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ackblom12:
Alright, there's got to be other people around here who love board games to an unnatural degree. A good board game night is probably the best kind of kind of social events I can possibly imagine. Each session creates it's own stories and rivalries which can last over multiple games. There's a hell of a lot of variety and there are a lot of examples of cross pollination with video game design, especially if you go into some of the better, older board games.
Stories like this one are some of my favorites.
If you are familiar with this side of the gaming hobby, you may have noticed a trend in the last few years, which is that board game design has been improving at an absolutely ridiculous pace in the last 10 years. This video goes into the why of this, focusing a lot on Western and European board game design finally creating a wonderful hybrid of game design.
Why We're in a Goden Age of Board Gaming
The speaker, Quinn, also has a video review series for board games called Shut Up & Sit Down, which is massively entertaining.
I doubt there is anywhere near enough people who read this section of the board to make individual threads for games, but I'd be really happy to use this thread to actually talk Board Games. It's something I don't get to do often enough. I also don't get to play them very often either mind you, what with the whole requirement of having local friends, but yammering on about it is almost as good.
cesium133:
I'd like to get to play more board games, but I don't know many people around here who are interested. Back in college, we played a lot of Settlers of Catan, Axis and Allies, and Risk. We also had a copy of Scrabble, but it was forbidden after the Proper Noun War of 2005...
Masterpiece:
Oh I thought you meant board games a la Settlers of Catan.
ackblom12:
Settlers is included in what I'm talking about! It's likely one of the bigger reasons why Euro style board games made it across the pond to the US in the first place.
Masterpiece:
I love Settlers yet none of my friends do, because, they claim, "you're a cheater".
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