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#6: Today's Theme: Pronunciation: Our feature topic this week is theme. How important is the theme of a board game to you? Does it affect your enjoyment of a game? What games best utilize their theme to put a neat little bow on their mechanics? We talk about all this (and more!!!)... by Board Game Barrageratings:
Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Oct 18, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Board game dealbreakers, we all have them, and they're enough to dissuade us from buying or even playing some otherwise great games. This week, we go around the table and talk about two things each that put us off in board games. Before we start looking elsewhere, we talk about Illusion, and Food Chain Magnate. 02:16 - Illusion 04:46 - Food Chain Magnate 18:05 - Too Many Steps for Simple Tasks 18:35 - 1st & Goal 19:42 - Blood Bowl 21:04 - Baseball Highlights: 2045 21:36 - Automobiles 23:04 - Too Many Variants 23:35 - Agricola 26:26 - Mezo 27:33 - Battlestar Galactica 31:20 - Production Hampering Immersion 32:17 - Rising Sun 33:03 - The Great Zimbabwe 33:52 - Leonardo da Vinci 36:13 - Zombicide 37:20 - Sidereal Confluence 38:16 - Punishing the Leader 38:27 - Power Grid 39:35 - Gravwell 41:14 - Flamme Rouge 41:35 - Suburbia 43:03 - Point Salads 44:18 - Agricola 44:45 - Village 48:10 - Blue Lagoon 52:50 - Roleplaying and Improv 53:27 - Fog of Love 53:58 - Thornwatch 56:22 - Tales of the Arabian Nights
Released:
Oct 18, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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