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ldsdbomber wrote: ... I am gonna Neuroshima Hex your asses

N. Hex is using email addresses for player-matching, not GameCenter. Uber-lame.

yes I noticed that, and just got my ass handed to me by someone who seemed to know what all the tiles did. It's an awesome conversion otherwise

Heyo,

I just recently got in on the iOS bandwagon from Droid. Only game I've got is TTR Pocket because it's free. I've got the free versions of N. Hex and BattleCON, but havent taken the dive to pay for anything yet. Part of me feels like it'll just open the flood gates, but we'll see how long I last. Really liking N. Hex and starting to crave more than the 2 starting factions!

Gamer tag (for only TtR now): Ska_baron

Shocking, I know.

Buy Ascension now and thank me later. Best $5 you'll ever spend.

You know what? I'm playing Ascension at the moment but it has zero story to it.

It could be about anything. It seems to me to be mindless playing of cards to get other stuff (honor). There is no immersion in any kind of story at all. There is very limited strategy and a lot of 'removing that in case the other guy gets it' moves, which is way too much like the type of euros I hate. Its more like Race for the Galaxy which I also think is a bit lame. The only difference with Ascension is it is new.

I don't like this because its like being addicted to something, not because it is good, but because it is easy and you churn through games in 10 minutes. I find it a bit like the free windows game, minesweeper, quite addictive, but ultimately brainless.

Ascension actually has quite a good story, with lots of background on the world involved. The problem is that it's scattered: most of it comes from flavor text on the cards, but some can also be found at the Ascension.com site. And that's not how most players want their background, so few are bothering too much with it. It would be nice if GG pulled together some sort of coherent package for everyone to enjoy.

But, really, so much of it seemed obvious to me after about my fourth game (not the specifics, but the general feel): four factions, either together or working on their own try to increase their power to slay an ultimate evil. Mechana is trying to build a fantastic weapon; Void kills (sometimes itself) to become more powerful; Lifebound chains together to make weak units strong; and Enlightened uses knowledge (card draws, essentially) to learn how to fight. That seemed pretty thematic to me, especially for a $5 purchase.

But, really, after typing all that, I was reminded of just how utterly pointless the entire concept of "theme" is in boardgames. You either see it or you don't, for any given game; it either works for you, or it doesn't. I've seen people claim, with a straight face, that Dominion has theme — that's proof enough right there of what an abstract concept it is as it applies to boardgames. So I should probably just delete this ... except I've invested all of this typing time already. So fuck it.

As far as your gameplay concerns ... don't know what to tell you, other than "play more." Possibly, "play different people." If "brainless" is your final verdict, then you're just not playing the same game the rest of us are.

LOL — just realized this was the "GameCenter ID" thread. I probably just set the record for longest post in a "what's your handle?" thread ...

Good point about the theme. I guess there is one if I am looking hard enough (on the website) but there is no immersion in a storyline when you are playing it and I think that this is the key to 'theme'.

I also recognise that there are some strategies but there is no bluffing and no real direct attacks on opponents (or at least very few). I still think it plays more like RftG with a small bit of player interaction.

I've played about 80 games with a variety of people and AI and I think I'm done with it. Nightfall looks like it has a bit of a story , so maybe I'll give that a go.

If you think Ascension plays itself, Nightfall is a fucking nightmare. (see what I did there!)

Yo! I'm back on iOS and this time I ain't going anywhere!!! Got my iDevice for free fitty. QPCloudy.

Playing: TTR Pocket and Ascension, all exps and promo pack, also Carcassonne.

Bump for MOAR .

Oh well. I had no idea there was already a thread about this.