We have Tom full time, and now Zee, but the people have spoken and we all want more Sam on the cam too!!! Thanks guys for the review :)
@whoischrisknight
9 жыл бұрын
I second that! Sam is the best. And I love hearing his take on games. More Miami DIce!
@xshadowscreamx
4 жыл бұрын
I'm about to cry.
@Krsnik666
3 жыл бұрын
The minority spoke maybe. I didn't enjoy his attitude.
@raymyers700
8 жыл бұрын
at 6:21 Tom calls the "Settle" option as "Explore" and does again a bit later. Just wanted to post that to help alleviate any confusion for a game that took me a bit to understand completely, but this video is a great overview of the game! Great job!
@koomo801
3 жыл бұрын
Our game group has well over 1000 boardgames, and this just seemed OK with all of us when we first played it, but has become (with the Ambition expansion) a favorite with our group after many years of play. Only the most well-regarded social deduction games have been played more, and only Quacks is giving it a run for the money on longevity. Colt Express has been a similar blah-at-first-but-with-staying-power game for us, with the inclusion of its stagecoach expansion.
@RockIngersoll
8 жыл бұрын
I love Race, but my only beef is one of my gaming friends is color-blind and so it was very hard for him to play. With Roll for the Galaxy, their system to aid color-blind people is a winner in my book.
@mikelegustamusica
9 жыл бұрын
"Duh! Should've had a V8!" I love it! You guys are great!
@miistercrayon
9 жыл бұрын
Great T-Shirt Tom!
@trentbear2044
8 жыл бұрын
Gateway for Race for the Galaxy...wow. After watching the review for this I was thinking I'd have a hard time getting my group on board due to the learning curve. I'd really enjoy this, I'm just not sure I could get everyone in the group to stick with it.
@blubbermat7277
8 жыл бұрын
Camera cannot handle Tom's T-Shirt. xD
@BoardGameSanctuary
8 жыл бұрын
LOved Race For the Galaxy.. will hopefully love this as well.
@450aday
6 жыл бұрын
some of the best artwork I have seen
@cspo
9 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy to hear this review. massive fan of rftg and am super keen for its "rebirth"
@JakeElPerrito
9 жыл бұрын
So we have another Eldritch Horror here (as in, it replaced the game that preceded/inspired it even though they're not exactly the same).
@baseboned
9 жыл бұрын
I'm glad people like this, maybe I need to give it another go but the only thought it gave me was, "I wish I was playing Race."
@hawkeyefigure
9 жыл бұрын
I bought your copy of race for the galaxy sam!
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you for buying it!
@gabrielesimionato1210
6 жыл бұрын
I accidentally saw the playtesting of this game... don't remember if this happened in Minsk or in Philadelphia. I was attending an event and happened to be in the same place with one of the authors of this game, I think he was playing it with some teammates.
@christian_daigle
8 жыл бұрын
Hey, blue is green! :) 7:39
@Draffut2003
9 жыл бұрын
Looks like Tom found the rest of the tiles since his Podcast review.
@canamrock
9 жыл бұрын
What I find interesting with Roll for the Galaxy is that it doesn't kill Race for the Galaxy, but I'm tempted to say that Roll and Eminent Domain together kill Race for me. Eminent Domain captures a lot of the hand manipulation and interplay of the deck builder that Race has, while being overall sleeker, and Roll does a better job to me of getting the feel of the interworking empire that you get with Race.
@WylliamJudd
8 жыл бұрын
So, there's no military in Roll for the Galaxy?
@ferver-san
9 жыл бұрын
Everything is Awesome!!
@ferver-san
9 жыл бұрын
pencilpauli I am not THE Jason you mean but i am actually called Jason too!
@smoothcriminal28
9 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!
@zigzak77
8 жыл бұрын
CLEAN THE TABLE! ;)
@chriswebb101
9 жыл бұрын
Love the shirt
9 жыл бұрын
There's something I don't get... Let's say you roll 4 dice at the beginning of your game. You assign them and take actions with all of them, so they go back to your population. So the next turn you only roll as many dice as you paid to get back? And if you get without money you can only get 1 dice next turn? That seems a little hard, isn't it?
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
So, you need to get some cash that first turn, too, to make sure you can buy some of those dice back...you'll always be able to purchase at least one.
