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Thanks for taking the time to make these links Jon, must have taken AGES!

Glad you liked it, Anna. I will consider it for the future but it can be hard to find time to include Serena because of her job. If you haven't already seen them I made two VLOG videos last year called "Why I Started Making Videos" and "First Game Night in Six Months" which have a little more stuff like that.

Thanks for sharing, I'm always excited to hear when I've welcomed someone to gaming, because that's the goal of the channel. Congrats on finding the hobby! Welcome, and make sure to watch all my videos! 😁

I absolutely agree, I think that was the only thing that I have been missing from Actualol videos 🥰

I've already played through My City. I talk about it in my "First Game Night in Six Months" video from last year. It's not in my collection because I finished it and I needed the space!

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

I think it might be that, as well as people being afraid of making a bad deal and being taken advantage of. Another issue is how much fun you have can be so dependent on the group. Some people just will not negotiate/trade unless it is massively in their favor, and possibly not even then if they perceive that they're "helping" a player who is ahead of them. Granted, this perception might come from not having tried the better negotiation games out there that might prevent these issues, but for me that's one of the major reasons I don't particularly like the mechanic. It just seems like one of the mechanics out there most prone to players being able to ruin the experience.

It's been a nice surprise in a year of no party games.

😂😂 Don't personify the games, it makes it harder 😥

Let's see how many likes this comment gets to see if we're in a minority or not!

Almost all the games you mention - Wingspan, Quacks, Terraforming Mars, Scythe, Everdell - the reason I don't own them is because they are multiplayer solitaire games, there is very little player interaction, you are only concerned with what you are doing in the game. I don't find that style of game to be interesting. I don't think Mage Knight fits that list, it is a lot heavier and less mainstream than those other games, from my perspective.

I've been holding out for the in-person experience because I'll never play it again and I want my one campaign to be as good as possible. But I can imagine it works better than most online.

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Haha! Wait until the end... There's no song, I just need the view duration 😉

Shut your dirty soy SJW mouth. If I want c0mmie BLM I will go to your channel.😍

I now own Chinatown, since this video and you're right I do love it! Not sure it will be as easy to get a copy of In The Name of the Rose!

I have played it once and I found it a little too complex for my tastes. I didn't really enjoy the engine building aspect of it, and felt that the negotiation wasn't as strong as other games.

I don't think it's available here either 😔 Sorry for being annoying and talking about it so much!

I'm always one step ahead!

Interesting! Thanks for the tip. Have you played it? Do you feel it's worth the switch?

It's down to your recommendation that I got hold of a copy. So thanks for leading me to another great game! I've also heard not great things on BGG about it being visibly obvious which coal pieces are which from looking at the backs 😑

@@actualol I have never found that to be a problem - it’s one of those things you don’t notice unless you’re looking out for it. So don’t tell the other players and you’ll probably be fine! (As long as you don’t memorise them yourself). To be honest, it wouldn’t be easy - you’re looking for differences in the texture of wood grain.

Ah okay, that's good. I suppose the answer to the poker chips is to hunt down another copy just for the chips! 😂

Have you played Die Seher Von Santiiba? I figured it might be up your street.

@@actualol They are excellent chips!

Yeah I cut that bit out because I said nothing interesting 😂

It's on the shelf below!

I haven't actually had a chance to play it in this version. But it is SO much better looking. I really like the look of it.

If you're going to be drunk then I'd keep it fairly simple on the rules. Anomia, Blurble, Shifty Eyed Spies are good for that. But otherwise then Codenames, Just One.

Yeah, I did that last time but it ended up being 2.5 hours long and I got complaints! 😬 If you go back and watch that series you'll hear about a lot that I have now, but also quite a few I don't.

@@actualol off to that list. Cheers. I just got COVID it seems, so need something to take my thoughts away from panicking. Thanks mate

Sorry to hear that, I wish you a speedy recovery! Hope you find some games that interest you!

