What do you actually LIKE about Yugioh

[¿¡Kloey!?²]

It's the holiday season and with the recent forums as of posting I figure I bring something different to the table. Why do you like Yugioh and why do you find yourself continuing to play it or engage with it's IP?

For me personally and I know I've said it on the forums before, but I enjoy the core gameplay of Yugioh, how particularly every duel feels like a duel quiz for me to solve with how turns go. I treat Yugioh as the "I'm not like other girls" of card games in how it's gameplay is. I've engaged with a lot of it's media and I've watched most of it's anime. (Finished the first season of Sevens some time ago for the hell of it and I plan to watch the rest when I can.) There's something unique about this franchise that despite all of the card games I've played, I keep finding myself coming back to this one in particular, what about you guys?

[Raven]

archetypes and art. I really love playing pure decks that play a specific way, and I just like it a lot when it works. Anytime I can play an archetype pure, I have the most fun piloting it, even if it can't win very often

[¿¡Kloey!?²]

Originally posted by Raven:

archetypes and art. I really love playing pure decks that play a specific way, and I just like it a lot when it works. Anytime I can play an archetype pure, I have the most fun piloting it, even if it can't win very often

I love the archetypes and the variety present. I also love how Yugioh takes these concepts of these archetypes and incorporate their aesthetics into their core gameplay in a way that makes sense.

[randomguy01542]

Liked the anime, been there since day 1, spent who knows how much on the physical card game, and I enjoy using cards that look cool and feel cool to play. I did originally quit around synchro, but friends brought me back in during the xyz era.

For reference, other card games I've played are duel masters, pokemon, and currently one piece and the first 2 didn't stick with me so here I am playing this and one piece.

[Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!]

GX and waifus

[76561199378662608]

I don't know what to said I just naturally attracted to yugioh.

[Papa Shekels]

Hard to put it into just any given idea, but I would say the freedom of it. You can play an unga bunga deck, you can set 5 pass, or you can combo into the sun and go through 2/3 of your extra deck in one turn. You can play some standard competent deck or you can try to deckout/burn or you can try to summon some stupid anime boss monster that wins you the game if your middle name has 7 letters and Jupiter's moons are aligned in the shape of a spork. You can play modernized versions of decks from 12 years ago if you are willing to accept that you will be winning a bit less often than by playing whatever is the top handful of decks at the moment. And especially in the past year, we have been getting many support cards for old archetypes where you can have fun with whatever silly gimmick or play style you want and have at least some chance at success with it. And you can delve as far or as shallow as you want into it because we have over two decades' worth of cards that open up insanely complicated interactions if you really want to

[dabestgamer]

Probably seeing the concepts and ideas, while also being able to make my own Decks with my own silly ideas/gimmicks built into them.

My Decks are certainly not optimal, but that won't stop me from playing them, regardless of what my opponent is using. And I have little desire to pick up or switch to an entirely different Deck unless I find something very intriguing about it or its cards/strategies and whether I can incorporate them into my own stuff.

[Merilirem]

A lot of things. The main ones are as follows.

1. Freedom of design. Yugioh can do whatever it wants. Unlike other games set in specific universes Yugioh covers an entire reality. You could literally make an archetype covering the reality of the players themselves and it would basically just be the anime with slightly less magic.

2. The resource system. I HATE lands. MTG is a fun game but the LANDS ruin it and every MTG clone ever. I have played a lot of land based card games and they all suck because whether you can play your cards or not is entirely RNG. That is unless you remove it from the equation using cheeky things which basically just say "play yugioh instead" on them.

The Energy systems where you get a point every turn like Legends of Runeterra does are ok but they still have this element of restraint where both players have to build up to the fun stuff every game. Generally turns 1-3 of such games are filler. Some do better than others like how LOR has a more simultaneous turn setup which results in more interaction and feeling like the first turns matter more because of it unlike games with summoning sickness and personal turns. Honestly it just feels like such games should start with 3 mana.

Actually that's a thought.. maybe someone should make an MTG or LOR style game but start with a few lands/energy on turn 1 instead of just 1. Let players actually start playing sooner.

Anyway point is Yugioh being only limited by the cards in your hand is why I love it the most. I don't have to worry about my resources and we can all combo off as much as we can. There is no downside to this method except that it requires the devs to keep things in check. Something Konami hasn't done super well unfortunately.

3. It has solid art. Not always the best and can sometimes be a bit dull to pander to a market but the variety means you still get awesome cards with awesome art on them.

[Gauche]

I like da big booty

[Arkew Von Greffer]

when my oppenent is floodgated XD

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Originally posted by randomguy01542:

For reference, other card games I've played are duel masters, pokemon, and currently one piece and the first 2 didn't stick with me so here I am playing this and one piece.

