![]() ![]() But I feel like this is a problem with me, not the game, as though I just hated the Mona Lisa or something. It’s one of the only games where I will just chose to not play any games instead of play it if there are no other choices. And yet, for reasons I can’t figure out, I have absolutely 0 fun when I play it. Spendor is such a weird case for me- when I look at it, I recognize the wonderful simplicity and elegance of its rules, those chunky components. I also want to shout out Splendor, a game which I have specifically not rated on BGG. In fairness I’m already pretty mid on many auction games, but this one especially has an awful snowballing problem (where falling behind just means you fall more behind) and I found that I was not enjoying some of the awkward convoluted ways that it’s paced. ![]() My next largest delta is a 4/10 for Ra, which geek rates around 7.3. I’ve never seen another dexterity game that has this amount of interesting strategy in between the dexterity parts. I understand being unhappy about the impracticality of having to hang a metal ball from the ceiling, but the game itself is just SO FUN once it’s set up and going. My largest Delta is a 10/10 for Stonehenge and the Sun, which geek rates around 5.5. Reddit doesn’t seem to like more than one link in a paragraph. Rebellion could have been a really fun 60-90 min experience without all the fiddly bits. I see people saying that the expansion fixes this game’s combat, but to me it looks like it adds more ship types and more dice. I’d have preferred simple stacks of military units with a combined strength value (like Hamilcar), and maybe a simple one-pass card reveal to resolve a combat (like Blood Rage (see flair)). The probe deck / searching for the base was great, as were the missions and fleet movement mechanisms. In typical Fantasy Flight fashion, there are a bazillion decks of cards, dice chucking for pass/fail checks, tokens for days, and I avoided combat just so I wouldn’t have to go through that slog. I got to play this for the first time at a convention this year and I’m so glad I did instead of buying it to try it. ![]() I’m going to join that by adding my second-largest delta as an honourable mention, because it’s a top 100 BGG game that I don’t see derided often: Usually the unpopular opinions here are hating on mass market popular games (eg Catan), or hating on the BGG top 100 ( Gloomhaven, Scythe). And this game is just a standard deck of cards with four additions. At least with a standard trick-taking game you get to play a card each round. Having a butt-load of cards for a really good play and not being able to do anything because you’re just locked out feels bad. I discovered it belongs to a subset called “ climbing games” and that I don’t care for them. I wanted to like it because it’s a team trick-taking game. The game I dislike way more than the geek average is Tichu. The show, which the board game pulls from, is fine). There might be some bias because I really like the source material (-ish. Unlike TS, Expanse uses a Dutch Auction / river of cards rather than individual player hands, and I think the events could be a little more exciting. It’s a streamlined Twilight Struggle that supports up to four players and no dice (which is basically what I wanted TS to be). I apparently like The Expanse board game way more than most. Here is the URL to see your deltas (you have to replace YOUR-USERNAME-HERE with your own BGG username). Looking at these deltas, which games do you rate much higher and lower than average? (Yes, I know, it’s a Bayesian Average, so it can be weirdly skewed). “Unpopular Opinion” posts seem to show up about once a week here, but here’s one with a slight twist.īGG has hidden columns for their grids, including the delta between your own rating and the geek rating. ![]()
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