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So Very Wrong About Games

A podcast about all manner of hobby games by Mike Walker and Mark Bigney. Bad games don"t go easy on you, so we don"t go easy on them. Thorough analysis via reviews, news, and discussion of topics in gaming. We take context seriously, we value your time, and we"re not into hype. Just because games are fun doesn"t mean we can"t take them seriously, and just because we take them seriously doesn"t mean we can"t have fun.

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#340: Frustration with Randomness

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/12/17

In addition to having to struggle with new hardware on account of gravity murdering his tablet of 10+ years, we now must try to adjust to capturing the sweet, sonorous tones of the elusive Jimbo. It's hard to get audio levels right when the mic's compressor itself swoons from sheer bliss. 02:43 AYURIS: Revive (Helge Meissner, Eilif Svensson, Anna Wermlund, and Kristian Amundsen Østby, Aporta Games, 2022)Games Played Last Week:06:28 -Civolution (Stefan Feld, Deep Print Games, 2024)19:45

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59:57

#339: D.E.I.: Divide et Impera

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/12/10

We're trying this YouTube thing in earnest, now, doing the video podcasting thing. This is our inaugural attempt at plastering our mugs on the internet in a podcast form. You have to be where your audience is, and also, Mark hopes that a link to a video can serve in lieu of his having to travel to see anyone ever again.https://www.youtube.com/@SoVeryWrongAboutGamesGames Played Last Week:01:08 -This Is Not a Test: Post-Apocalyptic Skirmish Rules (Joseph McGuire, Worlds End Publishing, 2013)05:17

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59:11

#338: Managing Tempo

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/12/03

All of our musical references are at least a decade out of date, even when we attempt to reference contemporary artists--I must assume, because Mark knows her name, that no one listens to Billie Eilish anymore. We think Drake is suing Kendrick Lamar over claims he plagiarized a board game design, but the details elude us. 01:43 AYURIS: Gatefall (Jack Dire, Jack Dire Studios, 2020)Games Played Last Week:05:09 -The Gang (John Cooper and Kory Heath, KOSMOS, 2024)07:45 -Jekyll & Hyde vs Scotland

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53:45

#337: Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game

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2024/11/26

When you are obliged to cite your sources is a fraught question, full of nuance. Even in academia there is some disagreement as to when yo quote, when to paraphrase, and when simply to assume common knowledge. Like the preceding sentence, for example--I assume it is common knowledge not requiring a citation, but then again maybe not, and were I using footnotes here I would comment on the absurdity of citations in episode notes (to say nothing of footnoting episode notes). And don't get me

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69:27

#336: Opening the Box Downers

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2024/11/18

Apparently there were scrapped plans for the Gorn (the lumbering rubber lizard suit dude Kirk fights in that famous episode) to show up in other Star Trek properties. One plan had a Gorn show up as Worf's guest to Riker's bachelor party in Nemesis, and frankly despite how awful those latter movies were I would have been all over that. I can only imagine that the plan was abandoned when the props department couldn't get a styrofoam cocktail to look right.01:42 AYURIS: The Wolves (Ashwain

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78:44

#335: Catching Up

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2024/11/12

Thrill to the latest superhero epic, "X-Men: Layover in Dulles." When the Blackbird is grounded due to an unexplained indicator light (meddling from the sinister Magneto? Who can say?!?!), the elite group of heroic mutants must navigate the perils of terminal D. Wolverine is having problems with the metal detectors again, which is troublesome as he is smuggling Cuban cigars. Rogue must battle the temptation of the 15-minute massage station. Panera bread keeps getting Cyclops' order

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66:39

#334: EGO

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/10/29

Walker: But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,to see Freedom Five and to rejoice in its triumph.Mark: Wherefore rejoice? What delight brings it home?What enjoyment follows it to the table,To grace in fun times its board presence?You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!Games Played Last Week:01:08 -Freedom Five: A Sentinel Comics Board Game (Richard Launius, Adam Sadler, and Brady Sadler, Arcane Wonders, 2024)10:51 -Things in Rings (Peter C. Hayward, Allplay, 2024)13:46 -City of the Six

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78:31

#333: Expectations in Crowdfunding

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2024/10/22

An auspicious palindrome of an episode number! Granted, in triple digits one encounters a palindrome every ten episodes or so, but I'm sure the numerologists amongst us have special enthusiasm for the mighty TRIP THREE. I mean, primes, and threes, and all that. Anyway, it'll be a minute until we reach episode TRIP FOUR, so lets savour this while we can.01:10 AYURIS: Mille Fiori (Reiner Knizia, Schmidt Spiele, 2021)Games Played Last Week:04:06 -Lunar Rush (Steven "Skippy" Brown, Dead

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69:54

#332: Undaunted 2200: Callisto

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2024/10/15

Once again, a primer on some of the differences between the US and Canada. We Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in early October, in honour of our second governor general, the Right Honourable October G. Thanksington. Rather than turkey and football, we do latkes and rugby. Games Played Last Week:00:55 -Black Forest (Tido Lorenz and Uwe Rosenberg, Feuerland Spiele, 2024)09:36 -Bargain Hunter (Uwe Rosenberg, Valley Games, 1998)12:21 -Unreliable Wizard (Kamibayashi, Salt & Pepper Games, 2024)15:25

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74:25

#331: Our Favourite Factions

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2024/10/08

It is October, the month of Fat Bear Week, Decorative Gourd Season, Halloween, and Arkhipov Day! Sure, it has less candy than some of those other celebrations, but I'll wager neither a corpulent bear nor a kid dressed as a pirate has ever saved the entire human race. 01:00 AYURIS: IKI (Koota Yamada, Sorry We Are French, 2015)Games Played Last Week:03:38 -Valka (Brooke Penrose, Terrible Games, 2024)07:16 -Bus (Jeroen Doumen and Joris Wiersinga, Capstone Games, 2019)09:47 -Warpgate: Beyond (Artyom

