play before you buy when possible. then aim to fill holes in your experience, not your collection.
@walmart372Күн бұрын
The new edition of Carcassonne does louvre for me!
@robertvaida30032 күн бұрын
Did he ever mention anything about his oppinion on my new obsession Root ?
@kubas21362 күн бұрын
That starwars joke was brilliant
@sebastienrichard41592 күн бұрын
About the double writing of Bonanza… You may not know that because you seem to be an english speaker, but as a bilingual and graphic designer, I can tell you that there is a convention with up/down title writing. You can verify this going to any bilingual french/english library. In English, the title will be written one way and in french the other way. So… I may seem pecky, but I do like to have my collection placed in a way that I can easily read the titles all in the same way (of my choosing). I just wanted to point you out the existence of that writing convention and that ignoring that convention would be ignoring other buyers cultures. Sincerely, Sebastien
@hyldenchampchamp4983 күн бұрын
My biggest regret was Gloomhaven. I love complex board games but Gloomhaven just didn't feel fun at all for me for some reason. It's too big and fiddly to the point where I'd rather play a computer co-op game with my friends. It was my lesson that complexity doesn't equal a huge box. EDIT: Just to add some optimism to my comment. I did buy a similar game after that named Nemesis, which me and my friends absolutely love. It has similar mechanics as Gloomhaven, but it spares us from all the long-running campaign stuff that never did much for me, except Hero Quest.
@hyldenchampchamp4983 күн бұрын
I think the point about amount of options each turn is interesting, and I fully agree with it. In my group of friends, we have two brothers who are infamously slow to take their turns. I think you called analysis paralysis, even though I think it's a bit different from that. I think some people are able to plan ahead while other people are doing their turns, but some only start processing when it's their turn. On top of that, and my point I'm trying to make, I have a theory that it wouldn't matter if my friends were met with the simple choice of, "buy the plot or not" or if they had 100 different options. They will always take a roughly same amount of time to make any decision. We're always left waiting for them to make a choice regardless if it's extremely simple or super complex. So in other words, having many options is simply better than having very few.
@bruce_ween3 күн бұрын
No way! You wrote Popatron! A friend of mine also wrote/produced that And yes, it was much better than you’d expect - very good in fact! Shame it can’t be found anywhere anymore
@goldenhawk93223 күн бұрын
Nucleum was a big mistake!
@devbat46383 күн бұрын
I also used to sleeve every game, but I've realised some games play better without. I now usually only sleeve games when cards get played with a lot. Matte sleeves really helps when shuffling.
@boardgameaddiction70813 күн бұрын
The front of the Skull box compels me to play it, but every other side of the box compels me to hide it. I'm glad someone else finally stated that publicly!
@StephanieSchanda4 күн бұрын
Solo Roleplaying is a decent subsitute for boardgames
@kingamphibian86454 күн бұрын
Hey actualol, have you ever considered making a top ten list for board games on a budget?
@actualol4 күн бұрын
No, but it's a good idea, thanks! My next video will be somewhat relevant to that.
@Imagine1nfinity4 күн бұрын
Another game very similar to the 3rd is 'Fox in the Forest" except its a lot cheaper.
@suprisedbeeiscute6 күн бұрын
I totally forgot about Cluedo..
@windums5606 күн бұрын
7:05 Wow Gumball😮😃 I wasn't expecting that. I'll rewatch those episodes again
@cr1ses6 күн бұрын
I'm looking for new shelves,which did you use?
@actualol4 күн бұрын
IKEA Besta
@windums5606 күн бұрын
8:32 Wow I hope one day you would come here
@millenielsen1476 күн бұрын
I feel like Planet (one of the games I have), had such good potential with the artwork on the front, but then they put on logos/prizes and an entire side of the box is barcode and boring information and more logos(and just sticks out from the rest of the box)
@ryan.provstgaard6 күн бұрын
I watched all of this and have been subscribed for years. And only now am I learning that there’s a BGG app that catalogs my collection?? Thank you for the awesome video. Found great reasons to let go, and to buy new 😈 My wife will not be happy… or, will she? 😃
@sandmaniac37 күн бұрын
… but I really did end up enjoying Scythe
@trenk_74717 күн бұрын
How’s the resistance the same as Avalon?
@bjrn20107 күн бұрын
6:50 like the logo, it feels retro.
