People still play this game?

[Tapewormz]

This board game is so incredibly boring. You'll find that real game hobby stores don't carry this product.

[glenn52]

You're shopping in all the wrong places...
The game is OK! Survived for decades, a classic board game.
Just this Steam version is a piece of crap!

[Tapewormz]

The only Hasbro games any real hobby stores carry are usually MTG, WOTC and AH products. Toys R Us and Walmart don't count as hobby stores.

Monopoly is horribly linear, and people who find the game fun for the most part play with house rules.

[LastSide]

Wow dude, even here in Puerto Rico they sell this game and everyone plays it.

[Tapewormz]

It's considered a light game. It's too boring for my tastes. You can find it everywhere in walmart's and targets and so on, but it's pretty much a game for people who aren't hardcore table top gamers. It's pretty much loathed by everyone who attends gencon.

[Jay]

Actually, you're 100% wrong. When I went to my local video game store I saw Nintendo Monopoly. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean other people don't. and I lovethe part where you act like you're some sort of hardcore gamer when it's just too obvious you aren't.

[Big AL]

It plays fine for me. I luv the game and have even before computers where around. I run a business and find that it's nice to be able to pause and restart again later. I am not sure if I'm a hard core gammer, but I have 2800+ hours in one of many games I play.

[Tapewormz]

Цитата допису Traci:

Actually, you're 100% wrong. When I went to my local video game store I saw Nintendo Monopoly. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean other people don't. and I lovethe part where you act like you're some sort of hardcore gamer when it's just too obvious you aren't.

%100 wrong hey? Where are your statistics to back that up? I'll bet you that at least 50% or more of the people that attend gencon will state that they don't like monopoly. Where do those table top gamers factor into your 100%? Also, the conversation shifted from video games to table top games.

If "nintendo monopoly" is a benchmark by which you measure a hardcore "gammer" (whatever the hell one of those are), then I'll just have to simply point and LOL at you.

1 year of service badge...You're hardcore Nubbsy Derpington!

[Tapewormz]

@Yogi,

For me, it's too heavily luck based. I don't mind a little luck in games, but most "mainstream" board games are heavily luck based. It's linear in terms of you're going to be running around the edge of the board in one direction constantly. The chance cards aren't really a chance, because you have to draw one. If I could house rule that when you roll for movement, that you have the option of choosing clockwise or counter clockwise for that move, being able to choose whether or not you're drawing a card, removing the go/collect and replacing it with a turn track so everyone gets to collect at the same time every so many turns (simulating a fiscal year), limit the number of turns in the game. It would definately be a better game and I'd probably play it then.

[Tapewormz]

I think the changes I suggested would make the game more fun and challenging, but not more difficult in terms of complicated mechanics. It would also be nice to allow the players to invest in their properties. So that every property could potentially be a park place or boardwalk in terms of rent. Otherwise if the high properties are fixed, everyone would just avoid them with my proposed clockwise/counter clockwise movement.

[Circle Nine]

Цитата допису Tapewormz:

It's considered a light game. It's too boring for my tastes. You can find it everywhere in walmart's and targets and so on, but it's pretty much a game for people who aren't hardcore table top gamers. It's pretty much loathed by everyone who attends gencon.

Grognards are not Monopoly's intended audience, believe it or not.