A board game where you create a board game might be fun if someone could figure out a good way to pull it off, but it would definitely be a tall order.
Hell yeah, Board Game Scott the Woz beat the actual Scott the Woz to the Video Game Board Game video that real Scott the Woz offered in the Board Game Video Game video! The universe is back in alignment.
I want to add a bit more to what you said on Guilty Gear Strive: The Board Game. Not only is it based on Exceed Fighting System, it’s from the same developers and fully cross-compatible with Exceed. So, if you happen to own prior seasons of Exceed it becomes one of the most expansive fighting game rosters ever seen. And yes, I would refer to it as a fighting game, I’ve brought this thing to fighting game locals before and it’s been a huge hit. Never seen another board game where I can play footsies.
I HAD THE ANGRY BIRDS GAME AS A KID...the sling was awful with the little plastic thing at the end bending backwards insanely quick, but it was fun to just disregard the whole rules and just built up random structure and throwing the birds by hand
I remember 30 years ago we made that game as kids out of blocks and little lego people, and we would throw marbles at each other's structures to see who could... oh god we made Angry Birds before Angry Birds was a thing.
“Kill your friends; guilt free… in cardboard form!” It wasn’t on my bingo card for the day either… or ever, considering his channel, lmao. I’m glad the game is good… though sadly; I’ll never be able to play it. The upfront cost of that game is STUPIDLY expensive (like ALL of ArkSys’ merch on their god forsaken site), and if it goes out of print, that price is just going UP.
and like it was brought up in the video the lack of any actual art in the game is honestly kinda heinous. There's not even boxart that isn't already ArcSys' official art. The fact its just a new coat of paint on Exceed as well kinda just makes it feel heinously lazy. It's an expansion pack being sold as a full game. fwiw exceed plays pretty well, although some exceed things don't work with GG like characters other than Sol, Ky having installs in the form of Exceeding. (I'll give some leniency for characters like Nago or Leo where they used Exceed to represent Blood Rage and backturn respectively but like... does Testament need an install? Jack-O'?)
@theplumbum82 tbf I think beyond the branding it works as just season 7 of exceed. It's expensive but it's not more expensive than 5 boxes of previous seasons (which is what the content adds up to) As for the installs, that's just the general conceit of the game, so it makes sense why it's the way it is. Also! If it's too expensive there's an officially supported mod for the GG season on tabletop Sim, and a semi official version that has all 7 seasons.
@@boatman9041 I'm aware of the TTS mods, that's how I can be so sure of the gameplay even. I got the preview pack in paper and definitely came to the conclusion it isn't worth the asking price. I understand the install mechanic is fairly central to the gameplay of exceed but it also belies a pretty bad lack of iteration, it feels like the system is forced into GGST even if they've managed a couple cool ways of instancing GGST's stuff (f. ex I like their iteration of Stain State and Blood Rage into the existing system mechanics but there's zero instancing of say, Jack-O's servants) Honestly "it works fine as Exceed season 7" is actually kind of my complaint, it's Exceed Season 7 with the serial numbers filed off, which feels deceptive. Exceed is well-designed and all and I'll still have fun with the game but I'll pine for what it could have been.
@@theplumbum82honestly fair, I've never been a fan of how they market it as it's own thing, it sets expectations that the game simply can't meet because it isn't it's own game It's a phenomenal expansion to an existing game
"I've watched my friend play [Stardew Valley] and I have... _no_ idea what that game is about." As a player who frequents the community, don't worry, we don't either!
If you have a free table lying around that will never have any other contents, I recommend the Slay the Spire game. It is a BITCH to set up, especially punching out all your tokens the first time. Definitely not one to bring to a friend's house.
Technically, Mouser was also in Super Mario Bros. 2 and was not made up for the Super Show. Also "Little Goomba" and "Mushroom Retainer" are how they were called in the SMB instruction booklet.
Mouser wasn't made for Mario. Mouser was made for "doki doki panic" as what we got was a resting of that because us yanks couldn't handle the original smb2 /j
If you ever review more of these games, I HIGHLY recommend Binding of Isaac: Four Souls. It's the only board game I've seen where Isaac, Boyfriend, Crewmate, and Psycho Goreman can all be characters in the same game
i absolutely love four souls, and ive only ever played it as a 1v1 game i was hoping it was mentioned while watching because it is seriously the best example of game to board game that i think i've ever seen - it brings the items into the game very well, it brings the characters well, theres an insane amount of variability in your games, and it weirdly is almost as good as the game itself, if you have the right people around its just too good to not talk about in a series like this, theres so much depth with it
there is actually a really cool revamp of master trainer, called ultimate edition, on tabletop simulator. i played it with my sister, its pretty in depth, and a lot of fun, if a little long, though we only played 2 player, it probably gets even longer with more people. in that way, its kind like a video game of a board game of a video game
I found it so cool when I was a kid because I was in love with Pokemon in '99 but yeah, it was absolutely a random die roll simulator. It was utterly imbalanced. It was just really cool to catch all* 150 Pokemon.
Honestly it was one of my favourites as a kid! Me and my siblings would spend what felt like the whole day playing it because those final battles were so difficult but I think that was part of the thrill. I haven’t played in years so I wouldn’t be surprised if the flaws would stand out if I did replay it now but I still have a big soft spot for it
I actually backed that Cookie Run board game on Kickstarter a few years back; it's a pretty simple worker placement game where each player builds up their individual kingdom. You take turns assigning your workers to either gather resources, spend resources to construct buildings that offer special benefits or bonus scoring at game's end, or go on hunts to battle enemies for more points. Battles are determined by your number of cookie soldiers plus the results of a dice roll, and certain buildings give you more soldiers or ways to modify your rolls. Not a bad game, overall.
DRG unironically had a fantastic tabletop game with really high quality miniatures. It does a good job translating the core gameplay of killing bugs and mining minerals. It’s a really fun time to play with friends just like the og game
A few more things to mention -Pokemon master trainer has two more versions of it. Even if they are not all called master trainer. Someone also converted nearly every pokemon for the game and put it up on tabletop simulator. So now you can get time machined by friends with more modern pokemon. -Zelda has this weird boardgame that kind of acts like a version of heroquest. You visit dungeons, fight monsters and try to recover the triforce. This also has a updated version on tabletop simulator. -Resident evil has not one, not two, but three board games based off the original trilliogy. You can even use them in tandem with eachother due to them sharing the same ruleset(So, you could have chris do one of the RE2 secario's or have leon do one of the secenario's for RE1.) -Did you know Gears of war has a board game? I never did play this, but its fascinated me for a while. Last, not a board game but halo has muliple wargames associated with it. Be it ground combat, 40k style combat, and even space combat. Some people even wrote custom rules to use the halo megablox figures.
I've always gottena chuckle out of the fact that Europa Universalis was a boardgame that got a videogame adaption that spawned a game series that eventually went full circle and spawned a boardgame based on the most recent videogame.
