this fully fits as a "Traditional Game," but if you like tarot cards, I think this is cool. Might also be a cool prop/inspiration for other tabletop games:
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Apr 14, 2021 20:18
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I've only played a few games of Canvas but my wife and I really enjoyed it so the expansion was an auto-backing.
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Apr 14, 2021 20:18
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There's something magical about the moment someone presents their completed artwork to the group and has to read off the silly name the cards gave it. More games should have the opportunity to give out secondary prizes based on how aesthetically pleasingly you managed to do something. Everyone knows that the game of Carcassonne is truly won by the person who manages to build their city in the shape of a cock and balls, after all.
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rantmo posted:I've only played a few games of Canvas but my wife and I really enjoyed it so the expansion was an auto-backing. Same, played it three times with my pod over the last year and it's been fun. Haven't backed the new one yet but I will before it's over.
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Apr 14, 2021 20:24
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Canvas was a hit with my family. And yeah that was an auto-back. Also, it's a really fun (and almost meditative) solo experience when playing versus "Vincent".
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Apr 14, 2021 20:56
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I absolutely love Canvas, I have no idea how they managed to make it so good on so many levels. It's one of the few games my girlfriend's flatmate will play with us, so the expansion was an automatic back as soon as I saw it was out.
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Apr 14, 2021 21:43
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Not sure why, but something about the campaign for Mythic Battles: Ragnarok is just not clicking for me. I'm pledged for a dollar because not getting Pantheon was a regret and I still might all-in the reprint of that, but I expected to at least be tempted by Ragnarok but something about it just isn't drawing me in on the same level. Maybe it's just that the Greek is fully mythic, whereas the Norse is drawing on some real-life figures. Maybe it's just that I don't trust the core team for Ragnarok to be as competent as the now-departed (if I understand correctly) core team behind Pantheon. Maybe I'm just looking for excuses to not buy a gigantic ton of plastic right now, particularly since HEXplore It has really caught my fancy. Anyone have any strong feelings, pro or con, on Ragnarok that might help sway my ambivalence? I'm really having a hard time mustering a care for it.
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Apr 14, 2021 22:40
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If, like me, you are also interested in the Canvas sequel but did not see anyone post a link, well, here is that link. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roadtoinfamy/canvas-reflections
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Ehhhh, I don't know. Only 9 Deaths?  I think Death (Motel) may be the best one
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Apr 14, 2021 22:50
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Genius Games have put their latest educational game up on KS. It's called Cellulose and is about how plant cells work. They manage to put out decent games without compromising the education aspect so this was an auto-back for me.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Genius Games have put their latest educational game up on KS. It's called Cellulose and is about how plant cells work. ...ok, fine, I'm all in, but I vaugely resent being so extremely laser targeted.
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Apr 15, 2021 04:04
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Why am I unironically hype for dumb deluxe train sets?.. Do I like trains?
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Infinitum posted:Why am I unironically hype for dumb deluxe train sets?..
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The next Marvel United game is up and this time it's the X-Men. Its doing quite well even by CMON standards. The question is: did anyone ever figure out a good use for the minis? The game itself is brutally underwhelming and I might never play it again, but those goddamn minis are great.
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Memnaelar posted:Not sure why, but something about the campaign for Mythic Battles: Ragnarok is just not clicking for me. I'm pledged for a dollar because not getting Pantheon was a regret and I still might all-in the reprint of that, but I expected to at least be tempted by Ragnarok but something about it just isn't drawing me in on the same level. Maybe it's just that the Greek is fully mythic, whereas the Norse is drawing on some real-life figures. Maybe it's just that I don't trust the core team for Ragnarok to be as competent as the now-departed (if I understand correctly) core team behind Pantheon. Maybe I'm just looking for excuses to not buy a gigantic ton of plastic right now, particularly since HEXplore It has really caught my fancy. Really? I kinda want it all and have no idea what to get. like either get both core sets or just one and a couple of the add-ons for that set. If you're not feeling Ragnarok then just get Pantheon and be happy with that? Honestly wish I felt the same way I don't even know how you'd go about transporting and playing all of it anyway
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/itten-games/crash-octopus/posts/3158264 3000 orders, no tracking. What can possibly go wrong?
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SelenicMartian posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/itten-games/crash-octopus/posts/3158264 Yeah, I was very surprised to get that update as well. No tracking, please wait 3 months, good luck!
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Itten Games posted:If you don't receive your copy after 3 months (to give it one extra month given the pandemic), please reach out to your local postal service and inquire with them about your parcel, noting your name and address. 
