Poll of the Day > Anyone else getting a copy of The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era?

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I definitely am, with the Valenwood Expansion.

https://gamefound.com/projects/chip-theory-games/the-elder-scrolls

I'm not interested in MMOs.

I saw it at PAX Unplugged but no interest in actually getting it.

shadowsword87 posted...

I'm not interested in MMOs.

I think its a board game

I have the Fallout board game with all the expansions, and while it's interesting that it covers locations in Fallout 1, 2, 3, and 4 (but not New Vegas), it's not that great of a game because the difficulty curve is a brick wall.

Now, Fallout Shelter (the board game) is actually pretty great. It's a lot of fun and you'll often find games are extremely close at the end.

I'd like to get the Skyrim board game, but holy crap is it expensive. $112 for the base game, plus $78 for Dawnguard, plus $57 for From the Ashes, plus $110 for the Miniatures Upgrade Set, plus $40 for the 5-8 player expansion. $400 plus tax for a board game! Fallout with New California and Atomic Bonds was only $100.

Not me. I don't really have any friends who are into board games. Or at least not the overcomplicated Eurostyle board games that have gotten popular lately because nerds love complicated games with tons and tons of stuff in the box that take 4+ hours to play.

Most of us are adults, and between work and kids and other social obligations we have a really hard time getting together as a large group more than a few times a year, and when we do nobody really wants to play board games (if we play anything it's usually Magic: The Gathering, but we've fallen off on that as well).

I bought Betrayal at House on the Hill like 10 years ago and I've never played it once. Probably never will at this point. Doesn't really make sense to keep buying games I know I'll never play.



captpackrat posted...

I'd like to get the Skyrim board game, but holy crap is it expensive. $112 for the base game, plus $78 for Dawnguard, plus $57 for From the Ashes, plus $110 for the Miniatures Upgrade Set, plus $40 for the 5-8 player expansion. $400 plus tax for a board game!

To be fair, you're not supposed to buy it all at once. You're supposed buy the base game and play it over a period of time, and then when you've played it enough that it starts to get boring, you buy the first expansion. Then you play that for a while before buying the second one. So it's $400 stretched out over a much longer period.

Of course, the downside there is that if you wait too long you might miss out on some of the expansions if they go out of print (which is what kind of happened with HeroQuest back in the 80s).

On the flip-side, there's also the possibility that you'll buy the base game and decide you don't actually like it as much as you thought you would, so you don't bother buying the expansions. Or you have trouble getting a group of friends together who want to play it and wind up just stuffing it on a shelf and letting it collect dust.

Ive recently met a ton of people through board games so am lucky to have game nights a few nights a week, and my girlfriend is interested in co-op campaigns with good stories. Did some things like conventions and board game camping and have a friend starting to make it in the influencer scene. People have way too many games though and I cant say I like a lot of the hotness or playing a new game every week.

I actually bought a free games for life pledge a few years back from the company doing ES:BotSE so get the base game shipped to me for free.

Ive been more focused on deluxifying a couple favorite games then selling off a lot of my collection.