Gotta love how the Super Mario Bros Board Game has the same “everyone moves the same player” mechanic that everyone eventually came to hate on in Mario Party 9. That being said I am a defender of the mechanic, I just like the irony
the funniest part of the Fallout board game is that all enemies converge onto players, but the map also represents a HUGE area so you'll have a random rapscorpion zeroing in to the nearest player even if that player is on the other side of the wasteland
It's funny how a medium famous for being badly adapted into a medium full of adaptations (movies) would be so consistently decent when adapted into a medium not known for being easy to adapt things into (board games), but in retrospect it makes perfect sense-- they're already games! Even with the mobile games, where you'd expect them to be a soulless cash grab, a property with a recognizable aesthetic and an extremely simple set of mechanics gives the team making the board game so much space to make something interesting. In conclusion, WOW this makes those bad game show board games so much more embarrassing.
There are probably enough videogame boardgames out there for a second part in the future. I know of at least a few that didn't get a mention: 1. XCOM Enemy Unknown. That one even got an expansion. 2. Dorfromantik 3. Anno 1503 4. Super Mario Tower (that one I owned myself!) 5. Super Mario Blow Up Shaky Tower (Yes, it's a very different game - despite the basic premise of 'mario themed balance-tower game'. HOW are there even two?) And there is going to be a Mass Effect 3 Boardgame in the near future, too. Of course, there is the counterpart of "video games based on board games", but I think that might be more suitable for Kams alter ego, Scott The Woz (I mean, have YOU ever seen both of them in the same room? For all we know, they are the same person!)
There's also the option of covering Cookie Run Kingdom for real, as well as tackling the YDKJ board game (complete with electronic gizmo to recreate the host's snark).
Another commenter brought up The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, which was definitely worth covering. The religious themes concern isn't even an issue because this is the same guy who made an entire video about Christian TCGs.
@@Schnabelmaennchen Probably because those didn't get a boardgame adaptation, at least to my knowledge - and I was listing the boardgames, not the videogames.
@@soapsatelliteTo Pimp a Butterfly. But if hip-hop is not your thing, don't worry: Ok Computer, Kind of Blue, Discovery and the Pink Floyd concept albums are all also rated lower lmao
@@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. OK Computer was #1 on that site for what felt like its entire existence - the Drake beef was what elevated TPAB to #1 (and good kid, m.A.A.d city to the top 10, for that matter) not saying it's not deserved, mind you - i'm glad to see some of the old indie-nerd canon start to drop!
For the video game community, 8.8 is infamous. It was the Gamespot review score of the Wii version of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The reviewer got a lot of backlash, threats, and accusations of being paid by other companies to not give it 10.
"Speaking of microtransactions" is a transition that never leads to good things. Also, only one game with any argument for being in WBGOAT, thats a shocker.
The drg board game is super fun and is basically a co-op tabletop wargame in a box. They somehow fit a procedureally generated map made with tiles into a box that can be carried in an ikea bag. Every time I bring this thing out its been at least a decent time. And the first player is the one who can say rock and stone the best I mean COME ON!
The Stardew Valley game is trash. The pure randomness and hard time limit doesn't translate the cozy feel of the game, but rather makes it into a brutal and punishing speedrun.
@@anon9469 It feels exactly like doing a year one community center speedrun. That’s basically the idea of the game actually, you have until the end of the year to do your objectives or else you lose!
It's interesting to see how a designer can try to replicate a video game into a board game, or try to make a board game that at the very least fits the property. Limitations breed creativity after all. I wouldn't mind seeing a follow up to this video cause there's so many more board games based on video games out there. Hell, I can think of 3 that've come out in recent years based on Sonic alone.
21:10 Just a lil heads up for those who don’t know what cookie run is: it’s an Endless runner with a gatcha system, Kingdom is more story focused and has your team of 5 cookies (all gotten from said gatcha) to fight enemies.
It is also a kingdom builder, so I’m very confused on what the gameplay of the board game would be. If only there was someone who could explain it to me.
I have a personal anecdote about the pokemon board game talked about at 18:15. A board/retro game cafe I visited with some friends had it, and one friend recognized it so the 4 of us sat down to play it. First off, someone broke my character's legs before we began, because throughout the game i only ever managed to roll higher than 2 for my movement twice. However, I got into the main game because I got an event that let me switch with someone, and got very lucky in every other aspect, and over the rest of the game got some decent items and a team of the best pokemon in the entire game. After about an hour, I finally decided to roll up to the elite 4, pulled the weakest member, and got absolutely rocked regardless. At which point we decided that everyone else, upon seeing the strongest of them all getting obliterated by the weakest elite 4 member, all gave up their dreams of being the very best and we put the game away.
I've been playing the resident evil 1 board game with the wife, which is a nice way to play coop in a game that doesn't have that option in the video game counterpart.
Ignoring the game that wanted you to do co-op so hard that it was damn near impossible alone? We're just going to pretend the game of Chris "Boulder Punching Asshole" Redfield doesn't exist? Such a shame, smh my head. Disclaimer: This is a joke.
Fun fact, a board game adaptation of Dorfromantik won the extremely prestigious Spiel De Jahr (Game of the Year) award a couple years back. So yes, modern adaptations have figure out the formula!
I was just learning all about Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game on a binge, it really is true what you said about the Modern Video Game Board Games, I've yet to see a genuinely bad one. Even Indie titles seem to put out incredibly fitting, thrilling bangers. I'm going to be bankrupt after getting Frostpunk and Deep Rock.
as a stupid child I made a minecraft board game out of craft paper, random game peices, and dice for me and my sister and it was very fun. it even had crafting that you had to do to enter the portal to enter the nether which was the late game. Idk if it was better than the official game lol.
I did that with Mario Party. Made a bunch of boards, got more ambitious with my papercraft as I went on to make 3D boards (one was supposed to be a forest, one sheet of paper for the floor and another for the canopy while a bunch of folded and taped paper blocks made up the trees and branches).
3:58 Looking at all this, it just makes me wish R6 had a isometric tactical strategy game. Tactical Breach Wizards shows the concepts work perfectly fine, and that game is a bop right now.
I have a demo box set of the guity gear board game and was given the full game as a gift. The game is definitely a tough sell, being a strictly 1v1 game at its rather expensive price. But I have to give props, they managed to translate a fighting game into a board game and made it fun.
22:00 I can confirm on this. I had the game when I was younger (tho only used it to build stuff myself since I had no friends) and I just went ahead and use my hand to throw the birds instead. Hell at one point I broke it trying to pull it hard enough to reach.
To add another modern board game adaption: Dorfromantik. The original is already quite board-game-y, but since you mentioned Slay The Spire, I think this one should be mentioned as well. The physical version has pretty much exactly the same gameplay as the digital version, just scaled down in numbers to make it table-friendly. And it actually adds a campaign mechanic that introduces new ways to score over several consecutive games, along with other things not even the digital version has.
The Fallout Board Game is pretty nostalgic. I played it quite a few times with my Dad who's a massive Fallout fan and it's super fun. Another video game board game we played that wasn't covered in the video was Resident Evil 2, which essentially a campaign game where you play through the entire story of Resident Evil 2 the video game as iconic characters like Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield, and Ada Wong. However, what's funny is the fact that they had to make more characters for the game to flesh it out, but they're a bunch of nobodies like Robert Kendo (the gun shop owner), Brad Vickers (a police pilot who dies at the beginning of the game), and Sherry Birkin (an actually relevant character, but is just a little girl). What's even more funny is that these characters are better than the iconic characters. Both Kendo and Brad have great abilities that Leon Kennedy wishes he has like better gunfire and faster movement respectively. Overall, a fun cooperative game, but the base game has some pretty bad 2d models for doors, corpses, and item boxes as they're all super dark tokens lying on a usually dark background. If you want to play this game, splurge on the 3D miniatures.
