netherspirit
August 11th, 2006, 10:56 PM
Oogiezone and I have spent most of the last two days doing nothing but demoing games. I have a rather extensive list of games I want and fortunately many of them have been available for demo.
We played a lot of Mayfair games because the Promo they are doing, for every game you demo or eveny of theirs you play in you get a resource ribbon (Ore, Grain, Sheep, Wood, Clay) You may recognize those...Once you get all 5 you get a "Knight of Catan" black ribbon, this ribbon entitles you to a 50% off coupon, a deck of events for Settlers of Catan (it basically replaces the dice), and a raffle ticket for a chance to win the $380 3-D settlers board. What a deal, so we played lost of games by them.
Reviews of the games on this list will be forthcoming after the con.
Mayfair Games
Mesopotamia: Cradle of Civilization
-We loved this game and bought it. Its an exploring, tile laying, resource management game, very cool.
Elasund: The First City
-Part of the Adventures of Catan line, I think there are 2 or 3 games. This one was also really fun, so we bought it as well.
Express
-Not so fun Train Card Game
Bison
-I really really really wanted to like this game, but couldn't get into it...Maybe we will try and play another game tommorrow.
Shear Panic
-A cute game about sheep, they are trying not to get sheared, pretty cool and nice components, didn't buy this one though.
Figaro
-A Card Game nice quick paced game for 3-5 players, its basically a screw your opponent game. We are probably going to get this one.
Rio-Grande Games
Thurn and Taxis
-This game was at the top of my list, we loved it and bought it. Great game.
Masons
-Another game that I really wanted to like, but couldn't get into, I will try and give it another go tommorrow.
Zig-Zag
-A crazy 2 player racing card game. We liked this one because its fun and something different than what we normaly play.
Knights and Robbers
-This is game reminded me of Othello, it was pretty cool but we didn't like it too much.
Other Companies
Can't remember the name
I don't remember the name but it was kind of crazy, it was a Jenga-Esque game, I will get the name tommorrow.
Mimic
-We didn't really like this game either, it was a little lame. More to come on that later.
There were more, I will think of them
Still on the list to Demo:
Blue Moon City
Quest Cards (looks really cool!)
And any other small company games we missed. We spend most of the past 2 days around the bigger companies booths, tommorrow will be small company day.
We played a lot of Mayfair games because the Promo they are doing, for every game you demo or eveny of theirs you play in you get a resource ribbon (Ore, Grain, Sheep, Wood, Clay) You may recognize those...Once you get all 5 you get a "Knight of Catan" black ribbon, this ribbon entitles you to a 50% off coupon, a deck of events for Settlers of Catan (it basically replaces the dice), and a raffle ticket for a chance to win the $380 3-D settlers board. What a deal, so we played lost of games by them.
Reviews of the games on this list will be forthcoming after the con.
Mayfair Games
Mesopotamia: Cradle of Civilization
-We loved this game and bought it. Its an exploring, tile laying, resource management game, very cool.
Elasund: The First City
-Part of the Adventures of Catan line, I think there are 2 or 3 games. This one was also really fun, so we bought it as well.
Express
-Not so fun Train Card Game
Bison
-I really really really wanted to like this game, but couldn't get into it...Maybe we will try and play another game tommorrow.
Shear Panic
-A cute game about sheep, they are trying not to get sheared, pretty cool and nice components, didn't buy this one though.
Figaro
-A Card Game nice quick paced game for 3-5 players, its basically a screw your opponent game. We are probably going to get this one.
Rio-Grande Games
Thurn and Taxis
-This game was at the top of my list, we loved it and bought it. Great game.
Masons
-Another game that I really wanted to like, but couldn't get into, I will try and give it another go tommorrow.
Zig-Zag
-A crazy 2 player racing card game. We liked this one because its fun and something different than what we normaly play.
Knights and Robbers
-This is game reminded me of Othello, it was pretty cool but we didn't like it too much.
Other Companies
Can't remember the name
I don't remember the name but it was kind of crazy, it was a Jenga-Esque game, I will get the name tommorrow.
Mimic
-We didn't really like this game either, it was a little lame. More to come on that later.
There were more, I will think of them
Still on the list to Demo:
Blue Moon City
Quest Cards (looks really cool!)
And any other small company games we missed. We spend most of the past 2 days around the bigger companies booths, tommorrow will be small company day.