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Purely based on memory of a friend's copy of the original Galaxy Trucker the remake seems pretty feature complete and with good components and everything. I'm also pretty sure the new version's expansion introduces entirely new mechanical stuff with several parts based on burning excess cargo for fuel instead of just chucking it when replacing it with higher value cargo. That may have been something that wound up in the original expansions though, but it seemed new to me.
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I finally got a new iPad to replace my elderly 8 year old model. What are some good board games I should check out to put on it for trips?
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Jun 13, 2023 17:33
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Funzo posted:I finally got a new iPad to replace my elderly 8 year old model. What are some good board games I should check out to put on it for trips? Hero Realms/Star Realms/Epic 7 Wonders/7 Wonders Duel Through The Ages Terraforming Mars Ticket To Ride Catan, Wingspan, Carcassone - any game that sells well enough to become a staple seems to get a phone/tablet/desktop version made of itself
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Jun 13, 2023 17:38
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FMguru posted:The usual suspects: The Galaxy Trucker app is great too.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:50
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Inhuman Conditions finally got a new edition available, it's more compact and doesn't fold out to make the play area like the first edition. Is it a worthy pickup? Not really a group game and more of a couples night game really.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:53
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the board game apps I play the most on my iphone are: 1. through the ages w/ expansion (by far the most with like 400+ completed games, its game length of about 22 minutes lines up perfectly with the subway trip I take to visit friends occasionally, I only win against two or three hard AI ~75% of the time. huge battery drainer though) 2. race for the galaxy 3. concordia 4. agricola 5. wingspan
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Jun 13, 2023 18:02
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The correct answer, already mentioned a few times, is Through The Ages: A New Story of Civilization. The Root app is pretty good to, though it's not as suited for async play because of the bloody Ambushes. Did they ever did anything about that to make it less slow / spoiling that people have ambushes?
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Jun 13, 2023 18:20
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The best iOS board game is Slay the Spire
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Jun 13, 2023 18:40
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Deathlove posted:pry my anniversary edition from my cold dead hands Vlaada manuals are funny, easy to read, great thematics in explaining rule exceptions, but horrible to look something up in.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:44
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Honestly most boardgame apps I've tried have been decent.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:49
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OperaMouse posted:Vlaada manuals are funny, easy to read, great thematics in explaining rule exceptions, but horrible to look something up in.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:52
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Quixotic1 posted:Inhuman Conditions finally got a new edition available, it's more compact and doesn't fold out to make the play area like the first edition. Is it a worthy pickup? Not really a group game and more of a couples night game really. This is a tough one because it is basically an improv prompt and not a game. It all looks very cool and acts as a good prompt, especially with the companion app, but the game is going to be as good as the players can make it. It basically falls apart if you “play to win” and assumes that players are in the spirit of the game on their own. I loved the concept and components, so I bought the original release and watched all my player group totally freeze up when sat down to play. I’ll probably end up selling or trading it someday, if I can find a local buyer. It probably isn’t worthwhile to ship.
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Jun 13, 2023 20:20
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FMguru posted:I'm increasingly fond of games that have two rulebooks - one that it chatty and holds your hand and has lots of pictures and examples, and a second which is in very precise legalistic language and comprehensive and fully cross-referenced. The problem with a lot of attempts at this is that either the reference isn't comprehensive (looking at every FFG dual rulebook ever) or the learn to play book is too scripted to actually teach people anything (Wehlre books).
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Jun 13, 2023 21:54
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The other problem is when the two aren't in agreement.
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Speaking of FFG, anyone checked out the gameplay preview of Marvel D.A.G.G.E.R.? I have very low interest in adding another Marvel-themed game to my collection but this one seems to borrow gameplay elements from Arkham/Eldritch Horror and Marvel Champions which makes it slightly intriguing. The smart move is probably just to play those prior games which are already known to be good.
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Jun 14, 2023 02:19
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PRADA SLUT posted:The best iOS board game is Slay the Spire I'm not even mad. Also this reminded me of the Slay the Spire board game which is so funny to me given the lineage. Wonder how that's going.
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Jun 14, 2023 03:51
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Quixotic1 posted:Inhuman Conditions finally got a new edition available, it's more compact and doesn't fold out to make the play area like the first edition. Is it a worthy pickup? Not really a group game and more of a couples night game really. Wait, really?! I just tried googling, but I couldn't find anything on the new edition, beyond a picture of the box. I'd be interested, personally, if it makes it any less of a pain to get a hold of, here in Australia.