I'm not sure if tabletop simulator games is something you'll ever cover, but "Pokémon Legends of Sinnoh", and the more PVP focused expansion "Pokémon: Legends of Sinnoh : The Sinnoh League Campaign" are insanely high quality and well scripted (virtual) tabletop adaptions of Pokémon games.
My grandma had that pac-man game. I never could figure out how to play it as a small kid, so I just used the pac-man to move around the board eating pellets.
A lot of video game board games are great for parents. Sometimes you need to get your kid away from a screen, but saying “hey family game night, there’s a board game we can all play based on your favorite video game” is admittedly a good way to get kids away from the video game and invested in playing something off the screen
As someone who did fund the siege board game (mainly for the cool figures of all the operators) I can say that it was a disaster. You can go back on all the kickstarter updates and just read all the horror stories and desperate cries for help in the comments. But I did get my game and it is pretty good. Also love the touch of the FATAL theme song as your ringtone.
Hope there's a part 2, so many more video game board games out there! 1. Castlevania. 2. Double Dragon. 3. Dragon's Lair. 4. Jungle Hunt. 5. Legend of Zelda. 6. Mortal Kombat. 7. Pitfall. 8. Pole Position. 9. Q*BERT. 10. Tetris. Plus, a ton of games based on pinball!
If you need a part 2, there's enough board game takes on Tetris to get it's own video... Which is ironic since Tetris was based on the classic pentomino puzzle
You have quickly become one of my favourite content creators Kam. Your style of informational witty dialogue mixed with the board game niche is brilliant. Thank you for your hard work.
You should look into the game "A question of scruples" the concept is already kinda bad, but it was published in the 80s and is thus a GOLDMINE for incredibly outdated questions like "Would you hire a GAY teacher?" or "Your neighbor is beating his wife, do you call the police?"
I got the Devil May Cry board game last week. I've yet to play it with others, but it can be played single player and is a lot of fun. They kept the spirit of the game by having to move around a board and playing cards to deal damage, trying to get large combos for more points. It has some great risk reward mechanics, as if you take any damage, you lose your current combo and have to start over, along with how you discard cards to dodge, so you have to decide which cards to play and which ones to hang onto. Each character plays differently, and they even keep V's "familiars deal damage but only V can kill enemies" mechanic, which honestly makes him pretty fun to play as. As for why you would play it over the videogame. 1 is Devil May Cry with multiplayer, which is especially interesting as you have to work together to complete the level but are competing to gain the most points. 2 is that it doesn't require the dexterity the video games do. As much as I love DMC, they aren't games I can recommend to everyone due to how fast paced they are and how many buttons you have to press in quick succession. Tellingly, my only complaints are typical board game gripes, such as it taking a surprising amount of space to play and store, and the rulebook could be slightly clearer on some rules.
Pretty happy to see the Fallout game here. My personal recommendation for it is to get the Atomic Bonds expansion and play it co-op. Gonna bring up one I remember fondly: Gears of War the Board Game. Never played the source material, but the board game was pretty cool. You'd have to move from cover to cover to stay comparatively safer than being out in the open, but the danger was still there. You'd also have to manage your hand of cards because it's your character's health. Challenging game, but fun, and the figures looked great. Others I have or used to have: Minecraft Builders & Biomes, Warcraft, World of Warcraft, WoW the Adventure Game, Starcraft, EVE (Online) Conquests, DOOM (both versions), Portal the Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game, Sid Meier's Civilization the Board Game, Dark Souls, Cities: Skylines, M.U.L.E., and Horizon Zero Dawn. And a long time ago, Q*bert the board game; I found it in a thrift store and it was missing the dice needed to make it playable.
Not sure if it's a board game, a card game, or a mix of both, but I'm super excited for the planned Bugsnax tabletop game. Spoilers: So excited to completely ignore the ending of the game and doom my favorite characters by endlessly feeding them Bugsnax until they eventually die and become one with the island! I know I'm being sarcastic, but I am actually pretty excited. I've already decided that I'm maining as Chandlo.
between slay the spire, fallout, temple run, jetpack joyride, and even fortnite monopoly from the last video… it’s weird how many of these games are like… decent to good. i guess they already know they’re competing with the actual video game, so they put more care than usual into it to make it fun.
24:55 There's a great irony that plinko mechanics like those used for Where's My Water would have translated the gameplay of cut the rope fairly faithfully
One of my favorite board game video games was the kingdom rush games (rift in time and natures vengeance (I think). A really good adaption of the game, with unique “time reset” mechanic with the towers and an entirely new villain, and they are cross compatible.
Pokemon Master Trainer was the go to for my family game night growing up outside of Risk and Monopoly. Basically, we found that you just shouldn't try if you draw Gary as an elite trainer. Let your worst pokemon feint and try for an easier one later lol
I had to crunch the numbers. If you naively barge in with a Mewtwo, you're just objectively dead if you don't have at least +8 in item cards. Even with +10, you're at just under 12%. Even with the real best mon (a full evolution bonus Kanto starter), you've only reached 63%. Throw in a Time Machine? 83%. And good luck getting that much prep again if you fail, assuming you even get it in the first place.
It's funny that you said you didn't know cookie run and then covered three endless runners in a row later. Cookie Run is also an endless runner, but, like with gatcha mechanics! All the cookies have little backstories and outfit changes and relevance to the long and winding story. (Simplistic but constantly updated for a decade, I'm sure you can imagine.) Cookie Run Kingdom is, uh, an autobattler? They saw that city builder with autobattling mechanics was popular and pivoted. Luckily, I don't like autobattlers or waiting mechanics, so that was what convinced me to stop playing and play nicer games instead.
I think you should've mentioned some of the Tetris board games, especially the 80's one as in that one you literally just have to fill in the board and stack the pieces to the top to win
As the resident Mario nerd I have to point out that the Mario game token from Donkey Kong is actually fairly accurate to how he looked in promotional materials from the time and the poses from the box are actually fairly accurate to the side of the arcade cabinet, however that doesn't explain why the box shows every fold of Donkey Kong's skin or why Mario looks like he ate ten thousand lemons
There is a sister game to portal dash, it's called builders and biomes and it can get really competitive. As the whole objective is score based, and it also uses the resource cube.
"It feels like you are never truly in control of how well you are doing." Given that Stardew Valley is literally about farming, that sounds surprisingly accurate.
Slay the Spire the board game slaps. It’s adapted well to physical limitations for abilities, but the co-op nature causes some crazy damage. It’s INCREDIBLY long (~30 min per player per act, if people know what they’re doing)
quick note on pokemon master trainer, you forgot to mention the time machine card, which forces a reroll on any die roll in the game even if it's not your turn, so if for example if an elite 4's attack bonus roll sucks you can just reroll it so another player doesnt get to win
I remember this Temple Run CARD game where you have this little machine which shouts a player and a command card you have to play. Like “PLAYER TWO, SLIDE”, and you’d have to play that respective card and slap the button before the timer ran out or else you’d have to draw another card. First one to discard their entire hand wins. It was wicked fun.
