Board Game Bollocks Vs Board Game Geek Top 100 - 10 to 1

Appreciate anyone who simply doesn't fawn all of the boardgame gods and tells it as it is. Brilliant. Merry Christmas.

Dune: Imperium is probably my favorite game, so I'm glad to see it on this list. Terraforming Mars was pretty good, but I don't know if it is top 10 material. I've only got TI:3, and I hear TI:4 is better, so maybe someday when I have "fuck you" money, I'll upgrade it. Everything else on this list doesn't belong here, though (although I haven't played Ark Nova...it just doesn't interest me).

I prefer the Lynch version of Dune But i still like the new. I totally agree why so many of the samish game, brass, gloomhaven, pandemic. But i think it is good that new games make the list. Many new games Are so much better than the boring old version they are iterations of. Yes i am looking at you caverna, puerto Rico, race for the galaxy. And the art has envolved and is so much better than Before. Hansa teutonica might be a good game But it looks so ugly i cannot endure it when there is a pletora of games similar but better looking. Thanks for making this videos i enjoyed them immensly

While I get that people like different things, I have no idea why Dune Imperium is on a top 10 list anywhere.

Love War of the Ring, love Star Wars Rebellion. So happy that you're an avid Twilight Imperium fan (was afraid you'd butcher it); spending a day with you and your crew playing that monster seems really awesome and a barrel of laughs XD

Great advise at the end!

Brass Birmingham is a really neat game very crisp but yeah …. Number one, no? I would take GAIA Project!

Terraforming mars is so overrated and the components are poor

I usually don't like to leave negative comments. But this channel makes a living of tearing down many things that people work hard to create. He's not even creating anything to himself. Waste of time. It's easy to tear down, try building something for a change.

So Martin Wallace (Brass * designer) now lives in Brisbane, Australia. I went to a gathering organised by a large and growing BG media group (podcasts, gamesday events, etc). They were actively pushing to get Brass Birmingham to no1 on this list. They were very open about it and were encouraging people to do the things that would get it to no1.

And they are in Bris, Syd and Melbourne at least, maybe other capitals as well. Have a successful podcast. So a bit of reach.

I really don't understand why Pandemic gets so much love. I like almost every other coop game more than it. Shadows over Camelot, Spirit Island, Horrified , Ghost Stories , Hanabi, Samurai Spirit to name a few.

Your comments on how the BGG Top 100 list has changed and is now filled with a lot of overpriced, overproduced Kickstarter shite is spot on mate. "Cult of the New" is a very real issue/phenomenon and I'm just tired of it.

When I got into the board gaming hobby about 10 years ago I bought quite a lot of games that were at that time in the Top 100 that are now no longer there. I used it as a guide to see what games were good and worth buying. Some of them had been there for years and others were relatively new but what I can say is that a lot of those that I bought back then (Puerto Rico, Twilight Struggle, Shadows Over Camelot, Hammer of the Scots, Memoir 44, K2, Ticket to Ride: Europe, Caylus etc.,) all still hold up exceptionally well and are still among my favourites, despite most of them not being in the Top 100 list any more. Whereas some of the new fair that has come along I've found to be really overrated with not much staying power. They might be better produced but they are otherwise quite shallow experiences, and many of them are SO long now!

In short, I've come to love my older games more and I try to spend less time worrying about "the next thing" and "FOMO" and instead just appreciate the games I have already and try to share that with others in the hobby.

Excellent channel, keep up the great work!

Brass Birmingham is cheap and not Ashburton for me. But I've only played about 20 of any of the top 100 lists knocking around the web (plus many others that don't get a mention). It's definitely #1 for me. If I had more dosh then probably it could be replaced. But yeah, I think that top 10 was a little shite. Have not played ANY of the other games featured here.

Gloomhaven on Steam completely KILLED Gloomhaven on tabletop. That tells you everything. It's much better as a video game as it removes the setup, teardown, enemy AI management and not to mention everything else. You can play 3 missions in the time it would take to play 1.

Love the review, what would be your no.1 game of all time

Like not even my top ten best games are on this list... Unfortunately i bought lots of games before i found that out... Oh well. Keep it up!

Love your blunt descriptions of the games. Very refreshing!

Completely agree that Board Game Geek rankings are rubbish. As well as the Kickstarter problem they're an average of everyone's tastes, which is about as useful to an individual as knowing that the average number of wheels on a vehicle is 2.8. No specific vehicle has 2.8 wheels. So, any chance of you doing an actual useful list of your top 10 board games? Which ones and why?

