Top 10 Games That Keep Getting Better 

Thanks. Makes watching the video a lot more easy to follow and enjoy. Tom's constant pleas not to list the games is infantile.

Tom thinks we watch these videos just to find out what games they picked. He doesn't have a clue that we watch them because we love these guys.

I almost always skip to the end and look at their lists first and then go back and watch. 🤷‍♂️

Now that Sams gone Idk man...

So true. "What's it like..." "I need help" "...to be a crack head!?" LOL

You all probably dont give a damn but does any of you know of a method to get back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the password. I appreciate any help you can offer me

@Samir Manuel instablaster :)

@Nathan Alfred thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im in the hacking process now. Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@Nathan Alfred It worked and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D Thank you so much you saved my account!

@Samir Manuel you are welcome :)

Actually that happens a lot. Sometimes you try to find a reason why you don’t like a certain game but at the end is the overall of the game that you don’t like or at least many things mixed together that makes the game not enjoyable to you. For exemple I always said that I don’t like Pandemic very much because it’s cooperative but one day i realised that i like a cooperative game, Zombicide.

I just thought he was being ironic with stone age, because of what Sam was saying.

I mean, there's a LOT of reasons to like MP:EE more than Stone Age.

Boardgame Barbarian lol

Funny, exactly what he said!

Bernie K yeah, if you spent another 200 for expansions

Also advice, adventure etc etc

@@jhgf280 or advocate, (dis-)advantage

@@jhgf280 yes, thanks, you're not wrong but my point was that there's a counterexample literally on page one!

Nope, not "AARDVARK". There are a least two other words that have "AA" in them. AARDWOLF and AA. You might try to argue that AARDWORF comes from the Afrikaan language and AA comes from the Hawaiian language, but then you have to eliminate AARDVARK because it also comes from Afrikaans, which also contains AA.

@@patcon314 I think you've missed the reference in the video.

Jim Grant agreed!

Agreed

Agreed. And I'm generally not a fan of the live 10 tens. I liked the old format better.

Why is this always an issue? I have a volume knob... I dont get it.

@@ericlink2828 Because on many tablets, phones, and other devices with small speakers even at full volume it's too quiet or distorts if the source is too low.

It should be a rule in Gizmos. The I'm one away rule.

GrandMasterYoW what about Dorkus Analysis Paralysis?

Ah, never mind, I see you figured it out.

TM is Terra Mystica, or Terraforming Mars?

@@stephanmobius1380 ah true... Terraforming Mars :-)

Gizmos is a solvable problem. In the sense that you will quickly find all viable strategies and "solve" the game where it loses its mystery.

@@Steve-yd9ki maybe but each time I play I am trying new strategies and playing with four requires that you watch others strategies so that you can find the right path and get lucky. I dont play it often enough to feel I have exhausted it. I have a points strategy and several race strategies... one including the tier 3 cards, that was fun to discover... if I have time I can build a few other nice engines. Unlike Dominion it is far more tactical, random cards, other players limiting choices or moving the time clock up all go into keeping this fresh. Play against more players and try new strategies... beat your last score.

Yeah, Sam has been firing on all engines lately. I'm going to mark the change with his inclusion of tournament at Camelot in a list about a year ago. Since then he has been broadening his horizons and turned me into some great games. I feel like he has really hit his stride... although... he is wrong about Vindication. Dead wrong.

rob taylor I play it about 60 times a year. And I love it more than when I started. I still get excited every time.

Strongly agree!

@My Cat's Breath Smells Like Cat Food I agree with your thoughts on Valhalla. It definitely adds more to think about which in turn can slow down which should be a faster paced game. I guess I just wish DM had a few more nastier journey cards to force players to prepare as much as when they go voyaging.

Fred Myers I watched from the start and never figured it out.

the one with the beard is sam

@@ashesanddiamonds2692 II think you missed the joke at the start of this video

@@fredmyers8366 I think you missed that all of them have a beard

Download a chrome add-on that goes all the way to 16x but mainly watch videos at 2.5-3x

Thank you for saving an hour of my life.

