Cosmic Encounter | Board Game Masterpieces 

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I feel like this channel is just showing us Adam’s slowly unraveling mind during lockdown

I must say, and I'm not just being hyperbolic, that this was one of the most entertaining and purely enjoyable board game review-type videos I've ever seen. Your energy and enthusiasm are delightful, the comedic tone hits just the right balance of corny-yet-charmingly-self-aware and your production quality in framing, editing, sound and props is all really just top notch! Thank you so much for this little adventure, sir, and you've got yourself another fan. Also, Cosmic Encounter is indeed the greatest game ever designed. Cheers!

Something I LOVE about this approach, as opposed to most video tutorials on YT is that Adam is showing proper in-game examples for each mechanic, instead of just explaining it in the same way the manual would. It allows you an even deeper understanding on why a game clicks with him, as opposed to a dry and methodical approach.

NRB: How many Star Wars references are you gonna put in your review? Adam: Yes

I cannot explain how much I want this to be the next board game club game.

As an Irish man, hearing Adam getting _very_ excited explaining colonisation is still a little unsettling.

3 things: 1) love the video, this is probably my favorite board game that I own and has so many crazy antics that can happen that it's always a blast 2) The hidden power is actually a variant rule, not the default standard way of playing 3) I have to disagree with the ending, the ability to win with multiple people is amazing! Will the player who promised to let you win with them actually going to hold up their end of the bargain at the end? Who knows! (Also there's the cultist alien who can actually let everybody win if everyone joins)

Is this why Oli said “Adam messaged me about a silk robe”? 🤣🤣🤣

Please don't attempt to drink dice.

I bought this game because of this video. It is an amazing game. It has so many components and it is easily the best game I have ever played. Thank you Adam.

is that the robe you asked Olie to but for you during the wrestle talk podcast? XD

Adam is my board game spirit animal. One additional feature: the aliens may be unbalanced, but the alliance mechanism allows for real-time social balancing. Does one player have a broken power? Other players can team up and with their powers combined, keep the power player at bay.

Just discovered your channel. I honestly didn’t think there was a reviewer out there who was even more entertaining than Quintin Smith but Adam is great! I really enjoy the Masterpieces videos, please keep them coming. Also please stop, I can’t afford to keep buying new board games.

Cosmic Encounters was my first 'modern' board game. I played it back in the late 1970s. The game was sold in a cardboard tube with a zeroxed label. It was absolutely amazing.

Hey Adam. I have been in the board gaming hobby since at least 2008 and seen hundreds of video reviews, but this is the single best of them all. Your enthusiasm, your explanation, your analysis and maybe even just the game itself all makes such a great review.

Adam is such a natural entertainer, love these videos. Would love to see the Board Game Club play this but I feel like it might be one best played once they can all meet in person.

No sadder gamer feeling than one who loves Cosmic Encounter but can't find four other gamers to enjoy it with them.

Wait are you saying there will be no sister kissing or dad killing LIKE AT ALL!!!!!

I love asymmetric powers in games! Having different strategies to deal with different opponents is a great time to me.

I think this is this Channel's greatest video. Also, I refuse to believe that this isn't just what Adam does when the camera is off

23:45 Ah, Sully, when did you get here- oh.

I love the star wars references

"Cannot teach him, the boy has no patience" had me ROFL

Endless replay ability is absolutely true. I have been playing this game with my dad and my brother for over half my lifetime, and it’s no less fun. I recommend, as an optional variant, once you’ve learned the rules well enough, to add another set of powers for each person, each player having two powers as opposed to one really helps many otherwise less useful powers shine with combos, along with giving masochist and other hidden win condition powers to be less obvious and easy to prevent. Another recommendation is that if a power is too complicated, (doppelgänger) never fun to play against (ace) or just plain bad (tick tock) you can always remove them from the roster of dealt powers. This game is a 10/10 game that has been a large part of my life, and I can’t recommend it more.

BRILLIANT! I love this game, and I love that content creators are still making video essays about it to this day.

