The first time I played Race for the Galaxy, it was at a friend's house. He completely sideswiped us with it, we had no idea what was happening, and, IIRC, we all lost. I tried to do a military build because those are usually the simplest.
Poor, silly VanVelding.
Since that night, I was intrigued; had we been hustled? Was this game as terrible as it seemed? I wasn't intrigued enough to actually buy the fucking thing. Gods no. I was just curious.
Until I saw it on Steam. I finally got to play it and I kinda didn't like it. It didn't "taste good"? It just felt bad. I like my games simple and elegant with 'vanilla' game pieces that can have additional complexity later.
