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2006
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From the Atlas Games website: "The industrious yet short-sighted Seismic Asphalt & Paving Company -- located in the sleepy town of San Andreas, California -- has put you in charge of one of its many road crews. Your job is to build a network of roadways around San Andreas proper. But San Andreas is rather prone to earthquakes, which have a tendency to destroy the beautiful stretches of pavement you've been laying. After all the asphalt is put down, which road crew will end up connecting the most highway in between quakes?"
In Seismic, players place hexagonal highway tiles to build long, complete sections of highways, scoring points for each tile as well as bonus points for the ending "intersection" tiles in their routes. Scores aren't tallied until the end of the game, because at any time, earthquakes can occur, destroying tiles along the most-built direction leading out from the central "San Andreas" tile. Players constantly need to be claiming as many long roadways as possible while ensuring that their highways aren't the ones that are going to be destroyed if and when an earthquake occurs.
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Rob's Tabletop World Other at 9:12 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- fantastic game
- big big box, big game, big adventure
- everything I love about big games
Cons
- don't have the people to play with
- don't have the room for it
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Quotes (from this video)
- No infomercials, no fluff, and no drama.
- Just board games, trading cards, RPGs, and more at Rob's Tabletop World.
- Well, guess what? Uh, as always, it's that time where we got to try to make ends meet. And instead of making a patron and saying that, oh, please support all my work. No, I rather give you stuff. Okay. So, we're going to start our auction. It starts right now.
- So, we're going to auction off a whole bunch of stuff. uh you know and and and give you some great deals. That's the best way to do it. And you're helping me and I'm helping you because you're going to get great games out of this.
- The One Ring. the role playing. Uh, the core book, The One Ring. There a lot of stuff in here. Realms of the Three Kings, The One Ring. Oh, no. The Lords of the Rings, Keeper of the Elven Rings, and finally, Lord of the Rings starter set over in Underhill. So, a ton of stuff in this one. Okay. This is a really good lowplaying uh lot here.
- Uh, we've got Guess Who? Guess Who. We've got Just One. Nice little party game we're throwing in there. collect it. Video game champion. Are you maybe? And boy, I hate paint. I hate losing this one. But what are you going to do? Pac-Man. This is a very, very, very, very good game. Very good game. But we got to do what we got to do. There you go. That's lot number six.
- And that is Seismic. Oh, it's a monster, too. Um big big box, big game, big adventure. Uh, it's everything I love about big games and um I just don't have the people or the room for it, unfortunately. So, uh, Seismic lot number eight.
- Boy, I like this game, too. Just don't got the people to play it. I wish it had a single mode.
- What a pain in the neck.
- You're going to get a lot of value out of this. Uh, so you you definitely wanna you're gonna get a chance to play something that uh before it even I think goes to Kickstarter to be honest with you. Um, but a majority of stuff in there will be other stuff. I'm just adding that in as a bonus. Uh, we'll have other games in there that you'll absolutely have a great time with.
- So, you always win. And ask anybody. They've never been disappointed with one of my mystery boxes.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 3037:04:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- On schedule to deliver
- Excited for the finished project
Cons
- Failed Kickstarter
- Original version was a space hog
Thematic elements
- Unknown
- Post-apocalyptic future
Comparison games
- Dragon Downs
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- I went back and read it all. I I I went back and after I took a break and you know whatever like pet you wouldn't went and sat with one of my dogs for a little while I went well you're a big fan if I'm not mistaken right yeah I am I mean and then I found out that he basically stole all of Sandman or like the he was inspired by another author allegedly never and never well allegedly yeah and then um never gave them any credit whatever um which what is stanman I don't even really know what it is
- It is a game that I have played several times and I think it is a really good game. It is a game that really captures the essence of city state politics and diplomacy.
- The game is really about trying to forge alliances with other players and then betraying them when it is convenient for you to do so.
- It is a very tense game, especially when you are playing with a group of people who are willing to engage in the diplomatic and political aspects of the game.
- I think that Helenica is a great game for people who enjoy strategic depth and player interaction.
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Rob's Tabletop World Discussion at 8:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- happy to be getting seismic soon
Cons
none
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- I know people have a hard on for for AI, but hey, Zabick, thank you for the 10 bucks, my brother.
- I don't care if it looks nice. I don't care. I get freaked out when I see videos of of, you know, a girl or a guy or something and they look so real until you look at the background and it starts glitching a little bit.
- My subscriptions have gone up. They've gone up almost like 400 people this month, which is unheard of.
- And all the games we went to. So, for me and her, it is a very special thing to do.
- What is this this thing going for? Shopping. Oh, here we go. I said board game. Someone's selling it for 12 or $1,300. That's unpainted.
- This paint job sucks.
- All three games I give you 150 bucks. Smack right in the face.
- I'm going to step away from uh the board game community as a whole and just just concentrate on on games and have fun and stuff and comics and all that other stuff that that I like to cover.
- I think the convention scene is toxic. I think it's stupid.
- I think the only con I think I would go to is next year's Tantrum Con because Richard and my friend Pete are going to be there and we're going to try to make that a yearly thing.
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