Lots and lots of news this week:
TableTop invites you to International Tabletop Day [Link] The Geek & Sundry web sensation TableTop has started its own holiday. On March 30, 2013, board and RPG gamers are encouraged to do what they love--play games. At home, in public, wherever (here's the video announcement). I hope I can participate in something. (Any excuse for games, says I.) (And the story was also picked up by someone at USA Today.)
Showing posts with label Monopoly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monopoly. Show all posts
Monday, March 4, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
News Bits: 2/11/2013
Big week for news, big week for Kickstarter. Check it out below:
Greater Than Games gears up for Galactic Strike Force [Link] The team behind Sentinels of the Multiverse, a well-regarded superhero cooperative card game (and one of the richest games I've seen in thematic detail), has announced a new co-op game, this one a deck-builder set in outer space. I've only played first-edition SotM, and while I liked it, it wasn't my favorite co-op experience. This game looks more my speed. I am definitely watching this one with interest and will let you know the updates as I see them.
Greater Than Games gears up for Galactic Strike Force [Link] The team behind Sentinels of the Multiverse, a well-regarded superhero cooperative card game (and one of the richest games I've seen in thematic detail), has announced a new co-op game, this one a deck-builder set in outer space. I've only played first-edition SotM, and while I liked it, it wasn't my favorite co-op experience. This game looks more my speed. I am definitely watching this one with interest and will let you know the updates as I see them.
Monday, October 29, 2012
News Bits: 10/29/2012
I had a great weekend of gaming (including first plays of the incredibly fun Space Alert). But enough of that. Now the NEWS.
MTV Geek Interviews Geoff Engelstein about Space Cadets
Continuing his preview of Space Cadets, Matt Morgan of MTV Geek interviewed Geoff Engelstein about his lighthearted cooperative game. I get more interested in this one the more I read about it.
MTV Geek Interviews Geoff Engelstein about Space Cadets
Continuing his preview of Space Cadets, Matt Morgan of MTV Geek interviewed Geoff Engelstein about his lighthearted cooperative game. I get more interested in this one the more I read about it.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Friday Question: Is There a Game You Refuse to Play?
No one likes the wet blanket. The spoilsport. The poo-pooer. But sometimes a game is so insufferable that any sane person is given no choice in the matter. Which leads to today's Friday question: is there a game that you refuse to play? A corrollary question: how do you get out of playing the game you hate? Answer in the comments.
@FarmerLenny answers:
There aren't many games that I refuse to play, but a game that I hate is Apples to Apples. The game is subject to the caprices of the judge, who invariably is ill suited for that position (read: he doesn't choose my card). I am also not a fan of Mafia. The game is mob ruled, and any player who uses logic is killed the first round. Or, he lives through the first round of killings, which goes against the "killed first round" normalcy and casts suspicion on him, making him the first victim lynched. (Read: I always get killed first and have to keep my mouth shut for the rest of the game.) I usually don't refuse to play these games, but I try to steer the mob toward something more fun--which is almost anything.
@Futurewolfie answers:
I will pretty much play any game that a whole group wants to play, even if it's not my favorite. Aside from obvious no-nos like Monopoly, I am actually not much of a fan of Bang. I try to avoid any game with player elimination (unless the game ends within 13 seconds of the first elimination) and in my experience, Bang either ends way too quickly with the death of the sheriff, or stretches on far too long after a few players are out and can no longer participate. Whenever a less-tasteful game is brought up, I either take the hit and don't complain and just try to enjoy being with friends, or offer up a different game that everyone can participate in.
@FarmerLenny answers:
There aren't many games that I refuse to play, but a game that I hate is Apples to Apples. The game is subject to the caprices of the judge, who invariably is ill suited for that position (read: he doesn't choose my card). I am also not a fan of Mafia. The game is mob ruled, and any player who uses logic is killed the first round. Or, he lives through the first round of killings, which goes against the "killed first round" normalcy and casts suspicion on him, making him the first victim lynched. (Read: I always get killed first and have to keep my mouth shut for the rest of the game.) I usually don't refuse to play these games, but I try to steer the mob toward something more fun--which is almost anything.
