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Aracde Pentathalon - Suggestions Needed
Glaine:
I would also go with the "events" idea, that way people that are say, only good at track & field will still have something to be excited about without thinking they have to play everything else to stand a chance of winning anything. Plus, it's funner to brag that you won 6 events than 1 big event.
One of the best times I had was me and about 5 friends all at my place on my 2 cabs rotating around on fighter games, the cabs are close together but across the room, so after each game you just rotate clockwise - That means you play each fighter twice then play something else. Though we mostly just switched out with who ever whenever we wanted so we could play everyone.
Dervacumen:
I like all the suggestions, but as a kick it would be kinda cool to throw everyone off with a low key, slow strategy game. That's the idea right? Get the best game, regardless of genre?
What about a bowling game? It's quick and changes the speed when they everyone least expects it.
Slow them down after a good fighting game, play World Bowling or something similar, and then force them to play Robotron.
Just a thought.
Xam:
A bit late with the suggestion here but maybe it will help.
As far as games, any of the ones mentioned...along with Ninja Baseball Batman! 3 players at a time and you can smash living baseballs!
On scoring you could make a points system...such as
10,000-40,000 on galaga (or whatever game, scoring should be based on the games scoring) =1
40-80,000=2
80-100k=3
etc, etc.
something to that effect.
Hope it helps,
Xam
Glaine:
As far as a slow strategy game, get everybody to play GO. It's an ancient board game popular in Japan and China. I just recently learned how to play and I'm hooked. Just keep everyone on the 9x9 board so it doesn't take all day.
Here is a site with a Go game program, I like it. Only problem is the text is largely in portugese, but its kinda hard to find a good Go program, so...
http://www.gofeup.r8.org/
I might should write a review on this one sometime. This and Imperishable Night are 2 highly suggestible games.
Glaine:
I can no longer suggest www.gofeup.r8.org as a good program to learn Go on as I have recently found out that this game scores Go incorrectly, and so I learned how to play from an incorrect set of rules. I suggest glGo now, as it not only allows you to play against the computer, but also lets you play on the IGS (International Go Server).
I also suggest IGoWin, much easier to learn with and is fun to carry on your flash drive.
Link to a wiki with programs linked somewhere on there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)