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2023
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Description
In Pirate Tales you take on the role of a pirate captain. You plan adventures in the seven seas and try to pass them with the luck of your dice. Upgrade your ship and improve your dice hand to scam as many doubloons and diamonds as possible. Play cards to get useful additional actions or the protection of the sea, so that you can return home safely.
But beware of the Kraken and all the other dangers on the high seas. If it is a fellow player's turn, make yourself comfortable in the tavern and bid with the other captains on the success or failure of the active player. Will you emerge from the game as the most glorious and richest captain, or will the Kraken be pleased?
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 16:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun theme of squirrels collecting nuts
- Strategic decisions regarding card placement and raiding islands
- Engaging gameplay loop of drawing, placing, and raiding
Cons
- The repeated emphasis on 'nuts' and 'scurry' might be humorous but also a bit repetitive.
Thematic elements
- Squirrels collecting nuts
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players can 'raid' islands to take cards, which involves strategic decisions about when to do so.
- Card Drafting — On a player's turn, they draw cards and choose from options like placing them face down, face up, or keeping them.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of nuts, with different values assigned to collecting one, two, three, or four or more of a kind.
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- and I tried Thunderstone Quest and I'm going to put that as my number three because that has the very classic feel of a straight forward deck building game but I like the idea of building out adventure ERS and going into a a dungeon or a cave and facing off against Monsters And if you beat the monsters you get some loot I like building out my characters and adding weapons to them and stuff and going to the shop and buying things I just like really the theme of that game
- my second one is you know I enjoy my war games so anytime that you can get me a deck building war game I am going to put that back on the shelf and we have done nothing but gush over this series of games and I am going to put undaunted Normandy on my shelf I just the that's the period of World War II that I visited Normandy so I understand you know what was going on then so that builds theme for me so I enjoy the undaunted series I like how you are doing your deck build there but you also have the tokens that you moving but the core mechanic is the deck building
- and that is Dominion Now I really haven't played Dominion in forever I didn't get all the expansions I remember you know hey this game there's so many other good ones that are coming out but guess what I'm revamping the shelves I'm 10 years older so Dominion should show back up on my shelves just so that it's easy for me to teach people
- so instead I'm going to go back to a game that I thought was a great mixture between area control and deck building and that's tyrants of the under dark first time I played that game I thought wow this is a really br brilliantly well done of being able to play cards and trying to take over different areas of the board I love the coling system where you want to get cards out of your deck because they're worth points at the end of the game if they're in your if they've been scored and removed
- this is a fantastic intro to a trading card Style game now if you're not into tcgs or ccgs at all this will not change your mind if you're not into the idea of buying booster boxes and having blind packs that you're having to open and build decks before you go in and play a game if that has zero appeal I don't think this is going to change your mind because there are other simple games out there tcgs like Pokemon Etc that you could have gotten into before using this same format but let's say that the TCG idea intrigues you or you've played tcgs before this is a very very easy to learn game game that plays in about 15 to 20 minutes
- the graphic design of the cards and the art itself is gorgeous it's beautiful it's classic Disney Art of characters from movies and TV shows from decades and Decades of uh stories of and and old movies a lot of people are just going to get in it for the art alone so the the car design is absolutely stunning
- every game that I played had a runaway leader issue H so if somebody got ahead and then they started like saying what I always doing you start popping out these characters with lore all over the place and you don't exert them I can't touch them and on one big turn you could tap them all and go okay seven lore I had 13 game over I win shake hands okay no game that I play do we actually finish the game because if it was on my turn and I was saw what they had in front of them and I knew I couldn't do it I just shook their hand and that was it there was no need to even play my turn cuz I knew on their turn they could just Quest and the game was over
- the goal is to try to collect 20 lore lore that's the whole goal of the game so it's not like you're trying to beat down somebody else and knock their health down to zero
- it's it's the fact that you're having to build up that the Mana in order to get down there and in the other games we played you could always play a card there but here it was if you didn't have enough ink well or the ink symbol you couldn't play the card so it took you longer to build that Mana up or that ink up so I've never ran into a situation to where I couldn't play a card
- I mean that's fine I mean when we think about Pokemon and we played that Y and and it was you know how did you get to play it it's been forever and I I will definitely say I do not remember how you know the resources worked in Pokemon or anything I just remember that it too was a very easy game for me to teach to my very young daughter
- the energy was just through the roof it was it was packed out Ravensburger said afterwards look we we want to help you guys out we want to make this so it's e even better support you guys with however we can so that's a year away but Tony you did tell Old Spaghetti factories like hey go ahead and reserve us for next uh year on Thursday night right that's it it's it's well it's soft booked I can air quote it
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 17:41 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever scoring mechanism
- Engaging push-your-luck element
- Pleasant surprise game
Cons
- Lack of strategy perceived by some players
- Can lead to negative scoring if not careful with candy
Thematic elements
- Pirates, collecting nuts
Comparison games
- Ethnos
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — you have to pick the other two options you didn't choose.
- Hand Management — Draw three you're going to draw one card at a time you either play it face up play it face down or you keep it you do that two more times you have to pick the other two options you didn't choose.
- Set Collection — Try to collect as many nuts as you can of the same type.
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Quotes (from this video)
- best laid plans go to poooo
- Mayhem in the skies
- I split you choose
- The goal of the game G be the first to get eight tentacles and complete the cosm octopus
- this honestly could have been a deck of cards
- this is card driven
- this is totally reinvigorated our interest in ashes
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Analysis at 13:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun for a light game
- Enjoyed the timing mechanic
- Quick to play
Cons
- Difficult to keep up with end-game scoring initially
- Auction phase can be unpredictable
Thematic elements
- Pirates
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players aim to take over parts of the boat.
- Auction — An auction phase is part of the game's mechanics.
- Real-Time — A 15-second timer adds a real-time element to the gameplay.
- Worker Placement — Players place workers on the board to take actions.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The organizer mark hill has done a really really good job
- We got to use the oculus rift that was freaky
- strike was brought out it was on the table first thing it was awesome
- When I saw the board you see this big map you see these mechs I'm immediately thinking area control and a lot of head-to-head conflict and it didn't really play out like that
- the setup is forever
- it didn't give me a lie people said they gave him that rush of when they walked into the store and they ripped open a booster pack I did not feel
- Fantasy Flight Games basically lives off IP right now and everybody else did the original stuff
- Mega Moose Con's incredible they've already talked about trying to pick a date for next year
- There are brain-eating amoebas in the water
- I wonder on you that's the class says
- it's funny because you know how you go through that period or you're just like why haven't i played this in a while I want no dude I am totally the same way
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