TKretts3 said:
EdHaag said:
TKretts3 said:
Or how about monopoly, perhaps the most famous modern board game?
The topic is old board games that are STILL GOOD.
Exactly why Monopoly and Chess deserve spots.
Chess is a classic, always will be, and will never die. It totally deserves to be on the list.
Monopoly though? Here's how every game of Monopoly I've ever played has ended up: One player manages to snag a color group though a series of lucky die rolls. He or she has enough cash to put down a couple houses on said group, and the rest of the players begin landing on them just enough to keep their cash low enough so that they can't buy properties and/or improvements of their own. Slowly, the player with the group gets enough money to finally get up to hotel status, and once that happens, the rest of the players hit that group a couple more times, and the game's over.
The basic problem is that once you get to the point where you're keeping others from improving, the game's done. They might make it around the board 3 or 4 times in a row without hitting your supergroup, but they will eventually hit it and lose all the gains they've made. But the game doesn't actually END at that point. No, it keeps going until everyone else is bankrupt. You can always tell who's going to win a game of Monopoly within the first 45 minutes or so, but the game never stops until another hour and a half has gone by. It's an exercise in tedium.
