I also do not like Catan. Tired of getting pigeon holed in resources and then having to convince another player to trade when I have no real bargaining power.

Catan just feels weird. The thing is - and I kinda validated that recently by watching highlevel competetive play of the catan base game, but: You only have like 2-4 meaningful decisions in a game. The rest is just follow through and dice.

And these things aren't that hard to see at a decent level. And when you make these decent decisions, you mostly just win. Even with the robber, there's limited counterplay to these good initial choices. This makes it hard to play casually as well once you know the good things.

Fuck that robber

Same with me and Catan. I generally do not like resource-hoarding "competitive" games anyway, and Catan did not help that.

You're right, Catan sucks. Tokyo is much more interesting with powered up

I had great hopes for King of Tokyo but realize it's one of those rated because of the production + reach the masses.

You should not expect more from KoT than a funny and visually appealing confrontation game. The more players you have the funnier it is.