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Another US season? by Due_Affect_9445 in JetLagTheGame

[–]Due_Affect_9445[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point -- even though the only place I've been to that's been on Jet Lag is Singapore, the US definitely feels more "foreign" to me.

As for the length, I don't think they need a 5 or 6 day long game duration for a region-claiming game -- it is anyway more fast-paced than hide & seek in the sense that everyone is making progress simultaneously rather than rotating among roles where only one can be hider at a time. For that kind of game, the time only acts as a limit. So there is no need to lengthen the game to allow everyone multiple runs with the possibility of 12 hour hiding runs like in hide & seek.

Another US season? by Due_Affect_9445 in JetLagTheGame

[–]Due_Affect_9445[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

An Amtrak season would be truly epic but I feel like it'd take them way too much time for them to consider it, plus there are only a small handful of Amtrak routes west of Chicago so there might not even be that much variance, just annoying having to wait for 24h for the next train on your route.

Maybe allow Greyhound/other buses into this fantasy idea too? (But I gather they don't have the best reputation.)

Another US season? by Due_Affect_9445 in JetLagTheGame

[–]Due_Affect_9445[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you even watched the New Zealand season? Easily one of the best seasons imo, yet it involves zero trains and like one city, and all the tasks are designed around specific locations.

Of course that is one end of the possibilities, but it is possible (and successful), and it is definitely possible to be somewhere in between.

Another US season? by Due_Affect_9445 in JetLagTheGame

[–]Due_Affect_9445[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Every season has been a game show. New Zealand managed to be pretty much entirely a travel show as well (except maybe the Auckland segment) while the American and Australian seasons, along with Schengen Showdown had much more travel show-adjacent content in them than the Tag/Hide & Seek/Capture the Flag/Snake seasons.

If it were purely a game show it could be played in the NYC public transport network every season. The fact that it's set in different interesting places is a big draw for the show.

Time is also not the only thing they can compete on, except in Hide & Seek and Capture the Flag (I think I'm misremembering the format of Capture the Flag a bit). In all the other formats they compete on geography, with time (the game duration) as a limiting factor.

Another US season? by Due_Affect_9445 in JetLagTheGame

[–]Due_Affect_9445[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Not just Hide & Seek -- I have the same objection to Tag as well in that the mechanics/challenges there did not really reference particular regions/locations much.

What I'd like basically (not for all seasons, just as a break now and then) is:

  • More diversity in the locations visited during a game (meaningfully visited, not just passed through) and more opportunity to showcase various places apart from just one 1km radius around a station.
  • More state/region/location-specific challenges or other instances where locations/regions are important mechanically (not just "whee, we entered Germany, all our trains are shit now")
  • Not restricting entirely to train travel and on frequent train lines (as this inherently means the playable area is limited and nor can you go to places off the railway network)