@wroot_lt
9 жыл бұрын
After watching second review i can see some neat things, but still, this game feels like unneeded complication of the already elegant card game. I don't like dice so much, especially rolling behind shields (not because of cheating, just a clunky standing component). Not a killer of RftG for me.
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
That's fine...however, I disagree that this is a complication of an elegant card game. Not saying that Race... isn't elegant, rather I'm saying that Roll... is not even close to a complication of Race. I can see how you would think that way from having played Race so much, and being so familiar with all of its icons and such. But from a newbies perspective, or one that simply hasn't ever played Race, Roll is entirely easier to grasp. We had two guys that had never played Race before, and they caught on famously in under one turn (before I did, actually...as I had trouble grasping the dice allocation procedure). For the record, I don't think (and neither does Tom, really...I think he kind of misspoke a bit) that this "kills" Race. I even stated that I could definitely see someone owning both...one as a gateway version (Roll...) and one as a gamer's version (Race...). Dice rolling is an incredibly familiar and endearing mechanic for a lot of people, gamers and non-gamers alike. Having dice with six faces, many of which are the same or similiar, is much less daunting to comprehend than card after card of icons (some with many different icons), with no written explanation on the cards themselves. Race demands that its players memorize all of its icons, circles, colored borders, and arrows, etc....something that simply can't be done in just a few sittings. Race may indeed be elegant, but they trimmed the fat for Roll, and I think it's gonna shine.
@wroot_lt
9 жыл бұрын
I agree that Roll is easier. By complication i meant introducing various mechanisms to replace cards. As Tom i like when you can use a card for various purposes. It is more like complicated process to do the same (play cards, collect resources, etc.). Yes, Race is hard to master, but as you say, it still can be called elegant. Not only simple things are elegant. Anyway, thanks for replying :) I might like this game, but i think it will remind me that i could play Race instead (with the experienced players) as there are many similarities between games.
@ferver-san
8 жыл бұрын
Completely agree with you.Why would you replace the straighforward phase selection of Race with clunky dice that offer nothing at all to the experience except more explanation.
@stuartshannon8561
8 жыл бұрын
any word on when there will be a review on the expansion for Roll for the Galaxy?
@marcoschaub8978
8 жыл бұрын
14:16 Oh Sammy, being all sporadic and stuff... ;-)
@grahamhaslett6943
9 жыл бұрын
I have a question, do you need to use those tiles that you turn over to show which actions are being played (explore, develop etc)? Or could you just refer to where you placed the dice?
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
The tiles are much more visible to everyone at the table, but I guess no, they don't HAVE to be used.
@grahamhaslett6943
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks! And thanks also for the review, this is one I probably wouldn't have looked into, but you guys have recommended so many great games for me I think I will, cheers ears.
@WilhelmScreamer
9 жыл бұрын
I love RFTG but it's hard to get people to try it It's not even hard, there is just a bunch to take in at once
@trentbear2044
8 жыл бұрын
+WilhelmScreamer Sums up the only reason I haven't bought this game, simply because there is too much to take in on the initial teaching, which will put most people in my group off.
@Yatsura2
5 жыл бұрын
I think its the other way around: Race for the Galaxy is way easier to explain and understand while Roll for the Galaxy is confusing as fck and some players still didnt get it after first game.
@emrysaurelianus1071
5 жыл бұрын
Race has words on it to describe what different things do. Roll is harder to teach, I think.
@alexstrang9823
3 жыл бұрын
ok this MIGHT be the most confusing rules explanation video Ive ever seen on this channel!
I would buy this if the dollar wasn't so high right now...
@apkryptos
9 жыл бұрын
Not convinced at all. The whole "blind action selection" is not working for me.
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
Almost has to be secret to simulate the card selection version of it in Race...a nearly identical mechanic carried out in two different methods.
@NightRunner9
9 жыл бұрын
LOL 14:07!
@jonjon2222
9 жыл бұрын
What's going on with your shirt Tom?
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
It's based on King of Tokyo...the heart symbol stands for healing, and if a monster is within Tokyo, it cannot heal (rule of the game).
@jonjon2222
9 жыл бұрын
No I'm talking about the weird shine near his collar.
