Episode 15, where we solve the mystery: is Watson & Holmes a good game or a great game?

    We took our eyes away from the cards and dice recently to watching some shows and movies.  Joe's been watching the Geek & Sundry production, Escape: in which various celebrities are placed in an escape room and the audience gets to watch them struggle in their efforts to... escape!  Judy & Robert saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 and argue over the reds are really as red as they can be.

     Back at the table, we got to play the original, vanilla Zombicide again, and in doing so learned to appreciate the simplicity of playing with [i]only[/i] the kitchen sink.  Naturally, it's only further drumming up our excitement for the Green Horde kickstarter..

    Speaking of CMON kickstarter, Massive Darkness' delivery is right around the corner and Robert is geeking out with anticipation for it.  Meanwhile, Joe just geeks out over their expo in general.  Are we secretly CMON shills?  Time will tell..

• 0:00:30 - Escape
• 0:02:59 - Guardians of the Galaxy 2
• 0:06:22 - Zombicide
• 0:07:47 - Zombicide: Green Horde
• 0:09:58 - Massive Darkness
• 0:13:56 - CMON Expo
• 0:16:02 - Watson & Holmes - Rules
• 0:21:36 - Watson & Holmes - Theme & Components
• 0:39:58 - Watson & Holmes - Gameplay
• 0:54:15 - Watson & Holmes - Final Thoughts
• 0:57:49 - Music With Board Games

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#Escape #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2 #Zombicide #GreenHorde #MassiveDarkness #CMON #Watson&Holmes #boardgames

    Episode 14, where Joe (re)joins us to discuss some of the games we're most anticipating getting to play in the second half of 2017.  With so many games coming out and being announced every month, it can be hard to keep up with every title, so we decided to take some time to share with each other what we're looking forward to the most.  Joe struggled so much, he managed to sneak in an extra title!  For the savvy listener, this means you can expect dedicated review episodes for the vast majority of titles on this list down the line.  Excitement!

    I also had the time to explore the supplementary app for Clank!, getting in a couple games of its included solo mode, and share my thoughts on that.

    Then Joe questions how we go about picking new titles to add to our collections.  With hundreds of new titles on Kickstarter alone, let alone titles that come through the regular retail channels, everyone has their own system of filtering the ocean of games down to a select few titles at a time.  

    We'd love to hear your thoughts on these subjects!  What games are you hotly anticipating to play this year?  Are we crazy to be excited for the titles we chose?  Did we miss some super obvious choices?   ...   Probably.

    Two corrections to what we say:  Bullets & Teeth is actually from Last Ditch Games, not Space Goats Productions.   Robert also confused This War Of Mine with Valiant Hearts: The Great War.  The former was never offered as a free download.

• 0:01:07 - Clank!'s App & Solo Play Discussion
• 0:13:45 - Top Five Games We're Looking Forward To
• 0:14:44 - Judy's #5
• 0:19:25 - Joe's #5
• 0:21:48 - Robert's #5
• 0:28:54 - Judy's #4
• 0:32:42 - Joe's #4
• 0:34:48 - Robert's #4
• 0:40:27 - Judy's #3
• 0:43:38 - Joe's #3
• 0:46:13 - Joe's #3.5
• 0:49:14 - Robert's #3
• 0:52:01 - Judy's #2
• 0:57:30 - Joe's #2
• 1:04:36 - Robert's #2
• 1:09:44 - Judy's #1
• 1:15:28 - Joe's #1
• 1:23:36 - Robert's #1
• 1:24:50 - What We Look For In New Games

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#Clank #Terminator #RailraidersInfinite #DeadofWinter #MythicBattlesPantheon #Infected #ArkhamHorror #ThisWarOfMine #DicebornHeroes #AStudyInEmerald #CutthroatKingdoms #Brass #FirstMartian #SecretHitler #Gloomhaven #boardgames

Episode 13, the noisiest of them all, where we discuss Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure, as well as its recent expansion, Sunken Treasures. A board in my deck-building game?!  Madness!

Recently, we attempted to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return.  A recent kickstarter success, this classic show has returned with Joel Hodgson, Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt, Jonah Ray.  Watch a couple of friends making fun of a bad movie?  With the recent popularity of podcasts doing that exact thing, it seems only natural for this show to come back!

Already recently played is the indie game Crawl, now available on PC, PS4 & Xbox One.  Smash Brothers meets legacy board games??  Robert forgets to say so in the recording, but he really wants to see a board game that mirrors this game now.

Enjoy!

