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Blood Bowl video game
I watch my 7 month old during the days while the missus is at work and tend bar several nights a week so I don't really have the time right now to peruse the living rulebook, (or to do much of anything for that matter) although I did print it out. The rules booklet states that it is just an overview of the game mechanice, and that the current ruleset is required.
So I guess my big question is, is this worth taking the time to learn or should I cut my losses and sell it back to the game store? It strikes me as a not as much fun, not streamlined in the slightest version of the board game. The online play is what intrigues me the most, butI don't know if it's gonna be worth muddling through the gameplay. Thoughts?
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The thing is, if it is just a video game version of the board game then it would have been MUCH better served as an XBLA game. Selling folks a $60 video game and telling them to go to a full board game manual to learn how to play is kind of ludicrous.
It's a shame, I was really looking forward to some BLOOD BOWL action with F:ATties.
I'd sell it back if I were you...do it soon at Gamestop, they're offering a 50% bonus on all trade-ins this week, and you want to ditch it before the inevitable price drop. I wouldn't be surprised to see this one drop $30 out of the gate.
BTW- Jay, we need your gamertag. Mine is crackedlcd75.
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On a side note, my gamertag is Jaydawg718, but I'm almost never on xbox live. Between running a bar and the advent of my son, I really only use the xbox for streaming Netflix and watching dvds.
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The news about this game is saddening --- what a wasted opportunity
Amen brother. It's unbelievable really.
First couple rounds are on me if you make it up Barnes. As far as drafts go, we're not really known for amazing beers as the majority of our clientele is made up of punks, skins, bike messengers, metalheads, and older folks who used to count themselves among one (or all) of the above. That being said, this month we've got Guiness, Radeberger, Genny cream, (I know, I know) Yeungling, Blue Moon, Brooklyn Lager, Red Tail Ale, Coney Island Lager, Stone smoked porter, Blackthorne Cider, and Harpoon IPA and Winter Warmer. The porter's fucking amazing.
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I actually like that the game is a 1:1 transposition of the board game, but I'm sort of shocked that anyone thought that was marketable to a console audience- at least at full price. But I've also heard that the game doesn't really have tutorials and the interface isn't the best for it. I didn't really want a Madden meets BLOOD BOWL kind of thing at all.
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This game has timed turns and when your time is up the turn moves to your opponent. But there was a glitch where the timer stopped when your opponent had to pick the result of two dice. So what happened is my buddy was playing someone who was getting thumped and then a roll happened where his opponent had to pick a dice - And his opponent walked away from his computer and just let it sat hoping that my buddy would drop out of the game. Well it got towards the evening with nothing happening in the game so he goes to bed. In the meantime though the dude gets back on, picks the dice and tries to continue the game while my buddy was in bed. Of course the turn timer runs out on my buddies side and the dude tries to beat up on his team. Well as it turns out the guy got stuck in the same bit where my buddy had to pick a dice and the game timer stopped again. My buddy gets up, sees this and types: "I'm heading to the lake for the weekend like I planned, I'm not dropping, have a good weekend." The guy eventually dropped the game and took his loss, but he waited 24 or 48 hrs hoping that he wouldn't have to...Kinda sad in my opinion.
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The AI is shit. The online version is pretty good. I get a little bit frustrated with not being able to take back a move entered in error - it has cost me quite a few games.
I'm not so sure I would recommend it to new Bloodbowl players.
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commentator 1: "the crowd is looking pretty good here today!"
commentator 2: "hmm, looks more chaotic neutral to me"
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