Poll: I miss the old days of Yu-gi-oh

[Zahri]

I speak of the pre-XYZ and pre-synchro days.

Feels alot more as of late like it's all about spamming a full field of monsters in 1-2 turns and bringing out the aforementioned cards right off the bat. The extra deck is more your main deck than your bloody main deck. All those nifty and badass 6-12 star monsters that used to be in your main deck and the cards that worked well in combination with them are all inefficient compared to the new shiny cards D:

Yeeeah. I'm butthurt. Anyone else butthurt in regards to this topic like me?

 

[NinjaSniperAssassin]

I stopped playing back in early 2005, a couple months after the first movie came out, so I can't comment on the changes. I do know, however, that the reason I stopped playing is because my friends refused to play me anymore cuz I was able to play the Blue Eyes Shining Dragon card I got from the movie. It was game over as soon as he hit the field, which took at least 6-7 turns, and that was too much for my group. So if similar (or higher, I dunno what the new cards are like) power monsters are hitting the board on the first couple turns I can see how that would get tedious.

 

[thesilentman]

I'm not butthurt over this, but yeah I miss the old days when I could play my cards and not worry about the Synchro monsters.

 

[Voulan]

Oh, I thought you meant the anime show. In which case, I'd absolutely agree. Yugi and the Pharoah were awesome characters, and linking the games to the ancient Egyptians actually made it interesting. But then GX and 5Ds came along. GX wasn't so terrible, other than the whole premise of an academy being odd, and then we had pointless card games on motorcycles with flashy 3D animation to keep the kids interested. Why are they on motorcycles? Why can they stand on the ground?!

And now we have that horrible Zexal. My god.

Anyway, I know nothing about the actual Yugioh card game.

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

Its funny i havent played in __ years and i can still use my old school cards kick my friends ass along with his shiny new "cards"

 

[White Lightning]

Yeah, it's gotten really dumb. My friends want me to get back into it, then I watch them play and I'm like "Wtf is this shit? This isn't Yu-Gi-Oh. This is Gay Fuck Stupid 3: Cards edition."

 

[Reaper195]

I enjoyed the series when I was a kid...but that's about it. I grew out of most forms of anime, and the games that came with them.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I don't really know that much about Yu-Gi-Oh having only watched a tiny bit of the anime and only played the occasional one of the video games. However I will say that this is what usually happens when franchises like that run on too long, they start to get ridiculous. Same thing happened with Pokemon.

 

[uhddh]

I liked the old days when you had beat sticks and low power effect monsters. Now you have cards that hit for 4k and can take 5k punishment which have effects that field bomb your opponent. Yu gi oh used to be balanced. It got kinda shit after 5Ds. I could at least understand the point of having synchro monsters.

 

[Scipio1770]

Very true OP, the game seems to be trying to go after the pokemon (collect them all) market. I think extra credits talked about it a bit on their Power creep episode.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I think Synchro Summoning and the later Fusion Monster/Spell cards are what made the game more interesting and fast paced. I'm personally not too cray about a single monster card having tons of effects that allows it to work in may different ways written in tiny print. I'm also not too crazy about XZY Summoning; they are just not as game changing as Fusion or Synchro Summoning.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

Yeah, older yugioh does seem better, though maybe cause it seems a little contrived and muddied now.

Was actually a pretty fun game on those few times I got to play it (was never in on schoolyard crazes like that so i missed out on playing it 'properly', only had the odd game against friends on rare occasions).

I remember dancing for joy when I finally got to use a card whose effect was basically 'nuke everything', (removing all monsters in graveyard and deck from play if your opponent smacks you too hard). It didnt even matter that the corresponding 'summon all monsters from out of play to your side' card was not at hand, I still felt boss.

