- Posts: 5225
- Thank you received: 3758
Bugs: Recent Topics Paging, Uploading Images & Preview (11 Dec 2020)
Recent Topics paging, uploading images and preview bugs require a patch which has not yet been released.
Weekly Trash - Betrayal at House on the Hill
- ChristopherMD
- Topic Author
- Offline
- Road Warrior
This is a pretty good game that could have been amazing. But there should have been a lot more playtesting, due to the scaling issue, the 50 scenarios and the highly variable house map. As it stands, only the first half of the game is reliably good. After the traitor is revealed, it's pretty random whether or not the rest of the game will be entertaining or a one-sided beatdown. And while the online errata isn't absolutely necessary, it does reduce the confusion on various scenarios that were written well or tested properly.
Weekly Trash is a series of discussion threads in the F:AT forums. Each week a comment from the recommendations database is highlighted here. Don't be shy about posting further comments, questions, answers, funny stories, pictures, "this game sucks", or anything else related to the game.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- Matt Thrower
- Offline
- Shiny Balls
- Number Of Fence
Sadly, it's in Australia.
Still, I just ordered one. I figured that even if I didn't like the game I'd easily make my money back on EBay given the prices that this one fetches. It'll probably be weeks before it arrives in the post, but hopefully I'll have it in time for Halloween
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- southernman
- Offline
- D10
- TOTALLY WiReD
- Posts: 4215
- Thank you received: 1516
Since then our club group has started playing Arkham Horror and are planning an all day Haloween session with AH, BaHotH, LNOE, FoD mentioned so should have played it at least once by the end of October ... I hope .
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Yes, it could have done with more playtesting and editing and the scenarios can be ridiculously unbalanced, but it is a perfect beer and pretzels type game for me.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- ChristopherMD
- Topic Author
- Offline
- Road Warrior
- Posts: 5225
- Thank you received: 3758
50 different scenarios or whatever sounds nice, but there's not many different cards in the game. By our third play we'd read every card in the game at least once and stopped even bothering with all the text after that and just read the title. "Look, I got the dog again!" Its not that there should have been an expansion with more cards. There should have been more in the game, period. 50 different endings to the game, but its the same meaningless shit every time getting there.
Pretty much everyone who played the game had fun with it their first few times and then had no interest in ever playing it again. I even liked it at first despite the increasing instances of friends arguing over the poorly written scenarios because they leave out need to know information. The game truly is a rules lawyers' wet dream as you can find loopholes in probably every scenario to exploit in your favor regardless of which side you're on.
While its true there is a book of errata on the game and scenarios, its really not worth the effort in my opinion. The idea for the game is solid and maybe a new Black Morn Manor or something else will develop it better.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- metalface13
- Offline
- D10
- Posts: 4753
- Thank you received: 701
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- Mr Skeletor
- Offline
- no gamer cred
- Posts: 3674
- Thank you received: 166
There's one shop left in the world that still has copies of this game.
Sadly, it's in Australia.
Still, I just ordered one. I figured that even if I didn't like the game I'd easily make my money back on EBay given the prices that this one fetches. It'll probably be weeks before it arrives in the post, but hopefully I'll have it in time for Halloween
Should have let me know and i could have grabbed it for you.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- Matt Thrower
- Offline
- Shiny Balls
- Number Of Fence
Should have let me know and i could have grabbed it for you.
Thanks, Frank - much appreciated. But I figured that I'd end up paying the same in P&P overall so I just ordered it straight from them. AUS$60 wasn't too bad a price, with the exchange rate the way it is!
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Just in case, let me make it perfectly clear:
THERE IS NO STRATEGY IN THIS GAME.
NONE. NADA. ZIP. ZERO
I'm sure a cystoscopy involves more meaninful choices and is more pleasurable.
I literally gave this away for B-17 Queen of the Skies.
The guy looked at me like I was retarded.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- southernman
- Offline
- D10
- TOTALLY WiReD
- Posts: 4215
- Thank you received: 1516
Sounds like a good closer to an intense game of Arkham .... which, incidentally, we had last night. Only my second play and the owner set it up with all expansions for just the three of us. We went from thinking we were going to get slaughtered to knowing we were going to get slaughtered to thinking 'we have a chance to win' in the first 2.5 hrs - and then I lost my unlimited movement (Deputy's van) and the terror limit hit 10 (rumour card) and Arkham was just flooded with monsters. At the 3 hr mark, as we were fighting street by street just to get to a gate before we could seal it and slowly being beaten to a pulp, we conceded as the the venue's closing time was approaching and we still had to pack it all away.
But if our day long Haloween session goes ahead I think games like LNoE and BaHotH will be needed between AH and FoD.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.