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64:47

#330: Andromeda's Edge

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2024/09/24

Generally we here at SVWAG prefer sci-fi to fantasy, especially if it is of the general sort. There is something joyous about the weird flights of fancy that sci-fi can enable, such as Andromeda's Edge with its "Jelluloid Technoblorps." That said, there's something particularly odious about importing generic fantasy into your sci-fi, like space dwarves and space dragons--something Andromeda's Edge also does. Call it a wash.Games Played Last Week:01:01 -Harmonies (Johan Benvenuto,

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70:48

#329: Replayability

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/09/17

If you replayed all the published SVWAG episodes back-back, it would take over 355 hours, or almost 15 days. This is not necessarily how we would recommend you spend your time. Indeed, for our purposes, we are equally wrong regardless of whether anyone is there to hear it; while we sometimes engage with Western philosophy due to Mark's academic background, the realm of the koan is beyond our purview. Long story short, feel free to re-download all our episodes to your heart's content. I'm

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58:10

#328: The Vale of Eternity

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2024/09/10

I find so many mnemonics to be profoundly disappointing. Unless there's a structural element to tie the components together, a mnemonic will not serve to dispositively disambiguate a dyad. I assure you, that lamentable bit of alliteration was unintentional.For example, "I before E except after C" also works qua slogan as "I after E except before C." There are the ones about beer and liquor, feeding or starving a cold, colour of the sky and sailors' states of mind... I recall

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70:33

#327: Game Mastery

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2024/09/03

Solidarity, dear listeners, on this most august September Labour Day. Of course, Labour Day is the labour holiday invented for the US and Canada so as to undermine global solidarity. Nearly everywhere else celebrates International Workers' Day instead. One must marvel at the ingenuity of inventing Labour Day so as to undermine global labour solidarity. 02:29 AYURIS: Rolling Heights (John D. Clair, AEG, 2023)Games Played Last Week:06:59 -Harmonies (Johan Benvenuto, Libellud, 2024)09:49

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#326: Deep Rock Galactic

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2024/08/27

Some important editorial notes!-the game walker mentioned is Völuspá, and no we don't know what work those accents are doing;-SVWAG does not engage in the eating of seal meat (no one's thought to offer, really);-we hope that Undaunted 2200: Callisto will follow in Battle of Britain's excellent example of having a badass Sikh pilot.Games Played Last Week:01:02 -Nocturne (David Iezzi, Flatout Games, 2024) 03:24 -Cosmic Encounter (Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, Bill Norton, Peter Olotka, and

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66:39

#325: Collection Organization

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2024/08/20

The full title of the Spider Lord is Spider the Third, by the Grace of God of the Unfinished Basement, Canada and His other Realms and Territories King, Head of the Subterranean, Defender of the Faith.01:56 AYURIS: Ginkgopolis (Xavier Georges, Pearl Games, 2012)Games Played Last Week:05:02 -Knarr (Thomas Dupont, Bombyx, 2023)08:12 -Primal: The Awakening (Tommaso Mondadori and Alberto Parisi, Reggie Games, 2024)12:55 -Beowulf: The Legend (Reiner Knizia, KOSMOS, 2005)19:19 -Pavlov's House (David

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66:11

#324: Design Pet Peeves

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/08/13

It is Festivus once again here at SVWAG, where we shall once again vent our collective spleen over features of games that irk us. Sometimes we will assert that our umbrage is righteous and ought to be shared, and other times we will concede we are merely motivated by idiosyncratic pique. Our feelings, in either case, shall not be denied.00:46 AYURIS: Beowulf: The Legend (Reiner Knizia, KOSMOS, 2005)Games Played Last Week:04:21 -Terminus (Earl Aspiras and Tom Volpe, Inside Up Games, 2024)08:53 -For

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63:11

#323: Wilmot's Warehouse

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/08/06

Who is this Wilmot? What wares is he housing? Few answers are offered. We are merely told, rather imperiously, that we work at his warehouse. Sure, we have weekends off, but on occasion the fickle demiurge Wilmot commands us to speak in monosyllable, or move seats, or hide secrets from our colleagues. One shudders to imagine what terrible fate befalls those foolhardy enough to flout his edicts.Games Played Last Week:00:41 -Terminus (Earl Aspiras and Tom Volpe, Inside Up Games, 2024)10:15 -Hour of

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67:04

#322: Michael Walker Revolutionizes Physical Therapy

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/07/30

We here at SVWAG take pains to differentiate between two conflated ideas. We say "approachable" for rulesets that are easily learned and internalized, reserving the similar-sounding term "accessible" to refer to games that are usable for people with disabilities.Relatedly, MICHAEL WALKER IS BACK.02:43 AYURIS: Oak (Wim Goossens, Game Brewer, 2022) Games Played Last Week:04:25 -Friday (Friedemann Friese, 2F-Spiele, 2011)07:12 -Fast Sloths (Friedemann Friese, 2F-SPiele, 2019)10:56

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#321: Captain Flip and the SdJ

So Very Wrong About Games ·

2024/07/23

Our guest host this week is the estimable Mark Besada of the Golden Geek Award-winning podcast, Board Game Barrage! Known as the Green Tank because he is more swole than the Hulk (rumours persist that Lou Ferrigno learned all he knew about bodybuilding from Mark), he nonetheless exudes generosity and hospitality. Unless you throw down in Ghost Blitz, that is. Then it's Go Time. Games Played Last Week:02:31 -Skytear Horde: Monoliths (Giacomo Neri and Riccardo Neri, Skytear Games, 2024)07:39

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