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I bought Pandemic Legacy 2 months ago and it's STILL shrink-wrapped at home. I want to see if it beats Ken B's shrink-wrapped RE4 game, which is just blasphemous.

i also got Terra Mystica more than a year ago and never played it. Ugh. I was thinking maybe Star Wars Rebellion would wake me the board-gamer in me which has gone dormant for far too long. It's hilarious what spaceships will do to a person. I mean look at the videogame thread, i almost bought a game which lets me park vehicles...only cuz they're spaceships.

Colorcrayons wrote: Last four years?

Wiz-War re-released in 2012, and Gorechosen in 2016.
Heroscape was also re-released as a magic rebranding in 2015, which is currently on fire sale everywhere.

Otherwise, you didn't miss much in your slumber. Everything else is unremarkable compared to the above.

The fuck man, you didn't even mention the new Blood Bowl and the Codegames. Gorechosen looks pretty great though

Eurogames revival and GW fan-boys - this place is on a shit slide down, get away before you lose all integrity and street cred.

Not sure about codenames. I have yet to play it despite much hullabaloo.

Blood bowl... Meh. I don't have the constant hardcore opponents to make it worth it, now that I pretend I'm grown up.

I think that's a problem with a lot of lifestyle games anymore. Great stuff, but you need to be a part of a hardcore community to make it worth the trouble.

Southernman wrote: Eurogames revival and GW fan-boys - this place is on a shit slide down, get away before you lose all integrity and street cred.

At least it is a long, slow shit slide down. We are going on 10 years of steady decline.

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Black Barney
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yay! It's not me!

Fantasy Flight and Games Workshop broke up. Some of us are trying to stay friends with both, but others are content to just throw themselves at GW.

Codenames is great. I play it a lot.

Gary Sax only plays Argent: the Consortium.

Jeb only plays Hearthstone I think.

Michael only buys minis. I'm not totally clear on whether he actually plays them, or just talks about playing them here.

Some people left. Other new people came. A couple (like me) went silent for an extended stretch but I can't quit you, F:AT.

If you have enough people to play Codenames (6), you should get Captain Sonar. It's a triumph.

san il defanso wrote: Fantasy Flight and Games Workshop broke up. Some of us are trying to stay friends with both, but others are content to just throw themselves at GW. .

They are setting up the modelling and painting sub-site (we are raising a petition to have it legally emancipated from F:AT and certain F:AT cards to be changed to associate or prospect level).

Jexik wrote: If you have enough people to play Codenames (6), you should get Captain Sonar. It's a triumph.

We have 6, but it's important that a player can get up to grab a beer, fiddle with something, or vomit without breaking the pace of the game. Codenames allows this very fluidly, so it works great as a party game.

I'm just here to participate in Secret Satan.


But chatting about Blood Bowl, DreadBall, and Wiz-War is cool too.

SaMoKo wrote:

Jexik wrote: If you have enough people to play Codenames (6), you should get Captain Sonar. It's a triumph.

We have 6, but it's important that a player can get up to grab a beer, fiddle with something, or vomit without breaking the pace of the game. Codenames allows this very fluidly, so it works great as a party game.

That's fair. I enjoy Codenames quite a bit; I've got Pictures too. I've seen a black box at Target that is apparently more "adult." It features such risque words as MELONS.

My favorite moment in Codenames pictures so far was when my fiancée and I almost won in two 4-word clues. I connected a toilet, a table, and a couple bottled beverages by saying COFFEE: 4 to open, and then she got 3/4 after that, only to hit the Assassin on her last try. The one she was waffling between was the word to win though! Fictional characters also work very well if you've consumed some of the same media.

you missed barnes getting worked up about how underrated Congo Bongo is for a few months.

Oh yeah, that was F:AT's bleakest hour, wasn't it? Half the site was supporting (foolishly) Jungle Hunt, the other half Congo Bongo in one of Jeff White's controversial Let's Talk About Classic Video Games at Loggerheads posts. We lost Sagrilarus in that one, and only Ken B.'s Christ-like return and a heartfelt appeal to tolerance saved the site.

But still- Congo Bongo.

I haven't heard of either Congo Bongo or Jungle Hunt lol

Therefore, both suck.