Tell Me! Does Zombies!!! suck?
Sep. 14th, 2007 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyI've been wondering this for a while, but I thought I'd put it to the teeming masses.
I'm no boardgame snob. No hardcore gamer, who has learned German so he could play Cataan before Mayfair got the English version out. I enjoy the Euro games, but I also enjoy simpler things, games whose main reaction is "well isn't that clever", like a good game of Fluxx or some Cheapass things.
So, how to explain my dissatisfaction with Zombies!!!? I've played it a few times, but I've noticed that it seems to take way too long to play, and in the end the winner is usually determined by a play of cards (alternate food source and skateboard, in one case, which are a great combo). A decent gameplay would be nice, I guess. But the endgame is just kinda annoying for some reason. Maybe it's because it's just a matter of squirming towards the final card or something, but the game just leaves me with a sense of dissatisfaction.
But it's obviously very popular. And people can't be playing a 3 hour game they don't enjoy, right?
We're gonna hopefully get to play Mall of Horror tonight
I'm no boardgame snob. No hardcore gamer, who has learned German so he could play Cataan before Mayfair got the English version out. I enjoy the Euro games, but I also enjoy simpler things, games whose main reaction is "well isn't that clever", like a good game of Fluxx or some Cheapass things.
So, how to explain my dissatisfaction with Zombies!!!? I've played it a few times, but I've noticed that it seems to take way too long to play, and in the end the winner is usually determined by a play of cards (alternate food source and skateboard, in one case, which are a great combo). A decent gameplay would be nice, I guess. But the endgame is just kinda annoying for some reason. Maybe it's because it's just a matter of squirming towards the final card or something, but the game just leaves me with a sense of dissatisfaction.
But it's obviously very popular. And people can't be playing a 3 hour game they don't enjoy, right?
We're gonna hopefully get to play Mall of Horror tonight
