...but what about a monopoly videogame?

I call bullshit, Sharma.

i really despise boardgames/card games but this girl i like is obsessed with them...i hate my life.

More like Bored games.

Fuck, that was stupid.

The argument she makes is one that I can agree with, though the manner in which she presents it is poor at best. I feel that board gaming is an intensely more social experience than videogames are. It's one I highly value.

I'd also say that an analogy can be drawn between games and books. Some people really like reading their books on a computer monitor or handheld device and I think that's really cool. But, given the option, I would much rather hold a book in my hand and turn the pages. There's a satisfaction which comes from that tactile sense which has yet to be replicated digitally and board games have that same gravitas.

I don't think that's quite the right use of gravitas, unless you read books in a much more serious way than I do.

I think the point she is making is basically valid. Case in point: MMOs. My brother and I both play, as do all sorts of our friends, so we have a lot of hangout times where we just end up playing WoW. I can 100% attest that a bad night in a video game is way more frustrating than a bad night on a board game. Wiping over and over again, or playing TF2 and getting rolled game after game, are just things that happen - but in a video game they really bring us down. Playing a board or card game rarely has the same effect.

I love board games, but stopped buying them when they stopped being creative or inventive. I'll pick up one every year or so, but the nostalgia factor and classic style of board games is what draws people. "[insert movie title here] the board game" doesn't cut it.

And seriously, how many times do I have to buy a variation of Monopoly, Risk, or Chinese Checkers?

Wait, she has time to cook, clean the house and write for the Norwich Bulletin!? What an age we live in.

*Prepares for anti-sexism onslaught*

@InfiniteStrike

She's talking about tactile, close proximity, good ol' interaction, sans avatars and sigs. Laughing with someone in the same room is different than laughing with someone over headsets, in a real profound way.

Its effectively coming back to the classic point I make about Mario Kart. You can play online and have a good time, but you lose the feeling of joy you get from disembowelling the git who blue shelled you 2ft from the line.

It was worth you doing the story, Jim (such as it was,) just to hear your hilarious retorts. She should try Scene It? for 360. That has the social elements of personal interactivity same as *bored* games. How about World of Warcraft getting all those basement dwellers to talk to each other online? That game effectively replaces Dungeons and Dragons, making it easier to get together with players and eliminating the need for a dungeon master. I guess Rock Band is no fun even though you can play it with your family. (Jodie Foster plays it with her kids, and somebody should tell Pete Townsend to stop having fun with his kids..) By the way, since bored games ONLY account for 10% of the toy business, which I assume includes Transformers and other items which ARENT GAMES, so you cant play them with the family.. I would just like to say holy fucking 2.2 billion dollars a year must suck. Gee they should go get a job at Taco Bell because being a part of a 2 BILLION dollar a year industry sure is weak. Im shocked that they still sell that many copies of games like RISK, which my friends refer to as LUCK. And Monopoly, the game where the first person who rolls high enough to make it around the board always wins. What fun!

Damn, I have Pokemon Monopoly. It's a fucking awesome game.

My siblings and I always have great fun inventing new swear words in video game versions of Scrabble.

I HAD POKEMON MONOPOLY!!!

professor plum in the observatory with the candlestick


^ you can't do THAT electronically?


shenanigans

I personally believe she is a stupid cunt. And that's my entire arguement.

There are some great board games out there (such as Catan). But Monopoly is definitely not one of them.

It's true, I can't land on the Boardwalk for the third time in a row, shout a wail of agonized frustration, leap across the table, and start clawing at my sister's face electronically.

What a well written and thought out argument she has there. She should be proud.

I don't like board games.

Her statements are true only when applied to playing on Nintendo wifi connection

zing!

I wrote this response in her article. I'm surprised there are no comments by other gamers on there, so I'm assuming they're deleting comments:

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News alert: stereotypically out-of-touch mother of two has no clue about, or interest in, electronic gaming. If I hadn't known better, I might have assumed this was a piece straight out of The Onion.

Ah, yes. I love to reminisce about the good old days of board gaming. Everyone knows that there was a magically golden age of a bygone era, that young people today can not possibly relate to.

'Let us settle down to a riveting game of depression-era Monopoly, by the hearth. Although we have no game pieces, because all of our metal was confiscated for the war effort, we can use the buttons in Granny's notions box for playing tokens! ...Can't you just smell the inviting aroma of the mildew wafting from a game box we open maybe once every seven years?'

What a precious picture of Rockwellian togetherness! Surely, no family with a Wii could possibly experience this kind of closeness. No companionship could possibly have been wrought from the likes of games such as the World of Warcraft, or Everquest. Video Games (and by association, Video Gamers) are incapable of warmth, or even smiling. They're just all mindless automations! New-Fangled gobbilty-gook! THE ROBOTS ARE COMIN' FOR MUH DENTURES! HIDE UNCLE ZEKE'S GOLD!

Thats the great thing about living in a democratic society. You can have all the opinions you want to have, it doesnt matter if your right or not, it's your opinion, but the whole thing about "I dont think you can do that electronicly" is bullshit.
But then thats just my opinion. :D