In my xbox mag this month it says that monopoly and scrabble are comming to the arcade. Thats pretty cool

ill take monoply online with others....

Dibs on being the bank. :rolleyes:

Screw Monopoly, I want Axis & Allies and Fortress America. Scrabble would be okay.

Sign me up!

These are always good buys as long as they aren't total trash. Trivial Pursuit would be even better. And maybe my all time favorite NES game Anticipation!

Monopoly is cool but I want Risk!

Monopoly is cool but I want Risk!

Ditto on Risk.

Double ditto on Risk. Who the heck wants to play Monopoly online for 9 hours? There is no way you could get people to stay online in a party that long. I wonder what ways people will find to perform their asshattery in that game? Everyone will want to be the racecar as well.

Risk would be cool. I forgot about that game.

Risk would be cool. I forgot about that game.or Stratego

I've been begging for Monopoly, Risk and Axis & Allies (my #1 request) on Live since the 360 debuted. It's great that one of the three have been announced. Monopoly has the potential to rival Uno's popularity. The best thing about these games is that I'd expect gameplay to be immensely faster compared to their physical counterparts.

Judging by how often people quit in games like Uno, its going to consist of mostly playing the AI after people drop out...

I used to love playing Monopoly on my Sega back in the day. With Live it should be awesome.

Monopoly, Risk, & Stratego!!!!!!

or Stratego

+1

Stratego would be sweet.

Oooh if Risk came out I would be in heaven. Many, many a nights spent playing that game. Of course, I would be unstoppable, that is a given. :)

Double ditto on Risk. Who the heck wants to play Monopoly online for 9 hours? There is no way you could get people to stay online in a party that long. I wonder what ways people will find to perform their asshattery in that game? Everyone will want to be the racecar as well.

I wasn't even thinking about it for its on-line capability, more for the family.

Monopoly would definitely be bought!

From my issue :)
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Monopoly and Microsoft in the same sentence, weird.




I'll buy it though.

Screw Monopoly, I want Axis & Allies and Fortress America. Scrabble would be okay.

Concerning Axis and Allies, I'm there with you dude.

I would also love to see a Heroscape or Battleball arcade game:)

See, nobody actually likes Monopoly. Someone gets too far ahead halfway through and then you don't actually finish the game. That or the kids want to keep playing and dad has to ease up on them or take all their money and someone ends up crying. It's fun for maybe 2-3 times around the board, then it's pointless and boring.

How many "special edition" Monopoly sets do you own? Okay, how many have actually been used, or even opened? The only thing that will keep it alive online is volume and the speed of play compared to the real version.

I own probably 20 board games I'd play before ever breaking out Monopoly: Dungeon, Sunken Treasure, Thunder Road, Mystery Mansion, A&A, Fortress America, Samurai Swords, The Great Space Race, Life, Careers, Battleship, Parchesi, Scrabble, Tsuro, Stratego. There's 15 off the top of my head without looking in my closet, and that's not even counting other games like Chess, Checkers, Uno, Yahtzee, or Cribbage; or ones I like, but don't own, such as Trivial Pursuit or Boggle.

wow, someone bragging about board games. This may be a first

I love monopoly so do many people I know

My wife always bugs me to play, but is a b*tch to setup and clean up. I hoe it transfers well into a video game.

I play alot of Whist with my family
much funner than Spades or Hearts
wish they'd add that (Minnesota rules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_whist) preferred)

I can guarantee I'll win any match of Monopoly. I have been king of that game since I was a little boy. I'll send you to the poorhouse.

Bring that game on NOW.

See, nobody actually likes Monopoly.

Wrong. It's my favorite board game ever. Want to try again?

They will need to make this play very quickly though or people will drop out like flies.

I love monopoly so do many people I know
I do too! I can't wait to get my grubby little hands on this one :cool:

Wrong. It's my favorite board game ever. Want to try again?

They will need to make this play very quickly though or people will drop out like flies.People are going to do that regardless. That's the nature of many XBL'ers. They'll lay foot on my loaded Boardwalk, and quit instead of paying the fee. I can easily predict that sitaution.

Just wondering where the "skill" of a computerised monopoly is..

click a button move, click a button, move, automatic payments, and collections etc..

you either afford to buy that hotel, or cant.. if you can you do..

