Risk in general is a bad game o.k

i had like 30-something units in one spot, and i jumped a defensive position with only 10 defenders, and i lost, and i took out maybe 2 of his men

2

i had over 30

how can anyone insist within reason that this game is any good, that it has any integrity as a game, when 10 men can beat up 30 of my men

It's a great game.MonsieurX

Risk is right up there, second only to chess and D&D, as one of the greatest achievements in gaming history.

Risk is right up there, second only to chess and D&D, as one of the greatest achievements in gaming history.

LordQuorthon

I didn't know Primary Games Discussion started including board game discussions.1PMrFister

risk consists of nothing BUT elements of random chanceBiancaDK

Nice hyperbole, champ.

[QUOTE="BiancaDK"]risk consists of nothing BUT elements of random chanceLordQuorthon

Nice hyperbole, champ.

Um isn't that why it's called Risk? You took a chance, a risky one that has no guarantee of work out and lost. I'm failing to see how that makes it a bad game.

Um isn't that why it's called Risk? You took a chance, a risky one that has no guarantee of work out and lost. I'm failing to see how that makes it a bad game.

GT90

Just because you're not good at something, doesn't make it bad.

Just because you're not good at something, doesn't make it bad.

driftingsilvia

I suggest renaming this board to "Primary videogame discussion. No power supply, no new thread"Black_Knight_00

The name of the game pretty much sums it up.

[QUOTE="driftingsilvia"]

Just because you're not good at something, doesn't make it bad.

BiancaDK

I didn't know Primary Games Discussion started including board game discussions.1PMrFister

Risk isn't about skill or luck. It's about cunning, diplomacy, and random acts of dickishness to screw over whoever's in the lead.

Risk isn't about skill or luck. It's about cunning, diplomacy, and random acts of dickishness to screw over whoever's in the lead.

[QUOTE="BiancaDK"][QUOTE="driftingsilvia"]

Just because you're not good at something, doesn't make it bad.

driftingsilvia

o.k

The moves in Risk are always obvious, the rest is up to the roll of the dice. The game is pretty much exhausted as soon as you've read the rulesheet. I doubt the thematic overhauls and minor rule adjustments in later versions (Star Wars Risk, Lord of the Rings Risk, etc.) have made an already overrated classic into anything but a luckfest. I've played some computer game adaptions of it, and they did what they were supposed to.

Risk is a game where you need handfulls of four leaf clovers to win. I've played games where I've controled whole continents, only to be reduced to a few teritories by my next turn. Its one of those games where no amount of skill can help you XDTazzman1000

What's stupid is calling a game bad because you made a bad choice. It isn't the games fault that you made whatever choice you made and lost.driftingsilvia

... an already overrated classic into anything but a luckfest.doubutsuteki

[QUOTE="Tazzman1000"]Risk is a game where you need handfulls of four leaf clovers to win. I've played games where I've controled whole continents, only to be reduced to a few teritories by my next turn. Its one of those games where no amount of skill can help you XDhiphops_savior

Diplomacy is way better than Risk. Try it with some friends, and you will never want to play Risk again.

cause your men a pu***es

[QUOTE="driftingsilvia"]What's stupid is calling a game bad because you made a bad choice. It isn't the games fault that you made whatever choice you made and lost.BiancaDK

Diplomacy is way better than Risk. Try it with some friends, and you will never want to play Risk again.

Brendissimo35

I've never gotten that game to work with any of the people I've tried it with, sadly - and that might be due to my own inability as well, to differentiate between what is diplomacy talk and what is meta-gaming talk that shouldn't be allowed, to know where to draw the line before the diplomacy ends and the actions are resolved. I might just have to try harder to understand the rules properly.

Personally I prefer a game of Imperial, Go, Blokus or other games along those lines.

Did you ever consider retreating and attacking later? But yeah, Risk is extremely luck based, most fun is making "alliances" with the other players, and once they get too comfortable to you, you back stab them so hard that they go into a rage.