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Reply To: Is it time for some more critical analysis of rule sets

August 5, 2019 at 5:19 pm #1422076

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@lawnor “I also do not find the Playthroughs to be the final answer in giving a feeling for how a game plays. Once you’re done filming those videos it might be good if the player sat down with the camera and give his feelings and opinions, possibly after a day or two to think about it, and after the company rep has left the studio.”

Probably won’t happen. Games companies are sending out games for ‘review’, buying ad space on websites, or just plain old buying ‘paid previews’ of upcoming KS projects. Nobody is going to turn around the bite the hand that feeds.

Yes there are a few YT channels that are big enough that they can afford to post up honest reviews. Folks like The Dice Tower who grew big before the scene blew up. Now you see the likes of Man vs Meeple coming in, looking great with high production values, and (in my opinion) not worth watching because most if not all the content appears to be little more than paid up content. Just ‘look at the shiny’.

It is a shame that BoW has not tracked the development of systems. We got a couple of play-throughs of Star Wars Legion when it was the hot new kid on the block, but nothing since. We had a play-through of Tanks:Modern Age but sadly missed out on seeing just how unbalanced the game is with certain units (Hind, T64). I might jump in to more Historical gaming but SPQR just looks like a ‘bucket-o-dice’ mess.