I'll never forget winning Talking Points with my speech about peepeepoopoo, and my friend getting RUINED by his presenter when he said 'you know what i like?!' And the next slide was blocks spelling KIDS

playing no music during the talking points: free play section was hilarious lol, my group had the same reaction to that horrendous mode

this is genuinely one of the best packs, and the year it came out couldn't have been better for it. i was stuck at home in 2020 and this game provided so much fun game nights when i picked it up. Champ'd Up, Talking Points, and Quiplash 3 are all in my Top 10, and i'd say CU is in my Top 3 as well. banger pack.

Man, I can't believe there's only one left now.

I really like Devil in the Details but your review and explanation of all the stuff you didn’t like about it was super fair and well thought out

Starting to notice a theme that usually with Jackbox games, the most experimental game in a pack is usually the worst one, which sucks, because I obviously don’t want JBG to start becoming one-trick ponies, but out of all of the “bad overly-experimental” games Devils and the Details hurts the most because I really love the visuals and the entire “tropey 90’s sitcom” theme

Warioware also does have microgrames where the objective is to do absolutely nothing. However those are sparse and are meant to be jokes or a sudden change. Like, you're playing through a bunch of fast-paced microgames at a quick speed, you're expecting to press a button or whatever you usually do, but you're caught off-guard because all of a sudden, you're NOT supposed to do something. Plus another thing that gives ware an advantage is that it's at a very quick pace and you can't choose which game you're playing. To be fair I can tell why they did it because you know, there are all types of tasks but still .

I have a small problem with champ'd up, it really depends on the group you play it with but i often see people care more about the drawings than the theme, so rather than voting which champion best fits "the champion of ___", they just pick the 'funnier' drawing.

I thoroughly believe that combining Devils & Roomerang could lead to the best jackbox game. A reality show with little tasks and a vote out system? Sign me up!

I do agree. The Devils and the Details should have been Fully Co-Op like Bomb Corp. It would have been better. I feel like the game was forced to be competive. And that hurts it so much. I still had SO much fun with it though. We played as if it was Co-Op and had a blast.

Me and my friends enjoy Blather Round a lot to be honest! Whenever we play it we end up goofing off with the voice chat bot if we can't figure out the answer really. (Trying to break the bot or make it say crazy stuff). We have fun doing that if really stumped but overall we just have fun with it and it's quite an amusing game!

Absolutely need a full video on champd up slam down. Sounds like a fun card game.

The arlo part in champed Up LOL

As someone who would also consider D&tD my favorite JBPP game, I will say that I feel like not mentioning the fact you get completion ratings for how well you do each episode is something that hurt your experience. When I play with friends, we try to always do "the next episode", because we're looking to 100% the game with all the highest ranks. Because of this, we see the scoring system as a fun sort of risk reward for trying to be better than the rest, but all have silently agreed that the important task at hand is getting the maximum score every day and doing our best to never be too selfish and cause emergencies. In that sense, we see the final score as more of a "oh cool, you won" while we see the ending rank as a "hell yeah *WE* did it". Almost like seeing a horoscope and going "that's neat" and then just not thinking about it ever again, the "winner" is more of an inconsequential thing to me and my friends. If anything we consider them the MVP rather than a winner. I understand your problems with the game, since the responsiveness has been a problem in my group many times, but I'd be lying if I said my friends cared all that much, we love D&tD to death.

I feel it’s important to note that JBPP1 was NOT designed with streaming in mind, and that the market didn’t really open up until pack 2’s release. Also, there are always a few games without streaming intended every now and again, (Fakin’ It, Zeeple Dome, Fibbage Enough About You, Role Models, etc) which is a good thing for most players who don’t stream or play with massive audiences.

Talking points was based i think on the trend of having Powerpoint Parties, where people would just go and present shit like it was show and tell, and I think the Appeal for Free play mode was basically allowing a more streamlined but limited version of that, because people genuinely have made a game out of presenting powerpoints.I guess it's for people who want the point system and want a powerpoint they can make in a couple minutes and present right away instead of in a half an hour and then show it a week later. The no music thing is still weird though, but they might have assumed that you'd find your own music to play?

Champ'd Up is one of my favorite party games EVER. Love it so much, and with Quiplash in the pack as well, this is an amazing pack. I also enjoy talking points , can be rather fun with the right people. The other two don't really do it for me, but I guess it's still cool that they're included and I'm happy they exist for the people who like them.

Silok, I also wanna add another valid critic for "The Devils and The Details": Some of the cooperative tasks are crucial for success as a family or for getting more points as individual players. However, since communicating is crucial in such tasks, they are impossible to complete in streaming form. Since you don't have a way of communicating with the other players, unless the streamer includes an option for voice-chat, such as a shared discord room. The Jackbox team should've included a "Streaming variant", with an emphasis on personal tasks or a substitute for cooperative tasks. Or make it perfectly clear that the game is not streaming friendly.

