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Art of Rally

Need For Speed: Heat

Does bike racing count? If so: Descenders is amazing

And if that counts, how about Crumble?

Ooh: Turbo Golf Racing, and Kart Rider

Race the Sun?

Do you condemn KHHAAMAS?

I choose option 3

I cant wait for his midlife crisis to be over.

Ms. Pac-Man is the definitive version though.

Splatoon is great if you have Switches.

Helldivers 2 is PvE but is a great group experience.

Extraction shooters might be a thing? Hunt: Showdown?

Some of my favorites that have a higher frequency of “major upset” events. It really depends on your group, and how they like to play.

I stick with pretty quick and accessible games, because we frequently have to teach new people and I hate spending 3 hours on one playthrough of a huge game and then the newbie never gets a chance to try again with their new understanding.

Favorites:

• Wizard reliably makes our whole table lose their minds
• Love Letter takes sudden drastic turns and is so quick to play
• Bang! (the dice version) has as much treachery as it does chaos
• No Thanks! is an exercise in collective sadism
• Nanuk has perhaps the best “oh shiiiiiiiiiiiii-” moments with a combination of hidden information, bluffing, push-your-luck, pleading for help, backstabbing, and high-stakes card flips

Bluffing games:

• Coup
• Skull
• Cockroach Poker

Card games with sudden win conditions:

• Five Crowns
• Mahjong
• LLAMA

Asymmetric information games:

• Secret Hitler
• Codenames
• Mysterium Park

Not as frequent, but sometimes perfect for the right crowd:

• Three Dragon Ante
• Get Bit!
• GUBS
• Ca$h n Guns has foam guns that the whole table points at each other at once, Mexican Stand-off style

Board games have been a pretty effective way to recapture that feeling for me. When a single dice roll or card flip wrecks everyone’s plans and the whole table erupts at once, that’s a good time.

Video games, especially online, feel a little too disjointed these days – like our consciousness isn’t synced up the same way as it is when we all know we’re looking at the same thing at the same time and holding our breath.

I hope this is partly to deal with review bombing, but I also hope it doesn’t completely hide review bombing.

It can be really helpful to know that there is a social media shitstorm around a game.

But sometimes the shitstorm is a bunch of basement dwellers getting mad over nothing, and it makes it hard to see actual opinions about the game.

Not gold. Australium.

Oh hey, a 1-day-old account posting 6 vegan posts in 1 hour to unrelated communities. I’ve seen this one before.

It’s wild how we went from…

Critics: “Crypto is an energy hog and its main use case is a convoluted pyramid scheme”

Boosters: “Bro trust me bro, there are legit use cases and energy consumption has already been reduced in several prototype implementations”

…to…

Critics: “AI is an energy hog and its main use case is a convoluted labor exploitation scheme”

Boosters: “Bro trust me bro, there are legit use cases and energy consumption has already been reduced in several prototype implementations”