New Board Games
So, I don’t talk about it much, but since college, I’ve become increasingly enamored with board games. I can actually (partially) blame the weekly board game group at Bethesda for this, but I was (sorta) the one who started us getting together in the first place, so I guess that’s a no go. Whoever’s to blame, they’ve got me addicted.
Today, I was looking for some new ones to play, including Race for the Galaxy (which is freaking sold out everywhere), and thought I’d ask blog readers for some suggestions. I pretty much have (or have played) most of the standards (Settlers, Carcassonne, Puerto Rico, Bang!, Caylus, etc.) so I’m looking for stuff that’s either new, or a little off the beaten track, but still good. Additionally, does anyone have a board game news site they can suggest? One that doesn’t spam with lots and lots of news (releases and reviews are about all I care about)?
In other news, apparently Hasbro / Wizards of the Coast has finally decided to republish Aquire. If you have not played it, Acquire is a really awesome game. I got the original 3M version of the game this year, and have played much since then. I’m happy to see it out again. I wonder if this bodes well for games like Betrayal, which were part of the same acquisition. That said, the quality of the pieces of the new Acquire look terrible (see the official website here, compared to the Wikipedia picture of the Avalon Hill version). I guess I shouldn’t be too shocked, but it doesn’t bode well for Betrayal, which had (count um) 291 tokens just for the scenarios. Not to mention the room tiles, the double sided character cards and the character miniatures.
