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- Top 10 Games of All Time by Man Vs Meeple
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48:30 For the three top 10s.
Great lists ;). I didn't expect to see Troyes here! Here's my TOP 10 (Seasons is my no. 11):
#1: Troyes
#2: Dominion
#3: Caylus
#4: Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
#5: Trajan
#6: Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar
#7: Keyflower
#8: The Castles of Burgundy
#9: Five Tribes
#10: 7 Wonders
It sounds like we need to game together.
And I love to see you give a little love to Seasons at your #11.
Solid list.
wow, super list, i'm right there with you on a lot of these games, love your taste! i'm looking into the new Keyper, i don't have a richard breese game
I'd love to see an updated video with the new crew! I'd be curious to see how Jeremy and David's lists have changed in the past 4 years too!
What an episode! This is easily one of my favorite channels about board games.
Really like the taste of the lists, you guys got a few similar choices but yet a good variety of the others. I think the choices from you three gentlemen kind of compliment each other very nicely.
I am a little surprised that War Of The Ring made it on Jeremy's list (though I watched your CE component review and it's incredible), as well as Troyes is on the top. I am going to share this episode to my group of fellow gamers. Well done and look forward to your next show!
I think that I'm a blend of everyone. Great Top 10 lists! Thank you for the video - great production, pictures and discussion. There seemed to be a number of "newer" games on your lists but it makes sense because with the advances made in gaming, its really hard for those older games to really stick around.
Loved the list. Orleans and Five Tribes are definitely high on my wishlist. I definitely fall more in line with David's top 10 (we have 4 in common), but I enjoy games from all your lists. Thanks for the variety! I'd love to see you do this as an annual list just to see how things change.
I love this channel! Keep up the great work!
Man Vs Meeple Grand Austria, Marco Polo, Russian Railroads... so many of my favorites were listed. My tastes align to yours very closely.
Hey Gary, David and Jeremy. Here's my top 10 of all time:
1. Gloomhaven
2. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
3. Star Wars: Rebellion
4. Mechs vs. Minions
5. Mage Knight Board Game
6. Blood Rage
7. Twilight Imperium (Third Edition)
8. Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
9. Chaos in the Old World
10. Near and Far
Honorable mentions: Runewars, Dungeon Petz, Cosmic Encounter and Mansion of Madness (2nd edition)
Great lists! I hadn't really seen much from this channel before. I really appreciate the quality of the videos and the infectious love of gaming from the folks.
*****
Well, it shows! This is easily the highest quality board game channel out there.
Thank you SO much for sharing your Top 10 lists! I am always keeping my eye out for games to learn more about. I will have to look into some of these like Troyes, A Feast For Odin, and Tzolk'in.
Great to hear all the positive reviews on Orleans. My boyfriend and I added it to our collection a few months ago, but have yet to play it.
Keep up the awesome videos! : )
Professional. Enjoyable. Great production. This is the best board game channel on the internet, easily. Keep it coming, gang.
Wow! I have to honest--I'll never get tired of hearing comments like this. :)
Seriously, thanks for the compliment, and we will indeed try to keep it coming. Thanks for watching!
I love the professionalism, the set, and getting to see your top 10. Good insights into what each of you like. Gave me a boost on some that i have been considering but dont own, like Russian Railroads, Great Western Trail, Marco Polo, Terraforming Mars, and Blood Rage!
Great episode guys! I like a little bit of everything (co-op, worker placement, miniatures, party, etc.) so Gary gets my vote. I might swap Rococo for Grand Austria Hotel and Star Wars: Rebellion for Blood Rage, but otherwise I love all the games on his list. Also, honorable mention to Istanbul, which seems to get to the table a lot with my kids and novice gamer friends and still keeps me engaged.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate the work you guys put into your videos! Amazing quality, production value, and assets and you guys make it clear you love board games.
Hard to beat the quality of this channel. The best.
Wow!! It's worth it, the video oozes high production.
I was expecting Through the Ages to appear, especially in Jeremy's list. Great job, awesome production quality !
I've been a big fan of the show since inception. You've really hit the ground running!
