Sounds like my group. Ca$h n' Gun$ is actually a bla$t and goes over real well. There is some tension and a lot of laughs.
Also, over course there is a lot of tension in Pandemic, but personally I'm not sure the replay value on it. (others will differ) On Dec 30, 9:53 am, Widjayaman <[email protected]> wrote: > I decide to contribute to a community in boredom by posting a thought > provoking question. =p > > Sooo.. apparently I'm going through a cycle this past year. First I > started buying the 'lighter' games like Thebes, Carc, yspahan, Manila, > TTR, etc and subsequently found them to be too light. I then started > getting the longer/heavier games like El Grande, Puerto Rico, Shogun, > Age of Empires, Agricola, etc. > > However! our gaming sessions far more often consist of people who > prefer the lighter games. The heavy games hit the table far less than > the lighter ones. However there's something else that they are looking > for: tension. > > When I think about it, some of the hits in our house are: > Settlers > Manila > Thebes > Vegas Showdown > Fearsome Floors > Kingsburg > Stone Age > Pillars of the earth (although this reach the heavy side) > > Apparently, Carc, Yspahan, and even Dominon are not considered as fun > eventhough they are relatively easy! After some thought my guess is > that my friends deemed that these games lack the sense of tension that > the other ones have. This sense of tense makes us think that what's > going to happen matters. In Settlers & Stone age there's tense in not > knowing how many resource you will get in a round. In Manila there's > tension in those final rolls. In Thebes there's tension in the digs. > Vegas Showdown has some tense auctions when some people go after the > same tile. In Fearsome floors there's tension before the monster > moves. In Kingsburg there's tension in winter. PoTe has tension in the > final stages when all the scores are close and you need to pull-off > that incredible play to spear ahead. > > So far I'm thinking to get: Wasabi, Cash n Guns, and Pandemic (not > sure about this one.) So there you have it. I need short+tense+fun > games. Which games would you guys recommend? What's fun/tense about > it? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/BGG_down?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