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Apr 15, 2021 09:50
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lmao. not sure about other countries and postal services but that would be 100% useless here I almost backed that as well
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Apr 15, 2021 10:02
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Oh wow I wanted to back this because I thought it was gorgeous, but holy  at the "maybe it's stuck on the Ever Given" level of shipping.
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Yeah, that game looked great but I'm glad I didn't add to my low-level anxiety by backing it!
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EverettLO posted:The next Marvel United game is up and this time it's the X-Men. Its doing quite well even by CMON standards. The question is: did anyone ever figure out a good use for the minis? The game itself is brutally underwhelming and I might never play it again, but those goddamn minis are great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OunwXoqSY8 Zee Garcia of The Dice Tower said that unlike any other giant Kickstarter where you know you're never going to play the mounds of expansion content you get, he totally expects himself to work through all the characters and villains. He was kind of surpised at that.
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EverettLO posted:The next Marvel United game is up and this time it's the X-Men. Its doing quite well even by CMON standards. The question is: did anyone ever figure out a good use for the minis? The game itself is brutally underwhelming and I might never play it again, but those goddamn minis are great. Oh goddamn it. I saw the email about that and was going to skip it because I figured it would just be more of the same, but I completely forgot about the minis, which is why I backed the first one all-in (which turned about to be a metric fuckton of minis and totally worth it). Thanks so much.  But as far as what you can do with the minis - does it matter with minis, really?  there is that Marvel tactical mini game you could use these for I guess.E: omg the apocalypse minis!  OMG Longshot and Illyana!  I hope they make a Warlock 
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I wish I knew more about X-Men because while I recognized about 98% of the characters in the original campaign, I'm shrugging every time they reveal a new stretch goal here. I mean, they're cool characters, but I have no connection to them. I do know Legion/The Shadow King from the FX show and some characters from The New Mutants film, though, so that's cool. Maybe I should watch the 90s cartoon to brush up. I'm sure once they reveal the paid expansions, then the famous mutants will come out. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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Awesome, by the time I finish painting the shitload of minis from the first Kickstarter, I’ll have even more to paint! Where’s the cable/Deadpool expansion and the Mr. Sinister expansion that is just 6 different models for him?
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JazzFlight posted:For anyone who's wondering, I don't think this is a really common opinion (though it's completely valid for you to think that). While maybe the core game is a bit basic if you use all the wild cards in each character's deck (which makes them feel a bit samey), the expansions really add a lot of depth and challenge. Hmmmm. I didn't get all the expansions to the base game and so far I've only played with base box villains (although stretch goal heroes). I also did use the wild cards. Maybe I should be giving this game another try.
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Wasn't it a recent CMON Marvel Kickstarter that had the game out at retail while backers were still waiting months for their copies? Or am I misremembering that?
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The Marvel kickstarter had me at the Blob, but they really won me over with Firestar. I hope the game is cool but definitely mainly backing for the minis.
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I personally wish Marvel United had no minis at all. It's a game design I'd happily own and collect all of, having tried it through TTS. The core game (if you take out at least the double-wild, their so called "hard mode") is a pretty solid lightweight puzzle with a dash of color from the villain and individual heroes and locations. Sounds like the expansions mix it up quite a bit and add enough variety to keep spice in it for quite a while. And it's fast, so you could conceivably play it quite a lot. It's nowhere near as complicated and deep as I usually get into, or as narratively rich. But I like it, and if it were reasonably priced, I'd own it. However, a complete set as of this KS will end up running well over $400 by the end of the campaign, with huge swathes of content KS exclusive so there will never be a good point to buy it piecemeal. I have to assume the vast majority of that is the giant amount of minis, because everything I've heard suggests the rest of the production is pretty anemic - they're even separately selling thick cardboard location tiles because what you get in box is...not. I don't value minis at the best of times and additionally am not wild about the chibi/super deformed approach in this one. But I especially don't think it's a *game* that justifies costing several hundred dollars. So it's a total pass for me and it doesn't need to have been.
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EverettLO posted:The game itself is brutally underwhelming and I might never play it again, but those goddamn minis are great. I disagree. I find the gameplay quite charming and easy to digest. As a father of a toddler I need more of these style games than epic games that require I devoted attention.
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graventy posted:If, like me, you are also interested in the Canvas sequel but did not see anyone post a link, well, here is that link. I'm a bit disappointed the Deluxe version seems to come with things that change the game play (however slightly) because I probably won't bother with the wooden pieces. Not disappointed enough to not back though.
