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Reply To: Hobby Weekender 10/05/19 A bit of gaming philosophy this time

May 10, 2019 at 6:04 am #1388605

sundancer

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(1) Is a hard tabletop boardgame necessarily a good one?

No, absolutely not. When a game is only hard for the sake of keeping the player from winning then it creates more frustration than fun.

(2) Do board games based on a computer game work? Or do they get muddled up in immitating the game’s style translating directly into a tabletop game and suffer?

Oh, that’s an easy one: it depends. Doom was/is rather nice because the simple FPS setting really translates to the board game. Also sim games likes Civilisation can be good but some type of games… like jump and run are hard to translate… so, it depends! 😉

(3) Do games have too much accessories?

Some do, some don’t. There are games with so much tokes, cards, add on, counters and what have you that sorting everything to play takes more time then playing the game itself. Even miniature games suffer from this. Just look at how many tokens X-Wing needs. that’s insane.

And now I’m off to work.