by Teamski
jcb231 wrote:
But...hobby gaming continues to boom, with tons of plastic 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. And certainly HS 2.0 will never appear at a Wal-Mart or Target or TRU again.
Sure, miniature games come out all of time, albeit completely unpainted and unassembled. Mage Knight comes with a whopping 4 painted figures IIRC, and that game is not cheap! I won't even go into the quality of the D&D figures......
As much as I would love to see it (and for those of you out there who know how far back I go with Heroscape know I mean it), I just don't see it happening. The cost in plastic dollars is too much. The terrain alone was a real ball buster for Hasbro in the profit department.
No, I think the future lies with what we have seen in Kickstarter as of late. Higher cost games with unpainted, unassembled figures, played on regular cardboard mapboards. I personally have a big interest in Kingdom Death Monster right now.
Of course this does not mean that Heroscape shouldn't be played! It will always have it's space on the game shelf (or in my case, stacked in huge plastic bins along one wall in my basement!)
-Ski