Excellent back and forth. A lot of what is being said would equally describe Duel of Ages II. I really hope this adaptation will give the same feel and then some. I'd love to say that I'm super excited about this but I'm still a Duel of Ages II fan and it feels like my all time favourite board game is supposed to be replaced by a condensed version. It leaves me feeling at edge. I will be buying this and will be glad, even eager, to share my findings on Board Game Geek. I'm still excited but with that sense of foreboding mixed in. Despite this, I understand this format is likely much more enticing for most players and the lower complexity and play time may well let me share the experience with those who weren't interested in that element of DOAII. Hopefully Factions will turn me too. I'm also very curious as to what Tom Vasel from The Dice Tower will feel about this adaptation of his once and longest reigning favourite game of all time. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Thanks, Wizard, obviously it's bittersweet to try to bring players who love Duel of Ages II on to the next (and final) iteration. Having gone through the process now, though, I'm much more confident that Factions will be received more than well by DoA II players. I have a little more concern about Tom Vasel. He had Duel of Ages as the #1 Best Game of All Time for five years running and in the top 10 for well over a decade. It remained his daughter Melody's #1 Game of All Time. He says lately that he has "cooled" on the game but that was just a bit of an aside comment. We have an official stance that we let game reviewers be game reviewers and not try to worm in on them, so we'll work with Tom like any other reviewer as we go through the release process. I think Tom would love Factions, as the streamlining is one of his focuses. Keep in touch. Most of your thoughts above will be addressed in our content being released.
Duel of ages 2 weak point that 3 of my friends said (I played with them separately) was character art was super inconsistent and large part of them looked real bad CGI. I assume those look better now.
I would definitely watch a UA-cam channel with these two.
Hopefully James and Jonathan can continue to show up in Worldspanner content, Kickstarter videos, even narration! A great series of videos here.
Excellent back and forth. A lot of what is being said would equally describe Duel of Ages II. I really hope this adaptation will give the same feel and then some. I'd love to say that I'm super excited about this but I'm still a Duel of Ages II fan and it feels like my all time favourite board game is supposed to be replaced by a condensed version. It leaves me feeling at edge. I will be buying this and will be glad, even eager, to share my findings on Board Game Geek. I'm still excited but with that sense of foreboding mixed in.
Despite this, I understand this format is likely much more enticing for most players and the lower complexity and play time may well let me share the experience with those who weren't interested in that element of DOAII. Hopefully Factions will turn me too.
I'm also very curious as to what Tom Vasel from The Dice Tower will feel about this adaptation of his once and longest reigning favourite game of all time.
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Thanks, Wizard, obviously it's bittersweet to try to bring players who love Duel of Ages II on to the next (and final) iteration. Having gone through the process now, though, I'm much more confident that Factions will be received more than well by DoA II players.
I have a little more concern about Tom Vasel. He had Duel of Ages as the #1 Best Game of All Time for five years running and in the top 10 for well over a decade. It remained his daughter Melody's #1 Game of All Time. He says lately that he has "cooled" on the game but that was just a bit of an aside comment. We have an official stance that we let game reviewers be game reviewers and not try to worm in on them, so we'll work with Tom like any other reviewer as we go through the release process. I think Tom would love Factions, as the streamlining is one of his focuses.
Keep in touch. Most of your thoughts above will be addressed in our content being released.
Good looking dudes
Duel of ages 2 weak point that 3 of my friends said (I played with them separately) was character art was super inconsistent and large part of them looked real bad CGI. I assume those look better now.