• 0:00:32 - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return
• 0:03:30 - Crawl
• 0:07:52 - Clank! - Story
• 0:09:38 - Clank! - Rules
• 0:18:56 - Clank! - Theme & Components
• 0:28:16 - Clank! - Gameplay
• 0:39:08 - Clank! - Sunken Treasures
• 0:44:39 - Music With Board Games

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#Clank #Crawl #MST3K #boardgames

Episode 12, where we review T.I.M.E. Stories - specifically the core box, featuring the Asylum scenario, designed by Peggy Chassenet, Manuel Rozoy, and published by Space Cowboys.  To do so, we'll travel through time to prevent a temporal fault from rupturing our present timeline!  If we fail on this mission, we'll be forced to repeat it again and again until we succee--

Episode 12, where we review T.I.M.E. Stories - specifically the core box, featuring the Asylum scenario, designed by Peggy Chassenet, Manuel Rozoy, and published by Space Cowboys.  To do so, we'll travel through time to prevent a tempor--

Episode 12, where we review T.I.M.E. Stories - specifically the core box, featuring the Asylum scenario, designed by Peggy Chasse--

Episo---....

As T.I.M.E. Stories is a very story-sensitive adventure game, we've respectfully placed any comments that venture on (light) spoiler territory into their own segment, beginning at the 0:57:24 mark.  Please skip this portion of the podcast if you have yet to play the game and wish for your first adventure to be a complete surprise!

Before this wicked time loop took hold of our lives, we had the opportunity to revisit Deception: Murder In Hong Kong (and Robert rants about why he hates being the murderer), watched Star Trek: Beyond, lament the long out-of-print Gears of War board game that we'll never get to play, and briefly check out Yooka-Laylee.

Enjoy!

• 0:00:59 - Deception: Murder In Hong Kong
• 0:09:35 - Star Trek: Beyond
• 0:13:26 - Gears of War
• 0:15:47 - Yooka-Laylee
• 0:19:59 - T.I.M.E. Stories - Story
• 0:23:05 - T.I.M.E. Stories - Rules
• 0:30:14 - T.I.M.E. Stories - Theme & Components
• 0:43:00 - T.I.M.E. Stories - Gameplay
• 0:57:24 - T.I.M.E. Stories - ** SPOILER WARNING**
• 0:58:26 - T.I.M.E. Stories - (Light) Spoiler Talk
• 1:09:46 - T.I.M.E. Stories - ** END SPOILERS **
• 1:16:20 - Music With Board Games

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#boardgames #TIMEStories #Deception #GearsofWar #YookaLaylee

Episode 11, where we sail away with Rum & Bones: Second Tide.  RB:ST is a standalone, second edition of Cool Mini Or Not's Rum & Bones, and is a 2-6 player game modelled after the ever popular MOBA style of PC games... but with pirates!  We share our thoughts on it - and we have lots! - and definitely plan on revisiting this title again in a future episode down the road, as it's been a contentious one for us.  Our Music With Board Games segment continues with our suggestions based on what we listened to throughout our pirating affairs..

We're once again joined by Joe, who shares with us his experiences in playing Blood Rage (another CMON game!) and Guillotine (a card game from 1998, all about becoming the best guillotine operator you can be).

We also had the fortune of coming across a copy of Witness, the cooperative deduction game based on the Blake & Mortimer IP.  After a solid 8 plays, we're excited to tell as many people as we can to track down a copy, and pine for it to receive another print run.

• 0:02:24 - Blood Rage
• 0:03:53 - Guillotine
• 0:07:10 - Witness
• 0:17:46 - Rum & Bones: Second Tide - What's a MOBA?
• 0:19:29 - Rum & Bones: Second Tide - Rules
• 0:25:21 - Rum & Bones: Second Tide - What's New?
• 0:28:12 - Rum & Bones: Second Tide - Theme & Components
• 0:44:47 - Rum & Bones: Second Tide - Gameplay
• 1:12:19 - Rum & Bones: Second Tide - Final Thoughts
• 1:18:19 - Music With Board Games

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#boardgames #RumAndBones #BloodRage #Witness

Episode 10, whence we descend into Inferno to save the city of Arcadia!  Arcadia Quest: Inferno is a standalone expansion for the original Arcadia Quest.  This week we discuss our recent play-through of the new Inferno campaign and give our thoughts on whether it improves upon the original game or not.  Our Music With Board Games segment returns with our suggestions based on what we listened to throughout our hellish campaign.

Joe describes to us his recent plays of two games: Santoriniand Rhino Hero.  It sounds as amazing as it's title suggests.  We also share our thoughts on the Logan movie, as well as bizarre indie game on PC & consoles called Manual Samuel.

• 0:01:25 - Santorini
• 0:05:24 - Rhino Hero
• 0:07:57 - Logan
• 0:11:30 - Manual Samuel
• 0:16:21 - Arcadia Quest - Recap
• 0:19:56 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - What's the Same?
• 0:20:40 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - What's New?
• 0:25:26 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Theme & Components
• 0:34:52 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Gameplay (Heroes)
• 0:37:29 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Gameplay (Damnation)
• 0:44:48 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Gameplay (New Items)
• 0:47:12 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Gameplay (Brimstone Cards)
• 0:50:16 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Gameplay (New Objectives)
• 0:54:18 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Gameplay (Angels)
• 0:57:17 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Gameplay (Balance)
• 1:01:23 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno - Final Thoughts
• 1:02:04 - Music With Board Games
• 1:08:10 - Horrible Bloopers..

