Hey everybody. I didn’t post the thread yesterday because I was on vacation this past week, but with a 3 day weekend today is spiritually sunday. Anyway, I have completed all the rememberences in Nightreign, and so thought my time with the game is at an end, but they just announced that a new ultra hard mode is coming out soon, so I will definately be checking that out. Other than that, I played some more balatro on my phone while I was away. Hope everyone has had a relaxing weekend

  • SmithrunHills [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    will i get crucified for succumbing to predatory and hyper-exploitative gaming practices if i say i play gacha games? because master duel and sword of convallaria have hooked me by the balls–the former out of sheer addiction rather than actual enjoyment

    I’ve also been enjoying MTG Forge Adventure so much that I wish other prominent TCGs had their own equivalent. I would pay so much for a modern RPG of the Pokemon TCG

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      21 hours ago

      Some of the older yugioh games are pretty good in that regard. I too yearn for a good card game rpg. Every single player card game nowadays is a rogue lite and it doesn’t scratch the same itch for me

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        15 hours ago

        It’s sad that they stopped making World Championship games once the Zexal era started- I played so much of 2011 and that was genuinely so peak powercry-2

        playing master duel nowadays feels like actual masochism and torture lmao

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      Haven’t heard of MTG Forge Adventure, what’s it about? My wife loves MTG and is also addicted to mobile games lol. Might recommend it to her for when she burns out of her current one

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        15 hours ago

        So MTG Forge Adventure is a free, community-made project single player RPG where you fight against CPU enemies in a free-roam randomly generated map. It’s still in development and receives regular updates. As a reference, it’s pretty similar to Shandalar if your partner has heard of that. Very brutal difficulty when starting out though

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      19 hours ago

      People make excuses for the Pokemon TCG even though its one of the most predatory shit that exists imo, not even a game and targeted at children. If that game didn’t manage to throw the whole franchise under the bus I’m not sure people actualy care about gachas discourse at all in practice sadly.