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No Pun Included is quickly becoming one of my favorite Boardgame channels. I had to comment because I literally laughed out loud like 5 times. Great Job!!
Edit … make that 8 times 🙂
Had the chance to play twice with 4 players recently and had a real good time with it. I got enough intrinsic satisfaction out of exploration (i.e. probing Uranus) that I didn't care much about winning or losing. Fun time.
Oh, the thumbnail HAHAHAHA
Thanks for posting this review. Definitely helped me understand the game better. The humour sold me on the channel. Just hit subscribe.
I have a feeling this game is going to suffer majorly from the cult of the new, just going by the issues i've seen specifically addressing the player count conundrum. They should probably pump out an expansion dealing with the player count shortfalls ASAP before the fire burns out. It's a tough fight jostling for the Euro game leaderboard when there are SO many great games out there.
Aliebs?
And may I add on a personal note, R2-D2, we wish you a merry Christmas.
Can’t tell if I would like this game. Seems like it would either be a huge hit or a huge miss for me. I just can’t tell lol I guess I’ll need to watch a play through to really know. Great review
I love arc nova and bears are a hard strat but if you sprinkle in two bears into any other theme you can get massive scores and I almost win every game of arc nova at my game group lol. Hey great bear puns though I should have paw them coming
incredible thumbnail Efka.
Great video. Sad I didn't watch it until now, but really enjoyed it!
What is the name of the song playing from the 7 second onward? I was not able to find it.
Hey I remember watching your ark nova video and wanted to ask if your thoughts changed on it after the marine world xpac. I’ve been looking into it and essentially the only things you didn’t like about it seemed to get addressed in marine world. I was wondering if you played it and what you thought of it
"Two interruptions out of a possible five means there's ten different metagames that could be"
Proper use of possible combinations instead of possible permutations, nice
I was in doubt about which one to buy SETI or an used version about Carnegie with exp but your video convinced me to turn on Carnegie. What's your opinion? Thanks
Thumbs up for the ending.
This Bon Jovi you speak of sounds like a great Eurogame.
I totally relate to making a strong, well argumented opinion that something sucks and then loving another occurence of that something.
It's spins!!!!!
Shut up and take my money!!!!!
This feels like a convention game. Play it once or twice for the novelty and wild fun, then put it back on the shelf for someone else to enjoy.
M BISON???????
“In and Out of Love”
Game looks super fun, sadly the theming will not work for my gaming group 🙁
That thumbnail though
Excellent analysis.
Came here for the thumbnail. Couldn't stop laughing.
"NO, FOOL! THERE'S ALIENS IN THE BOX! YOU FIND ALIENS!!!"
Idk why that made me laugh so hard
The song title outro won a like from me. Keep up the great work!
“Proxima Centari, or Vega or M. Bison” 😂😂😂
Well done! Recently (past year or so), it seems to me that NPI has really hit the sweet spot between describing and reviewing the game, and talking about the wider context of the game. Other reviewers seem to do one or the other, but in this case, for example, I came away with both an understanding of the game and some ideas about where it fits in the genre that are grist for further thought and consideration.
Just want to point out that your definition of "strategy" or "strategy" games in regards of Ark Nova critique is misplaced not because you don't understand the game, but because of your definition of strategy (which is a bit biased towards euro-types-of strategy offerings). Strategy is not being able to choose and follow a "bear path". Strategy is just a framework for making choices based on the moving parts in the game. These "card filtering" games offer more emergent strategy, probabilities and weighing potential rewards of your choices, developing A, B and C plans for choosing cards. The tactics in Ark Nova is more about whether to choose this or that action, now or later, weighing the pressure from your opponent. Strategy is about evaluating and commiting (not over- or undercommiting) to a potential path, which then narrows your selection of cards down, and then provides you with a frame for your tactical choices. Euro games, however, are often much more deterministic and offer a less fluid experience of strategic choices, as in, gathering points from different minigames in order A-B-C or B-C-A. It's still strategy, but a less complex system in which to build a metaplan.
But is Pluto a planet.
Just to mention, the way you talked about Pampero made really curious about that game, even though it's heavy and all-too-euro
I truly appreciate the artful way that here, in recent installments, and also on the podcast, NPI's fatigue with stale patterns is made apparent. We need this kind of tonic to the treadmill of "hotness".
The bon jovi ending was master class 😂
loved the bon jovi ending! Few people talk about them these days (couldn't resist)
I don't know if this was a recommendation.
17:24 "if you don't own a eurogame" – what is that for a pointless premise? I strongly suppose no-one watching that far doesn't own a euro.
"please, bear with me" Unsubscribed, false advertising, fake channel name
Sans preserved alien skeletons?? Makes perfect sense. Boney types gotta stick together.
Outstanding review! Keep speaking truth to power. About Ark Nova or anything else for that matter. Thx!
Nice whiplash soundtrack!
Are you related to Quinns?
thumbnail of the year goes to…
But inquiring minds want to know is it "slippery when wet"? 😜
Well, altough SETI looked really interesting to me, its a hard pass for me after watching this. I got rid of Ark Nova as soon as I realized that there are so less opportunities to mitigate a bad card draw, or to follow a clear strategy. Its a constant reaction to what comes up. On Terraforming Mars I often play almost "cardless", because the game gives me enough mechanisms to win even without the right cards coming up.
Your explanation about the swingy end scoring was the final nail for me. For a short, quick game I dont mind a little swingyness, but have to sit through 2 hours of playtime and lose or win via random events is nothing I want to experience anymore.
On a channel filled with great thumbs- this is wonderful. Great review as ever 😊
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