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Jacobkosh
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http://youtu.be/VAslVfZ9p-Y
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-06-android-netunner-review
Netrunner is a game of controlling a glittering, Blade Runner-like corporation. Across turns as heavy as money, you're spending time units known as "Clicks" to build a digital fortress. Click. You invest in a hedge fund, doubling your credits. Click. You begin developing a project in a new private server, placing it face down. Click. You quietly deploy an Intrusion Countermeasure, or "Ice", to protect it, one capable of inflicting vegetative brain damage. Every turn, you're physically claiming more and more table space.
And who's the chancer sat opposite you? It's the hacker player.
Because Netrunner is also a game of controlling the lone individual who fights these corporations. With cards as paltry as blackmailing employees and staying up all night, the hacker has to reduce the corp player, with their billions, skyscrapers and bomb-proof bunkers, to something as small and hateful as a mistake. Who doesn't love the idea of jinking past a priceless security system? But it's not just Netrunner's theme that awes. Mechanically, it's every bit as slick.
Both decks are utterly different, but there are rare parallels. The hacker can get a job, the corp can take Government Contracts.
Sequestered in the corporation's deck are a number of agenda cards: concepts they want to develop until they're financially viable. The corp scores these cards by playing them into the open and advancing them to completion, granting themselves horrific bonuses like a personal police force. The runner just has to access them, at which point they slip into their scoring pile effortlessly. First side to 7 points wins.
Now, here's the clever part. The advantage the corp has is secrecy. Netrunner was actually developed by Richard Garfield, the man behind Magic: The Gathering, in an attempt to create a game that was more skill-based and "like poker". At this (as at everything else), it's a huge success.
Most of the corp's turn is spent installing assets and agendas, or installing Ice and upgrades on top of these. The twist is that everything is played face down, and it's only the instant that these become relevant - the runner discovering that a server is being run by code maestro Akitaro Watanabe, say - that the corp pays to "rez" them, flipping them face up. Which means the corp is playing a shell game, trying to coax the hacker into calling in every favour to blitz through wall after wall of Ice to access a worthless advertising campaign.
But the hacker has a similarly joyous advantage. They're not just restricted to running on these little internet fiefdoms. The hacker can announce runs on the corporation's R&D, archives or HQ; in other words, the corp player's deck, their discard pile or even their hand. If Netrunner is summed up by a single moment, it's when you're playing the corp and draw a whole suite of agendas into your hand, knowing there's nowhere you can hide them.
Knitting both of these twists together is the rule that whenever the corp's hand overflows, cards are discarded to their archives face down, leading to hilarious game-winning moments where the hacker finds schematics for robot brains in the bin.
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it is great too
and playable with more than 2 people so that is kind of a big win right there
I own it, and Jacob continues to be a man of impeccable taste by liking Android.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
spend a half hour making my character
every single north american server is full and I have to exit the game now
welp, this was a good investment
So your saying you want a sugar momma?
It looks so good.
you should try the recipe i put down. the only way you learn to cook is by doing.
My boss keeps coming to work with chicken pho. It's probably why I keep craving the stuff!
But I dunno, I just don't like floating meats in my soups. :P
it is like babby's first board game
so few of the decisions are meaningful or in any way balanced between more than one obviously supreme alternative (typically go forward, go back, or download data)
will you fulfill the hole in my heart
no dirty jokes about holes that's the only one available
the hole elsewhere has been shut down by the DOT because of crumbling infrastructure and unsafe conditions
NNID: Hakkekage
The demand seems unprecedented, they are adding new servers as we speak
Also, CAT and Allstate both have their headquarters located near here.
An MMO having a shitty launch?
Not really a surprise.
Also considering the thread title has been about full servers for all of early access.
Ok, yeah, I'll just stick with my usual pho place then. :P
it's sad what's happening to this cu.....to this country
There is only one thing that can fill the holes in our hearts.
Rampant consumerism.
Just come to Seattle for a day, we have trendier shops. :P
In college I used to get cheap ramen, throw away the flavor pack, and then mix it with sautéed veggies. And the Vietnamese place nearby does some pretty awesome veggie pho; not just meatless, but no beef broth either and it still tastes amazing.
But then I would have to drive through Nebraska.
It's just not worth it!
No LTE, but if you need a phone off-contract, it doesn't get better. Now bring the LTE.
Other way looks faster.
Place also has espresso and condensed milk. So unhealthy. So delicious.
I agree. And with the time you save, you can play a fun game with baby.
I think infiltration has some issues - particularly I'd like if the characters were more differentiated - but I think it's as much about playing the other players as about playing the board. time is tight enough that if you can get one person to fuck up by, for instance, playing "download" when you've got a data-sucking gizmo that leaves them with nothing, you're well on the way to if not winning at least knocking that competitor out of the running.
I would bet real money that I could last more than three rounds of Chess against that baby.
Chess is totes the best game to have babies play.
Someone's got to represent the humans against the computers, and the Russians these days put all their points into "hate the gays."
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
lemme tell you
babies are terrible at improvising anything outside of "i cry until the problem goes away"
he still won though
god dammit Hamlet, you sad brooding ass
Why you gotta do a thing so damn crass
with your crappy puntry
and your vaginal country
I lost control of the rhyme a long time ago
NNID: Hakkekage
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Yeah, it's not a super deep game either. It is a bit short and fun with a little bit of push your luck thrown in. How crazy can you get without running out of time?
I think that you can take advantage of some things and it's an enjoyable short game to play.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
are baby bidets invented yet, and if not, I am patenting it. It will just be a funnel on a high pressure powerwash hose.
never change a dirty diaper again!
NNID: Hakkekage
guy just disappeared i think