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Trashdome - DOOM: The Board Game VS Space Hulk
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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!
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Space Hulk
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However...
The Hulk is stripped down, and classic. ALIENS in boardgame form. Oh, and it's back. You secure that shit, Hudson!
VOTE: SPACE HULK
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I have only played Space Hulk on the computer from a program that has apparently disappeared...but was awesome!
When the pre-order went up though I waited...and waited...and wondered if $165au was too much.
Than I remembered my DOOM feeling. I would not let it happen again!
vote: Space Hulk! Because it is MINE!

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The games are obviously very similar, but the only advantage that DOOM brings to the table is that it's multiplayer out of the box and with no modifications. Other than that, SPACE HULK beats it on every point. The new edition blows DOOM's prodution out of the water too, so this is just a complete massacre as far as I'm concerned. I bet play of DOOM drops drastically with the new SH out now.
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My vote is for Doom because the monsters are cooler, and I always have more than two players.
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Oh, please. This is an embarassment. Sorry DOOM, you're done. SPACE HULK is going to destroy it, I think this might be our first total shutout.
The games are obviously very similar, but the only advantage that DOOM brings to the table is that it's multiplayer out of the box and with no modifications. Other than that, SPACE HULK beats it on every point. The new edition blows DOOM's prodution out of the water too, so this is just a complete massacre as far as I'm concerned. I bet play of DOOM drops drastically with the new SH out now.
I would be interested in more specific responses as to why Space Hulk is so much better than Doom (or Descent, for that matter, in terms of the game--though the setting is clearly different in Descent). I watched a video review just posted on BGG and it looks a heck of a lot like Descent layout.
So--is this outpouring for Space Hulk a mixture of nostalgia (for the old game), newness and hype, and the theme (Aliens and GW universe)?
I've been looking for someone or an article to lay this out for me. Why this is going to rock my world more than Descent? Or Doom? (though I've never played Doom and I own Descent).
PS -- I'm also usually more a two player game situation with my son.
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Space Hulk plays faster while giving a superior play experience. The cards that Doom has don't bring much to the game. And the Monster player in Doom just has to act too much like a GM instead of really play. Space Hulk is more pressure driven with the timer and the Blips mechanic given you a feeling of impending doom from all sides like in Aliens. The only point that Doom wins is that it is more pieces to make homebrew scenarios with right out of the box.
While I love complex AT games. I think Doom went the wrong way. Doom took a great simple AT-Classic (space hulk) and made it way more complex without really feeling more immersive or giving a better play experience. I love Doom but the crown goes to Space Hulk.
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Doom does a lot of things right, Space hulk is certainly the simpler original gangsta.
In the end I will have to go with Space Hulk for my vote, but it is not the landslide you would think.
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Though Space Hulk may be awesome, I vote for DOOM. Reason being I like it, and I don't think it gets enough love. And that all a game really wants right? ...Love?
I mean, we're talking about Demons from Hell and crazy space marines trying to blow the crap out of each other here.
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It played quite differently to what I thought it would.
I don't get the Doom comparisons at all. The games felt next to nothing alike. Doom feels far more like space crusade or a dungeon crawl as opposed to SH. I can't see either game substituting for the other.
Will cast my vote later on when i have had time to digest.
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