/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10072512
Easily forbidden memories, it’s a shit game but I love it. It only took me 420 tries on meadow mage to get an MBD, so you know I’m completely sane. As far as GBA, I’ve only played Eternal Duelist Soul, and that was very good given the format at the time.

Seconding Forbidden Memories, I wish they made another one with the same aesthetics and updated game rules (While keeping the fusion system intact).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mepr_QhsYE0

>>10072578
>>10072592
I have vague memories of this game but I never got into it too much. I spent way more time on the gameboy games.
Would be amazing if all of these classic games got a remake, or at least a equal. I miss the fun concept games that weren't focused on the card game itself like capsule monsters and roses.

>>10072606
>I never got into it too much
Good, do yourself a favor and don’t, it’s a total grind fest, I really have no idea why I love it other than fusions and nostalgia. It is more conceptual, like DotR, since it was made before the rules of the game were finalized.

I loved Dungeon Dice Monsters. It's was trash and unbalanced but it was my favorite. Nothing like cutting off the ai from doing anything

>>10072616
I think that's a trend with a lot of these older yugioh games lol. World championship 2004 was also extremely grindy, but you don't notice it as much when you're younger since you have so much free time.

>>10072630

I really wanted to be able to convince myself to buy a copy of that recently, solely because of how cool its soundtrack is. But I couldn't quite overcome the negative things everybody says about it.

I have been playing World Championship 2006 lately, after trying it on a whim. It's the only Yugioh media or collectible card game I've ever tried. The card game is bit of a mess but the GBA game is awesome and I love it. To me this is a fundamentally single-player video game, and I look forward to never ever playing with actual cards against an actual human. It's great how unlike most games, this one actually gives you incentive to handicap yourself in order to make its crappy AI challenging to deal with, by providing such an absurdly large number of optional rules (i.e., almost all cards other than Normal Monsters) that there's always something more to explore and winning doesn't feel at all like finishing the game. Like, I've been playing for months now and I still haven't gotten around to even trying to win with Exodia.

This is the type of game that causes annoying people to become super excited about "meta" and various well-known standard builds that everybody in the competitive scene can rattle off the names of like they were members of the person's family. But to me, inventing that stuff yourself IS the game. It's cool to blunder into a game that makes that so interesting to do for such a long time.

>>10072630
for a GBA game this was actually really fun.
I also remember thinking how wild it was that it only got like one episode on the show but an entire game.

>>10072742
>But to me, inventing that stuff yourself IS the game.
yeah I agree. The most fun to be had in yugioh is mucking around with cards on your own and playing with friends. You have much more freedom while the meta forces you to play in a certain few ways, which is true for almost everything where a meta exists. Not everything can be efficient or good.
The true spririt of yugioh was always fucking around with friends with whatever shit cards you found or managed to slap together a deck with. The slower nature of the game also allowed for more back and forth moments and interaction.

>>10072787
I agree that I had the most fun when I wasn’t even reading the cards and just fooling around with friends. Modern yugioh games are never going to be able to capture that feeling, unfortunately. Btw, if anyone here wants to play through DotR, use my forbidden memories code and let me know what card you get. Haven’t been able to try it myself yet.

>>10072937
I have this code too from the first playthrough, I forget the card but remember that it was really OP.

>>10072742
>2006
I was just going to mention this game. I think it's practically the perfect spot in that it has the "cool new cards with diverse effects" while not getting into newgen mechanics like synchro. It's practically flawless and I might name it as the best mechanically speaking. You may understand what I mean if you look at earlier games and how simple they were at the time of GBC, basically a game that actually simulated the game throughly- even something like worldwide edition- seemed hype as fuck, and then playing 2006 it's even beyond that. I'd rank 2006 followed by worldwide edition.
worldwide edition is from the previous era, however. looking at it today you'll see it's still pretty simple so there isn't as much nuance strategically, but you can already chain traps and stuff, or start deckbuilding to destroy the jobbers in less turns, the traps allow back-and-forth play, etc. It's a good simulator for the simple times of the series.
It's quite amazing how ygo lends well to single-play. For example, all the weak cards are simply useless in a regular game. in dds and the likes you see it makes for a pretty comfy jrpg-like progression. adding cards with higher atk is like leveling your character and is pretty comfy if you aren't looking for a simulation like the above.
I tried pretty much most stuff.
worldwide edition and that GX gba game are cool for having the overworld aspect.
dds is again cool if you play it as a very simple jrpg. (although there really should be a way to see what cards can fuse, still). those RPGs (I think it was Eternal Duelist Soul, not sure if there was another) play this up and I'd rec these. some of the WCS are also rpgs but they honestly suck, lol.

