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Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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I took some time yesterday to look around a Forbidden Planet to attempt to identify a few games to pick up to contribute to our collection of board games. I find that we tend to enjoy these more depending on how abstract they are. One of my key mistakes in all of this was joining the website Board Game Geeks because they are so incredibly jaded about anything that isn’t a non-competitive Euro-circle-jerkathon. Which is great and all, I love a game of Ticket to Ride like nobody else, but I also adore mass violence and exterminating my enemies.

I identified a few likely candidates to pick up, pretty much all of which were destroyed by BGG’s various reviews, well except for one… In the original run up:

• Comuni
• Zombies!!!
• Battlestar Galactica
• Arkham Horror
• Risk 2210 (overpriced at like £40)
• Various Euro-pop games like Catan, Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride

Whilst the Euro-pop games are pretty much universally accepted as great classic games, we’ve played them electronically. Not to say I wouldn’t still love to play Seafarers of Catan or such derivates, but if I’m going to shell out between £20 and £40 for a board game (Anymore and I might as well buy that god damn £55-60 WoW one) BGG says I should hands-down get Arkham Horror.

That said, the BSG one has pretty good reviews but the format seems tired to me. It has dispelled some of the shroud of “Licence Meh” but still not enough for me to indulge this time around.

Tomorrow I think I shall price up Arkham Horror and convince myself to buy it.

That, or look online for a copy of Pandemic.

Regards,
James Reynolds.

Oh, and I haven’t played WoW for over a month. Sorry Focus.

Oh, and I should start a mailing list for anyone still crazy enough to be reading.

Further Reading:
Twilight Imperium
Agricola
Dungeon Lords
Power Grid
Pandemic
Puerto Rico