BGM Blog 11

By Jason

Enough with the Star Wars Games Already!

What is the fascination with Star Wars games?  I am a fan of the movies. In fact, I like them quite a bit.  They are a good mix of action, comedy and drama and no matter how old they get they are still great fun to watch.  That being said I don’t understand why we as gamers appear to like games better because they have a Star Wars them slapped on them.  I also don’t understand why we need to have games from this, or any other, IP at all.  There are many shows and movies that I enjoy that I don’t feel need to be plastered all over the board gaming world.  For example, I am a huge fan of Jay and Silent Bob movies (Mallrats, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Etc.) but I wouldn’t want to have a Clerks themed Food Chain Magnate or a Mallrats themed Munchkin…it isn’t necessary (neither is Munchkin really but that is for another time).  We can be fans of multiple different things without having to have all of our fandoms involved in every other hobby that we have. I play in a band and am a fan of Jurassic Park movies.  I am not only writing songs about Velociraptors or Triceratops because that would be madness (and maybe pretty cool…but I digress).

​Star Wars is great.  Board games are great.  Star Wars board games, by some people’s estimation, are also great but we have got to stop making all aspects of all of our hobbies cross over and blend into each other.  It is okay to play Descent even though it doesn’t have a Star Wars theme.  It is okay to play the non-Star Wars version of Carcassone.  It is okay to play a game you love whether or not it has one of your favorite fandoms included in it at all.  If you love Star Wars games ultimately that is alright, play what you enjoy.  Just remember that there are tons of board gamers out there they may not enjoy Star Wars and just want to play a game about farming or fashion.  Live and let live (unless it is living to make more Star Wars games) and play what you want to play.  Who am I to judge (even though that is literally what I have been doing…oops)?