Wow... that guy REALLY likes his board games...

That dude has to be the coolest professor ever. So, the heavier and more time consuming a game, the better it is! Plus, who could have the balls to explain a board game in the middle of a huge crowd besides him?

i played just about every game he talks about, i am awesome

over 800!XD
Nice to have the money for all the games. And even the time to build it up. hehe

Why would you ever skip his class?

That guy makes me feel so much better about my life.

I've played all those games. Some of them I play on a regular basis. :/

I'm not even as cool as that guy and I don't play any games.
So very lonely. =|

I wish there was a bigger board gaming scene in the UK. Most I've managed to find is one guy who used to play Risk and Games Workshop. Warhammer is fine but sometimes you don't wanna have to spend 15 hours painting one mode, you wanna slap your pieces down and get playing there and then.

Just a few points...

First off... anyone else besides me think that this guy MADE IT A POINT to tell us he doesn't live with his parents?

Second: He gets excited easily.

Third: If this guy is married... I know that one day I will be too.

Fourth: I would take his class in a heartbeat.

Fifth: If I run out of Zurglings can I use extra Risk pieces?

Fantasy fiction professor? How the hell do you get that job, and where do I sign up?

Ohhh and I really want that car. 36k for the one I want. Maybe I'll trade in my Passat... damn.

The Mr.T part made it worth it

@Captain Impulse: Seriously.

I've apparently been doing my life all wrong.

Maybe I can become of professor of beer guzzling and masturbation or something, unless the position is already filled.

That guy is awesome and he's right about everything.

Except Talisman is boring as hell.

Twilight Imperium is crazy delicious. Does take the better part of an afternoon to play so my friends and I can only break it out every so often but on those happy days we research technology, plan invasions, and bribe each other for votes on an upcoming political agenda. I recall the game was an influence on Brad Wardell in the design of Galactic Civilizations as well.

nerdgasm caught on film.

Apparently nerds mated and strengthened the nerd gene, he is as close to purebred as I've ever seen.

He needs to be tranked and dragged back to his mothers basement for his own safety. The real world has too many awesome things and I fear his head will explode.

Total nerd-gasm from this guy....

And there was only like one shot of the Starcraft boardgame....well played Ashcraft, well played.

Descent is fucking awesome. Its the closest thing to diablo 2 the board game. Highly recommended.

@Dr Terror: They kinda broke the game with its later 2 expansion rules, but to the new campaign rules expansion is pretty darn awesome.

Glad that he realized the greatness in Talisman. :D

if you have played Puerto Rico yet, you're really missing out.

@TheSmiterer:

Try Warmachine and Hordes those games are pretty amazing and really fast, and you can play just 30 minutes with a battlegroup if you want. [www.privateerpress.com]
[www.privateerpress.com]
And all the minis are seriously hot. (I play protectorate of Menoth and Legions of Everblight)

@Veltis: No one plays small warmachine battlegroup games anymore. The whole WM/Horders thing has gone into larger battles now, and the cost has gone up greatly for that game. It used to be a selling point to play Wm that you just bought a battle box and went at it, but seriously, that hasn't been the case for years now.

Wow, the Mr.T imitation at the end made up for the nerdy board game fanatic, lol.

I agreed with him up to Talisman. It is the worst game I have ever played.

Starcraft is a good game though, as it Twilight Imperium. Both are quite long though (Twilight Imperium usually is 6 hours+)

@TheSmiterer: Board gaming is not something you usually do in a "scene", really its more of something you do with a group of friends. Lot of these board games now take quite a while to play, and you really gotta get a group of dependable friends to play.

Just picked up Descent: Journeys into the Dark this last weekend. Deffinatly worth checking out! Arkham Horror is another people really ought to look at if you a fan of Lovecraftian horror like me. Those folks at Fantasy Flight games really put together some top drawer board games.

I wish Game Workshop would get back into the boardgame scene. I don't know why they ever stopped makeing that gem of a game that was Warhammer Quest.

Oh and Talisman was probably the game that got me hooked on fantasy gameing way back in the day. The 4th edition is pretty damn great. But not as good as the 2nd.

I fucking hate boing boing.

I love how they say they crashed the con. I suppose that is true for all values of crashed that equal "got in legitimately". Next thing you know boardgames will start hacking the convention context.

@Cameroo: FFG does put out some duds though, but usually they are the ones they published, not developed internally.

The recent released "Dust" is pure and utter crap. Really boring and broken. It's Axis and Allies without anything that made Axis and Allies good. It plays like a game of risk with more randomness.

this is lame

@Kyle81: You are right, but from time to time we play with just 500 pts before going somewhere while the wifes finds out what they wanna do. And its not everyday we play an apocalypse (2000 pts+). And its true Warmachine is more expensive than it was, like gas and food will be very very soon ; ;.

I hope that guy enjoys his virginity. Still, I wish I had the patience/monies to play board games like those. They look fun...

Also that medic at the end was awesome.

