I think people forget how much The campaign for north africa resembles one of the circles of hell in dante's inferno. These other board games might be bad, yes but they'll be bad for an hour, 2 or at most 5. The campaign for north africa is eternal punishment.
Agree. Like tic-tac-toe, even if it may not really be a proper game, there's worse non-games that are just... worse both game-wise and morally, like Adultery.
candyland does exactly what it sets out to do, which is entertain a bunch of little kids who cant really comprehend anything more in-depth than counting. its a game for babies. "this game for babies is so bad, man, all you do is roll the dice and move forward" yeah its a game for babies.
@@ceoofprocrastination5740 Even a failed attempt to see CNA through to the end cannot mess with your actual real life the way completing a game of Adultery can.
@@ceoofprocrastination5740but consider that you do not need a copy of adultery to play adultery. The game mechanics are entirely superfluous to actually “playing” the game. Also the game that has the highest chances of destroying your relationships
@@Purplefoxsoul Due to the naming and having rules compelling what you do as part of the game, it would only really be useful for people who want to have sex with people other than a monogamous partner, and for that monogamous partner to be uninterested in doing that themselves, extremely unhappy about the idea of emotional infidelity, and begrudgingly accepting of sexual infidelity due to wanting to appear open-minded. This is a set of traits that many women in relationships with people interested in swinging have. I really fucked up how I worded the above idea and don't know how to fix it, sorry. If everyone involved is fully interested in having sex with eachother, then it's basically a more complicated version of those lame-ass sex dice.
Part of my comment from Oy Vey!s bracket made it in! Mazel Tov indeed! And since it knocked out my #1 pick to win, guess I gotta ride this Hebrew train to the end!
I really hope Campaign for North Africa doesn't take it when Candyland is on the docket. CfNA is at least a game. Candyland could be played by a couple not-very-well-trained goldfish.
Candyland is an exercise in teaching turn-taking to young children, not an actual game. Fortunately, there are now a lot of games out there that perform the same job of teaching turn-taking to preschoolers while being actual games. Haba makes some great ones.
Honestly the Rock Paper Scissors game might make it further. Sure oy vey is problematic but the Rock Paper Scissors game just puts a price tag on something free
I don't know how far it will go but I am taking a certain joy in seeing What Do You Meme get the recognition it deserves as a fundamentally unfunny 'joke' game.
Best part about this tournament is that almost every game is bad in their own unique way. Mechanics vs theming, intent vs execution, just a rainbow of suffering
Yeah, sorry, but as I said in the matchup, Adultery was going up against Anima (who?) and Makin' Bacon. I'd be surprised if they got more than 1 bracket winning it all between the two of them. I'd have put Sorry in the Third Round if it was going up against those two, so it's not a surprise Adultery steamrolled them. But it's just s*x with extra steps and apparently there's a guy who sells it as part of a 3-pack in eBay. Ms. Monopoly will be the first real threat that tells me if it can win it all. My bracket is destroyed and likely will get destroyed further as The Ungame is expected to lose to Candyland. So at this point I'm just rooting for CFNA to win it all. Also, the WWB script, I locked my computer for the night so not much progress. Only at 145 billion turns in.
I think the theme of Capital Punishment is worse. Encouraging you to kill as many people as you can and showing people trying to save lives as the villains.
It's kind of interesting to see how there's really three major categories of 'bad game' represented here. There's the self-playing non games, there's the actually mechanically unenjoyable to play, and then there's the games that are just in bad taste (though these may cross over with the first two, it's main selling point is the controversy). I really would be curious to see some of these games in different match ups than they got but I suppose the tournament bracket is what it is.
To be fair, a lot of these games aren't really games (roll dice/draw cards and see what happens). The gameplay from Capital Punishment or Oy Vey maybe decent. The presentation wrapped around such mechanics is so tasteless and/or mean spirited, sincere enjoyment proves difficult.
There is no game with a more legendary pedigree than the campaign for north africa. To date, there is not a single person on earth who can claim to have beaten it.
This bracket is making me wonder if people would think the same about CfNA if the upkeep calculations were automated(like weather) in a simulator or a video game. Would it even be a bad game?
