Arcade: Catan

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Juganawt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Dadabab ba baaaa, I'm lovin it!

I'm also glad it came out on XBLA early, it downloaded it on my 360 at around 5AM GMT... gives me a small headstart on the achieves :D

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Koifim — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Nice! I'll be buying this when I get my MS points!

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davys — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:37:02 GMT

Any word on a solution for the lock-ups when 2 AIs are trading. Other menu options are still available when the game locks up, so it can't be the 360? I've emailed Big huge games - hopefully they'll respond soon.

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Benito — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:09:58 GMT

I believe the "technical issue" was that there was a pretty simple way of accessing the full game through the trial. I experienced it first hand, but only noticed when I had unlocked an achievement.

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Tangled Spider — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:18:58 GMT

Is the game trial supposed to give out achievements? I've had two unlock. All the multiplayer options are there too although I haven't tried joining a game.

I checked Marketplace and it says I haven't download the full game so I didn't buy it without realising.

I've seen no other comments on this so perhaps it's just me?

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Typh — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:44:47 GMT

Hey Major, might want to pass on there's a lot of netcode issues going on in this game, between disconnects, softlocks, and hardlocks. I haven't successfully played more than half my MP games due to these issues (all people with proper NAT settings). This type of stuff needs to be fixed since games are generally so long and a disconnect means you wasted a lot of time.

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maddogmaulucci — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:05:48 GMT

This is the first game that I played the demo not knowing what to expect (I played the board game about 8 years ago) and as soon as I hit the end of the trial, without thinking I bought the full version! Ive been playing it ever since, forgeting about all my other games. Thanks MS for bringing this great game to live!!!!

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good ol win — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:49:42 GMT

I was just chatting with a friend who just got a 360, and they were surprised to notice that the 360, being a MS product, doesn't have the staples - solitaire, minesweeper, spider, and free cell. That got me thinking, and it IS strange... Why?

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steve28 — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:49:08 GMT

Why would I buy this game or any Live Arcade game? If/when my 360 breaks or I upgrade (doubtful now), all my previous purchases will only be able to be played with my gamertag while i'm online (no offline play).

Memo to "major nelson": not a classy move to close this thread:

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/04/26/120-gb-hdd-and-elite-migration-how-to-video.aspx

Just another slap in the face to MS customers.

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Asholay — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:08:18 GMT

Well after reading some posts - I've realised why when I downloaded the demo, I unlocked the full thing!! There's me thinking MS were giving me a good customer incentive!!

Text is readable on my computer monitor - but I can imagine it being illegible on any standard def TV - not smart considering so many other developers have been hit with that before?

To those complaining about offline MP - wake up? You haven't even played the game have you?? Really... it'd be like playing offline multiplayer Texas Hold'em?? Yeah that's right - f*cking useless!

Anyway, top game - never played board game before, but like it plenty. One question -

Will there be any of the expansions downloadable?? There's no mention of it anywhere, but sounds like it would be a good idea!!

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RuairiAU — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:37:52 GMT

I bought this game shortly after trying the demo. Its a simple card/board game, but its quite addictive. I didn't get a chance to play it over XBox live, but I think it would be good fun. Enjoyable game, well worth the money.

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FoxHoundADAM — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:38:27 GMT

Anyone hoping to see the card game "BANG!"(Italian card game) on XBLM? Man that game rocks!!!

Major, consider this my nomination to have this game made.

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Joe Smith — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:11:24 GMT

What sort of TV are you playing on that the text is such a problem? And which text? It is not like this is a particularly text-heavy game.

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unplayable — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:50:15 GMT

text is so small, it's unreadable... i deleted it, shame coz it was supposed to be a good game

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Till X360 — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:39:46 GMT

The skip to next turn, from what I saw yesterday in 3 games with AI, only skips the trading option. It still takes up to a minute roughly for your turn to come up, depending on how active the bots are.

I don't think any game can be won (or lost) in less than 15 minutes.

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honkyjesus — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:57:37 GMT

king, that was exactly my point

anyways, the trial is up

i can see why the trial was held back, graphics for an 800pt game usually live up to some sort of standard... not sure what standards they use for this game

i have a 32 inch lcd hd set, and it looks mediocre at best, the text in-game is really hard to see/read

the game itself seems cool, it looks like they gave you the option of "skip to next turn" against cpu, something i wish they would have done in texas hold em (not sure if that was fixed with the update... made the game make me sleepy)

ps - major, the trial IS up if you wanna edit your original thread text, etc.