I think this same stuff comes up literally any time anyone brings up Monopoly.
Which makes me wonder why people are bringing up Monopoly. None of us like it, we all know none of us like it, what's the point?
Sometimes its fun to shit-talk a bad thing on which there is essentially total concensus
Its nice to blow off some steam at a thing that unequivocally bad
I dunno, replaying the same complaints that were made last month and a few months before that and a few months before that etc etc doesn't really feel like catharsis to me
i love memes desu
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when I was in college I tried hacking together monopoly, risk, and poker into a game know as "tycoon"
the tagline for it was "are you the tycoon???"
you would play a hand of texas hold 'em with your monopoly money after every round of monop, then use your earnings to fund new armies in risk. the different areas of monopoly also synced up with continents for some style of bonuses, it... it didn't make a ton of sense. but neither does the world, motherfucker!!
I got people to play one game but my favorite part was repeating "are YOU the tycoon???" to my roommates for several weeks, so you might as well say that's how you play tycoon
I think this same stuff comes up literally any time anyone brings up Monopoly.
Which makes me wonder why people are bringing up Monopoly. None of us like it, we all know none of us like it, what's the point?
Sometimes its fun to shit-talk a bad thing on which there is essentially total concensus
Its nice to blow off some steam at a thing that unequivocally bad
I dunno, replaying the same complaints that were made last month and a few months before that and a few months before that etc etc doesn't really feel like catharsis to me
I mean, thats fine, you certainly don't have to participate
But other people's catharsis doesn't really feel like something that needs to be called out!
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I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
when I was in college I tried hacking together monopoly, risk, and poker into a game know as "tycoon"
the tagline for it was "are you the tycoon???"
you would play a hand of texas hold 'em with your monopoly money after every round of monop, then use your earnings to fund new armies in risk. the different areas of monopoly also synced up with continents for some style of bonuses, it... it didn't make a ton of sense. but neither does the world, motherfucker!!
I got people to play one game but my favorite part was repeating "are YOU the tycoon???" to my roommates for several weeks, so you might as well say that's how you play tycoon
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when I was in college I tried hacking together monopoly, risk, and poker into a game know as "tycoon"
the tagline for it was "are you the tycoon???"
you would play a hand of texas hold 'em with your monopoly money after every round of monop, then use your earnings to fund new armies in risk. the different areas of monopoly also synced up with continents for some style of bonuses, it... it didn't make a ton of sense. but neither does the world, motherfucker!!
I got people to play one game but my favorite part was repeating "are YOU the tycoon???" to my roommates for several weeks, so you might as well say that's how you play tycoon
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Actually where is my Heroquest set. That’s my shit right there
I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
I dunno, people talking about a tv show but not really about the tv show all the time?
Going to a dedicated board game store these days is like a diner menu syndrome experience for me
Just so many fucking options
I usually just buy them as presents for people or wait until people buy one for me, so as to save myself the labor of picking between twenty new indie games
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I went to my local board game cafe this week. There was a group there playing monopoly. You pay $5/person to access their library. It is a very good library with hundreds of games. And they pick Monopoly. Just baffling to me.
I went to my local board game cafe this week. There was a group there playing monopoly. You pay $5/person to access their library. It is a very good library with hundreds of games. And they pick Monopoly. Just baffling to me.
doesn't sound like a good library to me!
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I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
And they are quite a lot more technical minded about games than I am. And with Twilight Imperium especially have studied the rules to a rather exhaustive degree. So I show up my twice a year playing ass and no I don’t hold a candle.
So I end up making up some stupid objective in my head as opposed to the one the cards give me and end up causing havoc. It’s a whole thing
I went to my local board game cafe this week. There was a group there playing monopoly. You pay $5/person to access their library. It is a very good library with hundreds of games. And they pick Monopoly. Just baffling to me.
That place is good.
We should round up some forumers there someday and play some board games.
when I was in college I tried hacking together monopoly, risk, and poker into a game know as "tycoon"
the tagline for it was "are you the tycoon???"
you would play a hand of texas hold 'em with your monopoly money after every round of monop, then use your earnings to fund new armies in risk. the different areas of monopoly also synced up with continents for some style of bonuses, it... it didn't make a ton of sense. but neither does the world, motherfucker!!
I got people to play one game but my favorite part was repeating "are YOU the tycoon???" to my roommates for several weeks, so you might as well say that's how you play tycoon
Are you still playing that game today because that literally sounds like the longest thing of all time.
I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
And they are quite a lot more technical minded about games than I am. And with Twilight Imperium especially have studied the rules to a rather exhaustive degree. So I show up my twice a year playing ass and no I don’t hold a candle.
