1st Elderscrolls legends. I just love this game.In 3 and half years of hs i bought only the welcome bundle,but for this beauty i bought the dark brotherhood expansion and the starters offer(25euros) on day 3.It has great art and visuals,it showers you with free stuff and the prophecy mechanic is amazing.
2cd Gwent.I wasted only 500 hours on witcher trilogy, loved the gwent in game soo much and the standalone game is even better.A generous and amazing game and the love was put in to it is obvious.
3rd Hearthstone.Well it was my favourite ccg but its quality continues to decline with each expansion.Completely hostile to new players,it is simplified to oblivion in compare to its initial state,stale and now even more expensive.If it wasn't a blizz game with wow's beloved lore,it would have te 30% of the playerbase it has now.
4th Shadowverse.Even though the evolve mechanic it's great and it's superior to hs(better gameplay,more interesting decks,much more generous,better balance),i just can't concentrate because of its art.As you can see from my avatar and signatures,i am a weebo and the art of this game destroys my focus.The lolis put me to moe mode and the waifus to fap mode.I just can't take it seriously.Other than that great game and i recommend it.
5th spellweaver. Most complex game of all the above,again very generous and great gameplay.It is held down though by it's kinda bland art and the wall texts the majority of cards have.
1. Panini's Dbz (this is physical but i can play it in OCTGN)
2. Shadowverse
3. Hearthstone
4. Pokemon (would be first on the list if it wasn't for the existence of Shaymin EX)
5. Eternal
the reason i don't really like Duelyst and Faeria is because i feel they'd be better off as a fire emblem/krosmaster/final fantasy tactics kind of game, removig the cards and playing a set team of figurines/characters you built before the match, but that's just my opinion.
1. Hearthstone: It's still probably the most polished, I can play it on everything I own, and while it's more simplistic mechanically than other card games I actually still find the depth it offers to be satisfying. Also as someone who plays Warcraft and loves the lore it has a lot of appeal there.
2. Eternal: Basically a better version of MTG with the mana fixing options, and what seems like a very generous f2p system. I think I sunk $35 into the game and gotten a bunch of drafts out of it; since you get to keep the cards you draft it's basically superior to HS Arena, and I like that draft picks are generally a lot more flexible since you can splash colors. Currently I still need to finish the PvE campaign for the new cards, but the Time/Primal dinosaur decks are pretty much going to be my jam.
3. Magic the Gathering: I hate the digital offerings, but to this day it's still one of my favorite games and if I had friends who played I'd probably still be jamming it.
4. Duelyst: I really haven't played this one much, but I actually really like it. I might be too far behind to really catch up without throwing down cash, but it's cool to have a mix of tabletop wargame/card game.
5. Lord of the Rings CCG: it's a dead card game, but I played a lot of it back in the earlier blocks before things got weird (Gimli as the ring-bearer wut). To this day I haven't really seen another card game leverage that resource system, and I thought it was great.
Elder Scrolls, Gwent, and Faeria are all interesting to me but I really haven't played a bunch of them. Elder Scrolls seems fun and I'm waiting for the client to move to the US App Store, and Faeria just released to the App Store so I'm going to be playing that this weekend I think. Gwent seemed interesting, complex, and... buggy as hell; I'm going to just sit that one out until it's had time to mature a little bit, and I'm hoping they port to iOS when that happens.
Shadowverse's art for some reason is just a complete dealbreaker for me, I just can't do it.
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ESL is too much of a Hearthstone rip. Even down to the emotes, the runes in place of mana - only difference being larger decks and 2 lanes. I'm giving it a go though, it's pretty ... but some of the animations are horrendous. I mean, do I really need to wait to attack with one of my untis because I triggered an opponent's action? It seems to crawl through this obnoxious animation on their side, while you twiddle your thumbs. There's also way too much emphasis on taunting up [guarding in ESL] - I think it's perfect for those looking for something familiar, who don't like to stray much from HS to begin with.
