Reply: Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft Board Game:: Reviews:: Re: How long can a wealth of cool bits and the promise of so much make up for a design that may be fundamentally busted?

by simon_j_barnes

Thunder wrote:

The fellow posting above regarding Apples has stated it far better than I obviously am:

You can dislike Apples, but that does not mean Apples are bad/sloppy/loose/a problem or "fundamentally busted".

I am currently appraising this game. I read this review and, having understood what the reviewer was saying, decided to read the comments to see if there were any comebacks which could persuade me that the reviewer got it wrong.

I read three pages and gave up. I don't have time to read through page after page of the same diatribe. What I want is balance. The reviewer seemed to place an honest appraisal of the game in front of me.. and all I could get as a counter argument is three pages on.. "your opinion is not a fact". Stop the press please.. I mean I really wasn't aware that what people say on here hadn't to be taken as the word.

So all those times people say "such and such is a brilliant game" or "such and such is so efficiently designed" am I to assume that the like of yourself are going head to head with such people saying

You say "it is very well designed", whereas what you should say is "I really like this game's design"

Or does such needless arguing and time wasting only occur to you when someone does it and you don't agree?