Oh and I had that 'increase your lifepoints every time a card goes out of play' card too, so I was godly . My friend was attacking me with 10,000 odd lifepoint damage every turn after having done it(since he had monsters on the field and i didn't), but i still survived for like 8 turns or something. XD

 

[KeyMaster45]

Ehh, it was fun to play back at the start; things were simpler and it took lots of thought to build a beastly deck. Then they started banning all the good cards left and right; and started replacing them with crappier versions. Just got to be too expensive to keep up with it all. Every time they'd update the ban list my deck would end up broken so I'd have to buy more packs to shore it up with cards that weren't banned. By about 2005 or 2006 I got sick of that bullshit and stopped playing.

 

[sanquin]

Same with one of the older card games: Magic the Gathering. It used to be awesome, now it's just spamming instant win combo's or incredibly low cost, yet high gain cards as fast as possible.

I tried to play Yu Gi Ho in the beginning. Didn't like it much but I could see the appeal to them back then. Now...it's just one big pile of 'meh'.

 

[shrekfan246]

Evidently I've been out of the loop for far longer than I thought, since I have absolutely no idea what either of those things are, OP. Back when I played it Blue-Eyes White Dragon was just about the strongest "normal" monster an average deck might contain. Guess I can't really say I miss it though, since I haven't even really thought about it in years...

 

[Andrewtheeviscerator]

So wait, you mean to tell me that Blue eyes white dragon is no longer the best card you can play! What the hell happened?

 

[The_Echo]

I used to be all over Yu-Gi-Oh!. What a great card game. I think that was the first thing to ever get me into a strategic mindset.

And then Yu-Gi-Oh! GX came around, and ever since then they've been throwing in new types of cards that are just dumb. They all feel like unnecessarily-complicated versions of pre-existing card types. I would still be playing it, but I've been out of the loop so long that even my super-special-awesome deck would probably be wrecked by the newer stuff. That, and the TCG scene in my area is, far as I know, completely nonexistent.

The art style has changed, too. It looks kind of lazy, more like stills from the anime than actual illustrations.

The extra deck

What the fuck is an extra deck?

Back in my day, we only had one deck. And, I guess, the fusion deck. But it really more of a pile.

 

[Lizardon]

Eh I don't know, there are still plenty of great non-XYZ, non-Synchro monsters being made. Not to mention all of the old cards and strategies are still fairly effective. I feel that XYZ and Synchro cards are reasonably balanced. Sychro monster need fairly specific monsters to be played, and while XYZ's are require more general circumstances, they can only use their abilities a limited number of times (2-3 usually).

The only real problem I have right now is the XYZ monster that you summon using another XYZ monster. The guy on the show does this a lot now. You get two monsters of the same level, xyz summon your XYZ monster, than immediately perform another xyz summon with it to bring out an even stronger card. It's basically adding an extra step to make it seem like it's a hard card to play, but in reality it's very easy.

Ehh, it was fun to play back at the start; things were simpler and it took lots of thought to build a beastly deck. Then they started banning all the good cards left and right; and started replacing them with crappier versions. Just got to be too expensive to keep up with it all. Every time they'd update the ban list my deck would end up broken so I'd have to buy more packs to shore it up with cards that weren't banned. By about 2005 or 2006 I got sick of that bullshit and stopped playing.

I was surprised to find when I got back into Yu-Gi-Oh after several years to find they had unbanned a lot of cards. Monster Reborn, Change of Heart, Dark Hole are now legal and the banned list is very short.

 

[Lizardon]

The art style has changed, too. It looks kind of lazy, more like stills from the anime than actual illustrations.

The extra deck

What the fuck is an extra deck?

Back in my day, we only had one deck. And, I guess, the fusion deck. But it really more of a pile.

The extra deck is the new name for the fusion deck, since now it can also contain Synchro monsters and XYZ monsters. I had been out of the loop for awhile and I had no idea what was going on when a guy I was playing started pulling out these silver cards from his "Fusion" deck.

Spoiler: Synchro Monster

Spoiler: XYZ Monster