As for the non-card games like Dice Dungeon, they're also comfy.
Falsebound Kingdom is pretty weird but a cool grindy experience too.
It was mindblowing to find the PS2 games, really. DotR is a literal simulator of how it's played on the manga as accurate as it could possibly be. cocoon evolves into ultimate moth, there are actual labyrinths and some monsters can cross them. honestly the card game kinda nerfs all that. It's pure perfection, and the capsule monster game is also well done. I think every obscure game (dice monsters, capsule monsters, DM rules) can actually be played in some form if you look around.

>>10072986
have you played nightmare troubadour? It kind of feels like a sequel to world wide edition.

>>10072638
>you don't notice it as much when you're younger since you have so much free time.
for the most part only people with wives and kids actually have this excuse, every childless adult with a job I know has plenty of free time to play vidya if they wanted, they just sink it into social media instead

I've tried a lot of them over the years, but me the Yu-Gi-Oh games have a very strong connection to the anime, so games where you feel like you are playing part of the show/episodes are the best.
The GBC and old games have very weird mechanics, feel limited in many ways and the PSX forbidden memories was way too wierd even if the story was strong.
The one I recommend the most and the most fun I had was "Worldwide Edition - Stairway to the Destined Duel" which takes place in of the coolest parts of the anime, the city duel part. Has a ton of fun cards and decent mechanics, cool story parts and amazing music.
Nightmare Troubadour for the DS is like a better version, also taking part in a similar spot in the anime, but felt like Konami was starting to get a feel of the DS so runs and looks not that good.
By the time "World championship 2011" came out, the games look and run really nice, have a an insane amount of content but like >>10072986 said, have Synchro summons and mechanics that are way too out there.

The others I recommend a lot are the PSP games, Tag force 1-2-3, even though I didn't care much for that anime and that protagonist. But has a TON of cards that lets you build tons of fun decks and just mess around.
Tag force 4-5-6 also has Synchro summon, based on the Bike anime, it has really cool anime sequences/story, amazing art and unbelievably good electronic music, and of course ridiculous amounts of cards. Sadly these games are in Japanese only, oh and not many care for the Tag mechanic of playing.

>>10073198
And the music, I miss dueling to these themes. Nothing gets the blood pumping for a good duel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_F6hCvmzVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4xf4LuWbzA&list=PL1sdraGSaiOsFKd4sIOoo6GwzAJzQvrcv&index=31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4P1Oo2VJiE&list=PL1sdraGSaiOt_HbH3khuBFJy1Whtz0wTY&index=34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UtZu3dlqk&list=PL1sdraGSaiOt_HbH3khuBFJy1Whtz0wTY&index=12
(reach minute 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDMaHbSEBYE&list=PL1sdraGSaiOt_HbH3khuBFJy1Whtz0wTY&index=35

This card makes me giggle.

I always liked duelists of the roses. Unbalanced as fuck and betraying the Lancastrians on your first playthrough is nigh-on impossible to win, but moving cards around like it was chess on different terrains was FUN

>>10073198
iirc tag force 6 has a fan translation. Don’t remember about 4 or 5.

>>10073454
>tag force 6 has a fan translation
it was made by a memelord who decided to force in as many unabridged series memes as possible into the dialogue instead of translating it

I miss old Yu-Gi-Oh! so much... I do what I can to not sound like a whiny old man that can't get on with the times, but in this specific case it's really tough for me, I gave Legacy of the Duelist a god, Millenium Duels, and, of course, Master Duel... and I just can't stand it. It's slow because every turn takes a century and, if you don't already know what all of the cards do, you have to stop and read a paragraph of tiny text every second, and it's also fast because a million things happen every turn. It used to be the opposite, it was fast because there was so much more back and forth between players, but it was slow as in few things happened every turn, it was the right mixture of slow and fast, but nowadays it's all messed up. I look at these cards that do a billion things, that seem broken, and the player base says it's bad because of it being too slow or inconsistent, it's crazy how much power creep Yu-Gi-Oh! has... I also dislike how Konami doesn't even try to make the RPGs they used to make, video games that felt like true adventures, now the video games are just accurate simulators of the card game, no proper campaign at all, what a waste. I don't think Yu-Gi-Oh! was ever an objectively good card game, and the video games were always flawed, but they felt like adventures, and playing it was a lot more fun...