Gwent is much better IMHO, I think it'll be a seriously good game once they add more content. A couple more factions for starters. It's much more a thinking game than either HS or ELS, it's not as ... 'casual' friendly maybe? You really cannot afford to muck up more than once per game. I love the structure, 3 rounds, triple lane boards, not merely units swinging to attack based on strength, but actual strategies involved. It's more like chess than HS really. I'd suggest trying it asap, build up some rank before open beta, as there will be a wipe, but you'll get free kegs according to your rank when it's open
I also tried Dueyst, which doesn't even feel like a TCG. More of a turn based strat game. Kinda more like Gwent only with 1990's graphics.
I'll have to give ELS more time, but atm I would have to say:
1. Gwent
2. Hearthstone [barely]
3. ELS
And I suppose Duelyst at 4, though I gave up on it.
That's enough for me, don't know how anyone can run more than that
I gave elderscrolls a try yesterday and holy shit it looks amazing.Hearthstone looks so shity in comparison and that prophecy thingy is super fun.I will try shadowverse and gwent too and might update in the future.
It plays very much like HS so you should be right at home. Behind all the fancy cut scenes and attempts at a story, the gae plays much like HS only you can build larger decks, and the board is split into 2 lanes - sometimes a lane will have an effect, like every time a unit is dropped in that lane, it'll decrease the cost of a card in hand etc ...
Honestly though, if you're after something different, I'd suggest trying Gwent.
1st Elderscrolls legends. I just love this game.In 3 and half years of hs i bought only the welcome bundle,but for this beauty i bought the dark brotherhood expansion and the starters offer(25euros) on day 3.It has great art and visuals,it showers you with free stuff and the prophecy mechanic is amazing.
Quick question, out of curiosity. Which class do you main in ESL? My guess, based on your other posts, would be OTK Battlemage or something :P
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Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health. - Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
Not sure it displaces anything on my top 5, but after getting a chunk of the Faeria solo missions done last night (I basically unlocked all the starter decks and then it was time to go to sleep) that game seems great from a mechanical standpoint. For the people that haven't checked it out I'd definitely suggest it.
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Not sure it displaces anything on my top 5, but after getting a chunk of the Faeria solo missions done last night (I basically unlocked all the starter decks and then it was time to go to sleep) that game seems great from a mechanical standpoint. For the people that haven't checked it out I'd definitely suggest it.
Is Faeria worth checking out then? So many card games to play these days haha It's kinda of hard to play more than a few at a time LOL
1st Elderscrolls legends. I just love this game.In 3 and half years of hs i bought only the welcome bundle,but for this beauty i bought the dark brotherhood expansion and the starters offer(25euros) on day 3.It has great art and visuals,it showers you with free stuff and the prophecy mechanic is amazing.
Quick question, out of curiosity. Which class do you main in ESL? My guess, based on your other posts, would be OTK Battlemage or something :P
Hahahaha you know me too well!Close enough,the 1st deck i tried in ranked was an otk action hexmage ,but because i lacked some key aoes and that high elf legendary,i failed miserably.I am a new player(playing for 2 weeks) and didn't have much time to play so i don't even have astromancer in the supreme form!Now i am playing an otk monk though! :D
Not sure it displaces anything on my top 5, but after getting a chunk of the Faeria solo missions done last night (I basically unlocked all the starter decks and then it was time to go to sleep) that game seems great from a mechanical standpoint. For the people that haven't checked it out I'd definitely suggest it.
Is Faeria worth checking out then? So many card games to play these days haha It's kinda of hard to play more than a few at a time LOL
I like Faeria almost as much as I like Eternal, and I LOVE ETERNAL.
Not sure it displaces anything on my top 5, but after getting a chunk of the Faeria solo missions done last night (I basically unlocked all the starter decks and then it was time to go to sleep) that game seems great from a mechanical standpoint. For the people that haven't checked it out I'd definitely suggest it.