_please_ do a video on Champ'd Up Slam Down, i've always thought it was a cool concept and i'd be delighted to see someone actually play it.

Champd'up ost is banging

Glad to see your back man, love you Jackbox videos :)

regarding Champed Up, in the groups I've played with we've found that what you decide to name your creation is as important, if not more important, than the actual quality of the art. It's important to at least be able to represent your idea, but stick figures with funny and appropriate names often win over more detailed drawings in games I've played in.

Nice! Only a single video left after this, and it’s time to spam 24/7

i just gotta say: i love the term "shoudlve been born better" thats amazing EDIT: also, wanna say, champd up is lowkey the same thing as sethbling's old minecraft building game

Been waiting for this video for so long

Champ’d Up’s prompts can really screw you over, once when I was playing with my family, I got a drawing from my brother named “Red Bull drinker”, so I did the exact opposite and made “Melatonin Gummy eater”… the prompt was “champion of pulling an all nighter” also once when I was playing Blather ‘Round with my siblings and neighbors, one of them guessed “Asia” at the very beginning of the round, and it was right… except the actual answer was “Walmart”, they wrote Asia and the game thought it was Walmart, I have a recording of that moment on my phone, we still bring it up a decent amount

Nice to see these again, probably going to be the one im starting with.

Once in blather round I accidentally gave a major hint by saying “I’m sure this person would know” the person I was referring to was French and the answer was a book called L’es Miserables

Sweet! This was my first pack, and it was definitely a great one!

Blather round feels like an amazing palette cleanser as a way to chill out after some of the higher energy games in this pack.

Finally, the one I've played the most with friends on my Switch! I've had hours of great games with friends with this one.

Me and our family play devils completely coop and we basically do no selfish tasks. We dont really play to win, we play to have fun. Thats why i like it so much

I've been looking forward to this one for... Over a year now I think. Let's go.

only yesterday, I was thinking "why didn't he review 7 yet?" and then literally THE next day he comes out with a video on it! and it's an awesome review! some of my personal thoughts (for context, I am the oldest of a family of 5+, and usually play these games with them on the weekends): - In The Devils and The Details, I never found the rotating actions to be that finicky with a mouse. however, I also play the game more carefully rather than urgently, so maybe the problem comes with trying to do it too fast? - I also think the game is best played with an actual family, as in my case it made the energy of the game more wild. instead of the weird "oh you caused a flood you scamp!" thing you showcased, we ended up with more genuine (or at least genuine-sounding) but jovial teasing/condescending/accusatory yelling ("[sibling name] I swear to god STOP DOING SELFISH TASKS" "GODDAMMIT [sibling/parent name] WHAT HAVE YOU DONE"). one particular moment I remember fondly was when everyone had to do the final event task together, and everyone was yelling at the final person to "get in bed"! TL;DR: this game is best played with exaggerated energy or a family that boasts it. use lots of family-isms! - almost everyone in my family sucks at drawing, and in Champ'd Up even those that did couldn't really make excellent works of art under the time constraints. combine that with me and my older sibling's broken humor having to go up against my younger sibling's internet-fueled gen-z humor, and you can get some...interesting results (I wish I could get "Johnny thousand-pack" on a shirt) - Talking Points is pretty much perfect, and I didn't even know the free play mode existed. I will forever remember being the assistant to my mom's presentation, which one of my younger brothers named something like "my favorite play is Shakespeare's [Coom Time] " she even went all out on it! and the game even gave me cinnamon buns with icing for one of the images. it was like the game KNEW it was gonna be comedy gold! - not a fan of Blather 'Round, honestly. too restrictive and those prompts can REALLY screw you over. though maybe it'll turn out better if I used those strats you mentioned... - Quiplash 3 hit less funnier than XL for us, and I could never put my finger on why...until you pointed out the flaw with the prompts, and now I know EXACTLY why. I still like the rest of it though, and I wonder if there's a way to have the prompts from the first two games exclusively show up... all in all, your prediction about pretty much everyone liking 4 out of the 5 games was spot on, and that's why you've earned my sub! keep up the good work!

This is my favorite pack no doubt. I love champt up, talking points, and of course quip lash!

