shout out to that wheel game for being one of the most boring fucking things i've ever played on god
As everyone else has said, Job Job is the big highlight here, but honestly it feels like the only really great game here. Poll Mines is pretty good, I especially like how it splits the group into teams, more Jackbox games should do that. But the other three feel almost completely disposable, this is easily one of the weakest entries. But Job Job is good enough that the pack is still worth it for real Jackbox fiends like me and my friend group.
Sadly an okay pack :( Job Job is fun though! :3
Another massive Jackbox W. I think every game in this pack is pretty good, Poll mine and Job Job taking the cake for the best though
I’ve had 5 different people tell me that they think the Job Job water dispenser can get it
why
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pretty fun party pack, poll mine was my favorite, job job and the big wheel were also pretty fun, alot of them were great and more "atmospheric" I guess, which I think is great, but makes games like drawful animate kinda not fit in, which is probably my least favorite game of the pack
You just can't release a party pack with only one game lmao!!! My BF loves M. Bubbles so this one is spared.
My friends make me play this with them and I want to kill myself.
Job Job: Truly one of Jackbox's greatest of all time, the idea feels so old school for them yet still so refined and perfect, as well as endlessly replayable. I will say that going in blind on that first game is just an inch funnier than subsequent playthroughs where you know what happens
Drawful Animate: It's Drawful, but with two drawings at a time instead of one. It's fun but it doesn't open up that much over everything Drawful 1 and 2 had to offer, especially when your friends aren't big on drawing party games and now you have to draw two pictures at a time instead of one.
The Wheel Of Enormous Proportions: Probably the worst of the bunch, but still fun. The trivia aspect is a lot more fun and engaging than the random game show/chance aspect.
Weapons Drawn: One of two in the pack that withdraws most of the comedy in favor of a more intense competitive game. It's initially kind of confusing and gives way to the ability to essentially cheat, but once everyone gets in on it, super fun.
The Poll Mine: The other of the two more competitive ones, and I prefer this one, despite the fact I suck so hard at it. There's a really cool personal element of trying to understand your friends, in a similar way to something like Role Models, even though it's a lot more understated here.
Drawful Animate: It's Drawful, but with two drawings at a time instead of one. It's fun but it doesn't open up that much over everything Drawful 1 and 2 had to offer, especially when your friends aren't big on drawing party games and now you have to draw two pictures at a time instead of one.
The Wheel Of Enormous Proportions: Probably the worst of the bunch, but still fun. The trivia aspect is a lot more fun and engaging than the random game show/chance aspect.
Weapons Drawn: One of two in the pack that withdraws most of the comedy in favor of a more intense competitive game. It's initially kind of confusing and gives way to the ability to essentially cheat, but once everyone gets in on it, super fun.
The Poll Mine: The other of the two more competitive ones, and I prefer this one, despite the fact I suck so hard at it. There's a really cool personal element of trying to understand your friends, in a similar way to something like Role Models, even though it's a lot more understated here.
Carried by JobJob
job job too damn good
this one is very okay :D
binkly bittlebottom the thrid
writing complete bullshit in job job and drawing yourself a little foul moving avatar in drawful animate are both funny as fuck. poll mine and weapons drawn are both slow but pretty entertaining games, and wheel is probably the weakest but still entertaining. solid pack, feels like a better version of pack 6 in many ways (job job is like joke boat but good, weapons drawn is a more interesting push the button)
Weapons Drawn is the only decent entry here, the rest of the games in the pack are pretty lame.
The Wheel of Enormous Proportions has to be one of Jackbox's biggest misfires yet, while Drawful Animate and Weapons Drawn are maybe some of the least enticing drawing games across all 8 party packs.
If it wasn't for Job Job, this was be a complete write-off. Well maybe that's a touch harsh on Poll Mine, I just wish it worked better with fewer players
If it wasn't for Job Job, this was be a complete write-off. Well maybe that's a touch harsh on Poll Mine, I just wish it worked better with fewer players
Job Job is the best jackbox game ever, literally nothing has beaten this, it's the perfect party game. The others are also there.
These are all generally pretty good, Job Job is best but takes a sec to really understand how to make it good for everyone, but as usual all are better if you're playing with people you vibe well with. Drawful animate is probably best if you're playing with people you don't know well.
One ov the most (but not the most) unhinged ways to create a Resume I've witnessed
the job job water cooler is kinda hot
Poll Mine is the most harrowing Jackbox experience since the one with the aliens
job job gives it all 3 stars
Solid Pack for me. Not as great as last year's PP7 or the all time personal goat PP3, but I think there's something here for a wide variety of groups.
