4 Games We Played so You Don’t Have To - with Tom & Zee
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- Tom and Zee take a look at 4 games they don't recommend, so you can be spared the experience!
0:00 Intro
0:50 Manhattan Project: War Machine
4:48 Quoridor Pac-Man
9:00 Portals
14:04 Age of Inventors
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Gentlemen, your sacrifices are greatly appreciated and will not be forgotten.
I love that you have two people discussing and take a little more time with each game. This is infinitely better than the old videos where Tom or another solo reviewer will list all the games they don't like. Discussion is king for me.
Thank you for doing this again. I like this format.👍
Just looked into it and War Machine is part of the Manhattan Project line, they acquired the rights to the franchise after fulfilling the Energy Empire: Cold War kickstarter and all future games in the series will be coming out from Grail Games. Hopefully future installments are more on the mark.
Isn’t Grail out of business?
@@jgregveneklasen2657 that’s holy grail games, not grail games haha
That War Machine cover is awesome
Agreed, so clean
I almost backed War Machine because I wanted a game with a follow mechanism. I decided it looked clunky. I bought San Juan and Space Base instead without having to wait for production. Sounds like I made a good call.
going for the classics is always a better option than backing new stuff
San Juan is one of my all-time top five favorites. Some games just work.
Thanks for the video. Love you two guys in this format.
A nice, _good,_ two-player Pacman game would be a huge hit.
I like this video but I wished you guys used a lot more B footage of the game. I find I have to keep looking up the games to see more pictures.
Holy heck. Blasted these games into the orbit
Yea, way to kick a dog while its down.
@@FoeJred was it down though?
Damn, I thought they re-released the old Pac-Man board game from the 80's. That thing was great.
Played War Machine as well. I fully agree with all said here. It's too quick and the lack of a coherent rulebook frustrated us during our play. That being said there is some fun planning and given that you are rolling dice Yahtzee style you are TRYING for something every turn. An OK game
Agreed about War Machine - disappointing, and the board mix up issue means no one appeared to be looking at the proof reading
Love the thumbnail!
I enjoyed portal, I really like adding the extra pattern score cards.
I Kickstartered Age of Inventors, played once and sold. A dud.
I like the solo mode of Portals...okay. It's not bad as a little puzzle game. However, I can think of others in a similar vein that are more rewarding.
Thanks for putting out more of the shorter format videos recently. I love hearing your thoughts on games, but the long videos are just a bit too much sometimes.
Uh oh, someone in my Friday game group backed Age of Inventors. Hopefully we like it better than you two did!
I went back and forth on Age of Inventors while on Kickstarter because of its looks. Glad I didn’t get it.
Hmm I didn't think Portals was bad, especially as a two player game. Though it doesn't really stand out in the sea of games available
It’s a bland as white bread with nothing on it.
@@darinherrick9224 is it toasted at least for a bit of texture ?
Quoridor sounds like it has similar problems to Scotland Yard
In what way?
But Tom gave Portals a 7/10 in his latest speed review!
That is true but I changed my rating on subsequent plays. That happens sometimes!
Great reviews, saved some cash on Portals. Really don't like that banner at the top of the video.
Indeed
I was looking at Quoridor Pac-man since I love those classic arcade games from the 80s, but it sounds dull as dishwater, so going to give it a pass I think.
Bummer... I pre-ordered Quoridor Pac-Man...
10:10 So it is Azul? Now that is a the good evaluation of Azul then!
What a shame about War Machine. I love the art and graphic design.
A terrible rulebook is pretty much every Kickstarter game, which is 85% of every flippin board game now! Man i miss the old days. Games now are just churned out with little to no play testing, and sell because of minis or FOMO. Hence why ill just continue to scour the second hand market, once hype on a game dies down.
I don’t agree with this at all. There are still plenty of games coming out with bad rulebooks but overall they are much improved from 15-20years ago. Tons of old games have huge blocks of text, unclear writing, few or no examples, terrible translation and very few images. You’ve got to be looking back with some pretty rose-tinted glasses to think that this used to be an area of excellence.
Age of Inventors...with Einstein prominently on the cover...was not an inventor.
He invented a blouse 😅 and co-patented several tech things.
I quite like War Machine and props to Grail Games for the way they fulfilled the EE:Cold War expansion, and the transparency during the WM kickstarter printing errors. They did the right thing when so many other companies would not.
Tom should really reconsider his rating scale. Portal getting 6, while both of them slam on it hard. The game sounds utterly dreadful, and he gives it a 6...