Better idea for fixing selfish tasks: when the bar fills up, those who contributed lose points, and those lose like 200 points per selfish task. If the group task is failed, everyone loses 200 points with those who contributed losing 200 more, meaning they lose at least 600 points while those who did nothing lose 200. If the task is succeeded, everyone gets 200 points, leaving everyone who didn't up 200 points, anyone who did a selfish task only had time wasted, and anyone who did multiple is down some

The Devils And The Details would be very cool if each age had unique skills, like specifically making it so adults actually can stop selfish acts faster, maybe kids get easier tasks, and teenagers get more points for doing selfish tasks. Also remove the selfish bar. You should have a potential punishment for getting stopped, or make it so it either makes new tasks for everyone to do (like you break somrthing and now a task appears where it has to be fixed) or make it a balancing act where you get more for doing selfish stuff but if you dont do the necessary ones, you all fail (yeah i know thats kinda how it works now but they should emphasize the risk more) Also yeah make the minigames more like WarioWare and itll be even more fun

Gonna be honest: i LOVE blather round. I had a moment n your discord where i guessed "Hawaii" with "It's a thick thing culture" as the only clue and was right, and the hilarity that followed was gold. Best game in the pack And you right: devils is kinda putts

I remember buying this party pack after watching Jschlatt’s videos on it, and I’m glad I did as I got great mileage out of it due to covid lockdowns. Playing with my friends and family was a real highlight, especially when it was Quiplash 3 or Talking Points

That devils and the details rant was glorious.

The Jackbox 10 Review is gonna be the end of an era lowkey

I have one personal gripe with Talking Points: One time I was playing it in a Discord call with some friends, and one of the friends went AFK just as we were about to do the presentations. I got the first presentation, they were an audience member, and because they were AFK, I lost points on a presentation where everyone was laughing like crazy over it. They were an assistant next, and while they didn't come back until after that presentation was done, the person still got more points than I did

HE CAME BACK!

I was not aware of champed up slam down at all. Granted me and my friends constantly rush through the menus hence why we never saw it. As a board game fanatic I would love to learn more about it

Amazing videos

23:27 Hey y'all Scott here

I love Champ’d up, but everyone in my family hates it. But that’s mainly because my family doesn’t like drawing games.

1:47 I'm sure someone else has to have mentioned it at this point, but I think the safety quip is a reference to the action of "throwing spoons at the screen" during a certain scene when watching The Room. In fact, given the prompt, I'm pretty dang sure that's what it is. You have to be familiar with not just The Room, but also this uncommon joke in regards to The Room, or this safety quip is pretty much lost on you. I'm not even sure if fans of The Room that partake in this joke would even find this safety quip that funny - given that the original joke came from a specific scene where a stock image of a spoon is seen in a picture frame in the background. There really isn't an equivalent with The Wizard of Oz and straw.

One thing I will note about the Schmitty answers, they're always the first one up, and always the second option.

talking points is my favorite jackbox game

I played Jackbox as an audience member and player! I must say, it was quite an enjoyable experience.

yoo this is a nice review

I want to see a video about the Champed-Up card game! Also you should rank all the packs once you've reviewed them all

i feel like i can't play devils now in the same way that you can't be on a jury after learning about nullification, like how can i play with all this forbidden meta knowledge my friends will tear me apart

I play talking points freeplay mode the most in jackbox 7. It's one of the best jackbox games in my opinion. This and junktopia are genuinely my favourite presentation games out of all the other presentation games.

As someone who bought Party Pack 7 with high expectations for the most hyped up games in the series, I was surprised to find that Blather Round of all games ended up as my favorite in the entire series so far. Its scoring system is pretty bad, but it works really well once people start connected on the same wavelength, and being the presenter hits you with a lot of oh shit moments when you realize the dumb combinations of words that somehow fit perfectly. I just want to point out that Talking Points is also one of the best games in the series if you happen to only have 3 people since it functionally stays the same. I wish Talking Points had the option to make your trophy categories at the start of the game rather than the end since the trophies have so much potential for wackiness, but basically just end up being a stand in for favorite presentation.

OH LESS GOO PARTY PACK 7 NOW JUST ONE MORE LEFT THEN ITS UP FOR TRADITION FOR THE FINALE WITH THE GRAND ANNIVERSARY PARTY PACK 10TH EDITION *Now I await party pack 8*

It's here! Let's GOOOOOO!

I would love to see you cover chumped up card game. It looks interesting

I'd like to hear more about the Champ'd Up card game. I've never heard of it before and I'm curious how it plays 😄

justice for my boy blather round!! my favorite jackbox game ever

Tdatd is amazing… on a mobile device and I LOVE IT. It is my family’s favorite game

I would love to hear what you had to say about the champd up card game. It would be cool if you had a live game going where the drawings made there were in the review

Quiplash 3 BGM is fine, imo. At least between the friend group I play with where we always use custom question sets. Since you apparently play with randoms, I guess I can see where more chaotic music might not be fun, but at least in my friend group case I think that the chaotic carnival music combined with friend-group-made questions mostly about memeing memories and each other works out

I enjoy freeplay mode, in a very weird way. yes its not a game, But as a create a presentation. I have abused this to make a really funny breakdown of something my friend kept saying in the call. so i booted up freeplay by myself, Turned screen sharing on, and presented a half improv speech on why he is a bish. was pretty funny in the moment

I don’t get the hate on the Quiplash 3 soundtrack! Both are good, just have different styles! Quip 3 makes me think of what’s exactly on screen, and 2 reminds me of… D.I.Y for some reason. Which is also good!