I'm surprised you didn't mention xcom's board game. It's a coop board game run by an app dm where everyone is given a role (comms, air control, ect) and then the app spits out jobs at a decent clip and you have to frantically wotk with your other departments to stay on top of the invasion.
The entire time I was watching the endless runner part of the video I was thinking, “wouldn’t a card based game be the best choice?” It looks like Subway Surfers was close, but missed the mark. I think there should be the 3 lanes, but they all shift down each turn. You have a hand of move cards that you draw back up at the end of your turn. As you collect different power ups, they get set in front of you that you can use at any time. I think a second try would really make for a good game. I don’t even play Subway Surfers, but an endless runner board game with 3 lanes of cards that are constantly moving sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe I could house rule the game somehow? Might or might not not be worth it.
So, that Donkey Kong game's box art is interesting because it looks like they took the scene from the actual game's cabinet/box art (which I think was done by Shigeru Miyamoto himself, or at least someone at Nintendo), but used the character designs from a popular flyer for the game by artist Leslie Cabarga (also used for the Mario game piece). But then they also added an unnecessarily grotesque amount of detail on the box cover...
I own the Slay the Spire: Board game and I got to say- yeah its a pretty amazing one, great with friends and solo alike. Though one of the downsides was the included sleeve quality - they started peeling after some runs... for the cost. but otherwise would highly recommend!
the Slay the spire board game deserves it, its so good and that's coming from someone with 100's of hours in the video game on multiple platforms. Its whats holding me over till StS 2 comes out
On the topic of video game board games, rest in peace to the fangame board game “Anna’s Roundtable” based on the Fire Emnlem series It was taken down by Nintendo just this week
20:09 Funny enough, playing with friends can make the final battle even more annoying, because there are cards that effectively make you reroll if you happen to get a good enough roll. I know this because the game I played with my friends went on for 4 hours because two of them didn't want any other player to win, until eventually I managed to to get a lucky enough roll on the weakest Elite Four member and my friends had no more reroll cards. Never want to play it again
If you think Eggman without his *shades* looks bad, just wait until you see him without his skin! No seriously this was around the era where the original doctor robotnik, the one with the design from the cartoons, had been killed off in the comic. The one with the more game-accurate design you see here was a self-robotized version of him from another parallel dimension, and you do get to see his robo-insides sometimes. Did I mention that he showed up in the main dimension because he'd killed sonic and all the mobians (including the other human-like ones like him (oh yeah he's not human btw)) in his own dimension? Or that his first encounter with the main timeline's Sonic ended with Eggman offing himself as a power move and moving to a new body? Eggman lore goes hard.
as someone who spent thee money on the collectors edition of the slay the spire board game, I genuinely think it was one of the best purchases I've made board game wise. I have had so much fun playing it witth my friends, finding ways to create combos across multiple players that just would not work in the video game.
There is a newer version of Frogger, as well. It's about the same, only it goes up to 4 players. It's still pretty decent. It was part of a series of games that turned Atari games into board games, Missile Command and Centipede also exist. There is also a Contra board game that came out within the last couple years. I'm not sure how that plays. There are also at least three Mega Man board games. One supposedly plays like the aforementioned Contra board game (it was part of the same series), one is a dice rolling game that is considered one of the worst board games ever made, and one is a stand alone expansion of Pixel Tactics. There is also a very rare Japanese only Mega Man reskin of Settlers Of Catan. Speaking of reskins, a couple of Pokemon reskins of Splendor and Point Salad currently exist, but only in South Korea. A lot of people have been importing them, though, because they largely play the same way as their original games, so you don't actually need to read a rule book to play them.
I'm surprised that there was no mention of the Plague Inc. Boardgame, additionally they added a boardgame creator scenario to the actual game with a special achievement for crafting the Plague Inc. Boardgame
I can't wait for Tabletop Simulator: the Board Game
Ummm why do I fear it going to tall and heavy enough to crush me ?
Honestly could kinda see something like that, like mixing diffrent bored games together each turn
A board game where you create a board game might be fun if someone could figure out a good way to pull it off, but it would definitely be a tall order.
It's literally just a TTS branded table that has a real crap center of balance
Roll the dice to decide which game to play. 2 sides have MTG Commander and 3 of them have Warhammer.
Hell yeah, Board Game Scott the Woz beat the actual Scott the Woz to the Video Game Board Game video that real Scott the Woz offered in the Board Game Video Game video! The universe is back in alignment.
I'm still waiting on Kam to give us board game game shows personally
My tiny autistic brain is not understanding the words here
Lowkey had an aneurysm reading this
"Of course, im not covering video game board games, unless you want me to"
Scott the Woz
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!
I want to add a bit more to what you said on Guilty Gear Strive: The Board Game. Not only is it based on Exceed Fighting System, it’s from the same developers and fully cross-compatible with Exceed. So, if you happen to own prior seasons of Exceed it becomes one of the most expansive fighting game rosters ever seen. And yes, I would refer to it as a fighting game, I’ve brought this thing to fighting game locals before and it’s been a huge hit. Never seen another board game where I can play footsies.
The Guilty Gear x BlazBlue crossover we all wanted.
Featuring Ryu from Streets and Shovel Knight.
This gives me a great salty suite idea at my next major I goto lmao
Have you played Battlecon, Level 99's other big fighting game board game?
@@BurntFrost Not yet, but it is on my radar.
The ground-based footsie guilty gear is known for
I HAD THE ANGRY BIRDS GAME AS A KID...the sling was awful with the little plastic thing at the end bending backwards insanely quick, but it was fun to just disregard the whole rules and just built up random structure and throwing the birds by hand
I had that, I just… didn’t use the throwing or game part. Just made towers. I did the same with jenga.
I played the exact same way, bro.
I remember 30 years ago we made that game as kids out of blocks and little lego people, and we would throw marbles at each other's structures to see who could... oh god we made Angry Birds before Angry Birds was a thing.
Yo I also had it! I never played it according to the rules
@@SeppelSquirrel Nah that's just an expanded edition of Artillery Duel for the Atari 2600.
Never thought I’d hear the words “Guilty Gear” uttered on this channel.
“Kill your friends; guilt free… in cardboard form!”
It wasn’t on my bingo card for the day either… or ever, considering his channel, lmao.
I’m glad the game is good… though sadly; I’ll never be able to play it. The upfront cost of that game is STUPIDLY expensive (like ALL of ArkSys’ merch on their god forsaken site), and if it goes out of print, that price is just going UP.
and like it was brought up in the video the lack of any actual art in the game is honestly kinda heinous. There's not even boxart that isn't already ArcSys' official art.
The fact its just a new coat of paint on Exceed as well kinda just makes it feel heinously lazy. It's an expansion pack being sold as a full game. fwiw exceed plays pretty well, although some exceed things don't work with GG like characters other than Sol, Ky having installs in the form of Exceeding. (I'll give some leniency for characters like Nago or Leo where they used Exceed to represent Blood Rage and backturn respectively but like... does Testament need an install? Jack-O'?)
@theplumbum82 tbf I think beyond the branding it works as just season 7 of exceed.
It's expensive but it's not more expensive than 5 boxes of previous seasons (which is what the content adds up to)
As for the installs, that's just the general conceit of the game, so it makes sense why it's the way it is.
Also!
