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I have a frequently recurring phrase when playing medium-heavy board games: "this should have been a video game". It's gotten me flak on numerous occasions, sometimes justifiably, sometimes not. I'm actually fairly consistent as far as things that elicit this response from me:

  • I'm spending more time moving bits to reflect the choice I've made than I spent thinking about it

  • I have to track more than 3 modifiers to get an accurate result for any given action

  • if I have to cross reference stat cards to double digits of units because said units have no visible stat indicators

  • it's real time, but only leverages that to spice up otherwise plain gameplay (I actually really like most real time games!)

  • contemporary eurogames

  • if getting my friends around the table adds nothing to the experience because we're all too busy playing heads-down solitaire

  • it's just fucking math all the time

  • train games, with the exception of Northern Pacific because that's a social experiment in a box


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