Board games

[Pentegarn]

On one hand I want to play it too, on the other hand I expect it would suffer from the same issues Hero Quest suffered from. Getting the same people to play week after week is difficult because those type of players are usually playing D&D instead

[OxBlood]

I have do admit, I don´t like games that need a Master to play, mainly because I always have to be that guy and I hate to orchestrate games when I could have an adventure at the same time :D

Which is why I love Coop-Games or good asynch-2 player-games like Claustrophobia.

I´m really looking forward to Essen this year, I already know I´ll burn so much money there...and I don´t even know how to transport all those games...just because I feel like it, here´s a list of the things I wanna get.

Quarriors (if I can´t it earlier, Amazon lists it for the end of this month)
Elder Sign (to replace Arkham Horror basically since we never have enough time to play that game)
Gears of War the Boardgame
Dungeon Run
Super Dungeon Explore (cause it´s SUPER )
Ares Project
Blood Bowl Card game
Eminent Domain
Dominant Species
Dragon Rampage


Those are the ones that I could list from the top of my head though not all of them are really necessary. What I really want are Quarriors and the Gears game, that looks like simple and fast Coop-Fun on random maps which is awesome.

[Pentegarn]

My GF just picked up Forbidden Island (speaking of co op games) which is supposedly like a Pandemic or Defenders of the Realm. We haven't tried it yet though

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Pentegarn

My GF just picked up Forbidden Island (speaking of co op games) which is supposedly like a Pandemic or Defenders of the Realm. We haven't tried it yet though

Finally played it, it is fast paced and pretty difficult to win as far as co op games go. You pick a role from a list of a team of treasure hunters and of course they all have different useful skills (some more useful than others obviously). You have to recover 4 treasures from the island as it sinks. If too much island sinks, you can't get to the rendezvous point and everyone loses. The island sinks really fast. We played on the beginner difficulty and it was tough, I can't imagine playing on expert where the island is sinking at twice the rate.

The next 4 days will be the Buckeye Game Fest. I won't have a ton of pictures of this, because it is mostly just playing games that are out or have been out for awhile. It is in essence an extended CABS meeting. But if I play anything I think is really cool I will post a pic of it here.

[Fathom Zero]

http://vimeo.com/27752539

srsly, this show is making me interested in board games.

[Pentegarn]

That show is growing on me despite how silly the presentation is

There's a lot of good info behind the gags

[Fathom Zero]

It does a lot for board games, which are usually seen by people outside terribly dry, to say nothing of being nerdy.

I s'pose I've come to like card games a lot more - I got my friends addicted to all the Munchkins.

[Pentegarn]

I got a list of must plays for you then

Thunderstone- A deck building game where you have to compete with other players to build a deck capable of gaining the most victory points

Ascension- In some ways similar to Thunderstone, but streamlined to a mere 3 game mechanics

Nightfall- While I hate it's theme, I love the everyone plays on everyone's turn mechanic

Dominion- Probably my least favorite on the list, but its popularity is a lumbering juggernaut, so you will likely never want for more players to play it

Quarriors!- Not a deck/card game, but similar in its mechanic, you buy dice that represent creatures and spells to get enough points to win the game, lots of fun there

[OxBlood]

Paint me green and call me Frederick, my Quarriors! is on the way

Sadly the boardgaming-GF is gone again but what the hell, there´s enough people to play with around I guess.

[Pentegarn]

Gone gone? Or just gone for the time being?

[OxBlood]

Gone gone. A woman´s mind can be a little strange sometimes. But it´s better when these things happen early I guess, 2 months is nothing.

[Pentegarn]

[OxBlood]

Meh, it´s not like I can do anything about it but don´t worry, Women come and go until you find the right one I guess.

[Pentegarn]

Let's just hope the right one like board games too

[OxBlood]

MY right woman does, yeah, otherwise she´s not the right one

[OxBlood]

Huh, what do you know, there´s a german version of Glory to Rome and it comes without the horrible cartoony art in neon colors too

[Fathom Zero]

Is the Buckeye Game Fest as exciting as it sounds?

[Pentegarn]

I will say yes, and assume you are being either sarcastic or serious so you get what you want

[k0k0]

I remember playing Dream Phone with my buddy when we were 13. It belonged to my sister and she was staying at some girl's house over the night. I won. It was pretty excellent and to this day I can hoard over him that Jamal liked me better than him. Because his creepy robotic voice said over the phone "You're right, I really like you!"

[OxBlood]

I played the online-version of Memoir 44 last evening...never played Memoir before...seems like a really fun game but I think there´s no german version out there which is strange, given how popular the game is in the states...

Oh and my Kickstarter-Copy of eaten by zombies arrived the other day but I haven´t had time to take a look at it yet.

[Grislygus]

So my midterm in Computer Imaging is to make and box a board game. Mechanics finished, plastic and wood bought, lazertran sheets ordered, just beginning the final drafts of the graphics





More crap to be posted once the whole thing's done in about three weeks

[Zhukov]

Pretty cool.

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Grislygus

So my midterm in Computer Imaging is to make and box a board game. Mechanics finished, plastic and wood bought, lazertran sheets ordered, just beginning the final drafts of the graphics





More crap to be posted once the whole thing's done in about three weeks

You could probably get a smaller game company to publish it if it is popular with play testers

[Dimnos]

:thumbsup

[Pentegarn]

So I picked up copies of 7 Wonders and Smallworld for cheaper than I could get them online. I think this guy is getting all my future game purchasing business, cause he beat competitor prices in everything he sold