Jaybird
Jaybird is Birdmojo on Xbox Live and Jaybirdmojo on Playstation's network. He's been playing consoles since the Atari 2600 and it was Zork that taught him how to touch-type. If you've got a song for Wednesday, a commercial for Saturday, a recommendation for Tuesday, an essay for Monday, or, heck, just a handful a questions, fire off an email to AskJaybird-at-gmail.com
Still on the Binding of Isaac here, I’ve settled on disturbing but awesome. I highly recommend it.
Rune-Age, a deck building game from Fantasy Flight Games. Yesterday was the fall quarter mini-convention that my game club puts on. I had to work through most of it, but I showed up in time for one game of rune age.
There are several scenarios you can play, ranging from co-op to battle-to-the death. The one we chose had a powerful NPC monster, and the first player to defeat that monster wins the game.
I was playing the human faction–they have mechanics that let them draw more cards into their hands. I had a good early game, but I didn’t manage to get the resources I needed to buy the deck-thinning cards before they were sold out. Based on that early game performance, the undead player decided I was a threat and knocked me out of the game towards the end. With him attacking me, and me spending my resources defending, the Orc player managed to win handily.
Sweet.
I picked up the Game of Thrones card game because I thought it would be a deck-builder but it’s more of a game like, oh, a multi-player Netrunner insofar as each deck comes with a personality all its own and a handful of limitations and relationships… which basically means that it’s not sit down and start playing.
We ended up playing Wings of War (I recommend!) and Small World (another winner!).
I’ve rededicated myself to finishing Torchlight, except that I figured out what I had done wrong with my character build and started over…