Pandemic (the regular board game) is one for me. It may be that I played the dice version first, which is fun, fast, and furious. I expected the full game to be somehow more and better and richer – but compared to the dice game, it was an over long snoozefest.

Pathfinder ACG is another one where I expected somehow more than “flip card, roll dice, next one”. But I could have been OK with it, because I love leveling up and the limited deck construction (too limited for me, but still) looked interesting. But the German translation is downright catastrophic. I could have gone over the introduced inconsistencies with regard to key concepts, but what killed it in the end was a card that said the exact opposite in the bad translation than in the original card.

Assault on Doomrock is the one that hurts me the most, because I love the production quality, the game concept and the quirky and silly theme and all the pop culture references. But sadly the game itself is rage inducing unfair. It is one of the few games where I want to flip the table. It even is only a small part of the game – but it is the fights, where you feel completely helpless and without chances, often even before you start, due to bad rolls that lea e you without a single attack. I play lots of State of Siege games, so I know games to be punishing, but at least they punish you after giving you a fair chance. This one puts you in a fight and tells you that you suck and are a complete failure and the kills you.

Pandemic (the regular board game) is one for me. It may be that I played the dice version first, which is fun, fast, and furious. I expected the full game to be somehow more and better and richer – but compared to the dice game, it was an over long snoozefest.

Pathfinder ACG is another one where I expected somehow more than “flip card, roll dice, next one”. But I could have been OK with it, because I love leveling up and the limited deck construction (too limited for me, but still) looked interesting. But the German translation is downright catastrophic. I could have gone over the introduced inconsistencies with regard to key concepts, but what killed it in the end was a card that said the exact opposite in the bad translation than in the original card.

Assault on Doomrock is the one that hurts me the most, because I love the production quality, the game concept and the quirky and silly theme and all the pop culture references. But sadly the game itself is rage inducing unfair. It is one of the few games where I want to flip the table. It even is only a small part of the game – but it is the fights, where you feel completely helpless and without chances, often even before you start, due to bad rolls that lea e you without a single attack. I play lots of State of Siege games, so I know games to be punishing, but at least they punish you after giving you a fair chance. This one puts you in a fight and tells you that you suck and are a complete failure and the kills you.