Catan on Steam

BobbyDigi

Just a heads up for our Board Game enthusiasts:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/239410/

10% off until the 21st.

Unfortunately it does not look to be multiplayer

CrazyJoe

Do not want. Catan against the AI? Nope.

Guppy

I might pick this up unless there's a better way to play Catan on PC.

Linc

Catan with cutesy animations and no multiplayer completely misses the point.

BobbyDigi

Guppy said:

I might pick this up unless there's a better way to play Catan on PC.

May not be PC... But IC seems to have really liked this Andriod Ap

NullenVoyd

Personally I thought it was worth looking up on Steam just to listen to the German trailer for the game.

CB

Complete crap. Will not purchase.

I asked them on Facebook why they would possibly think that anyone wants a Steam copy of Catan with no multi-player, and they responded that the game has local multi-player (useless, of course), and that there is already playcatan.com for people who want internet Catan multi-player.

Unfortunately playcatan.com is horrible and no one likes it.

Whoever is in charge of video game development/licensing over at Mayfair needs to be fired and/or take lessons from Rio Grande.

Linc

Local multiplayer? Isn't that... a boardgame?

ardichoke

Lincoln said:

Local multiplayer? Isn't that... a boardgame?

It's a boardgame with all the troublesome setup and rules monitoring automated for you.

CB

ardichoke said:

Lincoln said:

Local multiplayer? Isn't that... a boardgame?

It's a boardgame with all the troublesome setup and rules monitoring automated for you.

Except with Catan, it doesn't work at all, because the game includes private information. A game like Vegas Showdown would work okay hotseat on one system (as long as each player had their own controller) because no one has hands or anything, but with Catan, you would have to have each person only look at the screen during their turn, to keep hands private, except when you want to trade, in which case you have to let everyone look at the deal one at a time in turn, to make a decision. This is how the hotseat Catan game works on the mobile edition, and it's terribly tedious. Each turn takes ten times as long as it would at a table, and no players who aren't taking turns are ever engaged with the board.

midga

It would be kinda like giant Catan without all the parts that make it cool.

Bandrik

Here's a version of digital Catan that has online multiplayer, and was released about six years ago. Plus it's 40% cheaper.

Not trying to promote one system over another, but the point is that it's been done properly before... so what the fuck Mayfair?

CB

The Xbox edition is pretty good. A port of that to Steam would be neat.

Bandrik

Agreed. Plus, all the graphical extras and cutesy animations in the current Steam version are unnecessary. Everyone knows we just play Catan to have wood for sheep.

...right guys? Guys?

midga

Don't lie, you just play so you have an excuse for having wood for sheep.

Bandrik

It's nice to feel normal and accepted every once in a while.