@dagas: Haha, when you find them, you lock them down quick-sharp!
What happened was that we got a free starter deck each in our PAX giftbags, and then we tried them out one morning, and I got pissed off at the complexity of it, while she became interested in working out all the different rules and exceptions. She picked up the game to better learn it, and now I play it waaaay more than her, haha.
@FluxWaveZ: I came to it totally fresh, as a game to play online with my fiancée who was intrigued by it. Now I'm hooked and play it most nights, and far far more than her, haha. I recommend it. It's easy to pick up.
Paid over the average for SMB alone. I got the Introversion Bundle a few weeks back, and wasn't terribly thrilled with the games included, although I still thought that it was well worth the money, simply for experimentation's sake.
Next sale purchase/hope is probably Amnesia if it shows up on Steam during their upcoming Feast of Winter sale. Really should have picked it up at Hallowe'en, but here's hoping I don't come to regret that inaction.
Of course there are B games. Look at titles like Deadly Premonition, or You Don't Know Jack. Each of these are games that are never aimed at the 'A' market, and that come with a few rough edges, just like any B movie.
In fact, similar to from whence the 'B movie' term originated, studios will often have one team working on their 'A' title, whilst others work on the lower-expectation 'B' titles. Unfortunately we haven't yet moved into the highly intriguing prospect of titles coming in an A/B package, as the movies of the 50s did. Mind you, there are certainly comparable example of it, such as the Humble Bundles, for instance, which often combine lesser-known, more experimental content alongside 'crowd-pleaser' reliable closer-to-A content such as Braid.
Log in to comment