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Topic	another year of tabletop rankings and writeups
SeabassDebeste 01/06/20 9:03:01 PM #120:	Naye745 posted... i think a personal dislike for me is games that feel "extraneously" lengthy for what they are. obviously this is hugely subject to opinion and personal taste, but my main problem with munchkin is that for a game of silly card interactions and mountains of relatively random take-that interaction, it just takes too damn long. similarly, i love simple card games that are quick turns of draw a card/play a card-style interaction, but usually those games are <30 minutes in length and individual rounds are even shorter. ticket to ride feels like that kind of game (with a board of course) but padded out to 60-90 minutes. this is ABSOLUTELY true, yes! Naye745 posted... if catan, carcassonne, and ticket to ride are the staple "modern" euro gateway games, ttr is easily my least favorite of the three. it's just kind of a boring game - 90% of the time you're beefing up your hand, before you actually do anything. it's still a pretty good game though! and some of the maps (i've heard PA/UK is stellar) are really neat and offer some different stuff to play with. but overall it's the least compelling and strategically interesting to me by a long shot i think i'd call catan the least strategic (or at least by FAR the least tactical). but yeah, the impression i get is that carcassonne is the deepest from a strategy/tactics perspective and after i posted, i did realize that carcassonne is definitely a big-time gateway game too. it slipped my mind because i've played it so little and i didn't play it during "formative" years --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:932564241] in another ye... [t:78284791]...</cite> <quote>Naye745 posted...</cite> <quote>i think a personal dislike for me is games that feel "extraneously" lengthy for what they are. obviously this is hugely subject to opinion and personal taste, but my main problem with munchkin is that for a game of silly card interactions and mountains of relatively random take-that interaction, it just takes too damn long. similarly, i love simple card games that are quick turns of draw a card/play a card-style interaction, but usually those games are <30 minutes in length and individual rounds are even shorter. ticket to ride feels like that kind of game (with a board of course) but padded out to 60-90 minutes. </quote> this is ABSOLUTELY true, yes! Naye745 posted...</cite> <quote>if catan, carcassonne, and ticket to ride are the staple "modern" euro gateway games, ttr is easily my least favorite of the three. it's just kind of a boring game - 90% of the time you're beefing up your hand, before you actually do anything. it's still a pretty good game though! and some of the maps (i've heard PA/UK is stellar) are really neat and offer some different stuff to play with. but overall it's the least compelling and strategically interesting to me by a long shot </quote> i think i'd call catan the least strategic (or at least by FAR the least tactical). but yeah, the impression i get is that carcassonne is the deepest from a strategy/tactics perspective and after i posted, i did realize that carcassonne is definitely a big-time gateway game too. it slipped my mind because i've played it so little and i didn't play it during "formative" years --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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