>>10073635
Legacy of the duelist is the purest og yugioh experience you will get my friend. Play the campaign, always use the anime decks provided, and replay with your opponents deck once you beat them, pure old school kino.

>>10072512
I actually never played the older games I got into the series much later than that. Project Ignis EDOPro gets the job done for this, but it includes modern rule set, so it comes with all the drawbacks for it as well. Still though for being free and requiring low end specs it is an insane value
https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy

>>10072774
Not to mention all the cool toys. Damn rich kid from school had them all...

>>10073485
That’s a shame lol. I can’t imagine going through the effort to translate it only to purposely make it inaccurate.
>>10073635
Check out dueling book if you don’t mind a manual simulator. You can find people there if you want to play classic yugioh only.
Legacy of the duelist is also good like the other anon said, but only if you play offline.

>>10073371
bro they just retrained him.

>>10073454
>>10073485
>>10074030

Wasnt Tag Force 6 re-translated a while back?

https://cdromance.com/psp/yu-gi-oh-5ds-tag-force-6-english-patched-2/

I'm probably in the minority here, as I genuinely prefer those older attempts at Yu-Gi-Oh! video games by Konami compared to anything where they actually tried to replicate their existing card game, the OCG/TCG. I know that the rules from those early installments, like Duel Monsters 1 through 4 and then 7 through 8, or the True Duel Monsters installments, that we know here in the west as Forbidden Memories and Duelist of the Roses, are very flawed a lot of the time, not polished at all and with tons of things that many despise, especially the alignement mechanics that they've tried implementing in many different ways over the years, also things like deck cost, duelist level, etc. I still love it though, it had so much more back and forth with the CPU, short turns where anything could happen with few cards, immersive stories and worlds, a grind to get better and better, feeling yourself and your deck growing stronger as those older opponents become easy to beat, doing janky things like tributing a monster, using Dark Hole and only then summoning a powerful monster through your tribute, being saved against some powerful opponent card by using a weak card with the right alignement... I miss it all, this was Yu-Gi-Oh! to me, I know it'll never come back, and that's fine, I have the memories...

>>10073198

I always expected to see a remake of that game BUT with the 3d fights of duelist of roses. No luck.

The World Championship 2006 duel puzzles are great. After god knows how many hundreds of duels I've done in this game, this one just forced me to learn a new thing about chaining. The crazy combos you can do in this game make it feel like it's more about programming a robot to complete a task than it is about fielding a magical army of monsters. (In my view this is a good thing.)

Ceremonial bell is a hard counter to the cheating AI in YGO games. The exposure of their hand means they have to rely on stacking the deck instead of having a handful of jokers, and the AI already knows what's in your hand anyway.

>>10078620
For me it’s royal decree and imperial order. Being able to lock them out of their backrow will get you easy wins most of the time since they can’t cheat their way out of it easily.

Post MVPs
>Playing Stairway to the Destined Duel.
>Made an Earth deck that carried me through most of the game.
>Had three Giant Rats in it.
>Having at least one monster on the field so I can summon later, bring out Mystical Sheep n1, Mysterious Puppeteer or any other effect monster early or at least defend during the first turn with Giant Soldier of Stone helped me a lot in the early-game.
Love this motherfucker like you wouldn't believe.

Eternal duelist of the soul is the best gba yugioh game

>>10080970

My favorite shield against goddamned Heavy Storm

>>10080970

Better at fighting than most actual monsters

>>10081508

Wait I think I just realized that the attacker probably isn't the squad of goblin dudes in the picture, but rather the purple spot disease that's making them drool and weep. Maybe. I couldn't even see any of that detail on a GBA screen. Anyway it's great against an AI.

>>10081510
Goblin attack force? I like the artwork on the card.

I spent a lot of points on a pack with this card and got 2 copies, but it turns out the card is banned in nightmare troubadour lol. Managed to pick up some good spells and traps like delinquent duo, pot of greed, graceful charity, hand destruction, etc. but all of my monsters are generic beaters I need to replace with a better strategy.

