I've been mildly interested in TIME Stores as well, and just like you, the price has definitely put me off. However, I'm looking for them via the BGG math trades, as I think that's a decent price to pay, and shouldn't be hard to offload either, as I'm sure others have the same train of thought.
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New Board Gaming |OT2| On Tables, Off Topic
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it's a bit over priced, but if you can get your friends to agree to split it it's not to bad.
I mean it plays 5 players just fine. $10 a person to start with and $6 per expansion each of with takes longer than a movie to go through so in comparison isn't terrible. luckily I had a friend that just bought it all.
I am going to have to disagree here.
the base game is fun and really well planned out.
the first expansion is fun and pretty well planned out
the second expansion is decent but was lacking in depth in general
the third expansion is okay and very poorly planned out including leaving you paths to get cards that don't have rules defined until you go down different paths (even though you can use the cards as soon as you get them ect)
the fourth expansion was back to being fun and but a bit lacking again.
the thing is they clearly rushed the later expansions where the base game and first expansion still give you quite a bit to think about and decent different paths to take the later ones are all far more straight forward and just lack the same depth.
I am hoping the new wave of cases will be better and deeper again. Beyond that really want the final expansion to be a super expansion that has you revisit everything story spoiler
ideally to correct all the things you screwed up as we are convinced that Bob is actually a bad guy and the twist at the end will be that we have been working for the bad guys and now need to help the good guys 
either way.... Bob's a dick.
EYEL1NER
Member
It looks great and is sure to play great.Just got a photo of my Crokinole board from the Hilinski Brothers. It's an homage to the Milwaukee Bucks, but also planet earth. I see he named it Arid World in recognition of that. What do you guys think of it?
One of these days I'll get them to make me a board.
SoldierIce64
Member
Earlier in this thread I mentioned that I had some QA issues with the new Star Wars: Destiny Spirit of Rebellion boosters, I got a Chewbacca dice with no card and I also got an R2-D2 card but with no dice. So I talked to Fantasy Flight and Asmodee about the issue, they were able to send me a Chewbacca card and a free booster pack for Spirit of Rebellion. I got the Chewbacca card a couple weeks ago but the booster pack finally arrived today, as soon as I opened it I saw that I got an Emperor Palpatine card and dice! He's one of the cards that I've been wanting the most (especially since his single price is in the $60+ area). Very happy about this.
We have a group of friends that time stories passes among. It's a pretty interesting game. I haven't played anything quite like it.
Edit: Fuck Bob.
AbsolutBro
Member
I bought the DNC for Table Top Simulator and despite only playing (and losing) one game, I really really enjoyed it. The automata / solo variant is pretty decent also.
Modest Mauser
Member
Anyone picking up Netrunner Terminal Directive?
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
Grabbing it mainly for the tournament legal cards. My league is doing something with the campaign, but the main focus is those new cards.
*checks* yup that is the one I got for $22 from amazon.
sounds interesting to have a campaign.
toddhunter
Member
On the family front we have had a few games of Braintopia. This is essentially brain training the card game, mixed with snap.
We had to remove the snap component because Miss 6 was getting upset about not solving the puzzles first. Instead we just hold our thumbs up when we "get it" and everything stays friendly.
The highs:
* Almost all the puzzles are fun, like picking the colour name that is in the right colour, finding the most of something and the mazes.
* The tactile cards are really fun with the kids trying to guess what they are feeling.
* It is relatively cheap and a small box
The lows:
* The finger based cards are dumb
* There simply are not enough cards. I think they basically needed double for the same price point.
It is pretty solid overall and fun for the family. However there just isn't quite enough "stuff in the box" to give it a full recommendation. Pick it up on sale.
We had to remove the snap component because Miss 6 was getting upset about not solving the puzzles first. Instead we just hold our thumbs up when we "get it" and everything stays friendly.
The highs:
* Almost all the puzzles are fun, like picking the colour name that is in the right colour, finding the most of something and the mazes.
* The tactile cards are really fun with the kids trying to guess what they are feeling.
* It is relatively cheap and a small box
The lows:
* The finger based cards are dumb
* There simply are not enough cards. I think they basically needed double for the same price point.
It is pretty solid overall and fun for the family. However there just isn't quite enough "stuff in the box" to give it a full recommendation. Pick it up on sale.
Tonight's game was Yokohama, freshly delivered KS funded "goodness" from TMG.
Mixes things from Istanbul, Guilds of London, etc, with more engine building, and kitchen sink victory point generation. 4 player game, all new players, took ~3 hours, and most of us had switched off at hour 2, I think. I ended up winning by a good margin, didn't see it coming, as I was repeatedly blocked throughout the game.
