The Return of the Risk
It is not easy to find people to play board games anymore in our ever busy adult schedules. One of the problems that board games, like Risk have, is that they require a big investment of time on any single day which actually makes it almost impossible to be played on a weekday. That leaves weekends where football and going out (so i hear) take priority.
Hasbro, the maker of Risk, however is preparing to launch a new version called Risk: Black Ops. It will introduce a new resource based system on Capitals and Cities which will affect troop additions. But the version will also introduce an Objectives System and will be streamlined. The primary effect is that individual game sessions will be reduced to around 50 minutes making frequent sessions possible. Risk is adapting to us.
There is a post at Gamers with Jobs from Lara Crigger, who managed to have a go at the Risk: Black Ops version, and details her impressions. LINK
Also N'Gai Croal goes one step further to explain how the collaboration between EA and Hasbro can bring board games such as Risk: Black Ops to the XBLA and PSN. LINK
I havent played a board game
I havent played a board game in ages. When I was younger, a lot younger, I would play quite a bit but not much of the strategy stuff. I played Risk a few times but it was mostly Monopoly, Game of Life, Battleships, Othello, Chess (what? you play it on a board dont you?).
I think playing something like Risk now that we are older with a group of friends all sitting round the table having a laugh and a few drinks sounds like a great way to spend a night.
One day my friend ... one day ...
Dude Risk is excellent
Dude Risk is excellent because it is very accessible and has good depth as well. The problem with it was that you needed to spend a lot of time on each session which put a lot of people off. Hopefully Black Ops will change that.
I miss board games too....