Varanus wrote:trying to think why i wanted to play this game. i only like rolling town. basically the only thing thats appealing to me about mafia is the concept of pouring large amounts of effort into something that's superficially useful. i wouldn't enjoy coloring an entire page with a pen. i don't think it's the difficulty of the task of solving the game which is appealing either, it's just the fact that it's possible to spend a long time doing it. a good analogy is a jigsaw puzzle, which is something i enjoy as well. i'm not sure that's quite it though. it feels bad to have players you think are wolf flip town, but i couldn't care less about the actual outcome of the game. if a jigsaw puzzle just dissolved in front of my eyes i wouldn't care that i hadn't finished it and some of the pieces were in the wrong place. perhaps it is about being proven right and as flips occur i steadily lose interest over time because there are fewer players left to solve, and by the end of the game i give zero fucks? i think it's aspects of both.
What an interesting opening.