This Weekend's Gaming
I hope everyone has had their fair share of gaming over the Christmas and New Year holidays with friends and family members. Traditionally, casual gamers tend to break out their board games around the end of year break and play the usual board games that are tailored for the, er, casual gaming market. Hard core gamers like us play all throughout the year and play more during long breaks, and we play real games.
Now that the year-end holidays are over, we incurables are resuming our weekly gaming. This weekend, we will be trying out my brand-new Essen copy of Ghost Stories. I tore open the shrinkwrap a few days ago, opened the box (no box fart), and marvelled at the production quality of this game. Repos Production has excelled themselves this time. The beautiful rulebooks one each in English, German and French, comes in quality matt coated paper. The illustrations in the rulebook have to be seen to be believed. Piero the artist credited for the graphics. If I meet him, I would like to shake his hand. First-class graphics in the rulebook, cards, boards and tiles. Ghost Stories is the perfect example of how to present a game. I wouldn't be surprise if the majority of the sales of this game were impulse purchase on the strength of the game box alone. To me, Piero's graphics define Ghost Stories. The box inlay of this game is also very well illustrated. It is the best box inlay I have ever seen.
Another game that we will be playing this weekend is my second favourite game of all time, Titan, which is 29 years old this year. We will be playing the new version of this game. Surprisingly, other than re-wording, the rules have remained unchanged since the Avalon Hill edition. This THE a classic game of monster hack-and-slay. Each player plays a Titan who goes round the board collecting various beasts in order to fight other players' beasts. No questions asked. The winner is the last Titan standing. Fight night indeed!
It has to be said, my regular male gaming friends, however, are a bit wary of playing Titan with female gamers, though, due to the fact that all of us male regulars were well and truly beaten by the lone female in our last game a few weeks ago. Go easy fellas, She-Who-Is-To-Be-Feared won't be playing this weekend...but she might be joining us for the game after this...
If we have still time left over from playing Ghost Stories and Titan, we'll also be playing the laff-a-minute Galaxy Trucker. I love this light filler. Build a spaceship out of pre-fabricated components joined together with sewer pipes and hope it lasts the journey to discover new worlds, new civilisations and be totally and unashamably rich. I have commented on this briefly before in my last SquarkBlog. Played this once last earlier this week and loved it. LOL!
That's all for now and if you are gaming this weekend, have a great time. Why not let us know how your games went in SquarkForum?
