Carcassonne Central
Off Topic => Other Games => Topic started by: Tacita on November 13, 2014, 01:49:54 PM
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Okay, even though Carcassonne might be a game all of us hold in high regard, there are also other games out there. Truth is ... Carcassonne is not among my top ten favourite games.
This is my list:
1. Space Alert (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38453/space-alert).
This coöperative game is phenomenal. The stress level is extremely high and your mistakes are unavoidable. The hilarity when you realise that you or one of your mates has gone the wrong way and totally collapsed any and all plans for the rest of the round is unmatched. Pair this up with too much alcohol and you have the best evening ever!
2. Chaos in the old world (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43111/chaos-old-world).
Every player is doing his/her own thing. It is very asymmetrical, but almost perfectly balanced. Many games, when one player is declared a winner, somone else could also have won. Amazing game!
3. Power grid (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid).
The old classic dry euro game. What can I say? We just keep playing it over and over. With the robot expansion this is also very good with two players.
4. A game of thrones (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6472/game-thrones-first-edition).
Gather five of your friends and crush them! This is mayhaps even better if you have read/seen the saga it portrays, but even if you have not, this game is excellent.
5. Eat poop you cat (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30618/eat-poop-you-cat)!
If you want to laugh your lungs out, this is the "game" you should play.
6. Keyflower (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/122515/keyflower).
At least this game sports meeples ... This is such a clever game. You bid with your guys and you activate your tiles with your guys and you try to save some guys for later. You will never be able to get everything you want and you are in a constant shortage of guys. Such a great game!
7. El grande (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/93/el-grande).
The grandfather of area-control games. All information is open and you just have to adjust. This was the first designer game I bought, and it still holds up as one of the most iconic games ever made.
8. Arkham horror (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15987/arkham-horror).
This not so much a game that you play as it is a story in which you get thrown around. You do not really make a lot of important decisions, but rather react to what happens to you and on the board. Still - the stories it tells are amazing.
9. Dominion (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion).
The first pure deck-builder. Usually I try to get an engine going; one where the cards can do some nifty combos. I rarely succeed. Classic game that fits in everyone's collection.
10. Catacombs (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/57390/catacombs).
This game is based on of of those ideas. You know the kind. The "why the HELL did I not think of it first?!"-kind. You flick your way through a dungeon, competing against an evil overlord. Simply fantastic!
This list is not the "be all end all"-list, but maybe you will get curious about one or more of the games here. Good luck trying them out! Now, tell me about your favourite games! 8)
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I'm kinda envy. I don't have a top ten list.
All I have is Carcassonne!
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Let's see. My top ten are something like this:
1. Guillotine
2. 7 Wonders
3. Caverna
4. Ticket to Ride
5. Carcassonne
6. Dominion (with expansions)
7. Fleet
8. Incan Gold
9. Flash Point: Fire Rescue
10. Zooloretto (with expansions)
Yeah, so I'm a bit of a traditionalist. I don't enjoy heavy strategy game or games that take hours to play. I also can't stand bluffing games. Not only am I not good at bluffing, but I never know what's going on in them. I played an entire game of Shadows Over Camelot and everyone thought I was the saboteur. In reality, I just didn't have a clue what I was doing! Same with One Night Ultimate Warewolf: first time playing, no idea what I'm doing, everyone figured I was the werewolf. Yeah, I wasn't. Incan Gold is the closest I get, and that is a gambling game.
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Here is my top ten:
1 Carcassonne
2 Snowdonia
3 Biblios
4 Ticket to Ride
5 Village
6 Agricola
7 San Juan
8 Blood Bowl Team Manager
9 Castles of Mad King Ludwig
10 Alhambra: The Card Game
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There are so many great games .. and so little time for them all.
Here are my top rated games:
1. Carcassonne – No doubt about that
2. Heroscape – I love my tabletop games. I have painted dozens of minis. This is the easiest way to indulge that love.
3. D&D Adventure System (Castle/Wrath/Drizzt/Temple) – First played D&D in 1979 and its still a favourite theme. I play the very odd session but these sets let me indulge anytime I want.
4. Lords of Waterdeep – we just love this game and the setting helps for me.
5. Flashpoint Fire Rescue – another favourite solo games
6. Splendor – Great quick little game!
7. Elder Sign – More for the solo play. I also like the whole Lovecraft mythos.
8. 42 - A Trump game using Domino tiles. Played this to death in college days, including private tournament play. Still a fave.
