I used to be one of the best teabaggers in all of Halo. Always a positive K/D ratio. Now my gaming is more chill, single-player, and usually free stuff like Assassin’s Creed. That, or my game time is spent playing games like Minecraft, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, and Roblox with my kid. Console gamer for life. Xbox gold expires next month and for the first time, I’m sorta meh about it.
@Targaryen
I love board games but rarely have enough people around to actually play one. We usually end up playing Star Trek Catan or the Labyrinth board game by Riverhorse.
@Targaryen we have a very active board game group. We generally play three to four times a week. Probably the most popular games in our group right now are Lords of Waterdeep, Terraforming Mars, Concordia and Great Western Trail. Other games that see a lot of play include Takenoko, Istanbul, Iron Dragon, Potion Explosion, Scoville, Pandemic, Tokaido, Lanterns, Fluxx, Five Tribes, Ticket to Ride, Azul and Power Grid. I recently picked up Kana Gawa and The Bermuda Crisis which are seeing a lot of play. My game collection is around 200 contemporary games and about 50 older games, the older ones are mostly Avalon Hill. Come play with us!
@Targaryen Love card and board games, don’t get to play them nearly enough. Some favorites are Ticket to Ride Europe, Scotland Yard, Origin of Expressions, Wits & Wagers, Probe, Rummikub, Family Business, and Krazy Bee.
@Targaryen Nope, about 600 miles west of there. We tend to avoid direct conflict games like Risk. Too many alpha personalities in the group (myself included).
@Targaryen I get to board game at lunch during the week a few times…depending on schedules…theres a guy I work with who keeps a bunch and brings in the new kickstarter ones occasionally too…which is great because since having a tot I dont have my saturdays free to play board games anymore
@amehzinggrace@Targaryen
That sounds like a friend/ex-coworker of mine. He has a ton of games and his new place of employment plays them at lunch pretty regularly.
@Targaryen@stardate820926 apparently the coworker w/ the many games was indoctrinated by another coworker who no longer plays…glad it was kept up though…anyone get to madness on saturdays?
@amehzinggrace@stardate820926@Targaryen I used to go to Madness a ton when it was a little hole in the wall shop. I still go every chance I get, because they have Pathfinder/Starfinder Society games often.
@Targaryen I LOVE BOARD GAMES!!! seriously! One of my favorite pastimes I also play video games. Does that make me a double nerd? Or double dork? Or just lame… ?
Sometimes I wear mirrored sunglasses and play a game where I stare at people as we pass each other on the sidewalk to see if they look at me. 10pts if they smile. Sometimes I don’t smile back and I’m not sure why… I’m still figuring out the rules.
@medz I like to smile & speak to random elderly people at Walmart in such a manner as to make them smile and wonder if they are supposed to know me. Lol, I like to think it makes them feel like somebody remembered them and was glad about it. Of course, it could just make them wonder if their memory is going…
@OnionSoup Yes, waving at random cars I meet is also a fun game. I smirk thinking I just confused someone, brought someone joy, or just started an argument between a couple. “Do you know that guy?” “No, honey. I swear!”
Also fun when passengers are in the car. “Everyone wave on the count of 3!”
@medz Reminds me of a story. In my Psychology class my teacher was hands on with the learning. One of our tasks was walk around a public place with a smiley face pink that said “I love me” while just casually smiling. The point was to watch people’s reactions. Most would scoff or eyeroll, some would be almost threatened, a very few would smile back. It was an interesting experiment.
@Supportathan I take it you mean RPG? Our roleplay group has played every Sunday (excepting the rare skip) since 1982. We started out with Traveller but quickly switched to Hero System (Champions). We’ve played pretty much every genre you can think of (epic fantasy, historic fantasy, horror, sci fi, alien invasion, space cowboys, historic western, historic Chinese, spy, heist, time tangle, rennaissance, steampunk, post holocaust, zombie apocalypse, vampire, werewolf and superhero) using Hero System as our foundation. We’ve tried a few other role playing systems but none of them suit us so well.
@moondrake@Targaryen I started out in D&D 3.5. Played and playtested my way through 4 and 5, but I’m not a huge fan of them. I’m currently enjoying Paizo’s Starfinder after having played Pathfinder since it came out. I’ve also dabbled in Scion, BESM, Dragon Age, and some Star Wars games.
