I decide to contribute to a community in boredom by posting a thought provoking question. =p
Sooo.. apparently I'm going through a cycle this past year. First I started buying the 'lighter' games like Thebes, Carc, yspahan, Manila, TTR, etc and subsequently found them to be too light. I then started getting the longer/heavier games like El Grande, Puerto Rico, Shogun, Age of Empires, Agricola, etc. However! our gaming sessions far more often consist of people who prefer the lighter games. The heavy games hit the table far less than the lighter ones. However there's something else that they are looking for: tension. When I think about it, some of the hits in our house are: Settlers Manila Thebes Vegas Showdown Fearsome Floors Kingsburg Stone Age Pillars of the earth (although this reach the heavy side) Apparently, Carc, Yspahan, and even Dominon are not considered as fun eventhough they are relatively easy! After some thought my guess is that my friends deemed that these games lack the sense of tension that the other ones have. This sense of tense makes us think that what's going to happen matters. In Settlers & Stone age there's tense in not knowing how many resource you will get in a round. In Manila there's tension in those final rolls. In Thebes there's tension in the digs. Vegas Showdown has some tense auctions when some people go after the same tile. In Fearsome floors there's tension before the monster moves. In Kingsburg there's tension in winter. PoTe has tension in the final stages when all the scores are close and you need to pull-off that incredible play to spear ahead. So far I'm thinking to get: Wasabi, Cash n Guns, and Pandemic (not sure about this one.) So there you have it. I need short+tense+fun games. Which games would you guys recommend? What's fun/tense about it? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/BGG_down?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
