Q&A May '20 - 36 questions!
This is the audio taken from the Q&A April 2020 Vlog which can be found here: https://youtu.be/POsmhoAEegU This podcast was created due to the help of the numerous Patreon supporters of the channel. If you appreciate the option of listening to my vlogs in podcast form, please consider directly supporting their creation by going to Patreon.com/JonGetsGames. Questions in order: 1. Thanks for Pret-a-Porter video, greetings from Poland - Krzysztof Kaczmarek 2. How does your schedule look like now? - Alex Maklai 3. Describe your perfect sandwich. - Shorty Dancer 4. Do you keep a count on the number of games you have played? Do you log those in BGG? - Ross Quijano 5. When is in the halls game going live? - Ross Quijano 6. What is your favorite polyomino/tetrisy game? - Alan Ali 7. Do you play any online boardgame platforms? Recently got on BGA and I love it! - Shorty Dancer 8. You mentioned you enjoyed the game "The Magnificent", any plans for a play-through video? - Alan Ali 9. What's your main criterion for culling a game from your collection? - Michael Newsome 10. What upcoming Kickstarter are you most excited about? - Alex Maklai 11. You said once you rarely play a game more than 3 or 4 times. What is a non-party/family game that came out recently that broke that rule. - Robert Richardson 12. What's your most played game of the year so far? Is that necessarily a game you like? - Ross Quijano 13. What are your favorite dice driven Euros? What dice mechanisms do you think work best and what are some common design pitfalls? - Jesse Lefkowitz 14. Do you have a favorite board game designer? - Shorty Dancer 15. What is your favorite tower defense boardgame? If you do not have one, do you have any recommendations? BTW Great job on teaching how to play games. - Marco Gutierrez 16. Have you revisited your best games of 2018 lately? MvM revisited theirs this week and some of the hosts didn't change their order. - Ross Quijano 17. I always hear “this game shows its age”. How would you define when a game does? - Shorty Dancer 18. Are you still enjoying Ring Fit Adventure? Are there any other video games you’ve been playing? - Mike Bloom 19. For the videos you play games solo, but outside this, Do you play Solo and what is your favorite sologame - Geert van der Slacht 20. How do you tell someone "kindly" that they are taking WAY too long making a move. - Ross Quijano 21. Most anticipated game for this year? - Jace Williams 22. What breed of dog do you have? We have a bulldog. - Denis Giles 23. Do you enjoy team vs team games? - Alan Ali 24. Hey Jon, have you ever visited Belgium? - Davy Claes 25. Is there a theme you haven't seen in a game that you would like to see? - Denis Giles 26. Do you try to show as many different strategies as you can during your 3 player tutorial / playthroughs or do you just play each player however you can as the game goes along? - Jace Williams 27. Play any roleplaying games? - hoser40k 28. Not really a question - but do you think you could mention at the beginning of each of your tutorials the player counts of the game you're about to do a playthrough for? - Ross Quijano 29. At what point is a game too long (hours-wise) for you to want to play? - Doug Lloyd 30. Tea or coffee? - Alan Ali 31. Favorite "Legacy" game? - hoser40k 32. Which board game designer would you play a game with? - aliplaysalot 33. How do you decide how many players you'll film when doing your playthroughs? sometimes, you do 3 or 4, which is awesome. other times, you do only 2, but completely understandable. - Ross Quijano 34. Do you play Print&Play games? - RonaldVdW 35. Not this year, but do you want to visit pax unplugged one year? - furinkazan88 36. Favourite podcasts, boardgame related or not. - Joe Chang