Week 2 Video Game Surge
This week I played Antihero, Heroes of Might and Magic, and Carcassonne. I'll not bury the lede: I didn't like any of them. I guess I should have thought better of a game with Carcass in its name. Carcassonne is a board game turned video game, and as I like Dominion and Splendor, two board-games-turned-video-games, I thought I'd at least think this was average. It might be average. But the tutorial is not average. Link tiles together and put your meeples on them and close roads! Why would I close a road? A few tile-laying-rounds, I figured out that the game wants you to create the largest ring road possible so you can claim the most land. Actually, I'm not sure. I'm assuming, based on the fact that the game made a lot of happy noises when that happened, and some of my meeples were returned to me. Also there are monasteries. You can get points for playing them, but it isn't like you get to choose. You just play the next tile in the stack. Look, I'm in the mid...