FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
Yeah, there were a few games of Catan at AusPAX.
It was the first real successful Euro-style game that really kicked off the current wave of board game revival. I pretty much divide all board games into pre-Catan and post-Catan catagories. It's a solid introduction to modern games for those people who were raised on the same Snakes + Ladders / Monopoly / other games that have been around since their grandparent's time. Not too complicated, familiar enough to grasp the core concepts behind the gameplay, but still engrossing enough and different enough each play to be a fresh experience each time. The simplicity of the rules mean that even first-timers can grasp winning strategies, however there's an undercurrent of luck and tactics that means even experienced players can find a degree of depth and subtlety. It has a few weak points - the first round is absolutely critical and experienced players can take half an hour to get through initial city placement, but overall it's a good game of cutthroat expansion and resource management where there can be only one winner.
So yeah, it's a good start point, particularly if you like Monopoly.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
Forbidden Island is one of those great games where you can have real fun with variants without breaking core gameplay. Even something as simple as changing the Island layout (There are some 'official' variant layouts printed in the German-language rule book) can give you a totally different experience.
There's also a few interesting alternate classes floating around on the internet. I haven't tried any yet, but a few of them look kinda interesting.
VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
Forbidden Island can be a bit weird though.
Nothing against anyone, but it's a game that invites dominant personalities to take on leadership roles... and it's generally fine, but sometimes it almost becomes one person telling everyone else what to do, and everyone else just moving the pieces around according to those instructions. So it feels like there's less collaboration.
FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
Yeah, after you play Forbbiden Island a few times in a row it can be a bit, well, on autoplay. It kinda plays itself because there's usually a good optimal move.
Recently picked up Ca$h'n'Gun$. It'd be really interesting to alternate between that and Forbidden Island, I think. Both are 10-20 minute games with simple gameplay mechanics, but where Forbidden Island is all about co-operation and perfect information, Ca$h'n'Gun$ is about bluffing and backstabbing and Mexican standoffs. It's like the board game night equivalent of Thai Sweet Chilli on Cottage Cheese.
After AusPAX, I really wanted to get my hands on some board-games, so I ended up getting Betrayal at House on the Hill and Castle Ravenloft last Christmas.
I haven't had a chance to play them yet, unfortunately, but I'm hoping I can soon.
(I actually had a different VHS game which was for kids and involved a giant mouse making you hop on one foot)
Oh and Nightmare is 1992, almost 20 years old what the fuck
Although Carcassonne is awesome with a large pool of players and lots of backstabbing and edging in on people's territory (I still maintain that I almost took everyone on at once then made Josh lose without even playing) it is surprising good playing with just 2 people and the base set.
I had a stint early this year after AUSPAX playing against a lot of European players on this website that has its own client you can download called "Brettspiel Welt".
Everyone plays the odds on pieces and it gets pretty intense. Except then when I need one piece, that there are like 6 left in the deck (90 degree road turn) and my opponent gets them all, I get really mad inside.
Everyone plays the odds on pieces and it gets pretty intense. Except then when I need one piece, that there are like 6 left in the deck (90 degree road turn) and my opponent gets them all, I get really mad inside.
I just snorted water over my office floor at this last part.
Don't worry Tef, since I'm playing the odds over a large enough sample I'm statistically mad less often than not.
E: Fucking damnit, I was gonna screencap the end of a Carcassonne game after it finished, then some other guy who wasn't playing jumped in to immediately in a lobby he hadn't been in, erasing the board, then leaving 5 seconds later after he got impatient that no one had joined up.
I had locked down 100% of my opponent's pieces, I was happy with it.
I was playing with essentially 1 piece picking up points for the last 20 turns while he had none he could get back. Scrounging points forever.
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Her response was, and I quote, "I can't, he'll try to fart on my head."
Did you do one of those spaghetti pukes where you didn't chew it well enough and there's a piece of spaghetti only halfway out your throat and you have to decide whether to pull it out and get puke on your hands or bite the end off and swallow the bit still in your mouth?
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Did you do one of those spaghetti pukes where you didn't chew it well enough and there's a piece of spaghetti only halfway out your throat and you have to decide whether to pull it out and get puke on your hands or bite the end off and swallow the bit still in your mouth?
Chew your damn food...
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Did you do one of those spaghetti pukes where you didn't chew it well enough and there's a piece of spaghetti only halfway out your throat and you have to decide whether to pull it out and get puke on your hands or bite the end off and swallow the bit still in your mouth?
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
Man, I never know which pasta is which.
I know spaghetti and big elbows and little elbows.
Though I would like to learn to make my own pasta.
I've been meaning to buy a machine for a while but I keep having expensive one off purchases that I keep having to make like I just bought a new pair of work shoes. (that hopefully will not fall apart after six months)
homemade pasta is so easy and so tasty. It's one of those things that once you learn (very easy) and do regularly you'll be all, "man, I can't even imagine buying packet pasta again". I should say I'm not a wanker about this kind of thing and I have no problem with packaged pasta and eat it all the time at work with no complaints; it's just that making your own is so damn easy.
the best pasta is Capellini
or maybe Bucatini
or Orecchiette
or Ditalini
or Gnocchi
you know what it's all good.
