I remember the one time I played Stratego my friend used the optimal setup and I have never been so mad in my life. GREAT video, I love board / tabletop mechanics, so glad someone is tackling them in this space!
Matt holy crap this was an amazing video. You hooked with the dominant strategy, you spiked with the political and historical context. Gotdang, this was great, the flow was fire. Bless you. In my family we never played with house rules which is probably why I hate monopoly. I love you.
I love how this vid takes such a sharp turn and starts to be about history and the statements that were baked into Monopoly's game mechanics themselves. I used to play Stratego with my dad too, and we found out we should hide the flag in the corner pretty quickly lol
I came here from ShayMay's tweet, and holy crap I was blown away. Phenomenal work here, everything from the script to the editing is top notch. You also managed to finely walk the line on a charged political subject - it wasn't a rant about "this is good/bad," but rather bringing attention to the existence of a particular phenomenon, and how that existence is interesting regardless of your political viewpoint. Awesome work man
I too was brought here from a tweet. Very interesting video! I have a lot of nostalgia for Monopoly and can never get anyone to play it with me, so it was nice to see someone actually, like, talking about it. Favorited!
Great work, impressive even. Those motion graphics are top notch. Using Stratego to lay your foundation before moving on to Monopoly's more complicated setup and premise made it easier to follow. Transitioning from Stratego's exploitative nature to Monopoly's then hitting Monopoly's history made for clear transitions before nailing the coffin. I'm disappointed you were only patient enough to record two doubles in a row instead of three, but I wouldn't want to go to jail either. Hit me up with those sponsor details.
awesome, I never knew monopoly was broken that way. that's actually very useful to me cause I am thinking of working on a game similar to monopoly soon.
The bomb sergeant trap is not a good Stratego strategy, especially if you do a dummy set up on the other side. You are immobilizing too many pieces. It gets destroyed by any good player. House rules make the game worse, as they make it more luck based and extend the time it takes to play the game. House rules make the game less enjoyable and they make a game that takes between 45-90 minutes to play into one that takes hours to play. The Red are more valuable than the yellow because they are landed on more often and their really isn't that much of a difference in rents paid.
I played Monopoly once... it went FAR too slowly to be interesting. Later though, I found Fortune Street, which scratches the same itches Monopoly does, but changes several things that, in my opinion, fix several underlying problems that mere house rules cannot save... For instance, the end goal. No longer is it "bankrupt everyone", but rather it's "reach a net worth of X (decided by the player beforehand) and get back to start" (though bankruptcy IS still a viable win condition). This serves to cut down on the situations where everyone KNOWS who is going to win, despite the game being nowhere near finished. Development is also overhauled. Instead of four houses and a hotel, each shop has a "Max Capital", which is the amount you can invest to make the place more pricey. This value (as well as the base value) is affected by how many shops you own in that district, so 2 is better than 1, 3 is better than 2, and a full Domination is of course best of all. However, you have to land on one of your properties to do any investing, rather than just doing it at any time. Auctions are streamlined as well. At any time, a player may auction a shop, with the starting value of the base price. Each bid adds 10G to the cost, thus simplifying the decision down to "do I press the button?". This can lead to things like driving up the bid to screw over others, potentially getting screwed over yourself, and prioritizing which shops you want. This also happens if you're forced to sell a shop to the bank, though when THAT happens you don't get the money from the auction. And if no one bids? Then it just becomes an unowned property again! Want to sell to a specific individual? No problem! You can set the exact value you're asking for, they can come back with a counter offer, and that's that! Same goes for buying shops too! You can even exchange a shop YOU own for one THEY own, say if you each are in the way of the other's Domination? Heck, even if they DON'T want you to have their shops, you can still "buy them out" for 5x the shop value! 3x goes to the opponent, the other 2x to the bank. Stocks also exist! When the shops or stocks of a district are invested in, the stock price OF that district goes up. When those values go DOWN though, the stock prices follow suit. This can lead to some rather sneaky moves... riding someone else's success, buying so much stock in your opponent's district that they don't want to invest in their shops, selling your stocks bit by bit to bleed an opponent dry... Oh, also, "Vacant Plots"! These special shops can be renovated to have a number of wacky features, like letting you purchase an unowned shop, letting you travel anywhere on the map, bringing everyone to your location... or just being a REALLY high end normal shop! And you can choose before starting the game how many of these stores there will be! And it's all wrapped up in a Mario/Dragon Quest package, complete with computer players if you don't have enough humans! I've got a full LP on my channel if you want to see it in action!
