Comments on: Dominion Review

By: Алексей

Алексей — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:39:16 +0000

... Хм ...

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:37:22 +0000

I’ve worked out what that font reminds me of now, it’s those ‘Sold Out’ budget PC games. Dominion is not going to look symmetrical no matter how many loopy Os you put in it, Rio!

I quite like Dominion but it’s not a very sociable game. What mostly happens is that we’ll all sit down, read out lists of cards like Rain Man for a bit (with the occasional “Oh, bastard!” as piles go) and then count up who wins. To me it feels like it’s missing some key component, if it had a little more direct interaction between players it’d be a real classic.

By: jarowdowsky

jarowdowsky — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:32:45 +0000

Is it really bad to admit I haven’t picked it up because of the font? With the group of people play with, we don’t get a chance to play that often, so we’re still enjoying Agricola, 1960, War on Terror, C&C:A (hopefully!) – and every time I see the game on the shop’s shelf… Well I just recoil from the cover and move on.

With board games being such physical objects it just seems like the aesthetics are actually pretty important to me though (loath as I am to admit it). If I do buy it, I think it’ll be online where I don’t have to look at the cover in the queue (who am I kidding, I dream of the days when a game shop still had queues…).

Race for the Galaxy might come up first, I’m tempted to pick up a card-driven game for us to try and I think that might go across better (though that seems to have enough strange design choices of its own)

Anyone got any other suggestions or recommendations on a good card-based (non-collectible) game to try, for multiple players? Wish there was something based more on the real Space Race, that’d go down a fucking treat at work.

By: robojoel

robojoel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:59:11 +0000

apologies for typos by the way

By: robojoel

robojoel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:58:40 +0000

Yes, when I bought htis and played it I htough it was shit, BUT having forced myself to play a few more games I saw its amazing potential, not entirely my cup of tea but close enough to keep me playing.
My mate always used to make me play magic, I could never be arsed with the amount of time/money sink it would obviously require to be good at magic, so I was happy to basically be a doomed training partner playing the decks he constructed to spar with me. but I COULD see how great a game it was.
Dominion is kind of like getting into magic, colllecting all the cards, building your decks and testing them against other losers (bigger and smaller than yourself) BUT IN 30 MINUTES
Bang
done
over with
no more investment (of course you want the expansions though…..)
no more thinking
no more planning
Self contained in that 30 minutes
I like it, and can see why other people like it a whole lot more
Not enough goblins to kill in it for me though

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:34:39 +0000

Norse, it definitely seems like a game where you can mash out some big aggressive GOLD GOLD GOLD strategy, but I’d imagine a crafty player could demolish that strategy with some nice card combos. I dunno. I’m not that guy, I ain’t that good.

I like it for what it is. I bet someone who is good at it would destroy other players nine times out of ten.

By: Wookie

Wookie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:06:15 +0000

We are still waiting for another donwtime town episode!

By: Death and Taxis

Death and Taxis — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:25:34 +0000

I didn’t want to like this game but I found it very addictive the first time we played. Made the mistake of playing it again right after a game of BSG and the lack of a narrative really stood out. Which is not important if you don’t care about narrative. I care about narrative.

But Dominion is a very clever game, very addictive and is even better with the expansions.

By: norse

norse — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:59:57 +0000

Naah Rab – I can’t agree with ‘it’s a gamer’s game’. You and Matt Drake of Drake’s Flames are singing it’s praises to the high heavens, but it’s not that good. It’s addictictive, I’ll give you that. It’s fast paced, I’ll give you that. & as the games last 15 minutes you’ll want another and another. It’s like Belgian chocolates. But it’s a tad repetitive. It is a tad samey. & as my 7 year old son nailed the Sod-Action-Buy-Gold-Buy-Victory strategy and kept beating me for weeks on end, I was glad to see the dastardly thing go on ebay! Now, if we’re talking card games – the Daddy is Magic: The Gathering – and I haven’t stopped playing that since DTT episode 8 (& oh! my bank manager loves you!)

By: Wolfman

Wolfman — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:46:35 +0000

Duh: Half an hour, I should pay more attention