Violent Fantasy Football Game Blood Bowl 3 Arrives On Switch This August

I wanted mutant league football but some people say that game is a blurry mess on switch. Hope this does better.

Is this a strategy game or is it going to play like a football game?

@sixrings I'm not noticing it and have played lots of MFL

@sixrings been playing Mutant for awhile. If you can catch it on sale like I did it’s incredibly worth it. I honestly have zero complaints about gameplay. The commentary is outrageously funny. Great game. Think I got it for $10. Only football to play on the switch besides techno bowl. We need madden...

@BCMT Have you played Madden in awhile? It's a pretty bad experience these days.

@sixrings I didn’t have any issues with it. Definitely reconsider if you like the genre.

Based on the trailer I’m gonna guess this game is gonna really suck. So tired of trailers that don’t show gameplay.

Blood Bowl has a STEEP learning curve. Like hours of rules before you have any clue at all what's going on let alone what you're supposed to do. Game pace is glacial... fine for a board game with friends but it never translated well to a video game.

Hoping they've ironed things out.

@MoistEmphasis3 aw man really? I miss a good football game. Finally got my old Bases Loaded 2 fix with Super Mega 3 recently. Need some solid football on the switch.

Sick of games showing off slick trailers but no gameplay

@BCMT the two titles that I desperately want are MK9 and Madden. There’s a chance we get neither. Tho I really think the install base makes it difficult for EA to complexly ignore.

@arrmixer

It's a strategy board game.

I love Blood bowl. Played it a ton as a board game 20 years ago. I guess this will be very similar to blood bowl 2. So if you want gameplay. Just look that up.

Looking forward to this but will likely pick it up elsewhere rather than be stuck with the switches online infrastructure

@Ladasta I remember the second edition back in the late 80's and poured years into that boardgame and still remember seeing the first edition about with the card figures instead of miniatures.

Played Fumbl on PC for a long while too and will probably pick this up and then regret it because it can never fill the gap of 30 years and those experiences from that time!

@BarryandWill Oh, i never knew there was a card board version.
I watched a lot of streams from bb2 when that came out. I think it gave a very good feeling about how the game was back in the day. But of course it can never replace the times when the whole gang gathered and played tournaments on the floor of the boys room at home. Ah, the good old childhood

@Ladasta oh yeah, I am definitely not getting those years back. I suspect my son will be 'so what' too when I try and enthuse him

I remember people playing the original board game at school 30 years ago. It always looked such a pretty game, with its lovely big board, colourful endzone banners and all the figures, but the rules seemed positively Byzantine in their complexity.

@Timppis thank you

@sixrings its not that bad and im on season 4 in the dynasty mode. great game

@BarryandWill the edition with card figures was best. some warhammer ones with all card figures as well were amazing campains. I dont know why they stopped doing them

@sixrings some people need glasses then.

I hope there is local multiplayer, and really hoping for a local tournament mode! I have to take KS Orkowice Dolne to the finals!

@Anguspuss They stopped because they couldn’t milk people for miniatures as easily. Blood Bowl is one of the few board games I consider to be better as a digital release, if only because you’re getting 12 teams right away instead of Orcs and Humans again and having to hope they release Amazons some day (with extra cost for them). And I say that as someone who loves painting miniatures.

@SmaggTheSmug i know why they stopped and reason I dont play any of their games with my kids. They could easily have campain sets for warhammer etc and different bloodboal sets with cardboard. Im betting they would still sell same or more plastic figs while getting more into the game.

@Anguspuss There was supposed to be some sort of space marines vs orks game with flat cardboard tokens. And there was some fantasy one with cards for units.

@SmaggTheSmug i had the fantasy ones when they originally came out and they did get a reprint one. some great campains

@Anguspuss Of course as soon as Games Workshop bought Citadel Miniatures they became a miniatures company more than a gaming company.

Their wargames, boardgames and roleplaying games all had miniatures to sell to varying degrees but at least in the mid-late 80's you could play most games easily with provided card inserts - they wanted you to buy their games and actually play them!

Maybe it is an age thing but I noticed increased dependence on miniatures that took the fun out of it (they must be painted, they must be the right model).

I may bore my son later with the heroics of my Halfling team from those days....

@BarryandWill makes you wonder if they re released these sets how many old gits would buy them to bore kids with. Mind you my kids fav games have carboard cut outs and they love them to bits.