Since I'm on a game roll, I'll post about the two new games we broke open in the last 24 hours. One in the last 24 seconds so my brain is still foggy from all the thinking.
Eldritch Horror
I've posted numerous times about my ultimate favourite game of all time: Arkham Horror. Eldritch Horror is Arkham's little brother. All of the same themes but downsized, both in size of the board, number of pieces, and layers of plot. So while it is a little like Arkham dumbed down, it's also a nice 2 hour game and didn't leave my head feeling like it was going to die. I didn't invest myself so much in this one, as normally I become crazy involved with my character and saving the world, but the urgency just wasn't as intense. Still like the game and will definitely be pulling it out more often for my Arkham fix when I really don't want to be playing until 2 in the morning.
I've posted numerous times about my ultimate favourite game of all time: Arkham Horror. Eldritch Horror is Arkham's little brother. All of the same themes but downsized, both in size of the board, number of pieces, and layers of plot. So while it is a little like Arkham dumbed down, it's also a nice 2 hour game and didn't leave my head feeling like it was going to die. I didn't invest myself so much in this one, as normally I become crazy involved with my character and saving the world, but the urgency just wasn't as intense. Still like the game and will definitely be pulling it out more often for my Arkham fix when I really don't want to be playing until 2 in the morning.
Age of Conan - 1st run through
Hubby bought this one a while ago and we just haven't gotten around to playing it. So tonight was the night. We had both tried sitting through the unofficial online tutorial that's posted on youtube, but it was long and boring and explained in the exact way that I HATE having games explained to me... I'm a picky girl...
So we basically spent the first 2 hours of play looking like this...
So we basically spent the first 2 hours of play looking like this...
Lots of Rulebook reading, trying to follow each step at a time. And of course, me being me, "But what's my motivation for doing this? Why do I want to win this bid?" I am not a fun person to learn new games with. But after about 4 hours, halfway through the 2nd stage of the game, we started to really figure things out.
After just one play, I'm not even going to pretend that I'm ready to start explaining this game. Not a favourite of mine, but Matt's really into it, but I wouldn't be against playing it again. With a little more confidence in our game play, it would be a pretty fun night with the right kind of people. A successful game night is all about pairing the right game with the right group.
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