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Oh god, I refuse to play monopoly altogether unless it is strictly by vanilla rules. As soon as someone mentions free money if you fall on free parking I sarcastically claim “but that's socialism!” and demand we switch to Catan instead.
I can stop you right at "I refuse to play monopoly altogether"
That's where I'm at. Game sucks. Yeah it's a great illustration of how capitalism fucks most people but whatever.
I got Catan years ago and I've only played it once. Everyone refused to trade and it ruined the game. My extremely competitive friend got mad he was losing and we just shut it down.
I'm with you on Monopoly. I will not play it. Both because it sucks as a game (by design!—it was intended to suck!) and because it's a rip-off of the landlord game which was designed to suck to show how bad capitalism is.
I enjoyed playing Catan a couple of times until I saw one pattern: in any game there's seemingly always one poor schmuck who gets shafted within the first two turns and can't quit the game, but has no hope of doing anything except forlornly asking if anybody wants to trade wheat or some other low-grade trade item that nobody else is really trading for any longer. It's just a badly designed game.