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Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) posted a photo:
This is right when he reached 99,999. It didn't actually go to 100,000. One of the opponents managed to kill off one of his level 5 lands, but he still had 99,999. He had two Old Willow trees so each opponent was forced to pay him a toll. Twice, if the first didn't deplete them utterly, sending them back to "Go". There's 4 level 5 lands on this screen, which represents about 30% of this map. You don't even see one level 5 land in some games. This was insane.
Clint.
high score, screenshot.
Culdcept.
2252. 99999. pwned.
downstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 12, 2008.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Culdcept is a PS2 card-collecting strategy game that plays almost exactly like Magic:The Gathering mixed with Monopoly. Two tedious games that become a lot more interesting when combined. (It still takes 1+ hour to play with 3+ people.)
Clint decided to play a 1-player game to try to get some more medals. In 500+ hours of multi-player play, he had only 7 medals. Most are single-player-only. Clint got off to a rocky start, but then made a comeback and basically slaughtered his opponents. He quickly had the goal. But rather than go to the castle (the equivalent Monopoly's "Go") and win (by virtue of having the 9,000 goal), Clint realized he could subsist entirely on toll fees. Hehad a level 5 Old Willow, which is basically Boardwalk with a Hotel on it (you level up territories in this game, rather than put hotels on them). What separates Boardwalk in Monopoly is that it has a higher toll than other Hotel properties. What separates Old Willow in Culdcept is not the toll -- it's the same -- but the card's special power: Confinement. This means you ALWAYS stop on the space, even if you roll past it. And Clint stocked up on defensive items for battle, to ensure that people pay rent (unlike Monopoly, you can battle to try to take the land). So basically, Clint was guaranteed 2,225 payment everytime any of the other 3 characters walked through the tree; they didn't even have to land on it.
Once Clint realized he could just grind infinitely, he decided to try to get the medal of having all four elements with level 5 lands. (It didn't work, must have missed something or the FAQ was wrong about the 2nd way to get that medal.) Once he thought acheived that goal, he realzed he could reach another goal - get magic over 90,000 (10 times the goal). So he decided to go for 100,000 just for good measure. Turns out the game maxes out at 99,999.
Clint didn't the medal he wanted, but he got 5 medals. One for collecting 20 tolls in a single game (he collected 75), one for having over 20 successful defenses in a single game, possibly one for having attacked over 20 times, the 90,000 score medal, and at least one more.
Clint now has 13 out of 50 medals. Getting the rest may take years. We played 3 or 4 days without the use of spells to develop a good no-spell deck -- simply because winning without using spells is 1 of the remaining 37 medals. Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) posted a photo:
WTF!!! The one time we actually care about saving a replay, the game fucks us!?!?!?!
There's simply no reason! There's room on our memory card! And our PS2's harddrive has a utility on it that let's us offload as many savegames as we want directly to a USB thumbdrive inserted into the PS2. This is sooo uncalled for!
Good thing we took pictures. :)
(Carolyn tried to talk Clint out of the pictures.)
Clint.
replay, screenshot.
Culdcept.
FAIL.
downstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 12, 2008.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Culdcept is a PS2 card-collecting strategy game that plays almost exactly like Magic:The Gathering mixed with Monopoly. Two tedious games that become a lot more interesting when combined. (It still takes 1+ hour to play with 3+ people.)
Clint decided to play a 1-player game to try to get some more medals. In 500+ hours of multi-player play, he had only 7 medals. Most are single-player-only. Clint got off to a rocky start, but then made a comeback and basically slaughtered his opponents. He quickly had the goal. But rather than go to the castle (the equivalent Monopoly's "Go") and win (by virtue of having the 9,000 goal), Clint realized he could subsist entirely on toll fees. He had a level 5 Old Willow, which is basically Boardwalk with a Hotel on it (you level up territories in this game, rather than put hotels on them). What separates Boardwalk in Monopoly is that it has a higher toll than other Hotel properties. What separates Old Willow in Culdcept is not the toll -- it's the same -- but the card's special power: Confinement. This means you ALWAYS stop on the space, even if you roll past it. And Clint stocked up on defensive items for battle, to ensure that people pay rent (unlike Monopoly, you can battle to try to take the land). So basically, Clint was guaranteed 2,225 payment everytime any of the other 3 characters walked through the tree; they didn't even have to land on it.