I doubt Campaign for North Africa will take it all. It's just too much of a work of art, however awful it is to play. The Pasta Rule alone has probably provided more entertainment than some of the competition.
@@phoebe5what? You do realize that public assistance was made famous by this channel for being an awful almost unplayable political stunt right? The only way public assistance loses is if it goes up against a well known game. Unfortunately, 15 love will probably not make the serve
At this point I think Speak Out is going to go all the way (not my original pick). It's hard to beat a game that is both bad AND physically uncomfortable to play.
I think people are really overanalyzing the title of the game Adultery. Just because that's the title of the game doesn't mean it's meant for cheating. I think you're meant to use it at swinger parties where your partner agrees to it. Non-monogamy is a thing, and its not inherently immoral. Adultery winning the bracket would be stupid imo. It's basically saying "the worst board game of all time is casual sex."
Honestly my pick is on either What do you meme as I own this game and its just TERRIBLE to slog through and nothing is funny or Ungame because why would we do therapy as a board game theme, its the same for Group Therapy lol.
I hope that public assistance does not ultimately win the entire game, because it is only going to win because of a strong left wing presence, leaving everyone who does not think public assistance should have won discounting the whole thing due to the obvious strong left leaning edge. The reason this is ultimately a problem is because public assistance is basically the right wing version of monopoly in terms of themeing. And so if public assistance wins when monopoly did not even get a spot, then only those that believe public assistance would win against monopoly would believe this is an accurate summation of the worst board game of all time. That is the worst outcome in my opinion.
Even besides that: do you really want to play a game that's unbalanced on purpose? Also, wouldn't that logic be the same from the other side with Ms.Monopoly?
‘Adultery plowed through the competition’
I saw what you did there
I so desperately wanna see Ms. Monopoly go up against What Shall I Be, it would be so damn funny
Battle of the sexes died early to give us the battle of the sexists
I think group therapy has the downside of actually being fun to play with friends. Its going down here.
But dat protein shake tho
I think people forget how much The campaign for north africa resembles one of the circles of hell in dante's inferno. These other board games might be bad, yes but they'll be bad for an hour, 2 or at most 5. The campaign for north africa is eternal punishment.
the other bad games are like losing a finger, CNA is like having chronic pain
I'm not even super into board games but I have been so invested in these brackets
"I'd be shocked to see Adultery lose to anything but Russian Roulette" was SO raw love that comment
I'm surprised people hate Candyland so much they want to pretend it's worse than half the games in this tournament.
Agree. Like tic-tac-toe, even if it may not really be a proper game, there's worse non-games that are just... worse both game-wise and morally, like Adultery.
candyland does exactly what it sets out to do, which is entertain a bunch of little kids who cant really comprehend anything more in-depth than counting. its a game for babies. "this game for babies is so bad, man, all you do is roll the dice and move forward" yeah its a game for babies.
My bet is on adlutery becomin the number 1 winner. Its just horrid in every way.
I think that CNA is much worse. Adultery is at least winnable, but literally no one ever finished CNA... yet
@@ceoofprocrastination5740 Even a failed attempt to see CNA through to the end cannot mess with your actual real life the way completing a game of Adultery can.
@@ceoofprocrastination5740but consider that you do not need a copy of adultery to play adultery. The game mechanics are entirely superfluous to actually “playing” the game. Also the game that has the highest chances of destroying your relationships
@@unnameablename But would you not be playing Adultery if you were not already okay being a swinger?
@@Purplefoxsoul Due to the naming and having rules compelling what you do as part of the game, it would only really be useful for people who want to have sex with people other than a monogamous partner, and for that monogamous partner to be uninterested in doing that themselves, extremely unhappy about the idea of emotional infidelity, and begrudgingly accepting of sexual infidelity due to wanting to appear open-minded. This is a set of traits that many women in relationships with people interested in swinging have.
I really fucked up how I worded the above idea and don't know how to fix it, sorry.
If everyone involved is fully interested in having sex with eachother, then it's basically a more complicated version of those lame-ass sex dice.
