Anyone else pick up Culdcept Saga?

[twesterm]

Gnizmo said:

twesterm said:

Gnizmo said:
I am picking it up soonish. I loved the last one and have been anxiously awaiting this ones release. This is one of the few games that has me tempted to pick up a 360. I just hope the computer doesn't cheat as badly as it did the last time.

It's funny you mention that because I always had at least one land that was like my boardwalk that was worth a shit load of money and the computer *never* landed on it. They always land either one before it or one after it. It's also funny how the computer seems to roll the perfect number to get the one empty land on the board but that one could be just me being crazy. It also manages to draw the damn slings (+10STR, +10HP, First Strike) whenver it needs them too which always pisses me off.

I read a review this morning for it and they actually mentioned the same thing how it always seems like the cheats or gets the exact roll it needs to.

It was also a little scary to read the review and see that an hour is actually a short match and games can last a good four to five hours which sounds painful. That seems fine for single player since you can just suspend the match at any time and return but unfortunately it looks like you can't do that for multiplayer.

 

You can have really short games or really long one depending with multiplayer. So long as you keep the resource number relatively low and a semi-small map a game might not take more than a half-hour to an hour. If it is anything like the last game you can also play 4 player so you can use it with a few people over supposing they know how to play. It also helps a ton that you will have people land on your super expensive territories rather than just bounce from fort to fort while skipping over anything that might actually cost them some money.

Funny story about how my friend got fed up with the blatant cheating on the PS2 version that seems to still be around. At one point there was a map where you can go any number of different directions and never had to pass the castle and could thus prolong the match to your hearts content. So after he had secured his victory he set down two Kelpies (they force you to land on them) maxxed them out and waited until the computer went bankrupt. After that he made sure he kept a hand full of defensive cards and laughed as the computer was forced to go over them again and again getting restarted everytime it made a roll. He spent a good three hours laughing at the computer as it kept on getting slammed for max toll again and again and again. He has some revenge issues.

 That's both really funny and really sad.