I really appreciate these look-backs. They always offer a great perspective on how things have landed for you beyond the Top 100 etc., and I hope that you continue to do them!

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

I plan on it, thanks!

I always appreciate your change in taste or perspective videos. Thank you!

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoy them!

Totally agree about all of these except for Akropolis. We still love it as a filler game. Easy to teach and plays quickly.

After Gloomhaven, we needed a year or two break from frosthaven. I felt totally burned out on Gloomhaven to the point where I didn’t back frosthaven. Glad someone in my group did. We are loving it now but it is easy to overdo it. Give it a year break and you may fall in love with it all over again

I sold Endless Winter. No one in my game group wanted to keep playing it. I enjoyed it, but it was never going to see the table.

Uhhh after Endless Winter, me and my board game squad have a trauma. Too many minigames in that game, and too spread points...I prefer games with more condensed gameplay and fewer places of gameplay.

We still love Dead Reckoning and don't feel like it overstays its welcome. We prefer to play it at at least 3 or more because the tile control becomes more intense, but even at two, the card crafting and combat along with the ability to build up your ship is still a lot of fun.

On EW, I often put GWT in with Dune Imp and Lost Ruins as almost worker placement + deckbuilding in its rondell mechanic. I'm curious if you have played New Zealand yet, as that does add more deckbuilding and generally a larger sandbox of options.

We don't talk about Bru...My Lil Everdell

The two games on this list that are in my collection are the Stan Kordonsky designs. I have to agree with a lot of the thoughts about the expansions to endless winter over complicating a game that already has a lot going on. As for Resurgence, I love bag-building so it’s still in my collection for now, and hopefully an expansion will elevate that game a bit more. Either way, I think it’s rare for a game to remain at or elevate after more and more plays. I also think because it’s your job and you’re exposed to so many games, you’re standards for a game to stand out and keep your interest might be more difficult than those that buy or play far less games than you are able to. I believe your opinion and views still hold great merit, but for me I have a hard time getting bored with a game that I really enjoy at first.

Guess that's definitely the end of the camp co op Frosthaven play through😞

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

Indefinite hiatus more so than the end.

Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest is an incredibly fun and strong game. My gaming group is usually limited to three players, sometimes four, and we’ve been playing Libertalia at least a couple times a month for the last year and a half. I can understand your opinion, but I can’t imagine it leaving my collection anytime soon

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

I'm glad you're enjoying it 🙂

Good news regarding Akropolis: I was thinking about selling it and replacing it with Cascadia. Turns out there's an expansion in the works: Ads singular Hex tiles (which is amazing as it will "fix" the problem of being one tile shy of building one more "floor"), and objectives. release is expected for Octobre!

Some of these are cheap enough that if you got 10 games in having fun and move on it doesn't seem bad - like Resurgence. Others are expensive enough that if it's just sitting on the shelf unplayed after 10 games it seems a loss - like Dead Reckoning.

You can't play too much Frosthaven! (Ok, I understand your point.)

I agree, Frosthaven's biggest fault is that it is Gloomhaven's successor. After around 90 scenarios worth of Gloomhaven I was just too burnt out by the time Frosthaven came to give it a fair chance. I'm only about 5 scenarios in but combining the insane setup time once it is off the table with the burn out leaves me with no idea when it will get played again.

SFB is great if not taken seriously. We do a blind draft for the champions and fight like that. Each champion feels little bit different once you play them enough. This is a game that warrant same level of skill to fully compete. I hope CMON will continue with the system. For the people I know, the whole Mythic fiasco made their previous games to be looked at with different eyes right now.

So for me I think their is a more emphasis on the game play more so the accessibility of the game, mainly because I have the same 6 people I play with. So for me the initial teach of a game might be a slog, but after everyone knows what their doing, we can generally get the game going a second time without a teach.

Talked myself out of Endless Winter multiple times. Still haven't gotten Bear Raid to the table. Acquire is my favorite game of all-time, mostly due to nostalgia more than anything, but I also love Stockpile. Curious how Bear Raid will fall out once I do finally get to play it.

What I’m hearing is the hype for Endless Winter and Now or Never is dying down. Time to get them cheap.

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

If you can then sure :)

@daniellebackus819

15 күн бұрын

Now or Never is an amazing game. Plays best at 2, as it’s very long and each additional player makes it longer.