If it's too expensive there's an officially supported mod for the GG season on tabletop Sim, and a semi official version that has all 7 seasons.
@@boatman9041 I'm aware of the TTS mods, that's how I can be so sure of the gameplay even. I got the preview pack in paper and definitely came to the conclusion it isn't worth the asking price.
I understand the install mechanic is fairly central to the gameplay of exceed but it also belies a pretty bad lack of iteration, it feels like the system is forced into GGST even if they've managed a couple cool ways of instancing GGST's stuff (f. ex I like their iteration of Stain State and Blood Rage into the existing system mechanics but there's zero instancing of say, Jack-O's servants)
Honestly "it works fine as Exceed season 7" is actually kind of my complaint, it's Exceed Season 7 with the serial numbers filed off, which feels deceptive. Exceed is well-designed and all and I'll still have fun with the game but I'll pine for what it could have been.
@@theplumbum82honestly fair, I've never been a fan of how they market it as it's own thing, it sets expectations that the game simply can't meet because it isn't it's own game
It's a phenomenal expansion to an existing game
"So how did you come up with Candy Crush the Board Game?"
"We were playing the Bejeweled board game and..."
"I've watched my friend play [Stardew Valley] and I have... _no_ idea what that game is about."
As a player who frequents the community, don't worry, we don't either!
If you have a free table lying around that will never have any other contents, I recommend the Slay the Spire game. It is a BITCH to set up, especially punching out all your tokens the first time. Definitely not one to bring to a friend's house.
@@westhescrub Too late, my friend now has a table that will never have any other contents
the StS board game looks genuinely awesome but mayybe one to play on TTS...
@@westhescrub same with heroes of might and magic 3 the board game. Good luck
@eyalinbar4845 did that game want you to sleeve 400 cards? This one did :)
@@westhescrub no, but you have about 20 different decks to seperate
Technically, Mouser was also in Super Mario Bros. 2 and was not made up for the Super Show. Also "Little Goomba" and "Mushroom Retainer" are how they were called in the SMB instruction booklet.
Now imagine if they made a Donkey Kong Country board game
Mouser wasn't made for Mario. Mouser was made for "doki doki panic" as what we got was a resting of that because us yanks couldn't handle the original smb2 /j
þanks mr enclosed instruction booklet
If you ever review more of these games, I HIGHLY recommend Binding of Isaac: Four Souls. It's the only board game I've seen where Isaac, Boyfriend, Crewmate, and Psycho Goreman can all be characters in the same game
Four souls is great
i absolutely love four souls, and ive only ever played it as a 1v1 game
i was hoping it was mentioned while watching because it is seriously the best example of game to board game that i think i've ever seen - it brings the items into the game very well, it brings the characters well, theres an insane amount of variability in your games, and it weirdly is almost as good as the game itself, if you have the right people around
its just too good to not talk about in a series like this, theres so much depth with it
How dare you mention the warp zone cards and not mention the best one, Johnny from Tommy Wiseau's masterpiece The Room
I've played a lot of Four Souls on Tabletop Simulator, it's so good
he doesn't go over four souls? what a strange game to leave out???
The phrase "Pokemon: Master Trainer" just activated my fight or flight response
there is actually a really cool revamp of master trainer, called ultimate edition, on tabletop simulator. i played it with my sister, its pretty in depth, and a lot of fun, if a little long, though we only played 2 player, it probably gets even longer with more people. in that way, its kind like a video game of a board game of a video game
Anyone whos seen the JWittz video knows how much of a horror this game is.
Two words: Time Machine
I found it so cool when I was a kid because I was in love with Pokemon in '99 but yeah, it was absolutely a random die roll simulator. It was utterly imbalanced. It was just really cool to catch all* 150 Pokemon.
Honestly it was one of my favourites as a kid! Me and my siblings would spend what felt like the whole day playing it because those final battles were so difficult but I think that was part of the thrill. I haven’t played in years so I wouldn’t be surprised if the flaws would stand out if I did replay it now but I still have a big soft spot for it
I actually backed that Cookie Run board game on Kickstarter a few years back; it's a pretty simple worker placement game where each player builds up their individual kingdom. You take turns assigning your workers to either gather resources, spend resources to construct buildings that offer special benefits or bonus scoring at game's end, or go on hunts to battle enemies for more points. Battles are determined by your number of cookie soldiers plus the results of a dice roll, and certain buildings give you more soldiers or ways to modify your rolls. Not a bad game, overall.
DRG unironically had a fantastic tabletop game with really high quality miniatures. It does a good job translating the core gameplay of killing bugs and mining minerals. It’s a really fun time to play with friends just like the og game
ROCK AND STONE BROTHA!
I definitely agree, I can even say that one might buy the board game just for the miniatures.
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
I do need to find a new box to hold all the extra stuf though
That's it lads, Rock and Stone.
Rock and Stone in the heart!
A few more things to mention
-Pokemon master trainer has two more versions of it. Even if they are not all called master trainer. Someone also converted nearly every pokemon for the game and put it up on tabletop simulator. So now you can get time machined by friends with more modern pokemon.
-Zelda has this weird boardgame that kind of acts like a version of heroquest. You visit dungeons, fight monsters and try to recover the triforce. This also has a updated version on tabletop simulator.
-Resident evil has not one, not two, but three board games based off the original trilliogy. You can even use them in tandem with eachother due to them sharing the same ruleset(So, you could have chris do one of the RE2 secario's or have leon do one of the secenario's for RE1.)
-Did you know Gears of war has a board game? I never did play this, but its fascinated me for a while.
Last, not a board game but halo has muliple wargames associated with it. Be it ground combat, 40k style combat, and even space combat. Some people even wrote custom rules to use the halo megablox figures.
Now imagine if they made a Super Smash Bros. board game
What I find funny about the RE2 board game is that nobodies like Robert Kendo and Brad Vickers are better gameplay-wise than THE Leon S Kennedy.
I've always gottena chuckle out of the fact that Europa Universalis was a boardgame that got a videogame adaption that spawned a game series that eventually went full circle and spawned a boardgame based on the most recent videogame.
Gotta love how the Super Mario Bros Board Game has the same “everyone moves the same player” mechanic that everyone eventually came to hate on in Mario Party 9.
That being said I am a defender of the mechanic, I just like the irony
the funniest part of the Fallout board game is that all enemies converge onto players, but the map also represents a HUGE area
so you'll have a random rapscorpion zeroing in to the nearest player even if that player is on the other side of the wasteland
It's funny how a medium famous for being badly adapted into a medium full of adaptations (movies) would be so consistently decent when adapted into a medium not known for being easy to adapt things into (board games), but in retrospect it makes perfect sense-- they're already games! Even with the mobile games, where you'd expect them to be a soulless cash grab, a property with a recognizable aesthetic and an extremely simple set of mechanics gives the team making the board game so much space to make something interesting. In conclusion, WOW this makes those bad game show board games so much more embarrassing.
I honestly burst out laughing at you using the FATAL theme as a ringtone. Great video as always.
Mythic Games is notorious for having horrible Kickstarters, the same thing happened with the Darkest Dungeon Kickstarter as well
Isn't the reason they got into the mess is because they used the funds from one of the games to cover fulfillment of the other?
