Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No one’s touched analog games so…
Monopoly. It’s tedious, it’s a grind, it was stolen from a last trying to say that landlords are shit, and it just ruins families.
Also the Outer Worlds is shit. It had cool art Nouveau style aesthetics, and had a great premise, but completely dropped the ball on practically everything. The art Nouveau ideals are counter to the world where everything is commodified and automatic. It starts off trying to be funny, but isn’t really, and does nothing to get you to feel like you’re stumbling into a capitalistic nightmare. You have no investment in the world or people or anything. It throws in the aliens and rebels like an afterthought. A fan made music video did more for the theme and feeling of oppression. Utter disappointment and they are going to make another for some reason
nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Monopoly is the absolute worst. Almost everyone I know grew up with a copy of it in their house, and almost every family made changes to the rules because it’s such a terrible game. Yet somehow it’s a “classic.”
vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It being ‘bad’ is kinda the point. It is a critique of capitalism, even in its current neutered form. It is a simple intuitive proof that if everyone started out on the same fair playing field; which is impossible in capitalism but would be the ‘idealized’ state that anarchocapitalists, Laissez-faire capitalists, and neoliberals would love to pretend the world has ever had or can ever had, capitalism will still end in an absolute collapsed state of a brutalist monopoly.
You have to add random cheat rules to even have a little fun with it, but there is no effective way to make capitalism have an end state that isn’t a total monopoly.
Parker Bros (and the various companies that bought it out after parker bros did) just didn’t really care that it criticized them as much as any other capitalist entity, because they made money.
nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, I’m aware of the original point behind the game. It’s still a bad game.
It’s also a bad educational game, because almost nobody learns the lesson it intends to teach.