Comments on: Video Games or Board Games? http://georgiaboardgames.com/2008/01/23/video-games-or-board-games/ Together time all the time™ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:42:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: GeorgiaBoardgamer http://georgiaboardgames.com/2008/01/23/video-games-or-board-games/#comment-90 GeorgiaBoardgamer Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:49:30 +0000 http://georgiaboardgames.com/2008/01/23/video-games-or-board-games/#comment-90 Thanks. I recently played Settlers of Catan on my XBox 360 and found it frustrating. The producers, Big Huge Games, made a good game, I just didn't like the virtual aspect of it. I genuinely missed the personal aspect of the game. I found Carcassonne more tolerable, but don't know how much I'll be playing it. I think I've been affected by the board games more than I realize. Thanks. I recently played Settlers of Catan on my XBox 360 and found it frustrating. The producers, Big Huge Games, made a good game, I just didn’t like the virtual aspect of it. I genuinely missed the personal aspect of the game. I found Carcassonne more tolerable, but don’t know how much I’ll be playing it.

I think I’ve been affected by the board games more than I realize.

]]> By: David McD http://georgiaboardgames.com/2008/01/23/video-games-or-board-games/#comment-89 David McD Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:58:19 +0000 http://georgiaboardgames.com/2008/01/23/video-games-or-board-games/#comment-89 Brilliant! One hundred percent true. As an avid gamer of the digital and analog, as well as an aspiring game designer, I find that board games leave me in a much better emotional state after playing. For all that I love my old staples like Starcraft and AOE2, the games I remember most from younger days are all analog: intense games of Risk, cutthroat Scrabble with my family, the aMAZEing Labyrinth and Trivial Pursuit and Battleship, and many more. If it were possible to make a predictable living designing only analog games, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Brilliant! One hundred percent true. As an avid gamer of the digital and analog, as well as an aspiring game designer, I find that board games leave me in a much better emotional state after playing. For all that I love my old staples like Starcraft and AOE2, the games I remember most from younger days are all analog: intense games of Risk, cutthroat Scrabble with my family, the aMAZEing Labyrinth and Trivial Pursuit and Battleship, and many more. If it were possible to make a predictable living designing only analog games, I’d do it in a heartbeat.

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