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Nürnberg 2012: alea Video Report

Posted by Scott Alden

Convention Reports

10 Feb 2012

Scott Alden

(Aldie)

United States
Dallas
Texas

Aldie's Full of Love!

Here's an overview of the 2 new alea releases: Saint Malo and Vegas.

Thanks to

Scott A. Reed

(skelebone)

United States
Lawrence
Kansas

Space. Space. Wannagotospace. Space. What's your favorite thing about space? mine's space.

I just wasted 100 :gg: on this.

for the video report.

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Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:43 am

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Francis K. Lalumiere

(weishaupt)

Canada
Brossard
Quebec

I'm usually a huge alea fan, but both of these look very ordinary to me. Nothing exciting.

Posted Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:57 pm
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Jeremy Heilman

(nyfilmfest)

United States
San Mateo
CA

I agree... neither of these games look good to me.

Vegas rates a 1 out of 10 on alea's difficulty scale.
Saint Malo rates a 2 out of 10 on alea's difficulty scale.

That's probably the issue... but these don't even look like especially entertaining fillers.

Posted Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:32 pm
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(james_bond)

Italy

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Why Do I need to use pencil? Why they did not put usual tiles?

Posted Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:25 am
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Tony Sanfilippo

(keso55)

United States
ISSAQUAH
Washington

Saint Malo looks like a Roll Through The Ages game

Posted Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:04 pm
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Dan Rosewater

(Goodsound)

Switzerland
Zürich

Attack of the dice rollers!
I already considered Alea Iacta Est to be a light dice roller, but at that time, alea didn't have any, so it was ok. While I won't say now anything bad about "Roll through Saint Malo" (prototype status), there is no reason a simplicistic game like VEGAS should be published within their gamers brand (alea). It would be ok as a standard Ravensburger release. I wonder why they're weakening deliberately alea gamers reputation with such a light game release...

Edited Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:37 pm
Posted Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:36 pm
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