Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[Daedalus]

@ Blackthorn,
if I recall correctly, you got your collection (with all expansions) for $200 from a seller at BGG. Nice investment, plus you got to play it with your kid!

I'm hoping to see rules consolidation between the NA and EU systems. I'm also looking forward to card text cleanup. It wiill be nice to put certain inconsistencies behind, such as the effect of a Courage spell or the benefit of Borin's Armor.

[Goblin-King]

I wonder if this version, assuming it's fairly faithul to the original, will drive down the prices of the originals?

No... just no...
The original HQ is the one people grew up with. It's the REAL HeroQuest. It has the iconic Les Edwards cover. I could go on.
People will still want the original over a modern interpretation.
It's like Magic cards... People still want the old expensive artwork for cards, even if they have been reprinted several times.

But while I don't think we'll see a significant price drop, I do think more people who wouldn't play HQ other vice are going to get the new version.
I know for sure there's a lot of people entering my store, asking for "something like HeroQuest"

[Weltenlaeufer]

Love the Bards new video predictions on this. The part that it probably will lean away from realism especially makes sense. My first thought when I saw the new witchlord was Looks very cartoonish.

[Anderas]

I wonder if this version, assuming it's fairly faithul to the original, will drive down the prices of the originals?

No... just no...
The original HQ is the one people grew up with. It's the REAL HeroQuest. It has the iconic Les Edwards cover. I could go on.
People will still want the original over a modern interpretation.
It's like Magic cards... People still want the old expensive artwork for cards, even if they have been reprinted several times.

But while I don't think we'll see a significant price drop, I do think more people who wouldn't play HQ other vice are going to get the new version.
I know for sure there's a lot of people entering my store, asking for "something like HeroQuest"

... What do you answer to them? Conan is too tactical, Zombicide too flat, Descent makes too much of a race... I could go on here. I currently play Darklight with my friends but it doesn't satisfy me entirely.

[Goblin-King]

... What do you answer to them?

I start by showing them the original HeroQuest set we actually have for sale in the store

But really, there's no game that does exactly what HeroQuest does.
Usually I show them stuff like Descent, Gloomhaven, Mice and Mystics and even DOOM, which are all great games mind you. But none of them are HeroQuest.
If new HQ turns out to indeed be a faithful re-make of the original, you can bet I'm gonna be lobbying for us to get it on the shelves

[Fallensaviour]

You should really try “last night on earth” the zombie game it has a more cinematic feel to it.
It’s a great game though one of the few I’ll play instead of heroquest.

[Kurgan]

The funny thing is that guy has become sort of famous in his own right for starting Hero Quest related Memes (quoting the "brood sword" UK commercial, or talking about "the best thing about Heroquest is..." etc). Also, epic beard is epic! He's probably the most everyone associates with HQ outside of this forum or boardgamegeek. If you are doing a random search for Herqoquest, that's what you'll find, and then some custom made coffee mugs that show the dice symbols and say "this is how I roll" or "chaos" etc. Yeah, bring all HeroQuest fans together, more the merrier I say.

There are a few tropes and memes that have begun for HeroQuest over the years, like doing a video of a "game session" in progress where people complain about rolling to move, and the guy (it's always a guy) playing Zargon sits in the center and wears a stereotypical wizard's hat (??). James Rolfe's (Angry Video Game Nerd aka "Board James") joke was just that a kid gets bored with all the setup and doesn't play it.

People need to realize that when this first came out, it was actually popular. Lots of kid's board games are still in the closet or at the garage sale and you kind of remember having them around, like hungry hungry hippos, cross fire, connect four or fireball island or whatever. The commercial sold it for us when it came out and within a Christmas or two, we had the game system at our house and the first two expansions (never saw any of the others until decades later, still wish I had spent the $25 for EQP & BQP!). That and BattleMasters were the games you could have sold from the commercial alone, and wasn't pure hype but actual quality. That's the thing with so much meme culture, it's mocking kids (who are grown now) for falling for deceptive commercials (we already knew about hype marketing from "Zillions" aka Penny Power... consumer reports for kids back in the day). But many people laughing at the jokes weren't around when those things came out and don't really get it. I'll be the cynical old man wearing the "I played Hero Quest back when it was first cool before it was cool again nowadays..." t-shirt.

Will a new release turn HeroQuest into a mainstream game again like it was in 1991, or will it become a super high priced collector nerd item that disappears from shelves immediately to be sold for four times the prices next to the "Stranger Things" merch on ebay?

The good news is that no matter what this turns out to be, we'll still have the old stuff to enjoy.

Time will tell. I am still holding out that it's a digital board game or some kind, unless somehow the ESRB is rating websites now instead of games...

[Azure]

I just googled the Avalon Hill HeroQuest countdown - - I don't see the page anymore !!

So would that mean that the kickstarter (or whatever it is) is officially starting ?

[arntisdale]

https://heroquest.avalonhill.com/en-us?fbclid=IwAR0qKJj-A6NG1sAJxfokZMJXWUX6R5VBlM2Uir1NKVZtcD27cREaXXZvPwk
Here it is.

[Pancho]

Must admit I’m getting pretty excited now.