I love board games! I studied them a bit at uni and me and my friends host games nights semi-regularly so I guess I know a couple of good games! this is actually a fun thing to talk about because I made a card game in uni with my friend that we're planning to eventually make into a game! It's called
Weld Wars (well, right now it is, we'll probably change it) and you build a robot to beat up your opponent's robot!!! it's pretty heavily derived from MTG right now but we're probably going to make a lot of revisions.
Magic: the Gathering is always and forever my favorite game. <3 (Super fun with just two players per ILS' question, but noooooot relatively cheap.)
\o/ I have been playing magic for something like a year and it's so good and I'm disappointed that it too me so long to get into it. MD is really bad at magic so have fun beating him
Coup is another favorite.
I try so hard to enjoy Coup but every time I play it's just kinda hard to wrap my head around but I guess it's because whenever I play my circle of friends is a bit excitable and we get distracted and don't play the game very well? I played a game of this with like 12 people. It was a disaster.
(I get bored of Coup/Ultimate Werewolf/Resistance/etc after about two games).
I feel like you should play saboteur, it's a fun game with hidden roles that's kinda different to Mafia/werewolf/etc because you can pretty easily fudge whether or not you're a bad guy and it depends less on your ability to blatantly lie? It also pairs fantastically with werewolf for a fun (?) game of sabo-wolf. Saboteur 2 is also a bit more versatile and interesting because you get a few more roles and a few more mechanics.
opal said:
Meanwhile I find a lot of co-op games kinda samey. They really rely on everyone being equally invested in the game, which basically never happens. Pandemic and Forbidden Island are basically the same game with different skins. I wish there was more diversity in co-op games!
forbidden island and pandemicpretty much are the same game I agree, but I
love the design of them and I think they're so much fun to play. I guess it's a good formula so it's pretty easy for them to get a bit samey!
(For those of you who can't afford too many games, I recommend you look into local game stores and see if any of them have weekly gaming sessions with their own games. I think a lot will. The UK is also seeing the rise of boardgame cafes, which are exactly what they sound like, and they're great too.)
I strongly agree! support your local boardgame cafes! in fact, a lot of boardgame cafes tend to become havens for videogame players and they also tend to host a lot of smash bros/pokemon tournaments!!
MD said:
One Night Werewolf is hilarious, although I'm terrible at it because I'm a bad liar.
okay everyone i want to break everyone's projections of what kind of person MD is in real life and let me tell you he is not the whimsical, all-knowing, mysterious being you think he is (well, sometimes he is). MD is fantastically bad at werewolf because he's a really, really bad liar, especially if he thinks you know he's lying. I have won several games of werewolf by just asking him a lot if he's a werewolf and him be like 'what???? me?? a werewolf??? th-that's preposterous'
As for my likes and dislikes:
- I like the idea of Cards Against Humanity but I honestly can't enjoy it after playing it like two times, because after a while you've kind of seen all the funny cards and it's just not fun?? I think the Apples to Apples mechanic works way better if you're able to add new things and that you're not too heavily reliant on one particular theme - in Cards Against Humanity, it's Dirty Offensive Humour which is I guess funny the first time but it wears off fast! It's way more fun playing a card that's smart rather than a card that's a dead baby or something, but because it's CAH you end up playing to the lowest common denominator. I also feel like a lot of people think it's a great game to find out ~ how fucked up people are ~ when like, the cards are set. You're kind of forced to play terrible cards so how is it funny???
I also feel like I'm very spoiled by the fact that we used to play apples to apples in #tcod (#leppa) which was incredibly fun and the fact that #leppa doesn't work anymore is the single greatest tragedy to ever befall my life.
- I enjoy Settlers of Catan so much it's basically the parts I like about Age of Empires (building things and collecting resources) but competitive!!!! I also won my first game by accident. Also you can collect sheep 10/10
- Saboteur and Saboteur 2 are very good!! However they're way, way more fun if you're actually the saboteur.
- Werewolf rules and I enjoy playing most iterations of it. Ultimate Werewolf can be really hit and miss and it depends who you're playing with, sometimes it's not enough for me to just have one night phase and I enjoy the atmosphere that builds from several night phases more. I should actually play mafia here but I honestly never get around to it
- Story War is a really neat game that I funded on kickstarter (also Vondell/Xikaze helped design it, if anyone remembers them). I don't recommend giving the creators any more money though, but you can download it as a free PDF. It's basically competitive storytelling but again you need the right people because it can devolve into competitive shouting.
- Articulate is also a fun game if you're paired with a really good friend or you're a couple because then you beat everyone very easily and make everyone mad
- Frog Juice is a really cute kid's game that my housemate has it's a really fun short game to play if you're at a games night and a big group of people are playing one game and you turned up late or something.
- Two Rooms and a Boom is an excellent party game that's a little bit like Werewolf I guess? Everyone has a role and you have two rooms of people and a few teams. The teams have different win conditions based on who they're in the same room with (or who they're not in the same room with) at the end of the game. I'm pretty sure you can also download the rules of this game and play it with a standard deck of cards, but there is an official deck you can buy. The good thing about this game is that it's actually fun if you've got a few groups of people at a party who don't know each other super well.