It's actually funny seeing now in that list because I bought it when it came out, because I love above and below so much and the fact that it was solo playable..... And it's sat on the shelf unplayed...

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

Yeah, unfortunately that does happen. Real life demands a lot from us 🙂

I was interested in backing Endless Winter at first, but as they kept adding expansions with mechanics that seemed off (a drawing expansion?) my interest became caution. I have both Arnak and Dune, so I don't regret practicing Shelf Control on this one (is having 2 games instead of 1 considered "Shelf Control"?).

@draphsor

16 күн бұрын

Yeah, I backed it in no small part based on Alex's recommendation, but it's arrived and has been sitting on the shelf starting at me for months now without being tabled, whereas Dune: Imperium gets played all the time. Still need to give it a try.

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

Don't get me wrong, I still love it...but it's dropped from a 5 to a 4.5 for me...still high marks :)

Endless Winter was such a critical darling for people but I never connected with it. And other than the mini expansions (different animal cards, the iceberg tiles) none of them even seemed worth even trying. This one is on the chopping block and as soon as I need space its one fo the first things out of the door.

Was Tanares a 2023 game for you? I thought you got it much earlier than us

I think deduction as a genre shines better when it is a competitive game. Cryptid is one deduction game that I don't think I will ever get tired of despite of its simplicity in the rules. Pain the roses, it falls to that converged state, I believe, because it's a cooperative game.

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

Ironically I prefer coop for deduction :)

Did you put the wrong list of game links because they seems unrelated to the topic...

I still love Endless Winter, but with it's 2 expansions, I'd pull Lost Ruins of Arnak off the shelf instead of it. I found the EW expansions superfluous and would rather play the base game. LRoA, on the other hand, is nicely augmented by its expansions. However, I'd still play EW over Dune Imperium any day of the week!

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

That's exactly how I feel. If I was comparing bass games alone, I prefer endless winter. But to me, the expansions don't make the game better versus arnak they do

Question - Why do you rate a game based on how much you want to play it now. Poeple dont rate video games that way. Campaign games are like video games. They are long and when you complete it. You still had a great time. Even if you never want to play it again. You still can rate it based on your exp while playing it

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

Great question, for me it's not about completion so much as fatigue. I never finished Sony's Spider Man because life got busy and I got distracted. But man it's amazing and I would happily dive in, I never got fatigued on it, I just happened to not finish it. Whereas if the process of playing a game fatigues me on it, than that's different. I've finished legacy games and my opinion didn't waver or sometimes I even played them again. Same with some campaign games. But other campaign games have me me sour on them in the process of playing. In the video game world for example, Guild Wars 2 might be that for me...I gave it hundreds of hours of my life...but while it started off satisfying, by the time I stopped playing I had lost a lot of interest in what it was.

@siriactuallysara

16 күн бұрын

I understand. I have had fatigue on some games. All awaken realms games to be specific.

Nice video, i would like to see the opposite, which games are still peaking your interest.

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

To a certain extent that's my best games of 2022 that I redid :)

I find that a lot of Stan Kordonsky games get stale fast. Endless Winter has one or two too many things going on. You're deck building, moving around on a map, moving up tracks, hunting animals, placing those stone things, etc. Resurgence was boring. After 5 plays, I felt like I had seen everything I was gonna see. Nothing felt "wow" about the gameplay. Stan is a solid designer whose games are good. They burn bright but burn out quickly.

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

I agree on Resurgence but not on Endless Winter :)

Who is the target audience for my lil everdell? It seems like a huge miss. My little Scythe did it right. This was just floating in between.

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

Good question....I love it, but my kids don't ask to play it :)

@HorseIRL

15 күн бұрын

@@BoardGameCo that's the issue 😂 i think adults who have everdell own a good share of the franchise already.

best game of 2022.....Inheritors....I bet you could have guessed

@abandonlife111

15 күн бұрын

culdcept

Super fantasy brawl lost my interest unfortunately. If my friends and I are battling each other its usually street fighter miniature game or heman

@BoardGameCo

16 күн бұрын

I get that

@jcapo5

15 күн бұрын

@@BoardGameCo i do however think its an amazing game and can reccomend to any one

Tylko jedno w glowie mam, koksu 5 gram

@abandonlife111

15 күн бұрын

Świetne filmy! Dalszy rozwój kanału i wszystkiego najlepszego. (Jestem Rosjaninem i nie znam polskiego, przetłumaczone z tłumacza Google.)