Yeah was thinking of making oneBoard games are fantastic. Need a separate thread imo.
Who hurt youI quite like collaborative board games, it appeals to the same part of my brain that DnD does.
Catan doesn't sit right with me and it bugs me that people hold it up as the apex of board game design because it's all strategy and little randomisation. That just means the object of the game is to scheme your way into ****ing other people over. It's like the opposite of fun.
Yup, this. Possibilities of frequent random turnarounds make everything so much more fun and good-humoured.I quite like collaborative board games, it appeals to the same part of my brain that DnD does.
Catan doesn't sit right with me and it bugs me that people hold it up as the apex of board game design because it's all strategy and little randomisation. That just means the object of the game is to scheme your way into ****ing other people over. It's like the opposite of fun.
yesThat just means the object of the game is to scheme your way into ****ing other people over.
Tokaido is completely unlike anything I've ever played before, and is an absolutely outstanding game.I played Tokaido with friends the other day. It was very wholesome and pretty, it's quite a hard game to work out as your strategy depends a lot on what your opponents do.
in a similar vein I like Robo Rally but I think you need to be a coder to appreciate that one
if I buy Ticket To Ride I can just open it up and play it. Who wants that from a game? I want to load it up and then get told to download a 7gb update and play it four days laterA little off-topic but it's following on from a discussion that happened in this thread ages back: whoever said that physical board games are more fun than most video games these days was correct.
edit: moved out of the gaming thread
Always some mother ****er who ****s up my beautiful landscape painting by dragging their lazy ass to every vista and parking themselves there with a brush. SmhTokaido is completely unlike anything I've ever played before, and is an absolutely outstanding game.