@Futurewolfie answers:
I will pretty much play any game that a whole group wants to play, even if it's not my favorite. Aside from obvious no-nos like Monopoly, I am actually not much of a fan of Bang. I try to avoid any game with player elimination (unless the game ends within 13 seconds of the first elimination) and in my experience, Bang either ends way too quickly with the death of the sheriff, or stretches on far too long after a few players are out and can no longer participate. Whenever a less-tasteful game is brought up, I either take the hit and don't complain and just try to enjoy being with friends, or offer up a different game that everyone can participate in.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Friday Question: What Game Has Produced the Most Memories?
Let's face it: gaming is not about winning and losing (despite what Scotty Sore-loser-pants says when you try to console him). It's about the common experience of bringing people together. So this Friday's Friday question addresses just that: what game has produced the most (or fondest) memories for you or your group? Feel free to answer (and share some of those memories) in the comments.
@FarmerLenny answers:
I've probably spent the most time with Monopoly or Risk, but strangely enough, those memories have (for the most part) been repressed. The game for me that carries some of the fondest memories is Kill Dr. Lucky. My brother-in-law introduced me to this game on one of my summer visits, and I promptly ordered a copy from the publisher (whose name on the shipping box produced raised eyebrows when it arrived in the mail). This was before the fancier version came out, but after the original edition. I bought the director's cut, the version with all the creative modes of failure ("The doctor vanishes inexplicably in a cloud of feathers," etc.). When I introduced it to my friends at college, they were skeptical at first, but it soon became a Family Game Night staple (along with Pit, Bang, and Silent Football). Kill Dr. Lucky was always a good time--even when someone else did the doctor in. Runners up in the fond memories category are Dutch Blitz, Pinochle, and Rook, memories of which I've described elsewhere.
@Futurewolfie answers:
Oh man. Despite my relatively recent foray into the deeper world of quality board games, I actually do have a lot of memories of playing board-and-card games with family and friends. We would play Pit very loudly around the dining room table, and the hit French road-racing game Mille Bornes (which I recently discovered is absolutely not fun at all with only 2 players). When it was just me, my sister, and my parents, we would play Sequence, very competitively. I remember playing The Game of Life with my sisters and from what i recall never actually playing with all the rules correctly intact by the end of the game. My mom, who gave me my creativity and love of writing, bought me UpWords and we would play together. My friend Bryan introduced me to Heroclix and I dumped boatloads of my allowance towards that collection. We even built a custom 3D heroclix map with skyscrapers and a truck, which is probably the most productive thing we ever voluntarily did in high school. I realize I kind of broke the "favorite memory" shtick by listing off a dozen memories, but as I didn't really get into board-gaming until recently, all these little memories flow together in the melting-pot of my memories.
Oh yeah, and The Omega Virus.
Your turn. :-)
@FarmerLenny answers:
I've probably spent the most time with Monopoly or Risk, but strangely enough, those memories have (for the most part) been repressed. The game for me that carries some of the fondest memories is Kill Dr. Lucky. My brother-in-law introduced me to this game on one of my summer visits, and I promptly ordered a copy from the publisher (whose name on the shipping box produced raised eyebrows when it arrived in the mail). This was before the fancier version came out, but after the original edition. I bought the director's cut, the version with all the creative modes of failure ("The doctor vanishes inexplicably in a cloud of feathers," etc.). When I introduced it to my friends at college, they were skeptical at first, but it soon became a Family Game Night staple (along with Pit, Bang, and Silent Football). Kill Dr. Lucky was always a good time--even when someone else did the doctor in. Runners up in the fond memories category are Dutch Blitz, Pinochle, and Rook, memories of which I've described elsewhere.
@Futurewolfie answers:
Oh man. Despite my relatively recent foray into the deeper world of quality board games, I actually do have a lot of memories of playing board-and-card games with family and friends. We would play Pit very loudly around the dining room table, and the hit French road-racing game Mille Bornes (which I recently discovered is absolutely not fun at all with only 2 players). When it was just me, my sister, and my parents, we would play Sequence, very competitively. I remember playing The Game of Life with my sisters and from what i recall never actually playing with all the rules correctly intact by the end of the game. My mom, who gave me my creativity and love of writing, bought me UpWords and we would play together. My friend Bryan introduced me to Heroclix and I dumped boatloads of my allowance towards that collection. We even built a custom 3D heroclix map with skyscrapers and a truck, which is probably the most productive thing we ever voluntarily did in high school. I realize I kind of broke the "favorite memory" shtick by listing off a dozen memories, but as I didn't really get into board-gaming until recently, all these little memories flow together in the melting-pot of my memories.
Oh yeah, and The Omega Virus.
Your turn. :-)
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