Gaming Thread

I'm actually not big into gaming. This thread is just an excuse to mention that I bought a copy of Munchkin Fu recently.It's like Munchkin. But with NINJA!Anyone here into gaming, who can reccomend some games? I actually prefer card games like Steve Jackson games or Magic, but anything fun is welcome.

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"Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine, it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read, 'To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.' The page has been universally condemned by church leaders."
-Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

Best game I have played in a long time is Zelda: The WindwakerThis has to be the most incredible gaming experience anyone could ever ask for, everything I have tried since pales in comparison. this is the pinical, the bar, nothing better has ever been made.Try it, buy it, live it, love it.

Really? I didn't like it. My roommate has a copy, and I started a game, and kind of put up with it waiting to get to the cool stuff until I got to that scene where you have to jump on flowers to the top of the tree to get a leaf.No, honest.Anyway, that scene pissed me off so much I just stopped playing.Ocarina of Time, however... there's a freakin' Zelda game.

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"Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine, it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read, 'To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.' The page has been universally condemned by church leaders."
-Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

Have you played BRAWL? It's a Steve Jackson game, I think, used to be put out by Cheapass games... it's a real-time fighting card game. It's tricky to get the hang of, and you have you buy these 3-4 dollar decks, but there's not much like it that I've seen. It's hella cool, great art by Phil Foglio and others, and perfect for little pick-up games. (I pondered trying to use it as a base for a LARP but never did it..)I love the Munchkin games, though. I've only played the dungeon versions, tho. Other than that I'm all up into City of Heroes, the comic book hero MMORPG. It's awesome, especially if one finds the "regular" MMO's somewhat intimidating, as I do.

I haven't... the only SJ Games I've played are the Munchkins (Space Munchkin being my favorite), Chez Geek, and Illuminati. I'll check out Brawl, though. The only other fighting-based card game I've played is the Dragonball Z CCG, and that sucked ass, so it'd be cool to see a well-done one.

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"Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine, it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read, 'To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.' The page has been universally condemned by church leaders."
-Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

If you like shuffling huge stacks of cards mix up Munchkin, Unnatural Axe, Clerical Errors, Star Munchkin. Clown Wars and Munchkin Fu with the Munchkin Blender cards and rulesIlluminati is THE classic SJG game, of course, and if you haven't played that get it immediately. The Crime Lords game is an OK variant but not so funny.The new Cthulhu 500 race game from Atlas sounds suitably silly but I haven't seen any reviews yet.On the light-but-silly side Nuclear War is fun, and though it's another one where the jokes are more fun than the actual play the game-formerly-kown-as "Before I kill You, Mr Bond" from Cheapass might be up your street.For more serious games I suggest Carcassonne, Bohnanza and Settlers of Catan on the lighter side. Slightly heavier - but still not too complicates (but it helps to be taught by people who know the rules) - is Puerto Rico.

Oh God... my roommate's buying Blender... (he has Munchkin, Unnatural Axe, Clerical Errors, Star Munchkin, and Clown Wars...) it's going to be unreal.They're also putting out a fourth game. Munchkin Bites. I've heard it's a Dork Tower version of Munchkin, but that might not be true. Never heard of Cheapass. Anyone got a website on them? Hm... my roommate has Settelers of Catan, but I haven't gotten around to playing it. Haven't had enough people in the room who are in the mood for a board game to do so.

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"Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine, it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read, 'To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.' The page has been universally condemned by church leaders."
-Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

I think you can buy BRAWL decks online; I bought mine from the Cheapass games website, but that was 5 years ago. It might be that the decks I know are out of print, or maybe the whole game is, I dunno.I knew a dude who had a few Shadowfist cards, which was a Hong-Kong-action movie-inspired card game. Also, he was big into Legend of the Five Rings, so if you're looking for a new CCG now that they've turned Magic into Pokemon (omg the new look is teh gay!), that might be a good buy.Of course, it means buying another hundreds of dollars worth of cards... ;P I stopped playing Magic, or rather, I've stopped buying cards. I put together a deck the other night which I sort of think of as my "greatest hits"; not really a winning deck but certainly one that includes all my favorite ass-whupping plays (Bribery, Terminate, Balshan Collaborator, Animate Dead, etc.), so it should be a good time, even to lose.

Oh yeah, Magic's been utterly castrated, no two ways about it. I started playing around Legends, and back then the game was like cardboard heroin. Seriously, I had to kick it because I didn't have the money to keep playing.This new stuff they're putting out, though... not only is it no fun, it freakin' looks ridiculous.My best deck... my blue-white-green DON'T EVEN BOTHER PUTTING OUT A CARD BECAUSE I'LL TAKE IT FROM YOU deck.Ah... Rubinia Soulsinger. Such a fun card.

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"Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine, it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read, 'To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.' The page has been universally condemned by church leaders."
-Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

Boggle!(Sorry, not "Boggle" the game, but boggle the action, as in, I've just been mind-boggled by the fact that you've never heard of Cheapass Games.) Greater Than Games | Publisher of highly replay-able tabletop games (My bad, BRAWL isn't Steve Jackson, it's by James Ernest.)The basic idea is, all games have the same basic components - some counters, markers, or pawns, some fake money, some dice - so fuck selling them to you over and over again; Cheapass just sells you the rules and a fold-out paper "board" and you supply the rest of the shit from the piles and piles of it us gamers seem to accrue anyway. (Of course, they'll sell you dice and shit if you want, too.)If you know a good gamer store - the kind where the clerk paints Warhammer minis on the side, and where they run Dungeons and Dragons in the basement - they'll probably be carrying Cheapass games. They're the cheap-ass-lookin' games in the white folders.Oh, I forgot about "Diceland." It's like a minis game like Warhammer, only the minis are octahedron-shaped paper dice that you cast onto the battlefield. Looks like fun (I had a few but never found anyone to play with) if you like folding paper dice.

Ok, well, now that I was poking around the website, it turns out that you can't get the 6 original decks; they're out of print. (eBay, maybe?)You can get the first and second expansions, though - Club Foglio (featuring the art of notable comic book/Magic artist Phil Foglio) and Catfight (which I never played.) Each expansion added some new rules, but they're all compatible and I never found that the CF decks overpowered the original decks when I played.Also they have Fightball, which seems to be the same kind of idea of a real-time card game.

I was actually heavily into magic.
But I was only interested in playing type one.
I don't have the money for power nine, and maybe it's better I stopped.

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peace

Damn gaming motif, throwing everything off...Thanks for the website heads up... I'll have to go through it when I've got some non-work time.Oh, and I forgot to mention one of the greatest card games of all time... Lunch Money. I think it's Atlas Games?

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"Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine, it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read, 'To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.' The page has been universally condemned by church leaders."
-Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

Did you guys ever heard of an obscure little format called... what was it.. Type B or something? The idea seemed to be to combine Type 1 with a really restricted card list so that casual players could compete without having to either buy new cards every expansion or having to fork over 100 bucks on eBay for a Black Lotus, etc.Sounded like a fun time, but I never played it - didn't really have to; we didn't have a lot of powerplayers among my game group at college.

Uch, I dunno. This was the type of crap that made me lose interest.

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"Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine, it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read, 'To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.' The page has been universally condemned by church leaders."
-Rob Grant and Doug Naylor