Ugh! Thank goodness for Euro-games!!! Fantasy was fine when I was fourteen.

More mature themes make games accessible to adults.

In my opinion, nothing beats the wooden Robber from Catan for creating soft-core tabletop naughtiness with stray action figures.

Playing a game for 3 hours, just to have it come down to a couple random rolls at the end to decide the winner? No thanks.

I don't want to participate in a choose your own adventure book. You know, when you chose things like "should you go in the left or right cave"? You didn't really know what you were choosing and the results had nothing to do with your play. Just like with those 7 people I have tied up in my basement, I need to have control.

Playing a game for 3 hours, just to have it come down to a couple random rolls at the end to decide the winner? No thanks.

Yesss..... that's called "Poor Number Choice". Sorry to have to be the one to tell you.

It still doesn't constitute "interaction." It's multi-player solitaire with simultaneous observation, hence the "multi-".

1. Games that have some player interaction (i.e. are more than muli-player solitaire) allow you to loose due to three causes:

a. your opponent's screwed you,
b. you screwed yourself up,
c. the game screwed you (i.e. luck, against you or for your opponent).

2. Games that are multi-player solitaire allow you to loose due to two cause:

a. you screwed yourself up,
b. the game screwed you (i.e. luck, against you or for your opponent).

I hold great store by 1.a. Interacting with others was the biggest draw that brought me into boardgaming.

You can't compare two kinds of, of.. well let's call them mediums.
A blockbuster is just about showing cool car crashes, stunts, shootouts. Not very sophisticated stuff.
But to play Amerigames, for example Tide of Iron, some intellectual effort is needed. You have to read the rules, play it by yourself play it wrong and than read the rules again to discover what you have done wrong. A game like Tide of Iron is quite complex and for a beginner hard to grasp. Same goes for Starcraft.

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For euro games I am usually very contemplative, quiet, calculating, thinking in layers. In Powergrid, my favorite euro, I will sit for 10 minutes just staring at the board and stacking my chips, and this is fine because we're all doing it. We're all running efficiency patterns in our head, running through those "if then" in case Brian the second property in Dusseldorg, organizing, optimizing. It's a completely different gaming experience.

is it just me, or do ameritrash games (i really hate that term) seem like they are trying to emulate videogames? the majoriy of euro games just seem more thought out and original.

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To me, many of the Euro games seem like variations on each other. Some are well thought out and some are not.

It really bothers me when I can't actively attack another player. Oh how I wish TTR would come out with a version that included trains blowing up... Maybe have it set in the middle east?

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By almost any other Western country's standards, American Democrats are to the right of center.

leave it to us americans to let our own materialism decide if we play a game or not.