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SiKboy posted:Is that what americans mean when they talk about "sacking the quarterback"?  very well done, thank you
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Major Isoor posted:Hey, just wanting some input if anyone could spare a moment. So to provide some background, my parents, my partner and I often play the copy of Tsuro I gave my parents years ago, as it's a super chill tile-laying game. Mostly playing it standard/as intended, but we tend to play a few rounds each time we catch up and often the final play or two will be a gimmick round to shake things up. (e.g. 'one tile only' where you have one tile in your hand, not the usual amount) Patchwork or Azul or maybe Hive
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Oct 17, 2023 06:16
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Molly House by Cole Wherle up on https://www.backerkit.com/c/wehrlegig-games/wehrlegig-games?ref=just_launched_mailer Not sure what to think. Cole is a good designer, but making a complex/rules-heavy social deduction games is always challenging. The best social deduction games keep it simple and rely on the strength of the logic puzzle and the social aspects.
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Oct 17, 2023 16:23
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Megasabin posted:Molly House by Cole Wherle up on https://www.backerkit.com/c/wehrlegig-games/wehrlegig-games?ref=just_launched_mailer This is one of those games that I want to support but also recognize I will never get to the table.
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Major Isoor posted:Hey, just wanting some input if anyone could spare a moment. So to provide some background, my parents, my partner and I often play the copy of Tsuro I gave my parents years ago, as it's a super chill tile-laying game. Mostly playing it standard/as intended, but we tend to play a few rounds each time we catch up and often the final play or two will be a gimmick round to shake things up. (e.g. 'one tile only' where you have one tile in your hand, not the usual amount) You could try Bites without using the power tiles or special rules cards. It's a pretty simple and short game even with those.
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Oct 17, 2023 20:12
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Seconding Bites
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I have the feeling Voidfall might just be one of those games I have to play to make up my mind about. Can't really tell from reviews whether it'd gel with me or not.
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Oct 17, 2023 23:49
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Major Isoor posted:I'm just wondering though, if there are other similar games that don't force too much complexity or time-per-play on the player. 80% of my posts are probably recommending Hey! That's My Fish! because it's a perfect game, especially for people who like Tsuro. The rules are simple as hell, the game is fast as hell, and, when you're ready, the strategy gets deep/cutthroat as hell. rydiafan fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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Oct 18, 2023 00:04
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The Eyes Have It posted:I have the feeling Voidfall might just be one of those games I have to play to make up my mind about. Can't really tell from reviews whether it'd gel with me or not. I have the Galactic Edition waiting for me at my FLGS and I keep going back and forth on whether or not I’m gonna refund it or not. It looks really great but also I feel there are too many things about it that bother me.
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Oct 18, 2023 00:28
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What kind of stuff bothers you? I know the eXplore part of 4X seems weak. I should browse the rulebook at least, bad rulebooks are the biggest deal-breaker for me these days. I might put a bid on an eBay copy I'm watching just in case it doesn't get a lot of traction and I get it for cheap. Then I won't have to worry so much about getting it then deflating at the thought of learning and playing it 
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The Eyes Have It posted:What kind of stuff bothers you? I know the eXplore part of 4X seems weak. I should browse the rulebook at least, bad rulebooks are the biggest deal-breaker for me these days. One of my main gripes is I’m not a big fan of the concept of “scenarios” for competitive mode, but I feel I need to understand how the game works before I can write it off for that. I can’t fully explain why this bothers me, so I’m trying not to lean too much into it. Also, the game has the mechanic of determining turn order based off VP which I can fully explain why this bothers me but I don’t really want to go off on that tangent. Probably the most realistic thing that is keeping me from buying it is that I’ve read some not so great stuff about the cooperative mode. It’s a lot of small stuff, and mostly personal hang ups, but everything else about it hits so hard and the reviews and word of mouth is so high that I can’t write it off just yet.
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Oct 18, 2023 02:29
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Brought along Earth to last night's meet. I sold it to people as "like Wingspan but without the endless board running at the end", on the very good basis that that's what it is, and the group's big Wingspan enjoyer said at the end that it was exactly the kind of game he likes. The "follow the leader" actions and simultaneous resolution mean the game doesn't drag out much longer with higher player counts and there's virtually no downtime. It's going to be hitting the table fairly regularly, I expect.
