XBLA - Ticket to Ride - 800pts - Europe DLC out 8/01

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UPDATE 8/01

Europe DLC is up. 600 Points, but adds what is in real life an entirely separate game. Along with a new map come new gameplay elements, as well.

Expansion adds two achievements:

European Track Star (15 points)
Complete each of the 6 European Destination Tickets worth 20 or more points.

Au Naturel (15 points)
Win a Ticket to Ride Europe™ match without playing any Stations.

Also listed with the above (at Softpedia) is
The Ticket Master (20 points)
Keep all 5 Destination Tickets at the beginning of a 1910 Mega Game and win.

So the 1910 pack can't be far behind - WOOHOO! :)

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All aboard! Travel from coast to coast and visit all the stops on the exciting train adventure Ticket to Ride™. Plan your routes and connect your cities across the country to become the ultimate traveler. Earn points as you claim your tracks and complete your tickets for your chance at the big score. From sea to sea, crisscross the nation as you build the longest route and take home the prize. It's hours of fun for your family and friends. Who will come out on top when the steam clears? Get your Ticket to Ride and see!​


  • Variable difficulty levels: Either locally or in Xbox LIVE® matches, choose Easy, Medium, or Hard A.I. opponents to challenge your gaming skills.
  • Multiplayer: Play with up to three of your friends on a single console, or take on Ranked or Player matches over Xbox LIVE with up to five players.
  • Leaderboards and achievements: Post your Xbox LIVE match results to the leaderboards. Follow game stats for each player such as Highest Score, Total Trains Played and their Time Spent Playing. And track your progress with twelve new achievements.
  • Camera support: See yourself and your friends during gameplay with Xbox LIVE Vision Camera support.
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I searched and no thread on this came up, so I thought I'd make one.​


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Just after the last ratings update - the USK was updated again. Two games sowed up - the recently announced RooGoo, but one more which will certainly make some people very happy - Ticket To Ride!​



Ticket to Ride is a very popular German-styled Board Game created by Alan R. Moon and published by Days of Wonder, where you must create train routes throughout the map and gain points by doing longer routes, and making your destination.​

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They have a pic of the actual board game and a link to a video of how it's played.​



I'm excited to see more and more of these games come to XBLA. These are just the kind of things I'd like to play "IRL", but know no one geeky enough to play with me... buncha losers!​


I haven't been able to find any info on when this might come out :/ I hope we get a lot more announcements like this soon, though.​


 
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Ticket to Ride is kind of like Catan: All Road-Building Edition. I have the board game itself that a friend gave to me.

Basically there's routes of X number units long. You draw cards to gain units in different colors, and can use them to make routes. So if there's a 5 unit long route in blue, you need 5 blue cards. If you complete it, you get a number of points depending on the length of the route (I think 5 units = 10 points).

The catch is that on your turn, you can only do one action. So you can only draw cards or claim a route - you can't do both. This creates a lot of tension in the game because someone might block a route you need. See, the other part of the game is that you have destinations between cities you must fulfill, or you lose points at the end of the game. I.e., you need to create a continuous route from New York to Denver, and if you fail to do this before the game is over, you lose points.

It's pretty quick paced - faster than Catan, slower than Carcassonne. Overall it's pretty simple but can be a lot of fun.

I'll probably pick it up if anyone else does.
 
I'm so glad boardgames are finally becoming more mainstream. I wonder if XBLA will ever get any heavier stuff like Puerto Rico or Wallenstein. That would be gravy.
 
[quote name='Strell']Ticket to Ride is kind of like Catan: All Road-Building Edition. I have the board game itself that a friend gave to me.

Basically there's routes of X number units long. You draw cards to gain units in different colors, and can use them to make routes. So if there's a 5 unit long route in blue, you need 5 blue cards. If you complete it, you get a number of points depending on the length of the route (I think 5 units = 10 points).

The catch is that on your turn, you can only do one action. So you can only draw cards or claim a route - you can't do both. This creates a lot of tension in the game because someone might block a route you need. See, the other part of the game is that you have destinations between cities you must fulfill, or you lose points at the end of the game. I.e., you need to create a continuous route from New York to Denver, and if you fail to do this before the game is over, you lose points.

It's pretty quick paced - faster than Catan, slower than Carcassonne. Overall it's pretty simple but can be a lot of fun.

I'll probably pick it up if anyone else does.[/quote]

Thanks, Strell. I think that was more informative that their video was.

