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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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I've loved games with a passion all my life, so when someone asks what my hobbies are, the first answer that comes to mind is, "Games!" I don't always say that; it depends on who's asking and how I feel at the moment. But there's no doubt in my mind that gaming has been my main hobby for many years.
And yet, even though I'm pretty sure you know what I mean, I feel obliged to further clarify--because game has too many meanings, even among game fans.
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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Ask me what the best games in the world are, and I'll probably say chess and go. If I feel like inserting something unexpected, I might add checkers.
But ask me how often I play those games, and I'll say very, very rarely.
Why would I not play the games I consider best? What games do I play instead, and why?
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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This VGG thread got me pondering the idea of narrative in games. Is there always one? Can we distinguish between story-based games and games that are not story-based?
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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A lifelong problem of mine when it comes to games is having to deal with a triplicity--Me, Myself, and I. Each of them is after something different.
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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In this brave new world of ours, as everyone knows, we can play board games (and card and tile games) by ourselves and even on portable devices. Wonderful, isn't it? Or is it?
In this blog post I'm talking about the games we find in BGG's database, not the ones we find in the VGG database. (The latter, of course, can also be played alone and are always played on electronic devices, but a blog post about that would be for VGG.)
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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As noted in my last couple blog posts, I'm delving into Magic Realm. Figured that after owning the game all these years, I might as well learn to play it.
Years ago, I used to enjoy the process of learning complex games. Just learning relatively simple board wargames (e.g., Waterloo) was hard enough when I was thirteen. But within a couple of years, I had started tackling the tougher ones, like 1914 and Anzio. A decade later, I was into Squad Leader and then ASL. Along the way, I dabbled at big games like The Next War as well.
Today, I still enjoy the process. But it's different now.
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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Motivated partly by a love of solitude and partly by fear (of ridicule, rejection, or who knows what else), I've spent a lot of time in my life by myself. And that includes my gaming life. Even this blog title and my BGG badge reflect my "solo" approach to gaming.
But I'm not really as solitary as I might seem to be.
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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I've been learning to play Magic Realm. I finished reading the basic rules over the weekend, and I also played a dozen or so solo games using RealmSpeak. Now I'm pretty well intrigued, and I may end up being downright enthused.
This morning I'm asking myself why MR feels so different from strategy computer games and other games I play.
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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For all I know, the end is still far off yet. But when you get past age sixty and have had a medical scare or two, you become more aware of your mortality. And that can make the idea of a "bucket list" a bit more real.
At first, though, I wasn't thinking about that when I fired up RealmSpeak a few days ago. Another BGGeek brought it back to my attention, so I decided to see if it'd still run in Windows 10. It did, so I played around with it a bit, even though I'd forgotten most of the Magic Realm rules.
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p55carroll
United States
Minnesota
Games are like songs: you never get tired of playing the best ones over and over, and you can enjoy them all by yourself.
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." (William Blake)
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Huh ... I'm back over here on the board-game side of things again. Why? How'd I get here?
For many months at least, I've been spending almost all my time over in VGG, since I finally faced the facts and realized 99 percent of my game playing is on an electronic device.
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