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Monopoly sucks to begin with. Let's fuck it up even more!blade2kxx said:
alkeiper
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It's not the worst concept on its own. But Hasbro has been bleeding the Monopoly market so badly that it's become a joke. How many new versions of Monopoly have we seen in the last ten years or so? We got electronic banking, Monopoly Here and Now, a shitload of specialized versions. It's blatantly cashing in.
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Don't forget the annual McDonald's Monopoly game.alkeiper said:
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I've got the Star Wars Super Deluxe Force Edition, or some shit,The Simpson's one, A Disney one, The Marvel SuperHeroes one, the regular edition, The Millennium Version, and Monopoly Jr. from my childhood, but it was awesome to play at parties once i was older because it's simplified enough that you can be plastered and still play.
I want The Beatles version. The tokens alone sold me on it.
Released by: Apple Studios Issued through: General Release
Game description: The Beatles Collector's Edition replaces all normal properties with Beatles albums and other points of interest, and includes every single known album ever produced by The Beatles, listed in chronological order from their release dates. It also includes special Fabs versions of the pewter tokens. Many other aspects of the game are changed. For example, the railroads are concert tickets, chance and community chest are The Fab Four and Beatlemania, the houses (white) and hotels (black) are listening parties and concerts, and money is called love, a reference to All You Need Is Love.
Tokens: An octopus (Octopus’s Garden), a walrus (I Am The Walrus), a strawberry (Strawberry Fields Forever), a raccoon (Rocky Raccoon), the sun (Here Comes The Sun), and a hammer (Maxwell’s Silver Hammer)
Bibleopoly: http://www.boardgames.com/bibleopoly.html is another one I'd really like to get. And Anti-Monopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Monopoly
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I have Go For Broke, which is mentioned in that article. It has stuff like going to the racetrack trying to lose, pretty fun game.
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My old roommate got Indiana Jones Monopoly for Christmas a few years ago, and it was pretty cool. It came in a wood box made to look like the one the ark goes in at the end of Raiders. Sure, the money being "reputation points" was kinda uninspired, but at the end of the day, it was Monopoly.
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Last year for a Christmas present, the company gave everyone RIM Monopoly....essentially BlackBerry Monopoly. Can't say I've ever taken it out of the box.
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This is pretty much how I feel. It could be kind of cool to play it like that, but popular music goes in and out of style too quickly to really make it an integral part of the Monopoly game.Haws Bah Gawd said:
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I still primarily play NFL Monopoly where you get a dice cup in the shape of a football helmet.
I imagine there have been several versions through the years, but I have the 1998 version.
I still play Simpsons Clue a lot too.
I imagine there have been several versions through the years, but I have the 1998 version.
I still play Simpsons Clue a lot too.
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The only Monopoly I've played the past 10 years is a Monopoly slot game on PartyCasino.
I was winning big shortly followed by losing big.
I was winning big shortly followed by losing big.
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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Monopoly_Rules_are_Changing__Find_Out_Who_Will_Decide_the_New__House_Rules_-252474331.html
Monopoly, the game that has ended friendships and started family feuds that last generations, is changing.
If you've ever played Monopoly at anyone else's house but your own, you know that every human has special rules when they play the board game, known as "house rules." When you go to your aunt's house, does she insist you can't collect rent from other players when you're on the jail square? Or maybe your best friend has a rule about rolling snake eyes that leads to a big cash payout. And if your neighbor makes you take off an article of clothing every time you pass Go, you should probably never go back there ever again.
Well, after toy maker Hasbro did a survey that revealed that 68 percent of Monopoly players have never actually read the official rules and 49 percent make up their own for the game, they decided to add some of the more popular house rules to the official gameplay guide. Which ones will make it to the booklet? That, dear Monopoly players, is actually up to you.
Starting Wednesday and going through April 3, the Monopoly Facebook page will host an open debate over 10 house rules that are in the running to be added to the official rules. Fans can come to the page and argue over which gameplay rules should be added and which ones should be left out. The top house rules that everyone can agree on will go into effect this fall when Hasbro releases a special Monopoly: House Rules Edition board game. And in 2015, the new rules will be added to the classic Monopoly game.
"The Monopoly brand has been has been a pop culture phenomenon for nearly 80 years and "House Rules" have become an important part of the story of the brand," Jonathan Berkowitz, vice president of marketing at Hasbro said in a statement. "We know Monopoly fans have been using House Rules for generations to make the game their own, so we wanted to give them the chance to help us identify the most popular 'House Rules' from around the world to incorporate into the game."
The house rules that will be up for debate are:
1. Free Parking, Fast Cash: All taxes and fees will be collected in the middle of the game board, if you land on Free Parking, it's your lucky day: collect all the money from the middle of the board.
2. Dash for the Cash: Landed on Go! Amazing, you get to double your salary - 400M dollars instead of 200M Dollars.
3. Frozen Assets Rule: When in jail, a player cannot collect any rent money from other players. Sorry about your luck.
4. Lucky Roller: Did you just Roll Snake Eyes (double one's)... odds are in your favor, collect 500M Dollars.
5. 3's a Crowd: Are there 3 players in a row on 3 unique properties? Well done, each player gets an extra 500M Dollars.
6. Cash Advance: Don't have enough to buy Boardwalk? With this House Rule, players can make loans between each other to co-own properties. Who collects rent money? That's determined amongst the new property owners!
7. Break The Bank: At the start of the game, leave half the money in the bank. Then mix up the other half of the money in the center of a board. On the count of 3 every player grabs what they can! Free For All!
8. Mum's the Word: Mum always gets out of jail free. Always. No questions asked. She's just that special.
9. See the Sights: Players must travel around the board one complete time before they can begin buying properties. Hurry up and get to GO before everyone else!