Job Job is my current favorite. Wheel is my least, but would not call it an outright bad game (especially compared to the various stinkers in the older ones). The latest drawful is also really creative and intuitive even as someone who has never drawn an animated doodle before.
Job Job is my current favorite. Wheel is my least, but would not call it an outright bad game (especially compared to the various stinkers in the older ones). The latest drawful is also really creative and intuitive even as someone who has never drawn an animated doodle before.
ALL BANGERS
**Full video review: https://youtu.be/8_UA9s_-Jbg
We are now on the eighth iteration and seeing as how 7 was easily one of the best, this one had a lot to live up to.
Drawful Animate
Drawful Animate has some good ideas – create a simple two-frame animation and pit it against a bunch of possible answers – but the underlying “animate” mechanic just falls flat. A lot of the time, the phrase given can be demonstrated in just one drawing, no animation required.
That and a lot of the prompts are just boring or use super obscure language that even I needed to google to make sure I knew what I was drawing. It can be fun at times with the right group, but honestly, you’re probably better off just playing Gartic Phone, which has a much better animation game mode. This one just felt like Drawful with an unnecessary extra step – a waste of a game for a new Party Pack.
The Wheel of Enormous Proportions
You’re basically tasked with solving trivia and spinning a wheel in hopes that your score can get up to 20k. Problem here is that both the trivia and wheel spinning are just straight RNG. It does not even matter if you know the trivia or not, a lot of the time you can simply put in whatever answers and get enough points to spin the wheel and even if you are not spinning it yourself – another player is spinning it with the chance of getting you points.
And once you do get to that 20k points, you’re given ANOTHER wheel to spin to determine the winner amongst ALL players with 20k points. The game is effectively RNG layered on top of more RNG and the trivia stuff feels underutilized as a result. It was really disappointing as a fan of trivia games and even though I do like myself some RNG, this one just doesn’t cut it.
Job Job
As if to balance out the two duds so far, Job Job comes out of nowhere and cements itself as not only the best game of the pack, but one of the best games in ANY Jackbox Party Pack. The game revolves around answering questions about a potential job and using other players’ own words to compose entirely new sentences. The result is often chaotic, deadpan, or just straight-up hilarious. Depending on the group, the prompts can bring out some really interesting answers to work with and the fact that you can pull words from the questions themselves is a cool bonus too.
It’s simple concepts like these that Jackbox Party Packs really excel at and it’s perhaps the most accessible in the pack too, anybody can hop in and understand what to do without needing a big tutorial beforehand. It is for this game alone that I will likely keep the Party Pack installed for.
The Poll Mine
This one is a step up in complexity, but it’s got a really neat concept. You play in teams and your goal is basically to guess the group consensus on certain questions and rank the different answers provided.
The team focus adds this entire new layer to the gme, as you want to discuss with your team what the right answer may be, but doing so in a way that doesn’t give enough info away to the other team to use if your team gets it wrong – as the other team picks up right where you left off. It’s a neat tug-of-war concept that’s only aided by its absolutely absurd prompts, like “what is a smell you only want to sniff once and never again”. Easily the second-best game in the pack.
Weapons Drawn
On one hand, the concept is really neat. You have to draw “weapons” but must include a letter from your name so that when you kill a target, other players can attempt to deduce who the murderer was. On the other hand though, that is just one aspect of this game and there are a couple other layers that elevate it beyond the simplicity one would usually expect from a Party Pack title.
In a way, this kinda defeats the spirit of the series, as it is not one you can just pop open during a party without expecting at least a few players to be confused and ruin the gameplay for the others. Once you get over that hurdle, it can be fun, but it takes a bit to get there and it doesn’t help that games last a long time. I’d place it as my third favorite in the pack, but I can’t say it’s one I’ll be returning to much.
Overall
Party Pack 8 is a bit of a letdown following the release of the excellent Party Pack 7. The overall pack is less consistent, has only one real standout, and is perhaps the weakest in the series yet (I have played from 4 onwards). Job Job may have carried it a bit, but that is likely the only game in the pack that will be getting plays from my group in the future, even if Poll Mine and Weapons Drawn aren’t all that bad.
We are now on the eighth iteration and seeing as how 7 was easily one of the best, this one had a lot to live up to.
Drawful Animate
Drawful Animate has some good ideas – create a simple two-frame animation and pit it against a bunch of possible answers – but the underlying “animate” mechanic just falls flat. A lot of the time, the phrase given can be demonstrated in just one drawing, no animation required.
That and a lot of the prompts are just boring or use super obscure language that even I needed to google to make sure I knew what I was drawing. It can be fun at times with the right group, but honestly, you’re probably better off just playing Gartic Phone, which has a much better animation game mode. This one just felt like Drawful with an unnecessary extra step – a waste of a game for a new Party Pack.
