Find me a game!

Rotten luck. I forgot what the wii version of Rayman is called but that might be similar in style.

Thank you, Sir.

As a gamer for forty years now, it irritates me hugely that my hobby is now equated in the general population with computer gaming.

So, whilst stiring, I was certainly not “threadshitting” - just opening eyes up to the wider range of gaming possibilities that gets folk away from their screens and interacting face-to-face with real people.

If you have only played computer games I urge you to give the traditional hobby another look - so called “German” game designs have revolutionized the over-the-table hobby in the last twenty years or so. Some probably as a reaction to the rise of computer gaming.

Skip the DLCs. And it’s close to AAA-game price because it is huge.

This one actually happens before the others, so it’s a good place to start. It also plays completely differently than the previous ones. I did like some of the previous games in the series but not all of them and even the ones I liked were merely good, not awesome. D:OS on the other hand is brilliant if you like the genre.

Congratulations, and best of luck on the results!

What are German board game designs?

This is probably the most famous one “Settlers of Catan” designed by Klaus Teuberhttp. http://www.catan.com/

Carcassonne is also a classic design by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, although I prefer the stand alone design Carcassonne: The City

Reiner Knizia is another famous game designer, his masterpiece is generally considered to be Tigris and Euphrates, although Modern Art and Lost Cities are also still very popular.

For more about the style as a whole see Eurogame - Wikipedia. The key features are that they are not wargames and do not feature player elimination.

There’s some interesting stuff in the boardgame space, but honestly, for me it doesn’t really command long term attention; If I’m going to go to all the trouble of scheduling people to get together for a big block of time, I’d rather play a tabletop RPG. :stuck_out_tongue:

I guess at the end of the day, the biggest reason you might NOT be into boardgames is the scheduling factor - you need, generally, between 3 and 6 people. More and you have to play multiple games, so this can be messy at large gatherings, and less and you can’t really play most games as intended. Lots of people are busy, and have a hard time making this happen.

Ticket to Ride, Alhambra, 7 Wonders, Dominion, and Small World are the sorts of games people are thinking about when they talk about german or euro-style board games. They rarely involve dice and are mostly concerned with gathering resources or points. With the exception of Small World, none of them involve direct player on player combat and there are no player eliminations.

As to Airk’s point about persons, it’s expensive to do all at once but Pandemic and its two expansions makes the game possible for, I think, 1-7 players which is pretty much as many people as you’d want in one board game. I happen to like it because it’s co-operative and there’s less intra-group friction.

Germany has a huge board gaming community. The way that Americans go to the movies (you don’t ask an American if they go to movies; you ask them what movies they like because you assume they go), Germans play games (you would ask what games do they like rather than whether they play).