This sounds similar to a game I had when I was a kid, but I can't remember the name of it. At any rate, it sounds fun. I'll definitely be picking this up whenever it arrives.
 
They've got a "Ticket to Ri-hi-hide"...and I don't care!

(For the hypersensitive, that's probably trolling these days. For you relatively normal folk that can take crap in stride, a lame Beatles joke. Let's see how the Moderatti reacts!)
 
[quote name='fart_bubble']never heard of it but thats my type of game so I'll more than likely pick this one up[/quote]


Agreed and seconded.
 
Damn it. As an avid euro-style board gamer, I really don't like Ticket to Ride. For that type of game, Thurn and Taxis is better.

Oh well, I'm happy more board games are coming. I just wish we'd get Puerto Rico, Race for the Galaxy, Yshapen, or Caylus.
 
Thurn and Taxis is usually drier than toast for newcomers though (not that Puerto Rico isn't). I think Ticket to Ride would be the better 'gateway game' if ever there was one. Maybe some Zooloretto? Samurai? Space Dealer? Any of the mask trilogy games? I have no idea...

This sounds similar to a game I had when I was a kid, but I can't remember the name of it. At any rate, it sounds fun. I'll definitely be picking this up whenever it arrives.
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It's oddly similar to Rummy in some ways. Eh, maybe that's it? Ok, probably not.
 
This looks like a definite buy for me.

Now, if they'd just come out with Empire Builder for Live, I'd be a very happy camper.
 
[quote name='insertcleverthing']Thurn and Taxis is usually drier than toast for newcomers though (not that Puerto Rico isn't). I think Ticket to Ride would be the better 'gateway game' if ever there was one. Maybe some Zooloretto? Samurai? Space Dealer? Any of the mask trilogy games? I have no idea...
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I never played space dealer or Zooloretto. I guess you are right though, Ticket is definitely a gateway game...... but then again, so is Catan.
 
Since we're on the topic of board games in general - would anyone care to recommend a good board game site in the US to buy the actual physical games?

The cheaper the better, of course ;)

I'd like to see if I could find a game like this that I might be able to get my husband to play...
 
[quote name='PleasantOne']Since we're on the topic of board games in general - would anyone care to recommend a good board game site in the US to buy the actual physical games?

The cheaper the better, of course ;)

I'd like to see if I could find a game like this that I might be able to get my husband to play...[/QUOTE]

Here are a few that I have used and liked:

http://www.thoughthammer.com/ Nice selection with great prices (but not as good as they used to be), great customer service. They use Fedex shipping with a flat fee of $8 and free shipping if you spend $125, shipping is super fast.

http://www.boardsandbits.com/ Just as good as above (CS, selection and super fast shipping) with slightly lower prices on some items, shipping flat rate of around $8 and half price shipping over $100.

http://www.superherogameland.com/ Cheapest place with free shipping over $99 but no flat rate prices (cheaper shipping on 1-2 small games, not having the flat rate is good and bad.) Good selection but not as good as thoughthammer and boardsandbits selection and a poor designed site.

I have used a few other stores but the above three are the stores that impressed me or found the best deals.

Also check out http://www.boardgameprices.com/ if you have a game or two in mind and you want to find the best prices (thoughthammer isn't in their data base.)

I hope that info helps.

A copy of Ticket to Ride and Lost Cities are a good place to start for couple gaming.
 
[quote name='PleasantOne']Since we're on the topic of board games in general - would anyone care to recommend a good board game site in the US to buy the actual physical games?

The cheaper the better, of course ;)

I'd like to see if I could find a game like this that I might be able to get my husband to play...[/QUOTE]

The best place to start when getting into boardgaming is www.boardgamegeek.com. They don't sell, but they have links to forums with discussions on where to buy. Here is a link that takes you to their top games of all time. You can pretty much enter in any game and see where it's ranked, which is pretty much how I decide what I'll purchase. Any of the games in the top 200 are going to be great games. The top 30 are going to be fantastic.

I also like to buy at www.boardgamerevolution.com. Great people.
 
I really hope we start getting some of the crazier board games as well.

We're already getting Munchkin, which will be a Day 1 purchase. (Even though that's more of a card game.)

I would be down for some Arkham Horror, that game rocks. Warhammer Quest would be fuck awesome, and would translate well to digital format. And I cant wait for Talisman.
 
[quote name='Logain8955']I really hope we start getting some of the crazier board games as well.

