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I have to disagree on that. At least Terraforming Mars and Hanabi have a playtime limited by ever-dwindling resources. I don't know the other games, but I suspe
by mattashii 7y ago
I have to disagree on that. At least Terraforming Mars and Hanabi have a playtime limited by ever-dwindling resources. I don't know the other games, but I suspect they also have some kind of supply that has a limit in how much it can be used/aquired.
MTG has ways to return to a previously seen play state, technically allowing a game to continue infinitely, depending on your deck, of course.
- eru 7y agoLoops don't really add complexity. MtG can add now tokens of arbitrary number. So that can add arbitrary complexity.
- T-hawk 7y agoTerraforming Mars can continue infinitely. The end state requires players to deliberately take the actions to reach it. If no player chooses to end the game, it never will. Players could continue forever to use engines that generate points each round, to unbounded totals. By game theory they shouldn't; eventually a player will be able to end the game while ahead and should do so; but we're already disregarding the motivation of winning for MTG. (An expansion introduces a rule that each round automatically advances one of the game-ending parameters, but says you can play either with or without that rule.)