Still think light strategy games are better than heavy ones after trying 20 of them

I joined a local game group last month hoping to get into deeper titles, but after a 4-hour slog through a complex eurogame with 30 pages of rules, I had to walk away. The game broke down when someone played a card that contradicted two earlier rules, and we spent 20 minutes flipping through the manual. I ended up packing my bag early and grabbing a quick game of Ticket to Ride with another player who felt the same way. Has anyone else found that simpler games just flow better for a weeknight session?

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brooke53324d ago

Showed up to a 4 hour game night and left after 20 minutes of rules lawyering, that's a hard pass for me.

jason56224d ago

Remind me to never invite @brooke533 to my group then, because we spend the first 30 minutes just hashing out the edge cases in whatever game we're playing. I get it, nobody wants to sit through an hour of someone arguing over line of sight rules. But 20 minutes is pretty standard for a complex game, especially if someone brought a new one nobody's played before. Your group might just have one person who won't let things go, that's a different problem.