Jeff B
Jeff B
@gamerinterface.bsky.social
Gamer Semi-Extraordinaire! He/him.
Still true
August 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“That’s four of a kind, right?” #balatro
March 16, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2009
Borderlands 1
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DAMN tough year. The whole list is great. But the edge must go to playtime. And Dragon Age isn’t great great just yet. But my phone rings for this game.

2. Dragon Age
3. Prototype
4. Assassin’s Creed 2
5. The Saboteur
February 6, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2009
Chaos in the Old World
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Only flaw is that it only works with four. Oh and the map is on skin. There’s that.

2. Jaipur
3. Martian Rails
4. Havana
5. Hansa Teutonica
February 6, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2008
Fallout 3
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Big loss for Dead Space 1 - great story, FANTASTIC interface. But it fades. And Fallout doesn’t. War never changes.

2. Dead Space 1
3. Super Smash Bros Brawl
4. Fable II… Pub Games
5. World of Goo…’s Soundtrack
February 4, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2008
Le Havre
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Could say “back of the line to the front of the line”, but I’ll just say this is one where I feel *clever*.

2. Dominion
3. Witch’s Brew
4. Android (you had such promise)
5. Start Player (kinda not a game, but something I use a lot in app form)
February 4, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2007
Mass Effect 1
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The left hand of the bell curve of perfection. Still has terrible tank controls, but the world and the characters are so good. #teamparasini

2. Bioshock
3. Peggle 1
4. Assassin’s Creed 1
5. Xbox Live Carcassonne
January 21, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2007
Race for the Galaxy
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Strong contenders for this year. But RftG must be recognized as a crucial step in non CCG card game evolution. Tom Lehmann is def my jam.

2. Kingsburg
3. Get Bit!
4. Colosseum
5. Unspeakable Words
January 21, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2006
Bully
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This would ideally be the first Culdcept game I played, but I can’t overlook Rockstar’s best game ever.

2. Culdcept Saga
3. Oblivion
4. Motorstorm
5. Wii Sports
January 21, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2006
To Court The King
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I’ve only played this on Yucata, but I own the Favor of the Pharaoh redo. It’s pretty much gamer Yahtzee and that’s just fine by me.

2. Cleopatra and Society of Architects
3. Pillars of the Earth
4. Qwirkle
5. Thurn and Taxis
January 21, 2024 at 9:19 PM
It’s no Marvel SNAP but it’s okay
January 10, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2005
Chibi Robo!
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Who knew cleaning floors with a jazzy toothbrush could be so chill?

2. Jade Empire
3. Inc Hulk: Ult Destruction
4. Lego Star Wars
5. Lost in Blue
January 9, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2005
That’s Life
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It’s Roll and Move - but it works. An easy choice for six players. And salute to Hecatomb, the pentagonal CCG.

2. Funny Friends
3. Ticket to Ride Europe
4. Shadows over Camelot
5. Tsuro
January 9, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2004
Vampire: Bloodlines
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Was the combat good? Eh.
Was it buggy? Yes.
But for capturing the VIBE of World of Darkness - *chef’s kiss*.

2. SW KOTOR 2
3. The Urbz
4. Half Life 2
5. LOTR: The Third Age
January 8, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2004
No Thanks!
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Yes please. So immediately grokable and yet so deliciously tense.

2. San Juan
3. Ticket to Ride
4. Saint Petersburg
5. Star Wars Miniatures
January 8, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2003
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
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The beginning of BioWare magic. I love their games - THEIRS. Shoutout to Master of Orion 3 for ruining my LAN party.

2. Tron 2.0
3. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
4. Pokemon Colosseum
5. FF Tactics Advance
January 6, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2003
Hey That’s My Fish
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One of the few games I’ve bought three times. The Next Move Games version is very good, and does the game justice.

2. Coloretto
3. Attika
4. Lunar Rails
5. Fearsome Floors
January 6, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2002
Eternal Darkness
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Four story lines, a Cthulhean magic system that made sense intrinsically, and a sanity effect system like no other. Darn you Dyack for imploding.

2. Ratchet & Clank
3. Kingdom Hearts
4. M:TG Online
5. Freedom Force
December 28, 2023 at 11:02 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2002
Puerto Rico
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The setting aged so poorly they redid it during Puerto Rico independence. But the mechanisms have resonated for two decades.

2. Lord of the Rings: Confrontation
3. Lifeboat (singular)
4. Odin’s Ravens
5. Star Wars: Epic Duels
December 28, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2001
Twisted Metal: Black
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Just the stories. Think I played it for a few hours. But the STORIES. Would love to see an open world Dollface game.

2. Super Smash Bros Melee (GC)
3. Silent Hill 2
4. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
5. Pikmin
December 26, 2023 at 7:33 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2001
Santa Fe Rails
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Weak year. Picked more for memory than for design - someone’s threat to go to Casper WY and piss on it after I fed it all the nation’s rails.

2. Lord of the Rings TCG
3. Trans America
4. Wyatt Earp
5. Warlord: Saga of the Storm CCG
December 26, 2023 at 7:32 AM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 2000
Diablo II
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As much as it scarred me in multi, played a ton solo. Continues in Borderlands, despite a friend’s intermittent and valiant efforts.

2. Deus Ex
3. The Operative: No One Lives Forever
4. Icewind Dale
5. Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption
December 24, 2023 at 10:54 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 2000
Carcassonne
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I’ve had a Carc cake ordered for friends. Played it at GenCon. Played it at work. Carc is absolutely one of our best invitations to the hobby.

2. SW Queen’s Gambit
3. Citadels
4. Blokus
5. Lord of the Rings Cooperative Game
December 24, 2023 at 10:52 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Video Game: 1999
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
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See embedded quote which didn’t fit. But any game with that idea leaves a mark.

Also Longest Journey, Super Smash Bros, System Shock 2, Unreal Tournament.
December 20, 2023 at 11:56 PM
Jeff’s Personal Best Board Game: 1999
Schotten Totten
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I don’t even need Battle Line. Just the basic 54 cards is so elegant and tightly designed. Still in my Top Five of All Time.

Also Lost Cities, Ra, Union Pacific.

And Tikal also shows up. Games of Tikal are still ongoing.
December 20, 2023 at 11:53 PM