c8tiff said:

I used to play the old ICE Middle Earth game and that wasn't co-op and I never saw a co-op game if the Decipher LotR game either.

Deciphers and ME ccg were both competitive games, I know I own both of them.

I hope this one draws from the books more than those movies.

 Dear FFG:

I've come to the conclusion it would just be easier to send you my actual credit card. That way, you could just keep it on the desk and run it through the machine for every new release. I see it as a great time-saver.

Thanks,

TheDukester

Just when you think it can't get any better....it does!  FFG is just an unbelievable gaming company.  I had totally given up on buying card games...it always turned in to an "arms race" with my friends resulting in the spending of massive amounts of money.  The LCG format has solved that problem.  First, it's Warhammer Invasion, now this, a solitaire, co-op LCG.  There is no doubt in my mind that FFG has the brightest and best minds in the gaming business today.  Keep it up!

P.S.-Love this new Blood Bowl card game too!!!

Heh so the co-op format brought about by the WoW TCG Raid decks is starting to get noticed. Wizards of the Coast just did some co-op decks (1 player vs a group) for MTG.

I am still on the fence with this one, not because it isn't a great game, but because my wallet is stretched tight with Warhammer Invasion, Malifaux, and DLC for console and PC games.

TheDukester said:

Curator said:

Meh...not quite. The WoW TCG Raid Decks still require one player to be the "raid master."  A true cooperative game is "player(s) vs. game"....where the game is pretty much an AI.

c8tiff said:

I think ME:tW was very much competitive...but there were extremely unplayable solo rules.

Not as much as it is like the LotR board game by Parker Brothers. Look it up in a search and you'll see what I mean. It was designed by Reiner Knizia and released in 2000.

Oh good grief. I just found out that FFG acquired that exact game from Hasbro a while back. My gosh I've been out of the scene longer than I thought! Still, that explains the parallels, yes?

MECCG (aka METW) not solo-friendly?  I disagree.  Not that I play it that way much (2-3 times at most so far), but it is easily doable.  There are solitaire rules in the Companion book and some solitaire scenarios.  IIRC, you build yourself a normal deck sans Hazard cards, then a separate Hazard deck (heavy on creatures, I believe) that you draw from based on how many regions you travel rather than keyed to the specific symbols of the regions/sites you travel through/to.  You have to fight whatever is drawn before you can enter the Site.  (my memory is a little hazy, but I think that's correct)

Sound familiar?

What I've heard about LotR LCG so far sounds VERY similar to this type of gameplay.  It's possible that LotR LCG consists of just this aspect of the MECCG game.  That'd be too bad, as MECCG is a game with such amazing depth, but I will not complain.  I will happily be first in line to purchase LotR LCG as soon as it comes out and every month thereafter.

I hope this turns out to be a successful game for FFG and they're able to support it for a long time to come.

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