Is Aso Brain anything like doo doo head?
Settlers of Catan fans?
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Is Aso Brain anything like doo doo head?
green
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More like caka face.
Anyone play riskopoly?
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If you get caught with too many cards on a robber roll or played robber card, you have to turn half of them in. My girls don't drink, but they conspire against me.
#conspiracytheorist.
I have to do Settlers of Catan, Battleship, ConnectFour, Life, Monopoly, Risk, Canasta. . . . family of sociopathic winners, I guess.
I hide, or work. One way or another. . . . gotta keep my self-respect somehow.
Darkwing Duck
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Anything from this century? Or, other than Catan, anything from the past 60 years?
You mean, like Basketball? Moses Malone and the Stars, or you have nothing to compare.
Darkwing Duck
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No, I mean like board games, as per the topic in this thread.
I was responding to an apparent gratuitous ageist insult with humor, as I term "humor". I'm an old fart, and I work a lot. My kids sometimes kidnap me and force to play games. I used to be an addict to games, but it truly was sixty years ago. I once had fantasies of inventing new games, but pretty much I am at peace with myself as I am, and content with the old games, when I have time to play.
I would follow this thread for some faint perception of the newer games, though, but indeed, I do play Settlers of Catan, a lead-in to the topic of a new generation of games. My kids deserve all the "credit" for any modern updated game options in my life. . . .
Darkwing Duck
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The reference to old games is basically a condemnation of their quality in comparison to the new Euro wave of modern board gaming. Despite the general stability of old card games like Canasta, older board games have been shown to age tremendously poorly in comparison to the new wave, and can generally be objectively shown to be weaker in quality, once nostalgia has been removed. ConnectFour is very simplistic and mostly deterministic, Battleship is pretty much completely luck based, Life is roll dependent with little skill, Risk has a wide and unpredictable length of play, and Monopoly is the worst of them all.
Monopoly is luck based, dependent on dice rolls, has an obvious strategic pattern, has no predictable length of play, and has eliminations. A group of 5 wanting to play for a couple hours can turn into 3 players being eliminated, thus broken off from the other 2, with the remaining 2 waiting out dice rolls because they're never going to yield to any play with obvious disadvantages with no end in sight.
The new games generally have fixed time limits (dependent on players' pace of play), players determine the direction of the game based on their own choices, rather than dice rolls (why Catan is considered somewhat weak amongst the new wave), and there's generally no exact way to play and win, removing the simplistic model.
Would be hard for me to play those older games in comparison to the new games. I could play Sorry or Life if I'm just passing time and don't want to think about the game at all, but most people should derive more enjoyment out of the newer games than the older ones.
Monopoly is luck based, dependent on dice rolls, has an obvious strategic pattern, has no predictable length of play, and has eliminations. A group of 5 wanting to play for a couple hours can turn into 3 players being eliminated, thus broken off from the other 2, with the remaining 2 waiting out dice rolls because they're never going to yield to any play with obvious disadvantages with no end in sight.
The new games generally have fixed time limits (dependent on players' pace of play), players determine the direction of the game based on their own choices, rather than dice rolls (why Catan is considered somewhat weak amongst the new wave), and there's generally no exact way to play and win, removing the simplistic model.
Would be hard for me to play those older games in comparison to the new games. I could play Sorry or Life if I'm just passing time and don't want to think about the game at all, but most people should derive more enjoyment out of the newer games than the older ones.