Yes, it's a cool game, but when you play with a lot of experienced board gamers, it can take oh so very loooooooooooong.
Munchkin rules! I love the "The Helm of the Enterprise" card
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^ I like the sidekick called "Red Shirt." He'll gladly sacrifice himself to the monster in the fight---but if you roll a 6, and totally kick the monster's ass, he gets overly-excited and sacrifices himself, anyway. And the card shows a little cartoon of a smiling Red Shirted Sidekick gleefully throwing himself into the monster's mouth.
I love how half the people in this thread are just throwing out vanilla bullshit games because they're completely unfamiliar with the german/euro/designer scene.
I love me some Power Grid, Agricola, Pandemic, and of course the way-too-awesome-for-a-licensed-game Battlestar Galactica.
I love how this is pretty much the only topic in the world that can pull me out of lurker status.
It only took a page and a half for someone to say that.
I had a feeling someone from Boardgamegeek would come out of the closet. You guys really hate family games dont you?? I know games like monopoly and Life require complete luck to win but they can be fun and perfect for family play. Sad thing is Boardgamegeek denizens also give low scores to Chess.
Go figure.Euro games are what all the "sophisticated" board gamers play. While the game shelves at Kmart and Walmart are looked down on.
Many Euro games though tend to focus on boring commerce concepts and several of them seem to have wooden blocks and cards. Very standard in the euro boardgame arena.
Battlelore and Memoir44 are some great games when "Sophisticated gamers want something other than shapeless wooden block and commerce concepts in thier games.
I also like Blokus and Blokus Trigon which are great family games but without the luck factor. Another good family game that requires some strategy is othello.
^I love OTHELLO. I can completely destroy my husband with that game.
I must have played the one at Flukie's Cafe a hundred times.
I must have played the one at Flukie's Cafe a hundred times.
It's true, eurosnobs tend to badmouth any game you can pick up off the shelf at Target. But there is a pretty damned good reason for that. While Monopoly and Clue can be good fun, especially with the kids, they really don't belong in the same category as the more complicated german-style fare. This thread, or at least the original post of it, seemed to be more about the designer end of the spectrum, so I just find all the throwing out of generigames a little bit outside of the point.
The point being, really, that fans of the off-the-shelf games and fans of the designer games don't really tend to overlap much. So in a thread like this, it would appear that two very different categories of people are picturing two very different categories of games and having two very different sorts of conversations at once.
Family games are very different creatures than designer games, which are in turn very different creatures than party games, which are very different from strategy games... it's all very complicated stuff. And yes. Serious business. (insert hillarious internet picture find here)
The point being, really, that fans of the off-the-shelf games and fans of the designer games don't really tend to overlap much. So in a thread like this, it would appear that two very different categories of people are picturing two very different categories of games and having two very different sorts of conversations at once.
Family games are very different creatures than designer games, which are in turn very different creatures than party games, which are very different from strategy games... it's all very complicated stuff. And yes. Serious business. (insert hillarious internet picture find here)
Axis and Allies is the BEST game EVER!!! I have been playing this game for over 20 years (I started when I was 10) and went undefeated throughout my college years. A great game that is easy to come up with new rules and scenarios for.
As much as I love Axis and Allies I have to say that Diplomacy is a superior game.
It is, but you need a bunch of people to make it work.
Diplomacy is a great game too. However, most of the people I have played with tend to get upset after they are stabbed in the back by one of their "allies" and fights break out. lol
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This is perhaps only peripherally relevant to the thread, but I recently learned that I and most other folks have been playing Monopoly incorrectly.
Anybody else remember the old TSR boardgames from the mid-80's? I used to love 'Snit's Revenge', and 'The Awful Green Things From Outer Space'. Some of them like 'Dungeon', and 'Knights of Camelot' were just as much fun played solo. Think I've still got my copies tucked away in a drawer.
And of course, FASA's old Trek based 'Starship Combat Simulator'.
And of course, FASA's old Trek based 'Starship Combat Simulator'.
True. that is why it has been so long since our group has gotten a game going.
That sounds sooo like my last game of Diplomacy!
Is anyone else also looking forward to the Pegasus Expansion for the Battlestar Galactica boardgame?
Pegasus expansion! 
that is so on the must have list now
that is so on the must have list now
