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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InzeladunMaster" data-source="post: 4127424" data-attributes="member: 9774">Several reasons, actually.1. They don't excite my imagination. Running energy factories is boring - flying airplanes is exciting. I can daydream about the latter, but not the former. Same thing with Ticket to Ride - the very concept is boring.2. Those three seem to me that one can do everything "correctly", yet someone else can totally screw the game for you.  All that does is frustrate me, and I don't have fun feeling frustrated.3. I have to admit also that (especially Settlers of Catan), my bias may also have a bit to do with the way the game was taught to me - wherein I feel I was given mediocre to downright bad advice so the teacher could win. (A good game teacher should set aside his competitiveness on the first game, and give the best advice possible).  I suppose I could try again if I felt I wasn't going to get my ass handed to me by vastly more experienced players who are going to use the training game to show off their impressive talent (who really shouldn't feel they have anything to prove in the first place, as I know in a real game they could easily defeat me).I recently enrolled my kids in Tai Kwan Do. Imagine if the Black Belt Grand Master just took out my kids to prove he is better - would they be interested in learning? No, he teaches them at their level. Likewise, when Mark taught me how to fence, I knew he could beat me with his eyes closed (he wins tournaments, for crying out loud!) but he never brought out the can of whoop-ass until he knew I could handle it. I need games taught to me in like fashion. When they aren't, I get a bad taste in my mouth for the game.Wings of War, for example, excites my imagination. While condition 2 exists when the Explosion card is around (that card really isn't much fun, and I leave it out these days when I play), the other damage cards just add a dimension of challenge. As for 3, we were all pretty new at it when I learned, so no one really was an expert out to show us Newbies who was boss. When I taught some people this weekend how to play, I did some moves that got me killed so they would have fun shooting me down.Wings of War is also nice because everyone goes simultaneously. I hate waiting for other people to take their turn, sometimes.</blockquote>

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