@@actualol we'll be fine. Thank you

Yes, quite different! The reason I don't play many war games is because I don't have a role for such intense two player games in my collection. I only really play two player games with Serena and they tend to be simpler, shorter games. Any other time I would rather play in a group. It's a similar reason for solo games, they are missing the key element - other people. I do own Onirim and Aerion which are both 1-2 player games but I have never played them solo. The other people are such an important part of gaming for me that playing solo would be like eating a cheese sandwich without any cheese. My tastes don't tend to align with recent hotness. Most popular games now have very little player interaction. Even something like Root which has a shared board had too much focus on your own player board. I also found the rules complexity to far exceed the reward. I didn't mind Sidereal Confluence but it's not as strong a negotiation experience as other games I own. It's more focused on the resource conversion. As for Cosmic, I used to own that and I do enjoy it, but found a bit too unreliable. Sometimes it was great, other times the alien dynamic wasn't interesting. And Dune I've only played once, as Rex. Again, it was okay but I wasn't fully hooked. We can agree on the genius of Reiner Knizia though!

@@actualol Yes indeed to Reiner! Recently I've enjoyed playing Babylonia 2-player with Sue. Would love to try it with 3 or 4.

I have 17 games from Kickstarters that I've backed, mostly from 3-6 years ago. I haven't backed a game in two years. I'm lucky enough to get review copies of some KS games. But I also fell out of love with the way games are made on there. There's too much focus on gimmicks and not enough on gameplay. It's very rare that I play a Kickstarter game that can compete mechanically with the best of the year. But there are publishers that are exceptions, obviously.

😂 So you're asking for a new collection video every month?

@@actualol I wouldn't be opposed to it. 😂

@@actualol also I want to thank you for mentioning Gods Love Dinosaurs in one of your recent videos! It has become a massive favourite.

Awesome, glad I could help 🙂

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Sorry to disappoint, I got an early reviewer copy.

Only 15%??? We're not exactly gaming soulmates are we! I've never thought too much about the facing. Doesn't everyone have them facing right? I just checked Dice Tower and SUSD - they face right too. Perhaps it's time you changed to fit in with us cool kids. 😎

Isn’t that the direction that books on a shelf face? Makes sense to me to have it go the same way as a bookshelf.

@@actualol To clarify, I'm not saying only 15% of our games match, I'm saying in terms of what/who introduced new games to me, you account for 15% of new game exposure, which compared to all the board game content creators out there is actually a fairly big percentage. As for my games being left-facing. I used to face them right, but I think some time long ago I realized my wife is right-handed and somewhere in my brain I thought "If the games faced left, if she ever grabbed one off the shelf with her right hand, it she could see the cover which might entice her to actually play one" Or some nonsense like that.

Haha, if you go to my BGG profile and sort by rating you can probably get a decent idea, though I might not have a rating for all!

I have tried Scythe, and I don't find it to be anything like those games. It is much more of a euro game with much less player interaction. I played a prototype of Nemesis and found it to be too complicated for what it delivered in return, but I would try it again sometime. And I haven't tried Eclipse, which I hope to give a chance at some point. I suspect I would like it but not love it. But generally, the reason those games stand out for me is in the player interaction - the negotiation and alliances in Game of Thrones, and the co-operation/deception in BSG and DoW. Very few other big games have that, with Nemesis being an exception.

@@actualol If I may recommend something... For Nemesis make sure to play 4-5 players, coz of solo, 2 or 3 is quite a different game. Also avoid coop scenario, it takes away a lot of emotions which make the game so special. Wish you to start with a stable group of players. First game is tough, will like!y take 4-5 hours with multiple rules checks. But after 2-3 games things improve a lot. My group of friends usually playes one game in about 90 minutes including setup, so we usually manage 2-3 games in one evening. The biggest issue I have with Nemesis is that my friends prefer Nemesis over any other game due to extensive player interaction. Spoiler alert: we record statistics and our win rate from around 150 games played is only around 40 %, hard to believe we love playing a game where NOBODY wins 60 % of the time :-D