[Ridicule] The Exalted Boardgame Looks Like Shit

Pierce Inverarity · September 15, 2007, 12:49:57 PM

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/219927

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

KrakaJak · September 16, 2007, 02:13:54 AM

The Board looks very good on an actual table however, it's also a good strategy board game to boot!

signoftheserpent · September 18, 2007, 04:42:56 PM

You must be the only one who likes it then, from what I've gleaned.

arminius · September 18, 2007, 06:25:06 PM

Quote from: KrakaJakThe Board looks very good on an actual table however, it's also a good strategy board game to boot!

What's your basis of comparison?

Settembrini · September 19, 2007, 02:34:26 AM

The use of the word "strategy" makes me suspicious, too.

Thanatos02 · September 19, 2007, 09:01:13 AM

Seems kinda dubious to mock it on anything other then its looks. We can see it on the page, here, but I can't tell from the forum post how it plays.

OTOH, I don't have a giant dislike of Exalted. My bias is actually mildly positive about the game, so that might color things a bit.

jrients · September 19, 2007, 09:03:31 AM

I thought the game looked utterly boring compared to the awesomeness locked inside the RPG. Why not use the entire setting so you can get the weirdness on the edge of the Creation map? Where are the robots and dinosaurs? The floating island fortresses? The anime babes? The back of the box makes it look like a slightly Oriental faux Tolkien vanilla fantasy game.

Pierce Inverarity · September 21, 2007, 12:45:23 AM

Quote from: Thanatos02Seems kinda dubious to mock it on anything other then its looks. We can see it on the page, here, but I can't tell from the forum post how it plays.

This thread is not about how it plays.

It's about how it looks.

And it looks like shit.

:bunny:

LeSquide · September 21, 2007, 01:48:16 PM

Hrm. Looks about as good as pictures of Settlers of Catan do.

Rezendevous · September 22, 2007, 08:49:20 PM

Quote from: Pierce InverarityThis thread is not about how it plays.

It's about how it looks.

And it looks like shit.

:bunny:

And? A lot of great-playing games look like utter shit, and a lot of fantastic-looking games play like ass.

Pierce Inverarity · September 22, 2007, 10:23:23 PM

Quote from: RezendevousAnd? A lot of great-playing games look like utter shit, and a lot of fantastic-looking games play like ass.

No excuses.

KrakaJak · September 23, 2007, 09:41:39 PM

Quote from: Elliot WilenWhat's your basis of comparison?

The fact I own it and have played it! I've also own and play lots of other board games!

It looks good on a table, as I've seen very nice looking boards in pictures...that look butt ugly on a table(like say...Max Impierialis, or Prince of the City). The reverse is also true, some boards that look bad in pictures look great on a table(Settlers of Catan, Mousetrap)

The Exalted Boardgame plays like a heavily houseruled Risk set on the blessed isle. The players are Dragonblooded vying for control. There's a lot of strategy involved. With multiple win conditions and secret charms.

It makes a lot of sense to those of us who have actually read what Exalted was about:)

Thanatos02 · September 23, 2007, 10:52:51 PM

Quote from: Pierce InverarityThis thread is not about how it plays.

It's about how it looks.

And it looks like shit.

:bunny:

:: shrugs :: Whatever. I don't give a shit how it looks. I'm a little curious as to how it plays.

It looks a little bland, but not really awful.

arminius · September 24, 2007, 02:40:59 AM

Quote from: KrakaJakThe Exalted Boardgame plays like a heavily houseruled Risk set on the blessed isle. The players are Dragonblooded vying for control. There's a lot of strategy involved. With multiple win conditions and secret charms.

But...there are so few spaces, with so little variation in geometric relationship.

I'm...skeptical. But I'd join a group of players, I guess, if that was what was on the menu.

By way of comparison, I do think that Wizard's Quest and Emperor of China are good games at the lower limit of complexity in Risk-like mechanics.

Settembrini · September 24, 2007, 10:05:32 AM

Europe vs America

"This house is ugly!"
European strikers move arguments directly towrds the scoreline!
"But it´s warm and safe inside, why are you saying it´s ugly?"
America intercepts the argument, tosses it against the wall, it bounces off and scores a point via puzzling the European defense.
"Because it´s ugly on the outside."
Europe has the ball again.
"You are a bad person for saying this, please consider the inner value of the house if you talk about it´s exterior!"
America scores another one, by sheer force of not-getting-what-Europe-is-trying-to-say.

HALF-TIME