THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: magus on July 10, 2012, 05:23:03 PM
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man i love playing board games,you guys go play some too!
Race for the galaxy
http://keldon.net/rftg/
Settlers of Catan
http://www.catan.com/electronic-games/playcatan.html
Dominion
http://dominion.isotropic.org/
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Catan, Puerto Rico, Munchkin, and Carcassionne are all staples in my group of friends.
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It's a shame that Frag doesn't post here anymore, he's a good source of info for this subject.
In addition to Dominion I really enjoy Ascension and 7 Wonders.
http://www.ascensiongame.com/
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders
Power Grid is another favorite
http://www.riograndegames.com/games.html?id=5
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Light fare:
Ticket to Ride
Lost Cities
Dutch Blitz (awesome Amish action card game)
Crokonole
Medium:
Vegas Showdown
Alan R Moon's Airlines
Galaxy Trucker
Puerto Rico
Hardkore:
Power Grid
San Juan
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Damn! I thought I was the only person here who'd played some Crokinole. That shit is FUN. When I buy a house someday and have a nerd cave, a Crokinole board is definitely going to have it's own table of honor.
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Carcassonne is actually pretty shit, it's waaaaay too skewed towards luck, rather than any real skill.
Chess is the pimp-king my taste and scene.
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Carcassonne is actually pretty shit, it's waaaaay too skewed towards luck, rather than any real skill.
True, but it's awesome fun screwing over other people.
Everyone buy Le Harve on iOS!
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/06/27/you-are-not-ready-for-le-havre/#more-16302
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I haven't gotten much of a chance to play board games since the kid was born, but I used to play on practically a weekly to bi-weekly basis. In addition to some of the stuff people are already mentioning, a few that I've played lately that I've dug that are worth mentioning are Claustrophobia (2 player vs. dungeon crawl), Blood Bowl: Team Manager, and on the heavier side Merchants and Marauders.
Something I played recently that I didn't like the first time and still don't think very highly of: Resident Evil the Deck Building Game. Every time I play it, I want to like it for adding some twists to the deck building genre, but it just never comes together. I always feel like I would have just been better off playing Dominion.
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all of the stuff i mentioned in the OP can be played online so i'm not sure why we aren't having a saturday board game night or something :punch
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I also remembered that recently I played Lords of Waterdeep. I enjoyed it. If you're looking for a worker placement game that plays a little lighter and quicker than some of the popular alternatives, I'd recommend it.
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I play Magic lololol
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board games own.
I played the Battlestar Galactica board game for the first time the other day and I was really impressed.
It's a co-op board game where the objective is to reach a certain destination (don't have all the names down yet) before resources run out. Every turn has a "skill check" that has to be overcome or resources diminish. You also usually have Cylon activity every round, which amounts to shooting civilian ships and further reducing your food/morale/fuel etc. down to zero. All team members collaborate on strategies and pool resources in order to make the skill check/diminish the effects of Cylon attacks, reach the next jump, and ultimately reach Caprica or wherever. The rules are fairly nuanced and there's more going on then what I've described, but that's the basic gist of the co-op.
what really makes this game stand out is that one of the members of your team is intent on subterfuge. The game starts with each member looking at a card that informs them of whether or not they are a Cylon. And even if there are no Cylon's in the games first half, another wave of cards are drawn at half-time in order to activate "sleepers". This mechanic lends alot of psychology and melodrama to what would otherwise be a fairly rote board game. every participant on the deck gets paranoid and suspicious of one another, and the Cylon member(s) have to know how to play a good bluff until they decide to reveal. If you know what you're doing you can absolutely devastate the human members without anyone catching on that it's you.
I haven't played many higher level board games in the past, but I've decided they're definitely worth exploring based on how awesome this game was.
5 bags of popcorn, 2 sodas.
Also I played Bohnanza (http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-RGG-155/dp/B00008URUS).
5 bags of popcorn, 3 wax beans.
1 stink bean.
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I recently got the main Cards Against Humanity set.
http://cardsagainsthumanity.com/
If you've ever played Apples to Apples, it's basically that, but for assholes. It's incredible.
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I always thought CAH seemed a little too on the nose. Apples to Apples really makes you work for your points. You gotta come up with funny justifications on your own.
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I always thought CAH seemed a little too on the nose. Apples to Apples really makes you work for your points. You gotta come up with funny justifications on your own.
But Apples to Apples can't get you this:
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/5f70c95f1bcb0302384d113a46fb3a54/tumblr_mhnwbe4Tpp1qzu9hao1_500.jpg)
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CAH is always a good time.
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I always thought CAH seemed a little too on the nose. Apples to Apples really makes you work for your points. You gotta come up with funny justifications on your own.
pretty much.
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but here is a CAH online version
the players tend to have have the most delightful names
http://pyz.socialgamer.net/game.jsp
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I'd be down for some online board games if you guys give me a week to learn the rules of whatever you want to play
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I always thought CAH seemed a little too on the nose. Apples to Apples really makes you work for your points. You gotta come up with funny justifications on your own.
pretty much.
You guys must be so much fucking fun
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Different strokes, breh.
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I recently got the main Cards Against Humanity set.
http://cardsagainsthumanity.com/
If you've ever played Apples to Apples, it's basically that, but for assholes. It's incredible.
you can now play cards against humanity online in case you care :-[
http://pyz.socialgamer.net/game.jsp
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Glance up, like 5 messages back, Magoose.
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Glance up, like 5 messages back, Magoose.
aww... i check a site for these sort of news and it was new there :-\