After about a year off of wandering the streets of Arkham, two new friends asked me about this game. I told them it was a long game, and we would probably loose. They laughed and said they still wanted to try it out.
So we all came to my place on a day off, and we picked Hastur to fight.
We had 6 out of 7 gates opened, only one sealed gate, and the terror was at four. Both monster limits were full. One of the guys said, " we are so dead."
One decided to be a monster hunter, and became the deputy and drove around just fighting monsters. I swept up clues and gate dove, as did my other player.
About an hour later, we sealed the last gate. The doom track was at 9, and so was the terror track.
It was probably the most satisfying game of Arkham Horror I have ever played.
They both want to play again!