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Seriously though, even if a game plays like a board game (e.g. Arkham Horror the card game, etc) to me there's something missing when every major component -- whether it's a map location, player, monster, event, etc -- is visually the same: a card the same size and shape as all the others, often with some text too small to read from across the table. I can't shake the feeling that it's just a homogenous blob.
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Rockman Reserve posted:Dominos is a pizza, which is a type of sandwich. also a kind of board! it comes full circle like a pizza
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The Eyes Have It posted:Seriously though, even if a game plays like a board game (e.g. Arkham Horror the card game, etc) to me there's something missing when every major component -- whether it's a map location, player, monster, event, etc -- is visually the same: a card the same size and shape as all the others, often with some text too small to read from across the table. I can't shake the feeling that it's just a homogenous blob. Consider this though - it's a board game if you play it on a mat. Which, incidentally, is in many ways similar to artificial turf.
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games that have both cards and tokens are board games by dint of utilizing components other than cards during gameplay. this includes netrunner, magic, arkham, l5r, yu-gi-oh, et al. for most of the world card game still means like, spades, bridge, president, canasta. the crib board could easily be a pen & paper so I have disqualified it.
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MizuZero posted:the crib board could easily be a pen & paper so I have disqualified it. if there's no board it ain't cribbage. I'm calling muggins on this post
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A new cool boardgame scraper. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1-Y2REEzRsWQZWBU12c6A9gM2JmYsuyyt Found 144 rated games Using 128 rated games (only those in BGG top 10000) Things you seem to like (in order) ---------------------------------- boring Things you seem to dislike (in order) ------------------------------------- category: Humor Divisive games (high variation in rating) category: Print & Play High minimum player count (according to publisher) High minimum player count (BGG user poll) High maximum player count (BGG user poll) category: Dice mechanic: Player Elimination category: Children's Game category: Horror Recent games mechanic: Dice Rolling category: Nautical Haha, what?
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This is very goodquote:Things you seem to like (in order)
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Bottom Liner posted:This is very good Aside from the traitor mechanic being in the dislike pile (since I mean, some games pull it off pretty well IMO) that's actually a pretty solid ratings list, yeah!
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My list is wackcode:Though like 80% of the recs are games I've played so at least that lines up.
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PRADA SLUT posted:
My reccommend list was literally nothing but grog wargames, COINs and 18xx. It's not possible to be more wrong about what I would want to play. I also got a good laugh out of "you like: highly rated games". What, I'm supposed to like the poo poo ones?
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Feb 9, 2023 10:00
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Look at this scrub enjoying games that have gone mainstream and sold out.
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It’s a glorified dice chucker at its core but Final Girl is kinda rad as hell…?
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bobvonunheil posted:So I've just received 2 copies of Frosthaven. This just happened to our group in NZ too. Can't have been cheap!
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what would be a good place for say, finding new emerging word games? I just played So Clover the other day and enjoyed that. Found out it's been around for nearly 2 years and wondered where it's been my whole life (didn't know about it til someone brought it to game night). We've also enjoyed Decrypto (but don't get to play it much), Codenames, Just One, and host really likes Crosstalk
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Alan Smithee posted:what would be a good place for say, finding new emerging word games? I just played So Clover the other day and enjoyed that. Found out it's been around for nearly 2 years and wondered where it's been my whole life (didn't know about it til someone brought it to game night). We've also enjoyed Decrypto (but don't get to play it much), Codenames, Just One, and host really likes Crosstalk Platypus is good fun if you like this sort of game. I got it for under a tenner too. Played it with a Swedish friend, who played the word 'inflammable' thinking that it meant not flammable, causing us to lose the game and quote Dr Nick at him. Quote-Unquote fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Alan Smithee posted:what would be a good place for say, finding new emerging word games? I just played So Clover the other day and enjoyed that. Found out it's been around for nearly 2 years and wondered where it's been my whole life (didn't know about it til someone brought it to game night). We've also enjoyed Decrypto (but don't get to play it much), Codenames, Just One, and host really likes Crosstalk Codenames and now So Clover have really launched in a new interest in simple but excellent word games. You could look up the category Word Game on BGG and sort by Year Released to get the recent releases or sort by Rank to find the overall most popular ones. Link to that search. The main issue with searching by date is it includes lots of unreleased games and crowdfunding projects in the 2023-2024 category. A recent word game I heard about was Wordcraft that Candice Harris said was her 10th favorite game of 2022 but I have not played it. Among non-recent games, I recommend Insider at basically every opportunity. I have also heard good things about Trapwords and Letter Jam but have not played either.
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Jedit posted:My reccommend list was literally nothing but grog wargames, COINs and 18xx. It's not possible to be more wrong about what I would want to play. Someday you will appreciate 18xx
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Chill la Chill posted:Someday you will appreciate 18xx I'm more likely to depreciate it. Stock trading games do absolutely nothing for me.
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Jedit posted:I'm more likely to depreciate it. Stock trading games do absolutely nothing for me. I'm not big on stock trading but I enjoyed 1846.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zz57_vUnbM
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xiw posted:This just happened to our group in NZ too. Can't have been cheap! Man, why can't I ever have 500 dollars turn up at my door 
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Dear self: Do you really need Andromeda's Edge when you already have Dwellings of Eldervale? How many big box games that get pulled out maybe once or twice a year can one reasonably want to own?