>>10072512
7 trials/day of the duelist is my all time fav, second is for fucking sure dark duel stories. My fucking god I have the soundtrack for dds imprinted on my brain. Third is a tie for sacred cards and wct2006; I fucking love the puzzles in 06 and I love the combination of overworld mechanics like 7 trials with the elemental system from dds. It’s a shame it’s a bit too short, and they cooked the goose with reshef. That game is just too much and unfun.

>>10072742
> But to me, inventing that stuff yourself IS the game
I fully know that feel

>>10073454
4 and 5 both had English releases. 4 works as a fantastic dating simulator too. I like to just play the mini games to get as many females to max out their live mechanic and gift me cards etc.

>>10082065
> I have the soundtrack for dds imprinted on my brain
Same. It really is a great OST

i found my old cartridge of eternal duelist soul a few months back and went on an absolute bender ripping through that game. fun stuff

>>10073198
weird coincidence because i havent played a ygo game in probably 20 years but picked this very one back up recently and am having a good time with it. had it as a kid and enjoyed it despite getting my shit pushed in constantly. still sort of getting my shit pushed in but i of course have a better understanding of the game now lel.

>>10072512
Just played through 7 trials to glory. Got all the trophies. I did use passwords to get key cards early like CED, BLS, mirror force, charity, PoG, etc.
I was a little disappointed with some of the AI decision making and some of the decks toward the end of the game. The second to last tournament had a bunch of decks with only normal monsters and no spells or traps. Opponents never use snatch steal even though they're holding onto it for so many turns.
Solid 6/10. Wasn't amazing, but definitely found some fun things here and there. Enjoyed the rotating banlist in that game when I had a bigger card pool.
I suggest buying the light packs and trying to go for an XYZ dragon cannon deck. It's surprisingly effective due to the decent stats of all the pieces involved. Shining Angel floats into Y or Z so you really only have to draw into X. Even if you don't have X available in your hand they at least have the different variations of XYZ dragon cannon like XZ, YX, etc. 3x thunderdragon and 1 poly in deck is a 2 card 2800 beater, or you can use the thunderdragons as cost for graceful or your XYZ dragon cannon.

>>10084786
Give nightmare troubadour a try. It’s kind of like worldwide edition but with a bigger card pool, a new story, and on the ds instead. It’s a bit grindy at the start though, but it seems to be getting better.

>>10084872
Meant to say it’s like 7 trials too. It feels like a mix of trials and worldwide. It’s the last og yugioh game too.

>>10073198
>>10073237
This game's soundtrack still pops into my head randomly 20 years later. I can't even decide if the songs are good or bad, they were just disgustingly catchy

https://youtu.be/06o8UUHWI70

I never had a GameCube growing up and not a single person I knew did, so I’ve never played falsebound kingdom. How is it and what sort of game is it?

>never got a duelist of the roses 2 despite 1 doing well
>no real romhacking scene for it
>forbidden memories romhacking scene is like weirdly distributed amongst South American blogs

What the fuck is up with the yugioh PlayStation community man

>>10086415
Dotr is actually beatable. Reshef of destruction and forbidden memories are made stupid with their artificial difficulty so they get the attention to make them actually bearable. Everything else is pretty much a decent microcosm that doesn’t really NEED work unlike those two

>>10073198
This is the best Yu-Gi-Oh game ever released. Holy shit I spent so many hours playing this.

>>10086405
I emulated it. It's a rts-rpg mix. the RTS is simple imo, my impression is it's there more to give the game a civ flair. If you command your unit to battle another unit you get into a rpg battle.
The catch is you use yugioh monsters for the jrpg battle so getting them and leveling them up betters your team.

Cool.

>>10087735
>It's a rts-rpg mix.
Man what the actual FUCK. I best get on that. What’s the best gc emulator?

>>10089471
dolphin seems to be the only one around afaik.
If by chance you're using legacy OS...you pick an older version of dolphin, and anyway it works!

>>10086405
I hated it desu, but I just couldn't really figure it out back then. I also didn't like that so much of it was text and static pictures. That makes sense for the generic card game adaptations, but this one boasted of 3D worlds, you would think you could roam around sandbox style in it or at the least have animated cutscenes. It really doesn't feel like a Gen VI game at all, it could easily have been on the PSX.

>>10073198
I like that game boy one aswell but it had a few bugs that softlocked me before.
I also liked the sandwich dating simulator on my ps2.

>>10091823
>I also liked the sandwich dating simulator on my ps2.
???

