TG Crowdfunding Thread 3: Far West has been released. That's not a joke.

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CODChimera: Jan 29, 2009

good lord MHW is doing well. Already better than MB: Ragnarok and I think Primal?

I guess board games based on video games are just money printing machines

# ? Apr 23, 2021 06:54

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# ? May 16, 2024 19:15

the panacea: May 10, 2008

I just realized that I'll actually receive my all-in Siege of the Citadel pledge from 2016 and I have no idea where to store it.

I completely wrote that off.

I guess I could make a wall of shame display with a bunch of video games (Hellgate London CE, Tabula Rasa CE, Age of Conan CE,...)

# ? Apr 23, 2021 07:27

Saltpowered: Apr 12, 2010; Chief Executive Officer
Awful Industries, LLC

An X-force expansion is being added to Marvel United X-Men as a backer reward for getting another 400k (as of this writing).

I'm sure it will blow past that.

Really just missing Kate and Nightcrawler at this point to have some of the most iconic mutants covered. And a sentinel or nimrod to cover iconic villains.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:57

DLC Inc: Jun 1, 2011

they ought to really just release nightcrawler and deadpool because Idk how much more steam this KS has

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:50

malkav11: Aug 7, 2009

CODChimera posted:

good lord MHW is doing well. Already better than MB: Ragnarok and I think Primal?

I guess board games based on video games are just money printing machines

I really don't understand why. I'm not sure I can even think of a genuinely great videogame licensed game. The Bloodborne boardgame (not from Steamforged) seems like it turned out okay, but I'm not personally inclined to rush out and stock up on it (and gosh, there's a lot of it to stock up on, some of which was probably KS exclusive). MH: World...I've watched two playthroughs and it simultaneously seems like it has a ton of systems and like it doesn't have that much depth or interesting decisions to make despite that. And is potentially *very* swingy.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:02

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

DLC Inc posted:

they ought to really just release nightcrawler and deadpool because Idk how much more steam this KS has

There's probably another 500-1M to go.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:02

90s Cringe Rock: Nov 29, 2006

Gears of War was very good.

uh

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:05

90s Cringe Rock: Nov 29, 2006

This War of Mine?

ok I'm out of great video game board games and I haven't actually played this one

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:06

The Moon Monster: Dec 30, 2005

I feel like Monster Hunter is a series that lends itself particularly well to minis that would do well on kickstarter, that probably has something to do with it.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:15

Chubbs: Feb 13, 2008; In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be.; Grimey Drawer

90s Cringe Rock posted:

ok I'm out of great video game board games and I haven't actually played this one

Super Motherload is a great example of a boardgame that manages to capture the feel of the video game quite well while still doing its own thing and being a good boardgame.

I've heard DOOM is also good.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:38

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

90s Cringe Rock posted:

This War of Mine?

ok I'm out of great video game board games and I haven't actually played this one

In a very on-brand move, the 'PvE patch' expansion to the Fallout boardgame moved it up to 'passable' from it's launch state of hostile-to-the-players Calvinball.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:43

Fate Accomplice: Nov 30, 2006

90s Cringe Rock posted:

Gears of War was very good.

uh

To emphasize, the gears of war board game is extremely good.

Also this war of mine.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:43

malkav11: Aug 7, 2009

Yeah, I mean...there have been good videogame boardgames. As far as I can tell, anyway. I don't own any of them, at least until Frostpunk arrives. But I mostly wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars for them on KS. And, well, haven't bought any of them just in general.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 15:46

Chubbs: Feb 13, 2008; In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be.; Grimey Drawer

Hopefully Divinity: Original Sin will be added to that list when it finally drops.

I'm very optimistic about it being good considering how Larian Studios has been working directly with the board game designers the whole way.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 16:07

silvergoose: Mar 18, 2006; IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS

malkav11 posted:

I really don't understand why. I'm not sure I can even think of a genuinely great videogame licensed game. The Bloodborne boardgame (not from Steamforged) seems like it turned out okay, but I'm not personally inclined to rush out and stock up on it (and gosh, there's a lot of it to stock up on, some of which was probably KS exclusive). MH: World...I've watched two playthroughs and it simultaneously seems like it has a ton of systems and like it doesn't have that much depth or interesting decisions to make despite that. And is potentially *very* swingy.

Starcraft was extremely fun, but is also extremely out of print.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 16:10

Bob Smith: Jan 5, 2006; Well Then, What Shall We Start With?

malkav11 posted:

I really don't understand why. I'm not sure I can even think of a genuinely great videogame licensed game. The Bloodborne boardgame (not from Steamforged) seems like it turned out okay, but I'm not personally inclined to rush out and stock up on it (and gosh, there's a lot of it to stock up on, some of which was probably KS exclusive). MH: World...I've watched two playthroughs and it simultaneously seems like it has a ton of systems and like it doesn't have that much depth or interesting decisions to make despite that. And is potentially *very* swingy.

