Great video, a shame this channel wasn't popular.

I lost my virginity in HS to a 26-yo woman from Singapore in a MUD.

I'm from the future. OverDress, despite everything, really is the future of Vanguard. Sure it has a little bit more problems *cough*Stride*cough*, but overall, OD is the definitive Vanguard format, and I've never looked back.

i wonder what happened to this channel? i really enjoyed their videos.

I need to see the OCG GOAT FORMAT

It’s a problem of categorization. Based on the loose qualifiers you have set forward, Metroidvanias can be qualified as RPGs, which is categorically false. I think the problem we have with Zelda as an RPG is the question: can I define this game as anything else? With Zelda, it can be called (and most often is called) an Action-Adventure game. Now - try this with Chronotrigger. What other genre would you say CT could be called? I can’t think of anything else. When you distill CT down to its purest essence, it remains a quintessential RPG. When you do the same for Zelda, it is muddled, but I would say more often than not folks would come down to the action-adventure definition as it defines the game much more faithfully. However, this LoZ/RPG question has become the “is a hotdog a sandwich” question for gaming, and ultimately is an exercise in banality.

Honestly i miss V era, yeah it got out of hand with whatever the current clans being in a set probably had the best support, but man was it fun. Honestly if they just released a little for each clan per set they would have never had to reboot.

Used to spend hours on these despite usually not playing anything older than PS2 era. Glad some of these are still around, i'll really miss a certain MUD named Eternal Wars though, i discovered it in a list of private server for an MMORPG and has been hooked ever since, power creep was crazy in that one, but that's what was good about it honestly. It truly will be a sad day when these will completely fade and even Torn City will shut down one day.

you should do a new video on the rise of pokemon tcg as a total powerhouse in japan. seems a lot of designer's are changing jobs to pokemon and the gameplay has never been better.

when will Lost Worlds come back from Disney Land :<

I played uo at release. It was amazing In some ways, like nothing id ever played. I had to beg my mom to get it for me at the store. It was so bad at first tho. My first char was a red evil lord just from accidentally double clicking blue players when we all would mob any monster we could find that spawned. The world was empty of anything to fight at first. 20 of us would jump an ogre in the woods. No warning gump if you accidentally double click a blue. Do it once, turn gray permanently. Do t twice, red permanently. Ruined my character. Then. Learned, give 30 gold 1 gold at a time to an NPC, and you can go from red to gray then gray bac to blue. No decimals for skills. So easy to get to 100 early on. However!! Couldn't lock skills, so run past a campfire, and youl gain points in camping and lose points in a random skill. Lost GM taming that way. Your GM smith could also be gone like that. Magic was ridiculously strong. Stats would not go up for anything, and no one was stat capped. It was rare to have 60 str to wear full plate. I had it and still would die to 1 fireball from a pk. Game so laggy, I could not outrun an elemental if I ran into 1 in the woods. =Death every time. Running into reds in the woods on the way to despise was also instant death. By the time you saw them, one spell was instant death. This is where I started dreading the words vas flam, corp por, por ort grav. It got better, but the very beginning was a total Trainwreck. Haha, also remember going into bottom of despise dungeon, full of dragons and lag, dead bodies everywhere, everyone looting everyone, and I doubt anyone got out alive, lol

Bushiroad have taken so many L with vanguard and Weiss, they had everything with vanguard years ago and now it barely make a quarter of union arena or wixos made. Questionable decision on dear days pricing, like wtf 800k idr for base game? And 3mil idr for dlc are you kidding me? Even rush duel giving people free dlc and bushiroad have the audacity to charge 3mil idr for the entire dlc, it would be much better if Bandai took vanguard ip.

These videos are pure gold, thank you!

and now WoW exists

That bit about making the secondary market cheaper aged like milk XD

Honestly this showing that Konami's always been at-best mediocre (if not often actively malicious) at handling Yugioh AND that the game was originally built off the GB game rules explains a *lot* about why it plays the way it does and why its so prone to the sort of ricketiness it has even now. The game was never meant to be played physically- almost all these ruling problems and loops are very clearly things a computer can immediately toss out a hard ruling for. Fascinating stuff.

I hope Duel Masters gets the same treatment

It is an rpg. Hell...i believe that games like blaster master and metroid are rpg 2!!!😊

Long time Magic player here who has never played Yugioh. Comparing the effects to the early iconics from Magic made this so easy to understand so thank you!

