Lurker > Naye745

i just voted for warioware gold because that game rules tbqh

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i could never get into super circuit, and i bought it on release. for some reason it felt dated and slow, even for the time, and despite (as the article states) its lovely sprite-based pixel art worlds.

and i loved f-zero maximum velocity, which also was stuck in flat snes-style mode 7 purgatory! i'm not sure it's an entirely fair take, but SC never resonated with me strongly in any way

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world maker is neat, but the feature i'm enjoying the most is jumping into small worlds from the same creator - just feels a little more purposeful than playing random levels, which is great!

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i still think 64 has the best battle mode

none of the other subsequent games match (or have tried to match!) its endurance, war-of-attrition, player-elimination style - instead focusing on quicker battles in smaller arenas.

which is fine, but not what i loved about mk64 battles in, say, block fort - there's still no other mk game that gives that kind of experience.

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i think wii's underrated, but they nailed the top two

double dash still holds up amazingly in 2020, which is a testament to the quality of both its tracks and unique gameplay elements. not to mention, the mini-turbo system that was adopted in this game (largely just a streamlined mk64 design) has been in every game since.

mk8 has its critics but imo the game is just packed with both content and polish from top to bottom, and it shows. the fact that it landed so strongly despite debuting on nintendo's least successful ever console speaks volumes to how much they nailed it.

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i have never played bananagrams somehow. i think it hit during a period of time where my boardgamery was at its relative lowest

but my mom is a tournament scrabble player, so it's still kinda strange i never found my way to giving it a go!

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it's definitely season 3 because exodus part 1 was better than exodus part 2 (season 1 finale)

also who the goddang hell is voting for the series finale

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still lookin forward to seeing whats next

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were they the eventual 7th placers? man i forget most of the front half of that season (aside from the amputee who ended up being on dancing with the stars)

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yeah i think they got super bailed out and i was totally underwhelmed by their victory

but that final six set of teams is really great! it's also super weird seeing the twinnies in TAR now, since natalie actually won survivor my brain just associates both of them with that show now!

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looks great, but i'm not gonna lie

having the koopa kids is my favorite part of the update, their existence just makes me happy and they're gonna make for a lot less repetitive (hey, it's boom-boom again!) bosses

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on a side note, i'm generally not a fan of "dudes on a map"-style games, though i'll certainly play them

by far my favorite of that subset of games is inis, which is really clever and perhaps more about managing the card drafting-portion than the actual dudes-on-a-mappery-portion

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I feel like I missed the boat with this one (and battlestar galactica) when they first came out and it feels like they're unlikely to resurface among my friend group

which, hey, it's probably too long and ameritrashy for my tastes anyway! :p

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that episode needed at least 30 more minutes, if not a whole hour

it was good but man, we needed more time for what the heck was going on at tribal

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honestly adam was dead in the water since his attempt to play both sides way way back at the ethan boot.

his attempt at playing an "idol" was basically all he had left at this point

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spirit island is far too long and arduous for what i want a co-op game to be (i may have said this earlier!)
aeon's end has enough long-term thinking mixed with "you know what, i think i'll go this route" and a nice pinch of randomness to make a beautiful co-op stew

...i dont know what i was trying to do metaphorically there. but its good! and i dont even do solo games too often but aeon's is a perfect one for it

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sarah was definitely a deserving winner of a frustrating season, there were too many advantages that screwed cirie but that's the fault of the game, not the player

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i'm pretty much enjoying everyone that's left in some capacity! even ben has been amusing enough this season, and he was dead last on my favorites power rankings entering this go-round.

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oh hell yeah, aeon's end is the one deckbuilding game i actually like that isn't dominion

and hey, what do you know, it has a supply of cards and not a market row. almost like that's a superior idea for a deckbuilder or something!!

the latest expansion was really good, unfortunately i didn't get to finish the last boss with my group cause of the 'rona. goddamn it :(

it's a rad solo game too! i've had a good time going two-handed against some of the hard rules bosses and holy hell are they difficult.

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the women did get a pretty solid edit last season at least

though perhaps given feely dan that was borne out of necessity more than anything else

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Mewtwo59 posted...

I mean, she still gets the $2 million if Rob wins, and Rob is the more likely of the two to win a challenge. Helping Rob win is probably her best chance at the money now.

yeah, with a financial incentive you can't blame them for maximizing their collective odds. amber's certainly still gonna try, but they aren't stupid.

also shoutouts to Peridiam for including cydney in his latest video, i always feel like she's gotten lost among the shuffle post-kaoh rong among michele and aubry and tai and debbie and the others.
like, those top 3 ladies all ruled and any one of them would've made a satisfying and legit winner tbqh

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sophie rules
get ready sandra, she's coming for your crown

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i'm lucky that i have a dedicated group who is going to shell out for the game and i can just go along for the ride :)

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i'm excited for the first handful of those games!!