I always look forward to your videos. I've got "Giant Killer Robots: Heavy Hitters" squarely on my radar now, and "Troyes" in my collection because of y'all. Thanks for the amazing videos and tireless interaction with us. You on point, David.
Great lists fellas! I'm most like Jeremy, but I definitely enjoy quite a few of the games on Gary and David's lists as well. I just played Troyes pretty recently, and I do think it's a great game. Same with Great Western Trail. Though my favorite game of the ones you guys have listed is for sure A Feast for Odin. I've played this so many times solo, more than almost any other game in the last year. Anyway, excellent video! Really having been enjoying this channel.
Thanks guys. I love seeing a top ten show that is full of top ten worthy games.
Recently started to really get into boardgaming, so this list is limited in that I haven't played a lot of different games and some of these I've only played once or twice, but I know I'll play them more in the coming months.
Top 10:
1. Lords of Waterdeep - Really like the flow of this game, especially at 3 players. I think the theme fits, though it could be better. Wouldn't play it with both expansions if you're + players.
2. Codenames - I played this SO MUCH a couple of years ago with my study group. It's been a while since I played it last, but I would almost always be up for a couple of rounds.
3. Pandemic - One of the games that got me into the hobby and the one that made me realize you could boardgame cooperatively. Lovely game, great lenght and easy to teach.
4. Kindgomino - I love this game, such a nice little gem. Love the look and the simplicity. I recently got Queendomino, but haven't tried it yet.
5. Mansions of Madness 2d Edition - What a wonderful game, my only major gripe is the quality of the minis. Maybe also the price.
6. Carcasonne - The game that got me into the hobby. There are probably better games out there, but it's important to me.
7. Isle of Skye - I've been there on a trip, so I immediately bought this when I got back. Beautiful place and the game is luckily great.
8. One Night Ultimate Werewolf - A bit tired of this, but probably the game I've played the most, so it belongs on the list.
9. Architects of the West Kingdom - Only played this once, but I really, really enjoyed it. I'm pretty certain it'l move up the list.
10. King of New York - Such a great filler that is just plain fun. I've got a couple of the extra monsters and the evolution cards and they make it even better.
Other games that I really enjoy: Mysterium, Citadels, Werewords, Terraforming Mars (probably gonna make the list with more plays)
This is one of my favorite videos you guys have done. I love hearing the different perspectives about each game. Now I have to add more games to my wish list.
Great video. This is quickly becoming my go to channel for my board game fix. I like seeing how many games I own off each list. I own 21 of the I believe 26 different games mentioned. And hope to soon add Great Western Trail , Terraforming Mars and Feast for Odin. Thanks guys for the video and great lists.
Nice lists, I just got Blood Rage so i do hope to enjoy it as much as Gary! I love 5 tribes, 7 Wonders and Santorini as far as games that made the list. Awesome video, plenty of games to look at now.
What a refreshing top-ten, awesome production quality aside (love the full screen montage of the game being discussed), I really like the casual conversation format you guys have brought to the table. Thank you! :)
Also, so so thrilled to see 7 Wonders Duel (+ Pantheon) get a mention, that little box packs quite a punch! Would just love to get my hands on Blood Rage some day, fascinating balance of so many of my favourite mechanics.
P.S.: Just bought Adrenaline last week after watching your review. So excited!
Man Vs Meeple Just got my copy of Adrenaline, congrats on getting a quote on the box @DavidWaybright! That's just awesome.
I think I need to add Time's Up to my party games purchases. If you never turn a game down, that's a good choice for your top ten. I think of the three lists, I fall alongside Gary the most, even though David is the Carebear. I really need to get Troyes. Thanks for another great video guys.
I'd love to see more videos like this. Top 10 lists help a lot in deciding what to look at first in games we might be interested in since there are so many to choose from.
Great work, guys. I think this might be my favorite top ten list. Though I'd say a mash up of all of them is more in line with my tastes including: Terra Mystica, Nations, Great Western Trail, Grand Austria Hotel, Voyages of Marco Polo, Orleans and Castles of Burgundy. I ended up trading War of the Ring for Dominant Species and some others because I'm not really a war gamer and the fiddly rule set was a deterrent when it only came out 1-2 times a year. I really need to play Feast For Odin though.
