Quinns saying Blood on the Clocktower "isn't a great game" was a joke, everybody...
@BaconHer05 жыл бұрын
...or is it?
@annec81275 жыл бұрын
A hilarious joke, considering the salty comments from review reviewers on the review of that game. :D
@JoaLoft5 жыл бұрын
Matt's chuckle following suit was a clear indication that Quinns was being sarcastic. Can't believe viewers missed that. Jesus, what's wrong with you people.
@ericthompson4635 жыл бұрын
Thought so after your glowing review of it, but wasn’t quite sure.
@IslanKleinknecht5 жыл бұрын
XD
@peterjones96825 жыл бұрын
So, here's a story about Diplomacy: Back in law school, the law library had assigned study carrels for all students. But the number of carrels exceeded the number of students, so there were extra. We set up a Diplomacy board in one of the vacant carrels, and we made one move per week, on Friday Afternoon. Everyone dropped their move slips into a cup Friday morning, and then we'd pull out the moves Friday afternoon. And then we'd spend the next week, in between classes, having clandestine meetings with each other and plotting to stab each other in the back. I've played Diplomacy as a sit-around-the-table game, and...eh. But doing the one-move-a-week game over the course of a school year? Amazeballs. The tension was fabulous, and it really made great use of the thing the game was built to do--make people meet with each other behind everyone else's back and lie to each other. If you're looking to play Diplomacy with the interns, don't do it as a video. Do it as a running graphic on the website, with one move a week, made very, very slowly. That's my two cents.
@c.w.20005 жыл бұрын
Peter Jones That sounds fantastic, and it was probably good training for being a lawyer, so good use of the library after all.
@peterjones96825 жыл бұрын
@@c.w.2000 It was actually really amazing practice for negotiation/mediation training. Although we didn't really abide by the "Candor to the Tribunal" ethics rules that we do IRL.
@ChrisM-xx6cf5 жыл бұрын
We did similar in high school, although we made two moves a day, once at break and once at lunch. So not nearly as much conspiring time as your group, but still gave players the room to develop a strategy. Great times!
@peterjones96825 жыл бұрын
I mean, that also sounds awesome. The thing the publicly-displayed board did, though, was interesting. It really tied even people who weren't playing into the game. There were entire factions of my class running game on people to get them to move a certain way. You had about a hundred to a hundred and fifty people who derived significant amounts of entertainment from looking at that board and talking to each other, even if only seven of us were playing. That's what made me think of this when Quinn's said he wanted to work Diplomacy onto the site. The numbers of us that would be suggesting moves to people via comments would get pretty epic.
@msa49985 жыл бұрын
Diplomacy ..... tears will be shed.
@fitandhappy425 жыл бұрын
Dead in the centre, the spookiest game of all...Scrabble.
@dblevins3434 жыл бұрын
I still have nightmares
@angelashee143 жыл бұрын
Should easily be monopoly
@rocketfallen5 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the Four Genres: Ameritrash, Euro, Real Time, and Reiner Knizia.
@eliashartmark15225 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget my favorite category of games that are too large.
@janekskiba12015 жыл бұрын
The four riders of the apocalypse
@KumaKaori5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for typing that out, Even after 4 listens I had no idea what the final axis was XD;.
@KerbalRocketry5 жыл бұрын
and of course the heart of darkness at the centre of it all
@rocketfallen5 жыл бұрын
@@KerbalRocketry Scrabble.
@rudeboyjohn34832 жыл бұрын
I love how this intricate system features at least one game that shouldn't be in every section.
@mrarusty5 жыл бұрын
"Sometimes I don't even hang them around my neck!" It's a family show!
@eliashartmark15225 жыл бұрын
Not any longer.
@Skarpo895 жыл бұрын
What is wrong with him hanging them on his shoulders like a purse? O.o
@jeffmcleod38295 жыл бұрын
@@Skarpo89 Oh, my sweet summer child.
@NemesisEG5 жыл бұрын
Carful of those sharp corners now.
@bluesmandingo5 жыл бұрын
LoL
@c.w.20005 жыл бұрын
Oh Quinns, there is something so charming about seeing you show off your collection with the enthusiasm of a child. This is something that many adults lose as they face the burdens of the world, but it is actually important for our mental health to keep that spark of playfulness alive. You and the SU&SD team bring good medicine to people all over the world, and I love you for it.
@lukaspfffr5 жыл бұрын
There is one game which combines plastic and wood perfectly and thats spirit island. Everything Wood = good for you. Everything plastik = bad for you.