Just wondering where the "skill" of a computerised monopoly is..

click a button move, click a button, move, automatic payments, and collections etc..

you either afford to buy that hotel, or cant.. if you can you do..

So by this logic, the only skill involved with real Monopoly is counting cash and moving game pieces around the board.

Is there no skill in computerized chess either? Click on a pawn, click on a square, click on a rook, click on a knight, automatic piece removal, etc.

Is there no skill in computerized chess either? Click on a pawn, click on a square, click on a rook, click on a knight, automatic piece removal, etc.not even close to a valid comparison

The skill in Monopoly only comes in to play with whether or not to buy a property and what pace you want to build houses at. Sometimes there's actually trading of properties. Movement is all random and getting to move first is (statistically) an advantage. Most of it really just breaks down to lucky rolls early on in the game. I'm not surprised some of you like it, only that you can find others to play it with - it quickly becomes one of the least fun games to play once you realize you're not going be the winner. Then who wants to play for another hour while it slowly peters out? Granted, the speed will be a bonus, but you're probably going to be stuck playing the same few adults who end up on your friends list, or deal with a bunch of kids that drop after 4 turns.

Risk could have some of the same problems, but I think people would stick around a little longer at least in the hopes they win some battles or make a card set.

Othello, there's another, better game.

Screw Monopoly, I want Axis & Allies and Fortress America. Scrabble would be okay.

+1 on that. Risk and Stratego would be great too.

A software version of A&A is ideal, it would keep my friends from bending the rules to their advantage!

I'm looking forward to Monopoly but I wonder too about people quiting early. I wonder how long the average game will be...will they speed the game up any?

Just wondering where the "skill" of a computerised monopoly is..

click a button move, click a button, move, automatic payments, and collections etc..

you either afford to buy that hotel, or cant.. if you can you do..

While I think the skills of computerized monopoly are a lot less then the real world, there is still skill involved, at least in like the Xbox version I played. You can make deals (in the board game this goes to insane levels) where you don't pay rent, or you trade one for another (better be a good trade or you can screw yourself) you can forgoe payment on a property in a trade if you land on it, you can decrease rent, etc. etc. But other then that it is pretty much skill-less.

Monopoly and Microsoft in the same sentence, weird.




I'll buy it though.
Monopoly, Microsoft and "I'll buy it" all in the same paragraph, even weirder.

I had the game Monopoly for NES and the AI played well for what it was. It does come down to the computerized dice roll, but when the numbers are in your favor you have to make the correct decisions. I don't recall the game ever becoming repetitive, however I do remember restarting after the 1st few rolls at times. (edit later thought: The inside trade deals were BS. The AI wouldn't do certain trades that would give you too much of an advantage, and the AI also kept forcing the same trades LOL)

As for the game getting stale if/when you losing, it is no different than poker. It comes down to the person's mindset. I play to win. I've come back from worse to 1st plenty of times in poker. If not, I always just play through. Unfortunately though, I don't think many XBL'ers agree.

The game is probably one that is meant for friends/family playing in real life. What's Monopoly without someone spilling their beer all over the board?

Well now we can have a Monopoly game where someone spills a beer all over your Xbox... and no longer be your friend!

04.23.08 Newsweek blogger Darren Potter on Monopoly here (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/archive/2008/04/23/just-the-faqs-devs-of-monopoly-on-reinventing-hasbros-classic.aspx):

it's not worth $40 in my humble....

I love scrabble (going to play a game of it tonight in fact!) but I'll never understand why people would want to play it online. All people do is sit there with a computer looking up words on dictionary.com or whatever. What's the point? It would be like playing Trivial Pursuit online. Everyone would just have Wikipedia open on a computer beside them. Lame.

I love scrabble (going to play a game of it tonight in fact!) but I'll never understand why people would want to play it online. All people do is sit there with a computer looking up words on dictionary.com or whatever. What's the point? It would be like playing Trivial Pursuit online. Everyone would just have Wikipedia open on a computer beside them. Lame.

I'd like to introduce you to my friend Scrabulous, responsible for near catastrophic work stoppages throughout corporate America.