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Gamer's Corner => General Discussion => Topic started by: Colin-ICE on February 04, 2014, 01:09:28 PM
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Right, rather than buying rubbish that neither of us will ever want, my girlfriend and I have decided this year that for Valentine's day each of us will buy a 2 player game (or game that can be played with 2 players) and spend the day playing and deciding whose game was best.
I am looking for suggestions. Something in a board/card game with a fantasy theme possibly funny, definitely entertaining.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Small World
Citadels
Pandemic
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Beer Money
Order of the stick adventure - http://www.ookoodook.com/store/OOTSAdvGameDeluxe.shtml (http://www.ookoodook.com/store/OOTSAdvGameDeluxe.shtml)
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Have to second Small World - one of my favorites and quick to learn with a funny, lite fantasy theme.
Lords of Waterdeep - Based on DnD + Forgotten Realms IP but is basically a strategy game with a nice, euro-rules wrap
Sentinels of Multiverse - co-op superheroes card game
Zombicide - 'nother co-op, especially great if you like painting minis
Kingsburg has a medieval flavor and really unique mechanic - when you play 2 player you basically have a "ghost player" act as a third
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If you mean 2 player board game meaning any that can be played on a table, try this.
Beer Pong
My wife and I did it once. Of course she ended up being better at it than I and I got smashed.
rmfr
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If you mean 2 player board game meaning any that can be played on a table, try this.
Beer Pong
My wife and I did it once. Of course she ended up being better at it than I and I got smashed.
rmfr
For the fantasy twist play it with mead or spiced wine...
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Advanced Squad Leader or Star Fleet Battles! ;) But seriously, if you like collaborative board games...
Defenders of the Realm played with 2 characters each:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65532/defenders-of-the-realm (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65532/defenders-of-the-realm)
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The Iliad: The siege of Troy.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Iliad-the-Siege-of-Troy-boardgame-1978-punched-good-shape-/181315353402?pt=Games_US&hash=item2a373cbb3a
I owned this as a teen. We played it a lot.
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I assume you have played Settlers of Catan? An old classic. I was also on their website and they had some interesting stuff (at least to me) that you might be interested in.
DC Comics Deck Building game was fun and can be played with 2 players. Legendary is also fun and IMHO a bit better than the DC Comics game.
Also have you played Ascension? The also have an iOS version that is great and a lot cheaper than buying all of the cards.
Munchkin, is a comedic card game that is fun for 2 or a group.
I will try and think of some more that we play.
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Personally I like Carcassonne more than Catan.
It's a great game, but I don't think Munchkin is fun with two people. I works with three, but my group of friends won't play it unless we have 4-5 people on-hand.
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I do not remember the name but maybe someone can help me out with it from my description, "The card game revolves around killing 10 monsters (I think) but you all act together in killing them. But you get points for killing the creature, ie people did damage before me but I kill it then I get the victory points. The cards are for damage and for screwing over your "friends" and preventing them from killing the creature before you do. It is a fairly fun game with up to 5 (I think) and kids around 10 pick it up easily and play with the adults."
MDC
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That sounds a lot like Munchkin.
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Personally I like Carcassonne more than Catan.
It's a great game, but I don't think Munchkin is fun with two people. I works with three, but my group of friends won't play it unless we have 4-5 people on-hand.
Carcassone Hunters & Gatherers is a neat variant. Forbidden Island and the new Forbidden Desert (both Pandemic-lite) work well with two.
We're looking for some good co-op rules to play 2nd Edition Descent as a duo.
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Cory Magel,
Yes it does sound like Munchkin but it is not, I will check when (if) we have a game tomorrow night. The if is do to snow here in the Portland area.
MDC
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Last night we finally got a chance to get together and I saw a couple of games I was thinking of, Cutthroat and Marvel Universe vs Sentenal's. Cutthroat is very simple to play and has some strategy and the Marvel card game is fun for a small or large group.
MDC
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In the end I decided to go for Sentinels of the Multiverse.
I shall post a full report and my thoughts on the game as soon as I get a chance.
Thanks for all your suggestions folks.
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Yes, please keep the suggestions coming! The wife and I are also looking for some good games.
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Yes Sentanals is a favorate of ours also.
MDC
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Ok, here is my review of sentinels of the mutliverse. Let me preface it by saying that I had no prior knowledge of it and very little knowledge of card/board/tabletop games beyond my (apparently very small) sphere of experience.
