>Play Balatro
>Start getting tabletop games recommended
>They are all fricking great
What the frick? Been having a blast playing Gloomhaven, Carcassone and Wingspan and they are all adaptations of video game's grandpa, they shouldn't be better than most modern games.
Too bad that all Confrontation adaptations are kinda lame (Confrontation, Aarklash, Dogs of War).
What's so bad about them?
What's this supposed to be? board games online?
I haven't heard anything about that, what did they do?
I think it happened last year when they release the console versions, they updated the game so it can support cross platforms multiplayer.
But the patch caused all kind of bugs pop up, resulting in absolute disasters for multiplayer mode.
Players are mass downvoting them, so you can see their reviews weirdly showing Mixed for recently even though they have a very positive review scores overall.
>What's so bad about them?
Confrontation has such bad reviews that I haven't bothered trying it out even though my bar for these types of games is very low.
Aarklash is alright but very shallow. It's just loosely inspired by the lore and what not but it's a short rtwp RPG with a few encounters and too many unnecessary puzzles. It's an alright game to spend a few hours on but very underwhelming.
And finally Dogs of War is kinda dead. Last time I played it was also very shallow too so probably a lot of people dropped and so did the devs.
I suppose asking for a Total War type of game would be asking for too much but there has to be some middle ground.
>What's this supposed to be? board games online?
Yeah, it's a subscription based site to play different board games with randos, all the games are programmed so you can't do illegal plays, I personally don't like it much because I find the UI clunky and I'd rather pay for Tabletop Simulator once then to pay for a sub. Rule enforcing is nice I guess but if I'm gonna be playing a board game I'm probably learning the rules correctly anyways. and doing illegal shit is half the fun of playing a new game
Psst, en.boardgamearena.com
Too bad gloomhaven nuked themselves into oblivion with a bad patch and refuse to rollback.
Did they gain their reputations back yet?
No but they are slowly unfricking it
Videogames are just complex boardgames inside some electric rock. Sometimes simpler is better so boardgame adapted into videogame might be more fun and better
I got into boardgames a few years ago.
I really like ROOT and Kemet
Come play with us sometime in the tabletop simulator general in /vm/
Root is great, it also has a digital edition btw
>Kemet
Holy based, I wish I had 5 to play, I've only ever played it with 4. Also I completely missed on the Ta Seti expansion when they were selling it on facebook.
>do a weekly vidya, pizza, and anime night with my best friend of 25 years since we got out of highschool
>we play a single board game
>we now have a collection of games 100+ strong and now we can't decide what to play with our limited time, and have stopped with vidya and anime
I do enjoy me some board games.
What do you recommend for 2 players? Me and my buddy play 7Wonders Duel, Carcassonne, MtG and Castles of Burgundy
love both gloomhaven/frosthaven.
Digital gloomhaven while janky is 10x more enjoyable then tabletop. Frick that games has so much set up
Even with the companion app to handle admin, the game just takes a frickton of time to set everything up.
yeah, i do frosthaven twice a week with different groups.
>One group refuses to use the app to play
agony.
Why the frick would they refuse to use the app?
Not him but some fa/tg/uys are absurdly autistic over the """purity""" of their hobby
Every hobby has insufferable autists, huh.
board game grognards are the original insufferable autists
Ayup. Boardgame neckbeards can be some of the best and worst autists. Plenty of my purity reee and no true scotsman types, but also the kind of people who spend months setting up a game, including painting miniatures for every unit, and weeks of playtime playing a single wargame scenario.
litterally what this anon said
>Frick that games has so much set up
Fricking hell this so much.
A game that's also an adaptation of a board game that I never hear about being recommended here is Through The Ages, it a fantastic resource management strategy game with a very good mobile and PC version
https://store.steampowered.com/app/758370/Through_the_Ages/
>Give For the King a go
>lose 6 hours of my life as i lose track of time playing a campaign
Its more like simplified DnD then pure tabletop but frick me its so easy to lose track of time in these games.
Did you play FTK2? FTK was perfect for me because I have exactly 2 friends, and 2 ruined it by adding a 4th slot....
>is utter kino in your path
Any game that gives you a small board in front of you with actions to do is the peak of board gaming, you cannot convince me otherwise.
>Any game that gives you a small board in front of you with actions to do is the peak of board gaming
A lot of people hate that kind of game because most of them are mostly multiplayer solitaire where everybody is just looking at their own little world.
They aren't entirely wrong, as with most things in board games it depends on your group. My group is perfect for those kind of games because we can shoot the shit casually as everybody makes their rounds while the competitiveness to create the best empire is still palpable. If you don't have that, I can see it quite easily getting stale and boring, but I would hope anybody who wants to play gets a group like that, it's truly a blessing.
Completely agreed, competing for being the most efficient is interactive enough because you'll see a player's tableau and immediately tell "damn he's doing quite well, I gotta get my game up" or something; and in some games while subtle you can do a lot of damage with small decisions via blocking/negating/etc.