I liked Marvel Heroes in principle, but I think it's another game like Age of Conan that sounds better in theory than in play unless you're a huge fan already. I do love that older superhero stuff, but I guess not as much as I loved Howard's old stories (or at least not as much in the orderly display that Marvel Heroes required to make the game work.)
I've had a copy of MEQ that I got in a math trade sitting on my shelf for a couple years. I'd like to play it, but it's SO involved that it really needs LotR fans and many of my friends are, but not to the extent that the game kinda requires, I think. Dunno. It's never seemed like an opportune time to pull it out.
Mr. White wrote: Marvel Heroes is really neat. A lot more fun than WotR IMO.
This sentence right here doesn't make a lick of sense to me. I totally wanted to like Marvel Heroes, and then I played it. Then I played it again to be sure, and then I got rid of it.
Memoir 44 Tactics and Strategy guide, what a waste of money, horribly produced, vastly overpriced, padded out with comically obvious "tips" presented as confucious style fortune cookie phrases. Probably some useful stuff in there but by the time I got to that I realised why the fuck do I want to read that shit. The kind of people sat spending years of their life working out how to "perfect" playing a game of Memoir 44 are not the kind of people I want to be reading, I'm sure lots of people will get this, but its hard not to think of it as a vanity item that will just appeal to the collectoritis. Which is precisely why I made sure I solda good whack of my rare M44 stuff, and Agricola decks because I feel like its a good mental commitment to avoid being the sort of person that has an erection for weeks on end because theyve tracked down someone in another country who will go out of their way to secure some scrawny piece of fucking cardboard because its a "limited edition promotional ESSEN item" that no one else can get hold of. That way is madness. I don't know why I even bought this guide to be honest, I think curiousity, but its crap, so I am selling or trading it ASAP.
Mr. White wrote: Marvel Heroes is really neat. A lot more fun than WotR IMO.
I regret selling it, but it's a big box...
I haven't played War of the Ring enough to say I like Marvel Heroes better but can safely say I love Marvel. It was tough to learn due to a badly designed rulebook but once my group found a good play aid from BGG we were set.
Speaking of for trade stuff, I've got Mage Knight if anyone has some fantasy minis, Heroscape, or Dungeon Command they want to unload.
I traded a couple LCG playmats for Riff Raff and Feudality. Haven't had a chance to play the latter yet, but Riff Raff went over pretty well and despite my notoriously shaky hands I was able to win about half of the rounds we played. It's a gimmick game, but the gimmick is a good one.