@nathanarnold64645 жыл бұрын
Hard agree
@spronkey5 жыл бұрын
ughhhhhhhhh. No. I like Spirit Island, but I *hate* that it combines wood and plastic. The Dahan are such nice little pieces of what I assume is wood (but could be plastic...) and the invaders are such cheap feeling nasty sharp little annoying bits of plastic that really should be made from a different colour of wood.
@pgaboury5 жыл бұрын
I just love reading RPG books and fantasize about the campaigns I could run instead of actually running them.
@Karmancer675 жыл бұрын
I'm in the same boat and honestly, I think like most things it's better that way. I'll just keep pretending that someday it will happen, I will die thinking that...
@CurseTheCosmos5 жыл бұрын
It's nice to know that I'm not alone... While I'm alone with all of my RPG books.
@willmcconnellsimpson14115 жыл бұрын
Yup, same thing! I own more RPG systems, let alone books, than I've played sessions. I am finally playing at the moment though...
@GerackSerack4 жыл бұрын
I do the same. Then I once ran a game in one of my beautifully crafted settings, and the players basically ran amok torching every building with paragraphs of backstory, maiming and killing every character with carefully written and complex personalities.They did have a good time, but I was left traumatized.
@kalacs324 жыл бұрын
I'm in this comment and I don't like it. I'm a newbie tho and afraid of discouraging my players.
@AxisShift5 жыл бұрын
"Let's get the interns together on a game of Diplomacy." ...and then we never saw the interns ever again.
@imrolok5 жыл бұрын
Well, not alive anyways.
@robkeegan28444 жыл бұрын
This is Cecil and we are sorry for your loss
@brningpyre5 жыл бұрын
"I'm not sure about this axes system" is what literally everyone watching this thought, including our lovable camera operator.
@wizzardoffuzz5 жыл бұрын
Whoa Quinn’s... you run up AND down... that’s commitment.
@FunkySheepMeat5 жыл бұрын
This was absolutely delightful! I'm looking forward to more of these exploration missions!
@Mattchew22325 жыл бұрын
Quinns, after all your teasing on podcasts about games in your top 5 and 10, I'm so glad you made this. Thank you!
@MozilloGames5 жыл бұрын
This managed to be the most on brand Quinns video presented in the most on brand Quinns way. And I love it.
@NoPunIncluded5 жыл бұрын
Quinns, you forgot Detective which is in my house.
@jeffmcleod38295 жыл бұрын
How did that happen? It's a mystery. (I'll see myself out. Lovely to see you. Ta-ta)
@maxmustermann90365 жыл бұрын
Technically yours now!
@johnsmodularjams21234 жыл бұрын
Is this an example of industrial espionage?
@locustsun5 жыл бұрын
I look forward to how the axis system works in Quinn’s fridge.
@danielkeim85585 жыл бұрын
"I run so much! I run up and down..." super fun video guys! Always love your stuff
@hansimmenthal12295 жыл бұрын
Really glad to hear this will be a series with Matt coming next.
@werekill3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the infinity mention! It's such a great game, and I never get tired of seeing it on lists.
@TheManofDew5 жыл бұрын
I literally laughed/chuckled when I saw all the other lanyards. Keep up the great work guys. 😃👍
@vazzaroth5 жыл бұрын
I've honestly love a stream by the guys where you just open boardgames, kind of summarize things and just tell us their thoughts. That's the 2nd best thing that boardgamers like to do with their friends anyway, after actually playing.
@NoizeViolation5 жыл бұрын
"Mormon-heavy biome" just killed me. You guys are great.
@captainnolan50625 жыл бұрын
Reading RPGs is a perfectly reasonable way to enjoy them.
@geoffgoldplum12315 жыл бұрын
The axis from Euro to Knizia, also known as the Axis of Evil
@fuchila2point03 жыл бұрын
You have an excellent channel. I am glad a mate sent me to your vids as a fan of board games with my fave as DUNE.
@Anonymouschannel81814 жыл бұрын
You guys are so good at this now, even when you are just arsing around in a room you manage to do everything so professionally. Good work!
@morgisbordmedia53795 жыл бұрын
New camera, Matt? As a keen board gamer and filmmaker, I've always been interested in what you shoot with as well was what you're shooting. Keep up the good work, guys.
@vaclavsprta98035 жыл бұрын
I would really love an episode of "card games that don't suck" featuring hanafuda deck. I own one, but only ever played twice, because the scoring is usually really convoluted to remember.
@SmoggySandwich5 жыл бұрын
I have a Kallax shelf. I am so excited I learned about the Kallax Axis System today to improve my life and my board game organization.
