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What's that one game that has great promise, and everything looks good on the surface, but underneath is your worst nightmare? Could you fix it and how? Any games that are serviceable but can easily fall apart (only work with right group, factions, map, w/e) that you love anyhow?
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You pretty much just described Talisman for me.
I don't know how I'd fix it though
Is there anyway to fix Terra Mystica so that it's not broken?
The D&D Adventure series games. I like the easy to play dungeon crawling, but the slow chipping away of player health with how the phases go, it feels like you just have to slog through it until you reach that one important tile you need buried in the stack. There's a better game in the box, and I'm sure the rules would only need a little modification to make it all work.
>What's that one game that has great promise, and everything looks good on the surface, but underneath is your worst nightmare? Could you fix it and how?
Seafall. Holy shit, just throw something other than Exploration and Research a bone. 90% of mid to late game glory comes from that skill. My brother set up a good economy and gets last place every time now because glory is only arbitrarily rewarded now from picking the right number on the tomb map and getting a shit ton of points. Whoever distributed the rewards for this game is retarded and makes me appreciate Xia of all things as a relatively well balanced sandbox game.
Battle Star Galactica
I fucking love this game, but I've only been able to get my group to play it once, and the one time we played the cylons didn't do anything (only contributed negatives cards like literally one time), and then the humans lost anyways. I keep wanting to play it but I dont want to be an asshole who keeps pushing for one game, especially since it takes a long while to play.
Use the starting go handicaps from the app version of the game or auction off races with vp at the start of the game.
>starting go handicaps
starting vp handicaps
There are supposed to be at least 4 races that are well balanced against each other. I just don't know which 4 of the races they are. :(
Ikea Bjursta double-extend table, birch color (my living room is green).
>What's that one game that has great promise, and everything looks good on the surface, but underneath is your worst nightmare?
DungeonQuest. Dungeon crawler is probably my favorite genre and the components are great. Unfortunately, the "game" ISN'T a game. It's the slowest manual movie ever. You don't really make choices, you watch stop-motion cardboard video that's randomly generated from start to finish.
>Could you fix it and how?
I don't think I could. I try to fix any game I don't like but DQ has problems starting at the core and spreading out to every single component. Ironically, DQ was made even worse by the revised edition by making combat literally rock paper scissors.
>Any games that are serviceable but can easily fall apart (only work with right group, factions, map, w/e) that you love anyhow?
Xia Legends of a Drift System. It's like what if you took a handful of the worst mechanics in gaming and made all of them work to add more flavor to the game and build an emergent story. You really need someone who understands that Xia is the opposite of a competitive or point-driven game, and is supposed to be about shenanigans. I normally hate that excuse but this is the one game that gets it right.