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Flashback Friday - Defenders of the Realm - Love it or Hate It? Do you Still Play It?

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12 Oct 2018 10:08 #283012 by ubarose

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12 Oct 2018 10:33 #283013 by jpat
Heh. From the 2010 comments: "Seventy-five [dollars] is the new forty."

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12 Oct 2018 10:48 #283014 by Jexik

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12 Oct 2018 11:24 #283015 by the_jake_1973
I bought it and sold it soon after. It did nothing for me.
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12 Oct 2018 11:30 #283016 by Shapeshifter
I was actually surprised that so little people made fuzz about the fact it "borrowed" almost every mechanic from pandemic to build it's engine.

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12 Oct 2018 11:32 - 12 Oct 2018 11:33 #283017 by hotseatgames
I still have my copy, and sometimes I look at it and think about playing it again at some point. The graphic design is terrible but I do like the game. I think I mainly keep it for sentimental reasons. It was the one game I bought at my first Origins, which was when my first published game was released, and I was demoed this game by Richard Launius himself. This was the first time I had met him and I didn't actually know who he was at the time. He would go on to give me all sorts of industry advice over the following years.

I also think the very first post I ever made on this site was about this game.
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12 Oct 2018 11:59 #283019 by Jackwraith
I'm with Jake. ("It's Chinatown.") I bought it because we were into co-ops at the time. The art design and overall production was the ultimate generic fantasy (and people criticize Runebound...) and halfway into our first game, we were like: "This is Pandemic, but with orcs, and not even nearly as challenging." We won the first game in a walk, tried it again just in case we were missing something, and discovered that we weren't. It sat on the shelf for a while until I traded it for Sword of Rome.

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12 Oct 2018 16:21 #283025 by NeonPeon
Sounds like how Wizard's Quest is risk with orcs... :)

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12 Oct 2018 18:06 - 12 Oct 2018 18:06 #283027 by Colorcrayons
This game is risk with orcs.

On a more serious note, I used to own it. Played it a few times. Then traded away without a second thought.
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12 Oct 2018 18:29 - 12 Oct 2018 18:30 #283028 by Gary Sax
It's way uglier and definitely clunkier than Pandemic but it can do a good job creating some drama. It's ok. My recollection was the thing where you could not challenge a boss and lose while still winning the game except maybe the first one was very irritating.

I'm also not sold on the "you triumph against something, we make the game arbitrarily harder" mechanic. It works fine, but it doesn't fit my gaming emotional headspace very well.
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12 Oct 2018 22:21 - 13 Oct 2018 08:48 #283031 by Josh Look
I’m going to get all kinds of sappy, but I’m fresh out of fucks to give.

Many years ago, I had made a post on F:AT about a local comic shop. I had been posting for probably a year or so at that point. Uba saw my post, she was like, “Wait, where do you live?” Turned out we lived in the same town this whole time and neither of us knew. We made plans to get together a the LGS. Defenders of the Realm was the first game I played with Uba and Al. It’s been almost 10 years now, the three of us have shared many laughs and good times every Thursday night, regardless of the quality of the game we’re playing. It’s such a bright spot in all of our weeks, sometimes when we need one the most. These two wonderful human beings whom I am so thankful that I get to know and call friends have picked me and talked me off the ledge on more that a few occasions, as well as let me off the hook after behaving like a total asshole when I lose sight of who exactly I’m talking to and what they mean to me. No exaggeration, I love them like family. And it all started with this game. This kind of ugly, goofy, derivative, Comic Sans laden game. Goddamn Defenders of the goddamned Realm. Who knew? I may not care if I ever play it again, and you can all shrug your shoulders at the game, you can shit on it if you want, it’s not entirely undeserving though it’s really not that bad of a game, but it’s always going to hold a place in my heart.
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13 Oct 2018 09:47 #283037 by ubarose
Oh, Josh, I am totally crying now.

Love you like a baby brother.

I can’t write anymore now.
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13 Oct 2018 09:57 #283039 by stoic
I still play the game. I like it better than Pandemic, and, in fact, I traded away Pandemic for Defenders of the Realm. I own all of the heroes and each one plays differently and is unique. I like the artwork because of Larry Elmore and his old school D&D style. I added the Summer League expansion and bought the ArtsCow cards for it.

I like to roll dice. It's easy to teach.

I'll never get rid of it. I painted all of the miniatures.

On the downside, it's too long for what it is. The miniature quality sucks. The board layout makes it hard to find the locations.

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14 Oct 2018 02:28 #283050 by southernman
Never played or even saw it when it came out, I do remeber the Comic Sans intenet hue & cry. I bought Defenders of the Last Stand this year and we have great fun playing it, can't see it leaving my house any time soon but I have no idea if it is the same, improved or just different to DotR. It is a bit long for what it does and it does have the worst quality minis of any game I've played I reckon, except Risk Star Wars Edition.
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