by houjix1138
monkehbwoy wrote:
Yes, of course. And it baffles me. It seems that all FFG has to do is wave a hand and people will buy their games. Or in this case put Star Wars on the side of the box and people will come screaming and frothing at their mouth and throw money at them.
What happened to critical thinking?
What happened to critical thinking?
Maybe people have thought about it.
I saw this mentioned in another thread about chess and comparing it to Netrunner which is weird as that was how I used to describe SW CCG compared to most other CCGs. It was chess, everything else was checkers.
I think chess it a wonderful game, as Netrunner may be, but I don't really feel like sitting down and playing it on a regular basis. Same with certain board games that have a great level of complexity, they are great once is a while. It's often the simpler ones, be it mechanics, setup, whatever that see a greater frequency at the table. SW LCG may be simpler, but simpler doesn't always mean bad.
The deck building alone has me really intrigued. While simpler on the surface, there's quite a lot going when you start analyzing the impact the group has on your deck as a whole. It's no longer just add 3x or 4x of all the good cards.(an over simiplification I know, but not completely far from the truth for some games). There's enough going on in the engagements that it makes it much more tactical than a game like Magic, but it plays quick enough to allow for multiple games to be played within a reasonable block of time.
There's room enough in the TCG/LCG landscape for SW for those that do not want the rich, but sometimes overwhelming experience of a game like Netrunner or AGOT, the OMG I can't believe this game has been going for almost 20 years and it's still just as dull as the day it was released Magic, or the WTH experience of Yu-gi-oh.