Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Old, well aged or obsolete?

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Pledge: Not spend all my hobby time just on Homeworld on my PC. XD

Answers:

• I think old is just the games of our youth that we still remember fondly but who’s rules really don’t hold up today any more. HeroQuest gets mentioned in this context a lot. Though I haven’t played that often enough to really judge it by myself.
• Games don’t really get obsolete as long as someone still enjoys it. It might not bring anything new to the table any more and most people are bored of it but really “obsolete” is state no game could ever reach. Either someone enjoys it or the rules get forgotten at which point it gets an artefact of the gaming past.
• No. Never did. I wouldn’t know where to start, I’d be nicking things left, right and centre and in the end I would have a bad clone of the one or two gaming systems I know. And that’s probably the main reason: I don’t know shit. At least in regards to games and rules. I’m aware of many games but I read only a handful of rules and played even less. Plus I get easily excited for some things only to just let them slip eventually.

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