So no idea if this would be effective, but my solution to balance the devils and the details would be 1) _make stopping a selfish task take the exact same time as the person youre trying to stop_ , effectively racing them to complete the task, but at a disadvantage since they start earlier 2) _allow multiple people to stop selfish tasks at the same time as a collaborative event, sharing the points_ meaning people who are caught repeatedly being selfish will have a harder time for each person who is trying to stop them 3) _give points to people for stopping emergencies ONLY if they didnt cause it, and allow people to continue their previous task after being interrupted_ 4) _stop announcing who is being selfish_ so people actually have to put some effort into working it out

20 mins in and still on the second game holy hell

Man I really wanna play that presentation game now…

strangely enough I've never had the controls mess up in Devils and the Details. I don't know how or why. Either way it's one of my favorite Jackbox games, and Pack 7 is my favorite pack out of the 6 packs I've played (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8).

If I recall, trusted people can judge if the answers are good for showing in JPP7. Added security from people who might say offensive answers.

My jaw died when both SilokHawk and Parallel Pipes uploaded in the same day. Kudos to you both!

Just a heads up Silok, KZfaq _did not_ notify me about this video and considering the views, I’m guessing I wasn’t the only one

quiplash 2 music sounds like they commissioned someone to "synthesize me some tunes"

25:46 i disagree with this point, most rounds of Champ'd Up I've played haven't ended with the best artist winning, just whoever was the funniest/most accurate to the prompt

I hope the next video is the gamecube era Mario Party retrospective :O

New silokcock video

Another thing in talking points is that you can lag the system by EVERY PERSON VOTING UP CONSTANTLY because if you do, you will have a MEGA BRAIN that has hands

25:08 had to do a double take (cool Isaac reference)

This and 3 are easily the best two packs as a whole. I think 3 is my favorite just because it was my first but this is a close second.

You should talk about tha Champ'd up card game, I have no clue what it is

please go over the champ-ed up card game, that sounds so interesting

I’ve played so much Blather ‘Round that it’s basically unfair because I already know so many of the prompts. I don’t dominate or anything, it’s just that I usually already knew the thing they were describing was a possible answer. Sorry, Mom, I’m busy metagaming charades.

I personally think blather 'round is a top 3 jackbox game

I love talking points, and I had no idea free play was even a thing. I’m totally with you on that lmao, being in control of your presentations completely ruins the point of talking points in the first place!

I've been waiting to see his opinions for Devils and the Details for a while now, please don't disappoint me Hawk... I have now been disappointed. Completely fair and I won't complain, but disappointed nonetheless. I honestly didn't have many issues with it responding, but I've also only played DatD on mobile, the primary device you would play Jackbox on.

I think what you're saying about the emergency not working as a deterrent for selfish actions is exactly the point. If too much selfishness happens, everyone ELSE gets punished. If they didn't, no one would stop the selfish tasks. So the emergencies are the deterrent for ignoring the selfish tasks the other players do, not the deterrent for doing them. The deterrent for doing them is that everyone else is motivated to stop you and if they do you get nothing. I get your input critiques, but I think you missed the point of the selfish tasks and the emergencies.

It would be so fucking cool if you covered the champ'd up card game, I'd watch the shit outta that video

Blather Round is actually one of my favorites. I would say its similar to the "Concept" boardgame. I love how broken english sounds. Just found out you could change the articles so it would fit the nouns better... no thank you!

32:48 I’d say that even tho it’s awkward, a creative enough group could use the free play mode to set their own limitations and give themselves challenges?

Cool

27:12 I know I’m late to say this but I’d love a a video towards the Champ’d Up card game

Personally I just love the quiplash 3 music but I get it not being everyone’s favourite

I really love blather round. I just wish it had more prompts because I see too many repeats. I also don't like devils and the details

I really like the quiplash 3 music

7 is my fav for sure. I think champ'd up is a better drawing game than Tee-KO, which gives it that edge over Pack 3. Also Talking Points might be my favorite game in all of jackbox. You just need to have a good group of people.

talking points is probably my favorite jackbox game over all, but it's scoring system is absolute trash, almost every single game I've played has been entirely determined by the awards, which have almost always been picked based on a joke the person making the award thought of. either way, I play jackbox almost entirely with close friends, and this game absolutely excels in that environment

I would like to see you review the card game

Champ'd up seems fun a game but not if everyone sucks at drawing.

Easily my favorite Party Pack around. Quiplash 3 is great as a session starter. The Devils And The Details is basically WarioWare but with a bit more party involvement Champ'd Up is probably my favorite drawing game here so far. Talking Points can work but needs the right kind of people and Blather Round is simple yet effective