From that Tabletop, Tsuro looks great
― PSOD (Ste), Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
whoa Steve Jackson is on one of these vids
― PSOD (Ste), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
anyone play dominion at isotropic?
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Saturday, 23 June 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
I've been looking to buy King of Tokyo online, but can only find copies in French!
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 23 June 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
cozen I had a couple jags of playing on isotropic a lot but now I'm pretty much just waiting till the official digital version launches this summer sometime to play more online Dominion
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Saturday, 23 June 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
I play on the isotropic site from time to time with my brother
― Moodles, Saturday, 23 June 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
nnnnnnngh been caning dominion iOS today
addictive
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Saturday, 23 June 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
Games I've played recently that I've liked: Sentinels of the Multi-Verse (cooperative deck game, very unbalanced in the first edition, but they just finished kickstarting a revision that will address a lot of the problems)Puzzle Strike (interesting disc-based variation on Dominion/Nightfall)Quarriors! Quarmageddon (expansion set, fixes some of the problems with previous versions, plus nifty box!)Survive: Escape from Atlantis (very silly competitive game, reissue of a classic title)
Games I've played that I'm unsure about: Infiltration (kind of like Dungeon Quest, although cyberpunk themed, which I like, but something seems off about it – I'm also not a fan of games were you "preprogram" your moves)
Games I've played I don't like: Ruses and Bruises (probably because I lost, but it just seemed very easy to fall far behind and not have any fun)
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Saturday, 23 June 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
Small World is really fun actually! Easy enough to teach to non-gamers, but w/ enough strategy (picking races, deciding where to conquer, deciding when to go into decline) to make it interesting
― Mordy, Saturday, 23 June 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
Small World is a pretty slick optimization game with a little bit of player interaction and a cute theme.
I love optimizing numbers.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Saturday, 23 June 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
Oh! I also disliked Innovations. That one is WAY too easy to fall behind and never be able to catch up in.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Sunday, 24 June 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
has anyone played 7 wonders? it's really fun and pretty fast - you can play a game in 30-45 mins, so you can do a few rounds in one sitting. good times.
this is like the only BGG-style game my wife will play - i really like it a lot.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, 24 June 2012 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
if anyone plays dominion on ipad, add me on gamecenter (dwh0wi3 without the googleproofing)
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Monday, 25 June 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
My group of friends has been obsessed with 7 Wonders of late. I feel like I'm sneakily getting them to do Magic the Gathering drafts.
Has anyone tried Flash Point? Very fun cooperative board game - there need to be more of those. Played it for the first time this weekend, and we kept wanting to play until we won.
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
Ok Cozen, your game center ID is so well google proofed I don't know what to replace with what.
Could also be that I'm a bit slow...
― Moodles, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
maybe he forgot an 'r'?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
It's weird, I never played Magic when I was younger, but judging from the games I like now, I probably would've loved it… Which, come to think of it, means it's probably a good thing I didn't get into it as a teenager (same thing with Star Trek). Anyway, 7 Wonders is great, I like it even more with the Leaders expansion.
Flashpoint is okay. I don't know, doesn't really seem like it has much replay value.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
replace 0 with o, 3 with e
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
Request sent
― Moodles, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
did you kickstart ogre, spencer
I did not. By the time I heard about it they were like 9x over target and growing. I hope the response encourages them to create an app. 'OGRE' is really one of the purest and best hex based strategy games ever.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 July 2012 07:56 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh at games where you can fall behind early on and are just sitting around reading ILX waiting for it to end
See: Catan, or, right now, El Grande.
― is capybara gay? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
Owen, plz move to Philly so we can play board games together + talk about NetHack strategies.
― Mordy, Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
started playing risk legacy yesterday
it. is. awesome.
― am0n, the road to nowhere (cozen), Sunday, 15 July 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
shit that sounds cool
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 15 July 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it’s p.good; and they’ve altered the rules from standard risk so games don’t go on for an age. good fun writing stuff on the board
we’re only two games in so haven’t opened any of the packets etc yet but by the sounds of it they’re all pretty :O
no spoilers
― am0n, the road to nowhere (cozen), Monday, 16 July 2012 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
played pandemic for the first time this week. was the only person to really 'get it' so just ended up directing people as to how to most efficiently win. felt like i was being kind of tiresome.
― thomp, Saturday, 21 July 2012 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
This game called ECLIPSE is pretty wonderful. Really beautifully designed euro-feeling space epic, just the right length, with gorgeous art. Like a more elegant (compact) take on Twilight Imperium or Rex, and even a little reminiscent of Cosmic Encounter (but much more cerebral).
