the last time I played Dead of Winter, the dog got night vision goggles, a 1911 pistol, and a rifle and basically carried the colony to survival.

@starbucksmocha88

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha that's awesome! Sparky brings a lot of humour to the game scenarios it seems.

@RedSpade83

4 жыл бұрын

That is a good dog

@venomenoide

4 жыл бұрын

LoL This comment made me decide to buy this game

@christianhernandez199

3 жыл бұрын

YESS, hail to the Dog leader

@nicepetr9740

2 жыл бұрын

But I thought that you can have only one weapon on your character?

Lol. After all this time, I only realize now that reference pear must’ve had the “burn it down” betrayer goal, where you’ve gotta build barricades and horde fuel. You bastards are all about the detail, and it shows. 10/10.

My first game I got Sparky. Sparky used some gasoline to drive to a location without meeting zombies, but in the way he saw an abandoned church and reflected on religion and what we had become. He decided not to risk taking the consecrated wine because there was a zombie priest that was potentially dangerous. Later he found the lighter, and came back to the safe house infested with zombies. He lit the lighter and asked "do you know why they call me Sparky?". That game was so stupidly funny that I wouldn't have it any other way. The dog taking tough decisions is the best thing that I could ask from a theme that has been overused to exhaustion and I can't take seriously anymore.

This makes me want a Shut Up & Sit Down review of 'This War of Mine' even more

My favorite game of Dead of Winter, the betrayer won...with just the stunt dog (with a gun) as his character. The betrayal story was that he was taking over the camp for his friends, so the idea that the survivors got ran out of camp by a bunch of dogs was especially brilliant.

A screen writer once said that if your film has no laughs in it, it isn't true to life. It could be argued that the elements of the absurd actually make the game more realist.

@BaconHer0

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, especially when Sparky the Dog hops into a truck and drives the zombies away

@samsmith6370

4 жыл бұрын

Just like 2020, the unbelievable stuff is what makes it realistic

@takeagalbythehand

2 жыл бұрын

@@samsmith6370 your comment is underrated 😂

At the time I posted, 1 dislike had been put into the crisis. Obviously, we know it can't be ME who put that there, or I wouldn't be mentioning it. But I'm watching all of you other commenters._> I know...

I love how the Chinese on your door says"saftey for the whole family" for the intro on a post-apocolyptic themed video.

When Paul talks about the idea that "somebody has to clean up the mess" the shot starts with dirty dishes in the sink in the background... :P "I thought it was *your* turn to do the dishes before shooting this week!"

sparky the stunt doge is best character get him a sniper gg

I would argue that the goofy stuff is there because otherwise this would be a horrifying soul-crushing slog. There has to be *some* emotional relief or you’ll break and just stop caring.

Almost every game I've seen you review, I've put on my wishlist. You guys can sell me my own pants.

3:42 Max Clifford DIED Now we're down to 2 more people.

The time I played this, the dog led a group and wielded a sniper rifle

For insane craziness anytime it was a player's turn each other player would draw a Crossroad card. So there was a chance that we could have 4 Crossroad cards go off in someone's turn. It was the only way we be able to see everything in the game and we've play maybe 20 to 30 different games.

Just found your site and you guys are awesome. Subscribed! Bell Ringing symbol, activated!

"You know, kinda like...London...." LMAO

Nice prep ideas for this years winter 😃

omg is that a golden retriever wearing a super hero cape???? I'M SOLD

Paul + Quinn. The all time second best SU&SD lineup behind Tom by himself.

@trojan403

Жыл бұрын

Haha

Oh those memories! This is the first video that I seen with them.

@pragyatfutela

8 жыл бұрын

Same

3:48 Wow, guess it all worked out with Max Clifford in the end.

i miss paul. i remember when you guys were in an assassination game and you told the story of paul staving off an ambush. i remember Quinn saying it was the manliest thing he had ever done. so funny.

Is...is that Auska on a poster @6:16? Oh man, didn't expect to see NGE here lol.

What they talk about at 5:30 happened to me. My first time playing, my first move, I rolled the bite thing. I was really upset. Luckily, I was playing as the dog (...Sparky?) who treats it as a wound instead. It was crazy. That said, I think I enjoy this game, especially if you play some thematic music, but we've never beaten it. We've played maybe about 8 times or so but have always lost. Maybe there is a small rule we are missing that makes it easier or maybe it is just that difficult. Also, after watching a bit more of the video they talk about Sparky and say he doesn't have any special abilities, and while I did get incredibly lucky, I am willing to admit, yes, he doesn't really have an ability. The others are much more useful. The nice thing about Sparky though is that he only requires a 2 on both searching AND attacking. So he's very good at both actions.

