I came across a guy on youtube who does playthroughs of games. His website is lonesomegamer.com, I think. I watched his video series on Civilization. I've been wanting to play again for years, but don't have the AH version or players.

If anybody wants to play some on BGA, let me know; gonna start playing there again

Tapestry and Feast for Odin especially interest me of the newer additions.

dicetower reviews or thegameboygeek reviews is what I use

Yeah, that makes sense. Good news is - our next two videos are our top 20 games of all-time 😀

Also, I considered adding a graphic for each game that was like “similar to x and y game” or something as a reference point. Does that sound like it’d be meaningful/would you do it a certain way?

I think you’re right. Because obviously I want to touch on most of the key mechanics and possible magical moments in a game, so it requires some thought into perfect example turns and conciseness.

Same, I’ve watched probably more than a thousand DT reviews by now. So I guess my issue mostly is when they don’t have a review for it and my only option is to watch those long playthroughs :P. But I will say I vastly prefer Zee’s reviews where he moreso than the others tend to play out a bit of the game, and I sort of want to mimick that, but still with a bit of a twist because I will be aiming not to explain every little thing and instead just doing it in a style of “learn as you play/learn as you watch”.

I'd say no on a graphic, but definitely talk about similarities.

A graphic would be helpful to summarize key mechanic(s) (worker placement, card drafting, auctions, etc) as well as player count and approximate time to play.

I just came across this.

https://wsbgvegas.com/

Interesting format.

Yeah I saw that at some point. Feel like I could do ok at a few of the choices.

Ra looks like the best value to flick it in

yeah that looks cool

I may enter that. Will have to play all the games a ton on BGA this year to prepare

We've released the first part of our "favorite board games of all-time" now



I've tried taking as much of your feedback into account as possible, but I already know I've made a couple of mistakes and besides that I'm very interested to hear if it feels like an improvement and/or if more improvements can be made!

Part 2 will be out sometime within the next week hopefully, and after that I hope to do a slew (is that the word?) of reviews!

Great video.

I think all of the adjustments you made since the first one are improvements.

I like your wife's set better than yours so far

Talking about boardgames

When the **** will I get Frosthaven

I have had more than a century of updates (read none of them) and still no game

Is this the communist 5 year plan?

Thingy got called out for talking over his wife straight off.

LOL yeah, that was great.

Getting to the meat of the review but decided to look up my ten rated games. Only have ten of them apparently. Intrigued to try out the reading battle yall used

Five tribes
Hansa teutonica
Chaterstone
Ra
Tichu
Teotihuacan
Sherlock homes consulting detective
Trickerion
Underwater cities
Through the ages

Think some of these would do worse in heads up battles (like through the ages)

My Full Rankings, apparently

1 Hansa Teutonica
2 Concordia
3 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion
4 Charterstone
5 Tichu
6 Ra
7 Underwater Cities
8 Bruges
9 Teotihuacan: City of Gods
10 Five Tribes
11 Food Chain Magnate
12 The Fox in the Forest
13 Clans of Caledonia
14 Modern Art
15 Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar
16 The Isle of Cats
17 Codenames: Duet
18 Grand Austria Hotel
19 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases
20 Lords of Waterdeep
21 7 Wonders Duel
22 Gizmos
23 Acquire
24 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
25 The Godfather: Corleone's Empire
26 Tapestry
27 Great Western Trail
28 Caylus
29 The Princes of Florence
30 Castles of Mad King Ludwig
31 The Castles of Burgundy
32 Viticulture Essential Edition
33 Hanabi
34 Village
35 Suburbia
36 Patchwork
37 Agricola
38 Lorenzo il Magnifico
39 Carcassonne
40 A Feast for Odin
41 Raiders of the North Sea
42 Sagrada
43 Gaia Project
44 Splendor
45 For Sale
46 Mombasa
47 Caverna: The Cave Farmers
48 The Gallerist
49 Kingdomino
50 Codenames
51 Vinhos Deluxe Edition
52 Viticulture
53 Barrage
54 Power Grid
55 Rajas of the Ganges
56 Love Letter
57 Lisboa
58 Dixit: Odyssey
59 Dominion: Intrigue
60 Keyflower
61 Root
62 Die Macher
63 Dominion
64 Bärenpark
65 Istanbul
66 Puerto Rico
67 Azul
68 Troyes
69 Risk
70 Spirit Island
71 Roll for the Galaxy
72 Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King
73 The Resistance: Avalon
74 Secret Hitler
75 Race for the Galaxy
76 Wingspan
77 Dinosaur Island
78 7 Wonders
79 Welcome To...
80 Hive
81 Cosmic Encounter
82 King of Tokyo

Played time stories for the first time a couple weeks ago and it was quite enjoyable. It's sorta like Exit except improves on the things Thingy doesn't like imo. Maybe he will Rate it later in his list

My biggest problem with Azul they kinda fixed on the game before, the scoring of it always seems really anticlimactic.

I should apparently try quest for el dorado, a big fan of some rainier games.

Enjoyable watch. I can relate to just wanting to play "easy" games after a long day. App games avoid that feeling to some degree, imo, where you may play heavier games than you would otherwise.

Thanks, and that’s good to hear! I made a couple of mistakes, but I hope to keep getting better at this

Haha, that’s fair! Which game of the ones mentioned is the one you like the most so far?

Rofl

Wow, are these the games in your collection or all the ones you’ve played? Because that is a hardcore curated list of goodness and a sick high average quality. No weak spots. Or did you filter out games you knew weren’t in your top?

I actually have an unopened copy of TIME Stories - hoping to get to it soon 😀

Those are all the ones I've rated on board game geek, which is a bit biased towards higher rated games.

Wingspan and Azul for sure.

I guess, to be fair, I should admit that I'm much more familiar with the games that she picked compared to yours. That said, of the ones I haven't played, the ones she was describing sounded more interesting to me.

Excited for the second half of this.

Ah, makes sense

Fair - those are also very good games

Another great video.

Ask and ye shall receive, JUST uploaded

thanks a lot!

It'd be embarrassing to admit how long it takes to make these videos (though hopefully I'll get faster and faster), but I get a lot of pleasure out of it, so all worth it!