![]() ![]() I was delighted to chat with PuppyShogun about My Father's Work from PlayRenegade, a game of inter-generational t… /i/web/status/1… 3 days agoĪloha Earth is a humorous but overly familiar party game. My life is not richer for having viewed these snippets, although I’d be lying if I didn’t confess my professional satisfaction for every combination ghost kill / sound mask / eyeball shot that left some Wehrmacht draftee puddling into the grass and his companions none the wiser.īut before we get into Sniper Elite, and what The Board Game does to adapt it, we first need to talk about adaptation itself. I’ve now spent twenty-five hours playing Sniper Elite 5, which translates to perhaps twenty minutes of kill-cams in aggregate. Never mind that the principal violence is done to the player’s soul. In this case, I knew the material well: Sniper Elite, a video game franchise that’s sophisticated enough to have multiple entries, but trashy enough to have a zombie army spinoff and a slow-mo cam that X-rays enemy bodies while your bullets penetrate and shatter their brains, lungs, and testicles. You don’t put “The Board Game” on your game unless you’re adapting some other source material. The first clue to David Thompson and Roger Tankersley’s Sniper Elite is that subtitle. Please, would somebody design Deus Ex: The Board Game. ![]() It isn’t often that a board game lets me play a video game as “research.” Not that I usually need the excuse. A fitting sendoff, and all the more bittersweet for it. And while we had a grand time (for the most part), it felt not unlike watching the last episode of The Next Generation as a kid again. With some fast-forwarding of the early turns, and minus lunch, the whole thing lasted six hours. Out of nine possible seats, we filled eight. “Time to arrange another massive session with your friends.” They didn’t say that last part. “This takes the faction count up to ten,” they said. ![]() The last two expansions were coming my way. Then, out of nowhere, I heard from Gale Force Nine. We counted ourselves satisfied with what in 2016 and again in 2017 I called one of the few games to really understand Star Trek. We played it last year for my sister-in-law’s birthday. I wasn’t expecting to play Star Trek: Ascendancy again anytime soon. ![]()
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