Oh no, they have built-in AI battle assistance and they're going to allow card trading? Sounds like I'm only ever going to be playing against farm bots...
“Pokemon TCG Pocket” New Cards, Crown Rares, Gameplay, Mechanics, and Soft Launch Date!
- Thread starter Water Pokémon Master
- Start date
1
I think it's good, we shouldn't have games like this. A TCG client should just let you play the game. Imagine Pokemon TCG for GB but for the modern age. YOu pay your fifty bucks and you can play the game as much as you want. None of this Microtransaction bullshit. It's scummy, it's evil, and I don't respect it.
The thing is, the fact that the mechanic leads to some specific skills being required to navigate them is just an unintended consequence. If I had to bet, I would say that back in the 90s, when the game was designed, they just didn't know better, and that's why the mechanic came to be, I doubt they designed it with the deliberate purpose of making it a skill intensive thing. And I also believe that we would be better off without it, the cons outweigh the pros. TCGs already have a degree of randomness by nature, the added randomness of prizes is not only unnecessary, but detrimental, specially in a game that leans so heavily on being so matchup and tech dependant. Praising the fact that the mechanic creates a collateral of demanding skills to solving a problem that shouldn't exist to begin with, is like praising the fact that people who go through some bullshit troubles come out stronger on the other side.
I get it, but every game would feel so repetitive and boring knowing that anything you need in your deck will be there. I’d say the the cons for it really aren’t that bad and prizing adds a sense of risk and chance to the game were you don’t know if something will be there or not. I don’t think they should get rid of it, but include more cards that interact with it. With how far the pokemon tcg has come, it would hurt the image of the game, cause prizes are something the big 3 don’t rlly have. I think it is great that we as a community can debate these things. Some like it, some don’t. But we all love the same card game.
With the benefit of hindsight, I think something like Weiß Schwarz' clock system (where you exile cards from the top of your deck equal to the amount of damage you take) would work better than prizes.
No release in my country? Sigh!
Maybe that’s a good thing… still don’t get the hype and Pokémon Go and Sleep give more than enough mobile game play as it is.
Maybe that’s a good thing… still don’t get the hype and Pokémon Go and Sleep give more than enough mobile game play as it is.
i cannot imagine what would possess someone to suggest that the use of life decking would be preferable to what we have now. could you explain in what way that could possibly ever work better than prizes? what would that even represent?
I feel like the points system works better considering the decks are only 20 cards
IMO the TCG artwork has been pretty lame for the last year, yet this is the first consistently good artwork since 151. Also how is there no discount for spending $100 vs $10? Do they not understand how to make money off a F2P game? Really not impressed with TPC lately.
Yuck 
sad thing is I'm sure this will get way more resources and run way better than the actual game. I don't really understand the energy pool, sounds like it's basically just hearthstone mana system? With the cards we've seen so far I just don't see how this game is going to be interesting at all to play, and the steep cost to play the game makes it even worse.
sad thing is I'm sure this will get way more resources and run way better than the actual game. I don't really understand the energy pool, sounds like it's basically just hearthstone mana system? With the cards we've seen so far I just don't see how this game is going to be interesting at all to play, and the steep cost to play the game makes it even worse.
For me, this IS why F2P cards games ( especially runeterra ) are so fun, you have to actually deckbuid. Not everyone have a Meta deck and people are kinda fcking around with thé cards they have. Just like playing cards as a kid
The app has launched in NZ.
I got an Exeggutor ex in my first pack, not too shabby. Also I luckily got the Charmander art card from the Wonder Pick.
I got an Exeggutor ex in my first pack, not too shabby. Also I luckily got the Charmander art card from the Wonder Pick.
F*ck microtransactions. Not touching this at all. In fact, you actually pay more per Poke Gold for buying 500 vs buying 5 lmfao. Man I hate when corporate greed sucks the joy out of something great.
I'm that much not a fan of setting cards aside as permanently unusable. Either that or putting the KOed mon into a prize zone, maybe? IDK.
you're not a fan of losing the ability to use certain cards as a consequence of a random element at the start of the game and your proposed solution was life decking, such that the player loses the ability to use certain cards every turn when they're attacked and losing the game hinges on losing all of the cards in their deck? nevermind that interacting with prize cards has been a recurring thing since as early as Jungle.