So I end up making up some stupid objective in my head as opposed to the one the cards give me and end up causing havoc. It’s a whole thing
Force them to play sheriff of naughtingham, talk in your Alan Rickman voice the entire time
I went to my local board game cafe this week. There was a group there playing monopoly. You pay $5/person to access their library. It is a very good library with hundreds of games. And they pick Monopoly. Just baffling to me.
doesn't sound like a good library to me!
I had a friend who worked in a board game store and he told me they had to always have a stack of Monopoly on stock because every single day somebody went in there to buy a Monopoly and they just kept them in the back and everybody there hated it
basically if you run a board game place you have to have Monopoly because somebody's always gonna want Monopoly
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I am actually banned from using my Alan Rickman voice after last years Christmas party.
Alan Rickman’s notes to God on how to improve creation was not a hit
I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
And they are quite a lot more technical minded about games than I am. And with Twilight Imperium especially have studied the rules to a rather exhaustive degree. So I show up my twice a year playing ass and no I don’t hold a candle.
So I end up making up some stupid objective in my head as opposed to the one the cards give me and end up causing havoc. It’s a whole thing
I usually find with really long games that I run out of patience for learning how to do things well before you reach the end of the rules you need to play the game. I wanna just get in and play some stuff!
I think 20 minutes to an hour is my ideal length for a game. That way I don't have to feel like I wasted my entire day on a single game where I barely do anything because I understand roughly half of what's happening.
I went to my local board game cafe this week. There was a group there playing monopoly. You pay $5/person to access their library. It is a very good library with hundreds of games. And they pick Monopoly. Just baffling to me.
doesn't sound like a good library to me!
I had a friend who worked in a board game store and he told me they had to always have a stack of Monopoly on stock because every single day somebody went in there to buy a Monopoly and they just kept them in the back and everybody there hated it
basically if you run a board game place you have to have Monopoly because somebody's always gonna want Monopoly
Yeah I used to hang in hobby shops a lot and I remember the owners resenting that they had to carry Checkers or whatever because people who walked by just assumed they'd' have all the classics
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when I was in college I tried hacking together monopoly, risk, and poker into a game know as "tycoon"
the tagline for it was "are you the tycoon???"
you would play a hand of texas hold 'em with your monopoly money after every round of monop, then use your earnings to fund new armies in risk. the different areas of monopoly also synced up with continents for some style of bonuses, it... it didn't make a ton of sense. but neither does the world, motherfucker!!
I got people to play one game but my favorite part was repeating "are YOU the tycoon???" to my roommates for several weeks, so you might as well say that's how you play tycoon
Mitch I love this
i cherish my memories of it, but have to keep them at arm's length so as to not start thinking its sisyphean nonsense is "y'know, maybe a good idea actually" again
when I was in college I tried hacking together monopoly, risk, and poker into a game know as "tycoon"
the tagline for it was "are you the tycoon???"
you would play a hand of texas hold 'em with your monopoly money after every round of monop, then use your earnings to fund new armies in risk. the different areas of monopoly also synced up with continents for some style of bonuses, it... it didn't make a ton of sense. but neither does the world, motherfucker!!
I got people to play one game but my favorite part was repeating "are YOU the tycoon???" to my roommates for several weeks, so you might as well say that's how you play tycoon
Are you still playing that game today because that literally sounds like the longest thing of all time.
i got people to play the game--i did not get people to finish the game
I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
And they are quite a lot more technical minded about games than I am. And with Twilight Imperium especially have studied the rules to a rather exhaustive degree. So I show up my twice a year playing ass and no I don’t hold a candle.
So I end up making up some stupid objective in my head as opposed to the one the cards give me and end up causing havoc. It’s a whole thing
I usually find with really long games that I run out of patience for learning how to do things well before you reach the end of the rules you need to play the game. I wanna just get in and play some stuff!
I think 20 minutes to an hour is my ideal length for a game. That way I don't have to feel like I wasted my entire day on a single game where I barely do anything because I understand roughly half of what's happening.
Yeah I think I generally agree.
Even Betrayal, a game I absolutely love, is right up against the edge of taking too long, especially if the final haunt ends up being a garbage one.
I went to my local board game cafe this week. There was a group there playing monopoly. You pay $5/person to access their library. It is a very good library with hundreds of games. And they pick Monopoly. Just baffling to me.
doesn't sound like a good library to me!