@Supportathan@Targaryen Tried them. Way insufficient for our play. We aren’t interested in any rules set that puts boundaries on imagination. That’s why we use Hero. If you can dream it, you can be it.
@Supportathan@Targaryen We have game balance boundaries as far as power levels, but the way the characters are realized is fully flexible within the system. Although I live in a big city, the gaming community is quite small. There are a handful of isolated role playing groups, most of them playing D&D. We recently had a local board gaming convention and everyone was surprised when something like a hundred people showed up.
I guess I should mention the “her” I refer to is my wife. Years ago, we were having dinner with friends and while someone else was talking, I subconsciously looped a lock (or tress) of her hair around my finger and brought it to my nose. The conversation abruptly stopped and I realized I had been caught.
board games: Battleship, Mousetrap, Risk, Stratego, Clue, Ticket to Ride, Age of Steam, Empire Builder
retro video: Combat, Asteroids, Breakout
Nintendo GameBoy/DS: The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Riveria, Final Fantasy I-IV (?; I lost track), Master of the Monster Lair, Dark Spire, From the Abyss
video games: Railroad Tycoon, Baldur’s Gate, Bard’s Tale, Summoner, Shadowbane, Northland, Mount & Blade, King’s Bounty, Drakensang, Prince of Persia, Morrowind.
This doesn’t count the 62 (!) games in my GoG account.
other types: Ace of Aces, Dungeons & Dragons (2nd ed), Bohnanza, Connect 4, Blokes, Dragon Age: Origins (console)
Lots of PC gaming, including Rimworld, Civ V, Don’t Starve, LFD2, and plenty more. Including a recent re-playthrough of the Mass Effect series. Ah, Garrus… Oo, plus some VR gaming on a Vive!
I have a group of friends I try to rope into board games when I can, though we don’t play as much as I want. Sentinels of the Multiverse is the one we usually agree on. I love Galaxy Trucker. And I damn near broke the group trying to get them to play Dead of Winter.
Ok, I’ve honestly never played a tabletop RPG…but…I have made character sheets for several editions of D&D, and CoC. I would really love to find a Call of Cthulhu group, but, you know, that would mean actually taking to new people.
I also play a horrible game of cribbage, but it’s so much fun!
Oh, plus, I’m currently trying to write a murder-mystery game for a fundraising project! If anyone has ever run or played a good one, lets talk!
@QuietDelusions I love Sentinels of the Multiverse. If you don’t already listen to it, I highly recommend listening to The Letters Page, where the creators of the game talk about the lore behind it.
@QuietDelusions Are you working on a live action game or a sit down type? How “game” are your players? Are they going to enjoy role-playing and problem solving or do you need to keep it simple and mundane?
@moondrake It’ll be one of those live-action ones; the group I’m going it for has regular bi-monthly parties. Suddenly, oh no, someone at the party died, and we need to figure out who-dun-it! I’m hoping to keep it on the simple/campy side, as it’s a very diverse group of people. My next step is to pick up a few cheap games from Amazon to see how the mechanics work.
Lately mostly on Steam. I used to play Simutronics online MMORPGs (Gemstone 2, then Dragonrealms) but its just too large of a time commitment any more.
On Steam I’m puttering around in Civ V, World of Tanks Blitz, Overload, Battletech, and finding out how bad I am at flying and 3D space combat in Everspace (I kickstarted the last 3). Mostly Minecraft (local) and Robocraft (Steam) for quiet evenings.
I want to try “They are billions” (zombies) and Raft (minecraft like survival on the ocean) but they’re not available on non-mediocre platforms.
I’ve been trying to get my wife back into board and card games for months but she’s hooked on her online books and reading, so Exploding Kittens just sits on the shelf…
@duodec Aw, I’m with you about those poor neglected Exploding Kittens! I brought my copy home for Christmas, thinking it would be a good family game. My mother declined, siting that it looked “too hard”.
I play Plants vs. Zombies 2 daily. I love Mega Man so I am revisiting the Mega Man X series with the collection that came out for PS4. I’m also a fan of music games like Guitar Hero and RockBand. At heart, I’m down for Nintendo games anyday.
@mfladd Are you referring to “Battlez”? Then yes. Right now I have 302,000 coins and 65 gems. Remember I’m talking about the mobile game, not “Garden Warfare” which I have not played. Yet.
Because there are not other people, it is mainly videogames. Usually a Minecraftish game + a podcast, or VR if I can make the effort. Been trying to get into Pillars of Eternity lately, even though it contains my one true nemesis – dialog trees!
