I've played a number of Cheapass games and Kill Doctor Lucky takes the cake for funniest and most fun to play. I bought this for my sister last year for Christmas and she loved it, even when I can't get her to touch any other sort of game, board or computer.
P.S. You'll love this game so much that you'll be tempted to buy the sequel, Save Doctor Lucky. Don't, but try some other Cheapass offerings instead. This isn't half as fun as the original.
Yes, this is a great game (and another former German Game of the Year). Introduced to it two years ago through a friend and it has been a staple ever since. Do try the Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions--they're very much worth it. Though we do have fun with Caracassone, El Grande and others, this is the one we return to almost every week.
I have to kind of agree with this article. My PC is a 266mhz Pentium II from six years ago. My mom's computer is literally ten times faster than that and my friend's Pocket PC even beats it, but I still get along.
With 2000 instead of 98, it's stable enough to write papers. With a second hard drive and some RAM I harvested it stores a decent amount of music and movies, runs Winamp fine and even DivX at low settings. Plays older (and cheaper) games like CivII, FFVII and Baldur's Gate II (barely). Besides saving me the cost of the games, also saves me tons of time I would just spend playing instead of studying.
Of course after college I'll need to get something to keep up with the applications and new games. Could buy a new system with twenty times the speed, but I'll think I'll just take someone's old machine and go ten times for free.
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I've played a number of Cheapass games and Kill Doctor Lucky takes the cake for funniest and most fun to play. I bought this for my sister last year for Christmas and she loved it, even when I can't get her to touch any other sort of game, board or computer. P.S. You'll love this game so much that you'll be tempted to buy the sequel, Save Doctor Lucky. Don't, but try some other Cheapass offerings instead. This isn't half as fun as the original.
Yes, this is a great game (and another former German Game of the Year). Introduced to it two years ago through a friend and it has been a staple ever since. Do try the Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions--they're very much worth it. Though we do have fun with Caracassone, El Grande and others, this is the one we return to almost every week.
I have to kind of agree with this article. My PC is a 266mhz Pentium II from six years ago. My mom's computer is literally ten times faster than that and my friend's Pocket PC even beats it, but I still get along.
With 2000 instead of 98, it's stable enough to write papers. With a second hard drive and some RAM I harvested it stores a decent amount of music and movies, runs Winamp fine and even DivX at low settings. Plays older (and cheaper) games like CivII, FFVII and Baldur's Gate II (barely). Besides saving me the cost of the games, also saves me tons of time I would just spend playing instead of studying.
Of course after college I'll need to get something to keep up with the applications and new games. Could buy a new system with twenty times the speed, but I'll think I'll just take someone's old machine and go ten times for free.
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