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Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

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Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

#31
We are living in a board game and card game Renaissance. For those outside of "the hobby", there are thousands of new titles being released every year. Some challenge the notion of what it even means to be a game. Even in the party game space, there is a lot of innovation. It doesn't matter what kind of game you like, there is one from the last 10 years that is your "perfect" game. If you hop on to BGG or the right Discords, you can find it fairly quickly. There is also LOTS of online playtesting happening with groups like Break My Game where you can play games still being designed. Additionally, I'll mention Board Game Arena which has digital implementations for over 1200 games.

[Source: I've been designing games as a hobby for the last 10 years)

Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

#32
Are there actually people out there who have never played “modern board games”? Maybe I’m just surrounded by nerds, but I don’t think these games are very niche. If someone I know hasn’t played board games like these, then it’s usually because they don’t have the attention span or don’t enjoy the strategy, not because they don’t realize board games exist.

Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

#34
post #24

If only playing board games didn't require colocating several friends for a non-trivial span of time... Everyone around me (including myself!) is busy with work, children, partner, running their household, and exercising. How do people do it?

This is such a sad comment. You can call people and make a plan. It's called socializing.

Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

#35
My friends and I graduated from playing video games as teens to now we play almost exclusively board games together in our 30s. If you’re new to the scene, you may not be aware of the different styles of game design, here’s a video to get you started on the basics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nyYexTcyY2A

Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

#37
I'm thinking of breaking up with my local board game Meetup.

The reason why is: everybody there has board game ADD! I've been coming for 2 years, but we never play the same game twice; someone always brings the Hot New Game of the moment.

But I find that the first playthough is the least-fun one. That's the one where you're trying to remember what the grey cubes do, and whether they're worth victory points or not. And the game takes twice as long as it says on the box, because everyone needs to reason out their strategy from scratch.

I wish that I could convince my group to pick some set of N games to focus on!

Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

#38

Any particularly complex or sophisticated board games HN likes to play? Curious what kind of games appeal to the HN mindset

18xx, hardcore economic train games. Think war games with money.

Figure your site deserves a plug ;)

https://18xx.games/

Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

#39
post #24

If only playing board games didn't require colocating several friends for a non-trivial span of time... Everyone around me (including myself!) is busy with work, children, partner, running their household, and exercising. How do people do it?

that's the ultimate board game I guess.

Re: Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

#40

Twilight Struggle is my all-time fave although have to mention Diplomacy for its capacity to end relationships and practice war time negotiations and cheating is part of the game (IIRC it was a favorite of Kissinger and JFK)

> and cheating is part of the game

My main problem with this is that if the other players are not in on this and just minimax, any such game becomes really boring.

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