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Originally Posted by MicShazam
There is a tendency for Euro style games to be thematically on the dry side, I'll totally give you that one. I guess theme isn't so important to me. I'd happily play a game if it was just a bunch of colored triangles and squares. Although an attractive theme does make it a bit better. I guess it's maybe not even so much the theme for me, but a question of visual aesthetics.
Samurai might just be my favorite game and it's... not exactly extremely imaginative on the visual and thematic side of things:
I Googled that wine making board game and it does look like something I'd like to play. |
That game looks fine to me visually. I don't need some artistic masterpiece to have fun, but when a game looks like this:
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It's just kind of hard to feel invested. I mean that **** is plain ugly. Like there wasn't much thought put into the visual aspect of the game at all, they just had an idea that would be fun and plopped some muted colors and dice images down. (This is Castles of Burgundy, by the way).
It's one of THE premier eurogames, and is currently ranked #12 all-time on BoardGameGeek. I definitely appreciate how intelligently the gameplay was built but yeah it's just rough to want to play that when I can play a eurogame that looks like this instead even if the game might be technically designed a little worse (this one is called Yamatai):
