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When Does Complexity Interfere With Your Fun?
Reflecting afterwards, I realized that there are some boardgames that leave me feeling wiped out afterwards, but usually just the ones that involve extremely complex rules. I can usually enjoy those games during play, but sometimes pay a price afterwards in terms of mental fatigue or even a headache. Off-hand, the only games that I can recall hitting me this way are Twilight Imperium, Android, and Mage Knight. There have probably been a few others. Pondering those three games, I think it may have been the complexity of the strategy as much as the rules that affected me. Lots of combinations of possible choices each turn.
Is this an age thing? When I was a teenager, I played some AH war games with a friend on a semi-regular basis, and while we may have sometimes struggled with the rules, I don't remember feeling drained after a game.
What about you folks? Are there any games that you have played where the overall complexity somehow hindered your enjoyment of the game.
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Perhaps the more seamless a designs cogs work with itself and the theme (making it more intuitive to play and learn), the more fun I feel it is. So even complex games can still be great if the complexity makes sense.
But I still assert the games I find the most fun are lower complexity, 90% of the time. Survive, Rampage, King of Tokyo, many abstracts, nexus ops, cosmic encounter, etc. The usual suspects.
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Erik Twice wrote: When complexity prevents me from playing a game more often, then it's an issue for me.
Same. There are games I've gotten rid of even though I like them because they're so opaque that unless I (and the other players) played once a week, every single game would be a "learning game". The one that springs to mind first is Dungeon Lords.
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stoic wrote: Every time that I try to read and understand the rules to Magic Realm, its complexity interferes with my fun.
Excellent example. So far, Magic Realm is the only game that I have been unable to learn.
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