I am WHEEZING at Adam drinking the dice and the sound he made as he spit them back up send help?????????? Edit: Oh my god the monotone "please don't hurt me, i'm baby-"

::Waves to everyone rewatching this after NRB’s first video in their new studio::

I've played it today and boy oh boy I'm fascinated, it's everything you would love in a board game. The atmosphere, the laughters and how you will be bamboozled after you forget someone can change the cards after you played your perfect card. Love it absolutely gorgeous

This was an absolute treat of a video, thank you Mr Blampied

Simply fantastic! Completely comprehensive AND wildly entertaining WITH great editing. My new ‘go to’ for how to plays! Keep em coming.

This is a similar style to the ever awesome Shut Up & Sit Down and Adam, you're perfectly suited for this kind of hosting. Amazing work!

when Risk , Poker and Magic the Gathering had a baby. Cosmic Encounter gives the best board game experience ever! Fast paced , engaging , political , super funny and super mean and a plethora of expansions. 11/10

That dude straight up living his dream. Having an actual excuse to use this rich-dude bathrobe thing, its "for work", hes working an "creative job" and tries to "enhance the product" with adding some "theatrics and flair" Yeah Adam, we all know you had that robe before RU-vid :D

This channel has definitely turned me into a board game fan! I know annoy my friends into trying new games with me lol

More of this please, loved this format!

So Adam can perfor the entire star wars franchise as a one-man play. Book it Vince!

As a relatively new board game fan (he says at 45 years old lol) Cosmic Encounter was one of the first games I played with a group of mates at work last year and I loved it so it pleased me greatly to see this video. Quality as always Adam👍🏾

Someone had a LOT of fun making the script for this episode.

Really hope to see more in this Masterpieces series. Really great stuff

I mean a new game to get into and so many star wars references I don't need to see the movies for another 5 years. Bravo Adam!

What a great in depth, intelligent and funny review that was. Subscribed!

Yay, more great content. Adam always outdoes himself.

What a brilliant discovery I just made in finding this game! Thank you much for the teach and history lesson! Love from Canada

No hand losing, sister kissing, or dad killing? Well why in the world am I here then ADAM?

21:00 The 42nd Anniversary edition even helped to mitigate this problem by giving people the option of using a Cosmic Combo card, which recommends specific combinations of races that work really well against one another.

Absolutely amazing video that kept me entertained all the way through. So happy I clicked on this before watching ya'lls recent playthrough of the game. Now I'm off to watch that. You're fucking brilliant, Adam lmao

This video massively influenced the way I teach this game

I like the shared victory mechanic because it makes CE one of the only war games where their can actually be alliances. So often these types of games are just trying to make others think your position is good enough but not as good as theirs because only one of the players can actually come out on top. Everyone has to play selfishly.

Something about adam is just so charming!

This is thr perfect video to show my family this game. Thank you so much

Love the new series and the passion!

I brought Cosmic Encounter to my friend group about 4 years ago and it has been a staple activity for us ever since. BUT we only play with AT LEAST 2 powers (I own every single expansion) Bringing aliens into wild combinations is part of the fun, and that way almost every power can shine if its paired well. We take this game to the next level with strategy, playing cutthroat games that last nearly 5 hours sometimes!! Its a weekly experience for us that will always be memorable. I cant wait for the next expansion!!

You can’t tell Adam went to theatre school could you?

Been getting into board gaming with friends thanks to this channel. I'm typically not into anything set in space, but this video already has me looking at copies on Amazon and contemplating how to convince my friends to try it.

Well. That’s that settled. Just ordered this game from my local game store 👍🏻

That is a surprising good Palpatine. Sheev would be proud.

I'm so here for all of Plumpy's Star Wars references.

I slept on this channel since i really have no interest in board games but boy did i forget how entertaining you are.

This is my favourite channel

As if Adam got his robe, please wear it for this week's Quizzlemania 😁

Awesome video. I want nothing more than to play Cosmic Encounter now

Fantastic video. Can't wait for A: The next one and B: Getting my hands on the game :)

What a great review! I originally played Cosmic Encounter in college, with the original Eon set plus all the expansions. Later, I bought my own copy, but was underwhelmed by the West End version. But it sounds like Fantasy Flight finally got it right. Now I just have to figure out how to adapt the game for blind players...

