So Very Wrong About Games

#51: Pandemic: Fall of Rome and New Year's Resolutions


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Peer influence is a strange thing. For years Mark has been yelling at Walker about various ways he really ought to change, but a single board game now has Walker spewing Macross lore like he's a convert. Perhaps the authors like Erin Lee Escobedo have a point, and board games really can serve to deliver subtle yet powerful influence. Perhaps we could make board games to convince people to like and dislike the right board games...

Games Played Last Week:
-Telestrations 3m40s (Uncredited, USAopoly, 2009)
-Diamonds 4m52s (Mike Fitzgerald, Stronghold, 2014)
-Meltwater: A Game of Tactical Starvation 8m30s (Erin Lee Escobedo, Hollandspiele, 2018)
-Tokyo Highway 14m07s (Naotaka Shimamoto & Yoshiaki Tomioka, itten, 2016)
-Robotech: Attack on the SDF-1 15m51s (Darius Hambleton & Jeff Mechlinski, Strange Machine Games, 2018)
-Great Western Trail: Rails to the North 20m04s (Alexander Pfister, Stronghold, 2018)
-Shards of Infinity: Relics of the Future 24m17s (Gary Arant & Justin Gary, Stone Blade Entertainment, 2018)

News (and why it doesn't matter)
-2491 Planetship disappoints Walker pre-emptively 26m17s
-Successors' Successor 27m36s
-Age of Steam's authorship evaporates 28m43s
-Vital Lacerda and Railways of the World 30m10s
-Suburbia gets purdy 30m30s
-Walker unimpressed by the Hotness 31m41s
-SVWAG succumbs to the inevitable with an upcoming Patreon 32m47s

Feature Game: Pandemic: Fall of Rome 34m17s (Matt Leacock & Paolo Mori, Z-Man, 2018)

Topic: New Year's Resolutions Past and Present 53m48s

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