Reviving this post to say I finally got the game! Well, my girlfriend gifted it to me on my birthday with two filler games: Sushi Go and Card Wars from Adventure Times.
We played Sushi Go and it's absolutely a blast. Card Wars is waiting its turn.
But, back on topic. We played Arkham Horror through the first scenario and I have to say it revealed to us as a very deep game ruleset wise. We were playing with the recommended settings and we did it with the rulebook (both of them) at hand for every single step we made.
Also, total play time including set-up was a whopping 3,5 hours!
I'm looking forward to playing the scenario again, with the investigators of our choice, knowing what rules we did wrong and what not in order to progress through the base campaign with them.
Any advice on the game?
Also, do heavy games feel sooooooo heavy (yeah.. I know) the first time you approach their rules? I'm feeling this is because we are really new to the whole boardgame world and I think it will improve as we grasp more and more of the common rules and types of games.