where should board games be discussed?

[Dinner]

Other games.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns


To stay on the first page of the OG forum, a thread would need a new reply in at least every three days. The Classic Games forum still has threads on the first page from June.

But doesnt that apply to a lot of games other than board games? Most of the less popular older games?

[Theben]

I applaud LOTM in discovering a way to add more +1's to a given topic; create a thread in the A/C to discuss where it should be placed.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
But doesnt that apply to a lot of games other than board games? Most of the less popular older games?

Not in my experience. If an old game is good enough and someone is feeling nostalgic enough to start a thread on the game, chances are others are also feeling nostalgic about that game. Seeing the thread will be enough to get them playing that game as well for a while. And even if people don't play the game, they have enough knowledge and experience to talk about the game still.

[Tassadar500]

Does this really need that much thought to go into it?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Boardgame discussion would probably be better in Classic Games. FGs in he OG are continuously bumped, the only threads to survive are those that also have a number of people also playing the game at the time. Threads about boardgames would drop like a rock. Survivability and visability for such a thread would be far greater in the Classic Games forum.

At least, thats my take on it.

Does anyone actually ever look in classic though?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns


Not in my experience. If an old game is good enough and someone is feeling nostalgic enough to start a thread on the game, chances are others are also feeling nostalgic about that game. Seeing the thread will be enough to get them playing that game as well for a while. And even if people don't play the game, they have enough knowledge and experience to talk about the game still.

Depends. I once posted on 1602 AD, and it sank like a rock. Even a Sid Meiers Gettysburg thread sank like a rock. Any wargame thread other than 5 start generals, and maybe TOAW, tends to sink like a rock. Sometimes it depends on whos around - sometimes one particular individual may be interested, and if they happen to look in OG, than something gets going. But id say that for Wargames and other niche genres you get less response than youd get for Risk or Monopoly.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Does anyone actually ever look in classic though?

the people who are interested in Colonization and MoM do, but thats about it, I think.

[Last Conformist]

Seems they'd better go in Classic

[Dis]

the best way to do it, is to put a thread in both forums.

[FrustratedPoet]

or to put a thread in every forum, on every website, in every galaxy in the universe!

[DrSpike]

Don't be silly. Anything outside of this galaxy is *clearly* overkill.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Survivability and visability for such a thread would be far greater in the Classic Games forum.

Nobody ever goes there, not even me.

[DrSpike]

The forum is looking more and more attractive all the time.

[Alex]

yep.