With Christmas time just around the corner, I thought this would be a good time to figure out what kind of games would be good for gifts. With so many games out there, how would you know what games to buy as gifts. That is a really good question and I hope this article will help you potentially decide what direction to go for that gaming gift.
I think the first question you have to ask is who your game is for. Age is important as well as experience in gaming. I’ll start with age as this is pretty easy. If you are planning to buy a game for someone who is under the age of 18, then buying an age appropriate game is the first thing you would want to consider. There are games for the five years old and under, then five to eight years, eight to ten years, ten to fourteen years and everything in between. When someone is fourteen years and older, then they may potentially be playing games that are above good for ages eighteen and above.
This article is mainly going to focus on those games for the eighteen years old and above gifts. People who are interested in games at this age basically fall into two basic categories. These people are people who have played a lot of games and people who have not played many games or are not as familiar with games. In this age range, most people have the mental capacity to grasp all the concepts in the games but some games might be a little more complicated or have more happening to keep track of.
Most people who have played a lot of games are going to be familiar with games already and know what kind of games they might like or dislike. They might already be active in the board gaming industry by reading articles, blogs and watching videos about games. These gamers will probably already have a list of games they might want or would like to try out. Usually buying a game of this type of person is easier as you can just ask them what games they want or they might have a list of games they might like.
A good internet resource is board game geek. They have a website that people can go to ask questions about board games and keep up to date on the latest information. You can also create an account and make lists on these sites as a lot of people have done. People have want lists on here and all you would have to do is get a game from their want list on this site. Easy. You’re done.
If you want to buy a gaming gift for a person who has not played as many games, I would recommend a type of game called family game. Family games are called this because they usually have less pieces in the game, are less complicated then other games and are really fun and interesting. Some examples of family games are Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Pandemic, Splendor, Catan, Dominion, Azul or Codenames to name a few. In these modern board games, the rules are fairly simple and not much to read, but there can be multiple paths that people can take like chess. I also think that most of these games have some sort of theme to the game to keep it interesting.
Most family games are going to be about $20-$50 depending on the size, components and complexity of the game.
Another major thing to consider is the player count. Is this person you are buying the game for going to have a regular group of people that might want to play games or not. I feel that most people might have one regular other person to play games with and maybe a few others at times. Do they have kids and might the kids want to play is another good question.
Some games are specific for two player like Star Realms and can only play two player with some exceptions. Other games like Splendor can play at two player but the max number of players is four. If that person is going to regularly have five people to play games with, then another game might be better for them. Codenames is not good for two people but at higher player counts from four all the way up to twenty. I’m not sure I would play with more.
Many games play two to four players. Also three to five players. Games that play six or more players are usually not playable at lower player counts or are just not as fun.
I hope this gave you a good starting point on what game to gift someone. With so many different types of games out there, it can be confusing and hard to choose but there is probably going to be at least something out there for that person. Happy gaming.
After staining, I cut some strips of osb to glue to the bottom of the topper to act as stoppers to keep it from sliding off the table. Then I glued down some extra black fabric that would prevent the topper from scratching the pine top.
Today, I wanted to talk about a subject that I have been thinking about for a while now. What is interesting is that there are many factors that can contribute to this subject and how people feel about this. Just this past week, Tom Vasel touched on the subject and I thought brought up some valid points.
eople rate this game in their top five favorite games and have played it less then five times is not getting your value worth. How can you spend $100 on a game that you have played less then five times and call it one of your top favorite games of all time? There has got to be something wrong with that. Tom actually made a valid argument on this subject for me. If there were five people playing and it took you eight hours to play that would amount to about $13 for one player and come out to about three dollars a player per hour. When you look at it this way, that to me is pretty good value.
e is X-Wing. Ok, I probably have about $500 worth of X-Wing stuff. I’ve been playing X-Wing for about 3 years. I’m just going to average that I have about 15 sessions a year of X-Wing with 2 games per session lasting about one hour. That would be 90 games of X-Wing lasting about 90 hours. This is not as good of a per play per dollar value. But, I have spent at least another 30 hours thinking about the game and building lists. That would be 120 hours of X-Wing making the ratio a bit better. I also come away with excellent Star Wars models to display.
I’ve been really busy and haven’t had time to post anything recently. In the time off that I had, I came up with a topic that seemed interesting to me. The idea came to me partially from playing a few rounds of Battleborne Legacy.
lot of miniatures. I have not played this game either but from a video review, I learned that it is very challenging, long and the artwork is very controversial. I’m not sure I would really want to play either of these games and am highly likely to not play Kingdom Death Monster.
Realms. I’m not sure it is necessary to own both games but I am happy with the purchase.
ss a few people were not able to make it so all the alternates who were there were able to participate. I was really excited. Leading up to the tournament, I didn’t know what I was going to fly. I don’t like to fly the standard meta lists. I’m most familiar with an Asajj, Palob Syndicate Thug Scum list that I usually fly without Attani. I’ve recently tested switching the Syndicate out with N’Dru and missiles that seemed to do well. I also thought about flying a RAC/Ryad list that I usually test my lists out with. The last few days, I was playing around with Hotshot Co-Pilot and really liked it as I thought it would do well against the meta Parattani lists. In the end, I went with Rebel, two ship build with Han Solo and Poe Dameron.
per or he would just destroy my list. I put Han Straight on with the Shuttle. I made a couple grave mistakes in the beginning. My plan was to bump the shuttle with Han and use Hotshot with Baze to strip Omega and Whisper’s tokens and then get in some hits with Poe. My four straight brought me less then half an inch in front of the shuttle. At this point I was at range one of Whisper as well. Perhaps I should have decided to change targets to the shuttle at this point with it’s low agility and take out the Palpatine ability but went with my original strategy. The second mistake that I made was that I won the initiative bid at 99 point to his 100 but gave him initiative so he would have to move Whisper befor
e my Poe. This was good but in the end, really bad for me as after Han shot at Whisper and removed his tokens, Whisper shot before Poe so she got her focus back. Now my Poe had to shot at a ship with focus. After the first few rounds of shooting I took one shield off of Whisper and Poe went down. At this point it was a lost cause so I switched my target to the shuttle to try and get half points to help my MOV. The final outcome was a lost cause already so I made a daring move to try and get position but flew Han off the board. 0-100. This person went on to take top four in the tournament.
h Han re-rolling into zero hits. Poe rolling one focus out of seven defensive and offensive rolls. Then his Fen pulled out of engagement and my Poe K-Turned at a range two scout and a range three. Poe went down and I took a crit on Han reducing his pilot skill to zero. In the last round my opponent was finally able to shot off one of the scouts torpedoes and took Han out. 17-100. I don’t feel like I made any major mistakes in this game and felt it could have gone either way. I just took the wrong crit and rolled bad to not take Fen out.
with Palp, Backdraft and Quickdraw. I plan to target the shuttle this time as my opponent is not playing any arc dodgers. The shuttle goes down. But, this is the first time that my opponent has targeted Han first. Han goes down in the next round and there is Veteran Instincts on both Backdraft and Quickdraw so Poe has to move first. Not good. I get in some side shots on Quickdraw as I anticipate his move but Quickdraw is left with one shield. Then I guess wrong and am range two of Quickdraw and in Backdraft’s rear arc.