Games You Rarely See Played "Correctly"

[aco175]

Nobody play golf right by the rules. On TV they do and it lasts 6 hours. Most of the time it is 'Fall' ball or preferred lies where you can roll it a bit out of divots and such.

This and Roshambo rarely gets played for more than one round.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Any specific strategies to winning you remember? To me, it seems to be buy everything you possibly can and be lucky.

The Monopoly community (they exist) has run computer simulations that game out the chances on landing on any given space, and they are definitely not created equal and the rent values attached to each aren't balanced (although Hasbro did rebalance it a bit after this research was done).

Basically, the properties after jail are landed on more than any else, specifically the orange and the red properties surrounding Free Parking. Get those and the railroads and you will almost certainly win. IME, it's not even close.

And if you are playing RAW and buying them on auction when people are landing on them, you can grab them pretty fast and let statistics crush the rest of the players.

 

[billd91]

We're not talking about cyberpunk as a genre here, we're talking about a specific game.



Style Over Substance: "It doesn't matter how well you do something , as long as you look good doing it."
Attitude is Everything: "Never walk into a room when you can stride in. Never look at someone unless you can make it your best 'killer' look."
Live on the Edge: "On the Edge, you'll risk your cash, your rep, even your life on something as vague as a principle or a big score."

I don't know if I've ever played in any game of Cyberpunk 2020 or Red where we attempted to live by this ethos.

I dunno. The latter two are pretty common in Cyberpunk games I've witnessed or experienced. Attitude - there's usually plenty of it. Risking life and limb for a big score or takedown of someone on principle? Plenty of that too.
And as far as Style over Substance - you can have style and still be competent. Fancy chrome, all the kewl nutech out the latest Chromebook catalog, body mods - all can make you a bigger badass AND make an impression.

 

[soviet]

It feels like Mike Pondsmith's intention in Cyberpunk 2020 was for the PCs to have some sort of social conscience or ethical code and to be prepared to go to the mat for that. Almost like 'yeah they're hard-bitten mercs but they are a little bit on the side of the resistance too'. I'm not sure how often that really happened in the wild.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It feels like Mike Pondsmith's intention in Cyberpunk 2020 was for the PCs to have some sort of social conscience or ethical code and to be prepared to go to the mat for that. Almost like 'yeah they're hard-bitten mercs but they are a little bit on the side of the resistance too'. I'm not sure how often that really happened in the wild.

That's definitely how I saw what Pondsmith intended, based on what he wrote and has said. But you're right that, at least in my experience, that social conscience usually took a back seat to cool gear and kickin' butt.

 

[Staffan]

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[Aldarc]

The Monopoly community (they exist) has run computer simulations that game out the chances on landing on any given space, and they are definitely not created equal and the rent values attached to each aren't balanced (although Hasbro did rebalance it a bit after this research was done).

Basically, the properties after jail are landed on more than any else, specifically the orange and the red properties surrounding Free Parking. Get those and the railroads and you will almost certainly win. IME, it's not even close.

And if you are playing RAW and buying them on auction when people are landing on them, you can grab them pretty fast and let statistics crush the rest of the players.

I remember playing Monopoly, I believe on Nintendo Wii, with my friends. I didn't really want to play because I don't particularly like Monopoly. But I will say there was certainly satisfaction when my luck landed me with all four railroads, the utilities, and various other properties around the board. My friends' mood about Monopoly turned sour fast.

 

[overgeeked]

I remember playing Monopoly, I believe on Nintendo Wii, with my friends. I didn't really want to play because I don't particularly like Monopoly. But I will say there was certainly satisfaction when my luck landed me with all four railroads, the utilities, and various other properties around the board. My friends' mood about Monopoly turned sour fast.

It's wild how many people love to play that game specifically but they're also the ones who are the worst losers when playing that game specifically. It's bizarre.

 

[Gradine]

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It's been a while but I do believe that you have to wait until the end of the game but then yes, you do this

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

One session you team up, other you screw over one another. To play it "as designers intended", you need mature players who are comfortable with disempowerment, moral compromise, and stories where success is partial or corrosive rather than triumphant. They need patience for slow, consequence-driven drama and the ability to separate personal ego from character suffering.

Then my Tick-inspired PC in the GURPS: V:tM playtest was probably one the designers would have liked!

Because as silly as he was, he was also like 55 gallon drum of nitroglycerin. Pushed the wrong way, and he was likely able to destroy most of the PCs and NPCs in the setting. Only by the managing & manipulation of his insane delusions was anyone safe from him.