I am not big into boardgaming… but all of my friends are super into it. It makes playing against them much less fun for me. Guys who play dozens or hundreds of games a year begin to recognize the different “engines” that boardgames run on… so they dont have to wrap their mind around the mechanics, just have to adapt to the scoring mechanism. I have to do both, and am at a disadvantage… so I tend to look at more co-op style games… but those arent to everyones liking.
BUT… This past week (actually the past two weeks) me and a couple of friends played quite a bit of The Crew. Since my oldest friends and I grew up playing Spades and Hearts, the concept of The Crew really clicked with us, and we have enjoyed it quite a bit. It is a fun game, that feels rewarding when youe play meshes, and you eke out a victory from what was looking like a loss… And it also makes you feel like an asshole for miscounting or missing something in a hand, and throwing the wrong card at the wrong time. I think we played very well up unitl the 29th or 30th hand, where we got a mission that was by far the most difficult. I think in all of the prior missions, we may have had to replay two of them, and only once… This mission (no player could win two more hands than any other player) was nearly a showstopper. I think we had to play it 9 times to get by it.
But since I finally played a game in the past week, I was happy to be able to post it in one of the weekly threads! lol
I am not big into boardgaming… but all of my friends are super into it. It makes playing against them much less fun for me. Guys who play dozens or hundreds of games a year begin to recognize the different “engines” that boardgames run on… so they dont have to wrap their mind around the mechanics, just have to adapt to the scoring mechanism. I have to do both, and am at a disadvantage… so I tend to look at more co-op style games… but those arent to everyones liking.
BUT… This past week (actually the past two weeks) me and a couple of friends played quite a bit of The Crew. Since my oldest friends and I grew up playing Spades and Hearts, the concept of The Crew really clicked with us, and we have enjoyed it quite a bit. It is a fun game, that feels rewarding when youe play meshes, and you eke out a victory from what was looking like a loss… And it also makes you feel like an asshole for miscounting or missing something in a hand, and throwing the wrong card at the wrong time. I think we played very well up unitl the 29th or 30th hand, where we got a mission that was by far the most difficult. I think in all of the prior missions, we may have had to replay two of them, and only once… This mission (no player could win two more hands than any other player) was nearly a showstopper. I think we had to play it 9 times to get by it.
But since I finally played a game in the past week, I was happy to be able to post it in one of the weekly threads! lol