Quote from: dirk2112 on January 04, 2021, 09:55:32 AM We only have base game Catan and I am not sure if we will ever play it again. The game is fairly easy to predict the winner based on the starting positions of every player. Expansions that are just more of the same get old really fast. I guess there is a sweet spot where an expansion has to change enough to justify its existence, but not change too much so that the game isn't recognizable anymore. Agree all around. For several years I kept buying Catan expansions and even those could not quite defeat the grind and predictability of the game. Nothing really ever stopped runaway winners. My favourite types of expansions are ones that build off the core mechanics but in interesting ways.
We only have base game Catan and I am not sure if we will ever play it again. The game is fairly easy to predict the winner based on the starting positions of every player. Expansions that are just more of the same get old really fast. I guess there is a sweet spot where an expansion has to change enough to justify its existence, but not change too much so that the game isn't recognizable anymore.
The first expansion "Inns & Cathedrals" didn't come along two years after the initial release of Carcassonne. I'm not sure that was due to people tiring of the game already.I'm not sure why people seem to tire of playing games in their original form. Nobody complains that Draw Poker & Pinochle never change, and they still get played endless times. What really makes any game replayable, is player individuality, the best asset we all bring to the gaming table.
Would be even more special with 73 tiles though
Nobody complains that Draw Poker & Pinochle never change
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