Board Games with Scott 070 - Breaking Up the Monopoly

On this episode of Board Games with Scott, host Scott Nicholson takes apart the aspects of Monopoly and suggests other board games for people who like each aspect of Monopoly. This would be a great episode to share with people who are new to modern board gaming.

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• Monopoly

[mgdupont]

The meat of this vid is good, but having seen a lot of Xtranormal vids lately where the girl character is the moron, I was turned off by the first 1min 50 secs. This might just be my personal sensitivity.

[snicholson]

@mgdupont It's a parody of the iphone4 piece, so when you do a parody like that, you work to replicate the original.

[Yekrats]

@snicholson I was not familiar with the iphone4 thing. That at the beginning makes me not want to send it on to a friend. Can you make a version with just your suggestions and reviews? (The best part of the video is your wise opinions, dude!)

[snicholson]

@Yekrats OK! I've made a version without the introduction. It's listed here as a Video Response.

[TerrorBullGames]

Hey Scott, thanks for mentioning Crunch at 12:20! You are a gent! 

Great episode though. It's long-overdue that someone acknowledged that there ARE elements of monopoly that are fun and that people enjoy, rather than just alienating them. Well done!

[iluvwebkinz76]

i think at 3:20 he was telling us to thumbs up his video

[iluvwebkinz76]

at 3:29 is he praying?

[Tatsuhiko]

Or...you know, you could just play Monopoly...

Just kidding. Discovered a lot of interesting looking board games in this video. Nice job!

[murrfeeling]

@armkenz1 Yes... and no.

Peaches, bacon, fried shrimp, Skittles, Coffee, Peking duck and linguine in vodka sauce all taste good but imagine how they'd taste if you put them in a blender and COMBINED them!

That's what Monopoly is like. It's a brown, pukey sludge of a game. These games, OTOH, are a concentrated form of one or two of Monopoly's good parts while leaving behind the very, very bad parts that make Monopoly so unfinishable/unworkable.

[themrqwertymark]

Off to the glue house for the babies! Rofl!

[eternity899]

yep a lot of things has happened, like the invention of the computer.

[wakertwojerk]

Off to the glue factory with you!

Haha, how terrible.

[LordCHull]

XD hahaha yeah Settlers is boring as hell

People need to realize that is sucks and need to play Small World :)

Best game ever!

[asabasapin]

but you didnt tell what if i like a board game that has cool figures (dolls), which is the most neat lookin game out there? one with best doll art?

[Brodemir]

@armkenz1 monopoly is weaksauce, those other games are the real deal.