@tylermeyer91795 жыл бұрын
We need to talk about this whole Mel Gibson Batman thing
@Matthew-nm7tu5 жыл бұрын
Did the UK get a whole Batman series the rest of the world was denied?
@djwilliams79355 жыл бұрын
We need answers!
@ashleykilgour19035 жыл бұрын
I think there needs to be a enquiry on the Mel Gibson batman, or a 2 second thing in the next pod cast.
@salemite5 жыл бұрын
Just got to "the little games" and I gotta say, my collection is slowly becoming just those. I almost always favor a small, easy to learn, hard to master game with a light theme these days.
@Table535 жыл бұрын
19:35 "their own cross to burn", jeez that was a dark mishap haha
@ChromeDrakeGaming5 жыл бұрын
A+ for the Mage Wars streams. Thanks for the tour!
@et2neoh5 жыл бұрын
Scrabble... There has never been a game more terrifying.... OH THE LITERACY, OH THE HORROR👻
@alltaken215 жыл бұрын
Love that you own shogun! It was the first big box game my group owned and I was always found it strange that it wasn't more popular in BGG or the community in general being such a deep and repayable game
@stacie_everdell4 жыл бұрын
I know this is a year + old, but I LOVE this. Thanks for sharing. It's actually nice to get an overview of the games you really like and to get e a little bit of insight for some. Perhaps now might be a good time for an update of sorts. What did you guys add in the last year that you really love. Did any of your classics get demoted? Thanks again for such great content!
@rosmith6065 жыл бұрын
"this central section represents the dark heart of boardgames, which is spooky games" Scrabble certainly spooks me in the same way when I'm asked to do remedial maths.
@mattiamolicacolella43194 жыл бұрын
"all the role-playing games I will never play!" yeah, that's actually relatable
@jordankrecek8802 жыл бұрын
When I watched this video the first time back in 2019 I had been playing board games for about 3 years but had not started my own collection. Now that I have a pretty decent sized collection, it was fun to come back to this video and see all of the games I am now intimately familiar with and are in my collection. I have to say I am very surprised by Quinn's take on Vital Lacerda games. On Mars is one of my favorites of all time and the Gallerist was my introduction to his designs. It seems like something that would be right up Quinn's alley. But then again, they do attempt to be simulationist in the most abstract ways and I can see how you would either love it or hate it.
@mella43765 жыл бұрын
This was very cute and quite wholesome, I'm very happy
@MagikanVearlae5 жыл бұрын
1:12 Immediately paused here to look up the Celestia Expansions that I didn't know existed until this video
@2532robh15 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the look on the inside! Love you guys.
@hanajurakova1285 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Quinn !!! Amazing to see that you also appreciate the Citadels game. I believe this game is sooo underrated. The art is beautiful (I have the older version that is not so cartoon-like), it's portable, it's simple to teach etc. I love the vibe this artwork brings to the game. I guess people are thrown away by the rather long "character selecation" phase. But if you have a certain strategy in mind, it's actually quite a fast process.
@SpoonyBard88 Жыл бұрын
The old version of Citadels has some of the ugliest art I have ever seen in a game. Every character looks like the creepy, r4pey guy from Ever After.
@MrJfuphill5 жыл бұрын
This was a great heartwarming video, love it.
@sahapsilalahi1475 жыл бұрын
That talk of having a game of Diplomacy got me thinking about your megagame videos. I think the second one isn't on KZfaq yet? Is it coming in the future? Anyways, lovely stuff, fellas!
@lucario7194 жыл бұрын
2:51 "Taj mahal isn't that good" Mastering the teach video: "I love this game for its mean auctions"
@michaelb.91895 жыл бұрын
“Sometimes I don’t even hang them around my neck”
@rodwoodman12235 жыл бұрын
Knowing what you keep is so useful! And so is a series like CGTDS... I always love your guys's humor and your gaming priorities. But with all BG experts on the Internet, I'm really just sifting through everyone's cult-of-the-new bias for just the evergreen stuff. Topics like this give me hope that you guys will eventually find me a smaller firehose.
@Fredreegz5 жыл бұрын
What about a game where you roleplay as boardgamer with severe hoarding tendencies all about expanding and organising your boardgame collection?
@Hghartung2 жыл бұрын
Love to see this again to compare what ones are still around after 3 years
@1body1year5 жыл бұрын
I bought Witness just because your video was so damn fun to watch!
@jamestheace15 жыл бұрын
"I run so much, I runned up and down"
@15Indianajon5 жыл бұрын
Ok, what is archaeology? I have never heard of that one before? Great vid by the way. Its always fun to see and 'rummage' through anothers' collection.
