[Boardgame] Shadowrun: Crossfire

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[Boardgame] Shadowrun: Crossfire

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I just learned about this last night browsing through Dice Tower reviews. Has anyone else checked it out?

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1353 ... -crossfire

Co-op Deckbuilding (I know, I know) looks to be coming out next month.

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Will I get a response if I add that there is something of a campaign feel in that characters gain Karma which they can use to buy permanent upgrades?
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Aren't you just now trying to get out of the Pathfinder game that does that?

It actually lowers my interest to make it more like an RPG, but that's my issue.
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I played the Pathfinder Card Game more than any other board game ever (as an adult, excluding Chess). I am getting out of it because I played everything it had to offer. My only complaint about Pathfinder is the obnoxious setup time, which this game doesn't have.

Shadowrun is closer to Marvel Legendary than Pathfinder Card Game.
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RISE UP, THREAD!

So I'm looking over Shadowrun: Crossfire and the High Caliber expansion and was wondering what folks thought about it? I'd be playing it solo and do enjoy the setting. Is it easy to keep track of multiple characters and are the rules somewhat straight forward? Roughly how long to play a game?

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This was my biggest regret of a purchase at Gencon when it released. I love Shadowrun the rpg. It's too bad the name got attached to a crappy game.
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I've also read the bad reviews of the base game. The expansion supposedly fixed some of the issues but I'd like to get the OO scoop as well before adding yet another box to my growing pile. Then again my Kickstarter copy of Defenders of the Last Stand should be coming in a week or two so that may be enough to distract me from another purchase.

It seemed like it should have been a fun game with the Shadowrun setting.
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Played it twice and promptly sold it. So my review is probably easy to determine. :wink:
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Yea, hepcat sold it before I had a chance to stop over and play.
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I like it. I've played a half dozen times or so. I have the expansion but haven't had a chance to play it yet. Despite my enjoyment of the game I can't really defend it. It's very difficult and very repetitive. If you want a challenging co-op deck builder get one of the Legendary Encounters games. Firefly next month!
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Now THAT I can wholeheartedly support. The Legendary Encounter series are great games!
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coopasonic wrote:If you want a challenging co-op deck builder get one of the Legendary Encounters games. Firefly next month!
I have no doubt that Joe will end up with that one and want to play it to change out with the boardgame. Even if he doesn't get it immediately, I have no doubt that he's a prime target for a player at DGMs.
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Legendary Encounters Firefly is coming next month? That's pretty soon and I know I definitely wanted to buy that game. Shiny!
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$iljanus wrote:Legendary Encounters Firefly is coming next month? That's pretty soon and I know I definitely wanted to buy that game. Shiny!
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That's one that I won't even try and wait for a sale on....

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$iljanus wrote:RISE UP, THREAD!

So I'm looking over Shadowrun: Crossfire and the High Caliber expansion and was wondering what folks thought about it? I'd be playing it solo and do enjoy the setting. Is it easy to keep track of multiple characters and are the rules somewhat straight forward? Roughly how long to play a game?

Thanks for the input as usual!
During my obsession over solo games in the last few months, this was one that came up repeatedly as being really good, albeit with the High Caliber Ops expansion as noted. I did read it was difficult, but otherwise a solid experience. I value the opinions of known characters here more than random weirdos on the internet so seeing a dissenting opinion surprises me.
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Smoove_B wrote:I value the opinions of known characters here more than random weirdos on the internet so seeing a dissenting opinion surprises me.
For the record, hep and I are, in fact, random weirdos on the internet.

edit: Also these are opinions, they are known to differ. hepcat's likes a lot of crappy games games I don't enjoy, so having him dislike an ok game is to be expected.
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No, you're known weirdos. :wink:
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Everyone has their own prejudices when it comes to board games. Personally, I love thematic games that tell a story far more than I do any other genre. As Zarathud has noted before, that usually means games with cards. Tons of cards. So many cards that you could make a suit out of them and walk around the neighborhood announcing to the world at large that you are King Card from the land of Cardtopia and that you bring Cardy Goodness to all the men, women and children you meet...sometimes with force, and then often from behind a glass plate and using a phone.

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Oh yeah, Coop likes Tash Kalar. That alone makes him suspect in my book.

I wonder what King Card would do if he were here...

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He needs to commit. You're not one of us until your nether regions chafe from the friction of a linen finish.
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Well, I guess when you bring a thread back from the dead sometimes it just doesn't come back right...
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Sometimes dead is bettah.
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hepcat wrote:Oh yeah, Coop likes Tash Kalar. That alone makes him suspect in my book.
You are wrong. Coop LOVES Tash Kalar. You do not speak ill of Tash Kalar. Any who disagree for any reason other than "it's really only good with two" is wrong and should be punished. The two player thing is totally legit though.
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Any game where the victory shout consists of "I MADE A STRAIGHT LINE!" is immediately crossed off my to play list. :P
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hepcat wrote:Sometimes dead is bettah.
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I can attest that hepcat did TRY to like Tash-Kalar. Frankly, it has no theme.

And my gaming preference looks for combos and engines of synergy. So I'm with hepcat. :)
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I've realized over the years that I simply don't like 90 percent of all abstract games that come out. I think I'm just too dumb for them. :think:
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I really enjoy SR:CF. It's brutally hard at times but we love that. It's one of the games we've played the most.
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Got the expansion at GenCon and have played the game more since then than in the previous year. My fiancee loves the game and it is pretty much guaranteed to hit the table every time we game even if just for one run.

Also a big positive is the speed at which you can get going from the 'let's play that' to playing. This alone has it and Hero Realms beating out Legendary: Encounters to the table if time is an issue.
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hepcat wrote:Any game where the victory shout consists of "I MADE A STRAIGHT LINE!" is immediately crossed off my to play list. :P
Connect Four was one of my gateway games. :cry:
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This was mine.

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My biggest gateway game was Stratego. Oh, how I loved Stratego.
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LordMortis wrote:My biggest gateway game was Stratego. Oh, how I loved Stratego.
Mine too. I had a hell of a time getting anyone to play it with me more than once.
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My aunt bought me Dune, but Car Wars and Talisman were my gateway games in high school.
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God, I loved the microgame series. :wub:

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Zarathud wrote:My aunt bought me Dune, but Car Wars and Talisman were my gateway games in high school.
I literally never found anyone willing to play Car Wars with me. I built dozens of custom cars, practiced maneuvers, created crazy stadium combat areas... but never actually played a competitive game.
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Zarathud wrote:My aunt bought me Dune, but Car Wars and Talisman were my gateway games in high school.
After Basic and Expert D&D Car Wars and Illuminati were my first games you couldn't just buy at Meijer. (You could by Dungeon and oh how I loved that game as well. My first foray into rat lever/food games.)
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RedWarlord and I would spend entire weekends in junior high and high school careening our weapon festooned cars around the giant mall map they released at one point. That was easily one of our top 5 games.
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