Wait was there a Bloodborne board game that wasn't the very light card game that's basically a hidden bidding game with a vague theme of fighting creepy Bloodborne monsters?

I have that and there's one game and one expansion, I'm not even sure it was a kickstarter. It's quite fun though. The way it works is all the players look at a monster with an amount of victory points on it equal to its HP, and secretly pick a weapon or item card or retreat out of the fight to heal. Then the cards are revealed, the monster attacks the players and whoever survives takes a number of VP equal to the damage they dealt, with whoever dealt the last hit getting a bonus and anyone whose card resolves after the monster has no VP left getting nothing.

You then need to at some point bank your VP by retreating before you die. It has some limited card buying stuff where you buy better weapons and items, and monsters have varying rules that put a twist on the rounds, but it's ultimately a very light and not super thematic card game.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 19:19

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Galaga Galaxian posted:

I mentioned it in the Solo Roleplaying thread, but I think I forgot to post about it here. Starforged is launching its Kickstarter next Tuesday

https://twitter.com/ShawnTomkin/status/1385370335957065730?s=20

Thanks for that, and also mentioning the Solo game thread. Seems pretty sweet, and I downloaded Ironforged to check out.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 19:22

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Father Wendigo posted:

In a very on-brand move, the 'PvE patch' expansion to the Fallout boardgame moved it up to 'passable' from it's launch state of hostile-to-the-players Calvinball.

Is that Atomic Bonds? I�ve got the main game, but haven�t played it.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 19:24

StarkRavingMad: Sep 27, 2001; Yams Fan

Bob Smith posted:

Wait was there a Bloodborne board game that wasn't the very light card game that's basically a hidden bidding game with a vague theme of fighting creepy Bloodborne monsters?

I have that and there's one game and one expansion, I'm not even sure it was a kickstarter. It's quite fun though. The way it works is all the players look at a monster with an amount of victory points on it equal to its HP, and secretly pick a weapon or item card or retreat out of the fight to heal. Then the cards are revealed, the monster attacks the players and whoever survives takes a number of VP equal to the damage they dealt, with whoever dealt the last hit getting a bonus and anyone whose card resolves after the monster has no VP left getting nothing.

You then need to at some point bank your VP by retreating before you die. It has some limited card buying stuff where you buy better weapons and items, and monsters have varying rules that put a twist on the rounds, but it's ultimately a very light and not super thematic card game.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/bloodborne-the-board-game/description

# ? Apr 23, 2021 19:40

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

The_Doctor posted:

Is that Atomic Bonds? I’ve got the main game, but haven’t played it.

Yes, it has revised mission cards that overhaul the game to be players vs. the board/timer.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 19:57

Memnaelar: Feb 21, 2013; WHO is the goodest girl?

Bob Smith posted:

Wait was there a Bloodborne board game that wasn't the very light card game that's basically a hidden bidding game with a vague theme of fighting creepy Bloodborne monsters?

I have that and there's one game and one expansion, I'm not even sure it was a kickstarter. It's quite fun though. The way it works is all the players look at a monster with an amount of victory points on it equal to its HP, and secretly pick a weapon or item card or retreat out of the fight to heal. Then the cards are revealed, the monster attacks the players and whoever survives takes a number of VP equal to the damage they dealt, with whoever dealt the last hit getting a bonus and anyone whose card resolves after the monster has no VP left getting nothing.

You then need to at some point bank your VP by retreating before you die. It has some limited card buying stuff where you buy better weapons and items, and monsters have varying rules that put a twist on the rounds, but it's ultimately a very light and not super thematic card game.

edit: I can't read good.

Memnaelar fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Apr 23, 2021

# ? Apr 23, 2021 20:06

Fate Accomplice: Nov 30, 2006

I have been trying to find a reasonably priced copy of the blood borne board game all in KS and it's been impossible.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 20:13

Bob Smith: Jan 5, 2006; Well Then, What Shall We Start With?

StarkRavingMad posted:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/bloodborne-the-board-game/description

I completely missed that KS, that's quite interesting.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 21:32

EverettLO: Jul 2, 2007; I'm a lurker no more

Doctor Spaceman posted:

There's probably another 500-1M to go.

At this rate the 'all in' unique could well be Deadpool, but I'd pay them whatever price if they demanded if they made a two tone plastic Glob Herman with a white skeleton inside a translucent pink body.

# ? Apr 24, 2021 02:40

theironjef: Aug 11, 2009; The archmage of unexpected stinks.

