Well, the mechanics are mostly luck (dice rolling), people can be knocked out and will just have to watch or wander off, and during someone else's go you are basically just waiting. It's a common problem of "classic" board games that has been solved by lesser known but amazing board games such as Pandemic and Forbidden Island. I'm always amazed at how monopoly and cluedo dominate the market when there are much much better options available,,,,

For anyone who hasn't played this game yet, there's no single-player campaign, the story is rubbish, the graphics are a bit flat, but the frame rate runs at a solid 60fps and it's a very fun multiplayer game.

9/10

Will it be in Russian like the pic? :stuck_out_tongue:

Jk! Thanks for sharing!

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Will it be in Russian like the pic? :stuck_out_tongue:

Jk! Thanks for sharing!

Good price, can't beat a game of Monopoly. Has to be the original too!

The original is the best however I did enjoy playing the simspons editions with my son.

Heat!

shows 19.99 on eBay for me

Good price... frustratingly broken game though!!

Great price for the original and best. Someone bought the electronic credit card type version a few years ago... We played it once and hated it.

Well, the mechanics are mostly luck (dice rolling), people can be knocked out and will just have to watch or wander off, and during someone else's go you are basically just waiting. It's a common problem of "classic" board games that has been solved by lesser known but amazing board games such as Pandemic and Forbidden Island. I'm always amazed at how monopoly and cluedo dominate the market when there are much much better options available,,,,

Great game and nice find!

Nice find op. Ordered and heat added.

Excellent game.. Head added!!!

Great price

Anyone no if it has double sided quality money like the original? Instead of one sided crappy thin paper like on the modern versions?

Not another Monopoly edition . it seams that Hasbro are looking for any opportunity to introduce a different addition . talk about trying to maximise sales. I didn't know to what extent until I checked out wiki , there's literally 1000s
http://monopoly.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Monopoly_Games_(Board)

For anyone who hasn't played this game yet, there's no single-player campaign, the story is rubbish, the graphics are a bit flat, but the frame rate runs at a solid 60fps and it's a very fun multiplayer game.

9/10

Because people are generally lazy morons who like to sit and wait passively while the game plays itself and can't be bothered to look for something more involving.

Monopoly made many people hate board games for life and associate them with those evenings when your 10 year old nephew comes for a visit so you play this piece of crap secretly wishing you were dead instead.

For family friendly board gaming there are many better options without any steep learning curve, Carcassonne, Catan or Ticket to Rideto name a few. So even people who find Arkham Horror rules intimidating can have plenty of fun with young kids and there's no excuse to buy this ancient piece of tedious game belonging to a wind-up toys era.

A key rule about Monopoly that few people play is that when a player lands on an unowned property if they don't want to buy it then it must be auctioned to the other players. This speeds up play massively.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/monopoly-rules-long-wrong_n_3366875.html

A simply brilliant link. Thank you!

Or maybe people enjoy calmly waiting their turn during a 'traditional' board game.

Not everything has to cater for people with hyperactivity disorders.

I love Monopoly, always have and my 5 year old son will happily play for hours. I don't understand what the issue is with waiting your turn? You're still involved in the game if it's not your turn to roll the dice, it's hardly snakes and ladders.

I loved this game, that's probably cos I used to win on most occasions, or lose/draw game with decent amount of estate but never lost miserably unlike others. I guess people that hate this game used to lose mostly. I have never played a boardgame where you didn't have to wait your turn. You are so involved as a family/friends even in other players turns, there's discussions, the excitement of rolling the of dice, etc.,. If I wanna play without waiting for a turn, you have online gaming for that.

So how many other board games have you tried then?

big plus one for carcs and ticket to ride. I find settlers can be a bit frustrating if you get 'blocked in' but I do love trading. Sheep for a brick anyone?

I would add Puerto Rico to the mix for when the children get a little older. A thoroughly enjoyable game for 3 to 5 players. Its great because it involves trasing, selling, building, all sorts. love it

Thanks for posting

For younger ones there's Catan Junior but it suffers from snowballing, once you conquer few islands statistically dice will roll in your favour more often so the winner is obvious rather quickly. A bit like in Monopoly but it doesn't drag for hours so still better. :smiley:

Carcassonne Hunters&Gatherers is also fun, fields are replaced with hunters and animals so the score for each field can be seen immediately, much easier for the kids. The final scoring is also improved, I never understood the 1 point for both finished and unfinished road rule, why bother completing them.. In H&G you get nothing for unfinished rivers.

We also had some fun with Machi Koro, great for teaching kids to calculate potential rewards and invest wisely.

Long story short any german style board game will be way more fun than bl***y Monopoly, just let that damn thing die already instead of puking out "17th Week of Year The Space Zombie Simpsons Lego Ultra Batman vs Robin Anniversary Edition" every Christmas.

Got mine for £7.59 on Amazon in November

Looks like it's just the box cover that's different, everything pretty much looks like a new version we have at home.

Also, don't people talk between turns? It's not like they'll really be totally removed from the action and be left twiddling their thumbs...

redditor?

That's just the thing, in the old fashioned board games, you are quite literally removed from the action because it's not your turn, nothing you can do influences anything that happens in the game - pay attention, don't pay attention, it doesn't matter. And it isn't long before people realise and stop to have a conversation. At which point your not playing much of a game and you are just having a conversation that is being interrupted by a game.

That's great, especially if you tend not to have conversations but it doesn't make monopoly a good game, it's your friends and family who are great, the game just got you talking to them. Imagine if there was such a thing as a game that did all the things monopoly does- gets you and your friends together, gets you talking, but also, was fun all at the same time - way more fun than one where you win or lose on the roll of a dice.

