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GeekNights Tuesday - King's Forge

MrPeriodMrPeriod
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Tonight on GeekNights, we review the mediocre King's Forge, serving alongside Ground Floor as an example of why Kickstarter tabletop games are more often than not best avoided. In the news, Club Nintendo is dead and more old Star Wars games have come to GOG, including the last of the great Star Wars freespace shooters: X-Wing Alliance.

Don't forget to come see us live at PAX South 2015 with Bad Games on Sunday! Also, be sure to check out Rym's new Advance Wars streaming series.

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  • RymRym
    Jesus that Tetris video is stressful to watch.
  • pencepence
    King's Forge sounds like a good 15 minute game that takes 60 minutes.
  • RochelleRochelle
    Club Nintendo is dead
    Da fuq? T_T

    Oh well. As long as I redeem my 1k points on something decent, it will be all worth it. The surveys sucked.
  • ColdguyColdguy
    I too have been slowly catching up with all the agdq action and found this:



    This is the winner of the most comedic speedrun.
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    I miss the days when the date was included in the forum thread titles for podcast announcements.
  • RymRym
    Luke Burrage said:

    I miss the days when the date was included in the forum thread titles for podcast announcements.

    Someone (Scott) should fix that.

    We also don't have a link to the forum from the episode page on the site...

  • AprecheApreche
    Rym said:

    Luke Burrage said:

    I miss the days when the date was included in the forum thread titles for podcast announcements.

    Someone (Scott) should fix that.

    We also don't have a link to the forum from the episode page on the site...

    I've fixed that like a zillion times. Pay me enough to quit my job and I can work on the FRC web site instead.
  • RymRym
    Apreche said:

    Rym said:

    Luke Burrage said:

    I miss the days when the date was included in the forum thread titles for podcast announcements.

    Someone (Scott) should fix that.

    We also don't have a link to the forum from the episode page on the site...

    I've fixed that like a zillion times. Pay me enough to quit my job and I can work on the FRC web site instead.
    if you fixed it a zillion times, why does it keep breaking?

  • AprecheApreche
    Rym said:

    Apreche said:

    Rym said:

    Luke Burrage said:

    I miss the days when the date was included in the forum thread titles for podcast announcements.

    Someone (Scott) should fix that.

    We also don't have a link to the forum from the episode page on the site...

    I've fixed that like a zillion times. Pay me enough to quit my job and I can work on the FRC web site instead.
    if you fixed it a zillion times, why does it keep breaking?

    If I knew, it would have stayed fixed.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    edited January 2015
    pence said:

    King's Forge sounds like a good 15 minute game that takes 60 minutes.

    This is not inaccurate.

    I'm noticing that Game Salute has a tendency to make games that sound interesting on paper, but are just lacking enough depth to keep them from being good games.

    King's Forge does involve maybe a couple of interesting decisions here and there, but you are mostly slave to the dice and the order in which actions come up.

    Their rulebooks are also a tiny bit more spartan than is advisable. They only tell you things once (which is generally good), but they don't give you any other way to parse the information aside from text. A very well-done ruleset will often include more than one method of conveying the same information - text and pictures, for example, or text and a flowchart, or text and a summary.
    Post edited by TheWhaleShark on
  • jmermjmerm
    My favorite TED talk parody:
  • zehaevazehaeva
    On an interesting note, Nick Sibicky is an avid Go player and runs the beginner's lectures at the Seattle Go Center. He's got a youtube channel where he posts those lectures! Just in case anyone wants to get into the Go a bit more.

    I can't speak to the game though, when I read about Kings Forge I got turned off by the amount of randomness in it.
  • arrarr
    @jmerm‌ I think my favorite out of the series would have to be "What is the Biggest Rock?"



    The list for public amusement:
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