@JackingtonKensington

6 жыл бұрын

Some of the objectives are absolutely brutal (stockpile), others are really easy, there's one where you just need to kill zombies... So whether you win or lose just depends on which objective you're doing, if you choose it randomly... God luck...

@CaptainCarthex

6 жыл бұрын

I remember we tried the one where you just kill zombies (for research?) and we still lost, but that may have been one of our first games.

Is there a reason why you recommend the player elimination variant over the alternative? I feel like player elimination, especially for long games, can be pretty annoying. Why does it make sense for this one?

@inaticeifler8477

2 жыл бұрын

4 years later and I still would like an answer ...

@janphy5355

2 жыл бұрын

Nope…

A very helpful pair, indeed! Great review. This is a fun game and I wish I played more of it.

@Reapus

7 жыл бұрын

Justin O. wut

Last time i played Black beard started the Church of our lord Sparky who became the defacto leader and brutal Despot of the colony known for exicuting those who would not walk him with his rifle.

As I recall, you only keep one of the items when you use noise, so I don’t think your example is correct. My favorite game!!

I have played this game 5 times with friends. We've never won. Mostly cuz the same friend ends up betrayer and stupidly and effectively sabotages us, but forgets his secret agenda.

@JeremyHoffman

Жыл бұрын

I've had this happen so often. It's frustrating when it sort of ruins the game for everyone. TIP FOR INEXPERIENCED BETRAYERS: Focus on selfishly achieving your personal objective. The colony will usually lose morale on its own without your direct sabotage.

I just played that one a few weeks ago with some friends of mine. It was a delightful 5 player game.

Love the evangelion banner on the wall in the background

Loved the video. I've been following this game for quite a long time now but haven't made the decision whether to get it yet. After watching this I am closer to getting it yet I am not entirely convinced... any piece of advice? thx.

@Nukestarmaster

4 жыл бұрын

police station and library

"It'll be eating us in a week" Classic SUSD was top notch

Card SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER *Ahem* The first card I read for this game (randomly...) was about finding a cache of motorized wheelchairs. It gave the players the choice of having indoor races until the batteries went dead for some kind of boost but creating noise...or not doing anything with them.

@starbucksmocha88

5 жыл бұрын

Hah that's awesome! Wheelchair races!

God I want this game...

If anyone knowingly chooses Rod Miller, truck driver. Know that they are the betrayer. Every time

@mitchlondon4870

4 жыл бұрын

Rod Miller is OP lmao!

@GamerBoy870

3 жыл бұрын

@@mitchlondon4870 I just ordered this boardgame for $40 is Rod Miller that op

Guy in the scarf looks like Edward Snowden

Settlers of Catan 1:25

"there are cards in the deck about players eating well" - that doesn't sound so bad! What's dark and gloomy about that? ;)

Didn't like this board game. Way too much randomness. One time my party lost during the second turn due to bad luck in rolls and card pickups.

@anvil067

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it happens. Reset and start again! :-)

Ive played this game so many times with my friends but we can't seem to win even one game

Pair of what, though?

why i dont have sparky in my dead of winter the long night????

@jerrylazzara7925

6 жыл бұрын

The characters in the original game are completely different than those in the Long Night. You need to get the original if you want Sparky.

Pear for pear-sident.

15:28 What on earth is Chris up to in the comments

I laughed hard when I saw the Ninja card.

I love how they faked thowring away the pear because who would throw away a good pear.

We thought it was all just for fun, but now Max Clifford IS dead...

im suprised ... i got the game. Played with hardcore gamers.. found out that you dont really have choices to make... either you draw good cards or youre doomed to starve or have no moral.

@martinshillitoe4735

4 жыл бұрын

yatudlabiereicit disagree entirely. I think the choices are multiple and impactful. Genuinely couldn’t disagree more .

@granthamlin8126

3 жыл бұрын

Then you're playing wrong.

one down, two to go...

8:20 the boys talk about the 2 best characters in the freaking game! Play to find out why lol

"3 People must die: Max Clifford, Rupert Murdoch...". Well, you were able to get rid of Max...

I own Dead of Winter. It hasn't hit the table since the second night we played it, wherein the rules of the game made it logically impossible to win.