But the thing with Monopoly is, most people make their own house rules, and don't really play by the printed rules. Free Parking Cash, Once-Around-Before-Buying, these rules just prolong the game, which is why games take forever...
Dude, I really wanted to make a Monopoly video, but I just kept finding better ones (mine was dreadful) so I gave up. I've got a tell you, this is everything I would have wanted mine to be and more. I guess I know now to stick with being a Cartoon E. Boy
Wow man, that really means a lot. Thanks for the amazing compliment. Don't give up on your idea, though, and don't let watching other videos on similar topics discourage you. You got this!
This was a great video, but one question. Why did you make this video specifically? Where did the idea come from? Where did the energy to make a video about Monopoly?
I wonder what would happen if you had a semi-socialist game? I.e. theres a player who plays as the government, buys anything it lands on and the first person to lose gets their share?
Woah I had a friend who always won mononoply and we bet for real money like shooting dice and he always won and after I watcwdh this video I realized he always sold out the orange area 😦
I heard the line about it being intentionally broken and I thought, "PLEASE talk about capitalism," and, needless to say, you delivered. Wonderful work.
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I remember the one time I played Stratego my friend used the optimal setup and I have never been so mad in my life. GREAT video, I love board / tabletop mechanics, so glad someone is tackling them in this space!
HeavyEyed Thanks a lot man! I really hope more people dive into tabletop stuff... it'd be cool to see more videos like this!
You've inspired me to work on the tabletop video idea I've had kicking around for sure
HeavyEyed Can't wait!
This is absolutely incredible work dude, well done
Writing on Games Thanks Hamish, much love ❤❤❤
WOAH YOU'RE HERE HI BIG FAN!!
Matt holy crap this was an amazing video. You hooked with the dominant strategy, you spiked with the political and historical context. Gotdang, this was great, the flow was fire. Bless you. In my family we never played with house rules which is probably why I hate monopoly. I love you.
Thanks man, love you too ❤
I'm furious that I haven't found this channel before. Great video.
Thank you so much! Your content is fantastic too, by the way 👌
Love games that are more than just allegories, but simplifications of real life in order to critique aspects of real life.
I love how this vid takes such a sharp turn and starts to be about history and the statements that were baked into Monopoly's game mechanics themselves. I used to play Stratego with my dad too, and we found out we should hide the flag in the corner pretty quickly lol
Glad you enjoyed the video!
I came here from ShayMay's tweet, and holy crap I was blown away. Phenomenal work here, everything from the script to the editing is top notch. You also managed to finely walk the line on a charged political subject - it wasn't a rant about "this is good/bad," but rather bringing attention to the existence of a particular phenomenon, and how that existence is interesting regardless of your political viewpoint. Awesome work man
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed the watch, and hope you stick around for more!
I too was brought here from a tweet. Very interesting video! I have a lot of nostalgia for Monopoly and can never get anyone to play it with me, so it was nice to see someone actually, like, talking about it. Favorited!
Glad you enjoyed the video so much! Thanks for watching!
Great work, impressive even. Those motion graphics are top notch. Using Stratego to lay your foundation before moving on to Monopoly's more complicated setup and premise made it easier to follow. Transitioning from Stratego's exploitative nature to Monopoly's then hitting Monopoly's history made for clear transitions before nailing the coffin.
I'm disappointed you were only patient enough to record two doubles in a row instead of three, but I wouldn't want to go to jail either.
Hit me up with those sponsor details.
Corvus I rolled dice on camera for 10 minutes straight haha, when I finally got the snake eyes I was done haha. Thanks for the praise, it means a lot!
hahaha I knew it! That's awesome. Keep it up.
awesome, I never knew monopoly was broken that way. that's actually very useful to me cause I am thinking of working on a game similar to monopoly soon.
Great video! It was really neat to see Monopoly viewed with insightful intentions.
Innocent Kristoph Gavin Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow what a great video whoever made this really did a good job
Wow thanks person that totally isn't me logged into my other account
LOL you're the best XD
Very interesting video
This video was AMAZING
The bomb sergeant trap is not a good Stratego strategy, especially if you do a dummy set up on the other side. You are immobilizing too many pieces. It gets destroyed by any good player.
House rules make the game worse, as they make it more luck based and extend the time it takes to play the game. House rules make the game less enjoyable and they make a game that takes between 45-90 minutes to play into one that takes hours to play.
The Red are more valuable than the yellow because they are landed on more often and their really isn't that much of a difference in rents paid.