9. Memoir 44 / CCA / CCN – I started hobby gaming as Grognard but have somewhat mellowed with age ;)
10. Ticket to Ride – Just an all round great game
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Great topic. I answered my top ten by asking myself "If I could play any game, what would it be?"
1. Samurai Favorite of Reiner Knizia's game. Shame about the anti-climactic game ending with the convoluted scoring.
2. Resistance Sue I enjoyed the game before, but with the newest expansions it just never gets old. Can play for hours and hours.
3. Keyflower Lucky to play it once or twice a year. The mix of mechanisms click with me. Great mix-up from game to game.
4. Powergrid New to this, but I'm hooked. I just can't get over how well this game is designed.
5. Carcassonne: The City My favorite Carcassonne base game. Much meatier than regular Carcassonne.
6. Cinque Terra With this I have no need for a 4-5 player version of Ticket to Ride.
7. Small World I'm a sucker for a game that has variable powers and abilities. Finding those HOT combos for different parts of the game keeps me interested.
8. CATAN Didn't play it until 2 years ago, but this classic is really fun for me when I play with people that play it to WIN.
9. For Sale A quick little bidding game that is great to take with you wherever you go.
10. Ticket to Ride: Nordic I love this until someone blocks my routes. Really Cut-throat.
I still love Carcassonne, but I only really enjoy it with my regular Carcassonne group.
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My top 10:
1- Carcassonne
2- Tichu
3- Dixit
4- Navegador
5- Coup
6- Eclipse
7- Koryo
8- Bang!
9- Tigris & Euphrates
10- Citadels
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I will not rank them because it depends how I feel, but my favourite games are
Carcassonne
Pandemic
Flash Point Fire Rescue
7 Wonders
Catan
Brew Crafters
Love Letter
Bang - The Dice Game
Ticket to Ride
Pandemic The Cure
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1. Carcassonne - obviously.
2. Ticket to Ride - I have literary all expansions, except Marklin and Nordic.
3. Kingdom Builder - I love this game for outstanding variability.
4. Alhambra - individual tile game. Besides, it helps to train mental arithmetic, which it great for my son.
5. Scotland Yard - I like to be both criminal and detective. IMO, it is similar to chess: you should calculate several moves ahead to be able run away/catch.
6. Power Grid - though it is recommended to play from 12 years old, we already play it with my 7-years old son. It is good to understand economics through that game (Law of Supply and Demand, in particular).
7. The Settlers of Catan - old classics.
8. Qin - another similarity to chess, IMO: you should think ahead much.
9. Dixit - great creative party game.
10. Bohnanza - another party game with big trading element.
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You consider "Settlers" old classic, but not "Scotland Yard"? SY is still fun, too, I have to agree, still it would not run in a "gaming group" that great as if played with kids. One aspect is, that you don't have to let them win, but if the group is big enough, they will win anyway, as long as they don't insist on being "Mr. X". One problem of the game seems to be for me the balancing. With 3 players, the detectives won't stand a chance, with more than 4 it get's really tough for "Mr. X".
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I ran into Scotland Yard very late, literary this year, and I was really surprised it was published in 1983! And I agree that SY is the most balanced with 4 detectives.
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Well, I was introduced to "Settlers" last year, while "Scotland Yard" is something, I grew up with. Hadn't played it in ages, untill we had a few games this winter with an 8 years old boy, who loves it, because he always be winner (among the detectives). But I agree, it is still really enjoyable.
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I'm with my gf while reading this topic so we agreed to make a combined top 10, here we go!
1. Agricola
2. Power Grid
3. Carcassonne
4. Alhambra
5. Ticket to Ride: Europe
6. Settlers of Catan
7. 7 wonders
8. Puerto Rico
9. Dixit
10. Risk
As you see we are all up for very mainstream commercial games, always betting safe on games of the year, ecc.
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Been a while, still don't have a top ten, but before Carcassonne we always played Dungeon Quest (the original Swedish version). I have both the old 1.0 with expansion and the new version was bought as a gift for my sister.
