I don’t cry anymore except when I hear Linda Ronstadt

The remakes are solid for sure but they’re pretty different games that don’t quite fully capture the spirit of open ended gameplay you could do in the originals.

For example:

• Grenade relay involving 5 soldiers passing across the map until it lands at the foot of a Muton your out of actions scout ended his turn next to

• Blow a hole in the roof of a landed UFO and drop your soldiers in behind aliens watching the doors expecting a conventional assault

• Drive a tank into a single family home to dig out an alien hiding in a closet

Way of Kings did nothing for you? :o

Oh you mean Holden, Naomi, Amos, Alex, Bobbie, Clarissa, Ghost of Miller, and Avasarala?

You better be talking about DOS X-COM UFO Defense or I’ll send a blaster bomb down your gullet :o

100% agree. SMB3 on NES just had so much more stuff going on compared to SMW on the SNES. Mini games galore, secrets up the wazoo, and the muthafuckin’ SHOE. For reals using that bad boy was like stepping into a goddamn Gundam.

Vtec paintball, sunken defense, and Sal’dun RPG maps were my jams back in the day!

She herself stated money was the main reason, and he knows it but it doesn’t bother him.

Well both you and your daughter are honest people and so is her husband. That’s a pretty good foundation for a healthy relationship imo. Good knows people have married with worse :>

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Got this game for free through twitch free games which turned out to be a surprising gem for me:

Dead in Vinland - Turn based group survival management game with some exploration and combat mechanics but the real juice of the game is in the writing and character development.

Story overall is ehhhh but it’s just a stage for the characters you meet :>

The original creators are doing a follow-up!

After the lackluster “sequels” (Star Control 3 and Star Control: Origins) that were made largely without the original developers input, I had pretty much given up the franchise for dead till now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity

For those of you not in the know, you can get Star Control 2 for free on Steam and see what the pinnacle of DOS adventure gaming was all about :D

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/

Ah reread you message and you were asking specifically about trivia games. I thought you meant party games in general so I’ll just give you one of my favorites anyways!

Just One! - retails for about 20 bucks but you can DIY this with an online random noun generator and some bits of paper and pencils. This plays best with more than 4 players.

Cooperative game where the basic gist is one person is a guesser and everyone else are cluegivers trying to make him guess the mystery word by writing down a one word clue in secret. The catch is before revealing clues to the guesser, the cluegivers have to compare the clues they write with each other and if any of the clues match (or have matching root words) those are taken out and not revealed to the guesser.

Games are out of a total of 13 words and even a getting 7 out of 13 right on your group’s first go is considered pretty good!

It’s surprisingly fun for such a simple rule set since you have to think of good clues but not necessarily obvious ones that might conflict with other people’s clues. I highly recommend it!

Lot of good ones out there that you could probably DIY but some of them work best at certain player counts. How many people are playing?

Haha I think there was one time we played Catan where people started trading futures contracts on someone’s wheat production. It went something like “I’ll sell you this contract for Jimbo’s next two wheat production rolls if you don’t build that road over there.” :>

Hm I wouldn’t have guessed since those are generally considered “family games”. I guess the negotiation aspect of those games can get pretty heated if folks get a bit petty and play kingmaker by giving away all their resources to someone to end the game faster when they find out they’re in a losing position :o

Aren’t they usually called FLGS (Friendly local game store)? Or is yours just decidedly unfriendly? :>

Which games did you guys ban? Diplomacy? :>

Rhymes with “mook”

PHP = Pleasuring Her Poosay