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Joel Eddy
United States
Coeur d'Alene
ID
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This is too hard =/
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Eric Dodd
New Zealand
Martinborough
Wairarapa
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Re: 2011 Golden Geek Nominees Announced - Voting Open!
Pretty good choices, I think. I'll see how many I can play / listen to before the deadline.
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Daniel Danzer
Germany
Stuttgart
southwest
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Artus is in no way an abstract 
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Joel Eddy
United States
Coeur d'Alene
ID
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duchamp wrote: Artus is in no way an abstract
Ya I felt that was a bit odd as well. I mean it is abstract in feel, but it is definitely NOT an Abstract Game. It's also not your traditional heavy strategy game. But, it's also not a party game. It's a tough one to pin down. If there was ever a "Euro Party Filler", it would be Artus.
Probably explains the confusion of people that don't like it.... What? 
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Jon K
United States
Sacramento
California
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Red Wine Pie wrote: Pretty good choices, I think. I'll see how many I can play / listen to before the deadline.
That's what I will try to do, but in the mean time, I votes for all games in each category and will most likely change them often.
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Jason C
Australia
wollongong
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I just purchased Artus yesterday and played it today. I really enjoyed the game a lot.
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Lucian Pleianu
Romania
Cluj Napoca
Cluj
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What does 7 Wonders do in all those categories? Especially Strategic games! Bleah
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Russ Williams
Poland
Wrocław
Dolny Śląsk
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RoC1909 wrote: Red Wine Pie wrote: Pretty good choices, I think. I'll see how many I can play / listen to before the deadline. That's what I will try to do, but in the mean time, I votes for all games in each category and will most likely change them often.
You voted for all games, even those you haven't played?
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Andy Cassola
Italy
Piacenza
PC
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There is not a better artwork&presentation (especially presentation) than Florenza in 2011, and it's not even a nominee.... bleah....
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Joakim Schön
Sweden
Huskvarna
Sverige
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Good board games! In some categories I only "picked" one of the games, but I like what you other nomineed.
The categories I picked most games in was Card Game (4): 7 Wonders, Ascension, LOTR: Card Game, Yomi. And 2-Player Game (3): Dragonheart, Earth Reborn, A Few Acres of Snow.
Well, my guess was that 7 Wonder would make it in three categories. Wow, it made it into six, plus the expansion category. Thats magnificent seven!
Some games from last year is nominated again like Ablaze!, Level X and Zombie Dice. Coz people don't know so many in these categories? I guess so.
Nice to see that games like Earth Reborn, High Frontier, Mijnlieff, Dragonheart and Ascension is nominated. Nice games!
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Daniel Danzer
Germany
Stuttgart
southwest
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I have seen, that Artus really has "abstract" as an attached "category" and is even ranked as ... strange. Feeling or not, it has cards to play, so it is not an all information game at all. And pasted-on theme or not, this is not more abstract as your common eurogame.
OK - we had that before ... 
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Eddy Sterckx
Belgium
Vilvoorde
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Chuckila wrote: What does 7 Wonders do in all those categories? Especially Strategic games! Bleah
Exactly - our strategy-minded gamegroup tried it 3 times to see what all the fuss was about - now it's on my to-trade list
What's worse is that Lancaster is nowhere to be found - best strategy game I played this year
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benji
United Kingdom
London
London
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Clearly 7 wonders should also be in the Wargames ... 
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Japan
Tokushima
Most language free systems aren't this clear, or easy to learn! Awesome!
I'm not just playing an Earth Reborn PBF, I'm running one! Woo!
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In the BGG outlook on rating scales, is it worse for a game to be rated a 10 or not at all?
(And Earth Reborn is a wargame?! Huh. Who knew I'd been playing a wargame all this time?)
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Scott Wheelock
Canada
Woodstock
New Brunswick
"Nope... back to a good year like 1626 when a good Manhattan cost a mere 24-bucks."
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Why is Dixit Odyssey listed as an expansion? It's usable all by itself as a base game (in fact, it's a better base game than the original), much like Small World Underground.
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Yours Truly,
United States
Gainesville
Florida
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awakeneddragon wrote: In the BGG outlook on rating scales, is it worse for a game to be rated a 10 or not at all?
Yeah I can never remember this.
For example, if I have played a game but strongly feel that game does not belong in a given category. Is it better for me (worse for the game) if I put N/A or 10?
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Randy Cox
United States
Clemson
South Carolina
1024x768 works just fine - Don't Wide the Site!
The Back Alley gets no respect.
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eekamouse wrote: Ya I felt that [Artus] was a bit odd as well...But, it's also not a party game. It's a tough one to pin down. If there was ever a "Euro Party Filler", it would be Artus. Like 7 Wonders, which was inexplicably listed as a "Party Game" too. Folk around here just have no concept that there's a difference between a "party game" and a "game that niche players consider ever so slightly less difficult than regular games that 99% of the population would never touch anyway."
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Trey Chambers
United States
Texas
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I am really worried that 7 Wonders is going to sweep a lot of these categories based on popularity alone. It already got nominated for categories it has no business being in just because of name recognition (Party, Strategy, Innovation). If it wins all of these, it will really cheapen the award going forward.
And I LIKE 7 Wonders, especially with the Leaders expansion. But it's not strategic at all. And it's DEFINITELY not innovative at all, being just a dressed up version of Fairy Tale.
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Better a Dull Blade than a "shape" knife!
United States
Florida
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maxdrawdown wrote: Clearly 7 wonders should also be in the Wargames ...
And in Abstract, Children's, and PnP. I mean, why not, right?
 
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Better a Dull Blade than a "shape" knife!
United States
Florida
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EgorjLileli wrote:
I mean, if they are going to let it be nominated in so many categories (in which it doesn't fit), why not just announce that it wins in EVERY CATEGORY and be done with it?
//sarcasm off
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Mike Jones
United States
Gainesville
Florida
Yeah it's here! Really it's right here.
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Randy Cox wrote: eekamouse wrote: Ya I felt that [Artus] was a bit odd as well...But, it's also not a party game. It's a tough one to pin down. If there was ever a "Euro Party Filler", it would be Artus. Like 7 Wonders, which was inexplicably listed as a "Party Game" too. Folk around here just have no concept that there's a difference between a "party game" and a "game that niche players consider ever so slightly less difficult than regular games that 99% of the population would never touch anyway."
Wow, party game?
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Judy Krauss
United States
Unspecified
Pennsylvania
but I'm not the only one
My hands are small, I know, but they're not yours, they are my own
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Not many wargames in the wargame category... 
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Daniel M. Perez
United States
Florida
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Wow, my co-host Rich and I are both amazed and honored that This Just In... From Gen Con! was nominated for Best Podcast.
Thanks!
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Martí Cabré
Terrassa
Catalonia
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Re: 2011 Golden Geek Nominees Announced - Voting Open!
Is 7 Wonders nominated?
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