I did like Saboteur as well and I loved Monopoly because I was undefeated almost a decade until one day in Belgium everyone ganged up on me hard and refused to trade with me. :P
Hopefully this Summer we'll have more time for games and I can see myself investing in a game or two now and then, even if most of the games cost around 50-90 Euro here in Sweden. Maybe time to look at Ebay or Amazon for cheaper prices as well.
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my top ten is not very wide .
1.carcassonne
2. mus ( Spanish card game )
3 chess
4 dixit
5 risk
6 parchis
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Bump!
1. Risk
2. Carcassonne
3. Junta
4. Scotland Yard
5. Fury of Dracula
6. Talisman
7. Strip Poker
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Righty, I must have missed this thread - so here's my top ten:
1. Agricola- wife and I love this.
2. Carcassonne - we play this the most often (obviously!), so it jumps around my top ten all the time.
3. Suburbia - tile-based city planning, great fun.
4. Keyflower - more tile-based games. There's a pattern here :)
5. Pandemic - our great non-Christmas-based Christmas game!
6. Splendor - not as deep as lots on the list, however it's short, easy to teach, and all my family love to play it!
7. Imperial Settlers - one of the newest games I own, however we love it. Great for two players.
8. Ticket to Ride Europe - we like to throw in the Alvin and Dexter if we want a bit of meanness, or use the UK/PA expansion for more depth.
9. Village - I find this really hard to teach, though wife and I love this game.
10. Castles of Burgundy - the art is a bit dry, however we love how mechanically-smart everything flows.
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My list probably varies from week to week. I think it would be easier to come up with my top 10 least favorite games.
I'll make an attempt:
1. Carcassonne (otherwise I wouldn't be on this forum :yellow-meeple:
2. Ticket to Ride Pennsylvania
3. Isle of Skye
4. Colt Express
5. Splendor
6. Zooloretto
7. Mysterium
8. Axis and Allies (I haven't played it in years, but this was the go to in college)
9. Takenoko
10. Sushi Go (this has replaced Uno and basically all other card games)
I recently added Saloon Tycoon and Flick Em Up into my collection. Not sure if either will make it on this list.
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1. Carcassonne: The City
2. Carcassonne: Wheel of Fortune
3. Carcassonne: Winter Edition
4. Carcassonne: South Seas
5. Carcassonne: Over Hill & Dale
6. Carcassonne: Ark of the Covenant
7. Cardcassonne
8. Carcassonne: Gold Rush
9. Carcassonne: Discovery
10. Jamaica
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1. Perry Rhodan Trading Card Game
2. Carcassonne
3. Frank's Zoo
4. El Grande
5. Ligretto Dice
6. Tikal
7. Torres
8. Zatre
9. Yspahan
10. Ingenious
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Nice thread.
1 - Dominion
2 - Carcassonne
3 - Agricola
4 - Race for the galaxy
5 - 7 Wonders
6 - Roll for the galaxy
7 - Agricola for 2 players
8 - The builders antiquity
9 - 10: To be filled
And everything with expansions :)
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1. Carcassonne
2. Istanbul
3. Alhambra with expansions
4. Keyflower
5. Catan with LOTS of expansions
6. Netrunner
7. Artificium
8. Rummikub IDK if this counts, It´s more of a number tile game
9. Metro
10. Quattro
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This was a tough list to compile for me as I only really have a single favourite game and tend to play other games in rotation based on what the group I’m part of at the time enjoys the most.
Also, my mood changes every day meaning that sometimes I might prefer a game of Tsuro rather than Castles of Burgundy even though C of B is higher in the list. However, I’ve done my best to establish some kind of order and have included ten games that I almost always enjoy playing over most other games even though I don’t own three of them. These are as follows:
1. Carcassonne (usually just the base game, either version of the art work is fine :o)
2. Castles of Burgundy
3. 7 Wonders: Duel
4. Escape: Curse of the Temple
5. Colt Express
6. Zombicide
7. Formula D
8. Tsuro
9. Carcassonne: South Seas
10. Flip City
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Just my Top 10 favourite games in alphabetical order. As you can see, they are quite different from each other, so it would be a hard time favouring one against another:
Agricola
Alhambra (with expansions)
Brass
Carcassonne (with expansions)
Port Royal
Power Grid
Puerto Rico
Robinson Crusoe
Saint Petersburg
Taj Mahal
Now "Castles of Burgundy", the original game, might very well get a spot into it, too. But I only played it at yucata.de yet, and I only wanted to include games, I actually played at a table. There are other games which might shift in over time, honestly I did not play "Istanbul" as much, as I would have liked, although I own it for quite some time and enjoyed it a lot. I recently bought "Colt Express", played only once yet, and soon will get "Five Tribes", which I only had one game of at somebody else. There are a few others, which amazed me after one play, but I did not have a second go on them yet, so obviously no "material" for a Top 10 List. "Catan" will have a place of honour in my regards, as it introduced me to the hobby, and I still enjoy it a lot (with expansions, I actually was introduced to the game with "Cities & Knights" and "Seafarers") and will never reject a game, but the 10 mentioned above, I enjoy considerably even more.
