Board 8 > so... Settlers of Catan

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is the best board game I've ever played by far

I've been hearing about it for a while now but never tried it because the vast majority of board games bore me... this one though... it's way too damn fun. my roommates and I have been hooked for the past week

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it's pretty fun yeah

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try Dominion, it's also pretty amazing, imho

board games also usually bore the hell out of me but Dominion and Settlers of Catan are two of the only exceptions

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It's pretty fun, yeah.

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yeah, it's pretty great

bought it about 6 months ago because of this board

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holy how was I not the first person to come in here and fanboy over dominion

but yeah great game

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I bought Catan during a summer break about 3 years ago. On the first day we played it 3 times in a row. I couldn't believe how fun it was. I've now played at least 500 games of catan if not more, plus a few online rounds (although I find the online versions about a tenth as fun). This last winter break my friend, sister, and girlfriend and I (that's 4 different people btw) played a round every single night (even on Christmas!). It can't be stopped!

Since Catan I've bought a bunch of other games and it's not the only awesome one. I've got my eyes on dominion and agricola next <_<

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Dominion is way better than Catan, imo. Catan has too much luck that is the frustrating kind of luck.

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From: Epyo the Great | #007
Since Catan I've bought a bunch of other games and it's not the only awesome one

which other ones are awesome?

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eeh, I haven't been frustrated by Catan yet, it has just the right amount of luck

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Another vouch for Dominion. It's WAY better than Catan.

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my experience with dominion(online) is that its not as fun as catan. The combos get too long and tedious too often

still good though

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Another vouch for Dominion. It's WAY better than Catan.

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Dominion was fun the first night, then we figured out the best cards and it became kinda boring, especially between turns.

Online dominion is still cool though.

Catan is and always has been awesome.

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I think I like Catan more, but Dominion is really fun.

Ascension is really fun. And Power Grid.


*blastin' off, yo*

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Race for the Galaxy is my other favorite game along with catan. It's a card game where you play cards for victory points and some cards synchronize in cool ways. What's holding it back is that it is missing a lot of player interaction that Catan does have through trading and building roads. There's an expansion coming in a couple of months that adds a board and may fix it and it might become my favorite. Lost Cities is an extremely clever 2 player card game made by a math PhD. Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne are really fun but not worthy of hundreds of plays like all of the above games are. I have some other games like Puerto Rico that I don't like but I'm not sure why so I'll save judgment.

You have to be pretty careful getting board games though because I think there are two types of people who enjoy board games. One type is like me, and I like games where everyone can express themselves through their strategy, and I'm willing to let unpredictability into the game to help make divergence an advantage. There are games out there like power grid that (IMO) have no strategy and depend only on how well you can do mental math, and I think people mistake this for deep gameplay. I hate Chess for a similar reason in that it's based on how well you can think about how the board will look a few turns ahead, which might as well be a different kind of mental math. It's only a matter of time before these games are 100% solved by computers just like connect 4 and checkers, as there's no difference besides complexity. I expect Power Grid and Chess do have some subjective styles of play from different players but I'm pretty sure it's only visible at the highest levels of play, and at low levels the best you can hope to do is to either recognize a good move or not recognize it. I don't really want to fight anyone who likes Power Grid or Chess because I haven't played them much. Some games like Scrabble have the same boring flaw where whoever has played the most has an unstoppable advantage, but are still good games because of other traits (learning vocabulary is fun, the game is party-friendly, and the game is strictly linked to the real world. Trivial pursuit is another example of a game that isn't beautiful but is still fun).

What I'm trying to say is to be careful when looking for board game recommendations on the internet. Some people just love being competitive and they'll play anything they can use to battle and match egos with each other even if the games aren't inherently interesting. Nothing wrong with it, just can be disappointing to get a game that isn't made for you. I think Catan is inherently beautiful and I would gladly play it and lose terribly a thousand times and never get bored. If you're like me then stay away from games that don't have any cards or dice.

I'm pretty much talking about boardgamegeek's board game popularity rankings and how I've bought some games I've been disappointed in.

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my experience with dominion(online) is that its not as fun as catan. The combos get too long and tedious too often

i played with the basic set of cards (no offensive stuff except the militia card) with a bunch of drunk college dudes and chicks and it was spectacular

probably i was the only one who still retained the mental acuity to do long combos

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Haven't played Settlers of Catan, I know I know, I'm missing out and need to play it.

Still love Risk though

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I personally hate risk

way too much luck and reliance on other people not to be morons

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You can play for free on www.playcatan.com click play with people on and on the left there's a list of operating systems. I don't want to play though, just a heads up.

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catan is great, but every once in a while you get that game where one number comes up an inordinate number of times, and one guy just runs away ridiculously because he happened to build on both 9s and it's just awful and unfun and really disappointing

but aside from that it's good, it's definitely better with an expansion or two!

that said, dominion is definitely a step above. especially when you get a few expansions involved there, things really get crazy and the variety goes through the roof.

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Settlers of Catan da best

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settlers is awesome. so much time spent playing that game.

also power grid

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I just played it for the first time a few nights ago with 2 other people, and it's really fun. I lost because they had played a few other times and I had no idea how to develop an early strategy. Placed my first settlement on a 12 and it literally got rolled one time the entire game. I also put my first two across the map from each other so I never had a shot at getting longest road. I did keep it kind of close because I knew controlling ports would be helpful. Can't wait to play again.

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oh hey this reminds me, anyone know of the board game I'm thinking of? it involved about four players exploring a haunted house (iirc), each moving independently collecting gear and building the map by exploring new rooms (you drew the rooms from a deck), and about halfway through an event would happen and one of the characters would betray everyone else and gain control of a bunch of giant spiders, man eating plants, etc and try to kill everyone else or accomplish some goal?

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Yu Gi Oh is pretty cool too guys

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"Betrayal at House on the Hill" sounds like the game you're looking for.

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I remember when a whole bunch of us here used to play Catan online on the knockoff version Xplorers, before the owner of the website went crazy. Good times...

Best boardgame I've played recently, although it's a much deeper, prolonged experience than Catan, is Imperial 2030. For people willing to spend 3 hours on a single game I couldn't recommend it highly enough!

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Settlers gets old quickly, like most dicefests. Some folks enjoy those types of games though.

Recommendations for "heavier" strategy games:

Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery
Age of Steam
Arkham Horror
Brass
Caylus
Goa
Le Havre
Louis XIV
Railroad Tycoon (England+Wales)
Through the Ages: A Story of Civlization

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Real men play Diplomacy. 10-hour games FTW.

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