This guy at the game store in Portland made me feel like a total newbie

I was just looking at the new worker placement games, and this older guy came up and asked if I'd 'played the original German version of Agricola'. I said no, and he just shook his head and said, 'You can't really understand the genre until you've handled the 2007 pieces.' He then spent like five minutes listing all the rule changes in the newer editions, down to the exact number of vegetable tokens. It was so over the top. Where do people get this kind of energy to gatekeep cardboard? Has anyone else run into someone who acts like playing a board game is a college degree?

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joseph_ellis8512d ago

Honestly, "gatekeepers miss the point of fun" is spot on. Did he at least recommend a good game, or was it just a lecture?

wesley38512d ago

Gatekeepers miss the point of fun.

oscarc537d ago

Totally agree with you and @joseph_ellis85. It happens with everything from music to food now. Someone always wants to tell you the "right" way to enjoy something. That just sucks the joy right out of it. The whole point is finding what you like, not following someone else's rules.