Gnocchi is the only one of those names I actually recognise, and yes, it is great.
Capellini means "Thin Hair" - super thin spaghetti also called Angel Hair
Bucatini comes from Bucato which means "Pierced" - it is thick spaghetti that is hollow in the middle
Orecchiette means "Little Ears" - they are like bigger, flatter thicker shells
Ditalini means "Little Thimbles" - they're like little O shapes. Like small short penne.
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My other thought was maybe setting up a game of poker sometime, I reckon that'd be good fun
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
It was the first real successful Euro-style game that really kicked off the current wave of board game revival. I pretty much divide all board games into pre-Catan and post-Catan catagories. It's a solid introduction to modern games for those people who were raised on the same Snakes + Ladders / Monopoly / other games that have been around since their grandparent's time. Not too complicated, familiar enough to grasp the core concepts behind the gameplay, but still engrossing enough and different enough each play to be a fresh experience each time. The simplicity of the rules mean that even first-timers can grasp winning strategies, however there's an undercurrent of luck and tactics that means even experienced players can find a degree of depth and subtlety. It has a few weak points - the first round is absolutely critical and experienced players can take half an hour to get through initial city placement, but overall it's a good game of cutthroat expansion and resource management where there can be only one winner.
So yeah, it's a good start point, particularly if you like Monopoly.
There's also a few interesting alternate classes floating around on the internet. I haven't tried any yet, but a few of them look kinda interesting.
Also, don't act like I have google image searched Ms Hendricks before.
Satans..... hints.....
Nothing against anyone, but it's a game that invites dominant personalities to take on leadership roles... and it's generally fine, but sometimes it almost becomes one person telling everyone else what to do, and everyone else just moving the pieces around according to those instructions. So it feels like there's less collaboration.
Recently picked up Ca$h'n'Gun$. It'd be really interesting to alternate between that and Forbidden Island, I think. Both are 10-20 minute games with simple gameplay mechanics, but where Forbidden Island is all about co-operation and perfect information, Ca$h'n'Gun$ is about bluffing and backstabbing and Mexican standoffs. It's like the board game night equivalent of Thai Sweet Chilli on Cottage Cheese.
I haven't had a chance to play them yet, unfortunately, but I'm hoping I can soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Z1Kfk-2sc
(I actually had a different VHS game which was for kids and involved a giant mouse making you hop on one foot)
Oh and Nightmare is 1992, almost 20 years old what the fuck
I had a stint early this year after AUSPAX playing against a lot of European players on this website that has its own client you can download called "Brettspiel Welt".
Everyone plays the odds on pieces and it gets pretty intense. Except then when I need one piece, that there are like 6 left in the deck (90 degree road turn) and my opponent gets them all, I get really mad inside.
I just snorted water over my office floor at this last part.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
E: Fucking damnit, I was gonna screencap the end of a Carcassonne game after it finished, then some other guy who wasn't playing jumped in to immediately in a lobby he hadn't been in, erasing the board, then leaving 5 seconds later after he got impatient that no one had joined up.
I had locked down 100% of my opponent's pieces, I was happy with it.
I was playing with essentially 1 piece picking up points for the last 20 turns while he had none he could get back. Scrounging points forever.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Her response was, and I quote, "I can't, he'll try to fart on my head."
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Don't try to play ice hockey after a big spaghetti dinner.
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I feel nauseous thinking about
puked a little bit
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Chew your damn food...
...
no
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DIDN'T DAVID SCHIWMMER TEACH YOU ANYTHING?
Satans..... hints.....
True story.
About forty five minutes later I sneezed and a perfectly formed, unchewed piece of pasta came out of my nose.
To this day I am unsure exactly how this happened.
Satans..... hints.....
I hate spirals and shells.
I like elbows.
or maybe Bucatini
or Orecchiette
or Ditalini
or Gnocchi
you know what it's all good.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I know spaghetti and big elbows and little elbows.
Though I would like to learn to make my own pasta.
I've been meaning to buy a machine for a while but I keep having expensive one off purchases that I keep having to make like I just bought a new pair of work shoes. (that hopefully will not fall apart after six months)
Satans..... hints.....
Gnocchi is the only one of those names I actually recognise, and yes, it is great.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
It was a disaster. I think I need someone to show me how to make it properly.
Satans..... hints.....
My pasta machine also does ravioli but I'm not going anywhere near that setting without figuring out long pasta first.
Capellini means "Thin Hair" - super thin spaghetti also called Angel Hair
Bucatini comes from Bucato which means "Pierced" - it is thick spaghetti that is hollow in the middle
Orecchiette means "Little Ears" - they are like bigger, flatter thicker shells
Ditalini means "Little Thimbles" - they're like little O shapes. Like small short penne.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.