My Board Game Resolution

To not pre-order a board game. Before we get into details let’s talk about keeping up.

Why Keep Up With Board Games?

I think I talked about this not that long ago. Or I talked about in the context of not shaming people for having unplayed games in their collection. Because while board gaming is a hobby, aka something I do, it is also a collection, something that I own.

There are tons of board games that come out every year. ANd a limited amount of time to play them. Some games, too, are just games that you want to own, for the collection. For me, I again talked about grail games. Games that I want to own. Sometimes it’s a game that I just want to own, like Battlestar Gallactica. Will I ever play my copy, I’m not sure I would. But it’s a rarer game that I really like.

And then new games, you don’t know what you like or don’t like. So get any game that sounds interesting to you. Now, for some people that isn’t an option. For me it isn’t an option. I’m starting to see The Return To Dark Tower show up for Kickstarter backers. I wish I’d been able to back it. But when I do have so spare money, it’s fun to get a new game, whatever might be hot.

But, on the flip side, while it is a collection as well as a hobby for me. I don’t want my hobby to just collect dust. I want to play the games which means that sometimes it’s better to wait to get a game when I’m ready to play it.

Let’s talk aout some examples/exceptions.

Space Base

People have called it more of a gamers Machi Koro, a game that I liked but didn’t stick around for me. If there is more game to it or more variability, I’m interested in it. But Space Base really isn’t going in and out of print. So maybe it was on sale when I got it but I didn’t need to buy it when I did.

Solomon Kane

This could be a lot of different bigger campaign style games. I didn’t need to get Solomon Kane, I’d just heard good things about it. So when I found a well priced copy on eBay I snatched it up quickly. Now, it’s not even all of the Kickstarter that there was, but it’s still enough content to keep me going for ages. And that was an opportunity for a game I wanted, and I knew I wanted, where I likely couldn’t do better.

The main difference the opportunity to get them in the future. It’s not a 100% fair comparison, but it also works for harder to find games or used games. Tannhauser, I don’t know when I’ll play it, but when I saw it in the wild, I bought it. So let’s get back to the resolution.

The Board Game Resolution

Now, there might be an exception to this resolution, but I’ll lay it out better here. This doesn’t include Kickstarter. And if there is a game that I own and love, I’m looking at you Detective A Modern Crime Board Game, I might pre-order something. Plus, Detective expansions pre-ordered come with more than just the game.

On the flip side, my resolution is not to pre-order a new game or an easy to find game when it comes out. If it doesn’t come with anything extra, I can wait for it to come out. If I missed it on the first print run, that means it’ll have a second print run, and and I can get it when I’m ready to play it.

Now, why is Kickstarter or Gamefound different?

Well, three reasons. I will sometimes, Call to Adventures Origins, for example, not back a game. Why, because what has been added to the game that is Kickstarter only isn’t enough. I can pick it up at retail, when and if I’m ever that excited to play it. So this one is like just buying a board game ahead of time. It doesn’t offer enough to take my money and then wait. But some games, Marvel United as example, come with so much extra on Kickstarter it’s worth backing.

Some games also won’t come to retail. Solomon Kane is an example of one that I wish that I’d backed and I was glad to find. Why, it won’t come to retail. It is just too big, even in the base two boxes, it is massive. You unboxed them on Malts and Meeples, you can watch that below, but I’d back that game on Kickstarter just to make sure I got it.

And finally, sometimes I just want to support the company. It might be a company that I really like their games. It might not have any of the extra bells and whistles that you expect from crowdfunding, but I’ll still back it. Grove is an example of this, or Hanamikoji: Geisha’s Road. I like both those companies. Will I be able to get those games in retail, most likely. But I want to support them.

Final Thoughts

There was a lot that I put in here. About why you should or shouldn’t buy new games, about why I’m not going to pre-order anything. And really, this is going to be more than that. My goal is to buy fewer games this year in general. I want to wait until I hear a review, or watch a game play of it to decide.

So will I still get a bunch of games, most likely. Will I back games on Kickstarter and Gamefound, for sure. Will some of them be duds even though I was extremely excited about them, for sure. Or at least they’ll be duds for me. And all of that is okay. What I want is to just be more mindful about the retail games that I purchase this year.

Do you have any board game buying or playing resolutions this year? Maybe you want to go to your first GenCon or Origins or PaxU, let me know what they are in the comments below.

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Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness
Thor: Love and Thunder
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Like I said, I could have just done this with Marvel movies, and we have a lot of them that I’m really excited for and curious about. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness being a horror style movie in the MCU is going to be great. Thor: Love and Thunder seems to match-up with the style of Thor: Ragnarok and seeing Jane Foster as Lady Thor will be fun. Quantumania is going to give us more Kang. And Wakanda Forever is going to have some big questions to answer about a new Black Panther.

Uncharted

This one I don’t have that high hopes for, but I’m curious about it. Tom Holland as Nathan Drake is an interesting choice, and the trailer looks perfectly okay. It’s a video game adaptation which means I’m always going to have low expectations for it, but while I certainly won’t be seeing this one in theaters, when I can rent it, I probably am going to watch it.

Sonic The Hedgehog 2

Besides the really bad first trailer and weird look for Sonic, the first movie is actually really fun. I like Sonic as a character and they did a good job of creating an interesting enough story and the action is a lot of fun. So another Sonic movie, I hope that this one can keep the same magic as the first one. Again, doubt I’ll see it in theaters, but it’s definitely one I can see actually picking up a Blu-Ray/DVD of it to go along with owning the other one.

John Wick: Chapter 4

Now for a movie that I likely will see in theaters. I didn’t see the first two in theaters but did see the third. The John Wick films are great. The Gunkata (I believe that’s the term) is amazing, and the story is really entertaining. It’s a world of hitmen and honor in how the hitmen do things. So it’s a world with cool rules to it and depth to what is happening. You don’t expect that for a film that is all about action.

And the action. I could talk about the action for a long time. The fights are as much pieces of art as they are bloody/violent fights. Everything just flows so well the set pieces where the action takes place are really good. Each movie has some action that really stands out in it, but even the small fights are extremely well done.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)

Finally, this isn’t a Marvel movie, but a Sony animated Spider-Verse film. I’m excited for it, because even though I didn’t see Into the Spider-Verse in theaters, when I did watch it, I really loved it. The style is just amazing on the film and this one is going to continue with more of that and grow that animated work that Sony is creating. And while I’m sure that Sony is hoping to add Miles Morales into the MCU somehow at some point in time, the stuff they have done on the animated front is amazing.

That’s it for movies for me. I am guessing that other people will think of movies that I’ve missed or have more they want to see. There is a Super Mario movie coming out and Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers. I might check those out at some point in time, but I’m not anticipating them.

What movies are you looking forward to in 2022?

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