King of Tokyo for me is great when player count is high, as a gateway game that veterans like (with evolution). Suitable for younger ages. It also has never failed to entertain. I can't get rid of it.
I agree on Ethnos, but unfortunately, some of my groups tend to be on the larger side, and it's one of the very few games that plays full player count while still feeling strategic, engaging and fun without being a party game. Even with the hundreds of games released, there are VERY few of those. I have a 700+ collection and I'm pretty sure that games that play well strategically, without being super complex or party games, play under 2 hours and fit 6 players I can count with one hand. Also I disagree on pretty much every point with Anachrony, every one I've played it with has loved it, particularly heavy gamers.
I am just now discovering your channel and good lord. I have watched a ton of board game UA-camrs and this was quite possibly the most entertaining video I have seen. Bravo!
Some say the B Roll of Board and Savior doing a Fortnite dance in public has been lost forever, others claim it was confiscated by the CIA for use in some sort of psyop project. We'll never know the truth...
That was so much fun to watch (a second time too :P ) loved your Smash-up face and the finale was gorgeous :D Please keep up the great work! Cheers to you and happy/happier gaming :D Funnily Stone age is one of our nostalgia Soul games ^^ but it works only with the Trader expansion and needs exacttly 3 players (always the same of course ^^) Smash up is really strange ... I loved the Idea but it feels so clunky it ranks for me as unplayable - except if you are drunk ... but then it feels tooooo complicated :P So very much like good old Kingmaker Munchkin (Cthulhu Munchkin RULES THEM ALL after everyone has become a Cultist muwhahahahahaha :D ) Luckily I have a friend I could pass these on to. He has a huge Munchkin collection now. And coming to think of it I have not been there for playing games in ... To his defense he also got good games and the hiatus rather stems from past Covid restrictions. Sadly we kind of never picked up where we left off and my board gaming priorities had a tectonic shift since then ^^ (Looking at the stacks of games on the floor and overstuffed shelves and seriously considering to cull some now ... arghhh I must go insane ^^)
Thanks so much for the comment! Stone Age was really big for my family, but it just hasn’t gotten as much play since I moved out. It’s got such great components though!
I am going with the team "rebalancing". This means tweaking my collection to fit where I am. If a game doesn't solo, I have zero room for it.. beyond ones I have an original attachment to.
@boardandsaviorgames the feelings things are not right drive the urge to purge. The cult of the new and drive for evermore results in a lack of balance and the collection is the fallout. Tweaking the collection doesn't fix the lack of balance.
Stone Age for me is one of those earlier games that keeps sticking around, I don't play it often, but when it does come back to the table, I just keep enjoying it, which doesn't really happen much with the early games for me. I really like Ares Expedition. I never got into Race for the Galaxy, and Roll fo the Galaxy just merely felt alright for me. So for me personally, Ares Expedition is the more enjoyable game with that system. It's a shame you didn't enjoy Valeria: Card Kingdoms. That one is just a delight to get back to the table for me every time. I will say the regular game is better than the solo. I culled Anachrony myself this year. It's a good game, but not the big greatness that people make it out to be. And it has several factors that count against it for me. The huge box, big set-up, big teach, it just felt like more work to get to the table than I was willing to put in. I'm not a big theme person, so the time travel theme doesn't hit with me.
Let’s see… I don’t know if I’ll be able to remember all of them, but here’s what I can recall: Punct Founders of Gloomhaven TI Rex Chaosmos Helios Nautilus Industries
Valeria and space base both give me that same feeling. I think it's because there's so much luck involved, that your decisions don't really matter that much. (Which is perfectly fine for party games) but i don't think these two games aren't fun enough to be a party game. So I start to ask why I'm even playing them halfway through
Maybe so, but when a game tells you “you’re allowed to play this solo! Here’s how!” And then proceeds to offer an unfun experience, maybe the game failed me as much as I failed the game. Either way, having played it alone, it left me entirely uninterested in playing it with others
@@boardandsaviorgames if you want to have any credibility you have to actually play the game with people multiple times. Building your engine against competition, generating resources on other people's turns, creating combos that allow you to take monsters and buildings and characters stealing them away from people who you've determined want them based on what is maybe their hidden Strat... You've done none of this and then trashed the game. You haven't even played the game mate, pull your head in
@@NoDramaLlamathank you for the feedback! Any game that I do a full review for, I do play it multiple times and ways. I was going a bit more casual for this video because I feel like a cull is a very personal thing. I even enjoyed a few of these games, but I want to love a box to keep it around. Maybe I didn’t do a good enough job of explaining it, but I felt so down on Valeria after one play that I didn’t want to deal with finding the goodness that may live inside it. Regardless, I appreciate your input and I’ll keep it in mind!
King of Tokyo for me is great when player count is high, as a gateway game that veterans like (with evolution). Suitable for younger ages. It also has never failed to entertain. I can't get rid of it.
I agree on Ethnos, but unfortunately, some of my groups tend to be on the larger side, and it's one of the very few games that plays full player count while still feeling strategic, engaging and fun without being a party game. Even with the hundreds of games released, there are VERY few of those. I have a 700+ collection and I'm pretty sure that games that play well strategically, without being super complex or party games, play under 2 hours and fit 6 players I can count with one hand. Also I disagree on pretty much every point with Anachrony, every one I've played it with has loved it, particularly heavy gamers.
