Yu-Gi-Oh!
 

Didn’t know if there was a yugioh thread or not, but been kind of getting into it with Master Duel (which for a free to play game it gives you enough free credits for 1 1/2 decks) so I thought of wanting a Yu-gi-Oh thread.

Shame about it’s dub being one of the dubs that hurt the series (cutting the original 13 age demographic to 6.) we were getting those uncut dvds… but you know…

Yu-Gi-Oh and the way it's merch influenced the actual story itself is one of the most infamously bizarre things ever. The original concept, a kid having the power to magically raise the stakes of seemingly harmless games, is a fairly interesting one that makes sense to write a story around. What the franchise became, a trading card game having magic powers on it's own, is one I have never quite been able to wrap my head around. At least when it started to take steps in that direction in the original manga, it did so by stating that the card game was based on a game that used real magic and that only the characters with magic powers could use the cards as if they were real monsters, anyone else just relied on technology creating an illusion. But in the anime and especially the subsequent iterations, it seems that the real monster game and the magic powers aren't that relevant, and that the cards themselves possess some inherent powers.

Think about that, the franchise has prioritised the card game over having a logical plot or understandable world building that it literally depicts mass produced paper cards have magic properties that change the fate of the world... That is incredibly bizarre.

Funnily enough, I was never a Yu Gi Oh fan but I was drawn into trading cards by its lesser known ripoff, Duel Masters, which was huge in my country.

I've always loved trading cards where you collect different kinds of monsters. Opening booster packs and getting a shiny and rare card was the ultimate euphoria.

The show (DM) is my new current interest, I'd heard of Yu-Gi-Oh and knew there were cards at one point but didn't think more about till catching this recently, I didn't know it had continued with various series and had on going cards/gaming.

As of the card game aspect of the franchise my son had some for his birthday so I've had to play a couple of times and I totally suck, clueless. I have the Swtich game in my home which follows the duels in the show and downloaded Master Duel but I won't be taking a turn at that, I played one the of Switch duels as that's not real people so it doesn't matter if I don't know what I'm doing :)

I played a little Yu-Gi-Oh with an injured veteran and he whooped me good in all of the duels that we played together. In fact, he came out of a tournament that our mall was hosting at the time.

Both the manga and the original series will always be better versus what FoX gave us. (However, I do like some of the duel music that the dubbed version of the series provided.)

The illustrations for the cards were neat, but some of the alternate names for the monster / magic/ trap cards were kinda lame. (Summoned Demon / Summoned Skull, Holy Elf / Mystical Elf, ect.)

I’m not as big into Yugioh as I used to be. I just watched the tv series (original, gx and 5d’s) and played mostly the gba and ds games until around 2011. Tried playing the 3ds game and couldn’t get into it. I stick to just playing WCT2006 nowadays whenever I’m in the mood to play Yugioh.

Single player mode in Master Duel is pretty nice. They give you little premade decks to go against the AI

^ That was great! Thank you!!

Been putting the finishing touches on my newest deck for Master Duel, a Sacred Beast deck, just got to figure out my extra deck.

I wish I had gotten into YGO but I was just too damn too Pokemon still at the time even if the pkmn fad was already dying. It didn't help that YGO came out when I was about to turn 13 or something so I was also no longer a "kid" and wanted to like "cool things" like Jackass and no more cartoons. I feel like it's too big for me to ever dwell in it and without nostalgia i won't be able to get through the original show either.

Kazuki Takahashi was found dead this morning.

I just noticed a few posts on-line, what a shame, he was only 60 too.