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's the microphone we use that's clipped to his shirt?
@grahamhaslett6943
9 жыл бұрын
Phew! I'm glad that's cleared up.. ;-)
@ReitsuMeme
9 жыл бұрын
Between this and Imperial Settlers, RftG's days are numbered. Their weak sauce expansions didn't help either. (Disclosure: I own RftG and like the game, as well as it's first 2 expansions. But it is a bear to teach and the theme and art don't typically inspire so it rarely sees the table.)
@marcoschaub8978
9 жыл бұрын
Never! Let me expand on that: NEVAR! ;-)
@errolwilde1656
9 жыл бұрын
This is the second review I've watched for this game now and I still don't understand how the dice are allocated fully... You seemed like rolling the dice was pointless because you can just put any dice anywhere and the amount of dice under the action is what matters not the side of the die. Race for the galaxy is one of my favorite games ever and this game seems way more complicated and fiddly, then Sam says this is a gateway game to race! I don't get it. I wish zee was here to come at it as a race lover's point of view.
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
You roll your dice and one of them (doesn't matter the face) is used to activate the phase you desire to activate...based on the other dice you rolled and what faces they show. The activating die's face doesn't matter, but all the other faces do matter because they can only be used to carry out the action/phase that their faces show. I know clear as mud...but once you play it, it makes sense. Maybe this helped...?
@AddiktGaming
9 жыл бұрын
Sam Healey That YT icon alone makes me a bigger fan of yours. I still load up WC3 every once in awhile :D
@randomfleming
9 жыл бұрын
So if I roll 3 Explore faces and select one for the Settle action, then I can Settle AND Explore twice? But only if someone else selected the Explore action; else the 2 Explore-faced dice are useless that round?
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
With three explore faces, one could be used to activate the settle phase, which would give you one action in the settle phase...the other two explore faces could only be used in the explore phase, only if another player has activated the explore phase. You could, however, put one of the remaining two explore faces back into your cup to change the last one to a settle face, thus giving yourself two settle actions in that phase (because you used one explore face to activate the settle phase and you added another action by changing the last explore to settle).
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
Or, with three explore faces, you could activate the explore phase and place the other two in the same phase, thus giving yourself three explore actions in that phase.
@christophermoore8524
5 жыл бұрын
I'll never not find the slow-motion game-piece drops to be annoying as hell.
@MehdiHusain
9 жыл бұрын
You roll behind a screen ?!! YOU ROLL BEHIND A SCREEN ?!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD design !
@gabrielmiller8461
9 жыл бұрын
This mechanic really bugs me too. Seems like bad game design.
@Templarkun
9 жыл бұрын
Two words - Love Letter. Whole game based on trust. Not necessarily a bad design...
@ijithekiller
9 жыл бұрын
Templar-kun True, but it is easy to figure out if someone is cheating in Love Letter.
@gabrielmiller8461
9 жыл бұрын
Exactly. In Love letter it is quite possible to deduce if somebody was lying, and bust them for cheating. The info is all there. The same goes for something like Keyflower, where somebody could easily try to cheat by grabbing a few extra meeples from the bag and placing them behind their screen. However, with a little effort, you could backtrack the game and prove that he or she is actually a filthy cheater. In Roll for the galaxy, this is technically impossible. As a result, it would be practically impossible to play Roll for the galaxy in a tournament setting, for example.
@MrMpa31
9 жыл бұрын
If you are playing with people that cheat, you need new friends. Seriously, it's just a game, why cheat?
@michelericvelleman7397
9 жыл бұрын
Another automatic buy. Sigh...
9 жыл бұрын
Heh, does rolling the dice even matter? People gonna put up the face of the dice they want, just sayin'. It's gonna happen.
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
Such a negative view of mankind, and board gamers in particular. If you have a problem with cheating in your game group, you need to get a better game group, or do some spring cleaning.
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
It could...I suppose. But it also allows for discarding one die to change the face of any other die. So you don't have to cheat in order to get the die face that you want.
@SamHealey6
9 жыл бұрын
The discarded die goes back into your cup, too...not the used section (you don't have to pay to get it back).
@Mr_Jumbles
9 жыл бұрын
Sam Healey guess someone never read Lord of the Flies as a kid ;)
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