Maybe it was a long day.... But your right the spark just did not seem to be in everyone on this game. Also I jut could not get interested in this game. And more or less forced myself to finish watching the video.

@@blackhat4968 superb pun :D

Browncoat.

Your actually the sea

It did, but I altered the rules.. Pray I don't alter it further! :P

It may actually be funnier to hear Lincoln say "Rodney, will you teach us _____?" except that I am actually partial to Dave's explanations. LOL

I rate Dave's explanations higher than Rodney's. No disrespect but that is just my preference :)

I believe that your preference it is because Dave teach like any of us teach a game to friends, Rodney do it in a professional manner and more streamlined for a different audience. Anyway the top three not in order are Dave, Rodney and Paul Grogan.

@sayuiv, to be honest, I rarely watch Rodney's "HOW TO" videos, although I watch his other content almost all of it. I know how he teaches, and he teaches mainly through the rulebook as he does it through a video (as if you were reading it). However, as a game teacher mainly in my groups, I find teaching the game not always starts and goes through like in the rulebook. And I tend to read a lot of them since I entered this lovely hobby. I tend to find a faster, more meaningful, and even easier way to explain the mechanisms and the theme as well, and also go into strategy here and there, for the new players. Maybe I find that in Dave, especially when he explains stuff even during the game strategy-wise, and also during his explanations. We do that in new games with new players all the time. Maybe I tend to teach more like him (as you said) and that is why I like his way of teaching more. Again, Rodney's great in doing it, but It is not my style of teaching. Sorry for that elaborate explanation. Have a nice one and keep on gaming :D Daniel

I think this was Dave's worse explanation of a game I have watched (still ok though) He seems agitated or jaded in the last few videos. No obvious reference to forbidden Island or desert as starting points which would have been a natural thing to do....this is basically a weird mashup of Tsuro and Forbidden Desert

You're adding tile placement and circuit connection to their previous games. Those are two of the most time-consuming things to add to any game.

it seemed very clunky as if it wasn't quite worked out..its almost as if they said ...instead of things getting more restrictive on a sinking island we will set it in the sky where the play area is expanded...oh ligntning and wind can hurt...oh lets use almost identical characters as the last games...seemed a very lazy game design to me

@@skyblazeeterno Matt Leacock made one game, and he has been rehashing it his entire career. every Pandemic and every "forbidden" game is the exact same game. he is the Blizzard of game designers.

It sounds like they're connecting theme 100% to art. I agree that the art is extremely meh (especially when compared to the previous games), but I feel the game is VERY thematic. All of the mechanisms make sense. The wind blowing you around, the lightning hitting and following wires, the faraday cages protecting you from lightning. It all makes sense. You're not doing things just "because mechanics". Certainly makes more sense than sections of the earth moving in Forbidden Desert.

@@PandaOfElastic and it definitely makes more sense than global warming affecting the middle of the island before the edges.

We are using basic Sony HD Camcorders from a few years back. They really do a great job. Thanks for the note and for watching.

I was also wondering, why is Matt Leacock throwing us into so much Forbidden Land! We almost drowned, then went all sunburned , and now Lightning into our faces ... gosh darn it Matt! :D However we get to fly cool rockets here and there though :D

Because then you'd need to find the Permitted Stars

I got that one from TeeFury a little while back.

I came into the comments just to say exactly the same thing! Love the shirt, Lincoln.

I had the same reaction. The 20-minute explanation of the game rules made it sound more complex than it needed to be, the gameplay felt more like sitting in a DMV, and I kept getting distracted by the blinking/winking of the guy explaining the game. I think I will stick with Forbidden Island & Forbidden Desert and definitely pass on this one.

Большое спасибо за просмотр! (Thank you Google translate!) -Lincoln

Lol with all the magnets it would be hilarious 😆

ha ha, did not even occur to me

Since it has Magnets on the wires along with the launching pad, Lightning Rods, & the whatever they are called... It's best to use the different box temporary before the next chapter of Forbidden series would come in the future.

yes I think they suffer in the respect that they are too experienced playing games....interestingly they have played other games at much high starting levels but did not on this one? Its more interesting watching newbies sometimes as bad decisions will be made and figuring out a game is part of the experience

Aaron no longer lives in town but comes down occasionally. We have some episodes coming with him soon. Thanks for the note and for watching.

Her character, the Surveyor, is allowed to hold four tiles.

This has been THE discussion of all 3 games in the saga, I don't think that the creators clarified it either at all

Lucía Bermúdez, actually it’s pretty clear it is not allowed. From the rulebook: “Most equipment can be played at any time (see specifics on each card), though as a general rule they cannot reverse the effects of Storm cards once they have been drawn” - p.4

@@je-nas but that means SOME cards are allowed, not none of them.

I don't mean fiddly in that it has a lot of bits. I mean the tile placement rules and tracking connections and such.

As you can see the connections were a bit confusing. I love the art but the way that you can have stunted connections plus dead end components (circuits, capacitors, launch pad) make this visually confusing. Plus we all had a bit of trouble visualizing the circuits without seeing them. Having said that I really like what the game is doing. It is fun trying to make it all come together. Had we played those two tiles correctly we might have had a tougher game. Thanks for the note and for watching. -Lincoln

Sorry to hear that. Hope things get better soon.