I wanna play this game but vanguard zero done closed hmm.. i dunno where i can olay again

First of all, hope you are alive and well. Secondly, PLEASE CONTINUE THIS SERIES!

It’s been 10000 years

And with the words "Yata Garasu" he flew away, never to be seen again, unless...

Yugioh definitely can copy this mechanic and to think about it with how yugioh works konami can literally create an archetype based on grid using column.

waiting for the rest of History of Japanese TCS D:

if only they make an online card game like MD, where u can play for free if you don't care about collecting all cards, and people who want to make more decks can buy them. right now dear days DLC have one of the most absurd prices I have ever seen. I want to learn and try cardfight vanguard, but there is no good option to do this online. I know irl play is probably better and affordable, but I don't have locals near me and stuff, I only played yugioh online.

I'm making a TCG myself, It's very interesting to see how YuGioH had such a simple start, yet it could afford it only because of the promise of something bigger and the manga.

I just defeated her and it wasn’t fun😂 This made it look so easy 😂

Very interesting and informative video! It deserves more views. I hope we get the continuation showing the 90s.

Hilarious that Snatch Steal sees like no play despite getting unbanned in January.

They have a beautiful mobile game but it’s in japanese only :(

Ive always liked Faxanadu but never realized it was part of a larger series. Neat!

Played the modern iteration of TorilMUD recently, very fun.

Is a JRPG veeery diferent.

just finished a rewatch of the whole series thus far and wanted to say thanks for all the excellent free documentary work you've done

low budget illustrated radio lol describes most low budget animations around the globe

watching the whole series a second time, here's a comment because this should be top of the list for tcg history searches

It's a great card game, but unfortunately hard to find in my area of Europe. The nearest location to play it is 2500 Km away.

My fave tcg still up to this day, love my locals

So, do you only have one party of monsters moving about the field? Just imagining if, rather than moving a set of multiple cards around the field, the cards could be placed outside of the grid, and some kind of figurine or marker could indicate where on the grid your party is. It just looks kind of cluttered as it is.

Gave this a shot not knowing how this game works but i feel like i walked away knowing less then i did going in, might be on me

Where can I play Vanguard online?

Man, a card based on a virus sure hits different in a post-COVID world.

The video is really good overall but I can't help but feel like the "Yugioh attracts a bad crowd" bit is too resentful over a few cases of bad apples and biased personal experience. I don't want to paint over the tendency that you've shown, but also make it clear that it isn't only with Yugioh. Besides many general stores refusing to hold Pokémon cards back in 2021 because of scalpers, the Van Gogh Museum collab with Pokémon in 2023 also went notoriously bad, with people desperate about getting a promotional card that wouldn't even be relevant competitively. Magic has a thorough history of cheaters - Yugioh has also had its fair share, but it's honestly mind boggling when you compare both side to side. Maybe it's because of the longer time it's been played for, maybe it's because of the value of the tournament win, but I wouldn't say it's because of the community fostered by the nature of the game. Why did you directly relate the Tokyo Dome Riot, a case in which excesive greed from Konami and underpreparedness (considering the Tokyo Dome had reached that many people the first time in history and this kind of exclusivity has only been repeated with products that aren't sold for a limited time) that led to 2 people being hospitalized, with people holding others gunpoint because of Yugioh, sometimes in different countries? Your first advice was to keep your deck near you in fear of Yugioh players? Mine was the exact same but for Magic, and yet I don't hold the entire community accountable for it. Saying that Yugioh is kept only for the "blood money" in LGSs is honestly offensive towards people who genuinely appreciate the game and what it has done for them, myself included. I understand you have a wealth of knowledge about card games in general and Yugioh isn't your cup of tea. In the last video, you've said Duel Monsters 1 was 'the most boring card game to be successful at the time' and yet it's still much fun to play through to this day, even if it's an intense grind. But because of how professional and well researched this has been, comments like these really stick out. It's really easy to research 'magic scandals' or 'pokemon tcg incidents' and come up with a similar number of articles to put on screen if I wanted to prove a point like this. It's understandable how you think like this from personal experience, but as a part of a retrospective about a card game, because Yugioh had a huge incident like this in its infancy, it does not mean that the game caters to a bad community. Please be more professional in your research, it's really close to being an evergreen video.

What an underrated channel :3

I'm trying to look for a particular artist's MonKolle illustration. Do you have a link or source for a card catalogue?

Thank you for helping solve the damn mystery with the anime that kinda just camped out in the back of my mind. I always thought a TCG was planned but just died.