Arcs REVIEW - The Campaign Game

[@colesrootchannel]

How did Leder manage to release this game without reporting it to the FDA? I didn’t know I was purchasing an addictive substance!

[@115-Gaming]

@@colesrootchannel Cole Wehrle is Heisenberg and this is his 99% pure meth

[@BoardwithMeandMyself]

100% i was hooked on a lot of games before, and some games kept me constantly thinking of them for a while. Bit never was I so fascinated by not only the game as a whole but every aspect of the mechanisms, the narrative integration and the scope of content in the expansion box

[@chiproush7480]

Spectacular review. Not merely because I agree with you, but in awe of how well scripted, acted, and produced. A lucid description of a complex and wonderful game, entertainingly presented. I think this really will help people choose whether to buy the ...Blighted Reach. Keep up the good work

[@115-Gaming]

@@chiproush7480 thank you!!

[@sthompson022]

This is my favorite review of Arcs: Campaign. I love Tom's review from SUSD, but you were able to provide concise examples of how the campaign mode creates stories and Tom was only able to allude to it. This is the definitive review that I'm passing on to my friends. One of my gaming groups is going to play the campaign mode for the first time tomorrow night - very excited!

[@captainofspace]

I love the idea of a friend pausing a game to share a PowerPoint presentation about why he likes it.

[@115-Gaming]

do you not spend your free time putting together random powerpoint presentations for your friends? You never know when the opportunity for a presentation will arrive! You have to be ready!

[@supersingalong1]

This is definitely the best review I've seen of Campaign Arcs. I love how you communicate lots of different perspectives and preferences through dialogue. It really works well!

[@ToddCarter]

I’m about to finish my first campaign game tonight, thanks for the video. I’ve been looking forward to this one. Good job.

[@user-cw4zj6kc8u]

I see Arcs like Starcraft. You have a narrative campaign that you will enjoy and learn the world you're playing in and then a multiplayer mode where you build a base and army and go and destroy each other. You'll probably play the campaign a number of times while the multiplayer will be played for years and years to come.

[@royalsapphire1196]

The irony of talking about “new” scifi settings and bringing up Dune 😂

[@115-Gaming]

@@royalsapphire1196 haha! 🤣 I didn’t even think about that

[@GroundControlBoardGames]

This is an awesome video! Explains the game so well and the production is great

[@paco5005]

Hey great review! I find it really crazy that after playing my first campaign, I talked with my friends about a similar feeling of storytelling to what you described, during the games I am only thinking in mechanic terms, and then the next day while thinking about the game I realize of the narratives present. Still, a great experience all the same

[@oisinmoyne9704]

What an awesome review!! Great style and love having the different perspectives delivered in dialogue. Great summaries!

[@JanusZudnik]

Wow, epic take. I don't get tired listening to Oath takes, and now in preparation for the campaign watching everything out there and short of susd, that's the best campaign explanation and demonstration

[@115-Gaming]

Oath is indeed goated

[@YeetMcmaet]

Hoping to get arcs next month. Excited:)

[@MrK0812]

amazing review. i see the amount of effort and love you put into this. thank you. also seeing your sci fi books (i read almost all of them) i was wondering: any chances to get a sci-fi books recommendation video? :) - given that our sci fi taste seems similar, i would like to hear from you about your favourites

[@115-Gaming]

@@MrK0812 ooohhhhh, I would love to do that! I might do that after I finish The Sun Eater series

[@dannyf1168]

Good analysis of a complicated game. I liken the base game to a regular Boardgame. The campaign is more of an RP experience - with rules attached. The downside to the campaign is the rules overhead can swamp people. But I think its a necessity of the emergent gameplay experience.

[@BigChimpin1]

Excellent review. Love the info

[@BigChimpin1]

18:59 I think the believer > hegemon is unstoppable. Probably should just concede in AIII

[@115-Gaming]

@@BigChimpin1 true, we don’t even need to play our Act 3 at this point

[@Darkmenon]

I know its kinda unrelated, but what gaming table is that ? Did you buy ? custom made ? What are the measurements ? Please

[@CopperLontra]

It's The Expanse

[@115-Gaming]

don't tell anyone this but I agree (best series of all time) 👀

[@timleegte9375]

They should definitely watch Dune and Andor season 1 is indeed great.

