Old fashioned gaming

[RowdyRodimus]

I hate to admit it, but I'm getting kind of bored with video games. Not bored enough to stop collecting and playing them, but they just aren't giving me that thrill they used to.

I don't know, maybe it's all the cookie cutter titles that are being released now. The only newer games I've been playing are Legends of WrestleMania and Raiden Fighters Aces, other than those two 360 games I've been playing some of the 16-bit games I never got the chance to play before like Act Raiser and The Ooze.

What I've really been playing a lot (and the real meaning of the title) are board games. It's been more fun pulling out Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Heroscape or Axis and Allies than firing up the latest FPS or GTA clone. I've been looking into a lot of the European Board Games (you guys are genius when it comes to those) and have my eye on The Arkham Horror and some other games of that kind.

So what board games do you suggest? By board games I mean pretty much any game that is not a video game , so dice and card games are fine. Also, if it matters I prefer games that have strategy involved more than luck.

[Ghaleon]

I have never had as much fun with anything you could remotely classify as a board game as I did playing Dungeons & Dragons (2nd ed) with a group of friends. Don't know if that's an option for you, but if so, don't rule it out until you've played with a really good DM.[/nerdiness]

[RowdyRodimus]

I haven't played it in years. All the guys and girls (hells yeah!) I used to play it with are long gone (either moved or dead).

BTW, where is Ardmore?

[gamevet]

Axis and Allies is a tough game to learn, but the gameplay experience is worth the learning curve. It's like Risk on steroids and it takes about 4 hours to play.

http://www.boardgamecentral.com/games/axisallies.html

It is the spring of 1942. The world is at war. Five world powers are struggling for supremacy. You and your opponents control the military and economic destiny of one or more of these countries.... In this game, you'll discover that cooperation and negotiation are just as important as tactical maneuvering." So begins the 32-page instruction manual for Axis & Allies. To win this complex strategy game, you must learn to be a master economist and a brilliant military strategist and tactician. The game board is a map of the world divided into the spheres of influence that existed at the height of World War II. Both the Axis and Allied powers are allotted combat forces and income, measured in Industrial Production Certificates (IPCs). You must manage your nation's economy and lead its military forces--air, land, and sea--into well-chosen battles. The intricacies of the game are carefully spelled out, as are the criteria each side must meet to become the victors. Contents include 299 detailed combat force playing pieces, IPCs, dice, markers and chips to chart each country's progress, and everything you need to change the course of history in under a day. For two to five players.

Axis and Allied variations focus in more detail on specific war theatres or specific battles. This is one of the best available strategy games.

*Edit* I should have noticed that you have played this game. It's a great game!

Might I suggest 2 excellent videogame board games instead.

Culcept Saga (360) is the follow-up to the outstanding game Culdcept on the Dreamcast and PS2.



M.U.L.E is an great multiplayer game that was released on the C-64 and NES. The C-64 version is the better game though.

[Ghaleon]

I haven't played it in years. All the guys and girls (hells yeah!) I used to play it with are long gone (either moved or dead).

BTW, where is Ardmore?

You played with girls? Lucky bastard. Though the guys I played with were far cooler than...well, me, and I never took any of them for the D&D type prior to playing with them.

Ardmore is on I35, 30 miles North of Texas, just the other side of BFE.

[RowdyRodimus]

Axis and Allies is a tough game to learn, but the gameplay experience is worth the learning curve. It's like Risk on steroids and it takes about 4 hours to play.

http://www.boardgamecentral.com/games/axisallies.html

So, do you use house rules in it? We always do if we have a group playing. Ours is this, you can make secret deals with anyone. So let's say you have two people playing per country or sect, it would be like President/Vice President, right?

Ok, so let's say the VP of America decides to team up with Germany, now you have to stop them also while depleteing your forces that they controlled. So now you have to try to team up with say, Japan who is plotting against Germany.

But then you can turn on them at any time.

It just makes it last longer and keeps everyone one their toes. LOL

[RowdyRodimus]

You played with girls? Lucky bastard. Though the guys I played with were far cooler than...well, me, and I never took any of them for the D&D type prior to playing with them.

Ardmore is on I35, 30 miles North of Texas, just the other side of BFE.

Ahh, just wondering. I live right on the Arkansas/Oklahoma border. I mean right on it. Our land is the dividing line between Ft. Smith and Arkohma.

[Nunzio]

Board games are always much more fun when you are intoxicated. BTW, Elephun is scary as hell if you're messed up.

Otherwise a good game of Scrabble can always be a challenge for the mind. You can join a Scrabble league and play some really weird people. Not only old people play Scrabble! Even worse you can play for cash. $1 per point. Screw up the endgame you could easily lose $40 in a tight game.

And of course there is Risk.

[Ghaleon]

Board games are always much more fun when you are intoxicated. BTW, Elephun is scary as hell if you're messed up.

I have asked the oracle, "What is Elephun?", and received this in answer (NSFW). I assume you speak of something altogether different?

[gamevet]

So, do you use house rules in it? We always do if we have a group playing. Ours is this, you can make secret deals with anyone. So let's say you have two people playing per country or sect, it would be like President/Vice President, right?

Ok, so let's say the VP of America decides to team up with Germany, now you have to stop them also while depleteing your forces that they controlled. So now you have to try to team up with say, Japan who is plotting against Germany.

But then you can turn on them at any time.

It just makes it last longer and keeps everyone one their toes. LOL

It's been over 10 years since I've played the game, but we usually played with 3 or 4 players. It was pretty much every man for himself, but there were times when a couple of guys would team up on the guy with the bigger portion of resources.

[17daysolderthannes]

Mouse Trap, just look how much fun this kid is having:

[Mr Smith]

Axis and Allies is a tough game to learn, but the gameplay experience is worth the learning curve. It's like Risk on steroids and it takes about 4 hours to play.

If your games of risk take under 4 hours then you are playing it wrong!

[johnnyb]

My favourite board game of all time is Hero Quest, I love that game!
And I think I might have to go and find it again to buy!

[stalepie]

I used to love Stratego.

Do you like chess?

[johnnyb]

I have an awesome Egyptian chess set made out of solid pewter with gold plating, cost just over $1000 3 years ago.