Is Faeria worth checking out then? So many card games to play these days haha It's kinda of hard to play more than a few at a time LOL
This is exactly my problem, so many things to test and so little time! It might have been more feasible a few years ago, but game time is a lot more limited now between work and being newly married. Right now I'm pretty much considering just setting up a weekly rotation so that I can try to allocate time between at least a few of them in a semi-serious capacity.
Faeria is definitely worth checking out I think, though it depends if you liked Duelyst. I think Faeria does the boardgame/card game mashup a little better but if that wasn't something you enjoyed in the first place it probably won't change your mind. Right now I also can't speak to the ladder/arena experience or how good the f2p system is, so maybe those are also both garbage; I've enjoyed the starter missions though, the art style is legitimately one of my favorites and the game feels pretty polished.
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1.Shadowverse
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My magic will tear you apart!
1. Elder Scrolls Legends
2. Gwent
3. Eternal
4. Hearthstone
5. Shadowverse
thinking about trying:
duelyst
faeria
My Awesome Decks
I tried Shadowverse, Gwent, Eternal, Krosmaga but none was good enough...
There is no cancer deck in hearthstone ! You are the Cancer !
If we are combining TCGs and CCGs together:
1) Hearthstone
2) Pokemon
3) Star Wars: Destiny
4) Gwent
5) Magic TG
Is Gwent even available yet? I thought it was still in Closed Beta, but I'm seeing tons of people who are listing Gwent.
1. Hearthstone
2. Magic Duels
3. Elder Scrolls Legends
4. Eternal
5. Can I count Hand of Fate here? If not, Faeria.
1st Elderscrolls legends. I just love this game.In 3 and half years of hs i bought only the welcome bundle,but for this beauty i bought the dark brotherhood expansion and the starters offer(25euros) on day 3.It has great art and visuals,it showers you with free stuff and the prophecy mechanic is amazing.
2cd Gwent.I wasted only 500 hours on witcher trilogy, loved the gwent in game soo much and the standalone game is even better.A generous and amazing game and the love was put in to it is obvious.
3rd Hearthstone.Well it was my favourite ccg but its quality continues to decline with each expansion.Completely hostile to new players,it is simplified to oblivion in compare to its initial state,stale and now even more expensive.If it wasn't a blizz game with wow's beloved lore,it would have te 30% of the playerbase it has now.
4th Shadowverse.Even though the evolve mechanic it's great and it's superior to hs(better gameplay,more interesting decks,much more generous,better balance),i just can't concentrate because of its art.As you can see from my avatar and signatures,i am a weebo and the art of this game destroys my focus.The lolis put me to moe mode and the waifus to fap mode.I just can't take it seriously.Other than that great game and i recommend it.
5th spellweaver. Most complex game of all the above,again very generous and great gameplay.It is held down though by it's kinda bland art and the wall texts the majority of cards have.
Combining digital and physical card games.
1. Mtg
2. Vs System
3. Gwent
4. Hearthstone
5. Pokemon TCG
1. Panini's Dbz (this is physical but i can play it in OCTGN)
2. Shadowverse
3. Hearthstone
4. Pokemon (would be first on the list if it wasn't for the existence of Shaymin EX)
5. Eternal
the reason i don't really like Duelyst and Faeria is because i feel they'd be better off as a fire emblem/krosmaster/final fantasy tactics kind of game, removig the cards and playing a set team of figurines/characters you built before the match, but that's just my opinion.
1. Hearthstone: I still play and enjoy HS
2. Eternal: This game is a lot of fun, and I have been playing it a lot lately
3. Gwent: Good game, and it's better than I thought it would be. I play Gwent a fair amount these days.
4. TES: Legends: Awesome game, but I have not played much of it for some reason. I think that will change soon tho.
Too many card games, and not enough time to invest into all of them :(
1. Hearthstone: It's still probably the most polished, I can play it on everything I own, and while it's more simplistic mechanically than other card games I actually still find the depth it offers to be satisfying. Also as someone who plays Warcraft and loves the lore it has a lot of appeal there.
