Current Events > Elden Ring board game $429 (plus shipping) for 1/4 of the game.

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Lol I genuinely feel bad for casual Elden ring players because many are buying this with no Dungeon Crawler/board game experience, so they don't even realize how bad it looks.

Be many copies of this sold on ebay when it comes out.

I dont understand what 1/4th the game means.

the base game is 89 bucks. For 429 you get 5 different sets. I still wouldnt get it myself but I really dont understand what youre trying to say with this topic.

link for those interested:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steamforged/elden-ring-the-board-game

When I was a kid I had some board game called Hero Quest. It was kinda like that I think

Zeeak4444 posted...

I dont understand what 1/4th the game means.

the base game is 89 bucks. For 429 you get 5 different sets. I still wouldnt get it myself but I really dont understand what youre trying to say with this topic.

link for those interested:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steamforged/elden-ring-the-board-game

Gotta love when someone tries to mislead, when it's so easy to do a quick google search to expose it. Eh. Who needs credibility these days anyway. He can just become a Republican when no one else will give him the time of day

Why is it pledged so far beyond the ask?

Zikten posted...

When I was a kid I had some board game called Hero Quest. It was kinda like that I think

I got the remake. Have only done the first quest, but it's fun!

well-excuse-me posted...

Why is it pledged so far beyond the ask?

I got the remake. Have only done the first quest, but it's fun!

happens for a lot of projects. They offer exclusive shit to backers so even though they met the goal others will back it for those exclusives.

and some projects add stretch goals, so while the goal for the game might be 200k there might be a 10mil stretch goal saying if we reach this amount will add xyz to the game type stuff.

I think he means it's 1/4 of the actual content from Elden Ring. With these types of games they usually do more expansions later (sometimes called seasons) with new Kickstarters that cost even more money. These Dungeon Crawler board games often cost $1000 to actually get everything (and also you have to store them somewhere somehow).

ssjevot posted...

I think he means it's 1/4 of the actual content from Elden Ring. With these types of games they usually do more expansions later (sometimes called seasons) with new Kickstarters that cost even more money. These Dungeon Crawler board games often cost $1000 to actually get everything (and also you have to store them somewhere somehow).

If that's what he means, it's just poorly worded and probably not malicious. I take back 1/4th of my post.

ProfessorKukui posted...

Damn, enough to buy a Switch & more

Hey, I just did exactly that.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

If that's what he means, it's just poorly worded and probably not malicious. I take back 1/4th of my post.

It's actually a lot less than 1/4 of the game's content from a boss perspective. It's kind of hard to judge. It has more than that for player characters (assuming just starting classes), less than that for areas and bosses, and maybe about that for basic enemies. It's definitely missing a ton of stuff from the game. I think Bloodborne the board game managed to get everything except the DLC if you could get all the expansions (good luck getting that for less than $1000 on eBay though).

ssjevot posted...

It's actually a lot less than 1/4 of the game's content from a boss perspective. It's kind of hard to judge. It has more than that for player characters (assuming just starting classes), less than that for areas and bosses, and maybe about that for basic enemies. It's definitely missing a ton of stuff from the game. I think Bloodborne the board game managed to get everything except the DLC if you could get all the expansions (good luck getting that for less than $1000 on eBay though).

How does it compare to other games around the same price tho? Is it an average amount of content for the asking price? That's how I usually justify worth. If it has a fraction of the material other games have, Id get it. If it's around the same and just doesn't have Elden Rings massive amount of content packed in, I gotta side with them. Im 155 hours in and haven't beat it lol.

Zeeak4444 posted...

happens for a lot of projects. They offer exclusive shit to backers so even though they met the goal others will back it for those exclusives.

and some projects add stretch goals, so while the goal for the game might be 200k there might be a 10mil stretch goal saying if we reach this amount will add xyz to the game type stuff.

Ah, thank you

Lost_All_Senses posted...

How does it compare to other games around the same price tho? Is it an average amount of content for the asking price? That's how I usually justify worth. If it has a fraction of the material other games have, Id get it. If it's around the same and just doesn't have Elden Rings massive amount of content packed in, I gotta side with them. Im 155 hours in and haven't beat it lol.

I feel like it's more expensive. Tainted Grail just finished a Kickstarter where you got over twice as much content (minis, game content, etc.) for less than that. I definitely think this isn't a good deal. Even the much reviled CMON games tends to have a better ratio of content per dollar (their issue is they make the majority or at least a significant chunk of content Kickstarter exclusive, such as they did for Bloodborne).

In general don't kickstart this shit. These companies are abusing the system and FOMO. They're massive and intend to make the game anyway, they don't actual need funding. Shit look at the sculpts. They're already made and the factory in China is probably cranking them out as we speak.

Zeeak4444 posted...

I dont understand what 1/4th the game means

Game only has Limgrave and Godrick's castle regions. There's, what, like 3 other regions plus underground?

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Gotta love when someone tries to mislead, when it's so easy to do a quick google search to expose it. Eh. Who needs credibility these days anyway. He can just become a Republican when no one else will give him the time of day

Dude literally said he could google search to fact check me and then literally didn't look up the facts, then went on the brink of a political melty. CE is truly one of a kind lol

Zikten posted...

When I was a kid I had some board game called Hero Quest. It was kinda like that I think

https://youtu.be/Cx8sl2uC46A

Zikten posted...

When I was a kid I had some board game called Hero Quest. It was kinda like that I think

Holy shit you had that too?

Billyionaire posted...