15:55 So basically, if _Super Mario Bros. Blockbusting Card Game!_ were _Mystery Date,_ Toad would be "The Dud".
You got the Mushroom Retainer!
😐🙂😀😃
There are probably enough videogame boardgames out there for a second part in the future. I know of at least a few that didn't get a mention:
1. XCOM Enemy Unknown. That one even got an expansion.
2. Dorfromantik
3. Anno 1503
4. Super Mario Tower (that one I owned myself!)
5. Super Mario Blow Up Shaky Tower (Yes, it's a very different game - despite the basic premise of 'mario themed balance-tower game'. HOW are there even two?)
And there is going to be a Mass Effect 3 Boardgame in the near future, too.
Of course, there is the counterpart of "video games based on board games", but I think that might be more suitable for Kams alter ego, Scott The Woz (I mean, have YOU ever seen both of them in the same room? For all we know, they are the same person!)
There's also the option of covering Cookie Run Kingdom for real, as well as tackling the YDKJ board game (complete with electronic gizmo to recreate the host's snark).
Another commenter brought up The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, which was definitely worth covering. The religious themes concern isn't even an issue because this is the same guy who made an entire video about Christian TCGs.
Mentioning Anno 1503, but not Anno, Anno 1800, Anno 1701 or Anno 1452… I‘m immensely disappointed!
@@Schnabelmaennchen Probably because those didn't get a boardgame adaptation, at least to my knowledge - and I was listing the boardgames, not the videogames.
@@gimok2k5 Each does have an adaptation! I personally own Anno 1800 and its quite enjoyable!
The funny thing about Rainbow 6 is that it originally was a tactical strategy game. So a board game is actually quite fitting.
This is the sequel to AVGN's Board James we never knew we needed
avgn sold his soul so that other channels can run. Or something like that.
So I'm not the only one who remembers Board James!
It's been bugging me what he reminded me of. I genuinely loved board James when it was just reviewing games. This certainly fills the hole in my heart
We need a Big Rigs board game
more of a spiritual successor because board james ended
8:52 Nice to know that the board game community is just like us music nerds, as the literal best album of the decade is also an 8.8 on RYM lol
Which album is it?
@@soapsatelliteTo Pimp a Butterfly. But if hip-hop is not your thing, don't worry: Ok Computer, Kind of Blue, Discovery and the Pink Floyd concept albums are all also rated lower lmao
@@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. OK Computer was #1 on that site for what felt like its entire existence - the Drake beef was what elevated TPAB to #1 (and good kid, m.A.A.d city to the top 10, for that matter)
not saying it's not deserved, mind you - i'm glad to see some of the old indie-nerd canon start to drop!
@@joshthefunkdocTPAB was nr1since i started using the site, around 2022 before the Drake stuff.
For the video game community, 8.8 is infamous. It was the Gamespot review score of the Wii version of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The reviewer got a lot of backlash, threats, and accusations of being paid by other companies to not give it 10.
"Speaking of microtransactions" is a transition that never leads to good things. Also, only one game with any argument for being in WBGOAT, thats a shocker.
The drg board game is super fun and is basically a co-op tabletop wargame in a box.
They somehow fit a procedureally generated map made with tiles into a box that can be carried in an ikea bag. Every time I bring this thing out its been at least a decent time. And the first player is the one who can say rock and stone the best I mean COME ON!
Rock and stone brother
The Stardew Valley game is trash. The pure randomness and hard time limit doesn't translate the cozy feel of the game, but rather makes it into a brutal and punishing speedrun.
Hey, fancy seeing you here! I like your vids!
So it's exactly the same as any in-game attempt to do a Year 1 Community Center run?
@@anon9469 It feels exactly like doing a year one community center speedrun. That’s basically the idea of the game actually, you have until the end of the year to do your objectives or else you lose!
It's interesting to see how a designer can try to replicate a video game into a board game, or try to make a board game that at the very least fits the property. Limitations breed creativity after all. I wouldn't mind seeing a follow up to this video cause there's so many more board games based on video games out there. Hell, I can think of 3 that've come out in recent years based on Sonic alone.
21:10 Just a lil heads up for those who don’t know what cookie run is: it’s an Endless runner with a gatcha system, Kingdom is more story focused and has your team of 5 cookies (all gotten from said gatcha) to fight enemies.
As someone who never plans to play any of the Cookie Run games, my entire opinion on them is that they have some of my favorite character design ever
It is also a kingdom builder, so I’m very confused on what the gameplay of the board game would be. If only there was someone who could explain it to me.
I have a personal anecdote about the pokemon board game talked about at 18:15. A board/retro game cafe I visited with some friends had it, and one friend recognized it so the 4 of us sat down to play it. First off, someone broke my character's legs before we began, because throughout the game i only ever managed to roll higher than 2 for my movement twice. However, I got into the main game because I got an event that let me switch with someone, and got very lucky in every other aspect, and over the rest of the game got some decent items and a team of the best pokemon in the entire game. After about an hour, I finally decided to roll up to the elite 4, pulled the weakest member, and got absolutely rocked regardless. At which point we decided that everyone else, upon seeing the strongest of them all getting obliterated by the weakest elite 4 member, all gave up their dreams of being the very best and we put the game away.
Nothing heats up a lap of Mario Kart quite like a player getting a Bullet William
Read that in a British accent
I've been playing the resident evil 1 board game with the wife, which is a nice way to play coop in a game that doesn't have that option in the video game counterpart.
Ignoring the game that wanted you to do co-op so hard that it was damn near impossible alone?
We're just going to pretend the game of Chris "Boulder Punching Asshole" Redfield doesn't exist?
Such a shame, smh my head.
Disclaimer: This is a joke.
The minecraft one has Mob D from the original mob vote. That's incredible. Maybe now it will get into the real game.
Fun fact, a board game adaptation of Dorfromantik won the extremely prestigious Spiel De Jahr (Game of the Year) award a couple years back. So yes, modern adaptations have figure out the formula!
"a couple years back"? it was last year
I was just learning all about Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game on a binge, it really is true what you said about the Modern Video Game Board Games, I've yet to see a genuinely bad one. Even Indie titles seem to put out incredibly fitting, thrilling bangers.
I'm going to be bankrupt after getting Frostpunk and Deep Rock.
What? No Tetris the Board Game representation?
as a stupid child I made a minecraft board game out of craft paper, random game peices, and dice for me and my sister and it was very fun. it even had crafting that you had to do to enter the portal to enter the nether which was the late game. Idk if it was better than the official game lol.
I did that with Mario Party. Made a bunch of boards, got more ambitious with my papercraft as I went on to make 3D boards (one was supposed to be a forest, one sheet of paper for the floor and another for the canopy while a bunch of folded and taped paper blocks made up the trees and branches).
The Bejeweled board game is everything the Candy Crush one wishes it was
I remember when paying over $100 for a board game was absurd.
Now that's about the starting price.
3:58 Looking at all this, it just makes me wish R6 had a isometric tactical strategy game. Tactical Breach Wizards shows the concepts work perfectly fine, and that game is a bop right now.
I have a demo box set of the guity gear board game and was given the full game as a gift. The game is definitely a tough sell, being a strictly 1v1 game at its rather expensive price. But I have to give props, they managed to translate a fighting game into a board game and made it fun.
