The Jackbox Party Starter Preview - A Greatest Hits Collection For Newcomers

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Jackbox has long become a staple of party nights, so in many ways The Jackbox Party Starter is a bit of a no-brainer. The pack, designed to put Jackbox's best foot forward for newcomers, offers three of the best Jackbox games in one simple package: Quiplash 3, Tee K.O., and Trivia Murder Party 2. I went hands-on with the new collection last week, and evaluating my thoughts on it is a more complex task than expected. I regularly play every Jackbox from 3-8 with friends, so these games were nothing new to me, and I know now what I knew before going in - they're pretty good. Mostly what I learned was that Jackbox needs to be played with friends.

When I play Jackbox usually, it's with good friends. Friends I have gone on holiday with, shared intimate stories with, friends whose weddings I have been involved in. I'm a woman of culture, as are my friends, so we know that the funniest answer you can give in Quiplash is some variation on 'cum' or a riff on any of our off-colour in-jokes. When you're playing with journos you haven't met before and developers you have never spoken to, you know better than to go blue, and there are no in-jokes to make. Even trying to capture a shared experience falls flat. I had a prompt about an attention seeking celebrity doing... you know, explaining it won't make it any funnier. In any case, my answer was Geoff Keighley, an especially relevant answer given that he's been absolutely everywhere during Summer Game Fest. You open a box of cereal and Keighley is the prize inside, waiting to tell you about Generic Dark Corridor Shooter 3, coming Spring 2023. The response, from a crowd of games journalists and game developers, was "who is Geoff Keighley?"

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