I feel so grateful for your reviews. Your taste almost exactly matches the board games I like. Thanks for helping me find such a rich and exciting hobby.
Hooray - more Actualol goodness (with more to come!). My wife and I recently pulled Paperback back out and have been enjoying it once again. Thank you!
Great video! There's a slight rules mistake for Arboretum though, you earn the right to score based on the sum of cards in your hand, so if you kept a 6 and a 1, you'd be able to score along with whoever has the 7
I am really excited for this series! This is gonna be great. i have a little advice regarding thumbnails though: sometimes the blue background in the thumbnail and the word "top 10/top 50" is not enough for me to differentiate videos from each other. when i saw the thumbnail for this video i thought initially that it's the top 10 party games video being recommend to me again. I know I am nitpicking but I think it would be better to focus on the word "OF ALL TIME" also in the thumbnail, or use different colors maybe? Sorry for blabbering, it's just something I noticed. 🙈 Anyway, keep up the great videos Jon! 💛
With Risk Legacy and Clank on your list, have you looked into Clank Legacy? It has a big price tag but my wife and I are 7 games in and it's one of the best gaming experiences I've had ever. The story is funny and clever. And the mechanics they add are really different compared to any other flavor of Clank. Plus unlike most legacy games, I have been told you can play it after the campaign is done. Enjoying your list. Thanks.
while I agree the length of Whitechapel can ratchet up the tension I feel that map gives so many more possibilities. Whitechapel has a larger space so it takes longer to get on the killer's trail, but I feel once you're on it the way the map funnels you means it always kind of feels the same... of course there is some balance of narrative and perhaps the murderer being able to go multiple direction can deflate the story, but I feel it's worth it for the game to have more swings of emotion.
I think I've really been won over by Whitehall Mysteries. Letters is great but it sits in this uncomfortable place for me where it's not as thematic and weighty as Fury of Dracula but still longer and heavier than Whitehall.
Yes, exactly. Andreas Pelikan designed Witch's Brew, then he co-designed Broom Service with Alexander Pfister. There's also Broom Service: The Card Game which is a simpler version of both.
You're spoiling the list for yourself! Decrypto is great, but I slightly prefer Crosstalk. I like that you're all guessing the same thing. And I haven't played Clank Legacy yet but it's on my to-play list.
I just realized that you recommended the board game Broom Service & I purchased the card game Broom Service. Have you played the condensed version at all?
Yes, I like that too 😁 I slightly prefer the board game but some people prefer the card game because it still has the same core bravery mechanism and works well. I own both.
Why can you not make videos as a hobby? I feel like I am being guilted into giving you money every time I start watching your videos and it's making me less keen on continuing to do so. I wanna watch a video to have fun, not to feel bad about not being able to support monetarily.
I can’t make these videos as a hobby, because they take too long to make. If I did it as a hobby, they would no longer feel like my videos. I wouldn't have the time to script my reviews, to write jokes, to film B-roll of the games, or to play characters. They wouldn't be very good and less people would watch them. I know all of that because last year I did try and make videos around a full-time job and it was a nightmare. I cut corners, I made lazy, easy videos, I was stressed out all the time, and the channel started to fade. Unfortunately, the board game industry isn't big enough to sustain board game media through advertising alone. All the major review channels rely on crowdfunding to be able to keep making videos. None of those channels do it as a hobby either, and I believe that I make videos that are worthy of competing with them. I’m sorry that it is damaging your enjoyment of the videos, and I understand if you no longer want to watch them. If I didn’t ask, then I would have had to stop making videos, so I don’t see it as a choice. And thankfully because I’ve asked, there have been 150 people who have signed up to the Patreon. If the pledge drive reaches its target, I will stop talking about it. I don’t expect everyone to give, and I’m not trying to make anyone feel guilty. I'm putting out there the facts that what I do takes a lot of work, and I can only afford to keep doing it if I can pay the bills. It’s completely up to the viewer if they want to do something. And I would never want anyone who can’t afford to give money, or chooses not to, to feel bad. All I ask is that you put up with ten seconds of a 25 minute video, or skip the intro.
@@actualol Hi Jon, I just wrote you a longish reply, and accidentally hit cancel instead of reply. It basically said, you are doing great work, think a lot of your genuine nature and honesty and how that comes across in your videos. I can see how you are worried about losing your channel, that comes across. Neivity has a point but only in the feeling that some viewers take from your request is that of guilt. Maybe make it more matter of fact in the way you present the request for the financial side of things. As they say, it's how you say it not just what you say. Just my point of view on all of this :)