We're already getting Munchkin, which will be a Day 1 purchase. (Even though that's more of a card game.)

I would be down for some Arkham Horror, that game rocks. Warhammer Quest would be fuck awesome, and would translate well to digital format. And I cant wait for Talisman.[/QUOTE]

I stopped playing Munchkin when I realized there were so many instant-win cards.

You should check out Race for the Galaxy, if you can find a copy. Best card game I've ever played.
 
It got a pretty good review on OXM, but the score was 7.0, lower than I thought it would be. They said the game was fun and exciting, but that there's only one board unless you buy expansion packs. Don't know about local multiplayer -- will have to recheck the review.
 
[quote name='MisterHand']Considering the game involves hidden cards, I don't think that's possible.

Edit: maybe I'm wrong. This article says up to four people can play together on the same console: http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2008/05/12/559073.aspx[/QUOTE]
That has to be wrong, the game would be no fun at all if you could see what other peoples tickets are.


Suraph get the board game, nothing can substitute looking your friends and family face to face and physically hold the cards and put the pieces on the board. It may seem expensive but trust me it will get played.
 
I'm actually pretty excited about this.. i love them bringing these expensive board games (ticket to ride is 60 dollars.. thats a pretty expensive board game)..also considering its hard to gather enough players to play the game in real life.. i can't wait to do this on live.
 
[quote name='urzishra14']I'm actually pretty excited about this.. i love them bringing these expensive board games (ticket to ride is 60 dollars.. thats a pretty expensive board game)..also considering its hard to gather enough players to play the game in real life.. i can't wait to do this on live.[/QUOTE]

$60?!

My local gamestore has it for $31. I've never seen it anywhere for more than $40.

This game is insanely popular, but very light. I suggest anyone that likes this game to try out Thurn and Taxis or railroad tycoon. Both similar games but better.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']$60?!

My local gamestore has it for $31. I've never seen it anywhere for more than $40.

This game is insanely popular, but very light. I suggest anyone that likes this game to try out Thurn and Taxis or railroad tycoon. Both similar games but better.[/QUOTE]

i figured it was like Catan.. where the base game is like 40.. then you need like 2 expansions at 15 each>?...

but even that.. for a game that is hard to get people to play around me.. paying 10 bucks or 40 bucks?
 
[quote name='spoo']That has to be wrong, the game would be no fun at all if you could see what other peoples tickets are.


Suraph get the board game, nothing can substitute looking your friends and family face to face and physically hold the cards and put the pieces on the board. It may seem expensive but trust me it will get played.[/quote]

If the demo is fun, I'll likely do that :D
 
Last night I tried the online web version (which anybody can play for free at the link provided by spoo above). Very solid game. It's enjoyable, and will make a good addition to XBLA. I'll be picking this one up for sure.
 
[quote name='KiLL3r']Ticket to ride will have 250 Gamer Points, the "secret achievement" will most likely be a downloadable content achievement since the limit for arcade games is 200GP.[/QUOTE]Some of the known achievements already appear to refer to the European and 1910 expansions.
 
I got it right after I finished my first game. It's pretty awesome. Are either Europe or 1910 going to be free?
 
[quote name='SpazX']I got it right after I finished my first game. It's pretty awesome. Are either Europe or 1910 going to be free?[/QUOTE]

i doubt it. free would be great, but i can't think of very much content that has been introduced on live as free. as long as they aren't more than 5 dollars, i'll probably still buy them.

...unless they push it back indefinitely like they've done to n+, then i might lose my interest.
 
I liked the demo, but I had a hard time distinguishing the colors of the rail lines on the map. Since I've still got plenty of Target points, I'll probably pick this up.
 
Yeah I played the demo at my friend's place and it was really awesome.

I would buy it if my 360 wasn't broken and on its way to Microsoft.
 
Yeah this game is totally addicted, It's easier then I was expecting to be. The only thing that bothers me is that it doesn't have music, well it does but it doesnt play throughout the game. It only comes up when someone gets down to 31 trains left and sometimes near the end of the game.

Also Where the hell does it say How many turns are left? I got screwed over this once. I thought I had enough time to get another route going but after I selected the ticket it says Final Turn. In the end that route cost me -20 points and the game.
 
According to the rules, the game brings up "Final Turn" at any point that one player has 2 or fewer train cards. Worked for me in the demo; looks like you can strategically end the game whenever you want.
 
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