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Do you have a favorite sub-genre of AmeriTrash?
My favorite type of AmeriTrash is horror. AmeriTrash generally features direct conflict and an element of story-telling, and that matches well with horror, where conflict is lethal and the focus of the stories tends to be on personal level. Horror games often involve each player running a single unique character, and there is usually a chance of that character getting eliminated well before the end of the game. That makes the gameplay more tense and meaningful.
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If you're talking theme, desperate struggle for survival, or war.
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Legomancer wrote: Apparently I do, and it's called "No longer being talked about on F:AT". At some point my tastes (which I don't think have changed much) veered away from the "mainstream" here so that, while I don't give a shit about Feld and Rosenberg stuff, I'm not really involved in any discussions here either. My disinterest in GW and any other games involving plastic soldiers seeing if they hit other plastic soldiers leaves me a man without a country, at sea in a lonely ocean.
Though not as extreme as at TOS, there is a bias in favor of the New here at F:AT. GW has certainly released a lot of new material lately, so it's understandable that they are getting a lot of attention here, for now. I don't recognize the names Feld or Rosenberg offhand, so I must be ignoring the same discussions. Anyway, this too shall pass and hopefully we can get back to talking about GW9 or FFG/Asmodee soon enough.
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Rosenberg - him maybe more so, but Bohnanza makes up for a lot of that.
(I kid because I love; I'll play Castles of Burgundy).
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If it's setting I'm less sure. I don't know that I have a favorite setting. Generally speaking I like settings I haven't played before so I guess I want something novel, which should not preclude substance.
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Legomancer wrote: Apparently I do, and it's called "No longer being talked about on F:AT". At some point my tastes (which I don't think have changed much) veered away from the "mainstream" here so that, while I don't give a shit about Feld and Rosenberg stuff, I'm not really involved in any discussions here either. My disinterest in GW and any other games involving plastic soldiers seeing if they hit other plastic soldiers leaves me a man without a country, at sea in a lonely ocean.
I have a touch of GW fatigue myself. I have Space Hulk and Silver Tower, and that's good enough for me.
I don't know if it counts as a sub genre, but I have a weakness for chaotic designs. I also like games that are explicitly about risk. Gambling, push-your-luck, and heavy dice mechanics all fall into that. In that sense a lot of German games work well for me.
I like strong narrative too, though I tend to find it in memorable moments more than in explicit narrative. In other words someone getting their comeuppance in a session is about as memorable for me as some extended game with lots of characters.
I have determined that I don't actually love DoaM games much. There's Nexus Ops and Small World, and that's about it. Oh, and Dune and Clash of Cultures if there's time.
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Shellhead wrote: Anyway, this too shall pass and hopefully we can get back to talking about GW9 or FFG/Asmodee soon enough.
Once FFG makes something relevant, besides suckling at the pig teat of Star Wars, they might be deserving of note.
I'm interested in GW for one thing, their board games. It's a weird anomaly from them. Like an abusive narcissistic spouse suddenly actually not being a piece of shit, the spectacle is worth it alone. GW get little if any discussion on ToS, because of history and eurocentricity, so it would seem natural that a forum dedicate to Ameritrash might put some spotlights on them to witness wether it's a new Renaissance for GW, or a false alarm.
So far only one of GWs new board games has grabbed me, but that's more than I could say of FFG since they released their last wiz-war expansion. But they have my attention for the short term. I go where the good games go. Brand loyalty has given me nothing but false hope and disappointment in this industry. FFG used to have it, and Asmodee used to have most of it (see Franco-trash comment above).
I hope the only reason we go back to talking about the latest FFG/GF9/Asmodee/Days of Wonder/etc. is because they make something that is decent again, and not because those names just happened to make something 'new".
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I'm growing quite weary of the "All-GW All The Time" stuff, but to be honest, I haven't seen much legit AT stuff out in a while (although I must admit not looking too hard). The last big release I was jazzed about was Star Wars Risk. I see some mentions of Rising Sun or other stuff, but it's just not that compelling.Legomancer wrote: Apparently I do, and it's called "No longer being talked about on F:AT".
MAINSTREAM....HERE? I didn't think that was a legally allowable phrase.At some point my tastes (which I don't think have changed much) veered away from the "mainstream" here <snip>
I'd like to hear about what you're playing, and what your top 5 games are right now.
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