2. Eternal: Basically a better version of MTG with the mana fixing options, and what seems like a very generous f2p system. I think I sunk $35 into the game and gotten a bunch of drafts out of it; since you get to keep the cards you draft it's basically superior to HS Arena, and I like that draft picks are generally a lot more flexible since you can splash colors. Currently I still need to finish the PvE campaign for the new cards, but the Time/Primal dinosaur decks are pretty much going to be my jam.
3. Magic the Gathering: I hate the digital offerings, but to this day it's still one of my favorite games and if I had friends who played I'd probably still be jamming it.
4. Duelyst: I really haven't played this one much, but I actually really like it. I might be too far behind to really catch up without throwing down cash, but it's cool to have a mix of tabletop wargame/card game.
5. Lord of the Rings CCG: it's a dead card game, but I played a lot of it back in the earlier blocks before things got weird (Gimli as the ring-bearer wut). To this day I haven't really seen another card game leverage that resource system, and I thought it was great.
Elder Scrolls, Gwent, and Faeria are all interesting to me but I really haven't played a bunch of them. Elder Scrolls seems fun and I'm waiting for the client to move to the US App Store, and Faeria just released to the App Store so I'm going to be playing that this weekend I think. Gwent seemed interesting, complex, and... buggy as hell; I'm going to just sit that one out until it's had time to mature a little bit, and I'm hoping they port to iOS when that happens.
Shadowverse's art for some reason is just a complete dealbreaker for me, I just can't do it.
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ESL is too much of a Hearthstone rip. Even down to the emotes, the runes in place of mana - only difference being larger decks and 2 lanes. I'm giving it a go though, it's pretty ... but some of the animations are horrendous. I mean, do I really need to wait to attack with one of my untis because I triggered an opponent's action? It seems to crawl through this obnoxious animation on their side, while you twiddle your thumbs. There's also way too much emphasis on taunting up [guarding in ESL] - I think it's perfect for those looking for something familiar, who don't like to stray much from HS to begin with.
Gwent is much better IMHO, I think it'll be a seriously good game once they add more content. A couple more factions for starters. It's much more a thinking game than either HS or ELS, it's not as ... 'casual' friendly maybe? You really cannot afford to muck up more than once per game. I love the structure, 3 rounds, triple lane boards, not merely units swinging to attack based on strength, but actual strategies involved. It's more like chess than HS really. I'd suggest trying it asap, build up some rank before open beta, as there will be a wipe, but you'll get free kegs according to your rank when it's open
I also tried Dueyst, which doesn't even feel like a TCG. More of a turn based strat game. Kinda more like Gwent only with 1990's graphics.
I'll have to give ELS more time, but atm I would have to say:
1. Gwent
2. Hearthstone [barely]
3. ELS
And I suppose Duelyst at 4, though I gave up on it.
That's enough for me, don't know how anyone can run more than that
Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health.
- Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
Not sure it displaces anything on my top 5, but after getting a chunk of the Faeria solo missions done last night (I basically unlocked all the starter decks and then it was time to go to sleep) that game seems great from a mechanical standpoint. For the people that haven't checked it out I'd definitely suggest it.
Articles I suggest every player reads to improve at the game;
MTG/Hearthstone biases to avoid
Reframing negative Hearthstone experiences to improve at the game
Who's the Beatdown?
1. TES: Legends
2. Hearthstone
3. Magic: Duels / MTG physical CCG
4. Pokemon Sun&Moon with the kid (physical CCG)
Tried Shadowverse. it is good but not too different and I dislike the manga style. Looking forward to Gwent!
Articles I suggest every player reads to improve at the game;
MTG/Hearthstone biases to avoid
Reframing negative Hearthstone experiences to improve at the game
Who's the Beatdown?