EverettLO posted:

At this rate the 'all in' unique could well be Deadpool, but I'd pay them whatever price if they demanded if they made a two tone plastic Glob Herman with a white skeleton inside a translucent pink body.

After seeing that Phoenix Five event box I think they're not above both duplicates and weird boxes, and I also know that CMON loves vague movie tie-ins, so I think we're gonna see a Deadpool/Negasonic/Yukio/Colossus set with maybe Firefist as a bonus character and Ajax or Angeldust as the bad guys.

# ? Apr 24, 2021 03:36

PST: Jul 5, 2012; If only Milliband had eaten a vegan sausage roll instead of a bacon sandwich, we wouldn't be in this mess.

This seems to be in the interests of a bunch of people here:

quote:

This project will fund the production of Court of Blades, the tabletop roleplaying game of courtly drama, power politics, magic, peril and romance. Court of Blades takes place in the vibrant, fantasy renaissance city-state of Ilrien, in a world populated by scheming nobles, court magicians, and dashing duelists.

As a noble retainer, you will engage in the polite civil warfare of the great families. You will host lavish balls, and manipulate the courts, uncover the plots of your rivals, protect the city from arcane dangers, manage your own intrigues and personal scandals, leverage your reputations, connections, and so much more.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acoupleofdrakes/court-of-blades-a-tabletop-roleplaying-game

# ? Apr 27, 2021 14:22

Galaga Galaxian: Apr 23, 2009; What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!

The Ironsworn: Starforged Kickstarter is now live.

# ? Apr 27, 2021 17:26

Memnaelar: Feb 21, 2013; WHO is the goodest girl?

Hopefully Matt Eklund's views aren't actively repulsive like his dad's. Regardless, this design really works for me. I love hidden identity messy-rear end games and this one fits the bill.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/455725875/stationfall

# ? Apr 27, 2021 18:20

Saltpowered: Apr 12, 2010; Chief Executive Officer
Awful Industries, LLC

theironjef posted:

After seeing that Phoenix Five event box I think they're not above both duplicates and weird boxes, and I also know that CMON loves vague movie tie-ins, so I think we're gonna see a Deadpool/Negasonic/Yukio/Colossus set with maybe Firefist as a bonus character and Ajax or Angeldust as the bad guys.

Or even weirder with the Deadpool box they dropped with 3 flavors of Deadpool, Bob, and Lady Deadpool. I almost called it with my prediction of a Mr Sinister box with five clones. They just did it with Deadpool instead.

Just looking for that Excalibur or marauders box now.

# ? Apr 27, 2021 18:30

DLC Inc: Jun 1, 2011

I'm glad the X-Force box is free because I'd have never paid for that Deadpool box. Probably the one I feel I want to add on is the X-Men blue team with Gambit/Rogue/Jubilee/Sinister/Psylocke, maaaaaybe the other team gold as well to make the whole silver age X-Men, sans Nightcrawler who CMON apparently hates

# ? Apr 27, 2021 18:43

NmareBfly: Jul 16, 2004; I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Shoulda swapped one of the dead pools for the good pool, gwen.

E: she's a mutant now btw.

NmareBfly fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Apr 27, 2021

# ? Apr 27, 2021 18:50

DLC Inc: Jun 1, 2011

lol next free mini is DOOP gently caress yes

# ? Apr 27, 2021 19:32

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Memnaelar posted:

Hopefully Matt Eklund's views aren't actively repulsive like his dad's. Regardless, this design really works for me. I love hidden identity messy-rear end games and this one fits the bill.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/455725875/stationfall

Love the Hellboy reference in the middle of this.

# ? Apr 27, 2021 20:39

Memnaelar: Feb 21, 2013; WHO is the goodest girl?

Brutal Kickstarter month ahead in terms of the wallet. Stationfall, My Father's Work, and Hexplore It IV. Bye money.

edit: Okay, Hexplore It is technically Gamefound but whatever.

# ? Apr 27, 2021 21:34

malkav11: Aug 7, 2009

Memnaelar posted:

Brutal Kickstarter month ahead in terms of the wallet. Stationfall, My Father's Work, and Hexplore It IV. Bye money.

edit: Okay, Hexplore It is technically Gamefound but whatever.

Don't forget Hoplomachus: Victorum and Remastered on 5/4. (Not sure how long that one will run so maybe the actual *payment* will hit in June though.)

# ? Apr 27, 2021 22:15

Memnaelar: Feb 21, 2013; WHO is the goodest girl?

malkav11 posted:

Don't forget Hoplomachus: Victorum and Remastered on 5/4. (Not sure how long that one will run so maybe the actual *payment* will hit in June though.)

This will NOT be the campaign that finally buys me into Hoplomachus or Chip Theory Games. I forbid it!

# ? Apr 27, 2021 22:21