Weekend roundup

Weekend just gone was a good one, I finished editing my Shinobi III Return of the Ninja Master 'run through' series which will be uploaded on Youtube in a 5 part series over the coming weeks.

I did another run through playing Killing Floor, which I haven't picked up in ages and had a blast doing so. I have footage of the event edited up and nearly ready for upload by mid week. There are some tidy plays in the vid that's for sure.

I didn't purchase any games this weekend, my latest purchases from last week were Dragon Age Ultimate Edition (PC) and a spare deck slot in Magic 2014(PC). Dragon Age had 75% off or something ridiculous like that, so I'll be offloading my Xbox360 version, anyone interested, let me know.

Which brings me toooooooo

That I may do up a list of games and what not that I'll be selling soon, PS3, Xbox360, boardgames etc. But will have to decide whether I'll list on ebay or do a private listing.

Will keep you posted!
Thanks for reading!

Ausmetal.

Weekend Roundup - Board gaming + Eldritch Horror

Hello everyone,

I have been a bit quiet as of late, currently studying for two IT certifications CCNA and CompTIA A+.  Just to update my skills and getting into a bit of Cisco switches and routers, a nice thing to add to the resume'. I also run a sandblasting business and the past 2 weeks I've been busy working that also.  In the future I hope to a get a full game of Eldritch Horror (boardgame) in with my gaming group, the last game ended up being abandoned due it running into the 3 hour mark as we ran into a nasty in game surprise that resulted in our party having to complete an objective all over again.  Eldritch Horror is a very brutal game however not as complex as Arkham Horror but still a good bloody time nonetheless.

Will ruin your life and your friends... should you convince them to play it.

The past weekend I had an epic game of Munchkin Deluxe with just the standard cards, my gaming group was not convinced that it would be as good as I claimed it to be... how wrong they were!.  The rule-book not being written in the most logical way, we managed to figure most of it out and had a blast.  I finished dead last (level 3 max!) every time but that was due to me being the arsehole messing with everybody who was fighting a monster, needless to say my pursuits of misery ended up being sewn only for me to reap later on.

A damn good time, especially if you like to step on peoples necks for treasure.

We also managed to squeeze in Ticket To Ride & Dixit.  Ticket To Ride, if you do not own this, do not hesitate to purchase it as even your significant non gamer other will play this along with the whole family; money well spent.  Dixit is in the same category too, interesting game of using beautiful abstract illustrations and your mind to interpret them amongst your friends.  I won't reinvent the wheel so here is the description taken from Board Game Geek.

Rarely a game surprises me, this one did immensely!

"One player is the storyteller for the turn and looks at the images on the 6 cards in her hand. From one of these, she makes up a sentence and says it out loud (without showing the card to the other players).

Each other player selects the card in their hands which best matches the sentence and gives the selected card to the storyteller, without showing it to the others.

The storyteller shuffles her card with all the received cards. All pictures are shown face up and every player has to bet upon which picture was the storyteller's.

If nobody or everybody finds the correct card, the storyteller scores 0, and each of the other players scores 2. Otherwise the storyteller and whoever found the correct answer score 3. Players score 1 point for every vote for their own card.

The game ends when the deck is empty or if a player scores 30 points. In either case, the player with the most points wins the game.

The base game and all expansions have 84 cards each."

Thats enough from me, have a good one all!

Love Letter - Board Game Review

A Board Game Review

Love Letter by Alderac Entertainment Group

Players - 2 to 4 (best with 3 and 4 players)
Playtime - 20 to 30 minutes
Type - Deduction

This is literally the game.
(not pictured. The cool velvet Love Letter game bag)

An extremely portable game powered by 16 cards, yes, 16 cards are what's in this game along with 13 wooden cubes for counters, rule book and reference cards.  The idea of the game is that you are candidate to sweep the princess off of her feet via a letter, a love letter if you will.  To do this you will pass your letter onto the people around her so that they will pass it onto the princess.  You are not the only one so you must strategize and deduce your way on getting your letter to her first.

It's a simple game of 'Pickup one card and play one card' so you will always have a card in your hand.  When you play a card you will follow the rules assigned to that card, for instance if you played a Priest that will enable you to look at one players hand.  However, this can also happen to you and ruin any strategy you may have had.  Once the draw pile has dwindled down to nothing, players will reveal the card in there hand, the player with the highest ranked card wins as this particular person was closest to the princess.  In case of a tie, players discarded cards are counted up and the highest value wins the round.

A very simple game that really shines when 4 players are vying for the princesses heart and that will stop at nothing to get their letter to her. It is a good, solid, filler game that would appeal to most (the theme may put some people off) and could possibly be the gateway game to get your girlfriend into board gaming (fingers crossed hey?)  But I found it really enjoyable due to it's quick play, portability and how fast the rules can be picked up by gamers and non board gamers alike.

I picked up my copy at the The Wicked Goblin for a sum of $16.00

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