Asuka wallscroll I am complete

Hey guys, I am planning on buying a co-op survival game. But it’s kinda hard to decide which one I should buy. “This War of Mine” or “Dead of Winter” Which one would you guys recommend? Most probably the biggest game changer for us is the speed of the game. One big thing that we hate is that when we have to wait for 30 minutes before next person can make his/her move, just because there are so many things to do. So keeping that in mind which game would you recommend? And when not keeping that in mind, which game would you then recommend? Oh and PS best board game channel!!! You are funny and you are very interesting to watch! Keep up the good work. Greetings from Estonia😉

@Ggggggmmmm324

4 жыл бұрын

Don't know if you bought a game yet, but for cooperation definitely get Dead of winter. This war of mine is good, but more of a single player game where players alternate playing the same characters.

@kitarrikangelanejuzz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ggggggmmmm324 Thank you, Dead of Winter it is then :)

quinn really grew up

Polytopia is my poison.

People eating.... well. Oh my, people eating well during a zombie Apocalypse!!

Thats the future kids i already got the skills thanks to that game.Time to go frozen.

Whos Asuka Soryu wall scroll is that?!?! Asuka is best girl!

"You can't vote for yourself... that's not how democracy works. That's onanism."

I want pepperomi now. Yes, p-e-p-p-e-r-o-M-i.

Do warhammer 40k

You can definitely vote for yourself in a democracy

my group was lead by sparky the dog and his right hand man/ crazy apossel black beard the homeless. i established a cult snd lured people in with sparkys silver tounge until wwe had to cut the game short. so i had my followers kill each other while sparky watched im delight

ownerism, eh?

This game is rng fiesta.

The opening of this review makes me wonder.... Has SUSD ever considered price fixing a board game by buying up big stock of a fun but unknown game and giving it a bombastic, glowing review?

The game is pretty broken. It's very difficult to just not lose by morale. Completing your secret objective and not losing from morale requires and absurd amount of luck. Even if everyone spends all their resources to not lose by morale there's something like a 50/50 chance you'll manage. The best thing is to be exiled, as I remember it, the exiled objectives are much easier to complete, and gives you a shot at winning.

Oh, how I miss Paul. :-(

I did not like this game... It's another one of those "you work cooperatively to complete a goal, but you're all competing against eachother" so your goal never gets completed... there's really no incentive even to cooperate with the other players, it's easier to just let the colony die and get an alternate win condition... Would not recommend

@Nukestarmaster

4 жыл бұрын

The only way to get an alternative win condition is to be exiled and only one non betrayer character can be exiled.

So, as someone who played DoW to death, I can provide some negative criticism I don't think SUSD provided in this case. 1) I wish the crossroads cards were active more often. Usually, you will go rounds not playing any, because they rely on very, VERY specific things to occur. Sometimes depending on certain characters being in play. That's kind of...boring. Maybe when they do activate you'll feel glad they did, but otherwise, it's kind of meh. 2) The betrayers are hard to play as because you can always track down where items come from. Thus, the game is a little unfair towards them. Minor nitpick frankly. 3) The rules aren't super clear. It took until our 3rd game to realize that if you have a survivor in a location rather than the colony, they don't need food. We also never realized that you play food cards to generate food tokens. We kind of just played them all at the very end of a round to feed ourselves. 4) The game is easily "broken" if everyone plays for themselves. Generate a ton of characters and then you can singlehandedly win any scenario while dominating everyone else. 5) That die is broken as all hell. I played two games where on the first roll a friend of mine had their character die. It's unfair, unfun, and not particularly thematic. Overall, if you like the game, more power to you :) but, I wish it was balanced a bit better and made more like a story telling machine rather than the cold brutal game that it is.

Your kitchen makes me sad.

I'll have to assume that the experience is different when playing with your friends. I've played about 5 games on Tabletop Simulator, all of them boring, some of them massively so. I only stayed because I don't like just leaving in the middle of a co-op game.

@jerrylazzara7925

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. Dead of Winter is a social experience. Playing online with a bunch of quiet strangers is practically pointless. You have to play with your friends.

2199 dog

14:46 ; If you're going to eat food, might wanna do some dishes 1st. Also; the guy with glasses looks like Stephen Merchant.

The 8 people who disliked this video are just salty because the other 593 exiled them from the colony

@wanderingbandit8823

7 жыл бұрын

In many ways, it's just like Australia's attitude to the British Empire

this is not a comment

@Hackleton

3 жыл бұрын

But...

man you people are weird. i guess thats why you spend all your time playing boardgames