Day #Final - Tying it all together

Final Post!

Well after 13ish days of my games and community class, We have finally come to the end of it. I've played all sorts of games with a variety of people, and I think I've learned a bit of how I play games.

First off, I feel like I need a good heads up as to how long a game will actually take. I do not mind sitting down and playing a game for 2, 2 1/2, 3 hours, but I need a "hey btw, this game is going to go really long" sort of thing. I can remember playing Stone Age at one of the game nights, and I was looking at the box and thought, "Okay 60 to 75 minutes, sounds great!" But after 150 minutes, (2 1/2 hours), I was just done playing. Kind of lost my interest in the game and was just ready to leave.

I also Discovered that I love games with a bit more depth to them, besides just a basic strategy you can pick up on your first try. While I like playing Blokus, or even Settlers can be guilty of this, I don't really think I've ever discovered a "Oh, what If i played the game like this instead!" "Oh, wow I hadn't even seen that strategy before, man that seems great." So a game where I can learn new strategies and ways to play the more I play them is something I can really get into, instead of just trying to build the most roads or finding a new way to "blok" off my opponents from getting in my zone.

Finally, I also learned I love games where I feel like something was accomplish! When playing Mystery of the Abbey, we had to figure out who the murderer was, and the game wasn't over until the Murderer was discovered. Not, "well whoever can eliminate 10 suspects off the list wins first wins." I was annoyed playing, "Shadow's Over Camelot," because despite the fact that we had Catapults at our front gate, Excalibur was almost lost to the enemy, and a dragon was rampaging around, we had technically won the game, because we had won 2 battles and we retrieved the holy grail. It didn't leave a feeling of, "Oh yea, we did awesome! It was a "Man we screwed up really bad, glad we just barely won."

So that is what I have learned about myself in this class. I really did enjoy getting to play a variety of games, and I am hoping to maybe work a bit more on my game. Who knows, maybe I'll go pick up a couple of these games we played.
~Brandon