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i dont really have any problem with wendell being cast, and its clear to me that he and michele are working together, even if there is awkwardness surrounding their relationship

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sandra literally had no chance to return, if the challenge is anything like the ones in s38 (which i can only assume it will be)
so no blame for her calling it a day

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argh. god damn it

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this sounds fun! for whatever reason, i have a hard time ranking certain types of games among others in my favorites list - and social deduction games are top on the list. i basically put the resistance/avalon up there in the top 10 to take the token spot of appreciation and leave everything else behind, but i do enjoy the genre a lot.

would be fun to see a list of the social deduction games all ranked at the end of this list to see where everything stacks up, then i could argue over which ones are too high! :p

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i know it's only your "25th favorite game of all time" but dominion online is doing a free rotating expansion (plus base set of course) for a little while during the covid quarantine craziness

here's the schedule:
http://forum.shuffleit.nl/index.php?topic=4087.0

it's a good enough online implementation and hey dominion is fun, i recommend it to everyone

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fun fact: broom service is the only game to make me chuck an object physically across the room in anger! i still really like it though!

also isle of skye is totally cool too, great western trail is mostly fine, i heard someone complain about indians but man they are totally fine there, it's abstracted to a reasonable point unlike maracaibo and mombasa where the uncomfortableness bubbles up to and across the surface

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my biggest problem with great western trail is the buildings, which seem super important and powerful but require a lot of trial-and-error to figure out what is actually the best strategically

it's a game that i enjoyed a pretty decent amount (and seemed to be pretty good at?) despite being heavier than what i like most of the time. it's still a bit heavy for me tbqh but it is good! and is one of the least thematically dicey games from alex pfister, which is a plus

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sounds like a good game to play some time in my life !

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castles of burgundy isnt as painfully zero-sum as 7 wonders duel. like, if you want to just build up your castle and i build mine that's totally cool

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castles of burgundy is amazing
stefan feld is my hero

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forbidden island is fine, but is just like pandemic jr. basically (with amazing art)

desert rules though, it's maybe a little luck driven and super goddamn hard with 5 players but it just feels fun to go sifting through the desert

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i actually didn't really like concordia when i played it

i'd have to give it another go to really feel strongly either way though

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god damn i love pictomania
as someone who is both fond of real-time games and drawing games, it hits a special sweet spot for me. i can understand why it's not everyone's cup of tea

pandemic legacy s1 was definitely the better experience (to me) versus s2, though i enjoyed both. without spoilers, i think s1 is just a little more accessible and compelling, while s2 has a lot more value for your choices (good and bad) and is a little less narratively hooking. (december in s2 was awesome though.)

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gizmos is definitely more complex, but when i want an engine building game, i like one that actually lets me build an engine. i think there's enough "random" parts that the randomness balances out, and obviously like splendor you can reserve cards in the center rows that you feel are essential

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i thought pillars of the earth was fine but felt a little dated. the worker draw mechanism that i mostly forget was really good though, that's the one thing that actually stands out amongst the now-rote worker placement and resources-to-points converting.

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SeabassDebeste posted...

CSR has been tagged a splendor-killer. the thought definitely occurred to me - a simple engine-builder where you're trying to assemble sets of cubes/tokens to fulfill orders. to me splendor feels like a tighter design (in something of the way dominion has the tightest deck-builder design), while century is actually less interactive

yep, and there's a game i prefer vastly to both of them (gizmos) that actually does what i wanted those games to do.
that said, i get the appeal, and they aren't bad games!

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im really diggin the mewtwo raids so far

if this is a taste for what the legendary raids will be like for the crown tundra, i'm looking forward to it. the max raid system is neat but really needed a difficulty bump and i'm here for it

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i am one of the (seemingly) few people who really preferred eastern wonders to spice road

spice road never did much for me though. i get why people like it but there are games that do its thing but just better (for me!)

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setup doesnt bother me though, it's game length. i also just don't tend to like games that take 3+ hours where you can lose in the first 10 minutes. games with "scripted" openings are unappealing imo

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food chain magnate is too big a game for me to want to ever play tbqh. i'm sure it's good though

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spirit island is a good game, but it's just more complex than the kind of game i want from a co-op. really, i think it brings about a huge sense of AP, because it generally feels pretty solvable, and highly optimizable if players really talk things through, but there are so many possible decisions and just a lot of stuff to consider, that it takes too long to get there

the theme is neat though!

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i tend to find that the deckbuilding games with market rows boil down to "who gets the trashing card"

amazingly dominion figured out first try that it's ok if there's trashing or not as long as everyone gets the chance to do it, which is why chapel costs 2.

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base (1st edition) dominion is a little weak in engine potential, but if you're playing with basically a handful of any of the expansions (and certainly if you're using all of them) multi-card engines tend to be much much stronger than any fairly basic money strategy

anyway, dominion is my favorite game. it's a mechanical triumph, ingeniously working together deck-building CCGs with euro engine builders through the now-ubiquitous "deck-building game" mechanics

more amazing to me is that it's a game whose most important game options can and will vary every time. yes, there are many +cards, +actions, etc cards, but the fact that the game not only works with any choice of 10, but shines because of what's missing or included each time, still blows me away.

donald x's other games have similar variety included, and i like several of them a lot, but none meets the same exceptional standard impossibly set by dominion

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its a great one, i'd say a classic at this point

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im sure kemet is good but it never looked like the kind of game for me

my friend who had a copy moved away before i ever got the chance to give it a go

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i had fun the one time i tried captain sonar! to get the full 4v4 experience requires a lot of folks though

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