10. Property Boom: Anxious to begin building? We hear you- with this rule, players do not have to own a complete set of properties before they start to build houses.
Monopoly, the game that has ended friendships and started family feuds that last generations, is changing.
If you've ever played Monopoly at anyone else's house but your own, you know that every human has special rules when they play the board game, known as "house rules." When you go to your aunt's house, does she insist you can't collect rent from other players when you're on the jail square? Or maybe your best friend has a rule about rolling snake eyes that leads to a big cash payout. And if your neighbor makes you take off an article of clothing every time you pass Go, you should probably never go back there ever again.
Well, after toy maker Hasbro did a survey that revealed that 68 percent of Monopoly players have never actually read the official rules and 49 percent make up their own for the game, they decided to add some of the more popular house rules to the official gameplay guide. Which ones will make it to the booklet? That, dear Monopoly players, is actually up to you.
Starting Wednesday and going through April 3, the Monopoly Facebook page will host an open debate over 10 house rules that are in the running to be added to the official rules. Fans can come to the page and argue over which gameplay rules should be added and which ones should be left out. The top house rules that everyone can agree on will go into effect this fall when Hasbro releases a special Monopoly: House Rules Edition board game. And in 2015, the new rules will be added to the classic Monopoly game.
"The Monopoly brand has been has been a pop culture phenomenon for nearly 80 years and "House Rules" have become an important part of the story of the brand," Jonathan Berkowitz, vice president of marketing at Hasbro said in a statement. "We know Monopoly fans have been using House Rules for generations to make the game their own, so we wanted to give them the chance to help us identify the most popular 'House Rules' from around the world to incorporate into the game."
The house rules that will be up for debate are:
1. Free Parking, Fast Cash: All taxes and fees will be collected in the middle of the game board, if you land on Free Parking, it's your lucky day: collect all the money from the middle of the board.
2. Dash for the Cash: Landed on Go! Amazing, you get to double your salary - 400M dollars instead of 200M Dollars.
3. Frozen Assets Rule: When in jail, a player cannot collect any rent money from other players. Sorry about your luck.
4. Lucky Roller: Did you just Roll Snake Eyes (double one's)... odds are in your favor, collect 500M Dollars.
5. 3's a Crowd: Are there 3 players in a row on 3 unique properties? Well done, each player gets an extra 500M Dollars.
6. Cash Advance: Don't have enough to buy Boardwalk? With this House Rule, players can make loans between each other to co-own properties. Who collects rent money? That's determined amongst the new property owners!
7. Break The Bank: At the start of the game, leave half the money in the bank. Then mix up the other half of the money in the center of a board. On the count of 3 every player grabs what they can! Free For All!
8. Mum's the Word: Mum always gets out of jail free. Always. No questions asked. She's just that special.
9. See the Sights: Players must travel around the board one complete time before they can begin buying properties. Hurry up and get to GO before everyone else!
10. Property Boom: Anxious to begin building? We hear you- with this rule, players do not have to own a complete set of properties before they start to build houses.
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1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 9 all make the game longer, which is the primary complaint against Monopoly.
3 eliminates the benefit of late-game sitting in jail rolling for free while everybody else is passing money around landing on properties, so that rule should go in.
7's "We can't play Monopoly any more, all the money is shredded because assholes were grabbing for it like cavemen" so fuck that. 8 is wholly dependent on who you play with and stupid.
10 is awesome and should've been a rule from the get-go. Every game of Monopoly I've ever played came down to who got a monopoly first and could start building and it was wholly on luck; either you landed on the property you needed first, or you traded for it in a "I am tired of playing this game, trade me what I need for a monopoly & I'll trade you what you need and one of us will win pretty soon" swap.
3 eliminates the benefit of late-game sitting in jail rolling for free while everybody else is passing money around landing on properties, so that rule should go in.
7's "We can't play Monopoly any more, all the money is shredded because assholes were grabbing for it like cavemen" so fuck that. 8 is wholly dependent on who you play with and stupid.
10 is awesome and should've been a rule from the get-go. Every game of Monopoly I've ever played came down to who got a monopoly first and could start building and it was wholly on luck; either you landed on the property you needed first, or you traded for it in a "I am tired of playing this game, trade me what I need for a monopoly & I'll trade you what you need and one of us will win pretty soon" swap.
Rule 1 never added length to our games. Instead it gave hope to the desperate and gave those in control great joy watching their soul die as the richest player landed on Free and collected their last gasp.
It made it so much like real life when a really poor person sees a job that gives them light at the end of the tunnel only for a corporation to swoop in, buy the plant and then destroy it for condos.
Works even better if you are swirling a delicious beverage in a cognac glass before putting your piece there, watching them count over and over hoping they are wrong.
It made it so much like real life when a really poor person sees a job that gives them light at the end of the tunnel only for a corporation to swoop in, buy the plant and then destroy it for condos.
Works even better if you are swirling a delicious beverage in a cognac glass before putting your piece there, watching them count over and over hoping they are wrong.
alkeiper
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What I don't get is why I should buy a new version of a game with rules I can already play with anyway.
I love Monopoly, but they have really run out of ways to rebrand it. I get that they want to make money off of it, but I think the well has about run dry. Though it astounds me that a really good mobile version of it still doesn't exist. Every electronic version is extremely buggy. They should work on that and leave the tabletop alone already.
I love Monopoly, but they have really run out of ways to rebrand it. I get that they want to make money off of it, but I think the well has about run dry. Though it astounds me that a really good mobile version of it still doesn't exist. Every electronic version is extremely buggy. They should work on that and leave the tabletop alone already.