Part of my comment from Oy Vey!s bracket made it in! Mazel Tov indeed!
And since it knocked out my #1 pick to win, guess I gotta ride this Hebrew train to the end!
"Hebrew train" XD There's no way that wasn't on purpose XD
I really hope Campaign for North Africa doesn't take it when Candyland is on the docket. CfNA is at least a game. Candyland could be played by a couple not-very-well-trained goldfish.
I want to see 'game no one can play properly' vs 'game no one can play improperly'
It's called play it with a three year old because that's the only thing that entertains her
Candyland is an exercise in teaching turn-taking to young children, not an actual game. Fortunately, there are now a lot of games out there that perform the same job of teaching turn-taking to preschoolers while being actual games. Haba makes some great ones.
Honestly the Rock Paper Scissors game might make it further. Sure oy vey is problematic but the Rock Paper Scissors game just puts a price tag on something free
I don't know how far it will go but I am taking a certain joy in seeing What Do You Meme get the recognition it deserves as a fundamentally unfunny 'joke' game.
i'm here to help then
Best part about this tournament is that almost every game is bad in their own unique way. Mechanics vs theming, intent vs execution, just a rainbow of suffering
What Do You Meme must win, do it for Retsupurae.
As much as I knew it wasn't gonna happen, I really wanted to see Makin' Bacon take on Mr. Bacon's Big Adventure.
Yeah, sorry, but as I said in the matchup, Adultery was going up against Anima (who?) and Makin' Bacon. I'd be surprised if they got more than 1 bracket winning it all between the two of them. I'd have put Sorry in the Third Round if it was going up against those two, so it's not a surprise Adultery steamrolled them. But it's just s*x with extra steps and apparently there's a guy who sells it as part of a 3-pack in eBay. Ms. Monopoly will be the first real threat that tells me if it can win it all.
My bracket is destroyed and likely will get destroyed further as The Ungame is expected to lose to Candyland. So at this point I'm just rooting for CFNA to win it all.
Also, the WWB script, I locked my computer for the night so not much progress. Only at 145 billion turns in.
I have to go with Adultery. What kind of board game encourages cheating your partner?!
I think the theme of Capital Punishment is worse. Encouraging you to kill as many people as you can and showing people trying to save lives as the villains.
While that is true, Capital Punishment only has you PRETEND to kill people, while Adultery has you committing ACTUAL LITERAL adultery.
@@AgusSkywalker the issue with adultery is that it isn't a theming it's literally part of the rules. Which mauls any other game
I dont think the game was intended for cheatting, more like it was made for horny teens of the 70's which is surprising considering the time.
It's kind of interesting to see how there's really three major categories of 'bad game' represented here. There's the self-playing non games, there's the actually mechanically unenjoyable to play, and then there's the games that are just in bad taste (though these may cross over with the first two, it's main selling point is the controversy). I really would be curious to see some of these games in different match ups than they got but I suppose the tournament bracket is what it is.
Everyone is voting on theming, not gameplay.
Yeah that's why I lost out voting for capital punishment, thought its decent gameplay would hold it back
Theming is all I've got to vote on, unless someone makes a playlist of gameplay for all the games in the tournament
To be fair, a lot of these games aren't really games (roll dice/draw cards and see what happens). The gameplay from Capital Punishment or Oy Vey maybe decent. The presentation wrapped around such mechanics is so tasteless and/or mean spirited, sincere enjoyment proves difficult.
There is no game with a more legendary pedigree than the campaign for north africa. To date, there is not a single person on earth who can claim to have beaten it.
Adultery v What Do You Meme for the finals
Calling it now.
My comment for Public Assistance was included.
I want to see Ms Monopoly vs Career Girls.
Ms. Monopoly vs Career girls is going to have enough firepower to feed families for generations, hoping it happens
This bracket is making me wonder if people would think the same about CfNA if the upkeep calculations were automated(like weather) in a simulator or a video game. Would it even be a bad game?
It would still take a while
Stonk division is stacked rn
I doubt Campaign for North Africa will take it all. It's just too much of a work of art, however awful it is to play. The Pasta Rule alone has probably provided more entertainment than some of the competition.
