Comments | prog: No son of mine

prog

No son of mine

Nov 27, 2006 10:35

Man, having a good laugh about something on Boardgamegeek until someone brings up Fluxx and everyone starts bashing it... it's like when you're having a grand time at a family gathering until suddenly everyone else starts having a farting contest or joking about dirty Mexicans or something. Who are these people.Fluxx is to BGG as Zardoz is to the ( Read more... )

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prog November 27 2006, 19:14:31 UTC

In my experience, almost all non-gamers love Fluxx as soon as they are exposed to it. There's a lot of talk of "gateway games" that introduce people to the world of non-Hasbro tabletop games, but Fluxx is the only one that I've personally seen to have this effect.

Actually, when I've taught it to gamers, they've loved it too. I personally know only two people who loudly despise the game, at least one of whom is a neuron in the BGG hive-mind. There's nothing to be done about that.