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Thoughts on Splotter games?
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I would specially love if you have some thoughts on Roads & Boats.
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The smaller titles (VOC!, Oraklos, Beest, and Cannes) have been meh to sort of good. They seem more like test runs of an idea instead of a final game.
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I've always wanted to try Indonesia but never have, I hear it's a good one.
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Fast Food Franchise isn't Splotter, it's by TimJim. You mean Food Chain Magnate. Of the two I prefer FFF. Splotter's main design consideration is not "to appeal to those elitists". Their design style and look remain unchanged from before those elitists discovered them.Michael Barnes wrote: I'mma come out and say it. Splotter games are hugely overrated and are designed to appeal to uber-Eurogame elitsts. Granted, I like Antiquity, but realistically...I think that is the only Splotter game I've ever actually liked. Roads and Boats I haven't played in years but it is a total bore- logistics overload. I played it a bit back when BGG had it in some kind of beta when they were looking at hosting digital games I guess. Fast Food Franchise is another snoozer- you literally build org charts in the game. None of their games look good (good god, Cannes). All are exactly as Beau described- not clean. They all feel clunky and overwrought, overcomplicated to appeal to those elitists.
I've always wanted to try Indonesia but never have, I hear it's a good one.
I like their earlier stuff, Roads & Boats, Bus. I even liked Duck Dealer.
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Mike, pull up your review of Greed Inc. and refresh. It’s a glowing 5 star review which moved me to buy the game. I have played if several times and it’s great.
So, there is one very good Splotter game. Roads and Boats may be another
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I kept thinking there was another that I liked other than Antiquity...but you know, I’ve not played Greed Inc. in 8-9 years maybe? I’d like to revisit it sometime...it has such a great theme.
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If the above paragraph makes you roll your eyes, say it's a bunch of overly academic clap-trap and say "not fun!" then I think you know your answer (that's not personal criticism, btw). I find them interesting but at times hard to play. You need a group of gamers willing to commit to them for a few games at least, I think, and they can be long games.
Oh, also, Splotter games are super, super cutthroat, which is something I don't think many people realize about them.
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Hats!Michael Barnes wrote: Fast Food Franchise is awesome!
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The interesting thing. Barnes, is that the reasons I'm looking into Roads & Boats is exactly that logistics overload. I like logistic games, Transport Tycoon is one of my favourite games of all time and I've sunk several hundreds our in Factorio. R&B has been compared to both and I can see it really appealing to me, exactly because it's that kind of excercise.
On the elitism thing, I haven't seen that, to be honest. And hey, I play and love train games which have a fairly elitist community. But the games themselves aren't elitist so I can play them with people who are actually fun
By the way, if anyone has Roads & Boats and wants to sell it, please do tell, it wasn't that popular of a game around here and I haven't found a copy yet.
This is actually very common amongst designers of economic games! Which to me is a good thing, mind.Gary Sax wrote: They're capitalist games made by people extremely skeptical of capitalism, imho.
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I will try to write an article or something. I know I always say that, but don't, but I'll try. On the very least, I'll trySevej wrote: Erik, would like to know what do you think about R&B once you've played it. Logistics games on PC are also my favorite, but with 4X and RPG, I've found that I'd rather stick to computer games. I wonder if logistics are the same.
So far I think that economic boardgames blow videogames out of the water so I'm hopeful. The issue is finding a copy, it's proving harder than I thought it would be by far.
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