@draheim907 күн бұрын
I have a Kallax and like half my cubes are three games with pretty uniform height/thickness and one game that’s shorter and (usually) fatter that doesn’t fit aesthetically with the other games. Cascadia, TM: Ares Expedition, Modern Art, Hadrian’s Wall, and Viticulture all mess up any uniformity for box height on my shelves. Oh and Blitzkrieg! and Caesar! being in the same line but looking completely different when viewed from the side and even having slightly different heights kills me. Similarly with Wingspan and Wyrmspan not matching when placed side-by-side because SM logo is different size and Wyrmspan’s name/info is lower than Wingspan’s. It would have looked so good if they matched, too. Carcassonne 20th anniversary box is really nice though. As is a lot of the big-box Uwe games but some are so thick and have so many components I can’t store them vertically.
@rogertrout76947 күн бұрын
I think I understood everything you said here. My take aways from this video: 1. Only buy the newest games. 2. You need to buy more games whether you like them or not. 3. Buy any and all games that have a theme you like. 4. Sleeve everything, all your cards, hexes, tiles, figures, cubes and meeples...everything! 5. Buy all the games that reviewers like. 6. More fun comes from more content. 7. Never go to conventions. 8. Buy only the most complex games. 9. Try to do everything you can to fill the void of not playing board games. 10. Never hate any game. If you don't like it there is something wrong with you. 😉
@iceveinz87307 күн бұрын
Dude i have the same lamp in the background
@tara72068 күн бұрын
I love codenames too!!
@bottarti89078 күн бұрын
I board game in my opinion that has both elements from both modern and old board games is diplomacy. In the game you can get eliminated and friendships can be ruined because of false promisses it is still a lot of fun and not every turn you get supply centres. There is no luck in the game (especially if you pick nations by player choice) and every game is different in terms of play styles, players and nations.
@TheKrisMds8 күн бұрын
We started with patchwork and now we have a hundred games collection 😅❤ Now we are planning to make some new players to enjoy new games
@cameronwood73429 күн бұрын
Pitchcar is a great flicking game.
@Rekkless11 күн бұрын
In fairness, Oathsworn is incredible. But great video. I feel like many of these points are almost a right of passage. But there is so much truth in this video.
@kirkbeiser11 күн бұрын
Magic Maze fell into the Steep Learning Curve category. I would play it for 15-20+ minutes with a couple of students at the end of a class. 2-3 weeks later I would get a chance to play it again and it felt like we were restarting again from the early scenarios. I could never get to the advanced scenarios. But I love the concept of it. Great video
@Shen98611 күн бұрын
I almost cheered to see Spring Meadow. It's possibly my absolute favorite game, and I do believe I got it on your recommendation!
@MichaelChanning11 күн бұрын
As soon as I saw the card that read "Initials" and the letters L and B, I reflexively shouted "Leo-nard Bern-stein!"
@christopherhealey880712 күн бұрын
Awesome, so many small hills to die on its almost a national park in the UK, the Peaqued District
@thamesandkosmosgamesuk12 күн бұрын
Barcodes are required for shop sales - they go on the side as specified by the US market. Parents Choice award is also for the US market. But we will be certain to pass on your feedback to the Kosmos publishing team!
@Mugifi12 күн бұрын
There's this french publisher called "Matagot" who used to have these dull gray spines on every game they published. I hate that my copy of Scythe looks like this. They now stopped doing that and instead just put their logo on the spine. It's much better but I'm not gonna buy the same game twice lmao
@alseen12 күн бұрын
That was not the first US release of Settlers of Catan. The first and second release was a dark brown box and the tiles used photos instead of artwork. 2nd edition was the same cover, but had 4 different colored player pieces so you could combine two sets and play with up to 8.
@Wiccanslyr13 күн бұрын
British person being absolutely neurotic about completely mundane things for a needlessly long period of time, should be an entire KZread category. Yes, I watched the entire thing, don't look at me. XD
@Realduo_110513 күн бұрын
Holy cannoli actual lol! And I'm tellin' ya! If you hate the best game of the 20th century monopoly, you're gonna turn into a Goomba!
@TheAlexanderkl13 күн бұрын
So this popped up in my feed. I just have one thing to say: You and I have VERY different board game taste. You have 250 games, and there may be 10 games there I enjoy or have any interest in playing.