Welp I'm sold on this

After seeing it on your top 10, I borrowed it from the library and gave it a go. It's my favorite game now :)

Well now I want to see Adam & the NRB crew take on Quinns & the Shut Up and Sit Down crew in Cosmic Encounter more than anything...

Couldn’t agree more with every word you said. Brilliant game. Brilliant review. Refreshingly so.

Well sir. You have me sold on Cosmic Encounter, I shall be buying at the end of this month

Your videos are hilarious and excellent even if you don't care about the topic. One of the best "combo" Cosmic Encounter vids, a great overview of how to play, why to play, and history.

I feel like every time I watch Adam geek out on board games I'm having a pleasant yet chaotically evil fever dream

You made me finally pull the trigger on this game. 😎🔥😎

The full, definitive list of all of the specific Star Wars quotes in this video: Order 66 All the Sith All the Jedi "Wars not make one great" (close enough) Liberty dies to thunderous applause. Got it where it counts, kid. What a piece of junk! Bullseyed like a womprat Locked on target (kinda) Great kid, don't get cocky! Join me, and rule the galaxy! It's treason, then. I cannot teach him, the boy has no patience. "Smuggler with a heart of gold" Blow this thing and go home I'm altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further. (No, the kissing isn't a reference) There's always a bigger fish. Wretched hive of scum and villainy Abilities that some consider to be... unnatural. It is you who are mistaken... about a great many things. I've got a bad feeling about this. Do or do not... Total count: 22 quotes. Well done, young Skywalker.

the dice at the beginning killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"My personal favorite boardgame of all time" A man after my own heart

You just made me buy this game, almost feeding bad for being so late to this cosmic party!

Fantastic game that my friends love to play

Yes yes do another!

Aaaaahhhh the sweet dulcet tones of license free "Starry Warsy" themed music.

Just got this game for Christmas! Had to watch this again so I explain it correctly.

20:18 I love the Filch Flare. When I saw it I then realized this is one of/if not the best board games ever created!

Board Gamer Adam is now my favourite version of Adam!

This video got me back into Tabletop Simulator and playing cosmic encounter with American discord servers at 1am and going to bed at 4am, thanks for helping me ruin my sleep cycle mr blampied

Are we not talking about how unsettlingly spot on Adam’s impressions are?

I've played this game so many times and yes, it is as good as Adam says (personal favorite alien is the Stench) and i cannot WAIT for this on board game club.

love your videos. im buying this game. also, youre hilarious

Looks like total fun and chaos, first thought was MTG on a board. Loved MTG but it got way to expensive over time, so maybe will give this a try some day. Plus with 50 species you can make over 5,5 million different variations of what alienspecies face each other, that is a lot. So if some cards feel broken in a good or a bad way taking them out won't hurt the game I assume. That said anyone tips on games like this but able to play with only 2 people? Loved the intro, the little nerd jokes and the overall script of this video. Amazing work this is why I love me some Blampied videos. Thanks for the laughs, jam that jam. edit: I stand corrected over 4,8 million possible starts, because everyone gets two cards at the start of the game so player 1 has 50 options player 2 48 and so on making it 50x48x46x44. Damn I can't do math at 11 pm

MUST. GET. THIS. GAME!

I went from mildly interested to scrapping the last of my paycheck so I can buy this board game. Well done and damn you.

“This game is mental!” I like it

I feel that the game you talk about in each episode of this should link to what you play in the ‘Board Game Club’ videos.

Judging from the intro, lockdown is officially driving Adam crazy

More videos like this please.

11:52 So, now we know that Sully was piloting that ship.

Feel like to fully envision this, I need to see it get played

Please never go away again Adam

Hey Adam, you forgot to mention the Cosmic Zap cards which do shut down those op alien powers (or at least one of them) for at least that encounter! :)

I really hope you guys play this once the lockdown is over.

Top notch.

I didn't know I could like Adam anymore... and then he started making Star Wars References