[@115-Gaming]

@@timleegte9375 honestly I could’ve made a 40 minute video on Andor 🙌

[@stop_dave]

​@@115-Gaming ide gobble that up immediately 🤩

[@josephmattson9648]

Managed to find the base game in a board game store in Boston, but still haven't found the blighted reach expansion anywhere. I pre-ordered the retail version. Any idea when that comes out?

[@115-Gaming]

@@josephmattson9648 I think the retail versions are shipping over here sometime September or October if I remember correctly?

[@nin_4_me58]

Not sure why I am watching this. I know how it ends. Lol. The triplets are funny

[@nin_4_me58]

Uhhhh…. Flagships are powerful…. I wonder what happened there…

[@115-Gaming]

@@nin_4_me58 I think I just haven’t figured out how to play em well yet as well as the fact that they scared us in our first few campaigns and so ppl targeted them more than usual.

[@kylemckell]

MINE IS BETTER

[@115-Gaming]

@@kylemckell yours is trash and mine is better

[@GuillaumeBellemare]

Great review but the guy with the cap talks way too much 🤡

[@115-Gaming]

@@GuillaumeBellemare yeah he’s the worst

[@justinvamp15]

Overhyped! Too random! If you don't draw the right cards you automatically lose and there's LITERALLY nothing you can do to mitigate it. People interacting with me and not just letting me run away with the win makes me feel sad. People running away with the win because I don't interact with them makes me feel sad. Time to play a game where luck of the cards won't make my big brain moves meaningless - time to go back to Ark Nova I guess.

[@115-Gaming]

@@justinvamp15 🤔 desperately trying to figure out if this is satirical 😂😂😂😂

[@justinvamp15]

@@115-Gaming Oh 100% 🤣the fact that there's even a question cracks me up though - some of the online reactions to this game have me really scratching my head. Arcs is so good, I really can't wait to try the campaign! Unfortunately my plays have been split across 3 different groups and nobody has felt comfortable yet stepping into the extra stuff the campaign adds. I'm really hoping to soon! Love your content, I'm anxiously waiting the completed of your current campaign playthrough as well.

[@115-Gaming]

@@justinvamp15 yeah it's tough because I feel like most negative reactions from the game come from ppl's negative first impressions and so they've given up immediately without trying to engage with the game any further. On one hand, I do believe ppl would come around on the game if they played more than twice but on the other hand you can't force someone to keep playing a game if they really didn't enjoy it their first time 🥲

[@justinvamp15]

@@115-Gaming Yup that's pretty spot on! I think a big part is just the assumptions that come from having played other space games and the fact that it doesn't play like those. Your video about coming to love Root after hating it at first should be required viewing for all board gamers haha. I understand people have limited time to play board games because of real life so if something doesn't hit right off the bat it's understandable to want to spend your limited gaming time playing something you immediately enjoy. I think it points to a general consumerism problem that's the same with TV shows, social media, and other things where there's so much stuff out there that if people don't have their attention grabbed the very first instant then they aren't willing to put in the time/effort to really explore it. It's tough because first impressions really do matter, but delayed gratification and a game that takes lots of plays to grok the depth of are things that lots of people in the gaming space just aren't willing to engage with when there are so many shiny things that are out there. Along this vein, I think it is telling that basically every single review of Arcs, positive or negative, has spent a significant amount of time mentioning that the mini pack is much worse than the wooden ships because the functionality isn't as good. A couple of the reviews have spent like half of their time talking about this, and reviews of so many games talk about the components and the fancy miniatures, or wishing that a game had them. It makes sense that in order to be immersed there has to be a level of quality, but also it points to the fact that very shallow and surface level things like having plastic minis are what a lot of people care about rather than the depth of gameplay. Which makes perfect sense when people form definitive opinions after just a play or two before moving on to the next shiny thing.

[@justinvamp15]

@@115-Gaming One of the things that bothers me the most in my own playgroup is the tendency my friends have to declare "that ability is overpowered, there's nothing I can do about it", or to definitively state that one strategy is 100% stronger than another after their literal first time playing a game. I always try to say that we are just barely stepping into this game how could we possibly know?