I hate Gloomhaven and my wife loves it and I cannot bring myself to play, causes trouble in the house on Sundays

Every “campaign in a box” game is just failing to be a video game.

Thank you Sir! This guy is so funny :) and straigth to point love it !

Just wanted to let you know that War of the Ring is not a hidden movement game. If you believe so, you haven't played, silly. It's a racing game. And one of the best, right up there with ave caesar and pitchcar.

Pretty big Pandemic Legacy S1 spoilers on those screenshots... though I don't know if it really matters at this point. :)

I really like brass and its my favorite game but your comment about the number 1 game being about Birmingham was so funny and so true.

Legend. What a roast

You seem to know a lot about "cock rings"? Please elaborate....

Well done, Mate. Well you got there.

Burning through Pandemic Legacy in a week sounds . . . draining. My four person group finished it in 14-15 plays, every match except one came down to the wire, and every match - win or lose - ended with us collapsing back into our chairs and sitting in complete silence for minutes on end while we recovered ourselves. And by "minutes on end" I mean sometimes 10+ minutes of dead silence. If you're familiar with Dom drop/sub drop, it was that but from a board game instead of a flogging session. Or the drain you feel after multiple hours of an intense video game. It's incredible how the developers created a system so perfectly balanced, despite how radically the game state changed from play to play. Hands down the greatest board game experience I've ever had and likely ever will. Whom you play it with matters, but with the right group you'll understand why it's ranked so high - in my opinion it's the only game that deserves its ranking, and the only one I feel comfortable calling a masterpiece.

I've just discovered this channel. There is something to be said about having a guy who could play an extra in a Guy Richie gangster movie talk about board games. Consider me subscribed and a big fan from now on.

Where is your top 100 list? :) would want to watch

lol...hilarious presentation...but you're out of your d*m mind in regards to WotR...worlds superior to Brass nonsense...imo ofc ;)

Frosthaven: it's Gloomhaven that's been thrown into a snowman! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Loved Pandemic Season 1. Just finished season 2. Not quite as good but it's up there. Agree Brass is good but not number 1. That should be Root. 😈

Beautiful always thought that exactly, mite be hard work but would love to see your top 100 then to now as I do play nearly the same games you do.

Well said!

The Best…..Portsmouth’s finest!

I really love the honest videos. No promoting content, keeping it real.
My suggestion for a video would be the same video but top 100 before 2015 or 2010.

Pandemic Legacy is excellent and I can fully understand why it still sits at #2. Playing through it gave me and my wife some of the greatest board game moments. It works wonders with two players. The game length is kind of perfect for a busy couple, you can just squeeze a game in after putting the kids to bed, and for those who have all the time in the world it would be no problem playing two games in a row.

It IS a legacy game though. Which means it ends up in the bin sooner or later. I've taken out most of the bits and use them as markers at the RPG-table, but the rest is long gone. So as long as you don't rate infinite replayability above all else I think you'll be pleased. Gameplay is really tight and even though we didn't lose a single scenario every scenario victory felt well earned and like a struggle. It is not recommended for groups who doesn't get it out regularly though. I can easily see this game getting stuck mid-campaign on the shelf. And it is not for people who suck at organizing.

Excellent points. But the list is certainly not stupid: it’s the culmination of heaps of bgg members running to the next shiny Kickstarter and to finance their dopamine they need to sell their old. That’s what is known as pump and dump.

Don’t be the greater fool. When the music stops, you’re left without storage space.

Another sickness is all these wannabe influencers that only superficially treat a shiny game box some publisher sent to them. We all know that after filming and before the footage goes public this game was already sold for money. Guy’s gotta eat right.

Vikings Risk +, Kingmaker , with variant events cards , clergy drawn to events++ all the other medieval bolloks going on iz a blast az well m8

"Frosthaven is like Gloomhaven thats been thrown into a snowman!" Hahaha, too good. 😂 Love the reviews.

Brilliant video!

Pandemic Legacy is game guy as SeaFail right?

Played one episode of Jaws of the Lion and never touched it again......sold it at the sellers market. Just didn't do anything for us.

what is BGG?

Dune Imperium might be one of the worst games I’ve ever played and I’m absolutely shocked Starwars Rebellion even cracked the top 1,000. Without both of these games piggy backing off their IP, they wouldn’t get a second look. Both are garbage

to be fair, the only reason that Brass and Pandemic passes Gloomhaven was because of all the review bombing fake accounts on BGG that pushed them up. So many brand new accounts that only ever ranked two games, Gloomhaven as a 1 and Brass as a 10. Very convenient.

Just play TI4

Even board game bollocks has a few good things about Dune Imperium.

Now I'm curious about your top 100.