Larry: To answer Talia’s question, Tapestry is in the Geek’s top 250 and has a large and fairly rabid fanbase (it also has quite a few detractors).This is a long dry civilization game that is fairly straightforward with minimal thematic elements. I played it once and don’t have any interest to play again, although I’d agree to a second play if pressed. I thought that Tapestry was widely panned as a bust. Is Tapestry popular? I guess at least 3 OG contributors think so. If you love any of these 20 games then you’re certainly not alone because they’re widely popular, and I’m sure some OG contributors even love them, but in the aggregate, these are the popular games that we collectively most find to be “not for me.” The idea for this piece comes from my 2008 article “ A Penny Saved,” in which I explained my 50 least favorite games, some of which still got the nod here - all these years later. I have a tendency to be a bit more set in my ways, but c’est la vie. We’re nothing if not honest about our opinions here at the Opinionated Gamers! I originally proposed this article as bluntly being about “overrated” games, but my fellow OG contributors knocked me down a peg or two by urging me to change the nomenclature to acknowledge that these games are simply not ones that we like. It was an exciting race with 118 different games receiving at least one vote (including a few games designed by OG members, such as Deduce or Die, New Amsterdam, and Suburbia). Twenty-two contributors voted on their picks for popular games that are “not for me” to come up with today’s list, including Alan How, Brandon Kempf, Brian Leet, Chris Wray, Craig Massey, Dale Yu, Frank Branham, Fraser McHarg, Greg Schloesser, Jeff Lingwall, Larry Levy, Lorna, Mario Pawlowski, Mark Jackson, Matt Carlson, Patrick Korner, RJ Garrison, Simon Neale, Talia Rosen, Tery Noseworthy, and Wei-Hwa Huang.

Today’s topic is popular games that are “not for me” under the classic OG rating system.

This week the Opinionated Gamers are publishing a series of articles ranking games in a few different ways based on data collected from many different contributors.

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