GrenadeZellweger t1_iy9fdfy wrote on November 29, 2022 at 7:08 PM

Man, I miss the good old YuGiOh days.

yognautilus t1_iyar0et wrote on November 30, 2022 at 12:27 AM

I stopped playing Yugioh around the time Synchro Summoning was introduced but I picked it back up and played Master Duel for about a month when it came out on Playstation. I played mainly offline for about 2 weeks building up my deck. I finally decided to start playing online. This one guy I dueled took 5 minutes, no exaggeration, for just his main phase, cycling monsters in and out via a mix of all the fancy new summoning methods. He OTK'd me in his first turn. I thought it was a fluke. A couple online duels later and the same shit happened. And then it happened again. I decided I was done with modern Yugioh at that point.

bt123456789 t1_iyb49ox wrote on November 30, 2022 at 2:08 AM

yeah I stopped playing around synchros too. I built a good stardust dragon deck, but that was the last one I made. I also played master duel and won my first game but never picked it back up. Hearing that there are strategies that can OTK you after a 5 minute main phase is ridiculous.

now I know why it fell out of popularity compared to pokemon and Magic.

Wamb0wneD t1_iyc8ixo wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:01 AM

I only ever dabbled in yugioh but was really into the anime. Weirdly enough also yugioh gx. Cyberdragons were my jam. Gwnerally I'm more of a magic guy though.

So a friend of mine tells me he has some decks with relatively old cards and if we want to play. It's decent fun and I'm looking up if cyberdragons cost all the much to build. I see this prepared deck that came out fairly recently for cheap, get it 3 times, and meet my friend again.

Boy was it a slaughter and we both had no fun. I then proceeded to gift him dinosaur cafds for his decks and it became relatively even. But it's still stupid because games last 2 rounds max.

Alphal66 t1_iychld6 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:14 AM

Yeah even though i play omni heros and more or less also need half a century for my set up, i also don't like the state of the game. Everytime i meet an old school player online i don't even go full force so he doesn't entirely lose hope in ygo. I summon like two hero bosses and end my turn.

ADeadlyFerret t1_iyd45rq wrote on November 30, 2022 at 2:49 PM

I quit in 2009 then picked back up in 2014 for about 6 months. The magic was gone. Every person just had some professional net deck. Even the 7 year old fuckers. It wasn't casual any more. There were 3 main archetypes. Every one had the same deck list with the exception of a couple cards switched out. If you played anything else you would lose in a turn or two. Even then you would still lose cause these decks would just go off turn 1. Realized that I was playing solitaire basically. You wouldn't even care what your opponent was doing really. You just had to hope that they didn't have everything they needed to pop off. Or if they did you had a hand effect that could stop their chain.

Then the trading. Nobody would trade unless your cards matched 100% in value. I understand if one card is $100 and someone is trying to trade a $20 card for it. But guys wouldn't trade over 30¢.someone wanted a $50 card from and all he had was a $47 card I wanted. He would not let me trade until I found $3 card. I will say though that Yugioh was very generous with reprints and staples. It's jarring seeing the Yugioh side compared to Magic.