2012 Year in Review

Happy New Year!

Well, not much writing for me this year. There are only so many hours in the week, and thankfully I spend a fair chunk of them playing games with the TaoLing, a regular gaming group, and two sessions of Bridge.

Also, I’m much less on the bleeding edge of gaming. The world of the net is quite different from when I started (pre-BGG, rolling HTML by hand) and I’m happy to just chime in my opinion. Sometimes a game grips me for a few thousand words, but if not, I’m not forcing it.

Both my Game of the Year (Netrunner) and Runner up (Eclipse) are expensive games that have a decent mix of luck and skill, quick playing time (Eclipse is quick compared to the genre), and a steep investment of time and money. Some of the new batch (that I’ve played) didn’t strike me as JASE, but most of it did. Even some games I liked (Terra Mystica).

 

Reviews –

• Rolling Stock (More Thoughts) Looked intriguing but fizzled
• Buffalo Wings Not bad, but too complex for non-grad school me
• Miskatonic School (Where Fun and Students go to Die) for Girls
• Core Worlds (I rather like it, and want to try the expansion, slightly)
• Labyrinth with Expansion Fixed Prestige, but perhaps too much
• Eclipse Loved it, Still do
• The City Brilliant filler
• Android Netrunner Game of the Year
• Startship Merchants Fell out of favor, too butterfly effect for me
• 1989

Other Posts of Note –

• Core Worlds Strategy & Update
• Air Baron Advanced Variant
• Eclipse Strategy

Five and Dimes

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