Don't Get Got Review - Mission Impossible with Mates

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[gee]

Is... is this video review part of the game..?

[davidblechynden]

We recently returned from our annual 3 day gaming weekend, and I bought this to play in the background. The undercurrent of paranoia this created was amazing. Whenever someone walked away from the table and came back, everyone was on high alert. But, over 2 hours into a game of Terraforming Mars, getting someone to play Rock, Paper, Scissors to determine where the asteroid landed and who's plants were destroyed but in reality getting a mission complete created this amazing moment where everyone cheered at the mental fortitude of being able to patiently wait and stalk his prey, and more importantly remember, to attempt his mission while still being attentive to the game in front of him. This game is all about knowing when to go for it and when to sit back and wait. It sounds ready to constantly all everyone all the time "Is this for the game?" But in reality, you get engrossed in other moments making you a prime target. And if you're like our group, you start doing strange things that aren't for the game so people get sick of asking all the time and then they get got.

[ScherFire]

My first impression of this as Quinns was explaining it was that it sounded like an amazingly good time.
... And then I started thinking about how just one person can really undermine the fun of this by starting every single interaction they have with someone with "Is this for the game?"

[acerumble]

Matt's mission is, "Get a player to correct you about a professional wrestler"

[Drewkas]

Just like a game my friends and I used to play we called "the curse". Write "the curse" on a small piece of paper and give it to one person. Agree that at some specified time, whoever has the curse loses. Could be a day, a week, whatever. The rule is you can only acquire the curse if you willingly accept it. It could be in a book, a hat, or in perhaps in your ravioli.

[snapperl]

If I were to play this game, I would add Poker Chips and give every player say 5. If you ask someone "Is this for the game" and you are wrong, you have to Pay a Poker chip. If someone gets X Poker chips they win.

I feel like in a party situation with people I know, they will just sit there and keep saying "Is this for the game" because their is no cost involved in saying that all the time, I think its a bit of a design flaw to leave out a cost for saying "Is this for the game".

[BigPotato]

Thanks for the incredible review lads!

[DaedalusZM]

I would watch a whole series of Dont Get Got reenactments with tiny wrasslin mens

[davidberry]

Scoring rules on party games should always be "when the fun's winding down and it's time to start something new"

[bradstapleton]

Got this game for my News Year's Eve party and it didn't really work with my friends. They're so incredibly competitive, that every single person just machine gunned every scenario, and within 15 minutes several of the players were out and someone got 3 . One of my friends actually said, "We didn't play it correctly, did we?). No. No you didn't. And then, because it was a drunken party, half the people left without returning their wallets and now i have half a game (the current version of which, only has 8 bloody wallets!). I love the idea of the game but wow, it REALLY didn't work for us. Also super annoyed that they cheaped out even further by reducing the number of wallets. I love the idea of this game. The reality is, it makes me angry just thinking about it.

[InstigationFixation]

It would be hilarious if they just randomly reviewed some generic board game like Monopoly or Chess

[lanzelloth]

you have really muscular friends who weirdly wear very little out

[gqsnowman]

How did you get Steve Austin to record that outro doing a bad The Rock impression? That's a good get!

[OsborneLife]

This reminds me of that recent movie "Tag, " where the game is constantly going, whether or not you're aware of what's going on around you and who's trying to get you.

[KhaoticPhoenix]

1:40 I don't know why this cracks me up so much...

[dwnvwdjvn]

Thanks for this, I purchased a copy before Christmas and had everyone deeply paranoid by time it came to carving up the Turkey... by the evening my Mother simply refused to interact with anyone... hilarious stuff

[yorkoh]

Oh my lord, Matt's face at the beginning was brilliant. "We have to destroy it!"

[bumblingthroughdungeons]

I have an older micro-game version of this idea called Pretense, but it suffers from only having a handful of tasks.This looks like it's dialed up to 11, which is a good thing. Would love to try it at a party. Nice review!

[LPDani]

So what if people just keep asking if this is part of the game?

[KebehQuaa]

- Chris, put this hat on
- Wait, is this part of the g...
- It's part of the Wallfacer plan
- As you wish