by Ecosmith
Trakky wrote:
Thank you so much for your help. My brother loves to play boardgames with his girlfriend, and I'm just scared that if it's too competitive then they'll be too much tensions. Is it at like Risk level? or King of Tokyo level, or dominion.
If your brother and his gf can't separate what happens in a boardgame from what happens off-board, then there's something wrong with them, IMO. It's a game. If they play it enough together, they'll hopefully advance in skill enough to acheive a fair spread of victories, so there shouldn't be any preponderance of ill-feeling on any side. If one of them just wins every time, consistently, and that's a problem, then they should find another game or introduce a handicap of some sort as a balancing factor. It's a game. I play to defeat my friend in TS, but I don't call him a wanker if he beats me (and he's beaten me 6 times out of the 6 games we've played lol).
Twilight Struggle is an amazing game, really. I've only played 15 games so far, but it seems to be deep whilst still being fairly mechanics-light, the theme is excellent and its presentation interesting without being overpowering, and once you've got a few games done, it can be played in 3 hours.
Also, everyone I've played with has not only grasped the rules easily within their first three turns, they've all said something along the lines of 'this game is really good' of their own volition long before the end. It's fully deserving of the Number One BGG rank.
If someone says they're a movie buff, then they should see Citizen Kane. If they say they like boardgames, they should play Twilight Struggle.
Eco