Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.
PANDEMIC
The Researcher calls the Medic to lament the lack of a research station in Iraq. Turns out the Medic knows a guy and makes it happen. Then the Research takes a ferry to Shanghai and catches a flight on a station to station run to Baghdad. While in Baghdad, the researcher takes out a bunch of zombies and heads to Cairo for some well-deserved down time.
Then the Researcher draws Khartoum (Yellow) and San Paulo (Yellow).
Zombies surge in Mumbai, making the situation more serious while the red death worsens in Ho Chi Minh City, taking it to the brink.
The situation:
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PANDEMIC
So, do we proceed with the Cairo plan?
There's probably a Maltese Falcon joke in there somewhere.
PANDEMIC
I'm still good with it. Between the two of us now we have three Red cards and four Yellow cards, so we're looking pretty good for both cures (and should probably hang, like, y'know?).
PANDEMIC
For the Medic's turn, I think we're probably better off if they stay with cleansing cities rather than getting involved in cures. They're just too darn good at it. If we're lucky (I give it about a 30% chance), the Scientist will pick up an extra Red card on her turn and we'll have no need of the Sydney card anyway, but even if not, we're close enough not to be too worried.
PANDEMIC
Yeah, we have specialties for a reason. So, regardless of what the Medic should do, I think heading to Cairo is still my best play right now.
PANDEMIC
Come to the Dark side...
Semi-related:
For someone that has never really played video games, at home or online, how would I purchase Pandemic to play on my own computer? or online with my sister and her kids?
(My computer is a PC and I have an iPhone. My webcam is disabled and I prefer it to stay that way, but I'm fine with screen sharing.)
You can get it from Steam.
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You'll have to install the Steam client and create an account, though.
You can get it from Steam.
Cool, thanks. I never explored this option before because I far prefer playing board games IRL, and because my only non-cable internet option has a max download speed of 8 Mbps, but I recently bit the Comcast bullet so I can Internet multitask now.
You'll have to install the Steam client and create an account, though.
Ok, that's not a problem, but (and I realize these questions probably sound stupid):
Do I own the game?
Do I have to be online/logged in to play?
Not stupid at all.
It's sort of like Kindle for games, in that if Steam goes away then you you'd lose access to the games you got with it, but there's no subscription to Steam so there's no ongoing cost to keep the games. You do kinda have to be online to play, though if you know you're going to be offline you can put it into offline mode and still use the games. Also if you lose your Internet connection while playing a game, it will keep working (unless it's multiplayer over the Internet or otherwise requires being online).
I have several board games in video game format since I like them but often don't have anyone to play with.