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#boardgames #ArcadiaQuest #Santorini #RhinoHero

Episode 9, the one where we try to stay calm while engaged in submarine warfare (and fail)!  Captain Sonar is a real-time, team game for 2-8 players, and we weigh in on whether it's great fun on just great stress.  Our Music With Boardgames segment included some great fan suggestions, though it should be noted that the sonar soundbite used in the podcast is not from the YouTube video originally linked to us; the original creeped Robert out too much!

Joe extends his thanks to Chris Cantrell (of Riot Games) after receiving a resolution on his defective crystal (from Mechs Vs Minions).  We also had the opportunity to play the older (and sadly now out of print) WarHammer 40k strategy game Forbidden Stars (from Fantasy Flight Games) and give our initial impressions.  Rum & Bones: Second Tide (Cool Mini Or Not) is arriving in the mail and we gave the core box a quick spin.  Also from CMON, our Arcadia Quest: Inferno kickstarter arrived in one giant shipment, and we're plugging our way through the new campaign therein.  Finally, Joe saw The Great Wall: the movie where Matt Damon fights monsters on the Great Wall of China.  It's a thing.

• 0:02:20 - Forbidden Stars
• 0:09:28 - Rum & Bones: Second Tide
• 0:12:29 - The Great Wall
• 0:18:12 - Arcadia Quest: Inferno
• 0:20:05 - Captain Sonar - Intro
• 0:22:42 - Captain Sonar - The Story
• 0:25:48 - Captain Sonar - The Rules
• 0:30:00 - Captain Sonar - Initial Gameplay Thoughts
• 0:36:12 - Captain Sonar - Theme & Components
• 0:47:37 - Captain Sonar - Gameplay & Mechanics
• 0:56:13 - Captain Sonar - What we didn't like..
• 1:11:46 - Captain Sonar - Final Thoughts
• 1:17:12 - Music With Board Games: Captain Sonar

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#boardgames #CaptainSonar #ForbiddenStars #RumAndBones

Episode 8, the one where we negotiate our way through New Angeles!  Returning this week is our Music With Boardgames segment, covering great cyberpunk soundtracks to use with New Angeles.  We received our first fan question on Facebook, asking for insights on breaking into the board game industry, and we answer it to the best of our (in)ability.  Other random commentary includes our thoughts on the Lego Batman movie, the upcoming boardgame-like video game Pit People (from The Behemoth), and a recent replay of the euro classic Princes of Florence (which Robert has trouble saying).

• 0:01:05 - Lego Batman Movie
• 0:02:00 - Pit People
• 0:04:12 - Princes of Florence
• 0:08:11 - Listener Questions
• 0:13:29 - New Angeles - The Story
• 0:18:29 - New Angeles - The Rules
• 0:32:07 - New Angeles - BSG Comparisons
• 0:34:42 - New Angeles - Judy Hates Bargaining
• 0:37:08 - New Angeles - Theme & Components
• 0:48:36 - New Angeles - Gameplay & Mechanics
• 1:05:29 - New Angeles - Final Thoughts
• 1:07:04 - Music with Board Games - New Angeles

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#boardgames #NewAngeles

Episode 7, the one where we talk about Mysterium!  We also start up two new regular segments: music with boardgames and our select house rules of the week.  We also fall over ourselves with excitement after receiving a surprise email from Chris Cantrell, Associate Producer at Riot Games and the Product Designer of Mechs Vs Minions!  

• 0:01:08 - Captain Sonar
• 0:01:44 - Not Alone
• 0:04:38 - New Angeles
• 0:08:23 - Rogue One
• 0:10:37 - Surprise email from Chris Cantrell
• 0:13:54 - Mysterium - The Story
• 0:18:15 - Mysterium - The Rules
• 0:26:04 - Mysterium - Theme & Components
• 0:45:47 - Mysterium - Gameplay & Mechanics
• 1:01:48 - Mysterium - Final Thoughts
• 1:05:40 - Music with Board Games - Mysterium
• 1:15:26 - Judy & Robert's House Rule(s) of the Week - Mysterium
• 1:20:20 - Judy & Robert's House Rule(s) of the Week - Arcadia Quest

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#boardgames #Mysterium #ArcadiaQuest

Our first Appisode!  In the fall of last year we went abroad and used the opportunity to play some iOS board game apps.  Here we are, three months later, giving our much belated thoughts on them.

Our audio issues from the previous episode should now be resolved (extra thank yous to those who made it through it in its entirety).  Now with extra dog-walking in the background!  (Just can't win..) 

• 0:02:53 - Lords of Waterdeep
• 0:12:34 - Splendor
• 0:23:31 - Pathfinder Adventures
• 0:57:21 - ???

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#iosgames #boardgames #LordsofWaterdeep #Splendor #Pathfinder