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Oct 18, 2023 09:33
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rydiafan posted:80% of my posts are probably recommending Hey! That's My Fish! because it's a perfect game, especially for people who like Tsuro. The rules are simple as hell, the game is fast as hell, and, when you're ready, the strategy gets deep/cutthroat as hell.
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Oct 18, 2023 11:49
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Redundant posted:Well I totally buckled and ordered That's my Fish! It was like £12 so worth a shot. Speaking of shots, I also added Long Shot to my basket because I apparently have too much space in my house. If you have access to a 3D printer or someone who can do it for you, I'd heavily recommend one of the board grid things available for HTMF. It makes both setup and the collecting of tiles during the game pretty trivial, when normally they're a pain in the arse.
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Oct 18, 2023 12:00
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Having a party this weekend so busting out Don't Get Got, and waxing up my Crokinole board. I suck at waxing =_=
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CaptainApathyUK posted:If you have access to a 3D printer or someone who can do it for you, I'd heavily recommend one of the board grid things available for HTMF. It makes both setup and the collecting of tiles during the game pretty trivial, when normally they're a pain in the arse. I keep a nerf suction cup dart in my box for picking up tiles from the middle
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Oct 18, 2023 12:32
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CaptainApathyUK posted:If you have access to a 3D printer or someone who can do it for you, I'd heavily recommend one of the board grid things available for HTMF. It makes both setup and the collecting of tiles during the game pretty trivial, when normally they're a pain in the arse.
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Oct 18, 2023 12:51
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Redundant posted:Well I totally buckled and ordered That's my Fish! It was like £12 so worth a shot. Speaking of shots, I also added Long Shot to my basket because I apparently have too much space in my house. If this is the Dice Game of Long Shot, my friends and I really like that one. We can never remember what it's called, it's always "the horse racing game." Spirit Island was on sale for $44 at Amazon the other day and I've wanted to play it for a bit but I've also been buying too many games recently so I talked myself out of it. I did not talk myself out of buying Horizons of Spirit Island for $15 though.
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Oct 18, 2023 15:58
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I also talked myself out of buying Spirit Island. The nearly universal praise it gets makes me want it, and it does sound like a game that’s just right for my tastes, but I don’t think I’ll be getting another medium weight non-Arkham Horror co-op game to the table for a long while. It helped urge me away from buying that I absolutely hated it when I tried it on mobile, also, but I think that had more to do with the app and tutorial.
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Oct 18, 2023 16:05
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hmm yea you should try it on tabletop simulator instead. it has like the best implementation i've seen
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I've played the hell out of Spirit Island solo and I hated the app on mobile and PC. It does a good job at representing the game, as far as I can tell, but it's a game where I need to play out what will or might happen in front of me or I'll get paralyzed by indecision.
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Jolo posted:If this is the Dice Game of Long Shot, my friends and I really like that one. We can never remember what it's called, it's always "the horse racing game." LifeLynx posted:I've played the hell out of Spirit Island solo and I hated the app on mobile and PC. It does a good job at representing the game, as far as I can tell, but it's a game where I need to play out what will or might happen in front of me or I'll get paralyzed by indecision.
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Oct 18, 2023 18:08
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yea, Long Shot the dice game is fantastic. and Land vs. Sea is a fun little tile laying game with some good strategy to it.
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LifeLynx posted:I've played the hell out of Spirit Island solo and I hated the app on mobile and PC. It does a good job at representing the game, as far as I can tell, but it's a game where I need to play out what will or might happen in front of me or I'll get paralyzed by indecision.
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Oct 18, 2023 18:57
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Long Shot is a fantastic game, and the rules aren't complicated exactly, it's more that I find the rules are just sort of nonintuitive enough that it always needs a teach with several "ok listen up because this next part always throws people" moments
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Anonymous Robot posted:I also talked myself out of buying Spirit Island. The nearly universal praise it gets makes me want it, and it does sound like a game that’s just right for my tastes, but I don’t think I’ll be getting another medium weight non-Arkham Horror co-op game to the table for a long while. It helped urge me away from buying that I absolutely hated it when I tried it on mobile, also, but I think that had more to do with the app and tutorial. I love Spirit Island, the only reason I don't own it is because literally everyone else I know who plays board games already owns it. Edit: Though if they come out with a Big Box version, I may just pick that up.
