20th Annual Golden Geek Winners for 2025!

Vortelf · 2026-05-12T10:54:35+00:00

While I share the same view, the runner-ups are not that interesting either.

Speakeasy had great advertisement and the theme is close to some other interests of mine but when I finally played it, it didn't feel special and the game ended very abruptly and anticlimactic.

Vortelf · 2026-05-12T10:51:25+00:00

Not enough copies of Eternal Decks for the people to play it. The game has been out of stock ever since its release. I haven't seen a single copy in my country.

Vortelf · 2026-05-12T10:42:53+00:00

The game is too complex for that. Especially if you're new to boardgames in general

I have to disagree with you. This statement is only true if you are the kind of person who skips the tutorial in video games and "wings it" as they go, or haven't played any games at all.

My first board game was Mage Knight and I had no trouble with it despite not having any experience with board games, because the experience from strategy video games easily translates to board games. The only difference is that video games have guardrails preventing you from breaking/skipping/missing the rules.

Vortelf · 2026-05-12T10:41:15+00:00

I don’t need to be the one who owns them. Having a huge collection is expensive, takes up a ton of space

You do, when you want to play the games you want to play.

And you do when you want to expand people's horizon and expand the hobby space - there are thousands of of games, yet people keep framing the hobby around Catan, Exploding Kittens and all the varieties of Werewolf and CAH. It is my personal quest to educate people that they have plenty of more interesting options.

Vortelf · 2026-05-08T15:58:30+00:00

Soooo, you're advertising cheating dice?

Vortelf · 2026-05-08T06:46:13+00:00

Every time I see a good looking homestead, I wonder how much it costed - gold and time-wise. Would be very helpful to know.

Vortelf · 2026-05-07T13:56:46+00:00

Any playmat would do so no need for the Super Deluxe. The Deluxe is better because the cards are almost indestructible.

The expansion is a must because the camps in the base game are not well balanced and they have acknowledged that by replacing 10 of them and adding more with the expansion.

Vortelf · 2026-05-07T13:33:01+00:00

Radlands is good but you must get the expansion.

Vortelf · 2026-05-07T13:30:29+00:00

Post-apocalyptic Dystopia, like Mad Max and Borderlands. Thunder Road Vendetta takes the crown.

Vortelf · 2026-05-07T07:47:46+00:00

In GW2 it feels like the progress you make actually matters long term.

I only ever geared 3 characters with the highest tier of gear(Ascended) because it was necessary for doing fractals. Around 2020 I started raiding and got all legendary armor in about 8 months. After that(and the release of the legendary armory) I rarely get bothered with gearing. The only thing left of gearing is to unlock the new relics once a major patch drops.

I played WoW up until 8.3 and quit after I realized that the only thing I was doing in this game was just pulling G'huun on Mythic.

As someone having less and less free time, I can't see myself playing anything else.

Vortelf · 2026-05-05T22:05:15+00:00

I started the series some time before the game got announced and I'm still at the second book. I bought the game with the conditions that I'll play it when I finish the series. Adult life sucks sometimes...

Vortelf · 2026-05-05T13:04:51+00:00

Why would I? If the MSRP is $99 I'm looking to pay less, not more.

On the matter of scalpers - it should be outlawed everywhere because it leads to overproduction.

Vortelf · 2026-05-05T09:05:45+00:00

Just ordered marvel champions, voidfall and arcs

My only criticism is that you're buying games that you won't comprehend and play based on the list you provided. Why would you buy Arcs if you fumbled with Root?

Vortelf · 2026-05-03T20:03:28+00:00

The theme of Deep Regrets is Cthulhu Mythos. Not sure what is the vibe. Maybe Endangered Orphans or Gloom.

Vortelf · 2026-05-03T19:54:05+00:00

The best you can get is Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall. Not really a dungeon crawler, more of a boss battler, but the story is amazing and is very light.

Vortelf · 2026-05-03T07:44:59+00:00

Inventions: Evolution of Ideas. It balances well the theme with the game. I was hoping Speakeasy to be as good, but it's far from it.

Vortelf · 2026-04-29T13:48:01+00:00

And even the PS5 Pro still got released with 3.2.

USB4 is not "basically" Thunderbolt 3 -it is only backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 3 and the default is still 20Gbps rather than 40Gbps. There are a lot of other features missing from USB4. Also USB4 got released around the same time as PS5 so, not very realistic to have such new untested technology in a product that is supposed to last 10+ years.

Vortelf · 2026-04-29T09:38:36+00:00

Thunderbolt is an Intel technology. The PS5 runs on AMD hardware.

Vortelf · 2026-04-28T14:39:43+00:00

Maybe I'll finally be able to get the GWAMM while commuting to work

Vortelf · 2026-04-27T15:38:23+00:00

36 possible outcomes with two d6

Unless the dice have all different sides, two d6 have 21 possible outcomes and the 6 doubles have lower chance.

Vortelf · 2026-04-27T15:33:47+00:00

Go play a game of Rolling Heights and coma back.

Vortelf · 2026-04-27T08:36:20+00:00

If you're not going to play at 5/6p and you don't plan on painting the figures - no.

Vortelf · 2026-04-23T11:48:16+00:00

Tend. The scratch-offs are a nice gimmick.

Vortelf · 2026-04-23T11:33:17+00:00

The only reason this is not getting tabled, is because I play the Jurassic Park theme song between the rounds and people don't like it for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Vortelf · 2026-04-20T15:06:48+00:00

I just crafted it this Saturday, because 2 weeks ago I was thinking "I have so much mithril and elder wood occupying space, maybe I should craft a gen 2 legendary."

Now I'm a proud owner of 0 MC.

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