What is your favorite form of game?

[IDMclean]

This is intended to find out what form of game if any you may like.

 

If a form of game is not on the polls please describe it if you can.

[Zythryn]

D&D is probably my favorite game as the social interaction and creativity make for some very fun times.

Video gaming as well, my favorite, I think, is going to be the Nintendo Wii as it is probably the most social form of video gaming I can think of. Now if I could just FIND one of the darn things:sherlock: !!

[Buffy]

Board games: Monopoly, Mastermind. We used to play a lot of Pretty Princess, but not any more...

Video: Barbie Fashion Show, Midtown Madness, Nintendogs, Nascar Sims

Other: We have a favorite kid-friendly sports bar where we play pool a lot, Bowling. When I was younger I raced sailboats, but now I just ride them...

 

One of my friends' son's got a Wii the first day it was out, and she says the bowling game on it is kind of fun, so we might try that, but I doubt I'll actually buy one...

 

Jibe-oh,

Buffy

[Racoon]

 

One of my friends' son's got a Wii the first day it was out, and she says the bowling game on it is kind of fun, so we might try that, but I doubt I'll actually buy one...

 

Jibe-oh,

Buffy

 

 

Its good that the Nintendo Wii made an effort to get the kids more active with user-motion controls. :computerkick:

 

Its also going to generate a new market for physical therapy when these youngsters develop Wii Elbow :)

[Monomer]

I like board games, although I really don't play that often. Rummikub, Scrabble, Boggle and Articulate are always great, and I'm getting into Chess.

[Jay-qu]

Life's a game. I play that one for fun but mostly just because there isnt any other choice!

[Tormod]

There was one option missing: Handheld gaming. I use my Palm TX to play puzzle games etc. There's a huge range of games for handhelds that don't really fit into any of the categories above, and it's not exactly portable gaming either, since the Palm isn't first and foremost a gaming platform.

 

But I also play games on my PC, once in a blue moon.

[pgrmdave]

I enjoy games of all types. I only chose a few of the options, but I had to struggle not to choose them all.

 

I play video games more often than the others, and I do tend to enjoy them the most. However, for the same reason I like computer games (the rigidity of the rules) I like tabletop RPG's (fluid use of rules). Board games seem to me to be the most creative games (more so even than computer games), and I like finding new ones and playing them, but all too often I can't find people to play with, and so I resort to a computerized version of it (rarely as good).

 

I like card games, both playing cards (cribbage and solitare (multiple different versions) ), and Magic - Magic provides an amazing amount of subtlety in the rules, and I enjoy finding little ways to use the rules of gameplay to my advantage (best one - all damage dealt to a player is ONLY dealt at the END of the turn - which means you can be a dead-man-playing ).

 

I've never played miniatures, but I've wanted to for some time.

 

Live action games are interesting, I'm a big fan of tag and manhunt, but there aren't enough people that I have to play with - I haven't played in two years B) .

 

One of my favorites, due to the politics inherent along with the premise of the game, is Nomic: a game which simulates a government in that the game is based on (at least in the beginning) changing the rules.

[Pyrotex]

My favorite game to play -- with other people -- is Bridge.

[InfiniteNow]

For me, it's Co-ed Naked Crisco Twister. Prophalactics sold separately...

[Celeste]

Card games: I'm a real Texas hold'em fan both in real live and on the computer. I was pretty upset when they outlawed online gambling here in the U.S., even though it can be addicting, the extra income was pretty nice.

 

Video: I like alot of the computer games as well as XBox and PS3 games.

The graphics are unbelievable.

 

My personal favorite though is Disneys online "ToonTown".... an interactive site used around the world. I purchased the membership for my granddaughter and I ended up addicted to it too!