The Wheel of Enormous Proportions
You’re basically tasked with solving trivia and spinning a wheel in hopes that your score can get up to 20k. Problem here is that both the trivia and wheel spinning are just straight RNG. It does not even matter if you know the trivia or not, a lot of the time you can simply put in whatever answers and get enough points to spin the wheel and even if you are not spinning it yourself – another player is spinning it with the chance of getting you points.
And once you do get to that 20k points, you’re given ANOTHER wheel to spin to determine the winner amongst ALL players with 20k points. The game is effectively RNG layered on top of more RNG and the trivia stuff feels underutilized as a result. It was really disappointing as a fan of trivia games and even though I do like myself some RNG, this one just doesn’t cut it.
Job Job
As if to balance out the two duds so far, Job Job comes out of nowhere and cements itself as not only the best game of the pack, but one of the best games in ANY Jackbox Party Pack. The game revolves around answering questions about a potential job and using other players’ own words to compose entirely new sentences. The result is often chaotic, deadpan, or just straight-up hilarious. Depending on the group, the prompts can bring out some really interesting answers to work with and the fact that you can pull words from the questions themselves is a cool bonus too.
It’s simple concepts like these that Jackbox Party Packs really excel at and it’s perhaps the most accessible in the pack too, anybody can hop in and understand what to do without needing a big tutorial beforehand. It is for this game alone that I will likely keep the Party Pack installed for.
The Poll Mine
This one is a step up in complexity, but it’s got a really neat concept. You play in teams and your goal is basically to guess the group consensus on certain questions and rank the different answers provided.
The team focus adds this entire new layer to the gme, as you want to discuss with your team what the right answer may be, but doing so in a way that doesn’t give enough info away to the other team to use if your team gets it wrong – as the other team picks up right where you left off. It’s a neat tug-of-war concept that’s only aided by its absolutely absurd prompts, like “what is a smell you only want to sniff once and never again”. Easily the second-best game in the pack.
Weapons Drawn
On one hand, the concept is really neat. You have to draw “weapons” but must include a letter from your name so that when you kill a target, other players can attempt to deduce who the murderer was. On the other hand though, that is just one aspect of this game and there are a couple other layers that elevate it beyond the simplicity one would usually expect from a Party Pack title.
In a way, this kinda defeats the spirit of the series, as it is not one you can just pop open during a party without expecting at least a few players to be confused and ruin the gameplay for the others. Once you get over that hurdle, it can be fun, but it takes a bit to get there and it doesn’t help that games last a long time. I’d place it as my third favorite in the pack, but I can’t say it’s one I’ll be returning to much.
Overall
Party Pack 8 is a bit of a letdown following the release of the excellent Party Pack 7. The overall pack is less consistent, has only one real standout, and is perhaps the weakest in the series yet (I have played from 4 onwards). Job Job may have carried it a bit, but that is likely the only game in the pack that will be getting plays from my group in the future, even if Poll Mine and Weapons Drawn aren’t all that bad.
One of my friends is Sucking the wheel of enormous proportions off I swear
We mostly play Job Job on this one
the score is solely because of that one game. you know the one.
JOB JOB: easily carries, great fun every single time
DRAWFUL ANIMATE: eh
THE WHEEL OF ENORMOUS PROPORTIONS: it's like the one trivia game my friends like which makes me happy
THE POLL MINE: i love you poll mine i love knowing my friends
WEAPONS DRAWN: more like weapons drawn-out amirite ladies
JOB JOB: easily carries, great fun every single time
DRAWFUL ANIMATE: eh
THE WHEEL OF ENORMOUS PROPORTIONS: it's like the one trivia game my friends like which makes me happy
THE POLL MINE: i love you poll mine i love knowing my friends
WEAPONS DRAWN: more like weapons drawn-out amirite ladies
job job
Not as good as Jackbox 7, but still has some insanely fun games and moments. JobJob is easily the breakout game of the pack and had already delivered some amazing moments for my friends and I. The Poll Mine is also a really fun cooperative vs. game about predicting rankings and can get pretty intense at times. Weapons Drawn is also insanely simple, but deceptively fun as a mystery drawing game. Sadly the big wet fart of the collection has to be The Enormous Wheel. The games questions are the most obscure curation of questions I've ever seen in any of these party packs. On top of that it's also very not fun to answer them as each question gives you what seems to be an average of 15-20 answers which feels just downright miserable. Definitely needing more tweaking and question overhaul to be more fun. Still definitely worth picking it up for the other games in the pack alone though.