@somebodylikesbacon196013 күн бұрын
7:18
@magicmaxx634614 күн бұрын
Wow 777k views
@pranadiabetesprogram14 күн бұрын
that video was way better than it had any right to be
@arthurtyshchenko733614 күн бұрын
Could "Root" join "hanging in the Louvre" team?
@TheBokkel14 күн бұрын
Very nice review, but one thing I´m not so sure about: the little games. These games are so tiny that you can display them anyway you want. Don't need to stack them into a big pile. Just display them on a shelf with small space or display them in front of something else, games or books or whatever.
@marinatear14 күн бұрын
THE BIN JUICE?!?!? 🤢
@mrtheasley14 күн бұрын
Don't be hard on yourself. We all have a manner of speaking, and using the word "simple" isn't a huge deal. You did a great job with this video, and I like the shelf walkthrough!
@Sabowie14 күн бұрын
In the thumbnail you look like discount Jim Carrey 😆
@catscan9814 күн бұрын
Video idea: overused animal (plants, ... or produce) vs most unique. Bonus for calling out rote/unexpected anthropomorphic qualities
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play before you buy when possible. then aim to fill holes in your experience, not your collection.
The new edition of Carcassonne does louvre for me!
Did he ever mention anything about his oppinion on my new obsession Root ?
That starwars joke was brilliant
About the double writing of Bonanza… You may not know that because you seem to be an english speaker, but as a bilingual and graphic designer, I can tell you that there is a convention with up/down title writing. You can verify this going to any bilingual french/english library. In English, the title will be written one way and in french the other way. So… I may seem pecky, but I do like to have my collection placed in a way that I can easily read the titles all in the same way (of my choosing). I just wanted to point you out the existence of that writing convention and that ignoring that convention would be ignoring other buyers cultures. Sincerely, Sebastien
My biggest regret was Gloomhaven. I love complex board games but Gloomhaven just didn't feel fun at all for me for some reason. It's too big and fiddly to the point where I'd rather play a computer co-op game with my friends. It was my lesson that complexity doesn't equal a huge box. EDIT: Just to add some optimism to my comment. I did buy a similar game after that named Nemesis, which me and my friends absolutely love. It has similar mechanics as Gloomhaven, but it spares us from all the long-running campaign stuff that never did much for me, except Hero Quest.
I think the point about amount of options each turn is interesting, and I fully agree with it. In my group of friends, we have two brothers who are infamously slow to take their turns. I think you called analysis paralysis, even though I think it's a bit different from that. I think some people are able to plan ahead while other people are doing their turns, but some only start processing when it's their turn. On top of that, and my point I'm trying to make, I have a theory that it wouldn't matter if my friends were met with the simple choice of, "buy the plot or not" or if they had 100 different options. They will always take a roughly same amount of time to make any decision. We're always left waiting for them to make a choice regardless if it's extremely simple or super complex. So in other words, having many options is simply better than having very few.
No way! You wrote Popatron! A friend of mine also wrote/produced that And yes, it was much better than you’d expect - very good in fact! Shame it can’t be found anywhere anymore
Nucleum was a big mistake!
I also used to sleeve every game, but I've realised some games play better without. I now usually only sleeve games when cards get played with a lot. Matte sleeves really helps when shuffling.
The front of the Skull box compels me to play it, but every other side of the box compels me to hide it. I'm glad someone else finally stated that publicly!
Solo Roleplaying is a decent subsitute for boardgames
Hey actualol, have you ever considered making a top ten list for board games on a budget?
No, but it's a good idea, thanks! My next video will be somewhat relevant to that.
Another game very similar to the 3rd is 'Fox in the Forest" except its a lot cheaper.
I totally forgot about Cluedo..
7:05 Wow Gumball😮😃 I wasn't expecting that. I'll rewatch those episodes again
I'm looking for new shelves,which did you use?
IKEA Besta
8:32 Wow I hope one day you would come here
I feel like Planet (one of the games I have), had such good potential with the artwork on the front, but then they put on logos/prizes and an entire side of the box is barcode and boring information and more logos(and just sticks out from the rest of the box)
I watched all of this and have been subscribed for years. And only now am I learning that there’s a BGG app that catalogs my collection?? Thank you for the awesome video. Found great reasons to let go, and to buy new 😈 My wife will not be happy… or, will she? 😃
… but I really did end up enjoying Scythe
How’s the resistance the same as Avalon?