Man Vs Meeple , haha no. Sorry to make you sad though. Thanks again for all your great content! I've actually watched your Feudum video a few times because I'm considering late backing. I don't kick start much because I've been burned. I was surprised Rahdo never did a run through. David is the resident Care Bear. Do you know if he found Feudum mean? What might you compare it to weight-wise?
Great video. Thank you for sharing your Top 10 games. You really have good chemistry together.
I really love your production quality and the effort you put in your videos with the studio and everything. Keep up the good work guys!
Up until now I'd say I was an irregular watcher of you guys. I was definitely aware of the channel and would see if you had a video of a game I was particularly interested in and watch that, but I really enjoyed this video and so you got one more subscriber.
Personally, Jeremy's list has the most games on it that I really enjoy, and also the most games I've never played at 4 (Gary and David only have two each I haven't played). Though none of you mentioned a single game in my top 10 (there are a lot of games out there these days). I guess maybe I lean slightly heavier than you guys? My top 15 or 20 games are made up entirely of What's Your Game? titles, Vital Lacerda games, Capstone reprints, Trajan, Brass, Mombasa, Bora Bora, Terra Mystica, and The Great Zimbabwe.
I just got Troyes, haven't played it yet but it was Jeremy who made me look closely to this game and go for it, your choices for games are similar to mine, I don't like luck driven games either, so I'm always more attentive to your preferences. Thanks for all the amazing content you put out, Man vs Meeple and Rahdo are my favorite reviewers so far, I might say.
I like David's list the best - he clearly has the best taste. :)
Wow probably one of my favorite reviews. I hope you do a yearly recap if any games have dethroned these.
Great lists! My tastes seem to line up in different ways with all three lists, so I enjoyed hearing your thoughts and recommendations. I just recently introduced Orleans to my wife and she loved it (as do I).
Johathan, "sharing" Orleans with others is exactly one of the key reasons I like it so much. I'm convinced that it's one of the easiest games for people to pick up, and yet it has a good amount of depth.
I love these kinds of lists in order to find out about new games! Would be even better if you put the list in the description so I don't need to skip through the whole video. :)
Interesting list. Saw a few games on there that not many others talk about any more, or at all. Here's my current top 10 and would be interested in your thoughts.
10 - Fortune & Glory
9 - Clinic
8 - Mechs vs Minions
7 - Kanban
6 - War of the Ring
5 - Castles of Mad King Ludwig
4 - Arkham Horror the Card Game
3 - Gloomhaven
2 - Caverna (haven't tried Feast for Odin yet)
1 - Lord of the Rings the Card Game
Loving the selections for top 10 games by each of the guys. Particularly pleased to see Orleans and Troyes rate so highly.
Great show guys.
Great top 10 lists - if forced to choose, I'm with David :)
Well i've started watching the channel recently and... You guys definitely got me. Great great great great content!
All of those games and i only played Stone Age... I feel pretty embarassed! I have Pandemic: Legacy, Five Tribes, Santorini and Gloomhaven on my wishlist though, i'm so hyped for those 4 games.
Stone Age is a classic. Played Five Tribes last night with some newbies and they all loved it. Get that game next. It's great at 2/3/4 players. You wont regret the purchase.
Wow, you must have had fun upgrading Tzolkin. I especially liked the 3d "pyramid" on the skull wheel, as well as the pottery markers. You've given me inspiration!
I noticed this channel when Evolution:Climate was coming. So I expected to find it somewhere, kind sad to not see on the list. But great list over all, I really appreciate what you guys are doing, and one more Tzolkin's painting is superb !!!
I'm guessing that Evolution would have a spot on a slightly longer list--particularly from one of us. It is a great and unique game for sure.
My friend showed me pandemic and now I'm jumping down the rabbit hole of board games. I definitely like the players vs the game types but this list is great and I'll be looking into alot. Santorini, Gloomhaven, 7 Wonders, Terra Mystica, CIV (love the pc game), I will be binge'ing the channel. Loving it. (Grimm Forest looks awesome)
Your channel is awesome the production value is raising the bar on board game review site. Thanks
Seriously, this was an amazing video! You guys have great taste, and taking the time to show all the games just left me in awe. Amazing! Also, holy Shmoley, that's a nice looking tzolkin! I am a Eurocentric gamer myself and my personal favourite is probably el grande - but a good worker placement is just delicious to my soul.