Great video, good couple laughs thrown in. Very invested in how this is turning out.
Hello fellow terminally online
My bids for the finals, chutes and ladders and tic tac toe, are both out. I'm just here for the ride now
god i love seeing the comments over the winners, and i love the color commentator
Is it OK to have faith for 15 love because I do.
I've got it going to the finals with adultery. But I also had PA getting upset by bear valley in the first round. I don't hold out hope
I do too, but obscurity doesn't get you very far
@@phoebe5what? You do realize that public assistance was made famous by this channel for being an awful almost unplayable political stunt right? The only way public assistance loses is if it goes up against a well known game. Unfortunately, 15 love will probably not make the serve
The only three games here I would completely refuse to play under any circumstances are beanboozled, adultery and CNA.
In the late 90's bought a few boxes of Superdeck for 50 cents on clearance. I overpaid.
I want Rock Paper Scissors to win it all simply because it's an unnecessary game when you can play it for free
Same could be said for Adultery, but at least rock paper scissors won’t destroy your marriage
@@cresoma Unless you use it to decide whether you make a very bad financial decision?
@@henrybierman8431
If you use RPS to decide anything larger than ‘who’s getting the groceries this time’, it was always a little bit doomed
Josh jacobs is pretty clearly the same guy
I have no idea what you mean. His name is Josh, my name is Kam. Completely different!
War against North Africa
Too little war games x too much war games
Best bracket
No! Not War! You better not make it to the finals!
At this point I think Speak Out is going to go all the way (not my original pick). It's hard to beat a game that is both bad AND physically uncomfortable to play.
Truly riveting stuff!
Beanboozled got realy unlucky getting put up against captial punishment
Love the commercial music
YO MY COMMENT ABOUT GROUP THERAPY IS IN THE VIDEO, WHAT
Ms monopoly must win, as I have said before this is my great trial.
I don’t think The Campaign For North Africa should have won, because it at least has more to it than rolling a die and toilet humor.
Campaign for North Africa FTW
Bacon ain't eating today in the stonk reagon
the campaign for north africa is gonna go far i can feel it
Candyland vs. The Ungame? But...Candyland *IS* an ungame!
I said NBGA in public again and now I'm not allowed in Applebee's anymore. :-/
Come one, Career Girls!
And we're back.
You just got beanboozled!
I've been waiting for this hell yeah
I think people are really overanalyzing the title of the game Adultery. Just because that's the title of the game doesn't mean it's meant for cheating. I think you're meant to use it at swinger parties where your partner agrees to it. Non-monogamy is a thing, and its not inherently immoral.
Adultery winning the bracket would be stupid imo. It's basically saying "the worst board game of all time is casual sex."
Yeah, honestly I feel like a lot of the obscure games that have an offensive theme are probably running a little deeper than they should.
Even then, sex dice are easier to carry and require minimal setup
Do we really need a board game when a spinning bottle or bowl full of keys will do?
Candyland sweep is coming
I was really hoping for Dos to progress , but I guess Candyland is still pretty bad.
It's not, Dos is just more obscure.
Honestly my pick is on either What do you meme as I own this game and its just TERRIBLE to slog through and nothing is funny or Ungame because why would we do therapy as a board game theme, its the same for Group Therapy lol.
WWB got robbed
I hope that public assistance does not ultimately win the entire game, because it is only going to win because of a strong left wing presence, leaving everyone who does not think public assistance should have won discounting the whole thing due to the obvious strong left leaning edge. The reason this is ultimately a problem is because public assistance is basically the right wing version of monopoly in terms of themeing. And so if public assistance wins when monopoly did not even get a spot, then only those that believe public assistance would win against monopoly would believe this is an accurate summation of the worst board game of all time. That is the worst outcome in my opinion.
There's a video on this channel that goes into more detail about how the game works, if you want to know why it is worthy of the title.
Even besides that: do you really want to play a game that's unbalanced on purpose?
Also, wouldn't that logic be the same from the other side with Ms.Monopoly?