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You make a good point
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Pvt. Parts posted:I'm not even mad. Also this reminded me of the Slay the Spire board game which is so funny to me given the lineage. Wonder how that's going. Kickstarter made a mint, it's in production. I've played it, but I don't want to own it. It's as good a representation of the computer version as it could be without being insanely overburdened with components, and it can be played multiplayer, but it's so much slower when you have paperwork and pieces to handle.
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Jun 14, 2023 08:55
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Jedit posted:Kickstarter made a mint, it's in production. I've played it, but I don't want to own it. It's as good a representation of the computer version as it could be without being insanely overburdened with components, and it can be played multiplayer, but it's so much slower when you have paperwork and pieces to handle. drat, that was my concern as soon as I heard the announcement. Heard they were making a boardgame out of it and I thought of the many times I watched the video game version smoothly gather up my hand, shuffle my giant deck, deal me a new hand, and manage the 15 different ticking passives I have. I can definitely see how player turns in the late game get rapidly out of hand. I'll still definitely try the tabletop version because StS has been a staple of mine for years now, and now that I have it on my phone I get even more mileage out of it.
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Decon posted:drat, that was my concern as soon as I heard the announcement. Heard they were making a boardgame out of it and I thought of the many times I watched the video game version smoothly gather up my hand, shuffle my giant deck, deal me a new hand, and manage the 15 different ticking passives I have. The passives aren't actually the problem. They're tracked simply with cubes, as are the attack patterns. Debuffs tend to last one turn or cover the next attack. It all flows very nicely and it's a good game. It's just that it's impossible for it to be as streamlined. A run of video Spire takes 45-60 minutes, a run of physical Spire takes as long per player per act. Physical Spire actually reminds me a lot of Hoplomachus Victorum. You wouldn't be able to prise me off a digital version of HV, and I play the physical version less than I enjoy it because of its length.
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Jedit posted:The passives aren't actually the problem. They're tracked simply with cubes, as are the attack patterns. Debuffs tend to last one turn or cover the next attack. It all flows very nicely and it's a good game. It's just that it's impossible for it to be as streamlined. A run of video Spire takes 45-60 minutes, a run of physical Spire takes as long per player per act. Yeah sorry I guess I conveyed my concern wrong. I'm sure that's all well managed on the tabletop and StS digital is a good game, so it's gonna be a good game on the tabletop, but all that little stuff adds up. It only takes half a second to move a cube, and only like 10 seconds to shuffle a deck, but you multiply that by 4, add a few "oops I forgot my _____"s (which you can say "just don't forget" but after many hours of Gloom/Frosthaven, forgetting just happens), and throw in a healthy pinch of AP, and poo poo adds up. To be clearer, I was hoping they'd found clever ways to pare the game down so that a 4 player game making it through act 3 isn't gonna be an overlong ordeal because, at present, my group barely gets our very long games (Twilight Imperium, Mage Knight) to the table. So, just to be clear, are you saying you'd say a full run of table Spire is (potentially) gonna come out as 1 hour * 3 acts * 4 players?
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The game is on Tabletop Sim (not 100% but most of it is there) and in my playthroughs captured much of the feel of the game while not being too onerous as far as jank. They pared down the game to essentials but it’s still not as easy to get a run in as digital. I wouldn’t say it’s that bad time wise but a full spire run with all players would probably take 4-5 hours. I was very tempted but passed on the project because I have better co-op options and for solo would definitely just play digital. This is as someone with nearly 600 hours of StS logged on my phone. I will absolutely pick it up if it’s available for a decent price retail or used, even just to frame my favorite cards if it never gets played.
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Tekopo posted:You make a good point I had said there was a goon itt that played StS on TTS and had positive things to say. But then I thought StS wasn't on TTS and I was misremembering. It turned out I wasn't though, which is nice.
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A couple small games that made a good impression recently are Tinderblox and Ghosts of Christmas. Tinderblox is a small dexterity game that is super simple to explain and plays quick. Comes in a small tin. It's a tower-building-with-blocks kind of game, but the idea is you're building a communal fire. All of the pieces are either logs (brown "long" cubes) or flames (yellow or red cubes). The "thing" is that every turn the active player flips up a card, and that card shows a simple sub-assembly (like a single log with one flame cube on each end) that must first be built, then added to the fire using the included pair of tweezers -- sometimes with your non-dominant hand. If you cause the structure to collapse, you're eliminated. That's it! Not super deep but a good filler and would be great with kids. Ghosts of Christmas I purchased because it sounded intriguing and a bit weird, and it sure is that. But we enjoyed it a lot. It's a four-suit trick-tacking game (with one suit being a perma-trump suit.) What sets the game apart is how scoring is done, and how it uses a past-present-future temporal element to determine scoring. Each player ends up playing one card into each era of their own personal little mini-timeline: past, present, and future. (So laying down three total cards each per hand.) In each era therefore the cards are set, but the order in which they are "played" (resolved) is not yet determined. Players are essentially laying out the cards for a trick-taking round as though they were action programming, and then the cards are resolved once all the cards are down: the winner of the "Past" trick ends up setting the scoring suit for "Present" (i.e. the suit of the card they played in the Present), and the winner of Present therefore similarly sets the scoring suit for the "Future". It gets real interesting once people can't follow suit. The game really sings once you include bidding for tricks. Haven't played anything quite like it.