6:50 like the logo, it feels retro.
I have a Kallax and like half my cubes are three games with pretty uniform height/thickness and one game that’s shorter and (usually) fatter that doesn’t fit aesthetically with the other games. Cascadia, TM: Ares Expedition, Modern Art, Hadrian’s Wall, and Viticulture all mess up any uniformity for box height on my shelves. Oh and Blitzkrieg! and Caesar! being in the same line but looking completely different when viewed from the side and even having slightly different heights kills me. Similarly with Wingspan and Wyrmspan not matching when placed side-by-side because SM logo is different size and Wyrmspan’s name/info is lower than Wingspan’s. It would have looked so good if they matched, too. Carcassonne 20th anniversary box is really nice though. As is a lot of the big-box Uwe games but some are so thick and have so many components I can’t store them vertically.
I think I understood everything you said here. My take aways from this video: 1. Only buy the newest games. 2. You need to buy more games whether you like them or not. 3. Buy any and all games that have a theme you like. 4. Sleeve everything, all your cards, hexes, tiles, figures, cubes and meeples...everything! 5. Buy all the games that reviewers like. 6. More fun comes from more content. 7. Never go to conventions. 8. Buy only the most complex games. 9. Try to do everything you can to fill the void of not playing board games. 10. Never hate any game. If you don't like it there is something wrong with you. 😉
Dude i have the same lamp in the background
I love codenames too!!
I board game in my opinion that has both elements from both modern and old board games is diplomacy. In the game you can get eliminated and friendships can be ruined because of false promisses it is still a lot of fun and not every turn you get supply centres. There is no luck in the game (especially if you pick nations by player choice) and every game is different in terms of play styles, players and nations.
We started with patchwork and now we have a hundred games collection 😅❤ Now we are planning to make some new players to enjoy new games
Pitchcar is a great flicking game.
In fairness, Oathsworn is incredible. But great video. I feel like many of these points are almost a right of passage. But there is so much truth in this video.
Magic Maze fell into the Steep Learning Curve category. I would play it for 15-20+ minutes with a couple of students at the end of a class. 2-3 weeks later I would get a chance to play it again and it felt like we were restarting again from the early scenarios. I could never get to the advanced scenarios. But I love the concept of it. Great video
I almost cheered to see Spring Meadow. It's possibly my absolute favorite game, and I do believe I got it on your recommendation!
As soon as I saw the card that read "Initials" and the letters L and B, I reflexively shouted "Leo-nard Bern-stein!"
Awesome, so many small hills to die on its almost a national park in the UK, the Peaqued District
Barcodes are required for shop sales - they go on the side as specified by the US market. Parents Choice award is also for the US market. But we will be certain to pass on your feedback to the Kosmos publishing team!
There's this french publisher called "Matagot" who used to have these dull gray spines on every game they published. I hate that my copy of Scythe looks like this. They now stopped doing that and instead just put their logo on the spine. It's much better but I'm not gonna buy the same game twice lmao
That was not the first US release of Settlers of Catan. The first and second release was a dark brown box and the tiles used photos instead of artwork. 2nd edition was the same cover, but had 4 different colored player pieces so you could combine two sets and play with up to 8.
British person being absolutely neurotic about completely mundane things for a needlessly long period of time, should be an entire KZread category. Yes, I watched the entire thing, don't look at me. XD
Holy cannoli actual lol! And I'm tellin' ya! If you hate the best game of the 20th century monopoly, you're gonna turn into a Goomba!
So this popped up in my feed. I just have one thing to say: You and I have VERY different board game taste. You have 250 games, and there may be 10 games there I enjoy or have any interest in playing.
7:18
Wow 777k views
that video was way better than it had any right to be
Could "Root" join "hanging in the Louvre" team?
Very nice review, but one thing I´m not so sure about: the little games. These games are so tiny that you can display them anyway you want. Don't need to stack them into a big pile. Just display them on a shelf with small space or display them in front of something else, games or books or whatever.
THE BIN JUICE?!?!? 🤢
Don't be hard on yourself. We all have a manner of speaking, and using the word "simple" isn't a huge deal. You did a great job with this video, and I like the shelf walkthrough!
In the thumbnail you look like discount Jim Carrey 😆
Video idea: overused animal (plants, ... or produce) vs most unique. Bonus for calling out rote/unexpected anthropomorphic qualities