Re:Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers
by failrate on Sunday July 31, 2016 @05:44PM
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What board or card games do you currently play?
Re:Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers
by seanwilson on Sunday July 31, 2016 @06:02PM
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Very few. When I've played games like poker and Monopoly I've seen new players struggle with the (relatively simple) rules so I was comparing this game to those.
Re:Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers
by failrate on Sunday July 31, 2016 @08:33PM
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Monopoly is rather complex for the relatively small dose of fun it provides. Poker is quite simple in its base form, so I'm not sure what to tell you there.
Codenames is quite good and is available from Target.
Love Letter is a modern classic of tight, simple design.
These are two examples of what I would consider gateway games for people who have only ever heard of Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit.
Re:Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers
by irrational on Sunday July 31, 2016 @07:06PM
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Have you played any modern board games like splendor, ticket to ride, Stone Age, thurns and taxis, castles of burgundy, Agricola, etc?
I watched the tutorial video and felt completely overwhelmed less than 5 minutes in! Is it really that easy to play? The tutorial almost felt like it was reading out game logic source code at points. It feels like it's at the level of complexity where it should be a computer game with a computer dictating and enforcing the rules but I can understand the appeal of wanting to play around a table.