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 21 July 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
directors are p.tiresome... some light coaching can be helpful though
eclipse looks good but /complicated/... is it?
― skrill xx (cozen), Saturday, 21 July 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
Has anyone on here played Mage Knight? Going to try this out tomorrow with some work pals. What should I expect?
― Moodles, Saturday, 21 July 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
won my first game of legacy last night and got to [spoiler redacted], with all nine minor cities established we also got to [spoiler redacted]
game's a blast, and can be quite quickfire too if you get the right conditions
― skrill xx (cozen), Saturday, 21 July 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
Eclipse isn't complicated, from a broader boardgame perspective - simpler than Caylus or Age of Industry, I'd say, and nothing like a wargame, Arkham or Twilight Imperium. Maybe on par with Power Grid? (but more fun!) There are lots of components but they come together very elegantly, rather than piles of cruft; I've played two games, and in both games the first-time players were basically fully bossin' by the halfway point.
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Sean remind me to remind you to invite me next time I'm near you ok?
― Ignite the seven canons (Ówen P.), Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
sure! we are a good-mood boardgames gang: fun of the game, boo to win/lose chafing.
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 21 July 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
My friend has Mage Knight, I haven't played it but it looks super complex – expect a long game, I think.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Saturday, 21 July 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
I think I may be getting in over my head
― Moodles, Sunday, 22 July 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
haha would you seriously be interested in playing eclipse? i have a bunch of credit at 401 games and really want to buy it but i only really know one other person that will play it with me...
― Lamp, Sunday, 22 July 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
anyone tried the 2012 SdJ, kingdom builder?
― skrill xx (cozen), Sunday, 29 July 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's fun. There are randomized win conditions and bonus tokens, so you need to use a different strategy every game. It is one of those games where a player can get a decisive lead in the first two rounds and then it becomes a race for second, though.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Sunday, 29 July 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
Or maybe I'm just bitter because that's what happened the last time I played, ha ha. For the most part, it is very well balanced, and you can catch up if you play well. As with any of these games, though, luck plays a part.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Sunday, 29 July 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
I own Kingdom Builder! It happens to be designed by Donald X. Vaccarino, the creator of Dominion. I like it a lot. It does definitely have the potential for someone to get a serious advantage in the first couple of turns, but that can be related to everyone being inexperienced. After a couple plays it becomes more clear what the relative strengths of the special powers are and how important it is to claim them and use them as quickly as possible.
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Monday, 30 July 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, last time we were playing with the expansion, which adds a couple really crazy new powers (like one that allows you to place "rocks" on the board back in block off your settlements, which is super useful but whose utility I didn't realize until it was too late) and a new mechanic with one time use powers. Still, the guy in the lead lucked out with his first couple territory cards and so he was able to get a bunch of special powers, while another guy kept getting caught in one little corner and wasn't able to get any of the powers.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, 30 July 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
7 wonders is legitimate
― ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ kma (cozen), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
card game chrononauts is a lot of fun
― Mordy, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
got arkham horror!
now need people to play with :-(
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
We have Arkham Horror,the Dunwich Horror expansion, and Mansions of Madness. All are good but they've been largely neglected this past year because the games go for so long.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'm at a place where I just want a game to end after 30 minutes or so.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
Gauntlet of Fools is a fun little game by Donald X. that is also very fast, once you know how to play you can probably play twice in 30 minutes.
Have I talked in this thread about how I can't stand playing Arkham Horror? It might just be the group that I've played it with, but man I find it just overwhelmingly boring.
― wongo hulkington's jade palace late night buffet (silby), Thursday, 13 December 2012 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
i have a responsibility-free day so i'm playing by myself with three characters, i've played six or seven full turns so far over the course of two hours. right now my positions is nailbitingly tense - a shoggoth in the outskirts, two monsters on each gate, including a starspawn. there's also a wandering dhole in there. on the other hand, everyone has blessings and harvey walters has a magic lamp that's like +5 to combat. basically i have everyone in position to close the three open gates and everyone is buffed so i'm either about to be in position to close all the open gates at once - though a new one will definitely spawn - or i'm about to get my ass handed to me. this is alternately boring and awesome.
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
the dhole ate ashcan pete's dog though which kind of sucks because he's short in the sanity dept anyway
i would take the researcher and pete to church first but that would be two more gates to make six total by the time mandy and pete can get to any open gates.
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
finished! only took four hours.
― the late great, Thursday, 20 December 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link