I should probably finish off Breath of the Wild…
Whenever I’ve played card / board games, I think something is dramatically wrong with my mindset. I don’t tend to see those in terms of winning conditions, don’t tend to do well.
and it’s weird… cause the graphics are not the best… and the mechanics are a bit wonky… and when I first saw it I said “pfffft… that looks stoopid”… but PUBG is really pretty fun…
A little bit.
I used to be one of the best teabaggers in all of Halo. Always a positive K/D ratio. Now my gaming is more chill, single-player, and usually free stuff like Assassin’s Creed. That, or my game time is spent playing games like Minecraft, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, and Roblox with my kid. Console gamer for life. Xbox gold expires next month and for the first time, I’m sorta meh about it.
My current
obsessiongame of choice is Gems of War.We started playing it while waiting for another game to download about 3 or 4 months ago…we still haven’t played that game yet haha
Finished Titanfall 2 campaign a few weeks ago. Enjoyed it.
@ACraigL Oh, I thought titanfall was all multiplayer. (assumed 2 was) May have to check it out as I think I saw it for under $10
Plenty of video gamers here. Any board gamers?
@Targaryen
I love board games but rarely have enough people around to actually play one. We usually end up playing Star Trek Catan or the Labyrinth board game by Riverhorse.
@Targaryen I don’t think there are any. Generally, that requires IRL friends.
@Targaryen I’m a bored gamer does that count?
@medz @Targaryen what’s a friend?
@OnionSoup @Targaryen I have a box of board games in a closet that literally reads “bored games” on the side of the box.
@Targaryen I played Arthur Bingo with my kid an hour ago. Does that count?
/giphy arthur
@Targaryen we have a very active board game group. We generally play three to four times a week. Probably the most popular games in our group right now are Lords of Waterdeep, Terraforming Mars, Concordia and Great Western Trail. Other games that see a lot of play include Takenoko, Istanbul, Iron Dragon, Potion Explosion, Scoville, Pandemic, Tokaido, Lanterns, Fluxx, Five Tribes, Ticket to Ride, Azul and Power Grid. I recently picked up Kana Gawa and The Bermuda Crisis which are seeing a lot of play. My game collection is around 200 contemporary games and about 50 older games, the older ones are mostly Avalon Hill. Come play with us!
@moondrake You guys might like Legacy Risk. Each time you play something has changed in the rules. Anyway, you guys play in Dallas?
@OnionSoup That works lol.
@Targaryen Love card and board games, don’t get to play them nearly enough. Some favorites are Ticket to Ride Europe, Scotland Yard, Origin of Expressions, Wits & Wagers, Probe, Rummikub, Family Business, and Krazy Bee.
@Targaryen Nope, about 600 miles west of there. We tend to avoid direct conflict games like Risk. Too many alpha personalities in the group (myself included).
@Targaryen I get to board game at lunch during the week a few times…depending on schedules…theres a guy I work with who keeps a bunch and brings in the new kickstarter ones occasionally too…which is great because since having a tot I dont have my saturdays free to play board games anymore
@moondrake @Targaryen Very jelly
@amehzinggrace @Targaryen
That sounds like a friend/ex-coworker of mine. He has a ton of games and his new place of employment plays them at lunch pretty regularly.
Yeah, I’m not jealous at all haha
@Targaryen @stardate820926 apparently the coworker w/ the many games was indoctrinated by another coworker who no longer plays…glad it was kept up though…anyone get to madness on saturdays?
@amehzinggrace @Targaryen I LOVE Madness. I’ve never participated in any games there but it is our go-to comic shop.
@amehzinggrace @stardate820926 @Targaryen I used to go to Madness a ton when it was a little hole in the wall shop. I still go every chance I get, because they have Pathfinder/Starfinder Society games often.
@Targaryen I LOVE BOARD GAMES!!! seriously! One of my favorite pastimes
I also play video games. Does that make me a double nerd? Or double dork? Or just lame… ?
Sometimes I wear mirrored sunglasses and play a game where I stare at people as we pass each other on the sidewalk to see if they look at me. 10pts if they smile. Sometimes I don’t smile back and I’m not sure why… I’m still figuring out the rules.
@medz I like to smile & speak to random elderly people at Walmart in such a manner as to make them smile and wonder if they are supposed to know me. Lol, I like to think it makes them feel like somebody remembered them and was glad about it. Of course, it could just make them wonder if their memory is going…
@medz when I was a teenager I used to wave at random strangers as they were passing or being passed by my car.
