Look Back - August 14, 2024

[@bones983]

I love your reason for the 10 for Robot Turtles. Sounds like an amazing experience.

[@beattilaTheHun]

I discovered the hobby about a decade ago now. The ten year ago list is full of wonderful nostalgia for me!

[@SlovoSanctum]

Tales from the Red Dragon Inn is so well done, I agree that it still holds up. They've announced on their discord that they're working on a season 2 of sorts, so looking forward to that!

[@VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth]

Well it's only 1 year old, would be really bad if it didn't hold up.

[@SlovoSanctum]

@@VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth the series is about revisiting scores from 1+ years ago

[@srpad]

Carnival of Monsters was one of our first Hobby games and we really liked it.

[@uplift-yourdailypickup6424]

FYI Relationship tightrope / Zen Master is now Odd Socks.

[@budsticky]

You know you've been playing board games for too long when you're dreaming about teaching Power Grid.

[@allennewhausen2541]

Sounds about right for Doomtown Reloaded. I rushed to buy it at Gen Con 2014, played the big release event for it on Saturday...then never played it again. Thought that would probably happen, since I didn't know anyone else who played and never really made the effort to find them, but I still love the game to death. Even bought every single AEG expansion despite the fact I never played any of them. Just too much fun to go through the cards.

[@KingMePlease3]

A 6 for Lorcana because Star Wars Unlimited is better? Why not leave Lorcana at 7 and rate Star Wars Unlimited higher? Lorcana was solid when it came out, but now with 5 sets released, there are so many different types of decks to build, new mechanics solo/cooperative/multiplayer experiences and a competitive scene. great for all ages due to the Disney IP. Artwork is still amazing. Product is widely available now. Lorcana has improved for me in the last year and I think will continue to get better. With Pixar coming in 2026, and knowing they have plans that far out says something.

[@gaucholaw1]

Agree. Both Lorcana and SWU are solid systems. Just pick what is your preferred game. SWU may have a slightly better game idea with the dual zones, but the art on Lorcana is much higher level. Kinda evens out IMO.

[@johannesblank1552]

1:33 That looks like a Sierpinski triangle on the cover, not a Pascal triangle.

[@SteWorthington]

You say Funkoverse is gone. Is that official? I've been looking for some official announcement on this for some time, and it's proving tricky! Lots of very vague stuff. I would trust you to know on this! I have a few bits for this, which never got played, and now wondering if it's worth keeping?

[@thedicetower]

Well, the board game division of Funkoverse no longer exists, so I would say yes.

[@SteWorthington]

Ah yes.... that would do it...😢

[@charlietwoteas3676]

Surprised you rated Roll for Adventure so highly. I got it on a whim cause it was £5 brand new and thought it was brutally hard and not particularly interesting. Rated it a 5 myself

[@laraarne5136]

Hello, how do you choose the games? Have you tested the old games again? Kind regards

[@thedicetower]

I just talk about the games I've reviewed this same date range years ago. And no, I haven't played them all this week. I have played many of them, and many of them I haven't. I'm just talking about my thoughts on them now.

[@BoardGamesBricksHobbies]

Hard disagree with King of New York, it's much better than Tokyo. I've taught it to multiple people and everyone always has a blast. A few people even tried KoT afterwards on a week I didn't bring KoNY and they were underwhelmed. Also you say they haven't supported it, but every Monster Pack includes cards for both games, not to mention Power Up. 9/10 still from me.

[@pietrorasputin52]

I'd have to disagree withyou on Lorcana. I think it's much better than Star Wars Unlimited and is even better now that it can also be played solo or cooperative thanks to Ursula's Return.