>>10092754
Yugioh GX Tag Force

>>10093846
cute

>>10072512
i love forbidden memories even though is it legit trash. love duelist of roses too but it also isn't that good. both games have really good music i think. also the very idea of duelist of roses is batshit. i wish more games did weird stuff like this.
>the war of the roses but yugioh
also fuck trying to get dark magician girl in roses

>>10072512
yugioh is something id like to check out nowadays. i watched the show a small bit, and had a friend who was really into the cards back when it was new. they had some cool artwork on those.

i liked how they made it look more strategic than pokemon in the show at least.

>>10072691
>But I couldn't quite overcome the negative things everybody says about it.
Which are?

>>10073371
He pretty cool.

>>10094674

I don't clearly remember, but I think it was that the balance was bad and the AI was extremely bad (which makes the game far too easy unless you play another human and I wasn't aiming to do that). I haven't actually played it so if you want a proper assessment of the game then you need to ask somebody else.

>>10072512
Just reinstalled. Played for hours back in the day on my OG GBA. Fun times.
Anyone have some old school decks to build towards? I guess we're limited to 2003 cards but that's cool.
I got a lucky pick with the starter deck and got the one with all the good traps. Mirror force, call of the haunted, magic cylinder, magic jammer, torrential tribute. Been pretty nice despite having weak monsters. Working on rebalancing slowly. Feeling a ritual themed deck might be fun, maybe thousand eyes restrict if he's in game.

>>10095812
The AI sucks ass in all the old yugioh video games. It's part of the fun.

>>10096623
I personally like harpie ladies. I think they're fun 2 play. Ritual decks can also be fun. I remember relinquished being in the game, don't remember thousand eyes.
I'm playing through nightmare troubador on an emulator right now since it was the final og yugioh game but I'm going to play through 2004 again on my gameboy afterwards along with 7 trials. I've already beaten 2004 like 3 times at least lol. It may not be the best yugioh game but it has a special place in my heart. I love the background during duels, the ui, and the music. It has the best music in any yugioh game ever imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-YDcIQkAz4&t
anyway hope you have fun with it :)

>>10094373
You should for sure. A lot of the old games are very fun. If you decide to rewatch the show, then make sure to watch it subbed. It's actually really good that way. Unfortunately 4kids cut a lot of shit out of the show for the dub and censored a lot of things too. It also has a different ost which is objectively inferior. The voice acting while iconic, isn't that good either.

>>10097748

I am currently playing with harpie ladies in WCT 2006. Maybe they aren't so good in that generation of the game, because I had to struggle hard to support them (with lots and lots of traps and a few additional monsters). My deck gradually bloated into a big tangled mess as I kept on adding things to try to water down the relative fragility of the harpies while keeping enough deck-searching and hand-refreshing cards that I could still get hold of the ladies when I was ready for them. But it's turned out fairly strong in the end, and I did manage to keep to my original design goals of using only wind monsters, of avoiding the use of heavy stalling cards like Gravity Bind (because that didn't fit my fantasy image of swift, agile harpies darting around and wrecking things), and of keeping harpies as my "main" monsters (even if the occasional armed dragon does pop out to rescue me from a bad situation). The big harpie lady combos don't come out in every duel, but I'm able to use them just often enough to satisfy myself.

>>10078502
Love these puzzles so much.
I got 2006 when I was like 10 and finally solved them all when I was like 22. When I finished the last one it felt like a chapter of my life had ended.
The one that always sticks out in my memory is the one where you have to do a crazy long combo with all four Charmers. Hiita best Charmer

>>10091823
Asuka/Alexis is so perfect in Tag Force. I just want to reach through the screen and kiss her.
Tag Force 1 has a lot of issues, but that moment when she finally agrees to be your partner and the little chibi Asuka sprite starts following you around like a baby duck is a permanent member of my happy memories album.
I love her so fucking much bros.

>>10080970
Ebon Magician Curran gets my lifetime achievement award.
>Destroys Gravity Bind/Level Limit Area B decks
>Searchable as hell (Mystic Tomato, Apprentice Magician, Magician's Circle)
>High enough ATK to beat face in a pinch/with an equip
>After she dies you can use her to summon a chaos monster
>Is a cute loli
You can't ask for a better card than this.

>>10098037
Forgot the pic.
I'm sorry princess, you deserve better.

>>10098138
don't get ahead, she can't be princess unless she passes the trial

>>10098176
She will never pass that trial because I will never put this shitty card in my deck.
She'll always be my Princess though.

