How Many of Us Play.....

[easye]

Obviously, most of us here play or have played Warhammer and Games Workshop games.  However, I am curious how many of us play other types of games.  

Do you play:

1. Niche Boardgames (Those not found at a Big Box retailer)- 
2. Collectible Card Games
3. Deck-Builder Games
4. Role-playing Games
5. Mobile Games
6. Console Games
7. Computer Games

For me, I mostly play Role-Playing Games and a very small number of Console Games.  Wargaming is my main "gaming" hobby. How about you?   

[nfe]

Just GW tabletops for me.

Haven't played a console game since FFVII but I do occasionally take a notion for Civ. usually lasts a couple weeks.

I have tried RPGs a few times but they never really clicked for me. Never even tried magic or similar. Just didn't see the appeal.

[amadaes]

For me it is #1, #4, #5, #6, #7. I stay as far away from CCGs as possible, one Plastic Crack is enough from me, I dont need Cardboard as well. and the deckbuilders that I play are all on the computer.

[bobtheinquisitor]

We mostly play board games. With my family, Shadows of Brimstone is number 1 by a long shot, but we’ll try various thematic games when my brother is in town. We also used to play a lot of math games, like Prime Climb and Equate.

With friends, I play a mix of tabletop games and board games, especially kickstarter-funded board games. We also had friends who were really into “serious” board games for serious board gamers, which we eventually had to stop.

My son recently got into Magic The Gathering, so we’ll play that sometimes.

The only one in our house who plays cell phone games is my wife. Other than that, no video games.

We do want to share with our son the experience of games like Tetris, SMB/SMW, and Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but not really sure how to do it.

[Least censored on the planet!]

Not sure how niche you need for #1. Is it just “Not monopoly”, or is it “Not Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, and any similar board game, but just games that take at least 3 hours for one game”?
Assuming it's not the latter, #1, potentially #3 (a lot of Dominion with my parents and my brother), #4, kinda #5 but just the one with a clear ending and not a lot, #7

[easye]

For number 1; I mean games you can not pick up at a large, Brick and Mortar retailer and typically are found instead in more niche game stores or retail locations.

I.e. if I can walk into a Wal-mart and get it (Ticket to Ride, Cards Against Humanity, etc) then I do not included those in this category.

[Disciple of Fate]

Everything but 4 and 5. There is quite a bit of overlap between some numbers and I dip in and out of them.

Board games like Spirit Island (is that niche, here it is) or Journeys in Middle Earth. Magic the Gathering is really the only CCG. For video games there is just a lot of variety, from Civilization and Total War to things like Red Orchestra, Fallout/Skyrim and (even still) Minecraft and HoMM 3 occasionally.

[pacific]

Mostly 1, 4 and 6

I would love to try CCGs but it's another hobby, and I couldn't believe how much people spend on it! I worry if, having a bit of an addictive personality, getting into those is a bit of a bad idea.. 

Not sure I ever play any truly 'niche' boardgames, but I try and do some reading on BGG and Tabletop monthly magazine of what is coming along. Although I do still like to play stuff like Carcasonne, if we are tired on a Friday evening and want to do something beyond watching a film.

Do a few RPGs (currently taking part in a standard WoTSC one and a Star Wars game). I haven't run my own group probably for about 20 years or more since I was at university, again its a time thing and I find I get more and more precious about my free time as I get older!

bobtheinquisitor - I have heard so many good things about Shadows of Brimstone. It is probably between that and Blackstone Fortress for our next 'dungeon crawl' board game. Really can't decide between the two! We are just playing through Arcadia Quest, which is a great PvE/PvP hybrid and is tremendous fun. 
For the classic Nintendo games, have you considered a Switch with their online service? It's very reasonably priced, and they've done a good job of updating the resolution on some of the classics so they look fine on a modern TV. 
Otherwise I would suggest a NES or SNES mini console, but last time I checked they have started going for insane prices!

[bobtheinquisitor]

I haven’t played Darkstone Fortress, so I can’t really comment on that. SoB is complex enough that we had to learn the rules over many games by focusing on different parts of gameplay at a time until we had them down. Now that we have them down, we can make our own missions, make our own heroes or enemies, and string together the missions into a narrative. The game has a few basic mission types and then more complicated or unique missions for a change of pace. There is a town element, and if you really enjoy that they have an expansion for a whole lot more town.

Generally the rules work pretty well, although the FB community has house rules for people who want the game to be more/less challenging, or for people who prefer to get rid of less satisfying elements. The best house rule in my opinion is that XP is shared across the group evenly so everyone levels up at the same time.

[Fugazi]

Mostly 1 for me. Lots of great board games out there. For 2 and 3, I've stuck mostly to the Fantasy Flight stuff. They can be a money pit, but deals can be had for the patient (and if you're willing to not play them at launch). Warhammer Invasion was a blast. WH40k: Conquest was good too. (I'm talking casual play. I neither know nor care what the tourney scene is or was.) I'm still picking up the LotR:TCG, and it's surprisingly fun, even solo.

