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Princes of the Renaissance

Game ID: GID0402255
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Year
2003
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Total mentions: 2
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Sentiment: pos 0 · mix 1 · neu 1 · neg 0
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Video CRHtdL61Y_A UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 28:28:40 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
  • Mercury Games did a really good reprint of it.
Cons
  • A game that nobody really ever wanted to play.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • I have tons of like RPG books that I'm like, why did I buy this?
  • we end up in situations where there's diamonds in the rough.
  • I found the complete book of necromancers. I forgot that I ever owned that.
  • if you try to auction that now, um, you can get a few hundred for it, which is ridiculous.
  • I'm actually excited to have like Aldi on cuz I want to talk cuz he's one of those guys that, you know, obviously he runs conventions.
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Video 3OSffm1m4WA The Dice Tower Top List at 0:54 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Innovative and unusual for its time
  • Fascinating concept of political bidding
Cons
  • Aging components and teach complexity
Thematic elements
  • Political influence and warfare through bidding
  • Medieval renaissance-era city-state diplomacy and war
  • Strategic bidding and city-state control
Comparison games
  • Hegemony
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Auction / Bidding — Bidding on sides of wars and actions to influence outcomes
  • auction/bidding — Bidding on sides of wars and actions to influence outcomes
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
  • This Martin Wallace game really fascinated me at the time; it was unusual, unique.
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