So my wife and I are going to grab an
Emissary from Geek Chic for our new house.
I've been wanting one of their tables for years, but we pretty much couldn't fit one in our current place. Super pumped!
If I didn't have an arcade room, this is what would go in there instead. Until I get a bigger place, or realistically, a house; I can't really get a GeekChic piece.
But dude, super excited for ya! Need to come over and check it out when it comes in. REMEMBER ME, DAMMIT!!!
They're pretty much night and day, to use video game terms: Zombicide is a topdown arcade shooter, Last Night on Earth is a graphic adventure game.
Indeed.
Personally: I gave up LNOE and all of the expansions for Zombicide. My group and I personally love the game and prefer the fast-paced action. The fact that hoardes of infected come at you from all angles and you need to manage them by navigating around the may in the best way possible is how I prefer the theme to play out.
LNOE was just too slow and unexciting for us. It's a much more paced game. The Event Cards do add for some fun and interesting twists, however.
But for a movie-like comparison, think Night of the Living Dead vs. 28 Days/Zombieland.
I have Season 2: Prison Outbreak, but it didn't go over well with most of my gaming group, they thought the ranged combat rules were "stupid" and the Berzerk zombies "dumb." Instead of just sucking it up and working with the rule they mostly just bitched about them.
Read the rules for yourself on their website and figure out if your group will be able to deal with them.
I can see how this can come across. We've house-ruled a few things. But mostly, we just limit the number of Berzerkers spawn cards in the deck.
As for the ranged targeting priorities: We started off the same way as your group. However, I started picking up more of the Survivors (promos, Survivor Packs, etc) and realized the Steady Hand ability comes into play more often. Thematically, we now totally understand if Wanda (blonde-haired youngster food server on roller skates) would end up accidentally shooting another Survivor in a crowd of infected vs. Rick (trained stuntman ala. Jason Statham), who would make sense in being trained with a rifle. Now we've since added this basic ability to others, such as Phil from the core set, who's a sheriff's deputy; as it helps make a little more thematic sense.
Okay, so stopping at Miniature Market was definitely worth it. Got a set of Rampage Meeple stickers, a deck box, and Blood Bowl Team Manager off the site, a slightly dented copy of Bora Bora for $25, some mermaid game for half of of like $25 or $28 or something (Mermaid Rain is the name I think), and then the ultimate score: Twilight Imperium, Third Edition, slight dent on box and small rip on plastic wrap...$45.
I will probably stop on my way back to SC too, because I want to see what dented-boxed stuff they are letting people pretty much steal then. I have a feeling I will regret not gettin the Fantasy Flight Conan game and the Level 7 game (not Omega Protocol) that they had.
No. You're fine. No regrets, my friend. ;-)
Nice pickups, otherwise!
Played Sid Meier's Civilization for the first time yesterday, the tech-tree was overwhelming and it was much easier to find the optimal path for the Egyptians than for the Chinese, but I had a pretty good time learning the game. I'm really looking forward to playing this game with four players, but I expect sesions to take really long then.
This is why I'm looking forward to getting Clash of Cultures. I hear they have a much more balanced tech tree.
