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Flashback Friday - El Grande - Love it or hate it? Do you still play it?
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And then, the first time you played it, trying to make sense of this really strange new sort of game, convinced that the translation of the rules must be wrong.
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Josh Look wrote: Hot damn, the Big Box has to be some sort of daily deal on Amazon today. $56 or so, CSI and MM are in the $80+ range.
That's actually what it's been for a while now. I've had it on one of my lists on Amazon for a year or two. It started at $70 but it's been hovering around the high 50s for at least the past year. I've never pulled the trigger on it for some reason or another. I've played it (and liked it), but don't own a copy. I really shouldn't spend more on games right now...
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What surprised me the most is that it's a very chaotic game! Very un-euro like.
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But still clamor to play it? In the world where Chaos in the Old World exists? Nah... this pretty good game has been long since fired
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This is also the first game where I've been tempted to break down the box and reconstruct it into something smaller since all of the components take up roughly a third of the actual space.
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I played it once about five years ago. It was ... fine. Nothing wrong with it but it had a stuck-in-time feeling, not a timeless one. Like listening to an oldies station.
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Daughter loves the base but the wife found it dry... as
She still managed to beat me by one point.
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Either way, I did not play this game until somewhat recently. I liked it. It surprised me how chaotic it is, you really have to read all those 5 cards every turn and try to figure them out. It's a bit annoying, but fun. I really like the turn order mechanic and how cards you play don't come back. A lesser design would have made you return them every time.
I wish people didn't play with the tower as written. I'm not interested in doing memory tests when information is perfectly trackable and easily so, even. I know it's a pet peeve, but my enjoyment of games goes down when I have to keep bullshit on my head to play them well.
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Coffee spit. The correct English would be "in my head".Erik Twice wrote: ... my enjoyment of games goes down when I have to keep bullshit on my head to play them well.
Unless you're referring to Bullshit Balancer: the Head expansion? Man, that was a real turd of a game!
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Intrigue expansion which virtually eliminates that... except you have to read your 13 cards every turn before
You bid/ play them. It's a cool take that doesn't completely change the game while giving you a feeling of more control on what you do in a round.
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