I'm not a purist when it comes to Monopoly. I grew up playing a PC version on a BBS, because the calculator made things easier.

Now when it comes to Risk, quit screwing with it, Hasbro. Castle Risk sucked and so does this Reinvention crap.

And what the hell happened to Battleship?

nekom: UNC_Samurai: And what the hell happened to Battleship?

It talks now.

You sunk my battleship.

/I like Taquitos...

Life use to make sense but now it doesn't.

it's all circular

monopolies are circular? If that's not a great metaphor for corporate monopolism, nothing is..

My Monopoly board is a 1940's version with wooden houses and playing pieces. It's amazing it's still intact after all these years. One of the original dice has been replaced and I'm not sure if all the money is still there, but not bad for 3 generations of kids using it.

k_46r_a: I grew up playing on this board:



Not because I'm well-to-do, but because my mother is a bat-shiat crazy fanatic.

/We followed every rule verbatim, no money under free parking for you.

Holy crap, that thing's awesome. And I never thought I'd say that about a board game.

//ahh monopoly - the game that virtually never ends if you play it right.

no longer oppressed by the tyranny of round

FTA: "Circular board or quadrilateral?"

NEITHER, I SAY!! I WANT THE TRADITIONAL SQUARE BOARD!!!

Forty-Two: Somaticasual: //ahh monopoly - the game that virtually never ends if you play it right.

No, if you play it correctly, the game doesn't go on forever. Once a player secures a mid-board monopoly, the game becomes very lopsided very quickly -- which is the entire point. The game only goes on indefinitely if you start playing by house rules where landing on Free Parking gets you a ton of cash.

/Monopoly purist.
//Yes, the game is inherently unfair. Again, that's the point.

Fair enough.

//still can't believe they modernized it to include an ATM..

Also the dice are now spherical.

\Tends to extend the gameplay

So, along with the new board and the digital cash, they've made the game fun to play and games take less than three hours, right?

No?

Carry on, then.

I am MUCH too young for people to already be screwing with my childhood

I kind of like the way it looks. Having said that, it's not right. The square board is where it's at and there cannot be electronic funds changing hands. Part of the fun was collecting huge mounds of cash and waving it around in your opponents' faces.

Forty-Two: Yes, the game is inherently unfair. Again, that's the point.

The real point got removed long ago. It was a simulator for redistributing property.

Just kidding, I don't care about Monopoly. In fact I have never played a game to the end. It always stopped raining first.

I want a pentagon board, and plastic coin money.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Also, count me in with the purists.

To Round Hell with that round board.

/looks at band wagon... looks at round board... jumps on bandwagon
//Square boards or go to Jail
/// do not pass go
////do not collect $200
// aaaaahh slahies have killed my brain

hoots_toot_ochaye: So ..... what happens when that electronic gizmo that keeps track of your digital currency goes on the fritz?

My sister got that new digital monopoly for Christmas. I can't stand it. It takes way longer to use those damn electronic cards than it does to just count out the money by hand.

I'm cool with it as long as its only playable on the iPad.

Foxxinnia: Life use to make sense but now it doesn't.

I agree. Things are going down the chutes. Parker Brothers doesn't have a clue.

I couldn't care less about the shape, as long as it plays the same.
What I DON'T like, is the digital bank. I like to be able to see my money in Monopoly. fark checking your bank account all the time.

Do ya stile get $400 for landing on the GO square (slice?).

The game is round.
The credit machine is round.
They should call it ROUNDopoly!

GAT_00: And how the hell are you going to hide your money how? Or steal from the bank and your friends? This is stupid as hell.

Darn tootin, cash is king.
Square is king.
New game makes Monopoly Jr look inspired.

I can't believe I'm the first to point out the prototype was round.

/Though not if you include the games it ripped off.

Make the kids fill out loan papers for every property they want to buy.

Good. I was tired of cutting myself on those sharp corners, anyway.

refrigeratorelf: Good. I was tired of cutting myself on those sharp corners, anyway.

Don't forget about all of the paper cuts people will be spared by not having cash.

k_46r_a: Forty-Two: Somaticasual: //ahh monopoly - the game that virtually never ends if you play it right.

No, if you play it correctly, the game doesn't go on forever. Once a player secures a mid-board monopoly, the game becomes very lopsided very quickly -- which is the entire point. The game only goes on indefinitely if you start playing by house rules where landing on Free Parking gets you a ton of cash.

/Monopoly purist.
//Yes, the game is inherently unfair. Again, that's the point.

Yes, that is the point. Growing up, I never went for Park Place or Boardwalk, as it's risk-reward failed the logic test. When you have everyone pulling cash from house-rules get-rich-quick schemes, the true strategy of the game goes out the window. I got my butt kicked when playing "house rules" crapopoly.

I used to get so pissed when one of my siblings would make a trade giving anyone at the table a monopoly. It's never worth it!

I've never even heard of giving money for Free Parking and we didn't pull cash from the house but whenever I played with more than 3 people there were always one or two people controlling a good portion of the board but then everyone else stubbornly hanging on, making barely enough to stay afloat from their meager properties and very slowly bleeding money. It can take hours to get those people to accept their bankruptsy and they're usually the sort that won't help out one of the winning players. "YOU HAVE EVERYTHING. YOU CAN'T HAVE MY PARK PLACE, IT'S ALL I'VE GOT!" That's when it takes forever.

FTA: ...fake credit cards...

Just what we need, more future cashiers that don't know how to count out change.

what kind of unholy abomination is this

What is this free parking nonsense everyone in the thread is talking about. I've never heard of it.