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If you don't get this, you fail so so hard.

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Culdcept Saga is the latest entrant in the popular Magic-meets-Monopoly game franchise that had previous installments on the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Sega Saturn and Dreamcast. Developed exclusively for the Xbox 360, this title is the first in the series to incorporate the advanced online matchmaking features of Xbox Live.

oooookay

This thread is mainly for Yegolev and Riggswolf.

And me.

Supposedly a demo is (has) arriving(ed) on XBL.

Oh god you all are going to be so blindsided by this shit. I almost feel bad for you. ALMOST. Since you should've known about it years ago.

Ok, tried the demo, here are my thoughts:

I hope there is more to the full game. The game board had what? 16 squares with 2 uniques on it? The fighting was kind of meh. Little swing animation and the card gets cut in half.

I don't know. I wasn't that blown away by it, but I'll still consider picking it up in case that demo was a shitty preview of the full game. I just may wait for reviews now.

I was also highly confused by what alot of the stuff meant. "You increased your red in the center." Uh...ok. I know that's good but why? I guess I need to have played previous versions.

That just kinda sounds like a bad translation.  Can't really think of what that would mean.  I picked up the gameplay pretty quickly though after playing the demo about 3 or 4 times.

lol that makes no sense

unless you're just being cheap.

After playing the demo, I can honestly say I was thoroughly disappointed. I'm not saying the game is bad at all. Maybe I don't get it (though I usually like this kind of game).

I guess I'll just have to sign a copy out of Gamestop when it releases. Maybe the demo is just a piece of trash.

My hate for disc swapping knows no bounds. 

No, I just fucking hate swapping discs.

It's annoying.  I tend to play games that are fully loaded about 10x more than I play games that require a disc.

I don't see why this requires a disc anyways.  Make it 1 GB and drop it on my HDD and I'll play that mother fucker through the teeth.  Make me put a disc in and I'm liable to not play more than the 5-6 hour binge after ripping it out of the plastic.

Also, is it disk or disc? 

Can you trade?

1. Can we trade cards online?

There is no card trading online for the game. We thought this may offer an unfair advantage to those who could exploit such a feature in their favor. Instead, we made the process of unlocking cards fairly easy and themed against the map you are playing in. For example, your odds of getting Earth element cards are higher in a map themed for Earth elements.

2. Is it possible to wager cards, as in place a bet on the win? Winner gets card?

Yes. There is a betting feature within the game for those who would opt to increase the stakes of the game by wagering cards. Instead of selecting and negotiating which cards are to be wagered, the player who hosts the match determines how many cards will be won or lost. After the game is completed, the computer randomly selects the cards available within the loser’s collection and takes them from inventory and adds them into the winner’s inventory. This feature is enabled offline in Versus mode only. We did not enable this feature online. It was a tough call on that, but we felt this feature could have been also unfairly exploited to help others gain hard to find cards faster than others.

3. Can you choose to forfeit a match online thus honorably admitting defeat?

A point of concern was that some people may be inclined to quit the game even though it may be early within the game. If we made an option to let people out of the game this way, we projected that it could become a big problem within the game’s online community. As a compromise, we made it so that you can opt out through hardware features. Once out, an AI character replaces the player who quit to continue the match until the end. Granted, this may not be the universal answer to this dilemma that all online games encounter, we believe it is a good compromise between fairness and the spirit of competition.

4. What happens when someone disconnects from the game if you are winning?

As I alluded to in the previous question, an AI-controlled character will come in to replace the person who disconnects, thereby ensuring that the game will go on. At the end of the game, those who remained will be rewarded for staying in the form of cards.

5. Will there be down-loadable cards?

We are currently not planning for downloadable cards. Our concern was to ensure that we attain a balance within the game. Making downloadable cards would create a level of unfair balance as some prefer not to pay for additional content whereas some others would opt to “juice” their Books. It was a toss-up between which path to follow, and we have ultimately decided to go for the balance factor.

6. Is there online ranking?

Yes, there is online ranking within the game! There are 4 different criteria on the style of the online match: Standard Match, Standard Blind Match, Alliance Match, and Alliance Blind Match. There is a Leaderboard for each, so feel free to try the different match styles!

7. Is it possible to win cards in an online game?

Yes! Regardless of the match type, ALL players who continue playing until online games end are rewarded with cards. The only difference is that the winner gains more cards versus the loser, but still, everyone is in for some treats once the match is done. We hope everyone will find this to be a reason for playing until the end of a set match.

8. Will the US version have all the cards that are currently in the Japanese version?

Almost. All the cards in the Japanese version will be available and none will be kept away. The only difference is a special card that was only available through a special pre-order offer that was made in Japan. Since this was a Japan-only offer, that particular card was not included in the U.S. version of the game.

Yea, the first encounter was way harder than the DC or PS2 games.

I tried very hard to like this game. I made it to the third element map, but too many things about this game just annoyed the shit out of me. There is no way to speed up the game at all. You have to watch everyone elses turn at the same speed as your own turn. Including stupid AI comments every time they do anything. You cannot turn off all sounds. You can't acquire cards in any way other than 1 to 2 hour long matches against the AI and then you seem to just get some random cards.

I haven't tried multiplayer and maybe that is the appeal to the game but the single player of this game gets old really damn quick.