I was not aware of those train games, thank you for telling me of them. It's obviously possible we both have major selection bias towards what we've seen, but

I was not aware of those train games, thank you for telling me of them. It's obviously possible we both have major selection bias towards what we've seen, but I guess my point was more that the "normal internet fad topics" are not really as overrepresented in board games. Zombies and Dragons and stuff _exist_ in board games, but most of the really popular games are touching on topics that most reasonable people would not immediately associate with the generation of people ravenously playing those board games now. Civilizations -- yeah, like I said, a VERY broad genre, so I kinda left that one alone. You have a good point too on multiple strategies being important in game design. I just disagreed with how the author portrays all of this. In the end, that's what my rant was (not so clearly) about I guess -- Good game, good design, good designer: Terrible article.