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Comment on Eurogames - Join the Boardgaming Revolution by Eurogames Article from AimlessWords | CriticalGamers.com - Critical Gamers

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:42:45 +0000

[…] The blog Aimless Words has published a great article “Eurogames - Join the Boardgaming Revolution” describing why every gamer and their mother should take notice about the emergence of Eurogames in the American market. The article also does a nice job explaining why all of these great family-games are coming out of Germany: “It seems the Germans have a long and exciting history of gaming within the family; a practice that died a horrible death in United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Today, the true heart and spirit of boardgaming exists not within the hollow facade of Hasbro but inside the halls of dozens of much smaller companies in the U.S. and Europe such as Rio Grande Games and Mayfair Games. Rio Grande is an American company that was formed by Jay Tummelson for the purpose of publishing English language versions of German or Euro-games. Jay has experienced great success with Rio Grande and several other American companies have been founded recently to focus on this sector of the games market.” - From: “Eurogames - Join the Boardgaming Revolution” […]

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Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:31:09 +0000

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Comment on Eurogames - Join the Boardgaming Revolution by Chris Farrell

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:53:37 +0000

OK, maybe not. Just google “chris farrell blog”. It’s the top hit.

Comment on Eurogames - Join the Boardgaming Revolution by Chris Farrell

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:50:07 +0000

It looks like the URL was confused by the all caps. If you put everything in lower case it’ll work.

This comment appears to not be in all caps anymore, so maybe it’ll work now!

http://homepage.mac.com/c_farrell/iblog

Thanks!

Chris

Comment on Eurogames - Join the Boardgaming Revolution by BW

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:10:35 +0000

I agree. It goes without saying that Reiner is simply TOPS. I could write almost endlessly about his many great games. within the LoTR family, his two player is thematic heaven. it also plays very well. i play it 5+ times a year. i have logged hundreds of games of tigris and euphrates and the list continues. blue moon is a fun diversion, but does require some significant play before a player can play adeptly with more than a deck or two.

Settlers of catan is not recent (I think it recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary), but i still play it 2+ times a month with my sons. We play the hand-painted collectors edition I received for father’s day this year. i think settlers bridges an important gap. it’s a sort of gateway game that bridges players from the monotonous american classics by incorporating common mechanics (dice, player movement, a resource bank).

american companies are still lost in a morass of dry, old classics. monopoly, clue, etc. nothing wrong with those classics, but the pale in comparison to even the weakest german offerings. i shiver each christmas when i survey hasbro’s latest offerings.

Great insights chris. thanks for stopping by and sharing. Oh, and i tried your web link and it’s bad.

and yes, these comments are always in CAPS!

cheers!

Comment on Eurogames - Join the Boardgaming Revolution by Board Games and Gaming Blog from Jerusalem, Israel - Yehuda

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:02:03 +0000

video games and art. Only a Game invents a hex based war game, his second (follow links to the first, a science fiction empire game). And more talk about serious games, this time from Forbes. Yehuda Update: AimlessWords covers Eurogames. (via Critical Gamers)

Comment on Eurogames - Join the Boardgaming Revolution by cHRIS fARRELL

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:24:39 +0000

Games are fun, sure, and that’s probably the main reason most people play them. But I think one of the biggest innovations in gaming in the past five years or so has been Reiner Knizia showing us that games can be artful in addition to being fun, as demonstrated dramatically by his beowulf and lord of the Rings games, both of which can be played and appreciated in similar ways to the books they derive from. but there are more examples of recent games that can be appreciated on multiple levels.

AMerican companies, while they’ve made strides in the past few years, are still quite a ways away from being able to operate on the same level of professionalism as the Germans (rio grande and mayfair both publish games designed and developed in europe, in germany primarily; days of wonder likewise uses european desingers). At some level, American companies are still trying to regain the level of expertise lost when avalon hill laid off their entire staff after they were bought by hasbro.

Are these comments really always in all-caps?

Comment on GMail now Google Mail in U.K. by akaDruid

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:29:40 +0000

When I first read this, I thought it was a bug or something, but you really did post it twice, didn’t you?

cheers,

akaDruid

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Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:10:25 +0000

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