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This is part of a series of bloody matches to the death. Show support for your favorite game so it will do better in the fight. You can support it by writing why you think its the better game and more importantly by betting (i.e. voting for) it. Please make it clear for when I check the bets later. You have until Friday when I tally the bets and declare the winner. I will reserve my bet for any tie-breakers.
Although you should be familiar with both games, there is no rule that says you have to have played both of them. The only rule in Trashdome is this;
Two games enter! One game leaves!
Trashdome - Axis & Allies VS Starcraft: Board Game
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I saw 5 Guests on the last page.
It is shame you are too scared to get an account or log in.
Life is too short face your fears!
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Starcraft does have more different ways of playing out. Good vibe, high tension, more strategic decisions and interesting dilemma's for all sides. I like.
So Starcraft it is
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I realize it may be cooler to like the little Indie band out of Seattle called "Starcraft"
But if you don't like Axis and Allies there is something seriously wrong with your gaming upbringing
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I'd rather be kicked in the cock than play A&A. If the Brazillian women's soccer team wanted to play this game in the nude with me, I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. If were to turn on the news tomorrow, only to find that a group of scientists had discovered that A&A was definitively proven to cure the cancer my years of smoking will inevitably cause, I'd burn every copy I could find just to rid myself of the temptation to ever play this game. If JESUS-effin'-A-CHRIST showed up at my door with a copy of A&A, I'd start worshipping Satan.
"Oh, oh, but A&A was so influential, it created so many gamers blah blah blah!"
So what? What good is that when the game is the polar opposite of fun?
Starcraft? It's a good game, sure, but compared to A&A, so is Candy Land.
Vote: Starcraft
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BUT YOU'RE WRONG.
AXIS AND ALLIES is more like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- they were a horribly bloated and cumbersome version of rock music. A&A is a horribly bloated and cumbersome version of RISK. STARCRAFT is more like Wire, brainy and studied, angular, and pushing in different directions to the point where rock and roll/the DOAM game is almost unrecognizable in its new context.
NEXUS OPS is the game AXIS AND ALLIES wishes it was in 2009...that would have been a more fair matchup. As it stands, it looks like today belongs to the young and A&A is going to be finally buried once and for all in this edition of Trashdome. SOUTH KOREAN VOTERS, WHERE ARE YOU?
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AXIS AND ALLIES is more like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer-
HA! That's the worst insult you could give any game!
My favorite quote about Emerson, Lake and Palmer comes from Paul Stanley of KISS.
In an interview he said, back in the 70's ELP was being praised for their brilliant Rock n' Roll but listen to them today and they sound like a bunch of hot air! HA!
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If Starcraft were indeed as good as you say we would see more discussion and sales, more expansions.
The sales figures of Axis and Allies do speak volumes for the legions of gamers that love it. If it is no good, why do we continue to see more and more versions of the game?
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Would you apply that same logic to the follwing games:
MUNCHKIN
MONOPOLY
CONNECT 4
COOTIE
CANDYLAND
The world was not ready for STARCRAFT. Sometimes when a great work comes out, it arrives out of its historical context. It is misunderstood, sells under expectations, and is greeted with confusion.
But you are right- A&A sells like gangbusters, and it it remains a constast fixture in any listing of top hobby game sales.
But we also live in a world where PAUL BLART: MALL COP can top box office sales and a slurred slogan over a rehashed 808 beat and a synth loop can sell a billion records. Sometimes the masses get it right (STAR TREK), and sometimes they get it wrong (AXIS AND ALLIES).
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Would you apply that same logic to the follwing games:
MUNCHKIN
MONOPOLY
CONNECT 4
COOTIE
CANDYLAND
No I would not because Axis and Allies is a hobby game NOT a family game like those games you mention.
Axis is Allies is really to complex for family fare and that pushes it into th erealm of the hobby game.
It is notable as one of the elite hobby games to make it into retail stores due to its sales power.
If Starcraft was good it would sell. People would hear about it. They would try it. They would buy it.
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No, because as funny as that is, you are still wrong.
If Starcraft were indeed as good as you say we would see more discussion and sales, more expansions.
The sales figures of Axis and Allies do speak volumes for the legions of gamers that love it. If it is no good, why do we continue to see more and more versions of the game?
Because it's a gateway game? Because Hasbro has way more money than FFG and therefore has more money for marketing and advertising? Because Hasbro has deals lined up to sell its games at Wal-Mart, Target and Toys R Us? There are more versions of the game because Hasbro keeps milking it for all it's worth?
Just because everybody is playing it, doesn't mean it's better. What kind of peer-pressure sucker are you?
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Axis is Allies is really to complex for family fare and that pushes it into th erealm of the hobby game.
So what you're saying is that A&A is one of "Those Games of Yours"?
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Because Hasbro has way more money than FFG and therefore has more money for marketing and advertising?
I haven't seen an Axis and Allies TV commercial, since.... since... I don't know when.
"Knucklebones" and Undefeated magazines folded so I haven't seen any print ads
FFG has the power of the internet and so does Hasbro.
Hasbro has more money due to higher games sales. Better products sell better.
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