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Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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Laga - Jul 26, 2011 10:42:48 am PDT #12454 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Laga - Jul 26, 2011 10:55:47 am PDT #12455 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Oh my god! I have been playing monopoly wrong my whole life! We all have! And my roommates just shrug and go back to playing Borderlands. What is wrong with them?!
billytea - Jul 26, 2011 4:51:13 pm PDT #12456 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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Would folks mind horribly if we interrupt the game until August 1st when I'm back in LA? I'm so sorry about this.
Not a problem for me, we knew there could be an interruption for your work. We're up to your turn, so just go ahead whenever you're ready.
Liese S. - Jul 26, 2011 6:47:44 pm PDT #12457 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh my god! I have been playing monopoly wrong my whole life! We all have!
Us too! Now I want to drag out the old board and give it a try. Monopoly was the traditional New Year's Eve game, since it took so damn long, and NYE was all about the idle waiting anyway. We stuffed ourselves on oil fondue and then played Monopoly until we could watch the ball drop. But I loved it! I was always trying to get people to play.
Railroads and utilities, man. I pwnd the infrastructure.
Laga - Jul 26, 2011 6:58:17 pm PDT #12458 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I haaated Monopoly. I never won and my sister always stormed off.
billytea - Jul 26, 2011 8:19:59 pm PDT #12459 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The scorn for Monopoly is large on boardgamegeek. Part of it's the luck factor, but I think the biggest problem is that it takes a long time to get from the winner being decided to the game actually ending. (Made all the worse with many house variants, such as money on Free Parking.)
Incidentally, When I was younger I had a board game strategy book (put out by Playboy, of all things). It had a cost-benefit analysis of all the properties. Cliff notes: Mayfair et al is well worth it, indeed if one player gets both of them early in the game it's probably all over, but the Greens are overpriced. The Oranges are probably the best properties on the board; they're not too expensive to develop and thanks to the Jail space they get hit up to twice as often as other properties. Red's good for that too, but not quite s good and significantly more expensive.
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2011 8:23:09 pm PDT #12460 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Cliff notes: Mayfair et al is well worth it, indeed if one player gets both of them early in te game it's probably all over
...Mayfair?
Googles
Oooh, you mean Boardwalk! And Park Place!
billytea - Jul 26, 2011 8:36:56 pm PDT #12461 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Oooh, you mean Boardwalk! And Park Place!
Ah, right. I grew up with the London version. (There's an Australian version too.) Anyway, yes, the big blues.
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2011 8:51:44 pm PDT #12462 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There are all sorts of versions! I kind of want Clinical Trial Monopoly.
ThomasW - Jul 26, 2011 9:01:45 pm PDT #12463 of 26134
Anything for a weird life.
Yeah, the Oranges are great. I always seem to find Pacific to be one of the most-landed-on properties in the game, though (green, first property after Go To Jail).