@Cameroo: I think the reason they stopped making Warhammer quest was because you just had to buy a charachter in a warrior pack and not a freakin huge expensive army, and it was not enough for Games workshop pockets.
They dont make enough money as it is with new editions and codex every 2 years.

@Veltis: The cost to produce board games like Warhammer Quest really skyrocketed. Back then board games couldn't be sold for the large bucks these specialty games are sold for, and these games also had to be sold at big retail chains. The board gaming market suffered, board games got cheaper, smaller, etc. Hobby shops though in past years at least have brought back the board game, and the big complex board games have made a big comback now.... course they are expensive at $80 a box in many cases.

NO ONE I know will play anything with me. not chess. not risk. not monopoly. anything involving though skill or strategy is completely out of the question. It makes me ANGRY!! Seriously. I would buy the starcraft game, the doom game, I'd try some of these other ones you guys mention. But all I'll ever do with them is open them and read the rules. stare at the pieces and think about how cool it would if I could actually play it. My friends are retarded.

@Kyle81: Right but thats a scene in itself. Then maybe you an your buddies go to a tournament or something and everyone else from your region is there playing. But no-one I know wants to play board games. No-one. Except my little brother and then its just monopoly or cluedo. About 5 years ago I got this awesome looking lord of the rings game, absolutely plastered in great artwork and cool pieces. Know how many times I've played it? None. Because there's no-one to play with.

I'm actually in the middle of playing a Descent campaign with a group of guys at a local card shop. It's actually really really fun. I was slaying skeleton archers left and right.

I'll go and try to hide my nerdism in the corner now...

My older brother and I used to be big into GW for a long time, he even used to work at their HQ in Nottingham. I remeber seeing that he'd bought a copy of Twilight Imperium and having a look through it.... holy shit, that's complex. Quite a far cry from Blood Bowl and Space Hulk...

I still enjoy playing board games with my friends, it's a good change from video gaming. I think a few of the comenters on this (hardcore gaming) blog need to have a look at themselves when they start insulting the guy in this vid for being so passionate about his (mostly social) hobby.

@Veltis: That seems a shame really. I allways thought the boardgames they did served as good gateway to get into they're war games. Space Hulk had tones of minis I built a nice little 40k army with.

@Cameroo: I too wished GW would have kept making board games ( well I worked for the small part of GW that made the Street Fighter / Soulcalibur / Darkstalkers / SNK CCG ), then I still might have a job. The company I worked for got bought up by Fantasy Flight Games in the great GW purge of 2008. Seems GW wants to reorganize their situation since they are losing money hand over fist. Thats what you get when you shell out big cash for a license and have a game tank all the way to the shire...So all GW board games except for Space Hulk and Blood Bowl, FFG is going to be getting it.

I don't do the doll painting or the dice rolling of mini games but go over to Privateer Press and check their shit out. Ex-coworkers who made it off the sinking Sabertooh ship found their way over there.

Oh and good luck finding the two extra special cards for Talisman that came out with the new set...

ah, TALISMAN!

I remember spending lots of SUNNY summer afternoons hanging out in my friends garage playing this game. That game used to take HOURS just to finish ONE session! Lots of beer, cursing, whining, and shooting lizards with bb guns (dont ask).

good times, good times...

he's so right about twilight imperium. ive owned it for over a year and have played it maybe 3 times. and sadly now its hanging out in IL so I won't be playing it anytime soon :( i have the wow board game too, never played it once :/

This guy is hilarious.

IT'S HEAVY!

IT'S HEAVY!

"You can tell it's good because it heavy."

"It's not about playing the game, it's about setting up."

@_Perp:
I feel your pain my friend. Ever since I moved to NYC from PR (now you see why we shot lizards with bb guns!) I haven't played any board games.
Here in NYC I dont have any friends who like that. In PR we had a group of a dozen or so friends who, on and off, got together to play at least once a week. Like I said above, it was a blast.
Its better when you play with friends, cause it makes it more casual. I dont like to be fighting over an obscure rule, or having to reference the rules book about a particular action in the game (that is fairly common in board game clubs). To me this was the same as hanging out at a local pub, or a get together BBQ with friends.

BOARD GAMES ROCK!

So that's what we did before video games existed. I always wondered but was always too afraid to ask.

@demonknightinuyasha: The WoW board game is ok, but really think its not really that good till you add in the expansions. The expansions really greatly improve the WoW board game.

@Balance_In_Life (PSN): "Fifth: If I run out of Zurglings can I use extra Risk pieces?"

Uh, sure, but you have to spawn more Overlords first.

Man, this guy is lively and you can tell he really loves his hobby. His game collection must be like children to him. At least you know his class wouldn't be boring. It seems like he would be really passionate about his job as well, and I'm pretty sure he could make you laugh and smile and generally have a good time while you study fantasy fiction.

he almost satirizes himself. in a good way.

Note to self:

Go to New York Comic Con

@_Perp: @fcb1899:

I've met some of my best pals playing board games, arcade games and CCGs.

Fleshspace: pwn it.