Penny Arcade - Comic - Stellar Domains

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Stellar Domains

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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The Mantiz

Star Realms is the best. At least the core sets.
I found almost all of the small expansions to be pretty lackluster. And pretty expensive compared to the core boxes.

Commander Zoom

poipoigirl

I found out they exist lol

Drascin

Not a bad choice, there. Star Realms is a great game, and even buying all of it will run you about the cost of a console game.

rembrandtqeinstein

I might be branded a heretic in saying this but imo digital card games are so much better than their paper counterparts. The act of physically shuffling a deck is satisfying but it just gets in the way of the gameplay experience. You can really see this in deckbuilding style games like star realms where you shuffle frequently.

The digital version of star realms is well worth the retail price.

And the limitations of physical cards really closes off the design space compared to what is possible in the digital world.

The only time physical cards are superior is when your game system has a lot of implied turn passing and reaction/interrupt actions like in MTG. In the digital world that gets super awkward.

That said nothing gives quite the feel of a "game space" as having piles of cards everywhere.

ArbitraryDescriptor

I would have sworn Star Realms was a real-time 4x game where you could eventually build custom ships the size of god damned solar systems.

What game was that?

TheOtherHorseman

You are thinking of Star Ruler. An equal number of stars, I think, but much lighter on the realm to star ratio

Translucia

https://youtu.be/MYF7H_fpc-g

Translucia

Jesus walks

-Tal

good song

rdeforest

My hat is off to Jerry for what I assume to be intentional ambiguity in the following:

Come, be as I am: you can grab a free digital version for any platform you can think of that will tell you everything you need to know.

(Emphasis mine, obvs.) Since the game is not (yet?) available for Linux desktops, I have to interpret the above to mean "The Linux desktop is one of those platforms which withholds some things you need to know, unlike Windows or Mac OS X."

Now I'm looking at my Windows machine, wondering whether everything it has told me is in fact everything I need to know, or if I should listen to it longer so it can finish telling me what my Linux machines won't?

admanb

rdeforest wrote: »

My hat is off to Jerry for what I assume to be intentional ambiguity in the following:

Come, be as I am: you can grab a free digital version for any platform you can think of that will tell you everything you need to know.

(Emphasis mine, obvs.) Since the game is not (yet?) available for Linux desktops, I have to interpret the above to mean "The Linux desktop is one of those platforms which withholds some things you need to know, unlike Windows or Mac OS X."

Now I'm looking at my Windows machine, wondering whether everything it has told me is in fact everything I need to know, or if I should listen to it longer so it can finish telling me what my Linux machines won't?

You stretched... real hard for this one.

Xetelian

Cthulu Realms is pretty awesome, same game but a different theme, its like 5$ on Steam

I bought the digital version of Star Realms with a buddy of mine ages ago and we still play it every now and then, really is a good deck builder