Attn Cataners: Asobrain

CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄ƷDer Millionendorf- Icrontian
edited February 2010 in Gaming
I mentioned this during TF2, but I doubt anyone had time to write the URL down at the time, and not all the Cataners were in there, so here's this:

Whilst looking for a new online game to play with The Mitey Worriers On Tuesday evening (Our regular DDO session was canceled due to boat), we stumbled upon asobrain.com

Asobrain has four Java games available to play for free in ranked and unranked rooms. Two of them are crap, but the other two are Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne (albeit with different names and art, since they are not official versions). The graphics aren't pretty, I'm not gonna lie, but the interface is intuitive, and Zantian, CrazyJoe, and I found it very easy to get into, especially using skype for table-talk.

It also has both expansions, and a bunch of custom maps, but unfortunately no 5-6 player mode.

Comments

  • TiberiusLazarusTiberiusLazarus Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    We actually found that as well during IC New Years. It looked interesting enough, but we've never gotten around to doing anything with it since.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    I've been playing an average of about 5 games/week since discovering Asobrain, which is ironic considering I have the nice, official version of Settlers of Catan on Xbox Live, and I never play that.

    I think the difference is two-fold. Xbox players are more likely to be either slow players or asshats (not that asobrain doesn't have some of those also, just not as many), and asobrain is on the PC, which makes it easier in a myriad of ways. The only real advantage that the Xbox version has is slick graphics.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    Just wait til this Vanilla crap is done and I make the HTML version! ;D
  • chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
    edited February 2010
    I love that you can't ever use the words Catan or Carcassonne on the site and the only way they can tell you that is to embed it in an image. I know the publishers of Catan can be pretty aggressive about clones though so it doesn't surprise me that they are keeping a low profile, I'd guess it's inevitable they get a C&D one of these days.

    I'm not sure I can bring myself to install Java just for this though, does it still sink it's hooks into your system the way it used to?
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