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Broken Loose: Everyone I've linked that kickstarter to has complained about the card templates being ugly. I just thought I would pass along the feedback. They like the mechanics though.
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Feb 10, 2015 13:52
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I genuinely feel dumber for having watched any of that video. And I know people who value these guys' opinions. 
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Feb 10, 2015 13:56
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It's generally that video which made me realise that Vasel is either dumb or dishonest. It just feels that he saw the Dungeon Lords title, thought it was a dungeon crawler, played it, realised it was a euro and felt cheated out of it. Unless there were people that earnestly said 'this heavy euro is actually a dungeon crawler!' which I doubt. Also lol at 'there are only 16 choices to make'.
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Feb 10, 2015 14:00
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Tekopo posted:It's generally that video which made me realise that Vasel is either dumb or dishonest. It just feels that he saw the Dungeon Lords title, thought it was a dungeon crawler, played it, realised it was a euro and felt cheated out of it. Unless there were people that earnestly said 'this heavy euro is actually a dungeon crawler!' which I doubt. Also lol at 'there are only 16 choices to make'. Despite having 'munch' in the title, little to no elements of Munchkin involve eating! What is this bullshit?
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Feb 10, 2015 14:14
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Hey guys, if anyone is going to throw Broken Loose $500+, we need to make Rutibex star in his game.
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Feb 10, 2015 14:18
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Broken Loose posted:Hey, wasn't there a goon-made real-time cooperative game supposed to be coming out this year? Backed, shared on facebook, retweeted to all six of my followers. Godspeed goon.
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Feb 10, 2015 14:23
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I've backed it, BL! I don't like the video or the card template, but the game and its mechanics sound great.
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Feb 10, 2015 14:27
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Fat Turkey posted:I know the Top Ten Lists is supposed to be somewhat casual but for someone who has been doing this for years, Vasel can't construct an argument very well. About Thurns and Taxis (which I have never played so have no bias towards)
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Feb 10, 2015 14:32
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Broken Loose posted:Hey, wasn't there a goon-made real-time cooperative game supposed to be coming out this year? I only back games that achieve the perfect balance of strategy and luck. Seriously, I wish the friends I'd play this with were still around, but I'll still throw a couple bucks out of principle. The world needs this game to exist.
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Feb 10, 2015 15:54
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They even say things like "just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's a bad game" and then go and dump all over games just because they didn't like them. Just sooooo many people with questionable taste in that video. "I love the art in Sentinels of the Multiverse!" "Lords of Waterdeep is thematic!" "The makers of Dixit are so lazy, they didn't even put any words on the cards!"
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Feb 10, 2015 15:56
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homullus posted:They even say things like "just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's a bad game" and then go and dump all over games just because they didn't like them. Just sooooo many people with questionable taste in that video. Pictured: The least lazy game design. Just look at all them words!  The game is Opus Dei, and it is not great. And all the words are flavour text, so they have zero relevance to the actual gameplay, except people will read in during play and thus not pay attention.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:07
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fozzy fosbourne posted:e: nevermind, my tash-kalar is shipping today!!! finally When buying tash-kalar I should look for the CGE logo to get the new version, correct?
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Feb 10, 2015 16:10
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homullus posted:"The makers of Dixit are so lazy, they didn't even put any words on the cards!" You couldn't put words on the Dixit cards, that would defeat the whole point of the game, what the hell
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Feb 10, 2015 16:17
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I'm surprised anyone would even consider listening to the opinions of anyone living in Florida.
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To compensate for being a bad playtester, I got the Deluxe edition ordered. Best of luck, BL!
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GrandpaPants posted:I'm surprised anyone would even consider listening to the opinions of anyone living in Florida. Yeah I mean, this kickstarter thing that just got posted, who would listen to *that* designer??
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Feb 10, 2015 16:27
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ETB posted:To compensate for being a bad playtester, I got the Deluxe edition ordered. Best of luck, BL! Same here. I shared and tweeted as well, which is high praise from me.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:31
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Indolent Bastard posted:When buying tash-kalar I should look for the CGE logo to get the new version, correct? I didn't want to take the risk, tbh, so I just went with CSI since they made it very clear that I'm buying the 2nd edition.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:37
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Tightest grouping we've had in Caylus. 3 player game, first place was the black player with 72 points, Second place was the blue player(me) with 71 points and third place was the red player with 69 points. Also first time I've used the money track for anything, worked better than I thought it would.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:38
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Indolent Bastard posted:When buying tash-kalar I should look for the CGE logo to get the new version, correct? The CGE logo is on both versions. The old version includes a ZMan Games logo, the new one does not. The new one also features a BGG "Golden Geek Award" logo.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:42
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silvergoose posted:Yeah I mean, this kickstarter thing that just got posted, who would listen to *that* designer?? Yeah but, nobody who spends their nights screaming at people to give him coolant and balance could be a bad person.
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PerniciousKnid posted:Yeah but, nobody who spends their nights screaming at people to give him coolant and balance could be a bad person. Broken Loose posted:I wish you were banned. You're a terrible loving gimmick, and if you aren't a gimmick, I wish nothing but absolute agony on you. I hope you wake up to your loved one's cold corpse in the passenger seat of your car, leaving you nothing a barrage of bile and hatred from her family and a piercing trauma that gives you panic attacks each time you see the loving sun rise. The fact that a person like you could conceivably exist and is keeping this company afloat is why McCain and Palin achieved more than 0 votes in the 2008 election. You are proof that this world is hell. I would rather these forums be populated by nothing but 7thBatallions, Noctis Horrendaes, TheBluePyramids, and Hollismasons all hopped up on drugs, fashioning greenstuff teeth for each other and bashing together Hammerheads out of dog poo poo and chicken bones, than ever be confirmed that you genuinely believe the puke-ocalypse of fanaticism and horseshit that you expouse online. gently caress. Back that kickstarter folks.