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Piling on with the spirit island love, just to add, I never play games solo. I don't really feel like that's a thing I do, you know? But Spirit island, I make an exception. It just works so well, and is such a 'full' experience solo, that it feels more like a computer game, or a puzzle, like you're getting the whole thing even when solo. Obviously, prefer it with other people, I just thought it was interesting.
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Oct 18, 2023 22:36
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I prefer two-handed when playing co-op games alone, and Spirit Island is like the perfect game for it.
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I hate playing 2 handed in solo or multiplayer where it requires it if you don't have enough players, but SI is still great true solo. Some of the spirits are way better suited to it of course, but the modularity in difficulty via scenarios and invaders makes it really easy to dial in to each spirit. Back before the 1st big expansion I went through each spirit solo raising the difficulty until I got to a point I couldn't win after 2 or 3 tries and it was a great time.
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I've only two-handed SI once, as Lightning and Rampant Green vs level 4 England. Got killed two cards into stage 3 - the deck gave me three Mountain rounds in a row, and England's ability to build in an empty space immediately before they ravage is just unbeatable - you've got to get to the bottom of the fear deck before it's too late. I only did that because Lightning lends itself to high-destruction reclaim loops, so I could spend most of my brainpower on good old Green.
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2 hand spirit island is a brain burner but is still quite doable in a single sitting. I'm not sure if I like it as much as true solo, because it is significantly harder to keep track of everything when you're manipulating two boards, but it is good. I have done almost every spirit true solo at this point and they basically all can do it, although some of them are very clunky, or reliant on the special true solo rules.
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I'm not going to link to his channel, but apparently Quackalope (remember him? the duck guy?) has posted four(!) apology videos in the past day or so, relating to the accusations of blackmail earlier this year. One is called "Why I can be grateful I lost 5,500 subscribers," I poo poo you not.
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One of them is also promoting Ben Shapiro, if you needed any more reason to dislike the shithead
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Bottom Liner posted:One of them is also promoting Ben Shapiro, if you needed any more reason to dislike the shithead That's a plot twist.
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dwarf74 posted:No fuckin way. https://twitter.com/quackalope it's really not. just a disgusting person all around. there was speculation if this was him or not a while back but it was (at the time) linked from his website and patreon and companies were tagging it for promoted content (which is also gross). Seems he mostly just spams hate in replies now but it's some vile poo poo I don't recommend going through.
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Bottom Liner posted:One of them is also promoting Ben Shapiro, if you needed any more reason to dislike the shithead 
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why the gently caress is he talking about Israel
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I'm glad he's talking about the real issues on his board gaming channel. Ben shapiros thoughts on being Jewish.
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CODChimera posted:why the gently caress is he talking about Israel I believe that he was in the middle of converting to Judaism when the whole blackmailing controversy broke. He was was in Israel and I think he was wearing a skullcap in the video. Okay, that still doesn't explain why he's talking about Israel, but it offers a little bit of background, I guess. My favorite bit of the Quackalope Blackmailing controversy, or as I call it "Quackmail" was when Rob Oren weighed in. Rob has a small youtube channel and was a contributor to the Dice Tower for a while so he's a known quantity. (If he's been cancelled or said something lovely, I don't know it yet. This is not necessarily an endorsement but he seems like a gentle soul.) He's was kinda like, "Hey can't we all just get along" at the sight of the controversy. Then 4 different industry friends reached out to be like, "Hey that guy actually sucks, here's some stories." One of them included Quacko intentionally holding onto prototypes that were supposed to be sent along to another content creator during a campaign because they presumably wanted their content to be more exclusive. Some real petty dirty pool. So he followed up and was like, "Wow, screw this kid" though not in so many words.
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Magnetic North posted:I believe that he was in the middle of converting to Judaism when the whole blackmailing controversy broke. He was was in Israel and I think he was wearing a skullcap in the video. Okay, that still doesn't explain why he's talking about Israel, but it offers a little bit of background, I guess. Because there's nothing worse than a convert.
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