>>10098021
NTA but same. Ever since I saw GX as a kid, I've always had a huge crush on Alexis. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to play Tag Force back then, but I eventually played them later on and you bet your ass I partnered up with her first thing.
Tag Force is a really comfy game. I love Alexis so much.

>>10072512
For me it's the games like Falsebound Kingdom, Duelist of the Roses and Forbidden Memories. Duelist of the Roses especially was my shit as a kid, I put in a ton of hours just playing against the AI that would kick my shit in, I remember having to grab a guide to understand the depths it had. Forbidden Memories I just never could finish, that game was much too difficult for me back then.
The GBA games like Sacred Cards and Reshef of Destruction I also had fond memories of, mainly the former as the latter was much too hard for me. Something about being in Battle City really captured me.

>>10098021
blair was way better

>>10096623
> Anyone have some old school decks to build towards?
You’re going to be stuck to your classic types of builds, first and foremost is “good stuff beat down”, which you’ve kinda already captured with those staples you mentioned. Other builds are
>cannon soldier burn
>cyberstein OTK
>yata lock
>hand destruction
It’s a bit too early to be able to build proper GOAT format decks. Wct2006 has the right card pool to play these

>>10098981
>all incarnations of Goat Format use the April 2005 Forbidden/Limited List for the TCG
is what https://www.goatformat.com/cardpool.html says. My WCT 2006 game doesn't have that forbidden/limited list in it though. I wonder if it's possible to enter it?

>>10099008
Oh sorry I meant in terms of card pool, not rule set. 7 trials is missing a few keys to do most goat decks like bls envoy etc

I remember the nigger who copied your deck. Fuck that pedo faggit

>>10099019
Mirror matches force you to become a better player

>>10096623
Maybe it's because I'm bad, but I noticed the less overall cards the game has the more the "top" decks end up looking the same.
A big problem with older Yu-Gi-Oh games since there aren't many archetypes and the ones in there are not that well supported.
I remember playing a lot of the GBA games and comparing decks with some friends and the most powerful decks we could build looked pretty much the same.
It's by the time the final DS/PSP games came out that there are enough cards to go around and actually have several super strong decks.
I loved making that dragon deck that could summon the Blue eyes ultimate in one go, also getting the Prime Material Dragon to protect you from bad stuff.

>>10098981
>>10099124
You guys bring up good points. I went ahead and got Tag Force as well so I had a larger card pool. Opens up a lot more builds.

>>10098981
Also
>Yata Lock
Good times! I played Yata Lock for a while before ban in real life back in the day. Fucking love it. I can see why it was banned so fast, what the hell was Konami thinking?

>>10099137
what's good about this card?

>>10099205
Basically you combo this with Chaos Emperor Dragon or any kind of board clear like Harpies Feather Duster or Raigeki and then deny the opponent a draw phase. If the opponent doesn't have an immediate answer in his hand, he loses the game. He becomes locked into a loop of getting hit for 200 damage every single turn and he can't do anything about it because he is unable to get new cards from his deck.
It is one of the ultimate frustration combos and almost a troll deck. That's why it was banned.

>>10072512
what about other card battlergames?

>>10100670
those gba games were pretty shitty

>>10100670
That's Duel Masters, right? Recently got Kaijudu Showdown GBA for a few bucks and man it's a trip. Art is pretty bad, early Deviantart/no budget flash game style, but the card game is ok, if a bit convoluted to play.

>>10100673
>>10100698
Yes it's duel masters, has 3 games on gba and one on ps2, interface is the worst and the card game itself is great but its different the yugioh. It's like a magic lite with no mana screw. Ps2 is the most deviant art teir

>>10100670
only one I can think of is pokemon tcg for gba

>>10100670
>>10100783
There's a handful of quality games out there, just not many good ones based on actual TCGs outside of yugioh and magic

>>10100804
Haomaru has Mai titties on his head. Look at that grin of his.

>>10100804
There is card fighters on the ds, it's pretty fun

>>10100975
it felt cheap and half assed to me

This is now a zarigun thread

>>10073485
That sounds fun.

>>10100670
The Negima GBA games are pretty fun, but I've never beaten one for some reason.
I'm planning on coming back to them at some point.

>>10104054
>Negima
Well that's an unexpected blast from the past.

>>10099456
>combo
Yata didn't need any additional cards to lock. If they had no counterplay to simply hitting them with yata, it was over right there.