Why have I not been doing this all along!?

How

@@eddieb8054 when watching a video, select the settings for it and change the playback speed

Isn't it broken? The optimal strategy seems to be poker -> caberet

@@AdamLindell No, not at all! I've played the game 5 times, and I've never seen anyone win with a poker strategy. I've seen several people win with a neutral mining strategy, and seen others win with either a cattle/Marshall strategy or a Marshall/mining strategy. The upcoming expansion this year, Ante Up, adds many more ways to score points.

Yes! I know I'm late but this would be amazinh

Bloodrage is not a great game at all and I was done with it after only a few plays.

Bloodrage requires you dig the theme and minis, then you can spend time discovering new schemes or learning how to combat schemes others use to win. I feel like Rising Sun is the same but longer. We thought Turtles were Gods but then we discovered that that was just an easy first strategy and then thought it was some other clan. Now we all want to try a new clan to see how we can get a winning strategy with them. Some are huge failures but the fun is in the discoveries.

Bruges for both Tom and Zee I believe.

Agreed, fantastic game!

Expansion hype might give it a boost this year in the next few months. Also surprised Tom picked Race just ahead of Roll when he has the latest expansion pending review. Might be a tight coin flip there next time they do this list.

Agreed - Inis is one of the greatest game designs of modern board gaming!

So did this philosophy apply with this list as well?... Because Tom's list this time was a bunch of bad games except for Dominion and Clank, and Sam's list was 9 good games.

Blood Rage is a very over rated game.

Yeah we an okay time the games we had, but it was never great, or even very good. The end always seemed so anti-climatic. You run out of space and things to spend your Rage on the last couple of turns. Then the person with the most bullshit Age 3 combo wins. There's a big focus on upgrading your stats but your stats really only matter for one round at the start of Age 2. At Age 3 there's just not enough space to need a lot of rage or population cap. The only thing stats matter for beyond Age 2 is generic victory points. After about 2 months I ended up selling my copy. There are just way better "dudes on a map" games out right now that we couldn't justify spending more time on Bloodrage over them. Cthulhu Wars and even the old Chaos in the Old World are still more enjoyable. I can't see why anyone would prefer Bloodrage unless you were absolutely addicted to card drafting. Which might also explain the runaway popularity of Terraforming Mars, which I would vote as THE most overrated game of the decade (with Root a close 2nd).

@@dorpth I think it's the miniatures + the whole Viking/Norse theme that get people pretending Blood Rage is better than it is. Cthulhu Wars is clearly a superior and more "fun" game for me as well. Chaos in the Old World is cool but out of print and super expensive plus I think Cthulhu Wars is better than that one as well. Another superior "dudes on a map" games is Tyrants of the Underdark.

Yeah Cthulhu Wars is my favorite. It's super straight forward and easy to learn. Just keep all the bullshit expansion factions out of it. Chaos in the Old World hasn't aged that well, but I'd still rather play it than Blood Rage. Some people just go absolutely nuts over cards and drafting. I can't find any other reason why Terraforming Mars is sitting at #5 game of all time.

@@dorpth Terraforming Mars is a "Euro" game, or "Eurotrash" game as I prefer to call them since they call all American games "Ameritrash." I assume you know what defines a Eurotrash game. Cthulhu Wars is the polar opposite of a Eurotrash game with all of its conflict, dice rolling, luck, and you know, fun. As soon as you start rolling dice and fighting many Eurotrash gamers are turned off immediately. As for CW expansions, some of them are lame but I bought the Opener and Sleeper expansion factions because I think they are cool and not over powered (in fact, probably slightly underpowered compared to the base factions, especially Opener). Meanwhile Windwalker and Tcho-Tcho are clearly over powered and lame so I will never buy them. I am not sure about the Ancients but they seem cool, but I can live without them.

which I've just realised gets addressed when I watch the video for another 2 minutes!

Gammon is a shut out win in backgammon. A backgammon is when you win while your opponent still has a piece on your side of the board!