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Infinitum posted:Wasn't it a recent CMON Marvel Kickstarter that had the game out at retail while backers were still waiting months for their copies? It was this one, in a very roundabout "sort of" fashion. The base version of the game (7 heroes and 3 villains) was already in warehouses because it was made by Spinmaster or whatever and not CMON, and some Wal-Marts pulled the trigger and just started selling it because Wal-Mart don't give a gently caress about your Kickstarter entitlements. The actual game is like 78 heroes and 29 villains or some crazy thing, so it wasn't that much of a huge kick in the dick. The gameplay is though. I've tried it several times, including stuff from all the boxes, and the thing it feels is clinical. There's nothing about the heroes that especially feels like any particular Marvel hero, and the locations are pretty much the same way. We were like gently caress it, let's have Moon Knight, Howard the Duck, Squirrel Girl, and America Chavez fight MODOK in Wakanda, and other than the minis looking pretty cool not a bit of that character came through. Every turn was just "Okay, Howard plays his card for the turn displaying Move and Punch, and uses the Wild from the last card in play. Just like Howard, who is known to move and punch." Granted there's a few text cards in each hero deck with text (Yondu's Yaka arrow goes clockwise around the board to each location in turn, destroying a thug in that location, continuing to do so until there's no thugs in the next location" but those cards are just three of each deck's twelve cards, the rest are just variations on Move, Punch, Heroic, and Wild.
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JazzFlight posted:I'm sure once they reveal the paid expansions, then the famous mutants will come out. is there any indication more boxed expansions will be revealed? I figured it was just individual stretch goals and this was a smaller KS than MU.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:is there any indication more boxed expansions will be revealed? I figured it was just individual stretch goals and this was a smaller KS than MU. If this was some short week-long KS where they made it clear that it was a limited campaign, then sure, no more expansions expected, but this is different.
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djfooboo posted:I disagree. I find the gameplay quite charming and easy to digest. As a father of a toddler I need more of these style games than epic games that require I devoted attention. Fair enough. I have two kids myself and also prefer easier to grasp games, which usually leads me to more abstracted games like Santorini or Tak. This one felt abstract, but in ways that flattened the game experience. I felt like the heroes were very samey and their individuality or powers were noticeable on paper, but overall not a huge impact on play. Each game against a given villain played out almost identically regardless of the heroes used and there weren't too many surprises to how things went down. The villain design is better and they mostly feel very different. Looking into the advice from JazzFlight and some other Youtube videos, though, it looks like I inadvertently did everything possible to make for a bland experience. I will be giving it another try.
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theironjef posted:The gameplay is though. I've tried it several times, including stuff from all the boxes, and the thing it feels is clinical. There's nothing about the heroes that especially feels like any particular Marvel hero, and the locations are pretty much the same way. We were like gently caress it, let's have Moon Knight, Howard the Duck, Squirrel Girl, and America Chavez fight MODOK in Wakanda, and other than the minis looking pretty cool not a bit of that character came through. Every turn was just "Okay, Howard plays his card for the turn displaying Move and Punch, and uses the Wild from the last card in play. Just like Howard, who is known to move and punch." Granted there's a few text cards in each hero deck with text (Yondu's Yaka arrow goes clockwise around the board to each location in turn, destroying a thug in that location, continuing to do so until there's no thugs in the next location" but those cards are just three of each deck's twelve cards, the rest are just variations on Move, Punch, Heroic, and Wild. This is part of why people recommend playing without the wild cards, I think - makes the unique cards a little more prominent. Also, FWIW, the heroes in the X-Men KS stuff will have 4 unique cards. But I agree that that being the only variation means the heroes just feel mildly distinct and varied, not hugely so. One of the reasons I feel the price tag is so ridiculous.
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As someone who has little love for the Marvel license beyond watching some of the movies casually, I was fine with the mechanics being clinical. And yes, villains are where the replayability lies. Heroes aren’t all that different when you get down to it. If you play sans wild cards I assume it increases difficulty a tad too? Doesn’t that mean you have a 10 card deck?
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djfooboo posted:If you play sans wild cards I assume it increases difficulty a tad too? Doesn’t that mean you have a 10 card deck? Sure does. That's the difficulty adjustment mechanic, in fact. No single wild is moderate difficulty, no double is hard, neither is "heroic". By default I think the game is pretty easy as hobby games go so I think the general wisdom is you want to take out at least one wild card just on spec.
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Redundant posted:Looking at this and Canvas seems like it might sneak past my No Kickstarter rule (along with the button shy set from earlier) because it looks like a simple and charming game. The deluxe wooden components are really beautiful and feel great, but they are obviously unnecessary. The extra cards are a nice bonus, but I have yet to use the extra mechanical options.
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