@IstasPumaNevada5 жыл бұрын
When are we going to get a video on Matt's Top 138 Cameras?
@sloth2109835 жыл бұрын
That stealth sailor moon keeping watch over the collection by moonlight though
@ntompkins5 жыл бұрын
I remember I had the chance to say hi to Quinns the first year SUSD did the GDC showcase (Mysterium, Codenames, etc..), and we talked about how I was just getting into board games and had no friends to play with yet, but my favorite app was Tigris and Euphrates. His eyes glazed over like I had so so much to learn (which I did...) Nonetheless I'm happy to see T+E and Knizia's other classics have come out in full force since then, comprising their own genre. They are timeless!
@Nelsn35 жыл бұрын
I haven't seen this much Quinns belly since 'The Wet Retirement Special.'
@dmytro_mockingbird5 жыл бұрын
Awww, no Fog of Love? I had it ordered from halfway around the globe away due to your review. It's awesome.
@povilassimonis19983 жыл бұрын
This video made me appreciate my board game collection. Even if some of games only rarely get tablespace
@garybridge24505 жыл бұрын
Since you were kinda all over the place in the video, would it be possible to have the actual list of 138 games? (Including the one you loaned to NPI.)
The look of shame on Quinns face when he has to justify all those star wars minis.
@EmpressOfCrows5 жыл бұрын
This is just 26 minutes of Quinns defending his collections of things- and it's great. Though frankly, that 2-axis system was pretty shaky.
@dark-folklore5 жыл бұрын
4:15 I like how "Scrabble" is in the "Spooky"/"Dark hearth" section :D
@wedgeex5 жыл бұрын
Knightmare Chess is wonderful. The card "Earthquake" in that game blew my mind as a young man newly discovering games.
@VonBek20095 жыл бұрын
Diplomacy was one of my first games...would love to see a play through!
@BaggyMcPiper5 жыл бұрын
I often say the name Reiner Knizia in public for no reason. The words are so lovely to speak.
@rosalind16353 жыл бұрын
Laurent Blanc
@atlmyk5 жыл бұрын
My list of top 136 board games would include about a hundred games I've never been played before.
@dilarus82315 жыл бұрын
Matt has the loveliest smile at the end there
@Kemanial4 жыл бұрын
Holy crap, "mormon heavy biome" slayed me.
@paulgibson1935 жыл бұрын
Nice idea, love the video!
@MarcBurrage5 жыл бұрын
You guys spark me joy
@easymedia915 жыл бұрын
I can't believe you don't have a copy of Mechs vs Minions! :) Stunning collection anyway.
@rocketfallen5 жыл бұрын
Your board game organization system makes me happy.
@Chwkbaseballplayer2 жыл бұрын
The Animal Kingdom deck and Navigators deck are excellent choices. Good stock and finish. In my collection, too! Although I’m now at around 100 decks, they’re still some of my best
@MentatOfDune5 жыл бұрын
Diplomacy is a great game to play during a games day or weekend. Set it up on a side table or even in another room. Then play your other games throughout the day as normal however during downtime players can also negotiate their Diplomacy turns and when ready submit their turn (maybe drop their paper orders into a jar in the main gaming room). Every hour or two just pause what you're doing to resolve a turn of Diplomacy. Diplomacy is also a great play by email game if you have a big game group. It requires a GM to collect the turns and email the results and map to everyone. Usually 1 or 2 turns per week. Gives time for the players to call/text/email each other for negotiation.
@ErwinRommy5 жыл бұрын
www.backstabbr.com/ Best Diplomacy website IMO
@br0adsw0rd655 жыл бұрын
Playing a game of Diplomacy is like the scene from The Dark Knight where the Joker has a job offer, and a broken billiard cue. The game being the Joker, and the players the applicants.
@CodenameNovacaine4 жыл бұрын
I love love love Legend of the Five Rings RPG and own every book and module printed from 1st to 4th edition. My friends and I played so long we transitioned our characters each time to match the new editions of the game.
@simplysethpdx48315 жыл бұрын
This is pretty much me, every time i wrap up a game night with people who are just getting into games
@christianringlstetter68145 жыл бұрын
That is some collection! I think I might also store my games in a Kallax someday.
@MortlachNL4 жыл бұрын
Oh God. This is probably going to cost me more money than any other video on KZfaq. I do love seeing all those great games together though!
@danielengel45934 жыл бұрын
Its so hard to stop buying new awesome games...sometimes I hate myself for being so obsessed... PS: Lovely Voltron Poster there.
