Subj : Re: Video Games
To   : ARELOR
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Thu Aug 26 2021 11:23:00

-=> ARELOR wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 AR> The point of super brainy games in which everybody is deadpan serious,
 AR> with their neurons quietly burning through options and possible plays,
 AR> is that once the last shipment of cotton makes it into the market,
 AR> everybody smiles and says they have had a great time, hahahahaha

Yeah - to each his own. :-) I like a brainy game, but not one that's
ALL brainy. :-)

 AR> It is not a matter to win at all costs as much as the game being
 AR> engaging because it sucks you in. "Random" wargames are engaging in a
 AR> completely different way... it is the spontaneous events which make
 AR> them funny. "So your Megatank of Death rolled a 1 and now is stuck in
 AR> the mud, hahahahaha your west flank offensive is stuck. Hahahahaha
 AR> that's the face your mom had last night!"

 AR> You just don't think your plays in Warhammer the same way you do in
 AR> Brass, because in Warhammer a random goblin fanatic may pop up God
 AR> knows were and trash any both ofn the players at the whim of a die, so
 AR> you just roll with it :-)

Yeah - and I like random stuff. :-)




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