Late in the Game! – Borderlands The Pre-Sequel

Yo! Folks! This is our first installment of a video+streaming series where we play Late in the Game!. We take excellent games that have had their hype long since pass but are even better precisely because of this. Our first Late in the Game! will be Borderlands – The Pre-Sequel. Space Exploration, but on the ground, on wacky planets with wacky characters. And guns. Lots of guns!

Whooooohoooo! Come along and enjoy! Or get your own cheap copy of the Handsome Collection and play along. The videos on this will be linked here in this article.

Talisman – The Ancient Fantasy Classic

Talisman and it’s extensions are a game from the time before boardgames were today’s sophisticated art form, and it shows. Some would say in a good way and I would tend to agree. A boardgame from the dawn of fantasy gaming, Talisman by todays boardgame standards is nigh absurdly simplistic, unoptimized and random-driven to a silly extent. A prime example of wonderfully mindless old-school Fantasy fun. Trivial to pick up and get going it offers hours and hours of random fantasy quest competition with little to no opportunities for cooperation.

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Talisman

Talisman und seine Erweiterungen sind ein Spiel aus der Zeit, bevor Brettspiele eine anspruchsvolle Kunstform waren, wie sie es heute sind, und das merkt man. Als Brettspiel aus den Anfängen des Fantasy-Spiels ist Talisman nach heutigen Brettspiel-Standards nahezu absurd simpel, nicht optimiert und in einem albernen Ausmaß vom Zufall bestimmt. Ein Paradebeispiel für herrlich geistlosen Fantasy-Spaß der alten Schule. Es ist trivial, wenn man es in die Hand nimmt und loslegt, und bietet stundenlange Fantasy-Quest-Wettbewerbe mit wenig bis gar keinen Kooperationsmöglichkeiten.

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