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The Golden Ages

Game ID: GID0332174
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Year
2014
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Description

In The Golden Ages, you lead your civilizations through history. The game lasts four different eras, during which you develop technologies, create fine arts, erect buildings, and build wonders. You'll send explorers to discover the continents, found cities in distant lands, and send your soldiers into battles.

The first player starting a Golden Age during an era chooses a "History Judgement" card that states the way all the players will score in that round. Each player who started a Golden Age continues taking money at his turns until all other players have passed.

There are many ways to score points — artists, the judgement of history, wonders, technologies, attacks, money, secret future technologies, etc. — as well as many different ways to achieve a victory. Will you succeed in evolving your civilization through history, overwhelming your opponents on the way to glory?

Description

In The Golden Ages, you lead your civilizations through history. The game lasts four different eras, during which you develop technologies, create fine arts, erect buildings, and build wonders. You'll send explorers to discover the continents, found cities in distant lands, and send your soldiers into battles.

The first player starting a Golden Age during an era chooses a "History Judgement" card that states the way all the players will score in that round. Each player who started a Golden Age continues taking money at his turns until all other players have passed.

There are many ways to score points — artists, the judgement of history, wonders, technologies, attacks, money, secret future technologies, etc. — as well as many different ways to achieve a victory. Will you succeed in evolving your civilization through history, overwhelming your opponents on the way to glory?

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Video yh39tCMd9g8 Top List at 9:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Simplicity for a Civ game
  • Allows for vastly different strategies
  • Lots of combos
  • Lots of strategy
  • Map in the middle is cool and built by players
Cons
  • Visually unappealing ('ugliest board game ever').
Thematic elements
  • Civilization building through technological and transportation advancements.
  • Players pursue different strategies to develop their civilization.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • civilization building — Players build up technology, transportation, or military.
  • Resource Management — Players manage resources to build and upgrade.
  • Variable Phase Order — Players choose cards for different ages, affecting gameplay.
  • Worker Placement — Implied by the description of building up areas and potential player interaction.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Parks number 25 beautiful there's a couple of expansions that go with it they're they're fine but Parks base game love it yes love it love it love it
  • it's a dice drafting game and I love dice drafting games and you have little coasters and you roll your dice Fe coaster right and you keep one and then you pass the coaster and then you keep going around until you have you've collected all your di
  • Dune Imperium um you can play it with two players but you'll have to have a dummy player so essentially it's a three player game uh worker placement Builder um takes after the Dune yeah the science F right um and it's just it's your basic deck builder except what this one adds and I love it is when you go to certain locations you can start to add troops to the Battleground and at the end of every round a battle takes place
  • the art is beautiful the mechanics are fantastic it's thinky my brain hurts when I'm done I love it
  • it's a great engine builder the game's beautiful um it's super fun it's thinky enough but easy enough to teach yeah great wingspan the component is also very good so beautiful
  • traumatized by having to put the little deal on every little trolley before we played it
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Video 7VdK8HkcLFQ Rolling Dice & Taking Names Event Coverage at 10:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Big hit at Essen
  • Euro style civ building
  • Rebuildable elements
  • Card-based with tile laying
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Civilization Building
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • 4X — Exploration, Expansion, Exploitation, and (limited) Extermination elements.
  • Card Based — A card-based game.
  • civilization building — A Euro-style civilization building game.
  • tile laying — World is built as players explore.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • this is parfume this is by Queen games and this is a game about building fragrances and selling them to Merchants
  • elisium now I would love to show you a box of elisium but we're sold out two days it didn't take long but AUM is a great great strategic game about using the powers of the Gods to be able to manipulate and create Legends
  • I just got done uh demoing the game uh with Isaac showing us how to play it and let me just tell you my mind is blown
  • ashes is a LCD kind of a um expandable card game format um you are playing the role of a phoenix BN in which you are trying to store the other Phoenix BNS in order to collect their ashes and gain more power
  • everybody's going Gaga over the art I've seen this is the final production product absolutely gorgeous
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Video Tp6PCSe9gmY Getting Games Discussion at 50:04 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
  • interesting concept and earlier positive past impressions
Cons
  • perceived complexity without engaging enough to warrant continued play
  • felt not fun and going to be removed from collection
Thematic elements
  • civilization-building and resource management
  • civilization-style progression with technology tree
  • reminiscent/analytical
Comparison games
  • Feast for Odin
  • Feast for Odin
  • Agricola
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • tile_and_technology_tree — abstract civilization progression with a tech tree and map growth
  • variable_map_expansion — tiles are added to the map each round, affecting strategic choices
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • it's really great to see that we've made it to 10 episodes
  • this is going to be the meat of the variety vlog
  • I would love opinions on all of these various things
  • it's a fun little podcast where we talk about board games
  • the dragon is catching people and doing damage to them
  • I think this might actually be a bit of a mey game experience for them
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