“Pokemon TCG Pocket” Now Out in New Zealand, Beautiful New “Genetic Apex” Cards Revealed!
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Cool stuff! I like the Alakazam, and the Nidoking is super cute. Aside from that, from a card art standpoint I appreciate that there aren't a lot of words on these full art cards.
Beautiful tomokazu Komiya at that doesnt really exist. No this is not the worst thing. But it's close
No they don't. Your actual cards exist and you can use them forever
Let's not do that again. Evolutions was such a disappointment. We could have had all sorts of cool cards but they wanted to only use base set. No jungle no fossil no vending cards except for the Mew. Which sucks because it was aesthetically pleasing. But no let's not ever do that again unless we're actually going to use an assortment of older sets.
I am not saying they read my yapping about Base Set Remastered, but this is a hilarious coincidence otherwise.
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I feel like this concept is very offensive to people who have supported the TCG for over two decades.
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i definitely agree, i would really like that mew art in person same as the porygon
Why don’t you just get your online version PSA graded? You would probably get a better grade then anyway.
I wonder what the development timeline for this game was, seeing as there are no Gen IX Pokémon in this set (Annihilape I understand because this is basically 151+, but we don't even have Kingambit for the Pawniard line) but we're using Gen IX mechanics (albeit with a Gen VII layout)
I want to like this but I feel like this is gonna be a rug pull. A lot are complaining that they cant make money off this game (investors) and I personally feel like this is a worse experience despite not playing. I'd rather play Live and not a watered down experience. This feels like a Pokemon Quest flop.
I have been casually playing on it since the NZ release. It's okay, my biggest complaint is the RNG of pulling cards. I have a few nice cards for Psychic and Fire; my Water play while not as good is still okay. But the rest of my Type decks suffer due to RNG. Opened 40 odd packs and still can't make a decent Darkness deck. Also the Wonderpick needs to be changed. Spending your points to access a bundle of 5 cards should allow you to select the card you want FROM that bundle, not a random pick of the 5. If you are gonna make me pick at random, then reduce the cost to 1 as opposed to 3 for a batch that contains some EX cards. I get that they want people to use the shop but at the same time, you need to make it possible to make a damn type deck for the content they provide.
Lots of naysayers that yapped before even seeing how the game was gonna play out, must be feeling a little silly right now. You can already tell, from the people making and consuming content for the game, that this is gonna be the hugest hit ever. People are locked behind VPN stuff to play, and it's still crazy that some channels that just began, get tens of thousands of views in every video. People are eager to play it, and the content creators all say that they've been completely surprised by how much they loved the game, and how much engagement they're getting.
Turns out the gameplay is actually pretty fun, and having the different set of rules, along with power levels that seem to go back to a time where you still hadn't had almost 30 years of powercreep, actually makes for a fun, engaging play experience. People who had never played the TCG in their lives are loving it, and people that already play the TCG are liking the new puzzle of discovering what works in this completely different paradigm of rules/power level.
The economy is looking fine as well, except for just a few easily correctable things. Apparently, putting a couple hundred bucks in the game gets you almost everything that is mechanically unique (i.e. you have access to normal exes and stuff, you just won't have all the alt arts stuff, which is perfectly fine, since alt arts are a vanity thing and not required to actually play the decks). In fact of the top of my head, the only really annoying thing right now is that the crafting system is complete ass. You can craft a regular ex if you opened like 100 packs. It's just not worth it. let's see if they'll change that.
One thing that worries me though, is something that is at the same time a god and a bad thing. And that is how much this is attracting people that had zero familiarity with the TCG. It's good for obvious reasons, because it will make the game grow. But the bad thing is, people that are clueless about how the TCG usually is, as in, what is the "culture" of the TCG, in the sense that what is usually considered ok, or even necessary. For instance, they see a draw supporter and say that it's OP and broken and should be nerfed because every deck runs it. While there's nothing wrong with that. They say "P's R is Pot of Greed, and Pot of Greed is broken!", well, guess what sherlock, similar effects should be treated differently when they appear in completely different games. They're already crying about Misty, they need to nerf Misty, which is a "flip until you get tails" style effect...anyway, people are completely clueless, and already being very vocal in their clulessness. So I hope the Pocket app is handled like the actual TCG and they only ever touch anything if it gets really grotesquely bad. Cause right now it's actually an amazing gameplay experience and there's nothing wrong with it (for anyone that has played the TCG for years and has more context in evaluating stuff at least).
Turns out the gameplay is actually pretty fun, and having the different set of rules, along with power levels that seem to go back to a time where you still hadn't had almost 30 years of powercreep, actually makes for a fun, engaging play experience. People who had never played the TCG in their lives are loving it, and people that already play the TCG are liking the new puzzle of discovering what works in this completely different paradigm of rules/power level.
The economy is looking fine as well, except for just a few easily correctable things. Apparently, putting a couple hundred bucks in the game gets you almost everything that is mechanically unique (i.e. you have access to normal exes and stuff, you just won't have all the alt arts stuff, which is perfectly fine, since alt arts are a vanity thing and not required to actually play the decks). In fact of the top of my head, the only really annoying thing right now is that the crafting system is complete ass. You can craft a regular ex if you opened like 100 packs. It's just not worth it. let's see if they'll change that.
One thing that worries me though, is something that is at the same time a god and a bad thing. And that is how much this is attracting people that had zero familiarity with the TCG. It's good for obvious reasons, because it will make the game grow. But the bad thing is, people that are clueless about how the TCG usually is, as in, what is the "culture" of the TCG, in the sense that what is usually considered ok, or even necessary. For instance, they see a draw supporter and say that it's OP and broken and should be nerfed because every deck runs it. While there's nothing wrong with that. They say "P's R is Pot of Greed, and Pot of Greed is broken!", well, guess what sherlock, similar effects should be treated differently when they appear in completely different games. They're already crying about Misty, they need to nerf Misty, which is a "flip until you get tails" style effect...anyway, people are completely clueless, and already being very vocal in their clulessness. So I hope the Pocket app is handled like the actual TCG and they only ever touch anything if it gets really grotesquely bad. Cause right now it's actually an amazing gameplay experience and there's nothing wrong with it (for anyone that has played the TCG for years and has more context in evaluating stuff at least).