Kinda sad when he says "I'm bonkers for boardgames" and "Monopoly, Cluedo, etc" in the same sentence.
Also DAMN that Titanic sinking mechanic looks really cool. Smart. Also there was recently another game about a sinking ship, where you control some survivors and you're given hidden agendas - the agendas tell you that you want these characters to survive and others to die, you get points for having those happen. Really smart.
I'm gonna sound bitchy but stuff like this perpetuates the gamers are uncool narrative in the popular media.
Are you guys familiar with Sea Dracula? Not a board game, but the Vanilla Ice game reminded me of it. Mostly because Sea Dracula is a silly courtroom game where one of the primary mechanics is dancing, and the oath sworn by witnesses is just a verse from Ice Ice Baby. :P
Mostly because Sea Dracula is a silly courtroom game where one of the primary mechanics is dancing, and the oath sworn by witnesses is just a verse from Ice Ice Baby.
This has to be one of the single best sentences ever constructed. Wow.
I don't know why the Vanilla Ice Rap game was terrible? It might have been poor of interesting mechanics but they and the audience had fun, Jimmy even "got his friend to come try it". Shouldn't a good board game inspire those kinds of things?
I don't know why the Vanilla Ice Rap game was terrible? It might have been poor of interesting mechanics but they and the audience had fun, Jimmy even "got his friend to come try it". Shouldn't a good board game inspire those kinds of things?
You think so, I think so, we all think so. But clearly his idea of "a good boardgame" are... Monopoly, Clue, Uno... Because "he's bonkers for boardgames."
It's a socially indoctrinated paradigm that doesn't allow him to think about a game and regard what it managed to achieve. He just saw it and saw something to make a joke from. Vanilla Ice is pretty easy to make fun of being a relic from the pop culture past.
Yeah, I think the point of the segment was to make fun of games that had silly box art. He clearly wasn't interested in discussing whether or not the games are any good, which is disappointing, but if his job is to make people laugh on television, he probably isn't going to suddenly turn his talk show into an episode of Shut Up and Sit Down. I'm all for mocking hilariously bad aesthetic choices, but that's fundamentally different to criticising the game's mechanics or the experience of playing it.
He only really got into that with the Titanic game. I have a lot of feelings about historical accuracy in games and how designers ought to portray historical settings to modern audiences, but they could have at least gotten the basics right.
It's a socially indoctrinated paradigm that doesn't allow him to think about a game and regard what it managed to achieve. He just saw it and saw something to make a joke from. Vanilla Ice is pretty easy to make fun of being a relic from the pop culture past.
Really astute reading of the Vanilla Ice bit, the joke there was 'lol Vanilla Ice', not 'this is a bad game'.
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Also DAMN that Titanic sinking mechanic looks really cool. Smart. Also there was recently another game about a sinking ship, where you control some survivors and you're given hidden agendas - the agendas tell you that you want these characters to survive and others to die, you get points for having those happen. Really smart.
I'm gonna sound bitchy but stuff like this perpetuates the gamers are uncool narrative in the popular media.
It's also available as a free download! http://seadracula.wordpress.com/about/
It might be the best use of a meetup thus far.
It's a socially indoctrinated paradigm that doesn't allow him to think about a game and regard what it managed to achieve. He just saw it and saw something to make a joke from. Vanilla Ice is pretty easy to make fun of being a relic from the pop culture past.
Different worlds.
He only really got into that with the Titanic game. I have a lot of feelings about historical accuracy in games and how designers ought to portray historical settings to modern audiences, but they could have at least gotten the basics right. Really astute reading of the Vanilla Ice bit, the joke there was 'lol Vanilla Ice', not 'this is a bad game'.