I would then laugh thinking, “they’re trying to think who I am now, and racking their brains trying to figure out who the … I am.”
@OnionSoup Yes, waving at random cars I meet is also a fun game. I smirk thinking I just confused someone, brought someone joy, or just started an argument between a couple. “Do you know that guy?” “No, honey. I swear!”
Also fun when passengers are in the car. “Everyone wave on the count of 3!”
@medz Reminds me of a story. In my Psychology class my teacher was hands on with the learning. One of our tasks was walk around a public place with a smiley face pink that said “I love me” while just casually smiling. The point was to watch people’s reactions. Most would scoff or eyeroll, some would be almost threatened, a very few would smile back. It was an interesting experiment.
Board Gamers and Video Gamers are sounding off. Where are all the P&P tabletop gamers?
@Supportathan I take it you mean RPG? Our roleplay group has played every Sunday (excepting the rare skip) since 1982. We started out with Traveller but quickly switched to Hero System (Champions). We’ve played pretty much every genre you can think of (epic fantasy, historic fantasy, horror, sci fi, alien invasion, space cowboys, historic western, historic Chinese, spy, heist, time tangle, rennaissance, steampunk, post holocaust, zombie apocalypse, vampire, werewolf and superhero) using Hero System as our foundation. We’ve tried a few other role playing systems but none of them suit us so well.
@moondrake @Supportathan If you like superhero stuff you could use the oooooold Marvel Superheros rules which are available online free here (but you can buy them out of print for like $150) http://classicmarvelforever.com/cms/
@moondrake @Targaryen I started out in D&D 3.5. Played and playtested my way through 4 and 5, but I’m not a huge fan of them. I’m currently enjoying Paizo’s Starfinder after having played Pathfinder since it came out. I’ve also dabbled in Scion, BESM, Dragon Age, and some Star Wars games.
@Supportathan @Targaryen Tried them. Way insufficient for our play. We aren’t interested in any rules set that puts boundaries on imagination. That’s why we use Hero. If you can dream it, you can be it.
@moondrake @Targaryen To each their own
Personally, I find games with clear limits help prevent godmodding and can promote more public play, like Paizo’s Pathfinder and Starfinder societies.
@Supportathan @Targaryen We have game balance boundaries as far as power levels, but the way the characters are realized is fully flexible within the system. Although I live in a big city, the gaming community is quite small. There are a handful of isolated role playing groups, most of them playing D&D. We recently had a local board gaming convention and everyone was surprised when something like a hundred people showed up.
PvsZ: Garden Warfare 2 (Multiplayer)
Favorite board game: Cribbage
Yes, video games, card games, board games, games on the Meh forums where everyone votes to kill me…
@Sabre99 … but did you do it?
@Sabre99 Just read now, seems you didn’t.
@Targaryen Nope, but I probably shouldn’t say anything else about it; I am dead after all…
@Sabre99 I didnt vote to kill you…i voted for the penguin to snuff it…which apparently was still wrong…
@Sabre99
/giphy sorry
I play games.
/youtube old greg love games
See if I can smell her hair without anyone noticing.
@medz I try hard not to smell other people.
Expert difficulty is to make a mustache using her hair without anyone noticing.
/image hair mustache
I guess I should mention the “her” I refer to is my wife. Years ago, we were having dinner with friends and while someone else was talking, I subconsciously looped a lock (or tress) of her hair around my finger and brought it to my nose. The conversation abruptly stopped and I realized I had been caught.
Yes. CS:GO, Sim City 4, Kerbal Space Program and Deus Ex.
/image csgo no mic
Does messing with peoples emotions and minds count?
Been gaming since before most of you were born. Helped run several local and regional game cons in the day.
I have done dice based RPGs, Collectible Card games (ala MTG), Board games of many types, computer games of many types, not many console games.
Current addiction is a flash game called Wartune.
I think I’m a pretty poor excuse for a gamer, cuz I love games but can never make enough time to actually play!
This doesn’t count the 62 (!) games in my GoG account.
Playing Breath of the Wild right now. One of my best gaming experiences to date. Before that, I was wildly into Overwatch and Rocket League.
“I think board games can all have the same name: ‘which one of my friends is a competitive asshole?’ Tonight, we are playing ‘Steve’”
@DrWorm I know players like that.