Once Clint realized he could just grind infinitely, he decided to try to get the medal of having all four elements with level 5 lands. (It didn't work, must have missed something or the FAQ was wrong about the 2nd way to get that medal.) Once he thought acheived that goal, he realzed he could reach another goal - get magic over 90,000 (10 times the goal). So he decided to go for 100,000 just for good measure. Turns out the game maxes out at 99,999.
Clint didn't the medal he wanted, but he got 5 medals. One for collecting 20 tolls in a single game (he collected 75), one for having over 20 successful defenses in a single game, possibly one for having attacked over 20 times, the 90,000 score medal, and at least one more.
Clint now has 13 out of 50 medals. Getting the rest may take years. We played 3 or 4 days without the use of spells to develop a good no-spell deck -- simply because winning without using spells is 1 of the remaining 37 medals. Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) posted a photo:
I thought it would be funny to take a picture of their "blank" dialog, and insert my own. Especially with the expression he makes when saying "... ... ...".
Clint, Leo.
caption, screenshot.
Culdcept.
funny game.
downstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 12, 2008.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Culdcept is a PS2 card-collecting strategy game that plays almost exactly like Magic:The Gathering mixed with Monopoly. Two tedious games that become a lotmore interesting when combined. (It still takes 1+ hour to play with 3+ people.)
Clint decided to play a 1-player game to try to get some more medals. In 500+ hours of multi-player play, he had only 7 medals. Most are single-player-only. Clint got off to a rocky start, but then made a comeback and basically slaughtered his opponents. He quickly had the goal. But rather than go to the castle (the equivalent Monopoly's "Go") and win (by virtue of having the 9,000 goal), Clint realized he could subsist entirely on toll fees. He had a level 5 Old Willow, which is basically Boardwalk with a Hotel on it (you level up territories in this game, rather than put hotels on them). What separates Boardwalk in Monopoly is that it has a higher toll than other Hotel properties. What separates Old Willow in Culdcept is not the toll -- it's the same -- but the card's special power: Confinement. This means you ALWAYS stop on the space, even if you roll past it. And Clint stocked up on defensive items for battle, to ensure that people pay rent (unlike Monopoly, you can battle to try to take the land). So basically, Clint was guaranteed 2,225 payment everytime any of the other 3 characters walked through the tree; they didn't even have to land on it.
Once Clint realized he could just grind infinitely, he decided to try to get the medal of having all four elements with level 5 lands. (It didn't work, must have missed something or the FAQ was wrong about the 2nd way to get that medal.) Once he thought acheived that goal, he realzed he could reach another goal - get magic over 90,000 (10 times the goal). So he decided to go for 100,000 just for good measure. Turns out the game maxes out at 99,999.
Clint didn't the medal he wanted, but he got 5 medals. One for collecting 20 tolls in a single game (he collected 75), one for having over 20 successful defenses in a single game, possibly one for having attacked over 20 times, the 90,000 score medal, and at least one more.
Clint now has 13 out of 50 medals. Getting the rest may take years. We played 3 or 4 days without the use of spells to develop a good no-spell deck -- simply because winning without using spells is 1 of the remaining 37 medals. Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) posted a photo:
Culdcept has cheezy cut scenes. The whole game feels very PS1, but flashy graphics are really not needed for a game like this.
We're also not used to seeing these cut-scenes, as we usually play multi-player. Single-player is much easier if you play multi-player for a couple years first :) We have almost every one of the 500+ cards (I'm missing 4), whereas if you start 1-player right off, you only have 50 out of 500 cards, and must earn them 10 or so at a time, per-game, often receiving duplicates of ones you already have.
Clint, Leo.
screenshot.