@diamondmagus5 жыл бұрын
Some excellent RPGs there, Unknown Armies is a personal favorite of mine. And I'm pretty sure I remember adverts for Knightmare Chess.
@rkamionek5 жыл бұрын
i'd love to watch you stream Knightmare Chess!
@dannyteoharov82982 жыл бұрын
Thanks for helping me in choosing a proper kallax (cold salmon) for myself!
@goodlookingcorpse5 жыл бұрын
At the risk of being 'that guy', your shelf seems to be organized like a Venn diagram rather than on axes.
@Stomski5 жыл бұрын
You're right, I didn't see any wood cutting tools in the video.
@dant29335 жыл бұрын
I'll have to axe them about this.
@72kyle5 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Feels more like a Venn diagram or something?
@goodlookingcorpse5 жыл бұрын
@@72kyle That's what I meant! I couldn't think of the word. I've changed my post.
@tracesigns99335 жыл бұрын
it's probably fitting that I went from videos about visualizing 4D cubes to this
@virgil28425 жыл бұрын
Loved “Mormon-heavy biome” 😂 There are a lot of us around there, who can blame you for that error
@GrandGobboBarb5 жыл бұрын
I was feeling sad at no COIN games, but then I saw Root sitting there an ya know what that's good enough. :D
@Tomlavery89 Жыл бұрын
This man saying “reasonably, there’s no way you can resist them.” Has done more damage to my finances than the last two recessions.
@DisasterArea35 жыл бұрын
Aw man, I was hoping you'd mention why you had Wiz War in your "bad but I keep them anyway section" Wiz War (The original edition) was one of the first board games I played that wasn't a roll & move game (or risk), and I really enjoyed it back in the 90s. The reprint changed some rules around and, I feel, took it from an ok game to a worse game. The original had a small box! It was my uncle's game, and me and my cousins liked it so much that my aunt tried to buy us copies. After a few years of waiting to see if it'd ever be printed again, she decided to make her own version, with nice card stock and that kinda cork-y cardbard for the tiles. She added in custom cards for the family too, it was really cute and memorable. I was really tall growing up (still am), so my spell lets you grow really tall and walk over a labyrinth wall. Anyway, I saw the reprint, bought it immediately, and was fairly disappointed. They changed some rules, and then in the back of the rulebook, mentioned an "alternative" way to play that was just all the old rules! I guess they tried to improve it, realized they didn't (couldn't? I'm not sure what i'd change, other than finding a way to make it more confrontational), and shipped it out anyway. Cool video, looking forward to more as usual
@jonknight46165 жыл бұрын
Knightmare Chess is fun, if you like a bit of chaos in your chess. I haven't played my copy in a long time, though. This video merely points out just how different our collections are, how very different our tastes are, beyond the very few games we both seem to have in common. With that said, I also like to collect RPG books and whether I actually play those games or not one day, remains to be seen, but probably not. They are fun to read regardless. I used to collect a bunch of the Warhammer 40k source books as well. And I also have a bunch of X-Wing in my closet that I hope to one day play.
@DemonMage5 жыл бұрын
Diplomacy is a game that ends as many friendships as Monopoly.
@blacktest5 жыл бұрын
sometimes i errr dont even hang them around my neck 😂😂😂
@raizin49084 жыл бұрын
I've actually had a lot of success with Hanafuda, specifically the game Koi-koi. When teaching it I tend to aim for a 6-round game instead of the traditional 12 rounds, so as not to shackle people to a game they might not like, but out of the dozen or so people I've explained the game to over the years, *ALL* of them, without exception, wanted to continue after 6 rounds and play the full game to the end. It does require a lot of explaining at first, though. Usually I don't explain everything in one go, but add card combinations after each round (starting with the ones that are easiest to remember), and explaining some of the more granular rules as they become relevant, getting closer and closer to the full game over the course of 3 or 4 rounds.
@SanderPastoor7 ай бұрын
Would it make sense to do another one of these? A new one with Ava or Emily's collection, or an update to older ones? I love watching these!
@Bodyknock5 жыл бұрын
Putting games on a shelf... hmmm, interesting idea, I just use the Fort-On-The-Floor system but I guess shelves work too. 🙂
@Vadimaster5 жыл бұрын
Seeing your collection, saying what you like and what you don’t like (how do you mean you didn’t like the Gallerist or Lisboa), I realized our tastes are very different. Won’t stop me from enjoying the videos though 😉
@chiper1365 жыл бұрын
So honoured to have a list made for me
@maufalahms49432 жыл бұрын
Nice video. Great content. I was wondering where’s el grande?