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The boardgames renaissance that I've seen grow ever the past 15 years has gone hand in hand with the increased fickleness of video games. I can't establish caus
by bradbeattie 11y ago
The boardgames renaissance that I've seen grow ever the past 15 years has gone hand in hand with the increased fickleness of video games. I can't establish causation, but I'd wager that there's an appeal to a physical offline social game in contrast to the mandatory online, anonymity-fueled abrasive, potentially-unplayable-in-5-years digital games.
I like the idea that the boardgames I buy, barring physical abuse, will be playable by future generations in 20 years time. You can't "end-of-life" a physical product.
- giltleaf 11y agoI definitely agree with this. I miss being able to sit down with my friends for some videogames and being able to kill bots. It recreated the experience of multiplayer games without making you a lonely basement creature. I'm thinking in particular about the TimeSplitters franchise.
- genericuser 11y agoI'd tie it more to the popularity of video games among adults(as I see adults, and younger people introduced to them by adults as the main driving force behind this board game resurgence), and the idea that there are always people looking to do things which are novel to them, and that things do not stay novel forever so there are people which shift to new or out of favor things which will be novel to them. NBC I feel nailed it down with their tagline "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you"