I love these top lists from people whose opinions I respect. So many I haven't played though! Need to dig in. ;)
Glad to see your overall tastes to get a better frame for your reviews and how they align with my own.
Yessss. I painted my Tzolkin wheels. I love upgrading my games like that!
In no particular order: Viticulture, Orleans, Five Tribes, Shadows Over Camelot, Suburbia, Scythe, Blood Rage, The Gallerist, Stone Age, Mysterium. I really want to play Troyes and Grand Austria Hotel now. Just so many games and no time! Hopefully I can get a design on to a list of yours one day!
Definitely in agreement with almost all of your choices !! Always good to know reviewers with similar tastes as ones own. Loo forward to future shows.
Great lists guys, I'm digging your show more and more with each review. Your serious take make you stand out of the ordinary. Keep up the good work!
Btw, what's that Trickerion prop you have on your table? It looks amazing!
Our group really enjoys playing Cosmic Encounter. It has so much variety, even without expansions and being able to persuade players into helping you is really great.
Thanks for the lists! Didn't know about the Deluxe version of Orleans, I need it now! I would also love a deluxe version of Castles of Burgundy.
My pick for top 2 games nicely intersects each of your lists: Orleans and Blood Rage are simple great. Loved the top 10.
Thanks a lot! Top 10 lists are always fun to put together, and this one in particular because it included so many of our past favorites. I just don't get enough opportunity to talk about Season or Quarto! on our show. :)
I'm with David on Orleans! LOVE that game. There's just so much to do in it and I try to go for a different strategy every time I play. I haven't got any of the expansions yet, but maybe one of these days I will.
Lots of good stuff. David, you do need to play Terra Mystica. It has a ton to learn up front, but the experience is so rich and the replay value is off the charts. It's top 5 on BGG for good reasons.
Wow, such unique lists! As much as I hate the term "care bear", as I get more and more into gaming I realize that I am one. My favorite all-time would have to be Stone Age but I haven't had the opportunity to play many of the games that I would like to try. Orleans and Troyes both look awesome.
My tastes align somewhere between David and Jeremy, because I really don't enjoy luck driven outcomes. A little luck is okay, but when your whole strategy relies on hitting a lucky roll, I'm much less likely to enjoy it
I've only played enough games to have 3 games I'd gladly place a top a list!
1.Blood Rage
2. Alchemists
3. A feast for Odin
So I'm probably closest to Jeremy with that card drafting/worker placement combo?
Great video. I've seen a lot of games mentionned that I like too. Sadly enough Great Western Trail was only mentionned once. It is one of MY favorites. (And Orléans, and Five Tribes, and Stone Age.)
Have you guys played Amerigo (Stefan Feld, Queen Games)? Love that game too!
I actually own Quarto!, sort of by accident as a Christmas gift. Great game. Lots of Euro on these lists but really want Gloomhaven. My top 10 for now:
1. Blood Rage + 5th player, mystics
2. Pandemic Legacy
3. Evolution: climate
4. Shadows over Camelot
5. Dead of Winter
6. Cosmic Encounter + incursion, dominion
7. Captain Sonar
8. TIME Stories
9. Santorini
10. Catan
10.5 Codenames
Great great video as always! I guess all three of you have a very similar taste as me. I really appreciate this video as it confirms that your recommandations will fit for me very good. Great to know you better! PS: I miss TIME Stories - awesome game. Besides that, Splendor would have made my list. Pure elegance.
Splendor is definitely a game that is just off of my Top 10 probably. They've just recently announced an expansion for it, so it's possible that another layer of depth might move it up my list.
Thanks for the kinds words, and for watching our channel! We really appreciate it.
Wow, I haven't played a single one of these games, but many of them have been on my "want to try" list for a long time. I need to start checking games off that list and filling out my library more.
Agreed! Which one do you think is at the top of your "Oh man I need to play that!" list?
