As a person who does not like board games, this was nice to read. I found it googling “why don’t I like games” after we had to play another card game at my aunt and uncle’s last night and was immediately surprised to have the first result not declaring me a monster.
I keep having different ones shoved at me and I frequently exhausted myself on a round to try what every one else was sure was ‘the one’ that would make me a board game fanatic. I think they must relax or excite other people, but they stress me out on several levels. I’ve stopped trying, but that also means that I just kind of lost people.
It has been difficult for me for a long time because board games (and card games) are the only way a lot of the people I made friends with ended up wanting to socialize, but board games just drain and upset me. They have since I was playing fucking Candy Land.
So this was a nice brief little thing. (And I also don’t like fish haha)
I am in the “not all board games appeal to me” group, and I can completely understand not finding appeal in any board games at all, and also firmly second the “who you play with makes all the difference” aspect.
But I mostly wanted to say that card games (using the standard 52 card deck) completely and absolutely elude me. I grew up in southern Indiana, where Euchre Is What People Do. I had people try to teach me. Never ~got~ it. Never understood how Solitaire worked, either. I only stubbornly put the work into Freecell because everyone around me didn’t get it…because it didn’t work like “normal” card games.
And I also don’t like fish XD
I am also a big no on card games. Those feel even worse sometimes, having to monitor what’s in the deck, what might be in other people’s hands, what’s already been played… and then so many just involve lying or schemeing or chance risks and it just gets me worked up and upset. Add this to people who gloat or make an embarrassing big deal and just get me far away from all of this.
I played a round of this Play 9 thing that people are apparently obsessed with lately the other night with some of my favorite people and still hated it. I have enough mental hang ups that it doesn’t matter what it is or who I play it with, I’m not going to have a good time. (You’re supposed to play NINE ROUNDS of that hellish experience for a full game, oh my god. I excused myself after one.)
I like video games I can play alone, that’s what I want.
(via dollsahoy)