Dude literally said he could google search to fact check me and then literally didn't look up the facts, then went on the brink of a political melty. CE is truly one of a kind lol

Woah. That's exactly what happened. I didn't think anyone could tell how frustrated and mentally unstable I was in this very simple non threatening topic. I guess I don't hide it as well as I thought.

On a serious note. It's not hard to tell the difference why you'd do a google search before misleading everyone with a topic vs. just posting in a topic after someone corrected that person. Im not the one who cared enough to make a topic. Thankfully, homie had your back and was kind enough to correct the misunderstanding caused by your poor wording. Which I then took back what I said,you might not of got the joke in that post and took the "1/4th" thing literal (you didn't seem to get that the Republican thing was a extremely mild joke as well). So, your response just seems unnecessary. You're responding like I doubled down rather than accepted the misunderstanding being resolved, thanks to Zeak.

With all the miniatures it brings, it seems like a very decent price

So the modern Dungeon Crawler board game can said to have started with Dungeon! by TSR which was codeveloped with Dungeons and Dragons. But it's not a very good game and the genre didn't really resemble what is now until Warhammer Quest. Hero Quest was basically a licensed version of Warhammer Quest (Games Workshop even helped design parts of it).

Modern Dungeon Crawlers have massively proliferated due to Kickstarter and they tend to be in the form of release a metric shit ton of stuff with almost no testing then abandon it after release and make another one. I think the overall best one is Shadows of Brimstone because the company has supported it for about a decade and shows no sign of stopping which puts it above 95% of the other games. That said Tainted Grail appears to be well supported (even if not a true dungeon crawler) and is well regarded as well.

It really sucks though that even a dedicated minis company held in high regard, Corvus Belli (makers of Infinity), jumped on the Kickstarter one and done then abandon it train. They're even doing another Kickstarter right now for a Fantasy dungeon crawler. Can't wait for them to abandon that too.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

With all the miniatures it brings, it seems like a very decent price

It's really not though. Mainly indentical pose sculpts (HIPS is incredibly cheap, only the sculpts cost money), and far less than similar products from other companies.

Compare to two recently concluded Kickstarters:
https://gamefound.com/projects/awaken-realms/tainted-grail-kings-of-ruin

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/dmd-fear-of-the-unknown?lang=ja

I skipped around the video that shows what the combat is like vs a boss on this board game and it looks like it sucks total ass

Who the fuck thinks this would be anything but a snoozefest of a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=417nKgZudBQ

if the minis arent ass quality that seems about standard for pricing
most warhammer standalone games are $200 easy
ive got like 6 of em. box usually has between 20-50 minis depending on scale, rules/board/tokens, and maybe some terrain if its game relevant

$89 for the base is cheap

These are definitely not Games Workshop quality and the minis are largely identical pose, whereas Warhammer largely uses unique poses (which means more sculpts, the only actual cost when it comes to HIPS).

ssjevot posted...

Modern Dungeon Crawlers have massively proliferated due to Kickstarter and they tend to be in the form of release a metric shit ton of stuff with almost no testing then abandon it after release and make another one.

Yes, it's the equivalent of abandonware in the board game space. The truly frustrating thing about this (besides that it's a cool IP that is going to have a totally lackluster board game) is that there seems to be many people buying into this on IP alone. By buying into the hype, they're rewarding the worst kind of laziness.

It's the same companies making all the video game-based board games. They and the video game publishers have figured out how to squeeze millions of more dollars out of these franchises without really making anything but a bunch of expensive plastic figures.

I'd go with Gloomhaven, personally. Been eyeing it for awhile. Too many games not enough time. I pretty much only solo, too, so Mage Knight has been tempting as well.

As someone who knows nothing about this whole thing, the reception on reddit when they announced it is that it's made by a garbage company who has a habit of making shitty board games on popular IPs.

Buy Scythe instead

Billyionaire posted...

Dude literally said he could google search to fact check me and then literally didn't look up the facts, then went on the brink of a political melty. CE is truly one of a kind lol

Think people just want to cry politics in non political topics these days, getting out of hand.

I call dibs on the battleship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFXvNa-jOxQ

Enderknight17 posted...

I'd go with Gloomhaven, personally. Been eyeing it for awhile. Too many games not enough time. I pretty much only solo, too, so Mage Knight has been tempting as well.

Gloomhaven is tricky. Is it a dungeon crawler or a Euro? It's definitely a good game, but it's more like you find optimized solutions to puzzles. Tricky (also there is not a pile of minis like most dungeon crawlers have).

If you love solo board gaming Mage Knight is the best experience you can have (but probably also not technically a dungeon crawler).

pegusus123456 posted...

As someone who knows nothing about this whole thing, the reception on reddit when they announced it is that it's made by a garbage company who has a habit of making shitty board games on popular IPs.

That's a pretty fair assessment, and I'm not one who usually says things so... hyperbolic. But that's all pretty much true.

Cheetaluv posted...

Think people just want to cry politics in non political topics these days, getting out of hand.

Does it not also come of as crying when responding to even the smallest political joke by immediately implying the person is off the rails? Lol. I just put the literal lightest nothing unoriginal political comment out there and you guys immediately project deep emotions on it. Id argue that's being more whiney when it comes to politics. You could very easily just be like "ugh", and respond to the rest of the post, instead of making it the focus.

Tbh, Id probably stop doing it if it wasn't so easy. But it's like a subconscious thing to slip in just to see how easily set off and distracted people get. At least make the person put in some type of effort to get this reaction out of you. You guys are as sensitive as those snowflake Democrats.

I want a copy of Hero's Quest so bad