Culdcept.
downstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 12, 2008.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Culdcept is a PS2 card-collecting strategy game that plays almost exactly like Magic:The Gathering mixed with Monopoly. Two tedious games that become a lot more interesting when combined. (It still takes 1+ hour to play with 3+ people.)
Clint decided to play a 1-player game to try to get some more medals. In 500+ hours of multi-player play, he had only 7 medals. Most are single-player-only. Clint got off to a rocky start, but then made a comeback and basically slaughtered his opponents. He quickly had the goal. But rather than go to the castle (the equivalent Monopoly's "Go") and win (by virtue of having the 9,000 goal), Clint realized he could subsist entirely on toll fees. He had a level 5 Old Willow, which is basically Boardwalk with a Hotel on it (you level up territories in this game, rather than put hotels on them). What separates Boardwalk in Monopoly is that it has a higher toll than other Hotel properties. What separates Old Willow in Culdcept is not the toll -- it's the same -- but the card's special power: Confinement. This means you ALWAYS stop on the space, even if you roll past it. And Clint stocked up on defensive items for battle, to ensure that people pay rent (unlike Monopoly, you can battle to try to take the land). So basically, Clint was guaranteed 2,225 payment everytime any of the other 3 characters walked through the tree; they didn't even have to land on it.
Once Clint realized he could just grind infinitely, he decided to try to get the medal of having all four elements with level 5 lands. (It didn't work, must have missed something or the FAQ was wrong about the 2nd way to get that medal.) Once he thought acheived that goal, he realzed he could reach another goal - get magic over 90,000 (10 times the goal). So he decided to go for 100,000 just for good measure. Turns out the game maxes out at 99,999.
Clint didn't the medal he wanted, but he got 5 medals. One for collecting 20 tolls in a single game (he collected 75), one for having over 20 successful defenses in a single game, possibly one for having attacked over 20 times, the 90,000 score medal, and at least one more.
Clint now has 13 out of 50 medals. Getting the rest may take years. We played 3 or 4 days without the use of spells to develop a good no-spell deck -- simply because winning without using spells is 1 of the remaining 37 medals. Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) posted a photo:
It's a slaughter after all.
Yup, slaughter. The opponents are barely even on the score graph! The goal line is waaaay at the bottom.
We usually play 45 rounds with 2 players in 40-50 minutes, rather than 122 rounds with 4 players (3 computers + Clint) for 2.5 hours. The goal line is usually near the top of the graph, because the game is usually over when you reach the goal. In this case, Clint reached 11 times the goal -- the max.
Clint.
high score, score graph, screenshot.
Culdcept.
99999. diptych. pwned.
downstairs, Clint and Carolyn'shouse, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 12, 2008.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Culdcept is a PS2 card-collecting strategy game that plays almost exactly like Magic:The Gathering mixed with Monopoly. Two tedious games that become a lot more interesting when combined. (It still takes 1+ hour to play with 3+ people.)
Clint decided to play a 1-player game to try to get some more medals. In 500+ hours of multi-player play, he had only 7 medals. Most are single-player-only. Clint got off to a rocky start, but then made a comeback and basically slaughtered his opponents. He quickly had the goal. But rather than go to the castle (the equivalent Monopoly's "Go") and win (by virtue of having the 9,000 goal), Clint realized he could subsist entirely on toll fees. He had a level 5 Old Willow, which is basically Boardwalk with a Hotel on it (you level up territories in this game, rather than put hotels on them). What separates Boardwalk in Monopoly is that it has a higher toll than other Hotel properties. What separates Old Willow in Culdcept is not the toll -- it's the same -- but the card's special power: Confinement. This means you ALWAYS stop on the space, even if you roll past it. And Clint stocked up on defensive items for battle, to ensure that people pay rent (unlike Monopoly, you can battle to try to take the land). So basically, Clint was guaranteed 2,225 payment everytime any of the other 3 characters walked through the tree; they didn't even have to land on it.
