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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 - Fury Of Dracula VS Last Night On Earth
The simple solution to not liking the "fish-the-deck" scenarios in Last Night is to play a different one. They have plenty. The game is also not so finely balanced that making up your own is likely to suck too much. I don't like the fishing the deck. So I don't.
(I can't believe I'm spending any energy defending Last Night, but a lot of FoD really rubs me the wrong way. Even more than the stuff in LNoE does.)
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That and Fury is a very thematic hunting game.
Fury of Dracula
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Thank you for that. High five.
And if all the "Newspaper Reports" are clustered towards the top you're playing "Race for your Unlife, Dracula Brown".
Amateur Draculas are doomed in the above scenario, as was poor old Charlie Brown trying to kick that football. The problem with a lot of Dracula players is that with only one or two games under their cummerbund, it's tough to really make the most of the tools you have at hand. Junior Draculas will pant and wheeze in terror when the news breaks that there's blood bank break-ins in Belfast, but wise old vampires know how to use all those cool tricks. And the FFG edition has even more cool tricks than the GW one did.
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Vote: Fury of Dracula times eleventy.
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Not even a contest.
The only thing wrong with the new edition is that the dice in combat fucks up the whole Rock/Paper/Scissors set up.
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That's funny because half the point of zombie movies, at least Romero's, is that it's never a black and white "Us vs. Them"; people are at least as dangerous to each other as the monsters. So much for capturing the theme.Last Night on Earth is Us and Them
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I think LNoE is a PoS.
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The art may not be for everyone but it is endearing. I feel like it's a bunch of people that I know. Like they're just buddies of the designers and they're doing the best they can with the money and friends they have. That's what we do with their product. The best we can with the friends and tools we have. They supply the tools and some bare bones rules and we take it from there.
Oh, and fuck you all if you don't agree. Is that aggresive enough??
If LNOE is a B movie for you... it's your heads fault.
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but I also have to add, that LNOE is at least 10 times better than SUCKING VACUUM, which is just utter crap. I mean, imitating laser noises in MAG BLAST was fun, but in SV there's an actual rule which enforces players to speak in a certain accent. If a player falls out of his role, he should receive a slap on the back of his head. Sure this sounds like fun, but what's the difference here between a game, which enforces "humor" and a game, which discourages all sorts of interaction, through its rule set? I don't need a game to contrive such stupid slapstick humor. I do, however, enjoy a game such as AYE DARK OVERLORD, because there's creativity involved, much more than choosing between a Russian and a Japanese accent. Of course SV is very group dependent, but we had more fun playing fucking KELTIS, which is only unwillingly pointless.
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SUCKING VACUUM, which is just utter crap.
I humbly withdraw the statement. It was completely inappropriate to compare Last Night on Earth to Sucking Vacuum, particularly in light of its cheap components, homemade artwork and insufficient ruleset.
Sag.
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I'm a war gamer.
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Last Night on Earth does a great job capturing its intended theme with character and flair, and provides a really fun and very interactive cinematic game experience with some decent tactical/strategic cooperative gameplay. It kicks ass, plain and simple. Fury of Dracula may be great, but the one time I played it we all thought it was really rather boring. Ooh, let's play hide-and-seek, only we'll pretend that the person hiding is Dracula... Now isn't that thematic?! But don't worry, we won't really be in danger from him... most of the game he'll run away from us, and if we close in on him then we might just draw a card that let's him start all over somewhere. But we wouldn't want to play a game where there is actual danger coming at you all the time, you know, like in the form of brain-eating, limb-tearing zombies... That would be tooooo scaaaary... and besides, zombies are soooo yesterday.
To make it more clear, here is a picture of what a typical person playing Fury of Dracula might look like... note the blank stare, the low-key contemplation, the obvious sense of tedium...
Contrast that to this picture, which shows what people typically look like while playing Last Night on Earth... note the cheers, the smiles, the exultation...
(Actual games played by persons in pictures may differ from games described.)
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Heck, even when I (inadvertently) cheat and leave England via a city without a port, it is a blast to play. Sure, the battles are simplistic, but so what.
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