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Bodanarko posted:The game is on Tabletop Sim (not 100% but most of it is there) and in my playthroughs captured much of the feel of the game while not being too onerous as far as jank. They pared down the game to essentials but it’s still not as easy to get a run in as digital. I wouldn’t say it’s that bad time wise but a full spire run with all players would probably take 4-5 hours. Oh okay cool. 4-5 hours is actually okay in my mind (idk your TTS skill level, but I find stuff to be slower via TTS even with scripting). Probably still gonna be on the longer side for my crew, but I think one of the guys backed it so I'll probably be trying it.
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I've played a couple of runs of StS on Tabletop Sim, and it's a great translation but as said it does take a long time - we ended up doing the full three acts over two sessions and it was probably 5-6 hours in total. The co-op elements are few but they do make a difference, and you can build your decks to take advantage of the fact that one player can block for the whole team and have the others be a bit more glass cannony, but overall you'll have to decide whether it's enough better than the digital version given the length. Also bear in mind that stuff like setting up fights is scripted on TTS so there's no digging around in decks for cards, so the tabletop version will be even longer.
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I can't imagine playing StS on tabletop, let alone on TTS. If I'm already on Steam, I'm just going to play the original! And yes I get that there are co-op elements but a 6 hour game of StS just sounds like a nightmare to me.
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the co-op is the only reason to play it over the original. it’s fun but I’m not champing at the bit to replay it because it takes a very long time to finish 3 + 1 acts and would be annoying to play over multiple sessions unless you have a table you could leave it on
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Decon posted:So, just to be clear, are you saying you'd say a full run of table Spire is (potentially) gonna come out as 1 hour * 3 acts * 4 players? A bit less - an act is probably more like 40+20p as you all share encounters rather than take your own path like in Spire With Friends. But it won't be short. And why imagine it as a physical game when you can see it?   That top image is actually pretty useful for understanding how the encounters work. The Looter has a fixed attack pattern: he attacks for 2, then attacks for 3 and shields for 1, then leaves combat and you lose $2. Below that, the Red Louse does one of three things randomly until killed and the mark at the bottom indicates that when you draw it from the Encounter deck you also add a Green Louse to the fight. Each of the two characters shown has drawn their own encounter and fights them at the same time, with players able to help each other out a bit. Jedit fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Jun 15, 2023 |
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Jedit posted:A bit less - an act is probably more like 40+20p as you all share encounters rather than take your own path like in Spire With Friends. But it won't be short. hm.. looks like a prime opportunity for a tablet version.
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PRADA SLUT posted:hm.. looks like a prime opportunity for a tablet version. I've just been playing the tablet version for 5 hours on a flight. Can confirm its great. Surprising to me it's been made into a board game, but I imagine it will be very popular, it's a REALLY well balanced "just one more" deckbuilder.
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I'd gonna start using a term to go with MWEs to describe all the passive, forgettable, mid euros that keep on getting pushed out: Mid Rate Euros
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*designer throws a dart at a map of europe* say hello to my brand new MWE, "Chemnitz"
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Chill la Chill posted:I'd gonna start using a term to go with MWEs to describe all the passive, forgettable, mid euros that keep on getting pushed out: Mid Rate Euros Steve1989MREInfo reviewing board games is now stuck in my head. "Let's get this out onto the table. Nice."
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PlaneGuy posted:Steve1989MREInfo reviewing board games is now stuck in my head. "Let's get this out onto the table. Nice." holy poo poo
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PlaneGuy posted:Steve1989MREInfo reviewing board games is now stuck in my head. "Let's get this out onto the table. Nice."
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SelenicMartian posted:"It's so dry!." Getting sick and disappearing for months after playing a 1940s copy of Monopoly.
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Hey kids it's me, your good friend Uncle Hasbro! So we asked an AI Generator what the worst possible combination of words could be, and anyway here's Monopoly Scrabble  
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