Honestly, try any of the games mentioned above, or get yourself over to shutupandsitdown.com if none of them take your fancy, they review games with an eye on showing that there is amazing games out there which make monopoly look like the type of thing that means people groan and make excuses when you suggest playing. Get a hold of a physical copy of it, get your friends and family over and see the difference it makes to have a really good game on the table

Hasbro are very good at the first part of Henry Georges idea, amass a great amount of wealth, but not so good at the second bit - redistribute that wealth amongst the most needy

Got one. Cheers

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

THANKS FOR SHARING, JUST BOUGHT ONE.

Best board game I've ever played was Talisman.

Exactly! board games have come along way since the days of Monopoly etc, I think the best example of a crossover game into the mainstream from 'modern' boardgames is Ticket to Ride and its a great introduction game to bring people over to modern gaming if all they have ever tried is the likes of Monopoly, very simple rules so its easy to learn and has a great hidden scoring mechanic which makes the game very tactical and you never really know whos going to win until the end.

Is this updated with new rules that give one player 99% of the money at the start and the other players with 1% between them and then expect this to be fair?

I like monopoly empire as its fast paced , give this a try if you haven't

If you think it's mostly luck then you're playing it wrong.

Go play Chinatown, which is monopoly with all the luck stripped out, then come back and try to justify roll to move

I don't get why people are hating on it. Even when I've lost, and lost badly, part of the fun is trying to keep your head above water and staying in the game.

if you don't like the game, don't play it! There's simply something nice about playing monopoly with the family, just like we did years ago. The will I? Won't I? when it comes to buying property. The second of suspense when you land on chance. the accusations of cheating. the fun of actually spending some time without everyone being on mobile phones! So what if it's not the most advanced, or mind boggling game. It's traditional and it's fun. :smile:

As with all online forums/ discussions, the nuance of tone is lost on the screen. Of course, if people enjoy monopoly or cluedo then that's great. It's just that when you've played and enjoyed so many other games that are "unknown" to the wider public, you just want to share the potential excitement!

Every christmas I get slightly (irrationally?) annoyed when I see piles and piles of (increasingly badly produced) common games and I just wish we could be more experimental with our choices!

It's my problem, I know. Let me go and find a corner and deal with it.

Ad says "Four or more players (not included)". Well, that seems a bit tight!

Why do I need to justify anything? It's popularity speaks for itself. Have you ever stopped to think that perhaps Monopoly is popular precisely because there is an element of luck? And not mostly luck like you say?

In case you haven't noticed, most popular boardgames, and practically all card games have an element of luck. It's like saying Poker is mostly luck. Sure over a couple of games, a beginner might win, which is part of the attraction. Who wants to always only play Chess against a pro and never be able to win?

I quite like the old boards that fold in half.

Don't get me wrong, I also like games with elements of luck, but there is one luck based mechanic that has been superceeded with better ways of achieving randomness, and that mechanic is called "roll to move". The biggest problem with roll to move is that it offers little strategy, some games give you the ability to change direction (trivial pursuit), choose which piece to move (ludo) or take a divergent path (trivial pursuit). Other games, like snakes and ladders do not, you roll, you move your piece that number of spaces exactly. There is no strategy, it is pure luck and it tends to dominate games. There are roll to move games which are very good, for example Formula D, and mitigate the luck factor with clever risk vs reward mechanics, but monopoly does not have any risk vs reward in it, two players of equal ability will have hugely differing experiences with the game all as a result of what the dice said- one game, a player may get knocked out in under an hour, left to sit there, not being a part of the fun for the remaining 3 hours the game lasts, another game he may be in a position where he cannot lose very early, and the remaining hours are spent slowly but surely waiting for his friends to go bankrupt, all because he was the luckiest that game. Games so heavily dependant on luck benefit hugely from being short, as do games with player elimination, so if you are knocked out early or just have a bad few rolls or another player has a few good ones, you are not left waiting for the inevitable/finding something else to do for hours.

In monopoly, the roll to move mechanic dominates the game just as much as your draw in poker, yet as a result of the length of the game, it can make the game distinctly unfun for some players for a long time. This is not good game design, and is a relic of the time when it was made, a time when games existed to make political statements and there was little in terms of iterative design to build on.

FYI popularity is in no way indicative of quality, in any aspect of life. VHS was more popular than Betamax, LCD more popular than plasma, Windows is vastly more popular than macs, polyester is more popular than silk, pine is more popular than cedar, Cludo is more popular than mysterium.

Finally, "Who wants to play chess against a pro and never be able to win" interesting that you choose the most popular game in all of history to illustrate your point, a game with zero luck involved. The answer of course is "more people than play monopoly" but bringing your simile to what we are actually discussing, modern board games have tackled the problem of one player being very good, it's one of the bigger problems with an older game like monopoly that a better player can dominate his friends and family early, having fun at the expense of their fun. Modern game tackle this with a variety of approaches, from "come back" mechanics, to "hidden winner" where no-one knows who is winning until the game ends, right through to all vs one where the good player takes on the others in an asymmetrical game and of course cooperative games where all win or lose together. This is of course ignoring the games where win lose or draw doesn't matter, the game is fun regardless and the narrative of your game is memorable enough for you to enjoy losing!

I'm not saying "don't buy monopoly" or "you won't have fun with monopoly" I'm just saying that there are other game out there, games which are a lot of fun, and many people, who don't know about them may end up buying a game like monopoly because they don't know any better, because to so many people "board games" = "monopoly, cluedo etc". Spreading information about different games, games which the vast majority of people who play them never want to see a monopoly board again is a good thing, because if even one person based on what we have written here goes out and tried something they never heard of before and ends up having an unexpectedly good time, then it's worth my time doing so!