I had a friend who worked in a board game store and he told me they had to always have a stack of Monopoly on stock because every single day somebody went in there to buy a Monopoly and they just kept them in the back and everybody there hated it
basically if you run a board game place you have to have Monopoly because somebody's always gonna want Monopoly
Yeah I used to hang in hobby shops a lot and I remember the owners resenting that they had to carry Checkers or whatever because people who walked by just assumed they'd' have all the classics
I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
And they are quite a lot more technical minded about games than I am. And with Twilight Imperium especially have studied the rules to a rather exhaustive degree. So I show up my twice a year playing ass and no I don’t hold a candle.
So I end up making up some stupid objective in my head as opposed to the one the cards give me and end up causing havoc. It’s a whole thing
I usually find with really long games that I run out of patience for learning how to do things well before you reach the end of the rules you need to play the game. I wanna just get in and play some stuff!
I think 20 minutes to an hour is my ideal length for a game. That way I don't have to feel like I wasted my entire day on a single game where I barely do anything because I understand roughly half of what's happening.
The other thing thats a real problem with games of this length is that very few of them are designed to keep it close the entire time
One of my favorite games takes about 90 minutes but the biggest problem with it is that one of the four players always knows they're going to lose like, 30 minutes in, which is a serious design issue
Also, REALLY long games, like 4 hours or whatever, leave me personally really meloncholy if I lose at the end, so I tend to not love those most of the time
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I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
And they are quite a lot more technical minded about games than I am. And with Twilight Imperium especially have studied the rules to a rather exhaustive degree. So I show up my twice a year playing ass and no I don’t hold a candle.
So I end up making up some stupid objective in my head as opposed to the one the cards give me and end up causing havoc. It’s a whole thing
I usually find with really long games that I run out of patience for learning how to do things well before you reach the end of the rules you need to play the game. I wanna just get in and play some stuff!
I think 20 minutes to an hour is my ideal length for a game. That way I don't have to feel like I wasted my entire day on a single game where I barely do anything because I understand roughly half of what's happening.
i absolutely love devoting huge swaths of time to board games and their many rules when I'm able, even though i regularly feel like shit afterward for devoting such a huge swath of time to a board game
I’m mostly aware but my board game friends are basically Twilight Imperium (or of that scale) or bust. And I hosted one time and at hour 6 I looked like the god damn crypt keeper.
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
And they are quite a lot more technical minded about games than I am. And with Twilight Imperium especially have studied the rules to a rather exhaustive degree. So I show up my twice a year playing ass and no I don’t hold a candle.
So I end up making up some stupid objective in my head as opposed to the one the cards give me and end up causing havoc. It’s a whole thing
I usually find with really long games that I run out of patience for learning how to do things well before you reach the end of the rules you need to play the game. I wanna just get in and play some stuff!
I think 20 minutes to an hour is my ideal length for a game. That way I don't have to feel like I wasted my entire day on a single game where I barely do anything because I understand roughly half of what's happening.
Yeah I think I generally agree.
Even Betrayal, a game I absolutely love, is right up against the edge of taking too long, especially if the final haunt ends up being a garbage one.
I genuinely think that with Betrayal it's best to introduce new players to the game with a prepared haunt. Make sure that someone who already knows the game will be doing all the complicated stuff, so the new players don't have to worry about learning as much.
Once you're familiar with the game, you can deal with the uneven nature of the haunts better
I went to my local board game cafe this week. There was a group there playing monopoly. You pay $5/person to access their library. It is a very good library with hundreds of games. And they pick Monopoly. Just baffling to me.
doesn't sound like a good library to me!
I had a friend who worked in a board game store and he told me they had to always have a stack of Monopoly on stock because every single day somebody went in there to buy a Monopoly and they just kept them in the back and everybody there hated it
basically if you run a board game place you have to have Monopoly because somebody's always gonna want Monopoly
Yeah I used to hang in hobby shops a lot and I remember the owners resenting that they had to carry Checkers or whatever because people who walked by just assumed they'd' have all the classics
that seems like an odd thing to be upset about
a sale's a sale
Oh Mike the thing you may not know is that people who own hobby shops are horrific people/nerds and hate that they have to cater to fuckin plebes to stay open
Oh also if I know I'm losing a game I start really resenting still having to play it. I do not enjoy having to sit idly by while other people succeed at my expense. I get enough of that in my actual life, thank you.
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Oh also if I know I'm losing a game I start really resenting still having to play it. I do not enjoy having to sit idly by while other people succeed at my expense. I get enough of that in my actual life, thank you.
i don't often wind up here myself, but seeing it happen to other players is the biggest way to take the wind out of my sails for a victory. it sucks when the game design drags people listlessly along toward the finish line!
