Race for the Galaxy Final Thoughts

hey everybody welcome back to final thoughts race for the galaxy before I get into those actually I did a little experiment based on something somebody suggested a lot of people are always kind of bummed that I don't actually play all the way through a video because honestly that's just too head-scratching for me it drives me nuts so I usually stop about halfway through maybe two-thirds the way through but somebody I said hey after you done filming one she's going ahead and finish the game and then show us what the end the game looked like so I figured I'd do that so I played through a few more rounds the game actually ended not too terribly long after I stopped filming the extended gameplay and here was the final results on the last turn Jen desperately out of desperation didn't explore which paid off for because she found this consumer markets which was worth three points and developed it to get those final three points and meanwhile I settled two more - two more planets and it I triggered the end by having 12 and in fact 13 because this is my twelfth and this was my 13th one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen and let's see and so Jen she had been spending the next few turns just you know getting double victory points which I think was five every time I know six every time and three and just doing this but then at the end she remembered she wanted to get the alien tech Institute and the alien deserted library so she'd be able to get some points off of all these alien things so her last turn when she stopped to build this and that broke her cycle her last turn she wasn't much he could do so you know she could have consumed this but it would him in months so she took a chance a gamble and explored found something good and developed it with exactly the amount of cards she had - one so that was a very touching going for her me I just kept expanding what I was really desperate for it was taking me forever to find another military power because I wanted to get this 7 pointer and I kept digging and digging I several turns in row I just kept exploring getting nine cards every single time because of the seven plus I have oh where is it or no um yeah our eight drawing eight cards and then finally 10 cards and finally finally I you know what I was also I found this rebel warrior guy I who was super cheap oh and it wasn't that guy he wasn't the final guy was he who is the final guy maybe it was no no it was this expedition force which was the one I needed and then on the last turn I got the rebel homeworld and what was it oh the rebel base and unfortunately I had one more great world I could gone out which was worth five points and I had the cards to do it but I ran out of time mango I could not build 14 spaces and so after all that that you know that big big race me with my military pushing out and taking a whole bunch of new lands doing a little bit of trade off of Jen's efforts whereas Jen a much smaller Empire but a lot of victory points just turn after turn she was making six points a pop just by doing those things it came down to 43 military 42 trade and commerce a super super close game it was actually very exciting and now that's all the way you got to let me know if that's interesting to hear that to see that how did the game finally turn out what does the in-game look like that's what it looks like oh where my Ceti actually brought me quite a few points because I just conquered so many planets Jen's alien thing did okay because she had three alien cards not quite as good as mine but still really really well enough to get her within one point of winning and okey doke race for the galaxy well it's a super super game dead this is really a lot of people rightly consider this to be you know the best modern designer card game there is on the market period and I really can't blame them in this game just has so much going for it is so much fun every time you play you know the combination of cards because it's a big stack of cards just in the base game a huge stack of cards is gonna guarantee you no surprises and suspense and oh well I get the card I need and oh my gosh I've got this that room that changes everything now I got to focus on this thing instead and why are they doing that traditional done this this turn and now I can't do it I because I gambled they were going to do so much excitement and the interaction I mean also able to say it's a multiplayer solitaire but those people never be satisfied unless they're beating each other over the head with clubs this game is fantastic in that we do not B's over the heads of clubs but we still pay very close attention what the other is doing as you saw in this game I played there's a lot of synergy particularly me I was really able to do very very well off of Jen's um but he call it you know production pipeline she had built for herself and she did actually fairly well off of my you know not as well as I did I you know she didn't get to use my settle actions as many times as I got to use her production things although at the end of the day it really was it was only because I just had this awesome survivalist card that I got to do as well off the gems as I did but you know I mean that was great it was an extra card almost every single term the game and without that I wouldn't been able to expand as much as I did fantastic game I just absolutely loved it and I hope this video showed that it is really easy to play it's um you know that it's very simple very smooth even the two-player game which is by far the most complex way to play because you're choosing to actions every turn there's a few special case rules but it just plays wonderfully and you know once you get over once you get into the flow of it it's just super duper the player aides are awesome the icons once you understand what you know once you understand the language they're very easy to interpret as well it's just a top-notch game cannot recommend this enough absolutely one of the best games out there maybe the best design your card game out there I don't know hard to say but really absolutely world-class that's race for the galaxy now I just got to get my hands on all the expansions apparently they're very good to add a lot to the game what you can play this game solitaire a lot of warfare stuff if you want but also like special race abilities and there's a new expansion coming out later this year as well with alien artifacts so so much still to explore in this game but just the base box you can you buy no expansion at all will give you years of gameplay enjoyment for years to come do it that's it raceway galaxies love it love it love it please tell me what I did wrong I'm sure made a few mistakes I'm a member I did make law anyway you guys will let me know thanks for watching talk to you later buh-bye

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Length: 6min 21sec (381 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 28 2013