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Dune Predictions
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People are aware it's a classic, but are they aware of what it is?
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I am absolutely buying a copy, and if it only comes out once a year, so be it.
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At any rate, I predict salty vibes!
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Michael Barnes wrote: And I’ll DDT the first person that complains that there are only chits and no miniatures.
Yeah, that guy already exists and lives up I-85 from you in Greer. You could day-trip it with a comfortable stop for lunch. He's talking about replacing the cardboard components in the game which, best I can tell, is more or less the whole doggone thing.
I think the more recent boardgame fans view everything through a Kickstarter lens where bigger is better and things like miniatures are simply a standard part of the base package. The game is more of a noun than a verb to that kind of buyer.
There's always lovers and haters for any package, but I'm curious what the 80% in the middle are going to think of Dune. It's really a great game, but you have to be willing to invest in it to get your money's worth, even at it's remarkably low price.
I'll also pay a bounty for the first citing of someone wanting GF9 to Kickstart a deluxe version with superior components.
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Personally I'm just really glad to get a chance to play it. It's one of very few Eon games I'm missing.
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Also that nobody I know will buy Dune so I will still never get to play it.
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1. They said they're tweaking things. Believe it or not, Dune is not a perfect game. It's a good game and it's even better when you know the story. But there are many other games that would come off the shelf before it these days because they lack things like blank cards that do nothing, which simply aren't that exciting from a modern perspective. "Tweaking" in order to reflect the 40+ years of design and development (and, yes, improvements) is a positive thing, IMO.
2. My copy is worn. Yes, you can get the same game of canasta out of a deck of beat-up, old cards as you can with a crisp, new one right out of the box. But board gaming has a tactile element to its experiential nature, too. I wouldn't mind having newer cards and combat wheels and tokens(!) that don't carry the decades of age that mine do and are more visually appealing in that respect.
I'm part of a Meetup group that is mostly oriented around gaming, but also has an associated book club. The guy who started it had a stack of books that we've worked through (the two most recent were Redshirts and The Stars Are Legion) and while there are two left in the stack, he always throws the floor open for suggestions. Last week, I looked up and said: "How many of you have read 'Dune'?" Of the 8 people at the table, only me and one woman raised our hands. I said that it might be convenient timing, since the date of our discussion will be right around the release date of GF9's version. So, we're (re-)reading Dune and I'm thinking it should entice a couple people in the gaming group that have also never played the game. In that respect, it'll be nice to have a fresh, new copy on hand to introduce them to it, so I don't have to make excuses about the yellowing wheels or the scuffed cards or the crushed tokens, and so on.
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P.S. On occasion, an empty card is hilarious.
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That’s still too much.ChristopherMD wrote: I predict copies of Rex will price drop by 90%.
There’s nothing better than, as Atreides, getting someone to bid way too much for a worthless card.Michael Barnes wrote: I love the do-nothing cards. They are a bluff, and they usually wind up causing some laughs or quotes from the Lynch film. Who doesn’t love dropping Trip to Gaumont on somebody?
Also, here are the quick start rules:
gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/DUNE-Quick-start-Guide.pdf
Most everything seems to be the same, except you can get CHOAM Charity with 0 or 1 spice instead of just 0. Or maybe it was always that way?
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