Board 8 > Paul ranks his top 50 board/tabletop games.

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Played Bloodborne once before, it was neat. We got dealt a somewhat easier challenge than average, so it felt a bit lacking. I do want to play it again to see if it being harder makes it substantially more fun.
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I got Bloodborne for a friend who's a huge fan of the Souls series. I played it once with him and another friend, and I enjoyed it despite knowing nothing about the game.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

I demoed that at GenCon - a full playthrough of one boss - and my friend bought it. It's not really a deep game, but it is indeed fast-paced and very entertaining.

Part of the reason I leaned against was because I haven't played the games that it's based on, so I'd feel like a dope showing up with an adaptation of the IP. (And the video game is supposed to be much better than the card game. <_<)

Can confirm the video game is fantastic, but comparing it to the card game is apples and coconuts. They're very different beasts.
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you have a very robust collection paul. mine is on one set of shelves, though i have a whole mountainful of empty expansion boxes in my closet lol
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my collection is 11 games

two of those are moriarty's machinations and resistance avalon, though, and i don't think MM is distinct enough to merit separation
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I played Great Western Trail the other day. I liked it, but I played with 2 other people who had played before so I had some troubles early on with figuring out what I'm doing. I'd definitely like to try it again now that I have a better idea on the strategy. My main issue was at first I was playing Tokaido-style by moving very slowly so I didn't miss anything. That didn't seem to work very well so I eventually started skipping more spaces.
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i had a pretty good strategy the last time i played where i had a ton of cowboys and built the building that lets you cycle a card through your deck per cowboy, right before kansas city. that one allowed me to make big deliveries without a super great deck.

i still am not sure how good building is, though. nobody has really come close to placing the high number buildings in any of the games i've played so far
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Man, I've played a total of 1 game on this list, and barely heard of any of the others. =x