CCGs aka Card Collecting Games

0wing

0wing

Все умрут, а я волномут
Real and virtual. As of mini game inside of like Triple Triad in FF8 or Caravan (my favorite alongside with Gwent) in Fallout: New Vegas or standalone releases like Hearthstone. What's your drug?

I never really cared for the real ones for obvious money consuming reasons but now playing casually Hearthstone without any decision of investing a single penny (Arena FTW) and aiming for stand-alone Gwent release. It's quite good actually, lot more freedom and tactics involved than original already slick mini game.

TES Legends seems like a waste of time. Maybe as a mini game for Skyrim remaster it could work flawlessly but now it's more of gloomy Hearthstone than an original product.
 
In real life, I used to be a Yu-Gi-Oh! player for a long time. It was a money sink, but good fun. Then game turned to shit, so I stopped.
I also played Magic the Gathering a bit IRL, but lack of the local scene basically killed that. I occasionally play Magic Duels online, which is okay. Haven't payed a shit there, tho.
 
I played IRL Magic the Gathering since 1995, been in official and not official tournaments also helped organizing official and not official tournaments. I don't really play since I'm broke for years now due to not be able to work and it became so expensive (also it is not as fun, now most cards and strategies are super powerful for some reason).
My first starter was an Ice Age one, which looked like this:
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I also played the hell out of the Microprose's Magic the Gathering Shandalar and manalink extension computer game back in the day.
I started playing Pokemon TCC because I was kinda like a MtG guru in my school in 1998/9 and a friend asked me to "start playing" pokemon so it would attract others to start playing (amazingly that worked and a lot of people start playing the Pokemon card game), but I only played maybe 5 games in Pokemon, I didn't like it much since it was very simple back in the day.
I also played the Pokemon TCC gameboy game, it was one of the best TCC's I ever played in a handheld console back in the day (although I bet there are way better ones these days).

Also played Middle Earth TCC although each game of that could last for a long time. I still have my Deck around even though i haven't played it for maybe 18 years now.
The deck box looks like:
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I also started playing Legend of Five Rings, but never really played many games at all.
This is what the back of the cards looked like:
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Never really played Yu-Gi-Oh IRL, only on consoles (mostly gameboy advance ones).

I spent so much time playing the Final Fantasy VIII card game :postviper:...

I play on my tablet Wagic! The Homebrew. Which is a Magic clone and we can actually get the real card images and play magic in it :smug:.
I tried Heartstone but it runs too slow on my tablet and I don't have a good computer at the moment, so I can't really talk about it. :-(

I played more computer card games but I can't remember them at the moment. >_>
 
I used to play a lot of Magic The Gathering many years ago. Mostly casual but joined a few pre-release tournaments which were always fun. I mostly enjoyed the limited style play. Didn't want to sink too much money into it, so my own decks were never that great. I also didn't see the point of simply paying for the best cards and getting that uber deck. It was way more fun throwing something fun and half-assed together with what I had. I stopped when I felt it was too much of a waste of money and never looked back. Gave away all my cards to a friend a couple of years later since they were only taking up space and I didn't want to feel the urge to get back into it.

As for computer CG's, I played some Solforge for a while which was pretty fun. I also tried out Hearthstone a while ago. I'm looking forward to Gwent as I enjoyed it in TW3. But in general, I lose interest in card games rather quickly. Starts feeling very samey after a while and as soon as I feel the urge to spend cash to improve my decks I'm out. What made Magic fun was the actual human interaction. We used to gather at my place, listen to music, smoke cigarettes and eat junk while playing. Can't really have that with something like Hearthstone.
 
0wing said:
Is Gameboy Advance recreation any good and faithful? Looks interesting.
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Well I never played Yu-gi-oh in RL so I don't know how faithful the GBA games are. But I did have fun playing some of them. Even though I owned the games, I had to get an emulator and play them on it. Because I get bored fast and the games were a bit slow (getting the cards, playing the cards, cards "battling", etc) but in the emulator I could assign a button to just increase the speed of the game several times and made it much more fun and tolerable for me.

Also I played the games that were based on the Yu-gi-oh original series and the ones based from a different series about some academy of duelists or something. I never played the games based on a third series that involved motorbike racing or something weird like that (I never watched any series besides the original one).
 
I don't have much to say on this subject. However, I do remember thoroughly enjoying collecting the cards in super paper Mario. Does that count?

@0wing sacred cards was pretty good.
 
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