Once Clint realized he could just grind infinitely, he decided to try to get the medal of having all four elements with level 5 lands. (It didn't work, must have missed something or the FAQ was wrong about the 2nd way to get that medal.) Once he thought acheived that goal, he realzed he could reach another goal - get magic over 90,000 (10 times the goal). So he decided to go for 100,000 just for good measure. Turns out the game maxes out at 99,999.
Clint didn't the medal he wanted, but he got 5 medals. One for collecting 20 tolls in a single game (he collected 75), one for having over 20 successful defenses in a single game, possibly one for having attacked over 20 times, the 90,000 score medal, and at least one more.
Clint now has 13 out of 50 medals. Getting the rest may take years. We played 3 or 4 days without the use of spells to develop a good no-spell deck -- simply because winning without using spells is 1 of the remaining 37 medals. Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) posted a photo:
Having one level 5 land is impressive. Having 4 is amazing. Having 17 is utterly insane.
7 level 5 lands -- including Old Willow #1 -- on the left side.
6 level 5 lands -- including Old Willow #2 -- on the right side (middle pic).
Even the hellish warp area (right) had 4 level 5 lands.
Clint.
screenshot.
Culdcept.
pwned. triptych.
downstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 12, 2008.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Culdcept is a PS2 card-collecting strategy game that plays almost exactly like Magic:The Gathering mixed with Monopoly. Two tedious games that become a lot more interesting when combined. (It still takes 1+ hour to play with 3+ people.)
Clint decided to play a 1-player game to try to get some more medals. In 500+ hours of multi-player play, he had only 7 medals. Most are single-player-only. Clint got off to a rocky start, but then made a comeback and basically slaughtered his opponents. He quickly had the goal. But rather than go to the castle (the equivalent Monopoly's "Go") and win (by virtue of having the 9,000 goal), Clint realized he could subsist entirely on toll fees. He had a level 5 Old Willow, which is basically Boardwalk with a Hotel on it (you level up territories in this game, rather than put hotels on them). What separates Boardwalk in Monopoly is that it has a higher toll than other Hotel properties. What separates Old Willow in Culdcept is not the toll -- it's the same -- but the card's special power: Confinement. This means you ALWAYS stop on the space, even if you roll past it. And Clint stocked up on defensive items for battle, to ensure that people pay rent (unlike Monopoly, you can battle to try to take the land). So basically, Clint was guaranteed 2,225 payment everytime any of the other 3 characters walked through the tree; they didn't even have to land on it.
Once Clint realized he could just grind infinitely, he decided to try to get the medal of having all four elements with level 5 lands. (It didn't work, must have missed something or the FAQ was wrong about the 2nd way to get that medal.) Once he thought acheived that goal, he realzed he could reach another goal - get magic over 90,000 (10 times the goal). So he decided to go for 100,000 just for good measure. Turns out the game maxes out at 99,999.
Clint didn't the medal he wanted, but he got 5 medals. One for collecting 20 tolls in a single game (he collected 75), one for having over 20 successful defenses in a single game, possibly one for having attacked over 20 times, the 90,000 score medal, and at least one more.
Clint now has 13 out of 50 medals. Getting the rest may take years. We played 3 or 4 days without the use of spells to develop a good no-spell deck -- simply because winning without using spells is 1 of the remaining 37 medals. Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) posted a photo:
Culdcept is an amzing PlayStation 2 strategy game that combines elements of Magic The Gathering (a game I despise) with Monopoly (a game I love, but is tedious). It ends up being better than either. It's also quite unique in that it is a collectable card game .. but on a PS2. You have to play a LOT to get all the cards. I'm still missing around 10 and only have as many as I do due to trades. Here we see Chuck playing. I've also blogged about culdcept a few times. It's great. The sequel, Culdcept Saga, will be coming out on XBOX360 (unfortunately). Having a graph of everyone's scores at the end really adds to the experience as well. (Did someone actually learn something from Fantavision?)
Chuck.
Culdcept, playing video games.
2005.
... Read my blog at http://ClintJCL.wordpress.com. yoppy posted a photo:
I ♥ DC
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