fozzy fosbourne posted:

Mild slapfight with Sirlin and DXV in a flamebait thread on BGG entitled "Why are Sirlin's Games Ranked on Average Lower than Vlaada's Games?"

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1338424/why-are-sirlins-games-ranked-average-lower-vlaadas/page/1


If Vlaada makes an appearance this will be a masterstroke in trolling.

I kind of feel bad for Sirlin because even though he seems goony I don't see why people give a poo poo that he made chips that resemble something some random person posted on the internet for their own use. I assume Sirlin hasn't become some millionaire off this guy's idea. It's another game for everyone to play or not play, jeesh.

StashAugustine posted:

How different is the game from Dominion in terms of actual rules?

Crackbone posted:

Stop the presses somebody is iterating on good ideas, guess we should just go back to Catan since it was first.

Countblanc posted:

It's fake homey

St0rmD posted:

I thought it was kind of a ripoff of Cap'n Needs Help: Pick up the Berries! that Quaker Oats put out several years ago. Man, that one was a classic, and I think still managed to have more innovations like the steal square. I mean sure it's playable, but I'd much rather get one of my really old boxes to the table for my first game of the day than settle for shameless reskins like TPoO anyday.

Rutibex posted:

No one is saying the game is a masterpiece of mechanics; but it's really thematic and only takes 1.5 hours at most. That makes it better than other thematic alternatives. Betrayal is up against the likes of Arkham Horror not Mage Knight. When you compare it to one of the Horror games it provides a much more compact experience, with just as much theme.

Lorini posted:

I don’t know where the Magic meta is right now, but historically probability says that you don’t use more than two or three colors in a Magic deck, so the differences aren’t as stark as it may seem.

Echophonic posted:

I actually like Quarriors. It's a bit on the swingy side, but I'd be hard pressed to call it bad.

Zveroboy posted:

What really topped it off was being told while packing up, after three and a half hours of gameplay, "Oh, you were never going to do well with Dwarves anyway."

Scyther posted:

The old cover art for Betrayal is a lot better.

Rutibex posted:

Countblanc posted:

Anime is about being strong as gently caress in a world full of poo poo

snuff posted:

I feel the exact same ways, I would rather play Skull, or Love Letter.

Sailor Viy posted:

Hello boardgame thread. What games would you recommend for a group of players who are more or less new to boardgames but have played a lot of MtG, D&D, etc? I think my friends are pretty drat good at strategic thinking so I'd like something with a lot of depth for them to chew on. I guess I want something with a similar appeal to Magic but without the part where I always lose because I don't want to spend $200+ on a deck.

2 games I've read about that sound cool are Puzzle Strike and Dungeon Petz. Are either of those any good?

Krazyface posted:

Okay so if you're playing pictomania and someone draws this:


What do you guess?



Because not one loving person got Star Trek.

Rutibex posted:

I am 100% not on board with the new internet morality, it feels too much like Sharia law or puritanism in sheeps clothing.

Chekans 3 16 posted:

Puzzle Strike got a Steam release! It's on sale for the base characters until the 28th, I'm probably going to sink way too much time into it now I don't have to go off the website.

Clockwork Gadget posted:

Hi board game thread. Three things:[list=1]
[*]I'm running a PbP game of The End is Nigh. It is a weird kinda mafia-like that I describe in the thread as "Mafia or The Resistance meets Battlestar Galactica and Clue(do), but without player elimination, a random number of PC bad guys, and no out of thread communication. I guess." To restate, it's probably more Resistance-y than Mafia-y, but the mechanics play more like a weird game of Clue with traitor stuff sort of equivalent to BSG. It's currently in its playtest phase, gearing up for a potential Kickstarter at some point, and I'm thinking of reviewing it for The Print 'n Play Cast. I haven't gotten a chance to play it yet, so I make no promises of quality. Should be interesting, at any rate! You can find the thread by clicking the following image!

Archenteron posted:

I'm eager for this as a fan of the computer game, but it looks like a game that has the potential to be not bad.

Misandu posted:

Dark Souls is also only hard because you can't take all the actions you want. Limited Stamina, Estus Flasks, and the length of animations all exist to prevent you from doing what you want to do in a given moment. You can't move the camera to see down that corridor, so you have to wait until you're much closer to potential enemies.

So how do you make a board game hard without relying on random elements? I think true fans of the series would consider it a failure if at any point in the DSBG you have to roll dice to determine success. You could give players limited resources that they have to spend to take actions, or maybe they're limited to what actions they can take by cards but that would feel pretty random a lot of times. Maybe each enemy has a small script of attacks you can follow along with, but how do you make that hard if it's just printed on them?

I think there's plenty of good conversation to be had about how you could faithfully translate Dark Souls style game play into a board game, and how you would give it the series characteristic challenge. I also think we're more likely to get Descent with a Dark Souls paint job than anything else.

Machai posted:

You break into their houses while they play and slam down your red painted mini onto the board.