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What was your most-played game of 2017 and WHY?
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Qwixx, the wife and family enjoy it.
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cranberries wrote: Unmarked, untraceable cash is rare when you're married.
Truer words have never been spoken. In my house, when mama wants something, she gets it. When I want something, there is a 10 day waiting period where I have to “whore myself out” (her words, not mine) and sell shit.
I’ve sold 90% of the games I owned. I’ve sold 70% of the miniatures I’ve owned. I’ve sold 70% of the terrain I’ve owned.
Now I have a new laptop (which made making SEAL Team Flix easier), two amps, 8 guitars, and a rifle.
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Sagrilarus wrote: Acquire is a game you have to play five or six times before you start getting the hang of it. I’ve been in conversations where people indicate that it’s too arbitrary but that’s almost never the case if you take some care. But that only comes after you’ve seen the action on the board a dozen or more times.
I also recorded a podcast where one of the other people there, who hadn’t played much indicated that it needed a catch-up mechanism. Young’ns say the darnedest things.
Poppycock. Acquire has a catch-up mechanic. It’s called smart investing.
People get so hung up on the lotto part of the game, the tile draw, that they miss that the game is really about speculative investment more than running the biggest or more successful company. Part of what makes the game so good is that you can win doing exactly that, but you can also win by investing shrewdly in companies that seem to have a good growth forecast- if you have a few contiguous tiles in hand, or if you have a critics tile that would cause a merger you can use that “insider” knowledge to your advantage. There is as much money to be made in what other people are doing as what you are doing and I think a lot of beginner players miss that aspect of it, gunning for the big majorities in the largest or sharkiest companies.
OMG Acquire is so good.
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Acquire is an abstract representation of a niche within the stock market, but the board layout does convey some information to investors. Companies started in the middle of the board have a better chance of going big, while companies started closer to the edges are more likely to remain small and eventually get merged into larger entities. If you want to avoid running out of cash, invest in small companies that are close to larger companies. Your current tiles can help guide your choices, if you have the ability to make something bigger and you can leverage that knowledge for your purchases. Usually the best deal in the later turns of the game is the chance to trade in your small company shares for big company shares at a 2:1 ratio during a merger.
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Gary Sax wrote: Fun, love reading these threads.
Mine is Harry Potter Hogwarts battle, my wife loves it and I think it's fine.
Second was Eldritch Horror which hit a high this year for me but has cooled just a little in the back half of the year.
Me too. Although Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle might be disqualified as a filler, since we mostly play it as one.
I was surprised that my second most played was Eldritch Horror. I think it got a few extra plays in this year because I got a couple of small expansions, one for my birthday, and one for Chanukah, so we had to try them out. Those few extra plays pushed it past the two games which tied for third most played, Spurs and Escape from 100 Million BC
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Besides that, I played a ton of Terraforming Mars. I'm over 100 plays right now. And while more than half of them are solo plays, I've played it a lot with a ton of different people. Very fun, love getting this out sometimes when I have nothing to play.
The next game on the list would be Comic Encounter (about 17 games) and then Gloomhaven (about 10 games).
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Erik Twice wrote: Besides that, I played a ton of Terraforming Mars. I'm over 100 plays right now.
I am vastly overemployed.
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First of all, it is obviously because of the modelling&painting component. Over the last couple of years it has become my daily hobby, completely replacing video games.
But I also got sucked into playing the game. Because it was really easy to get into (at least, when it just came out). And it has an an engaging meta, specially when you start playing on regular basis against the same opponents, and each of you customize your army after every encounter. Which involves buying and painting more models. So the painting&modelling aspect feeds into gameplay nicely. I've spent tons of money on this, of course, but one the other hand, I never felt like it was money wasted, since I got more mileage from painting&playing these expensive toys than from buying an average boardgame that would get played a couple of times and than gather dust on the shelf. And I have not bought a PS4 game in a very long time.
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Well, I am vastly undermeployed but I don't think it's that odd when you think about it. If you can put just an hour and a half per day you can probably play two games of TM solo. Play it every other day and you'll also get over a hundred plays.Sagrilarus wrote:
Erik Twice wrote: Besides that, I played a ton of Terraforming Mars. I'm over 100 plays right now.
I am vastly overemployed.
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Pandemic Legacy Season 1:
Tho I dont hold the original in such high regard, our group fell in love with the evolving gameplay. It's too bad that other games with legacy mechanics either dont have a compelling enough game at its core (seafall, pandemic season 2, gloomhaven) or that it feels slapped on.
Descent 2nd edition with road to legend app:
My SO love to play this game as a conflict heavy but a coop game. The quests are pretty good and we tend to have lots of fun, playing one quest at a time.
Blood Rage:
A good DOAM with a card drafting mechanic, I actually prefer Citow but my group doesn't. Guess it's a theme thing for one part and one part playing with old magic players that actually love the carddrafting. Guess I like the assymetric part more of Citow, as there are multiple ways to victory and each faction plays different.
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Erik Twice wrote:
Well, I am vastly undermeployed but I don't think it's that odd when you think about it. If you can put just an hour and a half per day you can probably play two games of TM solo. Play it every other day and you'll also get over a hundred plays.Sagrilarus wrote:
Erik Twice wrote: Besides that, I played a ton of Terraforming Mars. I'm over 100 plays right now.
I am vastly overemployed.
Didn’t realize it was that quick solo.
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Josh Look wrote: Star Trek Ascendancy and Vast: The Crystal Caverns for me. Given how much difficulty people seem to have getting those games played, I think I’m doing something right.
For ST:A not having players eliminated or totally nerfed early game helps make it more popular, it got substituted with us after a few instances of this (and then my regular AT group shrunk to two so it hasn't come out again).
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