Carcassonne Coming To A DS Near You

@Xucuroz: Cool, I'll have to give it another look.

I absolutely love the game, and hopefully this version will have some sort of online play involved. Its the only way to play!

I found a bug in the XBLA one. If you place your river pieces all on one side and leave the other unfinished then try building around it and placing a man on the green it hard locks the system

Quite nice to see, it's one of the few puzzle games I've ever been able to play for more then a first try (Scotland Yard is the other). Now to have it on the go? Multiplayer to introduce other people to? Good times shall be had by many, even if I have to force them to try it out.

@Kobun: The problem is that for ranked games, the setting is hard coded to the European rule set. So if you play online, you don't really get the choice. Also the scoring of farms is radically different.

Maximillion

@Ganji: I started out with the expansions, so it spoiled it for me. If I started out with the base game, I'm sure I would have liked it.

holmcross

This is one of my favorite Live Arcade games...I got my mom addicted to DS recently so maybe I can get her this and I can play it too.

@Kobun: I have been waiting for more expansions for the 360 version also (I have every and all expansion for the IRL version of the game), but it seems like they can never get themselves together and make more. This is sad, really, i'd buy them the instant they hit XBLA :)

FlyveHest

@atomicstrawberry: I fully agree. At least need the same expansions that the 360 got (rivers+king&thief), plus any others they can get in there.

Jennacide

It's a fun game.

I got this game on the 360 when it was free, I dont really understand the rules fully. I just seem to join roads in loops. Maybe I'm missing something.

Isnt this called Crossroads in english?

@JZeitler: I am hoping for Inns and Cathedrals myself, but we shall see. All around good news.

I wonder about their decision to add new content on their own (ie, Asian, Nordic, Arabic worlds) rather than use some of the other expansions that the official game uses. Although I guess maybe the new "Worlds" are just different graphic sets for the same tiles.

Dreamwriter

@holmcross: I played it at my neighbor's house a few months ago, I'm guessing it was vanilla, but so much fun! Playing against the CPU is never as fun as people though... worth a rent in any case.

Ganji

@BlooQKazoo: It was free at one point yes (not anymore ofc). Great game and not at all complicated.

@Brian Beckmann: Un-approved posts are showing up in the system.

The tech-gnomes handywork as usual. Earlier the site had some graphical feature tweaks as well but it was rolled back apparently. Though now there are new problems 1. the dotted red line unapproved posts 2. auto play on linked videos in comments.

The idea of different themed worlds is superficial, but a nice touch anyway.

I wish that more expansions had made their way into the 360 version. The river and king/scout are so tiny. Why not Inns/Cathedrals or Traders/Builders?

jcb231

@fraudbrand: Catan actually HAS gone DS... but only in Europe. :(

spinch

Great news: loved playing this game, until I got good enough that no one I knew would play it with me... Maybe this will change things? Multiplayer is an absolute must (obviously), but I wonder if it would have a "pass the controller" mode?

hehe, koch

Dukeman330

I'm more of a fan of Catan than this. I have this on my 360 but don't remember buying it, was it free at one point?

Is it worth playing more of carcassone? It seemed quite complicated from what little I played through already.

fuck yes!

YESS!!!

Not having a 360, this is GREAT news. Plus, DS is the only video gaming I can get the g/f to do, so I'll get two copies.

I wonder if there's any chance they could do expansions via DSiWare - have the cart look for expansions on the SD card and use them. Probably too much to ask. Still, unless this gets universal review fail, I'm picking it up.

@JZeitler: Dominion could work really well, I would think. Arkham though..yeesh, idk. I think I would only enjoy that game when playing with friends in the same room.

Smidget

@atomicstrawberry: And fix the scoring in the XBLA version, 2-tile cities are meant to be worth two points, not four.

That's the American rules set, which has been available in the XBLA version since release I believe. Check your options.

@JZeitler: I'd love to see Zertz myself. I'm disappointed that Carcassonne doesn't support more expansions, particularly Inns & Cathedrals. It's still an excellent port, but the game's been out for quite some time now, and I don't see why it wouldn't be offered.

@JZeitler: A computerised Arkham Horror would be beyond awesome. Having something to do all that housekeeping for you would probably shave an hour off a normal game.

atomicstrawberry

I wish they'd put in the other expansions. And fix the scoring in the XBLA version, 2-tile cities are meant to be worth two points, not four.

As someone who plays the actual board games regularly, I can't stand going back to Vanilla Carcassonne having played with expansions. On its own the game is short, overly reliant on luck, and not very strategic. It doesn't really shine until you're playing with at least one of the river expansions, Traders & Builders, Inns and Cathedrals and the extra interesting tiles from King and Scout. Abbey & Mayor and an added river (with some revised rules that place both endings and the fork into the mix, so that the river ends when one or both end pieces are drawn depending on whether the fork comes out) add even more strategic value to the game.

atomicstrawberry

another carcassonne? but... I just broke off my addiction to the 360 one:(

Cloudleet

@JZeitler: I'm a big fan of the Towers expansion. Nothing better than ransoming another player's meeple.

I don't like vanilla Carcassonne (the river doesn't count as an expansion to me) - Inns and Caths & Traders and Builders make he game soooooo much better. It's my favorite board game, but I think I'll give this a skip.

holmcross

*clap clap clap* Yaay! ^_^

CyricZ

@Brian Beckmann: Now they're visible again. Something screwy is going on here. Yours has the dotted line as well.

Brian Beckmann

@JZeitler: I fail at reading, apparently there will be single-card multiplayer. I still want the expansions in there, though.

JZeitler

Hopefully it'll have more than just the River expansion, and hopefully it'll have game-sharing multiplayer (but I doubt that part). Carcassonne was the first European board game I played, and it really got me into them big time.

Now, when are we gonna see Dominion, Race for the Galaxy, and Arkham Horror on consoles?

JZeitler

@Brian Beckmann:

Now the post is gone...? What on earth?

Brian Beckmann

Great news!

I love Catan and I love Koch!

..........sorry.

B0MBJ4CK

@Pawsaldo:

What's up with the red dotted line around your post?

Brian Beckmann

I love the 360 version. Now if Catan goes DS I'll buy one !!

Excellent! Loved this on 360, will be double dipping.