Couldn't get into Duel Masters besides the jank GBA game and I never got into the one piece one but I do have a friend that plays it. I've played a handful of em including but not limited to Elder Scrolls, Infinity Wars, Elestrals and the new Digimon one so if you havn't tried those out, check em out.

Originally posted by Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!:

GX and waifus

Originally posted by Gauche:

I like da big booty

Originally posted by Arkew Von Greffer:

when my oppenent is floodgated XD

Originally posted by Papa Shekels:

Hard to put it into just any given idea, but I would say the freedom of it.

I agree. Personally speaking I been trying to make fur hire work for YEARS and I missed when they were meta in duel links apparently and even though I have a distaste for Runick, I enjoyed playing the pair together since they worked SO well and that's really the beauty of it.

Originally posted by dabestgamer:

Probably seeing the concepts and ideas, while also being able to make my own Decks with my own silly ideas/gimmicks built into them.

My Decks are certainly not optimal, but that won't stop me from playing them, regardless of what my opponent is using.

Keep doing you and enjoy the game how ya want. Unfortunately I don't have the time and motivation to experiment like I used to, hopefully that will change soon.

Originally posted by Merilirem:

2. The resource system. I HATE lands. MTG is a fun game but the LANDS ruin it and every MTG clone ever. I have played a lot of land based card games and they all suck because whether you can play your cards or not is entirely RNG. That is unless you remove it from the equation using cheeky things which basically just say "play yugioh instead" on them.

Anyway point is Yugioh being only limited by the cards in your hand is why I love it the most. I don't have to worry about my resources and we can all combo off as much as we can. There is no downside to this method except that it requires the devs to keep things in check. Something Konami hasn't done super well unfortunately.

Yeah, unfortunately Konami dropped the ball on keeping things together but I feel they are improving, slowly but surely. But yeah I am an individual that likes card slinging instead of slowly building up. The lands and energy system from MTG and Pokemon is good in it's execution, however I just hate the feeling of needing specific cards and bricking on energy or vica versa so that is another point that I particularly like as well.

[TormentedSalad]

I like the fact yugioh does something different every other card game just feels like the same thing that and yugioh played a big part in my childhood helps

[Chaos 混沌 カオス]

The Eyes

[Kane526]

It being a huge portion of my childhood aside, it's the archetypes, the style, the show's amazing absurdity that just draws you in, and the deck building. Archetypes are what draws me to this game more than Magic, balance be damned. Magic might have things like Colors and Tribes, but they have very few things that have the same feel and coherency that comes with an established archetype. Whenever old cards receive new support I become extremely giddy. You just don't get that with MtG, especially because of it's vastly shifting format style. The resource system in YGO basically being "can you play a card?" keeps things interesting, unlike in MtG where you know exactly how much gas the opponent has by just looking at their land. The artstyle of the cards are very appealing to my brain. Broad lines and bright colors keep me focused. I adore the show, I seriously need to finish VRAINS, I'm only about half way through it. I'm skipping the Rush Duel shows tho. I hate the art style of the new studio and I could not care less about the characters and the "plot". And of course the deck building is fun. Ya sure you can just google a good deck and copy that for the most optimal play, but the ability to make tweaks to those formulas to fit your own style is 100% a thing people sleep on, as they assume you must copy a deck card for card. Overall the game constantly speeding up over the years has arguably made it crazier. While I miss the days of Edison format, as long as we aren't in a Tier 0 Format I am content.

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by Kane526:

It being a huge portion of my childhood aside, it's the archetypes, the style, the show's amazing absurdity that just draws you in, and the deck building. Archetypes are what draws me to this game more than Magic, balance be damned. Magic might have things like Colors and Tribes, but they have very few things that have the same feel and coherency that comes with an established archetype. Whenever old cards receive new support I become extremely giddy. You just don't get that with MtG, especially because of it's vastly shifting format style. The resource system in YGO basically being "can you play a card?" keeps things interesting, unlike in MtG where you know exactly how much gas the opponent has by just looking at their land. The artstyle of the cards are very appealing to my brain. Broad lines and bright colors keep me focused. I adore the show, I seriously need to finish VRAINS, I'm only about half way through it. I'm skipping the Rush Duel shows tho. I hate the art style of the new studio and I could not care less about the characters and the "plot". And of course the deck building is fun. Ya sure you can just google a good deck and copy that for the most optimal play, but the ability to make tweaks to those formulas to fit your own style is 100% a thing people sleep on, as they assume you must copy a deck card for card. Overall the game constantly speeding up over the years has arguably made it crazier. While I miss the days of Edison format, as long as we aren't in a Tier 0 Format I am content.

Vrains is really good I never watched zexal and arc v but the style of Vrains is something else