It'll go faster with more familiarity of the tiles & problem space, but fundamentally, because of the movement mechanism, you can't plan too far ahead - you will get messed up by other players' turns. So you end up sometimes doing a lot of thinking just as your turn starts because the board has changed so much.
Meh.
I'd play again, but wouldn't suggest it.
Mixes things from Istanbul, Guilds of London, etc, with more engine building, and kitchen sink victory point generation. 4 player game, all new players, took ~3 hours, and most of us had switched off at hour 2, I think. I ended up winning by a good margin, didn't see it coming, as I was repeatedly blocked throughout the game.
It'll go faster with more familiarity of the tiles & problem space, but fundamentally, because of the movement mechanism, you can't plan too far ahead - you will get messed up by other players' turns. So you end up sometimes doing a lot of thinking just as your turn starts because the board has changed so much.
Meh.
I'd play again, but wouldn't suggest it.
sasimirobot
Junior Member
wanted it but checked amazon today and it's almost 80$US , sold out that fast?
Amazon may not have gotten their stock in. CSI and Miniature Market have plenty at $34.
Everytime I see the "board" for that game my eyes just don't even know where to look there's so many symbols everywhere.
It doesn't help that they've got this mishmash of English & Kanji everywhere. But yes, the "board" looks ridiculous, especially if you follow the exact layout of where to put the scoreboard + progress boards, which is dumb as it's a waste of table space.
I didn't hate it. I can see why people would love it. Just not for me.
HashtagLapsed
Member
My mate got me Legendary: Alien for my birthday. Looking forward to giving it a go!
I'm going to give him Arctic Scavengers, if I can't find Shadowrun: Crossfire.
I'm going to give him Arctic Scavengers, if I can't find Shadowrun: Crossfire.
I know exactly what you mean. I played it yesterday for the first time. 2p game took over 2 hours. It was just ok. I think I had it built up more in my mind, I was a little disappointment.
Dang after listening to rahdo talk about Gloomhaven on the latest Dice Tower (new format for the podcast is so good without all the unnecessary contributors) I really want to pick it up. Problem is I'm already playing ALCG and have other campaign-style games like Shadowrun CG and the like on the table. I could fit it in if I could play it w/ my wife, and the complexity isn't an issue at all but she just doesn't like edgelord themes enough to sit through that heavy and long of a game with them. :/ (And frankly neither do I, but I tolerate them better if the underlying games are great.) Really wish there were fewer edgelord games with campaigns -- I think this was a big part of the appeal of Pandemic is that it's really an untapped market (though obviously it's not on par w/ fantasy).
Utterly agree,
Oh and I should phrase that properly: I wish there were more deep campaign-style games with themes other than fantasy or something pretty edgelordy. Make all the fantasy games you want! (But maybe mix in a different theme and vibe (i.e., non-dark) once a while.)
Make all the fantasy games you want! (But maybe mix in a different theme and vibe (i.e., non-dark) once a while.)Oh and I should phrase that properly: I wish there were more deep campaign-style games with themes other than fantasy or something pretty edgelordy.
I feel like the modern board game can only either appeal to some kind of european ethnocentrism or a inner 12 year old.
I don't understand this comment. What is an example of a campaign game that is "edgelord?"
I've logged 9 plays of it so far, with each play probably clocking in at 90+ minutes. I definitely enjoy it, and the story/campaign elements are great. The designer really nailed the difficulty, as every scenario feels extremely tense and down to the wire. I definitely have some criticisms of the game though, such as the fact that you can't finish picking up any loot you've left behind after you've killed every monster in the scenario. Being able to do that might have thrown off the character progression though, so it's probably warranted. Doesn't mean I don't feel a little miffed leaving behind chests and stuff though.joelseph said:
BomberMouse
Member
Gloomhaven? A lot of us don't enjoy those fantasy settings. He probably means games with a wider audience in mind.
Yeah haha that was mostly an admittedly cheap shot at Gloomhaven and Descent. But if you look at the best campaign games you're talking those two, ALCG, Pathfinder, Legends of Andor (iirc), Imperial Assault, etc. All insanely nerdy stuff. Like Magic-level nerdiness. I was just saying I only have room for one such game in my life unless I can actually expand out to non-nerdy people like my wife and friends, so please give me more games I can do that with.
I mean
amazon decided to put it up for $22 thus it sold pretty quickly.
also was not expecting it to be bigger than my base set lol.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Anyone been keeping up on Descent with the app? I haven't played in a while but I'm craving some dungeon crawling. Does it still play well with any random assortment of classes?
