Benny

It really is exceptionally well designed though. Also, if you want a cheaper game that is masterful, Concordia has been reprinted.

Ignore all those other games and get Yokohama. Trust me.

On Terraforming Mars: when I first played it I was initially unimpressed, and came away unsure of why it has proved so popular, but having played several games now, including the drafting variant, I actually really like the game and find it more enjoyable than at first. I think it does really need to be played with drafting though, and the components and general art is not particularly high quality. I have to say also that the price is far too high for what it contains and their quality. Compare to Scythe which is about £10 less and has incredible art, huge thick board, large cards, reasonable plastic miniatures, and a ton of resource components.

Founders is quite unlike any other game I've played before but has many elements it shares with other games. The first thing to realise is that is has absolutely nothing in common with Gloomhaven apart from the theme and artwork, though the object of the game is about the founding of the city of Gloomhaven itself.

The object of the game is to place tiles on a city map and make unique buildings for victory points. On each player's turn they have a number of action cards they can use to either place tiles or buy other cards, using in game currency, a lot like Concordia. Then each other player can choose to follow that action themselves with a similar action, or a set of basic actions, before the next player's turn. You can choose to perform a basic action yourself instead of a main action on a card and then other players cannot follow it. This carries on with players putting their faction's type of resource on the board and building buildings that require those resources by linking them with roads, until one player chooses to call a vote. They use any unused cards to exchange for either more roads, money, or influence, which is a separate resource used for bidding. All players then bid on a number of special buildings using a tile corresponding to the building auction space, and their influence. The player who bids the most wins their chosen building, and they get to place it on the board. They will also get to use a unique action on that building that they can use with their workers, which are on their player board and can be used once they have houses on the map. Each player has a unique race which also has a special action that these workers can be placed on as a basic action.

Each building upgrade requires unique resources that will not always be available to your faction and you can spend money to borrow other player's resources, but the player who controls the resource for a building will get VP when it is built, if not the VP for the building itself, so the key to victory in the game is placing buildings near enough to other players to get the use of their resources, without giving them too many options for linking them up to what they want to build, and to use follow actions at the right time and place to keep tempo going.

I liked it a lot, though I know two people who will be backing it already, so will get a few opportunities to give it a few goes before deciding whether to get it. The Kickstarter is pretty good value though considering today's prices.

Also, Yokohama: don't get put off by the size of the board and the number of icons - it's actually very simple to understand and play in practice, but has a ton of options and strategies. Really elegant design.

Played Yokohama at the weekend. It's excellent.

Also got to playtest Founders of Gloomhaven, which looks like it'll be a great and deep game when finished.

That sort of shit is what puts me off nearly all anime.

Prick.

12 hours ago, Punished Smitty said:

The one bad thing i've identified from watching footage and playing a little is that the gun sounds lack punch. I think they should feel like cannons going off. 

 

Considering how good the music and other audio effects are, it's a bit weird. 

For a primer on some of the punchiest gun sound effects ever put in a game, see The Terminator: Future Shock.

I'd buy that for £79.99.

That's my reason for learning Mcree. I see so many shit ones I want to take him back.

Playing Paladins after Overwatch must be like going back to ATI once you've tried Nvidia.

The recent Shadow of Mordor game would have been much better suited to the Legacy of Kain universe. All of the game mechanics like possession and life drawing for a start. Much more so than Lord of the Rings anyway.

I've seen you wade into enemies cutting through them, butter like. I want no part of it. It's disgusting.

Zenyatta's job is not really to main heal. Especially not Rambo Symetras

Got a bit bored of Zenyatta so have decided to try learning Mcree with my increased accuracy. I think I'm doing it right?

Played Virgin Queen yesterday. If anyone plays it for the first time without getting at least a few things wrong then they are a rules god.

Stupid sexy Alucard.

It was probably the best of the shorts so far. A nice premise well executed. The exposition was also well implemented and not overly laboured like the other shorts

My favourite thing so far though is the Cooking with Bill segments.

And if you're new to the thread pop NEG on ignore before reading, as he's a self confessed troll, more so in here than most places.

59 minutes ago, Hexx said:

 

How many made it through?

I started this last night at essentially the same time period the game takes place in and finished at 6 in the morning. So literally played until dawn. Atmosphere was great.

Check it, number 87 in our top games of all time:

https://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?/topic/286010-top-100-games-of-all-time-rllmuk-2015-edition-results-now-showing-no-1/&do=findComment&comment=10442711

Makes sense to finally include the character really, as ranked is like being fisted most days.

I don't think they froze his assets, no.

I had a similar problem a few times I played. There is a variant where you determine starting cards with drafting. I think that might go a long way to getting round that particular issue.