Subj : Re: Your favourite games as a kid / teen?
To   : Lightman
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Jun 02 2021 15:11:20

  Re: Re: Your favourite games as a kid / teen?
  By: Lightman to Arelor on Tue Jun 01 2021 11:32 pm

 > Hi Arelor,
 > 
 >  Ar> I am sad so many people is bringing Monopoly up, because it is
 >  Ar> objetively a very bad game. The
 > 
 > 
 > I'm not one to argue, but to say 'objectively' might stretch credulity a bit
 > - lol. I don't disagree with your sentiment - if you ended up on the wrong
 > side post 'saddle'....
 > 

It has nothing to do with winning or losing. If you are in a dominant possition
post saddle you are still going to get bored to death.

Board game design is so advanced and has been iterated over so often  that
whether the game succeds or fails at achieving its design goals is quite
obvious. Board games can have many design goals - MOnopolyç's was promoting 
Georgism - but any one that aims to be entertaining needs one of the following
things:

* To offer meaningful decisions to the player, so the player gets involved and
sucked into the game. Or some intelectual challenge at least.
* To offer tension, so the player is bitting his nails because the next die
roll is the difference between life and death.

Monopoly does this for a while, then it runs dry. Which is why I categorize it
as objetively bad. Bonus ponts because it failed at educating people about
Georgism too.

Now compare this to a non-mainstream family friendly game like 7 Wonders:

* You get a meaningful decision to make every single turn.
* No player gets eliminated, so everybody has fun until the very end.
* You need to adapt to what others players are doing (intelectual challenge).

Heck, even a game so basic such as Ticket to Ride has these.






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