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Memnaelar posted:Dear self: Having this same inner monologue as I tab between the ISS Vanguard and Andromeda’s Edge pages on Gamefound, less than a week after pledging for Oathsworn. There will also be campaigns for the new Tainted Grail, and Chip Theory’s Elder Scrolls, within the next two months..
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Is this gonna be $120 USD or something? Because it looks awesome 
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Jewmanji posted:Is this gonna be $120 USD or something? Because it looks awesome What, no, of course not. It's a Splotter game, probably $150.
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It's also pretty much sold out already, so unlike the usual SUSD effect where it sells out right after, they helpfully waited until the first print run is already gone. Splotter said they were planning on a second print run shortly though.
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Lol if you dont pre-order the new splotter as soon as it's announced.
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I played my first (?) (Does Power Grid count?) train game, Age of Steam at this week's BGN. I came in second to last place, so I got that going for me. I didn't really find it boring at all, actually I was surprised how quickly the ~3.5 hrs passed. I wasn't even bored on other people's turns. On the other hand I have absolutely no natural knack for this. I didn't choose the Bonus Action Locomotive even once or Engineer and when I realized I should have I was too behind to bid well!! One guy ran away with the game, beating out an experienced player, for his second ever game. Must be, drat, nice! Haha, just kidding. We got in a game of Decrypto before sitting down for AoS. I was HYPE! Due to I've been wanting to play it for quite some time, having had it recommended plenty enough and also watching an NBR game that looked like so much fun. The same guy who brought AoS to the store brought Decrypto since the store doesn't have either available for play but as luck would have they just added it this week so it'll be there for whenever. Good stuff. Last week I also played Marrakesh, which I forgot to mention due to fuming about Game of Ham. Perfectly fine cute little abstract. Love the components. I get it less than I get most abstracts. My pro-tip if you're gonna play is you're better off making small patches around the board than one big bomb. Both players, myself included, who opted to take over a large part of the board never actually managed anyone landing on it, so there's that.
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I played my first (?) (Does Power Grid count?) train game, Age of Steam at this week's BGN. I came in second to last place, so I got that going for me. I didn't really find it boring at all, actually I was surprised how quickly the ~3.5 hrs passed. I wasn't even bored on other people's turns. On the other hand I have absolutely no natural knack for this. I didn't choose the Bonus Action Locomotive even once or Engineer and when I realized I should have I was too behind to bid well!! One guy ran away with the game, beating out an experienced player, for his second ever game. Must be, drat, nice! Haha, just kidding. If you look back over my post history ITT, you'll find me complaining about how I regularly do well at Railways of the World (a game that's 75% the same as AoS on the surface) but have been trounced at AoS the times I've played it. It's a tough, non-intuitive game. You really have to be willing to bid high to get the initiative to get the Benny you want, and have to make the right decision about the Benny you need on that turn. You also have to not be afraid of debt. In RotW, I almost always come out with the fewest bonds of everyone; it's behavior I need to change for AoS. Not that you necessarily end up with more 'bonds' (can't remember what the debt tracking is called) in AoS than everyone else if you're in the lead, but you tend to accumulate them faster near the beginning of the game to get the initiative. Also, some maps are just plain screwy. I've played on France, which is pretty straightforward (Engineers are required to lay track through mountains; they don't give you longer runs). I've also played on Hungary, which is wild (to ship a cube, at least one link must be someone else's -- so all shipments have to be at least 2 links long, and you have to make sure you don't lock opponents out of corners of the board). Ecce whining (you are not alone; AoS is hard): Admiralty Flag posted:Why do I do so well at Railways of the World but suck so badly at Age of Steam? They're close to the same game. Admiralty Flag fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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This is a fantastic exemplar of SU&SD reviews. Glowing, but critical. Explains why it's good and bad in a way that makes it clear if you're going to gel with it. This video leaves me with no doubt that I want to play Horseless Carriage and not buy it.
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I was straightening shelves at work and noticed a little game called Level 10 in the small games area. Apparently it's just Okey Dokey with a retro game aesthetic. It'll only be about six bucks with my discount so I'll probably grab it, it looks cute and that price isn't bad for a game I'll probably get a couple of hours of enjoyment out of.
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Update on my extra Frosthaven package: Cephalofair have officially permitted me to keep it  Gonna pass it on to a buddy. The Eyes Have It posted:Privately I don't consider games that consist entirely of cards to be board games Absolutely correct. They are tabletop miniatures games.
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Azran posted:Tom is a treasure Has anyone else noticed that Tom is producing all SUSD content these days? He's on every podcast, which he also edits, puts out a couple video reviews a month, does weekly streams, and writes the newsletter and the website. Honestly, if he wanted to jump ship and do his own thing, I'd follow him.
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They might be tied up doing People Make Games, which is a longform video games journalism series on Youtube. I miss da boys too tho.
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That's just Quinns on PMG, although according to their newsletters Matt has been setting up a studio space for them to use for filming instead of their apartments.
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Tekopo posted:I kinda miss Paul to be honest. I honestly stopped watching much of any SUSD the moment he left.
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