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my top ten is not very wide .
1.carcassonne
2. mus ( Spanish card game )
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6 parchis
1. Of course
2. What is mus?
6. En Serio???? Parchís is ludo for those who don't know. Very very dull.
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1. Arkham Horror (Lovecratf Rulez!!!)
2. Carcassonne
3. Mansions of madness
4. Agricola
5. Red November
6. Stone Age
7. Munchkin (The Cthulhu one)
8. Eldritch Horror
9. Carcassonne The castle
10. Ticket to ride
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2. What is mus?
BGG knows it (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6866/mus). I agree about Parchis, but understood jma03 in that way, that these are the only six games, he ever played. (Therefore his "Top 10" are only six games.) So it's his least liked game, and probably not high in his regards.
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Ah understood
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Well, this was just my assumption.
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My top 10 would include, in no particular order
Carcassonne
Brew Crafters
Viticulture
7 Wonders
Harbour
Pandemic
Flash Point Fire Rescue
Zooloretto
Bang The Dice Game
Love Letter
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In a very loose order, since I would be happy to play any of them if the opportunity arises:
1 - Dice Poker (My Father Rules)
Checkers (Looser Wins Rules)
"Belgium" Dominoes (Where you score any multiple of 5 you get with the sum of the end pips)
4 - Carcassonne
5 - Council of Verona
Dale of Merchants
Kodama
8 - Tavarua
9 - Guillotine
10 -City of Spies
I'm not sure if the top three qualify as boardgames but they were the very first I learned to play while sit on a table killing time with my father, and I really only play them the few times per year I'm with him, so I really cherish any chance I've to play.
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My list would be very short, and somewhat archaic, if I only included the games that I've played the actual board game. Of the modern "European style games" I own very few other than Carcassonne. I have however, like Hounk, been playing a lot of different games on Yucata.de, some of which I would like to purchase the 'cardboard' versions. Also, I own almost all of the Carc spinoffs, so they should probably be on a separate list.
So, for games that I actually own (considering all the versions of Carc to be just one game) my list would be as follows:
1. Carcassonne
2. Catan
3. Spades (card game)
4. Briscas (a Puerto Rican card game that I believe originated in Italy... known as Briscola in Italy)
5. Cribbage
6. Struggle for Catan
7. Poker (most varieties)
8. Phase 10
9. Cards Against Humanity
10. 10,000 (Dice game)
There are probably others that I have that I haven't played in a while or even forgot about.
Of the Carcassonne games, this is my top 10:
1. Carcassonne base game + expansions
2. Carcassonne The City
Carcassonne Gold Rush
Carcassonne New World
Carcassonne Discovery
6. Carcassonne The Castle
Carcassonne South Seas
Carcassonne Hunters and Gatherers
Carcassonne Star Wars
Carcassonne Ark of Covenant
The only Carc game so far that I haven't liked is Hill and Dale. I'm looking forward to Amazonas.
Of games I currently play on Yucata.de, I like the following:
Carcassonne Hunters and Gatherers
Carcassonne South Seas
Castles of Burgundy (just learned this a few weeks ago and it has become one of my favorites. I am looking to buy this one.)
Nations the Dice Game (would like to own but it seems rare and very expensive)
Roll Through the Ages
To Court the King
Jaipur
Call to Glory
Cacao
Automobiles
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My Top Ten List:
Merchant of Venus
XIA: Legends of a Drift System
Railways of the World
Poker
Carcassonne (Actually Mega-Carcassonne with many expansions)
Roads & Boats
Castle of Burgundy
Crokinole
Himalaya
HeroScape
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