I played Monopoly once... it went FAR too slowly to be interesting. Later though, I found Fortune Street, which scratches the same itches Monopoly does, but changes several things that, in my opinion, fix several underlying problems that mere house rules cannot save...
For instance, the end goal. No longer is it "bankrupt everyone", but rather it's "reach a net worth of X (decided by the player beforehand) and get back to start" (though bankruptcy IS still a viable win condition). This serves to cut down on the situations where everyone KNOWS who is going to win, despite the game being nowhere near finished.
Development is also overhauled. Instead of four houses and a hotel, each shop has a "Max Capital", which is the amount you can invest to make the place more pricey. This value (as well as the base value) is affected by how many shops you own in that district, so 2 is better than 1, 3 is better than 2, and a full Domination is of course best of all. However, you have to land on one of your properties to do any investing, rather than just doing it at any time.
Auctions are streamlined as well. At any time, a player may auction a shop, with the starting value of the base price. Each bid adds 10G to the cost, thus simplifying the decision down to "do I press the button?". This can lead to things like driving up the bid to screw over others, potentially getting screwed over yourself, and prioritizing which shops you want. This also happens if you're forced to sell a shop to the bank, though when THAT happens you don't get the money from the auction. And if no one bids? Then it just becomes an unowned property again!
Want to sell to a specific individual? No problem! You can set the exact value you're asking for, they can come back with a counter offer, and that's that! Same goes for buying shops too! You can even exchange a shop YOU own for one THEY own, say if you each are in the way of the other's Domination? Heck, even if they DON'T want you to have their shops, you can still "buy them out" for 5x the shop value! 3x goes to the opponent, the other 2x to the bank.
Stocks also exist! When the shops or stocks of a district are invested in, the stock price OF that district goes up. When those values go DOWN though, the stock prices follow suit. This can lead to some rather sneaky moves... riding someone else's success, buying so much stock in your opponent's district that they don't want to invest in their shops, selling your stocks bit by bit to bleed an opponent dry...
Oh, also, "Vacant Plots"! These special shops can be renovated to have a number of wacky features, like letting you purchase an unowned shop, letting you travel anywhere on the map, bringing everyone to your location... or just being a REALLY high end normal shop! And you can choose before starting the game how many of these stores there will be!
And it's all wrapped up in a Mario/Dragon Quest package, complete with computer players if you don't have enough humans! I've got a full LP on my channel if you want to see it in action!
I absolutely adore Fortune Street. It's one of my favorite releases on the Wii.
It's a pretty fun game?
Woah this was really good. I came from Writing on Games
Thanks a lot! Hope you stick around for more!
But the thing with Monopoly is, most people make their own house rules, and don't really play by the printed rules.
Free Parking Cash, Once-Around-Before-Buying, these rules just prolong the game, which is why games take forever...
wariolandgoldpiramid Keep watching :) I talk about that
Matt holy hell this video owns so hard. You’re the most underrated
Hepyrian Thanks Sean, much love ❤
Dude, I really wanted to make a Monopoly video, but I just kept finding better ones (mine was dreadful) so I gave up. I've got a tell you, this is everything I would have wanted mine to be and more. I guess I know now to stick with being a Cartoon E. Boy
Wow man, that really means a lot. Thanks for the amazing compliment. Don't give up on your idea, though, and don't let watching other videos on similar topics discourage you. You got this!
This was a great video, but one question.
Why did you make this video specifically? Where did the idea come from? Where did the energy to make a video about Monopoly?
I think it was a random Discord conversation haha, I can't quite remember!
Man rail Road is such an advantage 4 places on each side of the map its why I always wins it funds my houses costs
Where my fellow Georgist at?
Edit: That ending burp is me irl
Cool video. Aren't the chances for getting a 7 equel to 6 and 8?
I wonder what would happen if you had a semi-socialist game? I.e. theres a player who plays as the government, buys anything it lands on and the first person to lose gets their share?
Woah I had a friend who always won mononoply and we bet for real money like shooting dice and he always won and after I watcwdh this video I realized he always sold out the orange area 😦
Orange area is so OP it's ridiculous haha. Thanks for watching!
@@MMLCommentaries i lost like 50$ to him cuz i gave up playing him
Second.
Edit: I've been noticed!! Don't worry, I do actually watch the videos. Loved the Mario vids.
Josh S Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the support :)
I heard the line about it being intentionally broken and I thought, "PLEASE talk about capitalism," and, needless to say, you delivered. Wonderful work.
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