I am just now discovering your channel and good lord. I have watched a ton of board game UA-camrs and this was quite possibly the most entertaining video I have seen. Bravo!
That is incredibly kind! Very happy to have you!
Some say the B Roll of Board and Savior doing a Fortnite dance in public has been lost forever, others claim it was confiscated by the CIA for use in some sort of psyop project. We'll never know the truth...
Nice JOB, Valaria Card kingdom serves us as gateway !! so we keep it. I really agree with Ethnos.
That was so much fun to watch (a second time too :P ) loved your Smash-up face and the finale was gorgeous :D Please keep up the great work! Cheers to you and happy/happier gaming :D
Funnily Stone age is one of our nostalgia Soul games ^^ but it works only with the Trader expansion and needs exacttly 3 players (always the same of course ^^) Smash up is really strange ... I loved the Idea but it feels so clunky it ranks for me as unplayable - except if you are drunk ... but then it feels tooooo complicated :P So very much like good old Kingmaker Munchkin (Cthulhu Munchkin RULES THEM ALL after everyone has become a Cultist muwhahahahahaha :D ) Luckily I have a friend I could pass these on to. He has a huge Munchkin collection now. And coming to think of it I have not been there for playing games in ... To his defense he also got good games and the hiatus rather stems from past Covid restrictions. Sadly we kind of never picked up where we left off and my board gaming priorities had a tectonic shift since then ^^ (Looking at the stacks of games on the floor and overstuffed shelves and seriously considering to cull some now ... arghhh I must go insane ^^)
Thanks so much for the comment! Stone Age was really big for my family, but it just hasn’t gotten as much play since I moved out. It’s got such great components though!
I am going with the team "rebalancing". This means tweaking my collection to fit where I am. If a game doesn't solo, I have zero room for it.. beyond ones I have an original attachment to.
Love it. Team rebalancing!
@boardandsaviorgames the feelings things are not right drive the urge to purge. The cult of the new and drive for evermore results in a lack of balance and the collection is the fallout. Tweaking the collection doesn't fix the lack of balance.
I am uncovering stuff in rebalancing I forgot I had. Yes, I own Glory to Rome. Go figure.
Stone Age for me is one of those earlier games that keeps sticking around, I don't play it often, but when it does come back to the table, I just keep enjoying it, which doesn't really happen much with the early games for me.
I really like Ares Expedition. I never got into Race for the Galaxy, and Roll fo the Galaxy just merely felt alright for me. So for me personally, Ares Expedition is the more enjoyable game with that system.
It's a shame you didn't enjoy Valeria: Card Kingdoms. That one is just a delight to get back to the table for me every time. I will say the regular game is better than the solo.
I culled Anachrony myself this year. It's a good game, but not the big greatness that people make it out to be. And it has several factors that count against it for me. The huge box, big set-up, big teach, it just felt like more work to get to the table than I was willing to put in. I'm not a big theme person, so the time travel theme doesn't hit with me.
Whats a good replacement for King of Tokyo?
A lot of people like Dice Throne! I can’t personally vouch for it (never played), but the Dice Tower folks seem to love it!
I would love to know what are the other games you culled !
Let’s see… I don’t know if I’ll be able to remember all of them, but here’s what I can recall:
Punct
Founders of Gloomhaven
TI Rex
Chaosmos
Helios
Nautilus Industries
Valeria and space base both give me that same feeling. I think it's because there's so much luck involved, that your decisions don't really matter that much. (Which is perfectly fine for party games) but i don't think these two games aren't fun enough to be a party game. So I start to ask why I'm even playing them halfway through
Haven’t played Space Base but if it’s anything like Valeria… no thanks!
how much you selling Anachrony for?
Sold it for $40!
You didn't play Valeria Card Kingdoms with anyone... And you didn't like it, and it's core mechanism is about simultaneous play... You failed the game
Maybe so, but when a game tells you “you’re allowed to play this solo! Here’s how!” And then proceeds to offer an unfun experience, maybe the game failed me as much as I failed the game. Either way, having played it alone, it left me entirely uninterested in playing it with others
@@boardandsaviorgames if you want to have any credibility you have to actually play the game with people multiple times. Building your engine against competition, generating resources on other people's turns, creating combos that allow you to take monsters and buildings and characters stealing them away from people who you've determined want them based on what is maybe their hidden Strat... You've done none of this and then trashed the game. You haven't even played the game mate, pull your head in
@@NoDramaLlamathank you for the feedback! Any game that I do a full review for, I do play it multiple times and ways. I was going a bit more casual for this video because I feel like a cull is a very personal thing. I even enjoyed a few of these games, but I want to love a box to keep it around. Maybe I didn’t do a good enough job of explaining it, but I felt so down on Valeria after one play that I didn’t want to deal with finding the goodness that may live inside it. Regardless, I appreciate your input and I’ll keep it in mind!
@@boardandsaviorgames fail
lol bro it’s a board game. Stop getting so defensive over his opinion on solo play.