As I write this I’m in the midst of a game of Settlers on Xbox Live Arcade. I’ve played Settlers maybe ten times or so as a board game, but in the past week I’ve played probably 30 games via XBLA.
I suck. I don’t quite understand why as I’m typically reasonably good at turn-based strategy games, but Eileen and I have something like a 1-20 record. Granted, since the ranked games involve four players, the average record should be 5-15, but 1-20 is a long way from that! I can write off a couple games with the excuse that I was trying to write some of Earth Eternal’s history while playing, but that’s only four or five of those games.
I despair! But damn it, I will win.
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June 16th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Rick
The flow tends to go roughly roads-settlements-development cards-cities/development cards, so a big part of Catan strategy is anticipating the next phase resourcewise — bricks and lumber are vital to the early game but over time tend to matter less and less.
I haven’t gotten the XBLA version other than trying out the demo for a few minutes last week, but I suppose it has the drawback that you can’t smack somebody when they make a joke about having wood for sheep.
June 16th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Marc/Richter
Yeah, I saw you on there earlier while I was playing some arcade games. I’ve done just as bad in the past, that game is -hard-.
June 17th, 2007 at 4:23 am
Joseph Monk
I haven’t played that game in years… you’re all making me want to go by a 360… but no time to play it
June 18th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Riashain
I love Settlers. There used to be an online java version hosted by some university kid in the States, but it’s gone now. I used to serve people a healthy dose of WTFBBQLOSE when I played, but it’s been a while now.
All longest roads lead to victory.