Matt's Boardgame Review Episode 32: Zombies!!! 14 Space Bites

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1. I cant recall what was your house rule to make the useless situational cards useful? you can use any card you can but is there a catch compromise? haven't played Zombies in a while but recall a frustration with not being abel to use so many situational cards.
   
   for example wth my house rule of dungeon command I hope to show sometime which is a card based D&D minis game with no dice(!) sacrilege lol I use cards they included with stats for a regular D&D minis board game (nice bonus and the only reason I got it on sale lol) and use a traditional D&D d20. but a miss is half damage rounded up. a 1 is always a miss and natural 20 is a double damage. so it's a compromise house rule without completely altering the game.
2. I saw this at the Recess store today. I like the theme a lot. they put alien star trek star wars and marvin the martian references in there. they cheaped out with no shuttle tile. the blue dice look cool. you get a generous amount. someone BGG house ruled it and made a shuttle tile out of a firefly overhead POV ship. I haven't played Zombies in a while. did you play humans camp zombie lake?
3. Just watched all your Zombies!!! videos back to back. Have you thought about using the 6.66 edition on this game? What kind of tiles/cards would you do?
4. As someone who has the zombies base set and expansions through 13, i am really glad i watched this video. my group has taken a some time off from zombies since we played it so much. but we have recently got back into it. And I was looking onto picking this up. I am really disappointed in the direction they are going with the zombie games. Again thank you for your videos and i look forward to watching more.
5. Wow... I just noticed I uploaded the wrong gif image to the intro....what a dummy!!
6. Matt: dower or not
   Draw that line
   Thank you for your honestly
   I agree with you on all of your thoughts
   On this game
   No zombie crew members or player space men or woman pawns?
   Thank you
   Keep up the great work
7. In your opinion, would you replay zombies 14 with "house rules"? Scrap some of the game mechanics and make it a survival game perhaps? I'll be honest, I watched your video and I was bewildered as to why twilight creations released such a poor game. I think the concept of zombies in space can be done very well, such as with Dead Space for example, or have it on a derelict space craft with hazards. I might give this game a miss. Thanks for the video, always enjoy your game reviews.
8. Hey Matt just heard POTU. I'm not convinced that George would have made Episode VII in the NJO era, of course its possible, but I thought he'd go for post Crucible. None the less if we knew what his plans were (I believe it was me that showed you that Tribeca Talks video with George :P)  that we would have even more evidence that the EU is the true vision of Star Wars, AGAIN from the maker himself AND.....cue the George Haters.
   
   I ask for Bruces opinion because, 1. I like the guy, he has watched The Last Starfighter, Have YOU watched The Goonies yet? AND 2. I want to know if he can see the flaws in TFA as easily as others can or does he dismiss them for the sake of nostalgia?
   
   I think TFA is a good movie (technically) but to me it feels wrong as far as story progression goes for the series. 30 years after ROTJ and our happy and victorious heroes are all in a miserable state, not a perilous situation still possessing courage and valor, nope, just all down right bummed.
   
   Also wondering if you are still maintaining contact with Nathan Buttler? I'm following his Facebook site and he seems to be increasingly frustrated with the new canon time line and even some of its content. Would be great if he made his way onto the show again in the future.Cheers!
9. Hey Matt, Thanks for postin' the review. Its sad to hear TCI dropped the ball on this expansion. I hope they don't disappoint on rumored release of Martians!!!
10. Hey Matt,
    I have the first 3 editions of Zombies but combining the editions together takes up SO much space. Do you combine them together or do you typically play the expansions on their own?
11. Damn that's so sad they are getting lazy with the mechanics. Zombies in space is a big thing especially in video games and movies. You would think they would really go the distance with this one.