One benefit of most of my local friends having kids now, is that when we do have hangout days they start in the morning and end late afternoon or early evening, around the time I'm ready to not be around people anymore.
Have there been any spicy hot Monopoly takes that attempt to fix the game?
It wouldn't fix the game but you could use amiibos as tokens for a dash of whimsy
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If you want to play a game about capitalism I recommend Acquire. It's a game about stock trading and if you're good at keeping track of what shit people have, provides ample opportunities to screw your friends over
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My general rule to keep myself out of assorted fine messes is to say that I won’t play any board game that takes over twenty minutes to set up
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the tagline for it was "are you the tycoon???"
you would play a hand of texas hold 'em with your monopoly money after every round of monop, then use your earnings to fund new armies in risk. the different areas of monopoly also synced up with continents for some style of bonuses, it... it didn't make a ton of sense. but neither does the world, motherfucker!!
I got people to play one game but my favorite part was repeating "are YOU the tycoon???" to my roommates for several weeks, so you might as well say that's how you play tycoon
I mean, thats fine, you certainly don't have to participate
But other people's catharsis doesn't really feel like something that needs to be called out!
One night ultimate werewolf was fun tho
Mitch I love this
jokerman for a jokerman!
This owns
That's a bummer, those types of games are fun every once and a while but multi hour board games really aren't something I wanna play all the time
Just so many fucking options
I usually just buy them as presents for people or wait until people buy one for me, so as to save myself the labor of picking between twenty new indie games
doesn't sound like a good library to me!
And they are quite a lot more technical minded about games than I am. And with Twilight Imperium especially have studied the rules to a rather exhaustive degree. So I show up my twice a year playing ass and no I don’t hold a candle.
So I end up making up some stupid objective in my head as opposed to the one the cards give me and end up causing havoc. It’s a whole thing
That place is good.
We should round up some forumers there someday and play some board games.
Are you still playing that game today because that literally sounds like the longest thing of all time.
Force them to play sheriff of naughtingham, talk in your Alan Rickman voice the entire time
Its what they deserve
I had a friend who worked in a board game store and he told me they had to always have a stack of Monopoly on stock because every single day somebody went in there to buy a Monopoly and they just kept them in the back and everybody there hated it
basically if you run a board game place you have to have Monopoly because somebody's always gonna want Monopoly
Alan Rickman’s notes to God on how to improve creation was not a hit
like pokemon
I usually find with really long games that I run out of patience for learning how to do things well before you reach the end of the rules you need to play the game. I wanna just get in and play some stuff!
I think 20 minutes to an hour is my ideal length for a game. That way I don't have to feel like I wasted my entire day on a single game where I barely do anything because I understand roughly half of what's happening.
Yeah I used to hang in hobby shops a lot and I remember the owners resenting that they had to carry Checkers or whatever because people who walked by just assumed they'd' have all the classics
i cherish my memories of it, but have to keep them at arm's length so as to not start thinking its sisyphean nonsense is "y'know, maybe a good idea actually" again
i got people to play the game--i did not get people to finish the game
Yeah I think I generally agree.
Even Betrayal, a game I absolutely love, is right up against the edge of taking too long, especially if the final haunt ends up being a garbage one.
that seems like an odd thing to be upset about
a sale's a sale
The other thing thats a real problem with games of this length is that very few of them are designed to keep it close the entire time
One of my favorite games takes about 90 minutes but the biggest problem with it is that one of the four players always knows they're going to lose like, 30 minutes in, which is a serious design issue
Also, REALLY long games, like 4 hours or whatever, leave me personally really meloncholy if I lose at the end, so I tend to not love those most of the time
i absolutely love devoting huge swaths of time to board games and their many rules when I'm able, even though i regularly feel like shit afterward for devoting such a huge swath of time to a board game
I genuinely think that with Betrayal it's best to introduce new players to the game with a prepared haunt. Make sure that someone who already knows the game will be doing all the complicated stuff, so the new players don't have to worry about learning as much.
Once you're familiar with the game, you can deal with the uneven nature of the haunts better
Oh Mike the thing you may not know is that people who own hobby shops are horrific people/nerds and hate that they have to cater to fuckin plebes to stay open
they do not play many board games at these meetups
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This seems very silly. Last weekend we started at 10 AM which was actually quite nice.
i don't often wind up here myself, but seeing it happen to other players is the biggest way to take the wind out of my sails for a victory. it sucks when the game design drags people listlessly along toward the finish line!
It wouldn't fix the game but you could use amiibos as tokens for a dash of whimsy
someone's not the tycoon!