Blood Rage without a doubt. I am also pretty bummed that I decided to pass on Gloomhaven while it was on Kickstarter, but I don't have the right kind of gaming group to get it to the table at the moment.
I've played the most games personally from Jeremy's list and several that would be in my personal top 10 as well so I vote Jeremy! Sadly, my personal fave, Eclipse, didn't show up on anyone's list. Great video. Love the channel. I've been trying to decide for ages on a Civilization building game, and finally pulled the trigger on Civ: The Board Game after watching Jeremy's video. What are your thoughts on the expansions for that game?
Wow, watching these lists makes me see how many games that I still have yet to play. There were games on each list, though, that I do enjoy playing. This is my Top 10: (10) Shogun, (9) Firefly The Boardgame, (8) Stone Age, (7) Libertalia, (6) King of Tokyo. (5) 7Wonders, (4) Abyss, (3) Small World, (2) Lords of Waterdeep, (1) Talisman.
This week alone I was able to play Troyes (+Ladies) & Orléans both for the first time and they might be the first two games That I have to get my own of. They are incredible! Love the list guys, thanks for making my wallet scream with joy
Tough for me to say which of these is closest to my own tastes; there isn't any overlap:
1. Dungeon Twister 2: Prison
2. Keyflower
3. Race for the Galaxy
4. Kanban: Automotive Revolution
5. Small City
6. The Colonists
7. Food Chain Magnate
8. Mythotopia (possibly getting bumped by A Handful of Stars in 2017)
9. The Golden Ages
10. Steam (possibly getting bumped by Tramways in 2017)
Enjoyment of worker placement and civ-building (though I prefer city/colony-building) probably puts me closest to Jeremy, but I'm much more interested in trying Orleans than Troyes. I've played Blood Rage and it is well-designed by not my type of game.
First of all a huge thank you for these wonderful lists! Those are absolutely some great games and each and one of them deserves a spot on a top 10 list! A lot of games correspond to my personal top 10, but that's also the reason why I am wondering...
...why there isn't any Vital Lacerda game on your lists as you all seem to like medium to heavy Euro games. In my humble opinion Vital has earned his spot as well with games like Vinhos, CO2, The Gallerist, Kanban and Lisboa. On my personal top10 The Gallerist can be found just above Terra Mystica, Pandemic Legacy, Tzolkin, Dead of Winter & Five Tribes!
Love all the lists. Great fun explaining all the games.
Jeremy's list was the closest to mine. All great lists and I've been trying to remember what quarto is called since playing it once at a party 2 years ago so thanks for helping with that.
You guys do an excellent job. Blood Rage, Orleand and Troyes... all in the waiting line for me.
Great lists. For my play style preference I like Jeremy's list the most but if I compare my collection to the three lists I have the most from David's list. Maybe because at this time of my life I'm mostly interested in games to play with the family and non-gamer friends. I am surprised that Mech vs. Minions didn't make it on any list.
Great list! Any chance you guys will update these all-time lists as new games enter? Jeremy, I was surprised Lord of the Rings LCG wasn’t on there!
I like Jeremy's picks the most! Jeremy have you played Lost Legends or Castle Dice. They are both drafting games.
Mash up Gary and David's lists and you have most of my top 10.
(12). 7 Wonders Duel
(11). Voyages of Marco Polo
10. Pandemic Legacy
9. Scythe
8. Five Tribes
7. Clank!
6. Patchwork
5. Grand Austria Hotel
4. Codenames
3. Time's up: Title Recall
2. Shakespeare
1. Roll for the Galaxy
Out of curiosity, what Marco Polo characters don't you recommend at 2 players?
Such a pleasant surprise to see Nations mentioned! That's my #1 by far!
First meeting Jeremy at FTG, he sold my non-gamer girlfriend on Quarto. I will be stopping by Shane and Sandra's to pick up a copy. Good video. Good production, sound, and editing. Cheers!
Gary's list has the most games I love but all of you have at least one game I'd put in my top 10. I can't pick which one of you has the best list, but I have come to the conclusion that you all have great taste.
