Boardgames To Go 255 - Cult of the New...for an Old Guy

I'm going to talk about the online Games Day that I talked up in the last episode and tell you a little bit how it worked out.

So it did work out, although not exactly like I thought it was going to.

I realized sort of at the last minute that the date I had planned, May 2nd, for us to have another people who want to play with me online, Games Day was overlapping with the OG Guild.

The old school German or whatever that is guild was having one of their OG game fest, which was even Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

And I was trying to encourage people.

Why don't we go over and get involved in that? Now, I don't know if anyone did.

I know there's a little bit of crossover between my podcast and that online community.

I went over there and I got to play two and a half games.

And they were playing on tabletop.io.

I think that's what the platform's called.

And...

But I ran into a problem.

Well, I played King of Tokyo Duel.

That was great.

I played Arboretum, which was interesting only because normally I think I don't like that game at all, but some other people asked to play it, and I liked it a little better than I normally do.

Still don't love that game.

Not sure what everyone is seeing about it, but finally someone described it as sort of spatial Lost Cities, and that helped it click a little bit more.

I still don't think it's that great.

Anyway, and then I went to play one more game the next day, which was going to be, let's see, it was Gazebos.

That's right.

And that is a newer implementation of a Rhinocerosia game, QIN.

And we're going to play it partnership.

And here's the thing.

I got to be playing partnership games I like, even though I feel a little stressed out about them sometimes.

I don't want to let my partner down.