Originally posted by: Dragnov
What? I would imagine on a geek forum there would be some more Settlers players around here.
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
risk, monopoly, sorry, parcheese, wa-hoooo, and yahtzee are staple games.
Originally posted by: dderidex
You all fail at the board game thread.
Seriously, how can you have a thread about board games without linking THE board game site on the net? BoardGameGeek.
Oh, just don't mention you play Monopoly there. Or Cranium. DEFINATLEY not Cranium. Or Scrabble or Boggle or Risk (that's another 'DEFINATELY NOT'). Pictionary, Outburst, Parcheesi, Sorry, etc.
Settlers is good, actually!
All those 'not' games are generally considered entry level "kids" games there.
Think about the reaction techies have if someone is going on about how awesome their new "Intel" PC is and how much better "Intel" is over AMD when it turns out they just plopped down a grand for a Celeron 1.4ghz system or so and you've got an Athlon64. Kinda the same thing. 'Monopoly', 'Risk', 'Cranium', etc are considered technically boargames, but boardgames for people who don't really know anything.
From my profile over there, you can see that I'm something of a wargamer. Which is another niche within the hobby entirely.
Originally posted by: NTB
Originally posted by: dderidex
You all fail at the board game thread.
Seriously, how can you have a thread about board games without linking THE board game site on the net? BoardGameGeek.
Oh, just don't mention you play Monopoly there. Or Cranium. DEFINATLEY not Cranium. Or Scrabble or Boggle or Risk (that's another 'DEFINATELY NOT'). Pictionary, Outburst, Parcheesi, Sorry, etc.
Settlers is good, actually!
All those 'not' games are generally considered entry level "kids" games there.
Think about the reaction techies have if someone is going on about how awesome their new "Intel" PC is and how much better "Intel" is over AMD when it turns out they just plopped down a grand for a Celeron 1.4ghz system or so and you've got an Athlon64. Kinda the same thing. 'Monopoly', 'Risk', 'Cranium', etc are considered technically boargames, but boardgames for people who don't really know anything.
From my profile over there, you can see that I'm something of a wargamer. Which is another niche within the hobby entirely.
I think someone had a little too much coffee this morning
Nate