ALL THE GAMES! Well, kinda…
Lots of PC gaming, including Rimworld, Civ V, Don’t Starve, LFD2, and plenty more. Including a recent re-playthrough of the Mass Effect series. Ah, Garrus… Oo, plus some VR gaming on a Vive!
I have a group of friends I try to rope into board games when I can, though we don’t play as much as I want. Sentinels of the Multiverse is the one we usually agree on. I love Galaxy Trucker. And I damn near broke the group trying to get them to play Dead of Winter.
Ok, I’ve honestly never played a tabletop RPG…but…I have made character sheets for several editions of D&D, and CoC. I would really love to find a Call of Cthulhu group, but, you know, that would mean actually taking to new people.
I also play a horrible game of cribbage, but it’s so much fun!
Oh, plus, I’m currently trying to write a murder-mystery game for a fundraising project! If anyone has ever run or played a good one, lets talk!
/giphy nerd
@QuietDelusions I love Sentinels of the Multiverse. If you don’t already listen to it, I highly recommend listening to The Letters Page, where the creators of the game talk about the lore behind it.
@QuietDelusions Are you working on a live action game or a sit down type? How “game” are your players? Are they going to enjoy role-playing and problem solving or do you need to keep it simple and mundane?
@moondrake It’ll be one of those live-action ones; the group I’m going it for has regular bi-monthly parties. Suddenly, oh no, someone at the party died, and we need to figure out who-dun-it! I’m hoping to keep it on the simple/campy side, as it’s a very diverse group of people. My next step is to pick up a few cheap games from Amazon to see how the mechanics work.
Lately mostly on Steam. I used to play Simutronics online MMORPGs (Gemstone 2, then Dragonrealms) but its just too large of a time commitment any more.
On Steam I’m puttering around in Civ V, World of Tanks Blitz, Overload, Battletech, and finding out how bad I am at flying and 3D space combat in Everspace (I kickstarted the last 3). Mostly Minecraft (local) and Robocraft (Steam) for quiet evenings.
I want to try “They are billions” (zombies) and Raft (minecraft like survival on the ocean) but they’re not available on non-mediocre platforms.
I’ve been trying to get my wife back into board and card games for months but she’s hooked on her online books and reading, so Exploding Kittens just sits on the shelf…
@duodec Aw, I’m with you about those poor neglected Exploding Kittens! I brought my copy home for Christmas, thinking it would be a good family game. My mother declined, siting that it looked “too hard”.
I started playing after someone posted about it on meh.
/image pokemon go
@elimanningface Yeah, me too, I admit it.
Never played the card or handheld versions but Go gets me out and walking sometimes, which is good…
@elimanningface
my daughter’s addicted
when she was visiting, i re-routed around more than 1 corner so she could get something.
To inane for me
I play Plants vs. Zombies 2 daily. I love Mega Man so I am revisiting the Mega Man X series with the collection that came out for PS4. I’m also a fan of music games like Guitar Hero and RockBand. At heart, I’m down for Nintendo games anyday.
Board games: Monopoly and Clue.
@JT954 Do you play PvsZ2 multiplayer online?
@mfladd Are you referring to “Battlez”? Then yes. Right now I have 302,000 coins and 65 gems. Remember I’m talking about the mobile game, not “Garden Warfare” which I have not played. Yet.
@JT954 Yup, I was talking about the Garden Warfare - get it.
Because there are not other people, it is mainly videogames. Usually a Minecraftish game + a podcast, or VR if I can make the effort. Been trying to get into Pillars of Eternity lately, even though it contains my one true nemesis – dialog trees!
I should probably finish off Breath of the Wild…
Whenever I’ve played card / board games, I think something is dramatically wrong with my mindset. I don’t tend to see those in terms of winning conditions, don’t tend to do well.
I buy games but don’t actually ever play them. Does that count?
@sammydog01
Ya know what one has me lately?
and it’s weird… cause the graphics are not the best… and the mechanics are a bit wonky… and when I first saw it I said “pfffft… that looks stoopid”… but PUBG is really pretty fun…
@thismyusername one of my co-workers plays PUBG every day. He’s always telling me about it about I haven’t tried it.
Love Call of Duty , Battlefield and Assasins Creed games on Xbox one. Also Nathan Drake ( uncharted games) on PlayStation 4.
I just ordered something called Pathologic HD Classic. Anyone know it?