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I know this is going to kill any cred I might have had left after the monopoly post, but I got that exploding kittens game for christmas and it's not bad. The mechanics are really simple but there's a lot of strategy and a metagaming aspect to it. It's a crying shame that it was designed to appeal exclusively to the cards against humanity crowd because there's actually a good game under all that garbage.
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that game is called Falling by James Earnest there isn't a game underneath exploding kittens, it's literally something they came up in 5 minutes and they acknowledged it as much wine in front of me interactions don't make a game deep
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Dec 31, 2015 19:03
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but seriously just loving try Falling and then go back and see exploding kittens stacks up in comparison Falling has a gently caress ton of strategy, loads of meaningful decisions and the best thing of all, it's in real time so it's like exploding kittens but amped up to 11
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Dec 31, 2015 19:06
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for christmas i bought myself some x wing miniatures, spyfall, coup, and tragedy looper with the expansion what a great holiday season
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Dec 31, 2015 19:23
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Okay fine I just ordered a copy of falling. You better be right about this
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Dec 31, 2015 19:32
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the only issue with falling is that it is more gamey and if you include everything at the start it is very front-loaded so if you are teaching it, do this: -play with riders only for the first games -add actions only when people are familiar with riders -add permanent riders after people are ready should simplify things, also a single game takes like 30 seconds depending on how fast you play just don't play it with people that don't listen past two rules
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Dec 31, 2015 19:36
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RandomFerret posted:I know this is going to kill any cred I might have had left after the monopoly post, but I got that exploding kittens game for christmas and it's not bad. The mechanics are really simple but there's a lot of strategy and a metagaming aspect to it. what the gently caress? it's war. what little strategy there is to it is killed by the loving memes. gently caress you.
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Dec 31, 2015 20:33
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no you see the strategy is if you place the explodey card as the next one, but maybe you knew I knew you would put it there, so you place it in the one after that one, but you knew that I knew that you would do that, so you place it in the next card instead, but you knew that I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew I would do that...
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Dec 31, 2015 20:42
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Tekopo posted:no you see the strategy is if you place the explodey card as the next one, but maybe you knew I knew you would put it there, so you place it in the one after that one, but you knew that I knew that you would do that, so you place it in the next card instead, but you knew that I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew I would do that... so its war + rock/paper/scissors?
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Dec 31, 2015 22:08
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The art is extremely bad and it already dragged the game down into a pit it can't ever escape from, there's no reason to start making poo poo up about the gameplay. Simple games can be fun, sorry it doesn't have a 60 page manual translated from german. e: on that note, does anybody want a lightly used copy of Edison and Co? flavor.flv fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Dec 31, 2015 |
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Dec 31, 2015 22:12
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i just got Bloodrage in the mail to complete my xmas board game set and holy moly these are some nice fuckin minis
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Dec 31, 2015 22:15
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RandomFerret posted:The art is extremely bad and it already dragged the game down into a pit it can't ever escape from, there's no reason to start making poo poo up about the gameplay. Simple games can be fun, sorry it doesn't have a 60 page manual translated from german. Yes, simple games can be fun, like Coup, Skull, etc. Simple does not begin to describe Exploding Kittens, there's hardly a game there.
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Dec 31, 2015 22:28
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I like spot-it and skull
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Dec 31, 2015 22:30
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RandomFerret posted:The art is extremely bad and it already dragged the game down into a pit it can't ever escape from, there's no reason to start making poo poo up about the gameplay. Simple games can be fun, sorry it doesn't have a 60 page manual translated from german. i'd recommend you try playing your second board game ever, and then rethink your opinions.
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Dec 31, 2015 22:31
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I love playing simple poo poo, as long as it is good
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Dec 31, 2015 22:42
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Simple poo poo is good. Exploding kittens is simple AND poo poo. Important difference.
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Dec 31, 2015 22:50
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simple games that are good: resistance, dixit, pictomania, skull, coup, click clack lumberjack, sushi dice, ugg-tect, say anything, codenames please try those games. exploding kittens is pointless, not simple. players have very little control over what happens, elimination is handled horribly, and the only strategy to the game is literally just the two choices the game gives you (do i pass my turn instead of playing? do i bury this card or topdeck it?). if you want a game that does all of this better, play skull. play the gently caress out of skull. you have control at every point, players are only eliminated as a result of taking insane risks and being in the spotlight for a long time, and the bluffing elements go a couple layers deep especially once you have a reduced hand size. poo poo, you can proxy skull if you want with a deck of cards or some coasters.
