Alive, Dominant Species, Hey That's My Fish, Falling, We Didn't Playtest This at All, The Resistance
I went to the good game store again, just to see what was up. Apparently someone was showing off their prototype for a game about zombies (I know), but also it had this weird Agricola feel to it too, where you had to manage your territory and handle your resources and trade and etc. It seemed clever enough at the time, but the more I thought about it, the more nonsense it seemed. For example, there are a couple of mechanics that will cause everyone to lose, and I can't figure out why. Whenever someone dies, everyone either loses outright, or you lose some hope, and if that runs out, everyone loses. I guess it's to encourage cooperation, but it feels more forced than anything. Everyone also gets a new action each turn, which doesn't make sense. But...I don't know, it seems kinda neat, and they aren't completely done yet, so...
Then a truncated game of Dominant Species, in which the owner just threw out a bunch of cards he didn't like and played the game normally, and I kinda like that it makes a much more focused game. I was playing pretty well, the birds are my new favorite because being able to maneuver quickly is pretty strong if you know how to use it. I went for survival again, because it seems like a decent strategy, especially when I dominate in those places as well. I thought I was running away with the game in the last turn until the final scoring bit, where each hex scores again, and the arachnids had this little corner of good lands all to themselves that they managed to sneak by with a single point and I lost. It was pretty close.
Then a bunch of screwing around. Hey That's My Fish is a game that exists. For some reason, whenever I made a move, someone made sounds like I was making a power play and someone would counter me for no reason, so I lost horribly. Falling is probably one of James Ernest's worst games, I said it, it's just so dramatically unfocused, at least with Fightball I know what I'm supposed to be doing. Here it's just madness. I haven't played "We Didn't Playtest This at All" in a long time (it's still just chilling in my car), but it sure is a fine game when you don't want to do anything else. Plus it's over in like two minutes, can't complain about it too much.
And The Resistance, which these guys like a lot. A few games of it, I don't remember a lot of the details, it was pretty late.
I went to the good game store again, just to see what was up. Apparently someone was showing off their prototype for a game about zombies (I know), but also it had this weird Agricola feel to it too, where you had to manage your territory and handle your resources and trade and etc. It seemed clever enough at the time, but the more I thought about it, the more nonsense it seemed. For example, there are a couple of mechanics that will cause everyone to lose, and I can't figure out why. Whenever someone dies, everyone either loses outright, or you lose some hope, and if that runs out, everyone loses. I guess it's to encourage cooperation, but it feels more forced than anything. Everyone also gets a new action each turn, which doesn't make sense. But...I don't know, it seems kinda neat, and they aren't completely done yet, so...
Then a truncated game of Dominant Species, in which the owner just threw out a bunch of cards he didn't like and played the game normally, and I kinda like that it makes a much more focused game. I was playing pretty well, the birds are my new favorite because being able to maneuver quickly is pretty strong if you know how to use it. I went for survival again, because it seems like a decent strategy, especially when I dominate in those places as well. I thought I was running away with the game in the last turn until the final scoring bit, where each hex scores again, and the arachnids had this little corner of good lands all to themselves that they managed to sneak by with a single point and I lost. It was pretty close.
Then a bunch of screwing around. Hey That's My Fish is a game that exists. For some reason, whenever I made a move, someone made sounds like I was making a power play and someone would counter me for no reason, so I lost horribly. Falling is probably one of James Ernest's worst games, I said it, it's just so dramatically unfocused, at least with Fightball I know what I'm supposed to be doing. Here it's just madness. I haven't played "We Didn't Playtest This at All" in a long time (it's still just chilling in my car), but it sure is a fine game when you don't want to do anything else. Plus it's over in like two minutes, can't complain about it too much.
And The Resistance, which these guys like a lot. A few games of it, I don't remember a lot of the details, it was pretty late.
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