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TheStatutoryApe
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Board Games on the Computer...
I've been looking around trying to find good PC versions of various board games that will work on Vista, especially multiplayer ones. I have had very little success.
We have a working Monopoly and a working Risk but these both get rather dull and mindless after a while. I'd love an Axis & Allies type game. Unfortunately Avalon Hill has not made a new PC version of the board game. The old one was really buggy to begin with and absolutely will not work on Vista. There is an A&A clone for PC called World at War but the more indepth rules make it far more difficult to learn to play with about an hour to an hour and a half worth of tutorials. I doubt my friends are going to be very interested in playing if they have to go through that much just to get started.
I found a recent edition of Diplomacy for PC but I believe multiplayer mode is only supported for online games, not even LAN. "Hot Seat" style wouldn't work for this game anyway.
Lately I have been looking for classic strategy board games like chess and go. I had a great program a while back called 10 Pro Board Games but that was for windows 98 or 2000 and likely won't work on my computer. I haven't even been able to find a torrent of it so I can try it and see. The main thing I liked about it was that it had several serious strategy games; go, chess, gomoku, shogi, othelo, and chinese chess. A friend recently mentioned an interest in playing shogi which made me think of it. Unfortunately all of the 'board game' packs that I have found do not list more than a few of the 20+ games they claim to have in them, not even on the websites of the companies that make them. So I downloaded one and found that it was mainly vartiations on those electronic pub games along with a few like chess and checkers. So if anyone knows of a more recent collection of classic strategy games please let me know.
I've been looking around trying to find good PC versions of various board games that will work on Vista, especially multiplayer ones. I have had very little success.
We have a working Monopoly and a working Risk but these both get rather dull and mindless after a while. I'd love an Axis & Allies type game. Unfortunately Avalon Hill has not made a new PC version of the board game. The old one was really buggy to begin with and absolutely will not work on Vista. There is an A&A clone for PC called World at War but the more indepth rules make it far more difficult to learn to play with about an hour to an hour and a half worth of tutorials. I doubt my friends are going to be very interested in playing if they have to go through that much just to get started.
I found a recent edition of Diplomacy for PC but I believe multiplayer mode is only supported for online games, not even LAN. "Hot Seat" style wouldn't work for this game anyway.
Lately I have been looking for classic strategy board games like chess and go. I had a great program a while back called 10 Pro Board Games but that was for windows 98 or 2000 and likely won't work on my computer. I haven't even been able to find a torrent of it so I can try it and see. The main thing I liked about it was that it had several serious strategy games; go, chess, gomoku, shogi, othelo, and chinese chess. A friend recently mentioned an interest in playing shogi which made me think of it. Unfortunately all of the 'board game' packs that I have found do not list more than a few of the 20+ games they claim to have in them, not even on the websites of the companies that make them. So I downloaded one and found that it was mainly vartiations on those electronic pub games along with a few like chess and checkers. So if anyone knows of a more recent collection of classic strategy games please let me know.