For computer and console games, I tend not to have time anymore.

[pacific]

I've actually been spending a lot more time on retro games over recent years (generally 16-bit or earlier), the reason being you can play for 20-30 minutes on a game and have some fun and relax. So much of the modern stuff these days is 100hrs+ and I just don't have the time. I tried playing Elden Ring the other day (still not completed and I'm on about 160hrs) and that 30 minutes is spent just trying to work out what the f*ck is going on (while losing all of your collected souls!), especially if you haven't played for a few months.

I've also been enjoying a fairly new retro machine called the Evercade, for which they sell little cartridges from a specific company or genre. Yes my friend laughed at me as he has 4-squillion games for free on a modded PSP or something similar, but I really like the way the Evercade cartridges are curated (generally the games are the better ones), you get a little manual with the instructions and again I can just throw a cartridge in and play something light for 20 minutes. They have a handheld and console version too which is pretty handy, again made as convenient as possible. It seems to have been fairly popular so I don't think I'm the only person in that target demographic. 

[crispy78]

1. Niche Boardgames (Those not found at a Big Box retailer)
Borderline. Have a few that probably count as niche, but struggle to find anyone to play with. Can't be too complicated or it'll put my wife off, and youngest son has 'board-flipper' written all over him...

2. Collectible Card Games
Nope

3. Deck-Builder Games
Nope

4. Role-playing Games
Yes if a 2ish year gap between sessions counts as 'still playing'... Ah, time...

5. Mobile Games
Yep! Eldest son and I are both addicted to Star Wars: Galaxy Of Heroes, and I love me a cutesy Kairosoft game.

6. Console Games
Yep! XBox and Nintendo - currently got Game Cube, Wii (broken!), Switch, Switch Lite, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Wife remains sadly unconvinced of the requirement for an Xbox Series X.

7. Computer Games
Yep, so long as it'll run on my shitty old former work laptop. Have a large collection on GOG.com that I'll never get through. Mainly playing Civilization these days. I am intrigued by Dwarf Fortress but I have an inkling I would bounce off it pretty hard.

[Fugazi]

Mar 1, 2024 6:59:14 GMT -5 pacific said:

I've actually been spending a lot more time on retro games over recent years (generally 16-bit or earlier), the reason being you can play for 20-30 minutes on a game and have some fun and relax. So much of the modern stuff these days is 100hrs+ and I just don't have the time. I tried playing Elden Ring the other day (still not completed and I'm on about 160hrs) and that 30 minutes is spent just trying to work out what the f*ck is going on (while losing all of your collected souls!), especially if you haven't played for a few months.

I've also been enjoying a fairly new retro machine called the Evercade, for which they sell little cartridges from a specific company or genre. Yes my friend laughed at me as he has 4-squillion games for free on a modded PSP or something similar, but I really like the way the Evercade cartridges are curated (generally the games are the better ones), you get a little manual with the instructions and again I can just throw a cartridge in and play something light for 20 minutes. They have a handheld and console version too which is pretty handy, again made as convenient as possible. It seems to have been fairly popular so I don't think I'm the only person in that target demographic. 

Yeah this is my frustration too. A lot of the top-tier games require a lot of investment and if you take a break for life or whatever then goooooooood luck getting back into it. I picked up an hdmi converter recently to plug in my old genesis (Sega Mega Drive to the rest of the world) to a modern tv. Like you say, you can pop it on for 15 min then set it down, and that’s part of the appeal.

[Fugazi]

Mar 1, 2024 7:08:40 GMT -5 crispy78 said:

4. Role-playing Games
Yes if a 2ish year gap between sessions counts as 'still playing'... Ah, time...
Dwarf Fortress but I have an inkling I would bounce off it pretty hard.

RPGs: that’s hardcore compared to me. I’m at the “collect a few books with every intention to play but never find time” stage. Latest is Free League’s LotR game.

Dwarf Fortress: that’s in my Steam pile of shame. What’s holding me back is the initial learning curve

[crispy78]

We're only occasional, maybe once a year, but pretty hardcore on the RPG front. I play with my brother and his mates, which includes 2 actors, 2 former GW employees, and the entire group except me do a pretty intense LARP game too. I was slightly intimidated on the first session, when one of the players showed up with a 40+ page hand-written dream journal for his character, as merely one part of his extensive back-story...

We have 2 games on the go at the 'moment' - a very long-running Call Of Cthulhu game set in Victorian Britain, and we're also playing a homebrew 40K RPG using the same old Call Of Cthulhu rule set. Technically we've also got a Vampire: The Masquerade game in progress, but we've not played that for probably half a dozen years now...