Great choices! I have 7 Wonders, Tzolk'in and Russian Railroads on mine. Would have loved to have seen Village or Concordia make someone's list. Also surprised no one mentioned Kemet.
Castles of burgundy is my favorite of all time, followed by blood rage. I simply love both of these games and would love to play Orleans or gloomhaven next
Excellent list from all of you! I haven't tried any of the #1's but I think Gloomhaven is becoming a game I have to try!! Thanks!
Terra Mystica isn't an area control game, but is amazing. And does work two player sooo well if you simply have both players control two factions each.
To see with whom I would side with, I posed at 48'30 and looked at everyone's top 1. If your choice is a game I would love to play, have much respect for the design or the goals it achieves, you'd get a pass for the second round. But if on a row, there's a game that I despised, find some of the design horrible and/or broken, you get eliminated and we continue until there's only one standing. If 2 people are still standing at the end of 10 rounds, we tally up the points: who's got the best game on each row. Games I haven't played, I pick the next one on the list or substitute for a similar game I know of. Some fighters could run out of gas due to my ignorance, sounds fun? Are you READY TO RUMBLE?!
Rd1: Strong entries, sub BR for CitOW but Jeremy wins with the best dice placement game ever made.
Rd2: Best coop ever designed and Gary takes that round although my love's with Bruno.
Rd3: A draw between Feld and Rosenberg, Stockhausen looks up to titans and survive.
Rd4: BOOM! Bruno won't be denied and Jeremy's out with the worst moronic combat system ever thought.
Rd5: Only two fighters standing and while David looks at his toothless co-host, he drops his gloves with another asymmetric but now clearly broken player powers game and gets smacked by Gary with an "I hold yu sho, jat mekato hij boken!" from Jeremy who regained consciousness.
The "Time's up" underdog wins by KO on the fifth round. Congrats to Gary! :D
BAAHAHAHA...My sentiments exactly. Post of the Thread. Lock it up. :D
Not sure Jeremy and David will recover from my knockout list.
What are you Top 5-10? Would love to hear!!
Thanks for watching.
Is it OK if I give you my 1-6 instead? That was already tough enough, I wouldn't want for my beloved 5-10 to take the lime light of my 1-6 love crushes. Thx ;)
Three kingdoms redux
Perfectly balanced asymmetric factions, asymmetric workers and infinite replayability emulating a lavishing theme with a bunch of mechanisms. Direct interactions and crushing decisions makes this the Targui of 3P games. Takes a whole evening but being already 3, you guys should definitely try it.
Barbarossa
Often discarded as a sleazy dominion clone, Barbarossa offers as much depth as skin. Buying the most expensive card you can, playing all cards in hand and taking objectives as soon as possible isn’t part of a strategic Barbarossa game. You can keep a card to setup the next turn, play cards in front of you to setup future attacks and manipulate the luck of the draw in numerous fashion. For those saying that it's too long, don't forget that you can also cycle through objectives.
Freedom
Every game of Freedom was epic in triumph or defeat and always by the skin of our teeth. We couldn’t say the same about Pandemic Legacy albeit, we had much regular Pandemics under our belt. I think the theme in this one shines even more and planning ahead is essential, claiming the crown of pure coops for me.
Yunnan
Bought to have a mid weight game for tea loving friends without xp in modern boardgaming, we were amazed at its smooth intricacy. To be good at it, you got to weight your strategy against what you think other players will do and where the tax collector will go. You can raise stakes, setting everyone to bail out and exploit the bank, you can plan a long trip using shortcuts or settle early and put pressure on. Playing a turn here is like solving an interactive puzzle and like TRK, the comeback mechanism is flawlessly incorporated into turn order. Like SoC though, scaling could be a problem and I would not even suggest it for less than 4 players.
Masquerade
Sorry but it just walks all over games like Werewolf, Resistance, Coup, Bang etc. without player elimination nor totally blind guessing so more tactical choices through that, traps and set-ups, bluffs and counter bluffs with much replayability, accessibility and excellent scaling.
Shadows over Camelot (with Merlin)
A first crush when I knew almost nothing of modern boardgaming. Even now, it has not been overshadowed (pun) by newer DoW or BSG albeit; you’ve got to find the right number of players, traitors and optional rules to avoid it being stacked. For us, a fun and challenging game of Camelot is 4 Vs 1 with squire rule for a permanent layer of suspicion.
