Summoner Wars rounds out the top three for the year in table time with 24 face-to-face plays, not to mention over 100 iOS plays. Strangely a different card seems broken in each game, making for rather diverse experiences and situational dependencies. There are challenging decisions to be made and while the result is not entirely in your hands due to the crazy card combinations that can emerge from game to game, you’ll still wrestle with whether to play this card, use that card, or draw on each turn. But if you can get past these barriers to entry, you’ll find a truly interesting and quick civilization-themed game. It’s far from a game for everyone, with it’s chaotic swings and off-putting graphic design. I didn’t get a copy until this past spring, but over the spring and summer quickly racked up the plays, mostly two-player, and ended the year with 30 plays. Innovationis another game that I came to late. Nevertheless, they’ve all been great enough to see lots of table time this year. One downside of Netrunner (and Summoner Wars) as compared to Neuroshima Hex is that while they all take an average of around 30 minutes, the former two are much more variable, ranging from around 10 to 60 minutes, while the latter is a much more reliable 30 minutes. The expansions are obviously coming quickly, so we’ll see how those all pan out in 2013. On the other hand, the FFG core set is in desperate need of more variability, especially agenda cards to allow the corporation some flexibility there, and ideally more icebreakers to give the runner some actual options.
RANDY PLAYS NEUROSHIMA HEX UPGRADE
I have also enjoyed the addition of faction abilities, stronger upgrade cards, and most of the new artwork.
RANDY PLAYS NEUROSHIMA HEX PLUS
I heartily approve of the change to the trace mechanism anything that removes blind bidding is a big plus in my book. I wasn’t sure if I would come around to t he FFG version, being generally wary of change (and living card games), but I have slowly warmed to it. I’d never actually played Netrunner until 2010 when a friend introduced me to it, but quickly tracked down a box of starter decks and have since played over 100 times. Topping the charts was Netrunnerwith a combined 67 plays, including 24 of the older Wizards of the Coast version and 43 of the newer Fantasy Flight version. The top ten games that saw table time in 2012 were:Ĭard games dominated the year like years past, with the trifecta of Netrunner, Innovation, and Summoner Wars leading the way. Some of these are in fact new releases that were also mentioned yesterday, but more of them are older games, with varying levels of oldness of course. Yesterday I detailed my experience with the swath of new games released into the world over the past year, and today I’m back to discuss my experience with the games that saw the most table time throughout the year. While 2012 was a year filled with many new releases of all shapes and sizes, there was also time to play plenty of older titles as well.
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