#362: Hot Takes About Board Games

The people demand takes, so get 'em while they're hot. We're weighing in on some possibly bad, certainly edgy opinions, and deciding where we land (spoiler: we're always right). Before we get heated, we talk about Diplomacy: The Golden Blade, and Cozy Stickerville.

01:46 - Diplomacy: The Golden Blade

12:33 - Cozy Stickerville

25:41 - Hot takes!

26:11 - Co-op games are just single player games with an audience

32:01 - Catch Up mechanics ruin competitive integrity

37:39 - Legacy games are a predatory waste of money

41:22 - If a game takes more than 30 minutes to teach, it's a bad design

45:56 - Player elimination is actually a good mechanism

47:36 - Hidden victory points are a cowardly design choice

51:38 - Gateway games Like Catan or Monopoly should be actively avoided

52:44 - House ruling a game means you bought the wrong game