22:00 I can confirm on this. I had the game when I was younger (tho only used it to build stuff myself since I had no friends) and I just went ahead and use my hand to throw the birds instead. Hell at one point I broke it trying to pull it hard enough to reach.
"...take turns controlling one normal looking Mario..."
THEY CUT OFF HIS EARS!!!
To add another modern board game adaption: Dorfromantik.
The original is already quite board-game-y, but since you mentioned Slay The Spire, I think this one should be mentioned as well. The physical version has pretty much exactly the same gameplay as the digital version, just scaled down in numbers to make it table-friendly. And it actually adds a campaign mechanic that introduces new ways to score over several consecutive games, along with other things not even the digital version has.
The Fallout Board Game is pretty nostalgic. I played it quite a few times with my Dad who's a massive Fallout fan and it's super fun.
Another video game board game we played that wasn't covered in the video was Resident Evil 2, which essentially a campaign game where you play through the entire story of Resident Evil 2 the video game as iconic characters like Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield, and Ada Wong. However, what's funny is the fact that they had to make more characters for the game to flesh it out, but they're a bunch of nobodies like Robert Kendo (the gun shop owner), Brad Vickers (a police pilot who dies at the beginning of the game), and Sherry Birkin (an actually relevant character, but is just a little girl). What's even more funny is that these characters are better than the iconic characters. Both Kendo and Brad have great abilities that Leon Kennedy wishes he has like better gunfire and faster movement respectively.
Overall, a fun cooperative game, but the base game has some pretty bad 2d models for doors, corpses, and item boxes as they're all super dark tokens lying on a usually dark background. If you want to play this game, splurge on the 3D miniatures.
Candy Crush the Boardgame is actually a prequel where you set up the candy you end up clearing in Candy Crush
That WOAH at 17:16 was a legitimate jumpscare
I'm not sure if tabletop simulator games is something you'll ever cover, but "Pokémon Legends of Sinnoh", and the more PVP focused expansion "Pokémon: Legends of Sinnoh : The Sinnoh League Campaign" are insanely high quality and well scripted (virtual) tabletop adaptions of Pokémon games.
My grandma had that pac-man game. I never could figure out how to play it as a small kid, so I just used the pac-man to move around the board eating pellets.
A lot of video game board games are great for parents. Sometimes you need to get your kid away from a screen, but saying “hey family game night, there’s a board game we can all play based on your favorite video game” is admittedly a good way to get kids away from the video game and invested in playing something off the screen
As someone who did fund the siege board game (mainly for the cool figures of all the operators) I can say that it was a disaster. You can go back on all the kickstarter updates and just read all the horror stories and desperate cries for help in the comments. But I did get my game and it is pretty good.
Also love the touch of the FATAL theme song as your ringtone.
Hope there's a part 2, so many more video game board games out there!
1. Castlevania.
2. Double Dragon.
3. Dragon's Lair.
4. Jungle Hunt.
5. Legend of Zelda.
6. Mortal Kombat.
7. Pitfall.
8. Pole Position.
9. Q*BERT.
10. Tetris.
Plus, a ton of games based on pinball!
If you need a part 2, there's enough board game takes on Tetris to get it's own video... Which is ironic since Tetris was based on the classic pentomino puzzle
Tetris trying to be Blockus 💀
You have quickly become one of my favourite content creators Kam. Your style of informational witty dialogue mixed with the board game niche is brilliant. Thank you for your hard work.
The fact there isn't a Pac-Man variant of Hungry Hungry Hippos is baffling to me
You should look into the game "A question of scruples" the concept is already kinda bad, but it was published in the 80s and is thus a GOLDMINE for incredibly outdated questions like "Would you hire a GAY teacher?" or "Your neighbor is beating his wife, do you call the police?"
Block busting game "I did it!" That was my great laugh of thr week! 🤣
That Donky Kong box art makes it look like DK is saving her from Mario, who looks like a predator
I got the Devil May Cry board game last week. I've yet to play it with others, but it can be played single player and is a lot of fun. They kept the spirit of the game by having to move around a board and playing cards to deal damage, trying to get large combos for more points. It has some great risk reward mechanics, as if you take any damage, you lose your current combo and have to start over, along with how you discard cards to dodge, so you have to decide which cards to play and which ones to hang onto. Each character plays differently, and they even keep V's "familiars deal damage but only V can kill enemies" mechanic, which honestly makes him pretty fun to play as.
As for why you would play it over the videogame. 1 is Devil May Cry with multiplayer, which is especially interesting as you have to work together to complete the level but are competing to gain the most points. 2 is that it doesn't require the dexterity the video games do. As much as I love DMC, they aren't games I can recommend to everyone due to how fast paced they are and how many buttons you have to press in quick succession.
Tellingly, my only complaints are typical board game gripes, such as it taking a surprising amount of space to play and store, and the rulebook could be slightly clearer on some rules.
Pretty happy to see the Fallout game here. My personal recommendation for it is to get the Atomic Bonds expansion and play it co-op.
Gonna bring up one I remember fondly: Gears of War the Board Game. Never played the source material, but the board game was pretty cool. You'd have to move from cover to cover to stay comparatively safer than being out in the open, but the danger was still there. You'd also have to manage your hand of cards because it's your character's health. Challenging game, but fun, and the figures looked great.
Others I have or used to have: Minecraft Builders & Biomes, Warcraft, World of Warcraft, WoW the Adventure Game, Starcraft, EVE (Online) Conquests, DOOM (both versions), Portal the Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game, Sid Meier's Civilization the Board Game, Dark Souls, Cities: Skylines, M.U.L.E., and Horizon Zero Dawn.
And a long time ago, Q*bert the board game; I found it in a thrift store and it was missing the dice needed to make it playable.
21:06 you had me for a second that you were covering this, not gonna lie
Monopoly The Video Game The Board Game
Monopoly Go is a freaking board game now! What!?
Oh that Monopoly Fortnight
Big gator fan, so I'm glad that Where's My Water and Gay Monopoly are both being given their due respect on this channel.
I hope someday kam does a feature length film that’s basically just a really long comedy sketch with his friends when he gets 50 thousand subscribers
Not sure if it's a board game, a card game, or a mix of both, but I'm super excited for the planned Bugsnax tabletop game.
Spoilers:
So excited to completely ignore the ending of the game and doom my favorite characters by endlessly feeding them Bugsnax until they eventually die and become one with the island! I know I'm being sarcastic, but I am actually pretty excited. I've already decided that I'm maining as Chandlo.
Obviously my man Gary Oak has the highest attack. He's Gary MF Oak. If the maximum available is 8 gym badges, he has 10. He's just built different fr.
between slay the spire, fallout, temple run, jetpack joyride, and even fortnite monopoly from the last video… it’s weird how many of these games are like… decent to good. i guess they already know they’re competing with the actual video game, so they put more care than usual into it to make it fun.
As a Jwittz fan, I was super excited to see Pokemon Master Trainer get mentioned. It honestly seems like a decent game.
Have you ever seen the Achievement Hunter play through of it? Legitimately very funny
7:50 waddles as the pig
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There's a great irony that plinko mechanics like those used for Where's My Water would have translated the gameplay of cut the rope fairly faithfully
One of my favorite board game video games was the kingdom rush games (rift in time and natures vengeance (I think). A really good adaption of the game, with unique “time reset” mechanic with the towers and an entirely new villain, and they are cross compatible.
