That is without a doubt the best advert anyone could make for all those pursuing this wonderful hobby. Pound for pound, to sit with family and friends irons away any indifference. Imagine one half of the world against the other half playing board games no blood no tears just warm fellowship. From an avid 66+ game player and still to this day playing and collecting board games
Holy shit, Quinns, you were so prophetic when discussing legacy games. You called it when you said in three years, they'd be doing great things. And there we have Pandemic: Legacy.
Thanks for posting this! Really cool to hear Quinns talk more broadly about his feelings about boardgames and games in general. Would love more of this type of thing.
There really should be a current version of this type of discussion, maybe not to an audience in a "live" setting, but something like the production of your review videos. Something that we can share with our non-(board)gamer friends, and have the message be directed directly towards them. SU&SD's humor and charisma would be perfect for luring people in to our incredibly rewarding hobby! Sharing this immediately.
This is a fantastic and inspiring talk. Thank you for putting it online. As someone who has worked in the video games industry, designing and producing online games, I was stunned when I discovered the modern board game world. Board games today feel as exciting, as accessible and as fast growing as video games did back in the 80s - when anyone with a spectrum or commodore 64 could sit down and build a new genre, sharing it with your friends via a cassette or floppy disc. Today's video game world has grown so bloated with technology and marketing that unless you spend months learning code, have an aptitude for it and have enough cash to buy the programs and machines needed, you are completely unable to get your ideas heard. Boardgames today are so exciting because it feels as though we have woken up and realised we can do ANYTHING with them. We truly are limited only by our imagination, and I for one can't wait to see where they evolve over the coming years.
Excellent talk, this really is the golden age of board games. And they are not nerdy (29:20): nerds, jocks, young, old - everybody loves board games, that's what's so amazing about them.
Bang on Quinns. The more people are introduced to modern board games the more instant fans there are. The wide range of mechanisms and themes and how they are blended provides more choice than you could ever want and there is something for everyone many times over.
Good talk. I play board games because they give me an amazingly honest read of a person's character within the shortest amount of time, short of some sort of immediate emergency situation in which you can witness them responding to a stressful situation. From this 'honest read' I am able to gain a much more accurate assessment of someone (and hopefully, they of me) which allows me to connect with people on a much more personal and interesting level. I love board gaming.
Finally seeing this video has somehow extended my respect of the crew, Quins is an actual Pioneer so passionate and fluid I'd pay as much to see Richard Dawkins or Steven fry as I wound to see this man talk about board games truly fantastic.
I really likethis video, I think you guys should make a more condensed version of it like the "Introduction to Board Games". I think some points are really interesting and I want to share it with my friends, but the 40 minute timer makes it less appealing to watch.
thanks Quins, a fresh point every 2 minutes. I'm still trying to convince the people around me that vanilla netrunner is fun even if there's rules. I'd love to play games in pubs sometime soon. Hopefully the golden age will bring converts
Most of my boardgaming is dummy gaming. I'm the idiot who buys games without checking reviews, playing them against myself and, even if they're bad, forcing my friends to play them at least once before we relegate them to either the trash pile or the stack of replay. Luckily, I've mostly purchased good games. Worst game I've purchased: Eleminis.
I wish he had done a speech advocating for all tabletop gaming, bringing rpg p&p in fold of the talk too but i do understand that maybe he's not the greatest espertise on the matter (i am assuming here) and that this was in 2012 before the explosion that has been Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. Amazing talk still, absolutely loved it.
Lars Mattsson you're not wrong in a social / political context... But in terms of board games, European style games and American/Western style games have very different approaches.
True, but Quinn did this presentation in 2012. Not sure if those terms existed back then. If he did this now, he'd sure had included games like Gloomhaven and Pandemic Legacy, true crossbreed games with awesome innovative game design. Very nice presentation nonetheless.
Yeah, that really confused me as well. It makes me really question what he means with "the West". He sort of mentioned that America is the main part of it, but since he calls it "the West" and not "America", what else is part of "the West" in this case? Does say that because he wants to include the UK and Canada? If so, why not call it "the English-speaking world" or "Anglophones"?
