Showerthought: I was wrong about cooperative games being boring

For years I thought co-op board games were just for people who hate competition. But my group got stuck with a borrowed copy of Pandemic during a snowstorm last January and we were stuck inside for 3 days. That game where we all lost to the diseases on the second night actually got us more fired up than any competitive game has in months. Has anyone else had their opinion flipped on a whole genre just because of the right group?

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logan29913d ago

Did you catch that Radiolab episode about how losing together in a game builds stronger bonds than winning apart?

gonzalez.vera13d ago

Got stuck playing Forbidden Island with some non-gamers last summer and it totally changed my view too. We lost three rounds in a row but nobody cared because we were all cracking up at our bad luck.