Cthulhu Dice - with Tom Vasel

Tom Vasel reviews Cthulhu Dice from Steve Jackson games

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[sephirich]

Glad to see more videos. :)

Yeah, cool shirt. :D

[Andromedax01]

Cthulhu really is a overused theme. What bothers me particularly is that many publisher use it to just... publish some bad games. "It's Lovecraft themed, idiots will dig it !"

I guess you could buy it to recycle the die to make your own damn game. But what's the point really ? You're better off buying something that's actually good to begin with.

[woodzip87]

Bah! It's a simple game. I wouldn't call it bad for achieving what it set out to do. I bought it because it was $4.50 and why not.

[ThisIsRogueLiberty]

Cthulhu Dice is alot of fun for a dice game.

Very clever game design that really captures the Cthulhu theme.

[ThisisAliFareedshow]

Nice intro

[XinBiDe]

@Andromedax01 I think we'll just agree to disagree here. You're in a sizable minority if you think Unspeakable Words is a bad game or has a "pasted on" Cthulhu theme. The game bends over backwards to be a Cthulhu game.

As far as Zombie Dice goes, I would just argue it's simply a better game than Cthulhu dice. Themed or not, that's the case. You might say the theme works, but I say it's pasted on and about as well justified as The Stars Are Right.

[Andromedax01]

@XinBiDe

BGG isnt above the occasional oddity. Look at Talisman's ranking ! J/k. Anyway, I dunno, I think the Zombie Dice theme kinda works. Chasing after civilians, some of them defend themselves, when they flee you can keep trying to come after them... I may be biased though.

[XinBiDe]

@Andromedax01 Well, I'd just refer you to the reviews for Unspeakable Words to conclude this. Every review I've read, both professional and those posted on Amazon or Boardgamegeek, have been overall quite positive. The game itself has a near 7/10 score which is pretty high for BGG. I hear what you're saying, and I'm sorry it didn't click with you.

As for "pasted on" themes, I'd argue that there are quite a few games out there with pasted on themes, Cthulhu or not. Zombie dice, for example.

[Andromedax01]

@XinBiDe Oh my, you like Unspeakable Words. Sorry. Bought it,found it absultely awful (last thing I need is dice rolls /useless randomness in a word game), sold it back the next month. The stars are righ is a solid-ish game but the theme is so pasted on...

[XinBiDe]

@Andromedax01 But dude, I totally agree with that Cthulhu racing game. That shit is whack.

And Cthulhu Rising is ridiculously unrelated to Cthulhu in any way. It's the equivalent of calling Chess "Cthulhu Chess" and calling the black pieces "Cultists" and the white pieces "Investigators" and smacking some half-baked mythos art into the box. It's true that the Cthulhu theme is a fad, but my hope is that it will normalize and produce some more quality games.