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why is Yu-Gi-Oh so effing hard??! (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by daniyeg@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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my friend is trying to get me into it despite me not having played it at all before or watching the anime (online version only, tcg on omega, it's not like i can buy the cards or anything) and i feel so fucking dumbfounded. is this a children's card game? why is there a turn mechanic when you won't be making it past turn 2? every goddamn card comes with two paragraphs of text and the fun part is the punctuation fucking changes the gameplay, and your opponent will lay them on you nonstop. and even if they are a good sport and allow you to read you will lose the plot with the third card they pull.

your opponent will keep adding and removing cards back and forth and you can't keep up how things have been stacked and what effects are active or not and by the end of turn one your opponent has probably pulled out 15 to 20 cards out of their 60 card deck, and those are just repeats so in reality they've basically done all of their combos. i know preparing a good deck for combos is part of the game but come on how can a new player even keep up? this is insane.

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The game used to be a lot slower. Like 15 years ago you might even make it to turn 5. Like I'm sure everyone else said, they had a set of mechanics, and then they kept adding mechanics and adding mechanics and almost never took any mechanic away once it was added (though they banned or restricted individual cards), and that produced power creep that also encouraged general power creep in stat inflation and after a couple of decades, here we are. It's the classic issue of designing with almost exclusively your existing consumer base in mind, because it's all very manageable for them to learn this piecemeal over decades, but then a new person comes in and needs to learn all of it at once.

Tell your friend to stop trouncing you with meta decks and just make a deck from like Duelist Kingdom just so you can work with something manageable first.