Sentinels of the multiverse is a card game for... well, amazon says 2-5 (the game says nothing) but I think, with the set I bought you could go as far as 11 players if you were so inclined. I bought (what is apparently) the enhanced edition and the first thing that struck me was the size of it. I thought I had purchased a small game about the size of a deck of cards, but it isn't. It comes in (and here I sound a bit weird) a beautiful (but noticeably big) box. At first inspection the game seemed unfathomable, my particular brand of skim reading/ignoring the rules and hastily unpacking everything in the box did not stand me in good stead, but eventually I got there.
Now onto the game: Without giving too much away, the game is that you (and the other players) pick a hero each to play and a villain to fight and an environment to battle in. You follow a sequence of plays, using various types of cards to combat your foe and deal with the unpredictable things that they and the environment throw at you. The heroes fight as a team and ultimately they win or lose together.
The cards themselves are very cool. They look great and the fact they come with dividers so that you can keep each hero, villain and environment separate is a great addition. The set I bought comes with 10 heroes, 4 villains and 4 environments which allows each game to be as different to the last as you want. You can also buy add ons which I'm lead to believe introduce new characters, environments and in some cases rules. The gameplay is a little tricky to pick up if you're a novice like me. The rule book isn't much help at answering a lot of questions and there are (in my opinion) some glaring omissions. As there was no mention of reintroducing the discard pile back into play once you had used them all, my girlfriend and I played a long game to the conclusion that neither we heroes nor the villain had anything that could do any harm to anyone else anymore and so we all went home for a tea and scones.
That one fault aside the game is great. My girlfriend and I haven't yet got the hang of working together properly, instead just inflicting whatever damage we can on the villain and his cronies, but it doesn't detract from the fun. Each hero and villain has their own abilities and strengths which means that if you chose poorly, it is an awful lot harder to win, which for me makes it all the more fun.
So to sum up, I really like this game. It is fiddly and long winded in places and confusing in others but it is definitely not boring. It is action packed and genuinely had me on the edge of my seat at points when the wrong card from the villain could make or break the whole game. I recommend it and I will no doubt be buying some ad ons very soon.
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my girlfriend and I played a long game to the conclusion that neither we heroes nor the villain had anything that could do any harm to anyone else anymore and so we all went home for a tea and scones.
I think I would read that comic. ;)
Also, it sounds fun, thanks for the review. May have to look into it myself.
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The add-ons do have additional environments and heroes to play and should fit into the same box as you have bought. We have played with 9 people before and it is still a lot of fun.
We also had some problems with the rules (which I forgot about) and used the website for answers, which as you found out can be very frustrating when it is an essential rule that you are missing or confused on.
To spice things up now with larger groups we have randomized it all so you pick randomly which hero, villain and environment you play it.
MDC
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Glad you enjoyed Sentinels - I'll often play it during a work lunchbreak with colleagues - its casual and usually quick to play if everyone is up on the rules.
I like that it has really great replay value - you can run against easy or hard villains, some characters work really well together and others don't, and number of players can alter the strategy somewhat (playing with over 5 seems to skews the balance, but you could easily play 2 games of 4 each with the initial set of cards) Being coop its great for couples.
There is the occasionally card rule conflicts that is difficult to grep but beyond that really a quality card game.
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Sentinels has a lot of expansions, but I got to try Vengeance this week and it was fairly cool - definitely well thought additions to the heroes and villains, and a new play mode where you battle a super villian team (there is essentially 1 villian for each player). Much fun, probably my favorite expansion in case you are interested
The team just wrapped up a kickstarter for a strategy board game version as well (the figures look especially nice).
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Not to resurrect an old thread or anything, but I just received Sentinels myself (after putting it on my wish list due to this thread). Had friends over for the New Year and got to play it. We had one player who had played before, and we played two games with five players each time (with some players switching out between games). Second game, one new player said "let's go against the toughest villain" so we fought Citizen Dawn, on Mars (which turns out to be pretty brutal itself). There is a point where she becomes invulnerable until she has enough of her minions to rejoin the fight. We suffered through letting her build up her force while we did just enough damage to nearly finish off the minions, and just before that happened fire broke out doing just enough damage to kill them all... by the time we had let her build up her force long enough the second time we were sure we were done for. Lots of shifting odds back and forth and surprises. But eventually we pulled it out. Great game, highly recommended.