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The fact he has Gloomhaven to the right of him made me chuckle. I've only had one chance to play it, and it took hours of fumbling around with the instructions
by colmvp 6y ago
The fact he has Gloomhaven to the right of him made me chuckle. I've only had one chance to play it, and it took hours of fumbling around with the instructions with my friends (who also hadn't played it) but once we got the hang of the instructions it was very, very fun.
- prepend 6y agoI liked that, to his left, he had Fortress America, Shogun, and what I think is Conquest of the Empire, the three other games in the same series as Axis and Allies.
- Aeolun 6y agoPersonally I was pretty happy to see Risk. Not many people seem interested in playing large strategy board games.
- PakG1 6y agoThere are a lot of large strategy board games that are much nicer than Risk these days. The world has come a long way since Risk was created. Risk 2210 A.D. is much greater, and there are other games even greater than that. I think large co-op board games can be especially fun.
- kmonsen 6y agoAny examples of large co-op board games that you find interesting?
- zeisss 6y agoPandemic
- alasdair_ 6y agoI really like Mansions of Madness as well as Dead of Winter. Both are co-op but both have a mechanic where it’s possible one of the players is actually a betrayer out to defeat the others. My problem with pure co-op, especially pandemic, is that what usually happens is one player ends up doing most of the actual “playing” and the others just provide a few suggestions here and there. Both MoM and DoW limit the things you are allowed to share with the other players too, which makes this happen less often, and in DoW every player has a unique hidden agenda in addition to the group goal - which gets fun if they do something weird because you have to work out if they are a betrayer or just have a weird agenda.
- kmonsen 6y agoI have played Pandemic a few times, and it ended up like you mention. 1-2 players took control while the others were mostly passive. DoW looks interesting, but not sure how possible it is with 2-3 players and it is harder to get a larger group now in the middle of the pandemic.
- alasdair_ 6y agoIt’s fun with even two players but it’s definitely more interesting with four or more. The expansions allow twelve players, which I strongly recommend only doing with experienced players - it takes a whole day and people give up if you have to explain all the rules over and over.
- dwd 6y agoRisk seems to get a lot of hate these days. BoardGameGeeks rankings push it way down, which seems to be a common theme for popular mainstream games. Though the ones at the bottom like Monopoly and Game of Life are truly horrible and give board games a bad rap: fulling deserving of their ranking. To the right of Risk looks to be Stratego which was a fun game when I was a kid.
- cosmodisk 6y agoI appreciate there are more sophisticated games out there but what's the issue with Monopoly?
- chottocharaii 6y agoPure dice roll & has a trivial strategy for perfect play
- PakG1 6y agoYou can add in more stuff if you want. Mergers and spin-offs, player-to-player loans with various interest rates, bill payment schedules, etc. :)
- cosmodisk 6y agoBeing simple and linear doesn't make it bad: I can equally enjoy playing super mario and Fallout,even though they are quite different in terms of gameplay.
- tomgp 6y agoThe linearity and randomness aren’t the main problems. Play length and run-away winner are far worse issues. It’s possible to lose the game in the first couple of trips round the board and still have a couple of hours of slowly being ground down. One person might have fun no one else does.
- prepend 6y agoSome people have different tastes, like asking what’s wrong with vanilla ice cream. I like board game geek, but it has a bit of a movie critic problem in that the most popular, most played, and most fun games aren’t necessarily highest rated. It is also very well known, so any negative reviews have the added bonus of extra attention. And the criticism was novel a few years ago.
- Aeolun 6y agoPossibly, but I’ve only had people refuse to play Risk with me without suggesting any alternatives, so I have to assume it’s aversion to that kind of genre in general. My biggest problem with risk is the huge element of chance.
- busterarm 6y agoI'd reach for Empire Builder or Nippon Rails or something like that before Risk. Even though it's a different theme, they end up being much better games.
- empath75 6y agoRisk is a terrible game for anyone who cares about strategy because it has a kingmaker problem. Someone who is terrible at the game can still easily get mad and cause one player to lose by throwing all their armies at them. Monopoly has a similar problem with the ability to trade all your properties to someone for a dollar because someone else pissed you off.
- Aeolun 6y agoThat’s why Risk is more of a social game than a strategy game. Though I assume the same thing is true for global politics.