I specifically remember when an opponent went first, passed turn because his hand was raigeki, dark hole, feather duster, and other great cards like that. I just summoned yata and attacked and he lost right there on turn 2 after playing nothing.

>>10104054
How do they play? I've never heard of them

>>10101740
>>10103624

>>10072512
I admit I played the trading card game first and so I never got used to the ones that go by different rules. Mostly I liked Stairway to the Destined Duel, GX Duel Academy, 7 Trials and GX Spirit Caller on the DS.

I tried Destiny Board Traveler, but kept getting hit by Reverse Atk/Def dice preventing me from stealing squares and CPU characters' special abilities fucking me over.

>>10105369
> Spirit Caller
Jesus I forgot about this masterpiece. Absolutely loved this one.

>>10072630
Legit just dumped my save file yesterday.
Loved the shit out of the physical version too, shame it flopped, its honestly more balanced than the actual card game IMO.

>>10079303
>royal decree

AI just wrecked my harpie deck a bunch of times with this hateful thing. I do not like it one bit

>>10107608
Why aren't you using Harpies's Hunting Ground?

>>10104284
They're a mixture of TCG and RPG. (Done to death by now but still fairly creative when the games were new.)
You and your opponents take turns playing 1 card each and the stronger card wins, with cards having different strengths depending on whose turn it is. Some cards give you mana and other cards cost mana. Pretty simple actually.
Worth checking out for fans of the series but like the other Negima games it doesn't really adapt the plot, which is a shame. I'd love to be able to play through some of the cool battles from the manga or carve my own path through it's world.

>>10099456
The specific combo was to have Sangan or Witch of the Black Forest on the field (while still having your normal summon), then nuke field and hand with Chaos Emperor Dragon, search Yata when Sang/Witch goes to grave, then lock opponent with no cards.

>>10107914

Of course I am, but I buttressed it with a bunch of traps because in this particular game the harpies didn't have good enough stats to do well on their own. This works well against most AI opponents, but then I run into this one card that shuts down a third of the game and I suddenly have to consider redesigning everything. Oh well, such is Yugioh.

>>10108517
Is it translated? I might give a go if it is

I love card destruction decks, Needle Worm is my beloved.

Good zarigun thread everybody

>>10081498
just run starlight road

>>10110423

Hmm, that looks good, but it's not in any /vr/ games I assume since it was apparently released in 2010. Also it doesn't appear to block Mystical Space Typhoon or Stamping Destruction or Nobleman of Extermination... but it does appear to block Lightning Vortex and Mirror Force and such, which is pretty great. Well then, I'm sure I'll be using it once I move on to a non-"retro" Yugioh.

Thanks for this thread, the dice-board game is exactly my type and never heard of it.

I like board and card games, currently culdcept is my favourite one. Are the other games that are not strictyl TCG that mix in randomness and board aspects?

>>10108924
I'm the wrong guy to ask, sorry.

>>10110537
You might be interested in the Japanese Monopoly variants. The famous one is Itadaki Street (which has Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy/Nintendo characters depending on the version) but the one I think you'd be most interested in is GaiaMaster Kamigami no Board Game. It's a forgotten Capcom PSX game that just oozes charm. The randomness put me off it but it sounds like you'd really enjoy it.
There are a number of other titles in the subgenre but the only other one I've personally played is the (non-retro) Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.

Also, you should know that the Yu-Gi-Oh game you mentioned (Destiny Board Traveler/Sugoroku no Sugoroku) has some important version differences. The English version is censored (They hacked off DMG's boobs again) but has voice acting, which the Japanese version lacks. The Yu-Gi-Oh Double Pack 2 version is terrible and should be avoided, it removes the secret characters from the game.

>>10110747
Thanks for the through reply! I was trying to get into itadaki street but never found a good translation/platform match. I never heard about the Capom take on this, nor Kingdom hearts entry.

I never got into any yugioh, are you suggesting that the main card games are worthwhile too? My favourite TCG was Pokemon TCG on GBC.

>>10072512

I'm currently playing forbidden menories on ps1 and the farming is immeasurable. The game is not great but I still want to finish it.