[CraigD]

I’m an aficionado of strange, unpopular boardgames, the sort of thing one can find deeply discounted in the bargain bins of big toy stores. Many are simply offal, but a few are gems: “Shadowlords” (a difficult to-describe game somewhat like castle risk, checkers, and nine-men’s morris combined) , “Keys to the Kingdom” (not the video trivia game, but the game where landing on certain squares cause let you flip different sections of the multi-section board over, throwing any pieces on it into the central, circular “whirlpool”), and various others come to mind. As I don’t know anyone who shares this interest, I general play them with unsuspecting children and adults unfamiliar with my proclivity, so suffer from the delusion that I’m a brilliant player of them.

 

I like scale miniature war games, such a Fletcher Pratt’s Naval and sci-fi variants, but am too lazy to build decent scale miniatures, so play them with paper templates instead.

 

After enjoying decades of paper and pencil FRPGs, I can’t seem to maintain the enthusiasm to run or be in a decent campaign – the last good ones were ones I ran for my kids and their friends in the 1990s.

 

I’m partial to the “survivial horror soap opera” genre of console video games, playing perhaps 2-4 a year. After years of longing for more than the handful of good GunCon2 games, I’m hoping the Wii will result in lots of fun, controller shaking & swinging games, allowing me to use my thumbs as evolution intended, to grip, not point.

[InfiniteNow]

A friend of mine in kung fu was teaching me how to play GO while we were organizing the kid's summer camp last year. We only got to play 2 or 3 times total, but I'd love to find someone to play/learn with. It was so simple, yet so complex. Sort of like chess, but on another level.

 

Maybe it's time to Google: "Online GO playing." :)

[CraigD]

A friend of mine in kung fu was teaching me how to play GO while we were organizing the kid's summer camp last year. We only got to play 2 or 3 times total, but I'd love to find someone to play/learn with.

I’d be up for some chat-based Go in the late PM EST, which I think would work OK, as a 19x19 board can render OK in most chats in plaintext like:

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Casual and practice Go is often played on a smaller 9x9 board, also.

 

I’m curious about a radical Go variant that resembles chess known as “Gess” or some similar spelling. I’ve never managed to play it seriously enough to determine if it’s a credible game or not.

[InfiniteNow]

That sounds like a LOT of fun Craig. However, looking at the board above looks very much like running while I've not yet gone beyond a crawl. :rolleyes:

[CraigD]

That sounds like a LOT of fun Craig. However, looking at the board above looks very much like running while I've not yet gone beyond a crawl.

All those 0s, 1s and 2s do look a bit intimidating, compared to the elegant simplicity of an actual Go board. Though I don’t know any, I’m pretty sure there’re pretty Go board apps and websites that can allow people to play across the internet, rather than clunkily cut and pasting text boards into a chat.

 

One of the beauties of Go, compared to games like Chess, is how flexible it is. You can learn quickly by playing lots of games on a 9x9 board. Players of different ability can compete evenly by allowing the lesser player a handicap of some number of stones, to be placed however he likes before the better player places his first. Convincing a world-class player to grant you so great a handicap that you actually beat him (oddly, I’ve never met a serious female Go player) is a game unto itself.

 

Though I had some causal acquaintance with Go in my early teens, I wasn’t really exposed to it until my first year of college, where I took a game theory class from a junior faculty member who’s life ambition – stated in our first class session – was to be the #1 Go player first of our university (WVU), then of the world. He offered us all As in the class if, rather than “learning about matrixes”, we spent the semester “learning Go game”. We all opted for the matrixes, but, undeterred, he insisted, with the incentive of buying us dinner, on taking the class to the school's weekly Go society meeting, which was basically a pick-up tourneyment. Because he considered food and exercise to be necessities of good Go play, he’d feed us, then make us play 30 minutes of ping-pong, before touching a Go board.

 

Unfortunately, after that experience, I had little opportunity to play go, and have largely forgotten everything I learned. Though really high-level Go play seems to require a sort of fundamentally altered perception of reality, competent play can be learned (or re-learned) very quickly.

[anglepose]

you cant beet hockey and sailing and outdoor stuff :)