Poll of the Day > Anyone into board games?

(+) Yeah! (+)

We have over 800 (not exaggerating)

What is your favorite?

Just played City of Horror, super good
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List all 800

Yes.

I currently like Lords of Waterdeep (and its educational spin-off, Cytosis), Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Pipe Works and of course generic Milton Bradley classics
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Really liking Star Trek Ascendancy. The Borg expansion is relentless.

ss4parrothair posted...

Anyone into board games?

Probably, i doubt they'd keep selling them if there wasn't.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

List all 800

Lol I cant. I can go through the closets and rooms of them by it would take forever
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Lokarin posted...

Yes.

I currently like Lords of Waterdeep (and its educational spin-off, Cytosis), Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Pipe Works and of course generic Milton Bradley classics

Oooo I like Carcassonne a lot and Settlers is great
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I'm really not that into them. I might have a fun time playing them when I do if we've got a good set of people. But I have to spend the first half learning how the game actually works. And I never really find myself caring what the outcome will be. Winning the game never feels very rewarding. It's just over.

A friend of mine has a collection close to that, currently at 702 on Board Game Geek.

My brother bought the 3rd edition of Rune Bound and hated the token system (though I didn't mind) since he's played the 2nd edition a lot with friends so he went and bought a 2nd edition so now we have both though we don't play them unfortunately.
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I mostly have some more casual games.
Trains, Risk Legacy, Codenames, Tsuro, Galaxy Trucker, Ticket to Ride, Escape: Curse of the Temple, and Formula: D.

I really like Secret Hitler and Bloodborne though.

I'm also pretty big into card games (like the standard deck), I'm not sure what it is, but I like just having them on hand.

Clue is fun.

Maybe Risk.
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aHappySacka posted...

My brother bought the 3rd edition of Rune Bound and hated the token system (though I didn't mind) since he's played the 2nd edition a lot with friends so he went and bought a 2nd edition so now we have both though we don't play them unfortunately.

Runebound is a good one.
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Yellow posted...

Clue is fun.

Maybe Risk.

So true. My mom won in one turn once lol
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My favorite is Battlestar Galactica. I don't need any expansions to have great time playing that game.
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Do tabletop games like DnD count? If so, yes.
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cgreenw posted...

My favorite is Battlestar Galactica. I don't need any expansions to have great time playing that game.

Really? When I played it we had a bad time.

First hour nobody was a cylon, so everything went smoothly and we spent an hour just sort of putting along and we all got bored. I wanted to call outside assistance to confirm there was no cylon at the time, but then it ruins the whole point of it.
Second hour, when the flip happened, there was a fun game of "can we survive this" for a few rounds, but then the first cylon trashed a mission (fair enough), and we all sent him away. Then we realized that we found the second cylon (the player even admitted so), but we didn't want to throw him away because he could do more damage outside of the ship than inside so we brought a cylon on missions with us because we were so close anyway.

At the end we all agreed it was kinda dumb how it turned out, and there are weird rules about what you can or can't say or talk about. It just sort of felt like a traitor game with all of the social aspects replaced with mechanics that weren't all that fun.

It was probably just the single game that I played that wasn't good, but it's the only game that I played, and it really soured me on the whole thing.

I liked them as a kid, but have long since lost interest in them. Nowadays, Boss Monster, Cards Against Humanity, and What Do You Meme? are the only ones I ever agree to play.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

I liked them as a kid, but have long since lost interest in them. Nowadays, Boss Monster, Cards Against Humanity, and What Do You Meme? are the only ones I ever agree to play.

Love Boss Monster and Cards
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I like the concept of tabletop gaming, but board games are too hit or miss for me.
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The social circle I played with no longer exists, but I did really love Axis & Allies Miniatures. I spent about $2000 collecting the first five sets. They implemented a scale change after that. Between the pieces changing and the player pool drying up, I dropped it. I kept my stuff though, as I have enough to field proper games on any front for both people. It uses a hex-based map with information cards and plastic pieces. Dice rolls determine the outcomes of things. It's a well-made game. Normally I considered that stuff pretty lame and avoided it, but it's sort of in between something like Risk and full-blown A&A or DnD, where it's manageable and easy to pick up and play a quick game with but still somewhat advanced in terms of its ruleset, and you need to be mindful of strategy. Each unit costs points, so something like a King Tiger will eat into your numbers heavily... Out of pity, my wife is willing to battle me on occasion, which is nice.