Pokemon Master Trainer was the go to for my family game night growing up outside of Risk and Monopoly. Basically, we found that you just shouldn't try if you draw Gary as an elite trainer. Let your worst pokemon feint and try for an easier one later lol
I do remember beating Lance exactly once in my time with the game. I had managed to get the entire Dragonite line.
I had to crunch the numbers. If you naively barge in with a Mewtwo, you're just objectively dead if you don't have at least +8 in item cards. Even with +10, you're at just under 12%. Even with the real best mon (a full evolution bonus Kanto starter), you've only reached 63%. Throw in a Time Machine? 83%. And good luck getting that much prep again if you fail, assuming you even get it in the first place.
It's funny that you said you didn't know cookie run and then covered three endless runners in a row later. Cookie Run is also an endless runner, but, like with gatcha mechanics! All the cookies have little backstories and outfit changes and relevance to the long and winding story. (Simplistic but constantly updated for a decade, I'm sure you can imagine.) Cookie Run Kingdom is, uh, an autobattler? They saw that city builder with autobattling mechanics was popular and pivoted. Luckily, I don't like autobattlers or waiting mechanics, so that was what convinced me to stop playing and play nicer games instead.
I think you should've mentioned some of the Tetris board games, especially the 80's one as in that one you literally just have to fill in the board and stack the pieces to the top to win
I can't believe you didn't talk about the Sniper Elite and Dead by Daylight board games
As the resident Mario nerd I have to point out that the Mario game token from Donkey Kong is actually fairly accurate to how he looked in promotional materials from the time and the poses from the box are actually fairly accurate to the side of the arcade cabinet, however that doesn't explain why the box shows every fold of Donkey Kong's skin or why Mario looks like he ate ten thousand lemons
We need Campaign For North Africa: The Video Game so we can get Campaign For North Africa: The Video Game Board Game.
CFNA:TDW40-43:TVGTBGTVGTBG anyone?
There is a sister game to portal dash, it's called builders and biomes and it can get really competitive. As the whole objective is score based, and it also uses the resource cube.
"It feels like you are never truly in control of how well you are doing."
Given that Stardew Valley is literally about farming, that sounds surprisingly accurate.
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you NEED to distract borderlands fans from how poorly handled that franchise has become
Slay the Spire the board game slaps. It’s adapted well to physical limitations for abilities, but the co-op nature causes some crazy damage. It’s INCREDIBLY long (~30 min per player per act, if people know what they’re doing)
quick note on pokemon master trainer, you forgot to mention the time machine card, which forces a reroll on any die roll in the game even if it's not your turn, so if for example if an elite 4's attack bonus roll sucks you can just reroll it so another player doesnt get to win
I remember this Temple Run CARD game where you have this little machine which shouts a player and a command card you have to play. Like “PLAYER TWO, SLIDE”, and you’d have to play that respective card and slap the button before the timer ran out or else you’d have to draw another card. First one to discard their entire hand wins. It was wicked fun.
I'm surprised you didn't mention xcom's board game. It's a coop board game run by an app dm where everyone is given a role (comms, air control, ect) and then the app spits out jobs at a decent clip and you have to frantically wotk with your other departments to stay on top of the invasion.
The entire time I was watching the endless runner part of the video I was thinking, “wouldn’t a card based game be the best choice?” It looks like Subway Surfers was close, but missed the mark.
I think there should be the 3 lanes, but they all shift down each turn. You have a hand of move cards that you draw back up at the end of your turn. As you collect different power ups, they get set in front of you that you can use at any time.
I think a second try would really make for a good game. I don’t even play Subway Surfers, but an endless runner board game with 3 lanes of cards that are constantly moving sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe I could house rule the game somehow? Might or might not not be worth it.
So, that Donkey Kong game's box art is interesting because it looks like they took the scene from the actual game's cabinet/box art (which I think was done by Shigeru Miyamoto himself, or at least someone at Nintendo), but used the character designs from a popular flyer for the game by artist Leslie Cabarga (also used for the Mario game piece). But then they also added an unnecessarily grotesque amount of detail on the box cover...
I own the Slay the Spire: Board game and I got to say- yeah its a pretty amazing one, great with friends and solo alike. Though one of the downsides was the included sleeve quality - they started peeling after some runs... for the cost. but otherwise would highly recommend!
the Slay the spire board game deserves it, its so good and that's coming from someone with 100's of hours in the video game on multiple platforms. Its whats holding me over till StS 2 comes out
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Yeahhhh but there's still that old Jynx art in the bottom left.
On the topic of video game board games, rest in peace to the fangame board game “Anna’s Roundtable” based on the Fire Emnlem series
It was taken down by Nintendo just this week
That's weird. They usually don't bother with Fire Emblem fan stuff
The Nintendo ninjas got them, huh? That’s terrible, so many people made amazing artwork for that game
20:09 Funny enough, playing with friends can make the final battle even more annoying, because there are cards that effectively make you reroll if you happen to get a good enough roll. I know this because the game I played with my friends went on for 4 hours because two of them didn't want any other player to win, until eventually I managed to to get a lucky enough roll on the weakest Elite Four member and my friends had no more reroll cards. Never want to play it again
16:11 "GET IT?!?! STREET FIGHTER?!?! THEY FIGHT ON THE STREETS"
ONNN the streets!
Mouser was in Mario 2/Doki Doki Panic as well.
If you think Eggman without his *shades* looks bad, just wait until you see him without his skin!
No seriously this was around the era where the original doctor robotnik, the one with the design from the cartoons, had been killed off in the comic. The one with the more game-accurate design you see here was a self-robotized version of him from another parallel dimension, and you do get to see his robo-insides sometimes.
Did I mention that he showed up in the main dimension because he'd killed sonic and all the mobians (including the other human-like ones like him (oh yeah he's not human btw)) in his own dimension? Or that his first encounter with the main timeline's Sonic ended with Eggman offing himself as a power move and moving to a new body?
Eggman lore goes hard.
as someone who spent thee money on the collectors edition of the slay the spire board game, I genuinely think it was one of the best purchases I've made board game wise. I have had so much fun playing it witth my friends, finding ways to create combos across multiple players that just would not work in the video game.
Damn, didn't think Video Game Board Games would be as consistently good as they are, especially nowadays.
There is a newer version of Frogger, as well. It's about the same, only it goes up to 4 players. It's still pretty decent. It was part of a series of games that turned Atari games into board games, Missile Command and Centipede also exist.
There is also a Contra board game that came out within the last couple years. I'm not sure how that plays. There are also at least three Mega Man board games. One supposedly plays like the aforementioned Contra board game (it was part of the same series), one is a dice rolling game that is considered one of the worst board games ever made, and one is a stand alone expansion of Pixel Tactics. There is also a very rare Japanese only Mega Man reskin of Settlers Of Catan.
Speaking of reskins, a couple of Pokemon reskins of Splendor and Point Salad currently exist, but only in South Korea. A lot of people have been importing them, though, because they largely play the same way as their original games, so you don't actually need to read a rule book to play them.
I'm surprised that there was no mention of the Plague Inc. Boardgame, additionally they added a boardgame creator scenario to the actual game with a special achievement for crafting the Plague Inc. Boardgame