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We are really happy to have you here. Unfortunately, being online we can't bond with you over a game so you'd know right away how happy we are to meet you. For now, you'll just have to take our word for it.
This site has always thrived on lively discussion and spirited but civil debate. We hope that newcomers here will find a welcoming atmosphere where game enthusiasts of all levels of experience and commitment will have something to add to the conversation. You never need to prove your “gamer cred” here. Whether you have been playing board games for a few months or a few decades; whether you have a huge collection or a small one; whether you have been a member here for years or just joined today – your opinion is valued here.
We know that it can be intimidating to jump into a new community and want to assure you that this is NOT the kind of forum where people will tell you that you posted something in the wrong place, or that you should have found an existing thread on the topic, or that you shouldn’t have resurrected an old thread.
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A good place to get started is by introducing yourself in the “New Members Introduce Yourself” thread (below) or by telling us what you have been playing in the “What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing?" thread ( therewillbe.games/forum/35-mos-eisley-ca...ave-you-been-playing ).
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Yeah, that's the icon for an iOS game called "Dead End HD" that I made in 2011. (Still available...) Funny thing about names on the app store. I called the original release "Dead End", and then when I put out an update that added iPad support, I renamed the game to "Dead End HD". Then a year ago I discovered a new game had come out with the name "Dead End". D'oh!
I have a bunch more art and such at randyzero.tumblr.com or randyo.net !
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stormseeker75 wrote: Randy, you should know that Barney is pretty awesome. Welcome to the Fort.
I think in the interests of being up front, we should add that he is neither black, nor does he look like Richard Simmons. The latter fact in particular is only destined to be a painful letdown later, so I think new users should be alerted of this when they come here to avoid making the pain worse.
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Games-wise, I was huge into RPGs, boardgames, and videogames in high school and college, then gave up boardgaming for quite a while due to frequent work-related moves and such. I just got back into boardgames a couple of years ago, so I'm still in that "there are so many amazing games, wow!" phase. In terms of videogames, ours was an Atari household when I was a wee lad, and then I had nothing in college, and by the time I looked into them again it was PC gaming time, then an add-on Sega Genesis, then an XBOX. The upshot is that there is a huge, gaping Nintendo-shaped hole in my gaming history: I have no experience with Zelda, Metroid, Mario Bros., Smash Bros., Final Fantasy, Castlevania, frickin' Duck Hunt... any of that stuff. Sometimes I detect a bit of pity from my friends because of it, but then most of them don't know what the hell I'm talking about when I mention System Shock 2, Star Control 2, Master of Magic, Autoduel, Wizardry, or Ultima Underworld, so I guess we're even.
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I'd say the Wii U is a better choice for classic games if only because Virtual Console there has SNES, GBA and now N64 titles. 3DS has NES, Game Boy, and Game Boy Color.
Pretty much any of the main Mario, Metroid and Zelda games are masterpieces- but I would actually recommend starting with the SNES editions of those (so Super Mario World, Super Metroid and Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past).
Or, go with the most recent titles- Super Mario 3D World, LoZ: The A Link Between Worlds and the Metroid Prime Trilogy. The gameplay in each is fundamentally the same as in those classic titles. Truly timeless design.
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For the longest time now I've squirmed away from any game that was too platform-y. At first I thought that those types of games just weren't my thang, but I've begun to wonder whether it was simply due to a lack of exposure to the Nintendo library during my formative years. Are my platformer instincts like a neglected child raised in the back of a dark, filthy closet--too old now to ever learn how to speak? There's no way to know but by trying!
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Anyway. The other day I received Forge War in the mail. I grabbed it to get free shipping, because all the hardcore cardboard nerds are loving it. Loving it.
I probably should have did a little more investigation, watched a few more videos, taken a glance at a few photos, before clicking that button to purchase it. But instead, I waited until it was on my table to open this 8-lb. monster. Then I dug through the components, and my heart sank. Because where are the brilliantly-animated, over the top cartoon heroes? Where are the unnecessary-but-awesome monster miniatures, for the warriors I craft weapons for to do battle with? This seems boring!
...and that's when it finally sunk in. I am an Ameritrash gamer. The trashier, the better. I've leapt at the chance to play a 12-hour game of Twilight Imperium just to push little plastic space ships around cardboard tiles.
So here I am, embracing who I am deep inside my heart. Hi everyone, I'm Throst. Or Shane. Whichever. I look forward to chatting with you.
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I also taught him Merchants and Marauders which he really liked, so there may be some Ameritrash hope in there yet.
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I love most Ameritrash (although everything by Twilight Creations needs punching in the face and burning in the centre of a star), and have slowly come to despise the soulless, engine-building, resource-management accountancy cube-fests that get drooled over on BGG. I'm still going to use BGG a lot, but the clientele here seem to know what fun is.
I'm in Lancashire, England.
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VALIS wrote: Evening all, bit of a lurker, but I'm coming to realise that this is the best place to discuss proper boardgames.
I love most Ameritrash (although everything by Twilight Creations needs punching in the face and burning in the centre of a star), and have slowly come to despise the soulless, engine-building, resource-management accountancy cube-fests that get drooled over on BGG. I'm still going to use BGG a lot, but the clientele here seem to know what fun is.
I'm in Lancashire, England.
I can't quite bring myself to get rid of my Zombies!!! and Humans!!! games yet. I know that they aren't good games, and yet there was a certain undeniable enjoyment that everybody seemed to have during the first hour of a game of Zombies!!! But every single time, the game outstayed its welcome by an hour or so. I suspect that the expansion with the sewer lids and subway stations was exactly the right fix to speed the game up, but by the time I bought it, most of my friends no longer wanted to play Zombies!!!.
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Hopefully I can contribute a little, even if it is only the odd angry rant masquerading as a "review" of a boardgame!
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Welcome aboard.
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