Hey. I like this new format for your reviews. Great structure and editing etc. Something that is becoming increasingly rare in boardgaming videos, also including the Dice Tower channel. Keep it up! Keep it way up!
While I do agree with most of your points I will argue that it is an area control game. If players, as you mentioned, disregard area control, they can all lose and waste their time playing, it is also a win condition and "overtaking" areas give good perks. Sure, there are possibly better games out there, and this game truly deserves a 6 or a 7 at most, but it is not as bad as Sam is making it appear.
The rune strategy is a possible win condition but there is just so little that you can do if you just focus on that. You might be choking others of their powers but it barely matters if you're giving them space to buy cards in the market.
Gateway Uprising, a nightmare when you play it for the first time. I waste a lot of time to search more than 30 different cards and build a deck, then draw 8 cards from the top, finally build 8 upgrade decks for each type. What’s more, cards are placed in the box horizontally not vertically like other dbg with mass cards to use, as a result, it is really suffering to find 30 plus unique cards! I must be crazy to set up this annoying game. When I finish this game, of course we lost, it is completely difficult to storage those tokens, monster boards in the box.
Tyrants is my most played game of 2016, by a good stretch. It's vastly overpriced based on components, but based on playability it's definitely worth it.
Video criticism. Most of the video you used the top 7th part of the screen to show how the game worked, showing off cards, going thru the turn process. The things your are trying to show me are so far away I can't see them. Content criticism. You didn't run thru the cards you can buy or the city tiles to give an overview of what they can do. You didn't explain enough (for me) what the insurgents were used for. You didn't show attacking other players or how to remove them from city tiles. I feel like you phoned this explanation in and could have skipped making this video. This may sound weird, but I'm not going to buy this game. I didn't like the looks of it, and I prefer deckbuilders like Tyrants and Star Realms that use a market line instead of piles of cards everywhere. But I still would like a better explanation of the workings of a game when I watch a Dice Tower review.
Paul Taylor Thanks for the criticism, although I can assure you I didn't "phone it in". It's brevity was purposeful, as my purpose is to simply give you an idea of how it plays, not to go over every bit of minutia in the game. And I did go over the different kinds of cards and their roles in the game (Insurgents, specifically, are your soldiers). The positioning of the camera can be fixed, however, and I'll pay more attention to that in the future.
Thank you for your reply. I understand keeping the time down and not explaining every rule. I got how it plays from your explanation. But I still wanted more. I'm sorry if I was rude with my comments.
Hey. I like this new format for your reviews. Great structure and editing etc. Something that is becoming increasingly rare in boardgaming videos, also including the Dice Tower channel. Keep it up! Keep it way up!
While I do agree with most of your points I will argue that it is an area control game. If players, as you mentioned, disregard area control, they can all lose and waste their time playing, it is also a win condition and "overtaking" areas give good perks. Sure, there are possibly better games out there, and this game truly deserves a 6 or a 7 at most, but it is not as bad as Sam is making it appear.
The rune strategy is a possible win condition but there is just so little that you can do if you just focus on that. You might be choking others of their powers but it barely matters if you're giving them space to buy cards in the market.
If I have not a deck building and are difficult to me the rules, what is better, this or clank?
Digging the new metal song, heck YES!!!!!
So happy I dodged this one 🙌
Gateway Uprising, a nightmare when you play it for the first time. I waste a lot of time to search more than 30 different cards and build a deck, then draw 8 cards from the top, finally build 8 upgrade decks for each type. What’s more, cards are placed in the box horizontally not vertically like other dbg with mass cards to use, as a result, it is really suffering to find 30 plus unique cards! I must be crazy to set up this annoying game. When I finish this game, of course we lost, it is completely difficult to storage those tokens, monster boards in the box.
Tyrants is double the price of this, that game also had underwhelming components. Tyrants was a better game, but idk if I'd pay double for it.
Tyrants is my most played game of 2016, by a good stretch. It's vastly overpriced based on components, but based on playability it's definitely worth it.
Video criticism. Most of the video you used the top 7th part of the screen to show how the game worked, showing off cards, going thru the turn process. The things your are trying to show me are so far away I can't see them. Content criticism. You didn't run thru the cards you can buy or the city tiles to give an overview of what they can do. You didn't explain enough (for me) what the insurgents were used for. You didn't show attacking other players or how to remove them from city tiles. I feel like you phoned this explanation in and could have skipped making this video. This may sound weird, but I'm not going to buy this game. I didn't like the looks of it, and I prefer deckbuilders like Tyrants and Star Realms that use a market line instead of piles of cards everywhere. But I still would like a better explanation of the workings of a game when I watch a Dice Tower review.
It matters to me. I expect more when I watch videos on this channel, and don't want the job done here to bleed into other game overviews.
Paul Taylor Thanks for the criticism, although I can assure you I didn't "phone it in". It's brevity was purposeful, as my purpose is to simply give you an idea of how it plays, not to go over every bit of minutia in the game. And I did go over the different kinds of cards and their roles in the game (Insurgents, specifically, are your soldiers). The positioning of the camera can be fixed, however, and I'll pay more attention to that in the future.
Thank you for your reply. I understand keeping the time down and not explaining every rule. I got how it plays from your explanation. But I still wanted more. I'm sorry if I was rude with my comments.
Paul Taylor No worries!
I played it today, it is definitely NOT an area control. That just false advertising Cmon...
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