Okay. The term "edgelord" to me means something totally different. I can completely understand someone not really being into fantasy. Sci-fi is like that for me, although I can get into some sci-fi games if the gameplay is good enough.
Yeah it was more of a general point and then I just dropped in that slur for Gloomhaven specifically. And honestly I don't mind edgelordy stuff at all just that it limits playerbase for me at least.
BattleMonkey
Member
This is an edgelord
BomberMouse
Member
I support Astrolad, "cool dude with two swords" is edge lord af.
Anyway, looking forward to charterstone.
Anyway, looking forward to charterstone.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
I was going to back Gloomhaven, then I came to my sense and realize I will never in a million years complete a campaign. I got Brass: Lancaster instead.
As a tangent...
The box for Terminal Directive is large. Like completely, ludicrously, and unnecessarily large.
As a tangent...
The box for Terminal Directive is large. Like completely, ludicrously, and unnecessarily large.
BattleMonkey
Member
We struggle to complete a Descent or IA campaign, we are never gonna get players together long enough to play through all of Gloomhaven. The whole legacy game aspect and length of it just does not fit despite it sounding so cool... know its gonna go to waste on us.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
Yeah that's the conclusion I came to. If you can get a group together to complete the thing, more power to you. Imma be here playing a hundred other games.
EYEL1NER
Member
Adam X makes me want to be an edgelord. I wish I was half as awesome as him.This is an edgelord
Is there a Tabletop Day thread anywhere? I was looking around and didn't see anything posted in Off Topic recently. Does anyone actually want to make one, or even think one should be made? I can make one but it will be pretty bare-bones. I'm on an iPad for the rest of the evening, so any thread I make won't even have a cool banner or anything. I just thought it might be good to tip off the larger GAF community that doesn't venture in here to the fact that tomorrow is TT Day and if they are looking to have some fun, heading to their nearest game store might see them have a good time.
I initially planned on taking a ton of games to the closest good store, which is an hour away. I wanted to take Catacombs, Flick Em Up, PitchCar, and other dexterity games that no one in my weekly group will play with me. I was also planning on taking a few regular games and definitely taking my favorite Alien Frontiers, a game I was introduced to at TT Day a few years ago. Now that I've gotten into Armada, I'm going to take all of that in. The local Armada group will be meeting there to play some beginner or noob-friendly games and I still have a lot of rules and thing to learn in regards to the game. Saturdays are usually my X-Wing days too, so I'm taking all of my X-Wing stuff in; two guys from my X-Wing group will be heading there later in the day to play and I'll get some matches in. I'm not sure I'll take much else game-wise though. I don't want to take so many things and then only play Armada or X-Wing, or take things no one else wants to play, or see a bunch of things others brought that I really want to play and then decide to throw all of my stuff back in the car.
I still hope to join in the demo for Champion of Midgard that happens at 10 and the Deception: Murder in Hong Kong demo later in the day. I'm also hoping someone brings Food Chain Magnate and Captain SONAR, I'd love to try both of those out (though trying FCM and loving it might tempt me to buy the copy they have, and while buying it before it's gone for years is a good idea, I'd rather wait and see if one of the online stores puts it on sale one last time before inventory is gone; I know CSI was doing it at like $79.99 a couple times recently).
BassForever
Member
Got my copy of Mega Man Pixel Tactics decks (mega man, protoman, bass, and staroids expansion). I really like how they managed to make most of the characters feel like you'd expect them to from Mega Man.
EYEL1NER
Member
I wound up throwing together a TT Day thread here: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1365892
hmmmm I guess I will post any NA board game deals I find in that thread then as a number of places will likely have some games on sale. though it does seem like some places had their sales early so people could have the games on the board game day
Megalosaro
Banned
I'm having trouble modifying my gloomhaven pledge to include the solo campaign. Help?
HashtagLapsed
Member
I think the way it works is you increase your pledge by the required amount then they send a survey asking what addons you want at the end of the KS drive.
Yep, and though Isaac originally wasn't planning on using a pledge manager, a pledge manager will apparently be added in the future since he has so many orders.
On another note, I got a comment from the Millennium Blades designer so that was cool. It turns out the solution to weird cases with Next vs. Play effects is that the player chooses which to use first. That is what they did in playtesting, and it makes a lot more sense than the hard "Play>Next" text in the rulebook.
Millennium Blades + Set Rotation sleeving status: 298 done.
On another note, I got a comment from the Millennium Blades designer so that was cool. It turns out the solution to weird cases with Next vs. Play effects is that the player chooses which to use first. That is what they did in playtesting, and it makes a lot more sense than the hard "Play>Next" text in the rulebook.
Millennium Blades + Set Rotation sleeving status: 298 done.