Sagrilarius put some interesting questions in his blog " The Culture of Gaming, and Vice Versa" last week. I was struck especially by one point he made, in that "western" society doesn't accept hierarchical games. " Games with binding contracts or hierarchical player roles are simply unheard of in the genre, not because they aren't fundamentally sound, but because they simply don't occur to the usual suspects that drive boardgaming's technological progress. Not just a eurogame thing, this a western game thing." Not to leave my thought in the comments section, I put them up here.

Been a bit since i wrote one of these.

First game play with just Arkham + Innsmouth.  Chtuta Fauga (whatever that one's called) is the GOO.  7 players

If you've read previous posts and entries of mine, you will know that an elusive goal of mine is a game that captures the essence of airlines.  Air Baron is a pretty decent game but it doesn't feel like I'm running an Airline.  Airline might be that game, but it sucks ass.  You guys gave me a link to an Airline game that was on the Nintendo and that was pretty close to what I was looking for.   If someone would translate that into a boardgame, I would be a happy camper.  I've been thinking of some mechanics for it but....

Okay, blatant self promotion.