Dice were my friend in it though. I had one where my friend threw a borderline tantrum because my Chinese Nationalist army beat his Imperial Japan. To put this into perspective, China's forces are so inferior that they have exclusive limitations no other army does (iirc): if you roll three 1's with an MG team, the gun jams and misses a turn, if a tank is damaged it can no longer move for the remainder of the game (other factions just suffer a minor penalty to attack and defense), and if their infantry are disrupted (a one-turn marker that weakens them for everyone else) they just die instead. China also lacks an air force. The trade-off was that I outnumbered him by about three-to-one. Halfway through, we traded dice because I was tired of him whining. Nothing changed. The KMT were rocking it for that fight... What's ironic was that I only opted to play that match because I beat him 90% of the time and figured it would be a fun struggle for me and give him a sorely needed win in his column. It just made it worse losing to such a weak foe. I don't think I ever lost as Germany. The odd time I was defeated it was when playing as the Western Allies. Their equipment just didn't suit my play style as well as the countries that use all quantity or all quality.
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My group is really into Werewolf and all its offshoots, lately. One of the gamers in the group is a huge collector, so we meet at his place once a week and just play a game or two.
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Relly enjoy Aggravation.
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supergamer19 posted...

My group is really into Werewolf and all its offshoots, lately. One of the gamers in the group is a huge collector, so we meet at his place once a week and just play a game or two.

Like One Night Ultimate Werewolf?
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ss4parrothair posted...

supergamer19 posted...

My group is really into Werewolf and all its offshoots, lately. One of the gamers in the group is a huge collector, so we meet at his place once a week and just play a game or two.

Like One Night Ultimate Werewolf?

That is a great game for us argumentative types
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Monopoly is my favorite. I also really like scattegories, risk, trivial pursuit, and settlers of catan.
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there's a few that I enjoy

I usually go to board game meet up at my local comic book store on Thursdays with my nephew, even bought quite a few games to be played and enjoyed. but sadly they just stay in the rolling duffel bag and tote bag unplayed, so i'll be looking into board game geek or somewhere to sell them
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shadowsword87 posted...

cgreenw posted...

My favorite is Battlestar Galactica. I don't need any expansions to have great time playing that game.

Really? When I played it we had a bad time.

First hour nobody was a cylon, so everything went smoothly and we spent an hour just sort of putting along and we all got bored. I wanted to call outside assistance to confirm there was no cylon at the time, but then it ruins the whole point of it.
Second hour, when the flip happened, there was a fun game of "can we survive this" for a few rounds, but then the first cylon trashed a mission (fair enough), and we all sent him away. Then we realized that we found the second cylon (the player even admitted so), but we didn't want to throw him away because he could do more damage outside of the ship than inside so we brought a cylon on missions with us because we were so close anyway.

At the end we all agreed it was kinda dumb how it turned out, and there are weird rules about what you can or can't say or talk about. It just sort of felt like a traitor game with all of the social aspects replaced with mechanics that weren't all that fun.

It was probably just the single game that I played that wasn't good, but it's the only game that I played, and it really soured me on the whole thing.

A large part of the game is based on randomness yes, but, yes, first games usually go underwhelmingly well, or overwhelmingly terrible. Having a group that likes the "traitor" mechanic is also important.
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Not my favorite, but wanted to ask if you've ever played this TC.

http://www.sjgames.com/revolution/
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Not my favorite, but wanted to ask if you've ever played this TC.

http://www.sjgames.com/revolution/

I actually have not
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I want to get one called The Campaign For North Africa. Supposedly takes months to complete. Hourswise
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ss4parrothair posted...

TheCyborgNinja posted...

I liked them as a kid, but have long since lost interest in them. Nowadays, Boss Monster, Cards Against Humanity, and What Do You Meme? are the only ones I ever agree to play.

Love Boss Monster and Cards

How is Boss Monster? My kids and I like the Munchkin series of games and I thought about trying Boss Monster with them.
We have a mixture of different types of games. We play One Night Ultimate games almost daily we usually play a couple games before they go to bed.
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I'm jonesing to get in another game of the latest Twilight Imperium. My goal is to win at least one game in my life-time. I keep coming in second or third out of six player games.
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Wii3Kings posted...

ss4parrothair posted...

TheCyborgNinja posted...

I liked them as a kid, but have long since lost interest in them. Nowadays, Boss Monster, Cards Against Humanity, and What Do You Meme? are the only ones I ever agree to play.

Love Boss Monster and Cards

How is Boss Monster? My kids and I like the Munchkin series of games and I thought about trying Boss Monster with them.
We have a mixture of different types of games. We play One Night Ultimate games almost daily we usually play a couple games before they go to bed.

Its fun and not complicated
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I like chess, but I haven't played it in nearly 15 years.
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gguirao posted...

I like chess, but I haven't played it in nearly 15 years.

Plus I was big into Reversi/Othello for a while.
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ss4parrothair posted...

AllstarSniper32 posted...

Not my favorite, but wanted to ask if you've ever played this TC.

http://www.sjgames.com/revolution/

I actually have not

Ah, it's pretty fun!