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Good god, that's what BL is actually like? I TAKE BACK MY PLEDGE IMMEDIATELY
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Tekopo posted:Good god, that's what BL is actually like? I TAKE BACK MY PLEDGE IMMEDIATELY To be fair, he was arguing with a serious gaylord.
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Chill la Chill posted:Vasal and Broken Loose living in the same area would explain a lot of things. Or they're the same person. It would explain why I've never seen them together.  Edit: Final Attack Internet Diatribe!
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I was going to make a joke that Broken Loose had completed his apotheosis into David Sirlin, but he already basically admitted it, so there went my fun.
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Bosushi! posted:I was going to make a joke that Broken Loose had completed his apotheosis into David Sirlin, but he already basically admitted it, so there went my fun. There are pandas in Final Attack?!
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Madmarker posted:To be fair, he was arguing with a serious gaylord. Assuming you mean forum poster serious gaylord, I'm down with that. His rant isn't up there with the Usenet classics of my youth ("festering poxbottle" being a highlight), but it's a decent LART nonetheless.
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Trynant posted:There are pandas in Final Attack?! Here's the first crossover promo stretch goal.
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Madmarker posted:To be fair, he was arguing with a serious gaylord.
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It's not too late to announce Cthulhu and Zombie robeasts and make millions of dollars.
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Hey BL you had mentioned previously that some of the designs in Space Alert were fixed by things you had implemented in Final Attack, could you expand on that?
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Rutibex posted:It's kind of disingenuous to look at "prisoners per 100,000" on an island with a population of 84,000. I'd say it's more of an equal comparison than comparing the number in prison between a country with 84,000 people and one with 318 million people. Lorini posted:This is where our hobby not being digital hurts because whether they are deliberately creating scarcity or scarcity is happening because of economics, it is my personal biggest issue with boardgaming. You end up buying games not because you want to play them soon but because you don't want to pay an arm and a leg when you do want to play them. I'm personally hoping that more games go PnP so that even if they aren't being published by the publisher anymore, at least there's still a way to play them. It's not just with board games. Toys, art, sporting goods, etc. I'm into movies and you have your companies get a license to put out some horror film for a short time and then if you didn't pick it up, now you could be looking at paying $100 for a $13 DVD. Looking to get in on that action? Pick up titles Code Red puts out. The guy that runs it is a complete moron. He used to have a distributor but lost it a few years ago and decided to do it all himself. So he'll put some title up on his crappy looking site, people order some stuff and then he shuts off the ordering because he has to go post on facebook that he has a hundred orders to ship out himself and if you email him to complain about the wait time on your order, he just cancels it and refunds it. So what ends up happening is he has poor sales on a title and in some cases, the rights owner gets pissed and pulls the rights back, so Code Red ends up not making any money off of it. Then he complains about titles having poor sales and not really getting why any of this is happening. Plus the titles he picks to put out aren't all that great a lot of the time. $75 - http://www.amazon.com/Madman-Year-Anniversary-Gaylen-Ross/dp/B003TX8Q6K/ref=sr_1_1 $180 - http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Are-Alive-Alex-Cord/dp/B003O7I6MU/ref=sr_1_3 I got in back when he lost his distributor and bought a bunch of titles from Amazon and other places before they all went away. If you shop at the site and regularly check it, like daily, you can make some decent cash if you wait a bit for him to pull it again and prices on Amazon/ebay go up. On topic, you guys got me to look at Terra Mystica with the Catan comparison. Looks fun and I wish Barnes & Noble carried it. Just found out these games all count towards the kids club, so in addition to a good percentage taken off with the card/20% coupons/membership discount, I've started getting $5 gift certificates.
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I decided to check out The Dice Tower, and I hate these guys. I also disagree with them a lot. Their main arguments seem to be "fun", "theme" and "flavour". And that's mostly it. They never try to analyse what happens in a game, how the mechanics work or anything that would be helpful, except "they like it". Have they done anything that is sensible and/or worth watching?
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Just like Exploding Memes and Cards for Racism make me realize how unfair I've been to Catan, dice tower makes me appreciate SU&SD so much more. E: Dicetower is maybe useful to get a closer look at the "Sam" gamer archetype without having to personally interact with one. Like a little terrarium where you can observe the reasoning of the guys in your game store fozzy fosbourne fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Feb 10, 2015 |
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Just like Exploding Memes and Cards for Racism make me realize how unfair I've been to Catan, dice tower makes me appreciate SU&SD so much more. Relativity is everything.
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BonHair posted:I decided to check out The Dice Tower, and I hate these guys. I also disagree with them a lot. Their main arguments seem to be "fun", "theme" and "flavour". And that's mostly it. They never try to analyse what happens in a game, how the mechanics work or anything that would be helpful, except "they like it". No. Pretty much the only good thing about them is how prolific they are. I often first hear about games by scrolling through their list of videos and checking out ones that seem like the game isn't Cthulutan Exploding Kitten Quest: Journey to Save Flutttershy and then look up the game elsewhere. fozzy fosbourne posted:Just like Exploding Memes and Cards for Racism make me realize how unfair I've been to Catan, dice tower makes me appreciate SU&SD so much more. This
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BonHair posted:I decided to check out The Dice Tower, and I hate these guys. I also disagree with them a lot. Their main arguments seem to be "fun", "theme" and "flavour". And that's mostly it. They never try to analyse what happens in a game, how the mechanics work or anything that would be helpful, except "they like it". Welcome to your average boardgame review, where talking about mechanics is too hard unless you're just reiterating the rules for 90% of your video. Also the answer to your other question is no, unless you want enjoy cringing at people, then by all means, marathon that poo poo.
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