As you can see, I don’t have any problem fielding players at my gaming nights so scaling is not something I take much into account. Although I don’t like ameritrash, theme is still important to me and I like being immersed in my games. That explains why you don’t see masterpieces like Orleans, Five Tribes or any Feld games in this short list.
I like a top 10 with explanation, nice!
For Blood Rage there are a few expansions already, and I suppose you could consider Rising Sun counts too :)
David and I seem to be kindred spirits when it comes to board games... all the more reason I'm desperate to get a copy of Voyages of Marco Polo. Really love'n this channel; proud supporter of MvM
Great lists! My number one is a toss up between Blood Rage and Five Tribes. Keep up the amazing, bar raising work!
Thanks so much Bryce. As we put this video together, it was really hard to not want to set up and play so many of the games and play them immediately. Five Tribes in particular is SO easy to want to play when you have all those components in your hands with the box open in front of you.
What kind of upgrades did you get for Tzolk'in?? From Meeple Source? Also, thanks for featuring Meeple Realty.
My personal tastes align mostly with Jeremy. Troyes has looked great, but I didn't know a lot about it. This may push me over the edge into getting a copy myself.
I just have a hard time losing due to bad luck (ie. dice). Although there are some games that I love that suffer from this (Star Wars: Rebellion, I'm looking at you), they're the exception.
I think Terraforming Mars should be way higher on the list :P
I would also add Champions of Midgard, this one is a personal preference :) Keep it up!
Mabey the best "top 10'' I have seen. Well done guys!
For me The Godfather and Rising Sun are kind of stand alone expansions to Blood Rage. Different themes, different mechanics but they all have feeling that these area control games are related to each other.
Thanks guys! Great lists.
Thought David was my man on this show, but then he go all abstract 2-player on me... Bleh... :D
You all had games I love on your lists: Troyes (might get my own copy despite all my gaming groups having it), Marco Polo (yeah for player assymmetry), Orléans (pure bag-building fun), Terraforming Mars (engine building delight), Castles of Burgundy (maybe my number 1) and Isle of Skye (need to play this goodie more).
Have any of you ever played Hansa Teutonica? You seem to like the same kind of euros like me and Hansa Teutonica is sharing my favorite game ever status with Castles of Burgundy, so it might be something for you guys too.
Again, thanks for doing this. I have been among those asking for it, so it is very much appreciated.
Technically I have been gaming all my life, but got heavy into gaming about five years ago and I have yet to play a single game on either of your lists. And I have about 125 games and play a lot. Man.
Great lists! I find it interesting that there was so little crossover on the lists. Only 4 games on multiple lists, and none on all three of your lists!
Loved the video!
Would be interesting to have a similar list for expansions that brought a game to another level (a better one), maybe the base game was ok and got better, or the expansion is a must have because it fixes or solves some problems in the base game.
Following up on the above, I would like to know your thoughts on the expansion for Tzolk'in: Tribes & Prophecies: a lot has been said that with the base game people tend to use the same strategies over and over again, making less interesting and unpredictable. Do you see that as a problem in the base game and if yes, is that something the expansion solves?
Does anybody know where I can find the video he mentions at the end about the 5 most popular games that they dislike?
Great way to show how you think, what you like, maybe even why you review games one way or another.
Someone else may have commented on this, but besides "bag builders" Orleans and Hyperborea is Automobiles which is a lot of fun!
Thanks Glen, Automobiles is one I've never had the chance to play. Big fan of Orleans obviously, and enjoyed Hyperborea. Thanks for the tip.
I was actually surprised to see 5 Tribes on there not once, but twice! Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy it, but it's not in my top 10. Then again, I'm sure we have different tastes in games :) I think X-Wing is my #1 game, followed by Champions of Midgard. I love the dogfights in X-Wing, and the many ways I can build a squad and still do well no matter what squad my opponent brings to the table.
Where did you get that Donkey Kong t-shirt. I have been looking for one like that.
Great video! I really enjoyed the commentary over each game.