This one's pretty fun as well!

http://www.sjgames.com/frag/
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Innovation is my favorite game. I bought the deluxe pack since it had all the expansions, but I still haven't got the chance to play it.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

List all 800

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I guess my favorites are Scrabble and Monopoly. I know that by current standards Monopoly is a "bad" game (e.g., it takes forever to end "naturally", and while it's not your turn you're just sitting around), but I can't help finding it fun.

But I'm always willing to learn new board or card games, if I'm playing with people on about my level.

I'll add that I'm generally not a fan of trivia games because most of the time either you know the answer or you don't. But I bet I could do well at this one!

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Bang-Theory-Trivia-Game/dp/B005I0K4HQ

eating4fun posted...

Innovation is my favorite game. I bought the deluxe pack since it had all the expansions, but I still haven't got the chance to play it.

I kid you not, played that about 2 weeks ago
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god I love Carcassonne
Settlers of Catan is good, but I think I'd like it more as a computer game. I don't have good people to play a proper competitive game with.

another one I like enough to play often is Lost Cities
Ticket to Ride is also good, but I don't enjoy it enough to play it tons

some other ok ones include:
Mystery of the Abbey (basically Clue clone with monks)
Shadows over Camelot
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I got into it about two years go now. Started as me liking thematic games, but now my favorites tend to be middle to middle-heavy Eurogames. But I've been trying to get into Twilight Struggle to expand my knowledge of wargames but I don't think I have the time to devote to it. Had fun playing it yesterday with a friend (though I lost, badly).

It also doesn't help that my local game scene really sucks. They play every week down there but they are not very welcoming of newcomers. I recently stopped going because there is only one or two people that get their games played.

I very much like board games. I'm trying to slowly corrupt my wife with nerdiness using them. We just finished Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 with our friends, and I can't recommend that highly enough. Other favorites of ours are Lords of Waterdeep, 7 Wonders, Covert, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, and DC Deck Building Game.

I bought the Kickstarter for the base game and expansion of a game called Expedition and that's finally about to ship soon. It's like a DnD lite where your phone acts as the DM and the dice. It should be a good way to introduce my wife to roleplaying games and bring her closer to nerdiness. My ultimate goal is to one day play a real session of DnD or another true roleplaying game with her. Other men have their fantasies about what they want their wives to do. I have mine.

Sahuagin posted...

god I love Carcassonne
Settlers of Catan is good, but I think I'd like it more as a computer game. I don't have good people to play a proper competitive game with.

another one I like enough to play often is Lost Cities
Ticket to Ride is also good, but I don't enjoy it enough to play it tons

some other ok ones include:
Mystery of the Abbey (basically Clue clone with monks)
Shadows over Camelot

Familiar with ticket to ride for sure
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SushiSquid posted...

I very much like board games. I'm trying to slowly corrupt my wife with nerdiness using them. We just finished Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 with our friends, and I can't recommend that highly enough. Other favorites of ours are Lords of Waterdeep, 7 Wonders, Covert, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, and DC Deck Building Game.

I bought the Kickstarter for the base game and expansion of a game called Expedition and that's finally about to ship soon. It's like a DnD lite where your phone acts as the DM and the dice. It should be a good way to introduce my wife to roleplaying games and bring her closer to nerdiness. My ultimate goal is to one day play a real session of DnD or another true roleplaying game with her. Other men have their fantasies about what they want their wives to do. I have mine.

We did Risk Legacy. We have Pandemic Legacy as well but havent done that yet. Risk Legacy was like 15 games lol. I liked the Alien race when it came out
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Nightmare/atmosfear was a fun board game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBdS3r_WO60
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ss4parrothair posted...

SushiSquid posted...

I very much like board games. I'm trying to slowly corrupt my wife with nerdiness using them. We just finished Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 with our friends, and I can't recommend that highly enough. Other favorites of ours are Lords of Waterdeep, 7 Wonders, Covert, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, and DC Deck Building Game.

I bought the Kickstarter for the base game and expansion of a game called Expedition and that's finally about to ship soon. It's like a DnD lite where your phone acts as the DM and the dice. It should be a good way to introduce my wife to roleplaying games and bring her closer to nerdiness. My ultimate goal is to one day play a real session of DnD or another true roleplaying game with her. Other men have their fantasies about what they want their wives to do. I have mine.

We did Risk Legacy. We have Pandemic Legacy as well but havent done that yet. Risk Legacy was like 15 games lol. I liked the Alien race when it came out

I'll never get the appeal of legacy games. They're like a job. You got to sit down and schedule a time to play, getting everyone on board. My attempt at doing Risk Legacy totally failed. It was played four times and two of the players just didn't like it... so now I have this board game that is partially completed that I can't get anyone else to play.

BlazeAndBlade posted...

Nightmare/atmosfear was a fun board game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBdS3r_WO60

We absolutely have this. The old vhs good one and the newer updated not so good one
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