Need tips, when is a non-campaign game considered 'completed'?
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    MrKarato
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    Just play until you don't feel like it anymore. If you need a milestone, clear a match/run/whatever on the highest difficulty. Or maybe every variety, so in Civ, a victory of each type. Or if you feel like going hard, find a rating you want to get and get there, like Celestial in Strive. I would say just play until you feel satisfied though. Don't worry about what others think of your completion metric. None will satisfy everyone.

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  • Anyone not playing draft due to expensive cost?
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    MrKarato
    Now 100%

    Me and my friends got into Cube. We have 3, soon to be 5 cubes that we cycle through. Pauper, Peasant, Unpowered Legacy, soon to have a custom card, and legacy brawl cube. It's great.

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  • Players who don't like survival games as a genre: Which survival games are your personal exceptions, which ones have you enjoyed nonetheless and why?
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    MrKarato
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    Subnautica of course was a banger, but recently I've been insanely addicted to Icarus. The mission oriented gameplay makes the survival gameplay less tedious even though I'm doing similar stuff. You drop down, figure out what you need to complete the mission, set up and get the mission done, then get out. You have meta progression to make missions quicker to work through and you have a levelling system to further impact your strength. Just a super satisfying loop to me.

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  • Recap Monday - Week 38 - What did you play last week?
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    MrKarato
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    Arkham Horror 3rd Edition. I was quite apprehensive since I hated 1st edition, but my friend is a huge Lovecraft Mythos fan so it hit the table. When I saw how different it was, I was much less nervous, and I had a good time. We played Focusing wrong for a bit before correcting. We ended up losing, but had a pretty good time. I'd play it again.

    Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate. Played with just two people after Arkham. We are more experienced than the other players so we tried the thematic map. Whew, boy can that thing screw you over. Our first game was over in about 3 turns because my spirit couldn't grow to the board all the invaders were in. Attempt two, I replaced one of the growth powers and was able to respond to the early explores this time. My board had a couple explorers at the end of the game as my teammate scrambled to survive. I wish I could help more, but it was enough. I think thematic map is probably better with more spirits.

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  • Recommendations for "premium" card storage boxes/cases?
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    MrKarato
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    I've become a pretty big fan of Game genic. In particular, I use the 600 Card Lair for storing my cube. I highly recommend them, the quality is great. The Dungeon would probably be what you are looking for.

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  • I have accidentally fallen into the role of coordinator for my group. How do you guys like to organize? I'll describe the ideal app I'd like in the event you guys know of one that fulfills it. I'd like a shared calendar application that we can all see. I'd like some way for discussions about the events to happen. Like it has a discussion page per event. Discord integration of some kind would be awesome. EDIT: I ended up using the discord bit called Raid Planner. It has a web UI calendar and has automatic thread creation.

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    Which super popular game were you utterly disappointed by?
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    MrKarato
    Now 91%

    Probably quite lukewarm at this point, but Gloomhaven. Too much effort to set up and manage, losing often is annoying, losing often with no consequences for losing is even more annoying. It always felt like it would be better as a video game, and guess what? There is one now. It's probably good.

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  • Most emotional moments in games? (SPOILERS)
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    MrKarato
    Now 100%

    When the big brother dies in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. The game is short, but does a great job of getting you emotionally attached to these brothers. Even through the controls, you control both brothers at once with each getting half of your controller. When he dies, it also essentially kills half of your controller. I found myself trying to move the brothers together as I have for the rest of the game.

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  • I have a weekly board game meeting and I thought it would be fun to have the difficulty of the games change with every week. So like one week is light, then medium, then heavy. The light and medium week made sense, but then I discovered I had very few "Heavy" games. A couple made sense, Millennium Blades and Argent: the Consortium still feel like a lot of thinking for me, even though I've played them a lot. But Spirit Island towered over my entire collection and I feel it is much easier to get into than the other two games. Also, Dead of Winter ended up in heavy games because of how I broke down the system. I just used BGG's average weight metric to categorize my games. Light is 1.99 and lower, Medium is 2.0 to 2.99, and heavy is 3.00 and higher. Maybe I'm just making the tiers incorrectly. Any ideas? Also, any discussion on what you feel makes a game "complex" would be fun to read about.

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    oppo or jp strat?
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    MrKarato
    Now 0%

    I prefer Oppo. Stand on one of two spots, run in a circle. Resolve a mechanic if you need to. I hate getting third defamation or fire punch during JP.

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  • Anyone else enjoying the Internet better, now that they’re off Reddit?
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    MrKarato
    Now 100%

    Honestly? No. I like Beehaw. But it's less convenient, with less content. I would rather stop using Reddit, but ultimately I'm just doing the same stuff here that I was there. Then again, I saw little toxicity in the subreddits I was in. Also, adult content is far less accesible.

    Again though, I'm pretty happy with Beehaw/Lemmy. I'm sure they will only improve with time.

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  • What games do your friend groups tend to play with one another?
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    MrKarato
    Now 100%

    Final Fantasy XIV, Terraria, GTFO, Killing Floor 2, Guilty Gear Strive/Xrd Rev 2, 7 Days to Die, Minecraft, and recently some of us have been playing MegaMan Battle Network VS matches. What is popular changes quite often

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  • what are you playing this week?
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    MrKarato
    Now 100%

    Grinding at the new Savage raids in Final Fantasy XIV until my fingers bleed. I want to see if I can get three clears week one this time!

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    MrKarato

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