Risk Factions: The Weird Digital-Only Risk Game....With Cats, Yetis and Robots

Sorry on the long time with no upload I was locked in the basement of a TGI Fridays

Cherished childhood memories of spending 8 hours with my family arguing about how everybody should stop invading Australia

"Joins the war for bullshit reasons, the only way to survive is to bring more idiots", I didn't expect this Risk game to bd based in real life.

I am actually interested in the story of how a stereotypical US General became the leader of all humanity

As a home rule for Risk we had the atomic bomb. If you rolled 3 1s on the attack, you nuked yourself and lost all but 1 troop. Many fist fights were had over this

7:19 Imagine if this game was still on Steam and had it's own workshop, where people could submit their own custom factions, which players could download to play as. People would definetly make serious factions and not things like... Among Us, nor would people not be completely apolitical about it

They had this in on an Xbox 360 at a YMCA I used to go to when I was younger. There was this one little human soldier in a gasmask who was by himself and held off an entire Robot invasion force of 12 in the Mediterranean who I dubbed "Shotgun Larry" (despite him holding an M16)

I will never forget the inevitable scenario of a single defender going Rambo and destroying an attacking force of 10x the size. Many Xbox 360s were nearly shattered by me and my friends because of this.

I'm immensely disappointed that they didn't call the cat general Chairman *Meaow*. My day is ruined.

There’s gotta be a tier list for games that cause division. 1. Uno 2. Mario Party 3. Mario Kart 4. Monopoly 5. Risk

For a great Risk clone I'd recommend Warlight later renamed to Warzone (they did this before the Activision game with the same name and are being sued over it). This clone is amazing because you can make your own maps, set your own rules, have diplomacy if playing with other players, and a lot more. People have made highly detailed and fun maps for AGOT, Elder Scrolls, Avatar: the Last Airbender (personal favorite map), 1500's Europe, and enormous age of discovery map that will take you a full day to play a game on. O and for super long games you can even create games that aren't real-time but lets players take their turn whenever they want. And of course you can set the number of minutes, hours or days before a player is kicked for not coming back to the game.

When I think of Risk and story, my mind goes straight to Risk Legacy. Which starts out as a fairly slight variation on the rules, but as the game goes on you can end up with bio-hazard zones, ruins, and faction homelands. Among other things.

"As a 2010's game, it does look better than most" (paraphrased ofc) turns out stylisation does beat "cutting edge" graphics.

McGutterpants is canonically a Pennsylvanian. The only real-life location he ever references (to my knowledge) is the Susquehanna river.

My dad has played this almost daily for ten years. It's the only game he can still play since his eyes started going. He loves it, just plays against ai in classic all the time. It holds a special place in my heart.

The Age of History II shoutout nearly gave me a heart attack.

The thing that makes Risk unplayable to me is that since the amount of units you get depend on the spaces of units you get the players that go first have an overwhelming advantage as they can just take all the late players spaces so they get very few points on the first round which creates a cycle of the early players unfairly getting more units and the late players getting the least.

I loved this game so much that when my 360 got the red ring of death it gave me real sadness that I couldn’t play anymore

I thought I was the only one who remembered RISK having a Metal Gear Solid 4 edition. There were also 2 STAR WARS variants: Original Trilogy and Clone Wars. I remember this short-lived NBC sitcom called 1600 Penn, with Bill Pullman as the President and father of 4. One episode has him play a game of RISK with his youngest son, and I think he has the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NORAD, or all of The Pentagon advising him on military tactics to use. One guy says that if the situation looks hopeless, use the Nuclear Option: flip the game board off the table.

1:12 ah yes a fellow man of culture