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Year
2012
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Description
BIOS: Origins is an expansion for BIOS: Megafauna and Origins: How we became human, which combines both games to make something distinct from either.
From the publisher: "Use the map to expand your Bios Megafauna game to cover the entire world (instead of just America). Or use it to add luxuries (tobacco, silk, tourists, tea, diamonds, and much more) to your Origins game. Or use it for a rollicking combined game, with flying and mole-like humans, able to domesticate new "sushi" aquaculture or ride killer whales into battle."
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Heavy Cardboard Top List at 27:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Love my Civ games
- Loved the chaos
- Desperately want to play again
- Approachable
- Tells the story of civilization
Cons
- Intimidating teach
- Can be punishing if you don't plan
- Falls into the category of games that need more plays
Thematic elements
- Civilization game, story of civilization
- Civilization development
Comparison games
- Civilization
- Struggle for...
- John Company
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- civilization building — The game tells the "story of civilization" and is an "Eckhan style effectively" Civ game.
- Worker Placement — Players have a finite amount of actions to take on their turn.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Dez & Seagull is an intriguing concept. It's a deck building game, it's an area control game.
- The Expanse is a deck building game, it's an area control game. It's a very cinematic experience. It's a challenging game.
- Dice Throne is exciting. It plays quickly. It's satisfying.
- Spirit Island is a challenging game. It's very thematic. It has a lot of complexity. It's cooperative. It has deck building and area control.
- Root is a strategic game. It's asymmetrical. It has area control and variable player powers. It's got a charming theme.
- Terraforming Mars is an engine-building game. It's strategic. It's a long game. It has tile placement.
- Gloomhaven is an epic game. It's a campaign game. It's challenging. It's a dungeon crawl. It has card drafting.
- Twilight Imperium is an epic game. It's a very long game. It's a grand strategy game. It has area control, negotiation, and is a 4X game.
- Scythe is beautiful. It's strategic. It's an engine-building game with area control. It has a unique theme.
- Brass: Birmingham is an economic game. It's strategic and deep. It has network building and resource management.
- Ark Nova is a complex game. It's strategic and engaging. It has action selection and set collection.
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Heavy Cardboard Discussion at 2:35:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Civ game
- Love this Civ game
- Very very much
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Civilization
Comparison games
none
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Quotes (from this video)
- the colonist and I feel so bad for whoever had to sort that afterwards
- Yakob this is how you should store your games you're never going to play them more than once
- ah World War II war game number 567
- this is Atlantic Chase
- we're going to be getting started late just so you know it's probably going to be 7:30 but um this is this is what I'm streaming here in about an hour and a half realistically cuz uh uh stress btic Odyssey is still set up on the table
- stress btic Odyssey is still set up on the table
- it's going to take me a solid 40 minutes to put up stress spct Odyssey
- this feels like a a worthy game for a giveaway
- this is Weather Machine from VTO lerta
- what's your best piece of corrective criticism what what's something that we could do better here on heavy cardboard
- I'd like to hear that as well that's that's actually a really great idea
- the community is really amazing uh inclusive welcoming Comm Community
- if you are watching this and not a patreon I'll see you tomorrow night for laav otherwise if you're a patreon I'll see you in about 90 minutes
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