Zombies!!! board game to eat video game brains

you spelled it wrong.

it's "Zombies!!!"

Correction, everyone loves zombies a lot =)

I was just about to post the same thing. Seriously, the last few days has been filled with zombie related news.

Ya, most of us own Life.

I love love love nerdy board games but it is indeed hard to find people to play, especially because the rules can get so complicated...But somehow, when a complicated board game gets "XBLA" tacked onto the end, everyone wants to try. Now if only we can get them to play the ACTUAL games...

People get excited about them being on XBLA for exactly that reason, it's impossible to find people to play locally, but there's always someone online willing to play on Live.

Yeah, Goodwin. I play Settlers of Catan on a website since no one will play locally (and I don't own it anyway, but if I did.. no one would play). A lot of people forget that these popular titles are already online before XBLA.

If anyone wants to play some Settlers.. post your steam ID or something ;D

@Goodwin: You're completely right. It cuts out that hard-to-fulfill requirement of having people in your house to play. I just wish my local friends that play XBLA versions of the board games would also stop on by at my place to play the real ones with me in person. Or try out new board games with me that aren't ported onto the XBLA.

NEVAR!

I agree, paralipsis. I've heard the board game is better with expansions, but when my friends and I played the basic version it dragged on way past fun. Let's hope they tweak the XBLA version to play faster.

Now the new Monsterpocalypse as a XBLA title -- *That* would be sweet.

That's actually a pretty good point. It's all well and good to say people should now start trying out the real board games, but it's true that XBLA is usually a much cheaper alternative that doesn't require people to be in your house to play. Our board game investments over here have well reached over $200.

You'll spend anywhere from 10-50 ($42 for Agricola) on a board game, but you don't have to spend 300+ on a console and electricity is not a necessity. At the very least you only need an 8 watt compact fluorescent.

Agricola cost me (and is listed on amazon as this) between $60 and $70. I think there were different releases because I saw one listed somewhere else that was in the $40 range, but not the same as the one that is more expensive.

Also, here is the thing: I'm going to have a 360 anyway. I play both video games and board games, I don't own a 360 just for remakes of board games. That means the cost of the 360 doesn't factor into my personal purchases either way, since I'm not choosing one or the other. Since I already have the 360, that means it's between paying anywhere from $20 to $70 for board games that I may or may not like instead of paying $10-15 for the Xbox version which, if I enjoy, means I'm getting the board game version too. It's not a waste having both because having it on the Xbox means not having to have friends nearby, but if I buy a physical board game that it turns out I don't like at all, then it was a waste.