by jcb231
Teamski wrote:
jcb231 wrote:
Teamski wrote:
Welcome to the club! There will never be another game like it, period.
-Ski
-Ski
Until version 2.0. You know it has to happen someday. They bring every other cult hit back eventually, this surely won't be an exception. We just have to get old enough for the nostalgia factor to creep into this game....
Unfortunately, I don't think it will happen. Heroscape came out during a very unique period of economic growth during the housing boom era of the first eight years of the this Century. This era is what I call the "plastic age." Tons of neat toys were being churned out of China's factories that were money loss leaders for their respective companies. Queen's Gambit, Heroscape, and a lot of other games came out with tons of plastic bits. After the housing crash and the increase in oil costs, paired with increasing labor costs in China, that whole era ended. This is distinctly why I will NEVER give up my Heroscape collection. The quality of the figures and components will never be matched. Just compare Heroscape figures with the D&D minis being included with the army sets. Yuck!
-Ski
But...hobby gaming continues to boom, with tons of miniature-laden titles coming out all the time. I don't think any of us are saying that HS 2.0 will be the same size or quality of a ROTV Master Set....that seems like a thing of the past, at least for a while. In fact even in HS 1.0's waning days the Master Sets had shrunk and all sorts of cost-cutting measures had snuck in....DnD recycles...combo dice...flimsy cardstock....solid water....cheaper packaging...no terrain in expansions...etc etc.
But a new Master Set that was more like the Marvel or DnD size or more likely smaller seems not totally unreasonable. Look at the quality of minis in games like the new Mage Knight, and the large number of pieces that come in many big new games.
Or maybe a future HS would be totally incompatible, and strip things down to unpainted figures of Descent or Talisman or Last Night on Earth quality. That would suck, but if the game comes out far enough in the future and makes no effort to be backwards compatible, it seems like something that could happen. I'm sure the terrain could also be replicated for cheaper, especially if they gave you smaller amounts of it per pack...again, like the Marvel set. Maybe even smaller hexes, or the inclusion of a play-mat to replace Level One of a map...that way hexes would only be used for elevation. Think of how many less hexes you could include in a box if you replaced level one of many maps with a mat.