(Topic ID: 211342)
Warren, PA
IMHO neither are great playing games. They both get by on theme and art and experience as opposed to excellent gameplay.
Personally I love Scared Stiff, and really enjoyed owning it, but I got to a point where I just didn't play it anymore. CV I don't like enough to ever want to own, I play it when I see it, but that's it.
Quoted from Aurich:IMHO neither are great playing games. They both get by on theme and art and experience as opposed to excellent gameplay.
Personally I love Scared Stiff, and really enjoyed owning it, but I got to a point where I just didn't play it anymore. CV I don't like enough to ever want to own, I play it when I see it, but that's it.
This....
This is a tough one but when smoke clears it has to be SS. I had to make this choice last year when I had to move some games on to generate some cash for another project (more important) My CV was the one to go. I really miss that game, but I wouldn't sell my SS to pick up another CV. I really need to own both to be truly satisfied. 
Had both and both are fun, but CV is long gone and SS is still here after many years. So many memorable and funny quotes in SS. I do prefer the theme on SS so there's probably some bias there, but if nothing else, my wife and her friends also tend to play SS the most in my lineup... if not almost exclusively.
Melbourne
Southbourne
Pretty close, fans on both sides.
Looks like it boils down to how far we can stretch out the game room! Thx all!
I'm not sure I'd keep either of these in a small collection. Either are fun for a while. I've owned 2 CVs (both gone for good) and still have my 2nd SS.
Both games are fun for a bit, and both are generally over-rated imo. I like Scared Stiff better than CV though. SS's only weakness really is the shallow depth of the rules that are fairly quick to progress through. If there was a bit more depth, it would be a top-ten 90s game. Yes, I know about spider multiball but that's just a chore and a bore to try to get to and more of a novelty than a proper Wizard mode (ala Lyman's Lament on MB, which is funny and clever but not something you really try for). CV has a unique layout and some good stackability but the overuse of the ringmaster gets a bit grindy. The real game killer though are the video mode(s) and the "canon" in the backbox. Just painful.
Have you played Indianapolis 500? Very similar playfield to Scared Stiff but with great rules. Cheaper too!
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