You're right. Monopoly Tycoon was a great game. It wasn't really Monopoly in the board game sense; it was more of a tycoon city builder. But it was still great fun.

The Monopoly game for the iPhone OS is really good.

Monopoly has one huge issues that is basically unacceptable in modern boardgame design: Player elimination in a long game. Getting knocked out early on and then having to wait for 2h+ for the game to finish is incredibly boring. Most well made modern games won't knock players out of it, and they will also offer some form of recovery mechanic (either directly by giving the person at the bottom some form of token advantage, or indirectly, by encouraging people to pick on the player at the top). It also combines a very high luck factor with a low skill ceiling, and the game lacks the required amount of variety to really justify its length.

Sounds like risk.

But yeah, the luck factor is a real problem. There are certain squares like those first 3 dark purple properties that basically guarantee that you'll eventually win the game if you put up hotels there.

In terms of knocking people out early on, I don't think I've ever seen anybody who was knocked out in less than 40 minutes, but then again it might have something to do with how many times I've played.

The last time that I played Monopoly was a couple of years ago with friends from law school and it was an extremely fun evening. No-one was knocked out - we simply formed a series of cartels and mergers on the fly while devising the applicable regulation. Combine that with copious amounts of booze and it was immense fun. Ultimately it's what you make of the experience, I guess.

Oh and am I the only one who always wanted to be the thimble?

Risk is another game with serious issues. Apart from the above mentioned player elimination issue, Risk suffers from having an end goal that is too hard to get to/too easy to prevent, meaning that you can end up with games that just won't end. The latest edition of Risk neatly fixed this by adding a turn limit, and a scoring system, making it a far more enjoyable game.

I have seen people get knocked out early on, though it is not "that" common. What is common though is for it to take over an hour from the time when the first player gets knocked out and the game actually ending. And that is not fun for the person who got knocked out.

Board games is in the end mainly about the people you play them with, and not the game itself. You don't really need a good game to have a good time, but a good game does add to the good time.

If people want a game of a similar complexity level as Monopoly or Risk, but where most of those issues are fixed, then check out Cosmic Encounter. While there is still a substantial luck factor, it is neatly worked into the game, to make people feel less "picked on", and also to make it rather casual friendly. Also, it comes with small toy space ships, which look nice, and thus makes it easy to convince people to play the game.

Thanks everyone for your input!

I'll check this out! Thanks!

Looks like what I'm after. I bought a Hasbro collection in the 90's with Monopoly/Cluedo/Trivial Pursuit and I'm still playing that version. Does this one let you change the board to different regions because I want to play the London board.

I tried this and you can't change the region of the game board. For me it defaults to the American board and I'd rather have the London board. The game is made by EA and Popcap and that simple feature isn't programmed in. ooohh but you can change the 3d backgrounds gggrrrrrr.

But I'll probably get it with a coupon so thanks for pointing it out :D

I keep forgetting about consoles. I've got a 360 and a PS2 and could probably pick these up cheap. But has anyone played these Monopoly games? Alot of the time the time the AI either sucks or cheats.

I think I wanted to be the horse. If I remember correctly there was one.
Also I think I played a monopoly demo on the playstation once.
Other than that, there are a looooot of monopoly board game versions but that's probably not what you're looking for.

I've got the boardgames but it's hard to get people to play a boardgame for 4 hours+ these days.

The original classic Monopoly is the best and battleship or cannon FTW!

I remember some versions having a gun ship available, that was always more popular than the car.

Also, I loved the westwood version of Monopoly, I've still got it back home and play it from time to time.

I searched Fishpond.com.au (Australian Amazon) for "Monopoly" in the PC games...

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Also remember if you post in this thread about Monopoly you'll be in the chance to win Neverwinter Nights : Diamond Edition!

Yeah, the bottom one on your pic should do it nicely, I should imagine it will be your local variation though.

Just found another free classic version (London) you can play online :

http://www.zylom.com/uk/online-games/board-games/party-games/monopoly/

Just found an online version you can try a demo of first and if you like it can purchase it :

http://www.games2download.com/free-board-games/monopoly.htm

Doesn't matter where in the world you are from with that one to be able to purchase it. It doesn't look like the classic version though as Old Kent Road isn't at the start and its not brown colour.

There is also a free version available on Brothersoft but you have to use their downloader, don't worry its safe, just tried it. This version of the game you have the choice of 10 different game boards :

http://games.brothersoft.com/monopoly-3-download.html

The Brothersoft one asks to install a toolbar so when installing untick all the boxes on that screen to stop it, it also does install a program called coupon dropper which once the Monopoly installation is complete you can uninstall it immediately with no issues.

I can't get the Brothersoft version to run, just won't start, may not like 64Bit Windows 7, worth a shot though as its only a 230Mb download :)

I've found that to largely depend on the game. I've had no problems with getting people to sit down and play a long game of Arkham Horror, but would be unable to get them to stick around for a whole game of Monopoly or "Nya Finans" (a semi-local Monopoly-like game). They key to finding a game that works even if it is a bit on the long side, is to find one that engages the players.

Like Fortune and Glory. >.>
that's an awesome board game that everyone should go buy, even though it's $100. ;)

Monopoly games in general are quite boring to me. That said, I really enjoyed Monopoly Tycoon. It has little to do with the actual game, but they benefit each other quite nicely (character backstories, for instance, are fun to read).

Lol, i just remembered Miaghstir's picture pong contest in which i came up with part of a monopoly board of my own:

http://ops-area.net/picture_pong/1_gameon.PNG