Some games are empowering.
They re complimentary, they re warmly effusive some of them build your esteem up and convince you that yes, even you can own four railroads and a handful of hotels someday. But with other games, that old tough love tactic goes to work. These games punish, but they punish because they care. They poke and prod at your ego, but in so doing, whip you into better game-playing shape. Oh, okay, it wasn t quite that bad.