Beyond Gamerdome Monday / 04.02.07 / 07:22PM / Joe
Had some good times on a very late night last Friday, as tons of people converged on Tony's for a game night. Did some We Love Katamari (I got 96% on the roll-up-animals level), did some Guitar Hero 1 & 2.
Did some Zombies, which the picture illustrates. I decided to use the base set, add in the dogs from Zombies 4, and included the mall expansion from Zombies 3. With the dogs, I gave each player the option of adding either X zombies or 2X dogs per non-building map tile. So we had several roving packs of wild hounds in our city.
I screwed up the mall thing though. I forgot to jump the mall 4-way tile in as soon as the mall front door was revealed... so the next mall tile pulled was a dead-end food court, effectively turning our mall into merely a Ruby Tuesday.
You'd think that this blind game of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was the dumbest activity of the night, but you'd be wrong...
The first voice you hear is me, suggesting that Cable is female. The two players - Josh and Steve - even chose their teams blind, so the total effect is irrevocably fair. Josh is playing the left hand team, which has Ruby Heart and I forget who else. Steve has Cable, mostly. In complete truth, they are not looking at the screen at all. Josh has played the game more, so he enters with the upper hand, but it turns out rather neatly close. Did I just spoil it?
After that, we did two games of TaleSpin, one where I reffed some newbies (a newbie won) and one with just me, Josh and Tony. I actually forget who won, since it was around 3am at that point. (EDIT: Tony won, using Prototype Jet Engine and the Baloo Passenger card.)
However, still feeling alert, we agreed to pull out a game of Fatal Frame, and this was probably the night's greatest mistake. By 5am, we still had no clear winner. Ugh. Overall, the game was slow to progress, but most games of Fatal Frame start out at a snail's pace because a methodical creepiness is very much in-theme. What really killed it was Tony playing The Repentance as we're all vying for the Shrine. Tony's Album Points were all tied up in Items, so it was a good play to try to destroy his opponents' ghost collection. However, this meant the game was looking at least another hour, since Tony was in sort of middling shape to go after the boss anyway. So we called it and dismissed before the sun rose. It would have been a great game, had it occurred around, say, 6pm.
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