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Dec 31, 2015 23:03
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hanabi is a good simple game, but i only say that because its like $15 and youll definitely get $15 worth of games out of it before The Big Issue creeps in. its like a legacy game, but you have to infer that you're supposed to rip up the components after a few games rather than having it tell you to.
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Dec 31, 2015 23:07
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Some people actually like virtually non-interactive games though, or a game that pretty much plays itself might just be the only thing at their group's level. I find it boring, but I understand the place of Candyland/Talisman.
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Coolness Averted posted:Some people actually like virtually non-interactive games though, or a game that pretty much plays itself might just be the only thing at their group's level. yeah, and some people like donald trump
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Jan 1, 2016 00:17
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Countblanc posted:hanabi is a good simple game, but i only say that because its like $15 and youll definitely get $15 worth of games out of it before The Big Issue creeps in. its like a legacy game, but you have to infer that you're supposed to rip up the components after a few games rather than having it tell you to. The big issue with Hanabi is you and lol if you paid $15 for it
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Jan 1, 2016 01:46
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RandomFerret posted:The art is extremely bad and it already dragged the game down into a pit it can't ever escape from, there's no reason to start making poo poo up about the gameplay. Simple games can be fun, sorry it doesn't have a 60 page manual translated from german. I don't know what side you're on... Are you a fan of exploding poo poo or not?
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Jan 1, 2016 02:36
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my 2 year old nephew wanted to play 'chess' with me but he was just pushing pieces randomly and didn't know any of the rules at all, what a loving scrub
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Jan 1, 2016 05:26
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Broken Loose posted:yeah, and some people like donald trump this. we're all adults here, we don't have to pretend that every opinion has merit just because there exists people who hold it
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Jan 1, 2016 13:04
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Look, what you do when you have some friends over, is take out Empire of the Sun, give them the rules, and pick the one who understands them to cull out the weakness from your friends.
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Jan 1, 2016 15:50
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the most dangerous game
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Scyther posted:this. we're all adults here, we don't have to pretend that every opinion has merit just because there exists people who hold it yes saying anyone who disagrees with you is bad and dumb, the adult thing to do
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Jan 1, 2016 22:25
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Nobody said anyone is bad or dumb, but they certainly implied that only casual normie scum would find any merit in Exploding Kittens.
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Jan 1, 2016 22:58
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so i'm liking eminent domain so far but when doing produce/trade engines im never really sure when to make the switch over, i keep having the piles empty just as ive gotten like four planets and the tech cards i need, should i be pulling the trigger earlier, setting up less, or playing the piles smarter?
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Jan 1, 2016 23:04
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You know, I'm not even sure, I feel like it's so dependent on context. Plus the vast majority of my experiences is with Escalation. Don't really have a good answer, I just mostly play by my gut and trying to get a pace of the game based on what others are doing and what I'm seeing in terms of planets. One of the really cool things about Escalation is that it forces you out of your comfort zone sometimes by giving you a tech you would not normally pick.
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Jan 1, 2016 23:54
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We won our first game of pandemic legacy some people didn't quite get that the game changes and you have to destroy stuff or whatever and their reactions were p funny
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StashAugustine posted:so i'm liking eminent domain so far but when doing produce/trade engines im never really sure when to make the switch over, i keep having the piles empty just as ive gotten like four planets and the tech cards i need, should i be pulling the trigger earlier, setting up less, or playing the piles smarter? i honestly gun for it as fast as i get the techs. survey advanced, conquer/colonize dependent on board state, research specialization, start producing and trading silicon as fast as possible while using extra actions to research all the other poo poo out of my deck. that's the platonic ideal. sometimes you need peace treaties or sometimes your surveys don't go so well and you need diverse markets instead or sometimes you get cocky and start stacking double times. but really, your biggest ally with a P+T deck is running out the black chips as soon as possible
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Jan 2, 2016 05:02
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i apparently got a shitload of rules wrong with mad king ludwig. gently caress!
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Jan 2, 2016 05:44
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the galaxy trucker class iiic is absolutely insane. the torus one.
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I'm the copy of pokemon sorry
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Jan 4, 2016 15:56
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I'm the copy of pokemon sorry lol which one? (there's 3)
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Jan 4, 2016 16:01
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I'm the copy of pokemon sorry I'm the other ones
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i played a truncated game (2 rounds) of wh: diskwars over the weekend. cool as hell game, but I probably won't be able to play it enough to get good at it. also it's kind of hilarious when you get a huge pileup on a single spot and tokens keep sliding off the hill of disks.
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