>>10080970
>opponent summons a strong monster
>play copycat for the same stats with no tribute
>raigeki

>>10110756
Yu-Gi-Oh is an acquired taste.
The part of it that's most interesting and where the real challenge lies is in deckbuilding.
In Yu-Gi-Oh the card pool is so big and varied that there are limitless ways to make something creative, to make a deck that truly represents you. So if that sounds like fun to you, it's a wonderful game you should absolutely play.
The main issue is that deckbuilding is very hard. Getting good at it requires not only an ability to deeply analyze the strategy of the game but also a decent knowledge of statistics.
It's possible and even likely that the first few decks you try to make won't even function properly. When I first played as a kid I floundered around for dozens of hours making no progress. So in that sense the game asks a lot out of you.
It's also true that the game part of the game where you pit your deck against your opponents is fairly simple and shallow. Not always. But a lot of the time you'll be pursuing the same lines of play over and over with little variation. So if the part of card games you like most is actually playing them, Yu-Gi-Oh isn't the best. The game is much less enjoyable if you just use deck recipes.
If you're willing to tackle the complex process of deckbuilding there's almost endless fun to be found in the dozens of Yu-Gi-Oh games.
If you're looking for a good place to start, try Worldwide Edition. It has a cool story mode and the cards are simpler than the later games. The Japanese version called "Expert 2" is slightly better should you know Japanese.

>>10111108
Also I just realized that in your original post you were probably referring to Dungeon Dice Monsters and not Destiny Board Traveler.
Yeah, they made two Yu-Gi-Oh Board Game video games for GBA. I don't really know why. Check out both, you might like them.

>>10111108
Not a one to one I’m sure but what ur describing at the entry level is exactly how I felt about MTG. I wish to God they had a really good version of that in video game form but like Pokémon on handhelds we’re never going to get a big daddy video game on consoles so whatever. It really just takes an enjoyment almost addictive level of work to get decks built and rolling. Maybe it’s harder w Yu-gi-oh

>>10072578
>>10072592
Any excuse to post it

>>10086405
I love Falsebound but I'm pretty sure that's an indication there's something seriously wrong with me.

>>10111172
Based Nitemare ruining hours of progress.

>>10111185
Few games can be summed up in a single webm or a single image

>>10111186
>>10111172
>>10072578
>>10072592
The entire game is full of bangers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5aXtLx5VAg

>>10111148
>I don't really know why.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! ("King of Games") series wasn't initially centered on any particular game, so there were a lot of ideas of other games, even when the TCG took off you still had one or other board game or tabletop episode. I guess although the main popularity was the cards, it's not like they couldn't use them for a spinoff.

>>10111193
Good shit.

>>10089471
Just...temper your expectations, it is a PAINFULLY slow game.
Also do yourself a favor, do Yugi's route first. Kaiba's route gives a ton of absolute shit monsters and despite their high base stats, dragon monsters are the worst monster type in the game and you should never use them. It's all about Spellcaster/Warrior/Beast supremacy.

>>10111213
Oh also, monsters earned in one route carry over to the next but all the enemy monsters increase in starting level with every route completed (capped at 90) so Yugi's monsters will severely fall behind if he starts second and nothing fucking beats the Dark Magician combo or the Harpy Ladies.

ultramegaturbo cyber demon + ameba + shien spy + annoying traps and burn stuff. destroy everything and strike hard, that was my best deck. good times.

>>10111213
>Just...temper your expectations, it is a PAINFULLY slow game.
That was fine to me, I mean, dark duelist souls, stairway, and early games in general were kinda slow games too.

>>10110756
>My favourite TCG was Pokemon TCG on GBC.
You might really enjoy 7 trials or sacred cards then. It’s early enough into the card pool that the combat is more tit for tat, back and forth style like early Pokémon, and they are both top down rpg movement style like the Pokémon TCG game. If you can’t get into the gameplay of “caveman” yugioh, then nu yugioh most certainly WONT be the game for you, because it’s deviated into its own sphere, where as classic yugioh was still published by WOTC, who did the first few Pokémon sets too. It’s worth mentioning that wotc had a shitload more influence on set design than Nintendo and Konami will ever admit to, so the similarities are there

>>10111172
based ai with 20 card hands

>>10072512
I've only played 3 of the gameboy ones
Sacred Cards, Reshef of Destruction and Stairway to Destined Duel
I liked Sacred Cards, good for beginners since there aren't as many card effects
Reshef of Destruction was not enjoyable at all, way too much grinding
StDD was awesome, definitely my favourite so far although I've yet to finish it

>>10080970
Jinzo, always nice to be able to attack with worries or counter-measures

>>10113918
>attack with worries
without*