Overall, after watching this several times, I am still on the fence with this one. Good review. It's extremely helpful. A core issue for me is just that this version is more expensive, mainly on account of the larger board and minis - neither of which appeal enough to me. The normal Pandemic board size is great and I am neutral about minis.
You guys mentioned that Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu is either your least favourite version of Pandemic, or your second least favourite. So, what is the other contender for least favourite?
Well this is a somewhat more controversial opinion, but Rising Tide is my second least favorite, behind Reign of Cthulhu. Mostly just because I find it too fiddly to do upkeep on it and the board too hard to read -- it just sucks a lot of the fun out of it. I'd be happy to play a remake. I like the idea of different goals having different rewards.
@@COOPFORTWO That is what I suspected. I love Pandemic: Rising Tide, but... sure the board is harder to parse. In fact, it is the only Pandemic I own that I do not solo (at the moment). Luckily, I play with someone with powerful spatial-visual intelligence and from a game design perspective you cannot assume that for all players. So, I guess the argument stands.
Overall, after watching this several times, I am still on the fence with this one. Good review. It's extremely helpful. A core issue for me is just that this version is more expensive, mainly on account of the larger board and minis - neither of which appeal enough to me. The normal Pandemic board size is great and I am neutral about minis.
I think this one is skippable. In my opinion the Star Wars pandemic is substantially better and scratches a similar itch. -jesse
You guys mentioned that Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu is either your least favourite version of Pandemic, or your second least favourite. So, what is the other contender for least favourite?
Well this is a somewhat more controversial opinion, but Rising Tide is my second least favorite, behind Reign of Cthulhu. Mostly just because I find it too fiddly to do upkeep on it and the board too hard to read -- it just sucks a lot of the fun out of it. I'd be happy to play a remake. I like the idea of different goals having different rewards.
@@COOPFORTWO That is what I suspected. I love Pandemic: Rising Tide, but... sure the board is harder to parse. In fact, it is the only Pandemic I own that I do not solo (at the moment). Luckily, I play with someone with powerful spatial-visual intelligence and from a game design perspective you cannot assume that for all players. So, I guess the argument stands.