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Update on frontpage (5-27-2005)
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KH's card system was... interesting, to say the least. The game was bloody hard. Not nearly enough to satiate me until KH2 comes out.
We'll have to wait and see. From the screenshots, though, it looks like any other RPG, with HP and MP. Perhaps cards would act like specific spells or items? Or perhaps something like materia?
We'll have to wait and see. From the screenshots, though, it looks like any other RPG, with HP and MP. Perhaps cards would act like specific spells or items? Or perhaps something like materia?
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You know, I used to think card-based RPGs were silly and a waste of space. But after having spent some time playing them, there really is something to it that can make it fun. I'm playing Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution right now and I was prepared to think it was stupid, but it's surprisingly addicting in its own way. It's definitely a different gameplay style and has a some flaws from the storytelling perspective, but that's not a fault of being a card-based RPG so much as someone not shoving in enough cut scenes. I also played both the Lost Kingdoms games, which are card-based action/RPGs.
The main issues I think people have with card-battling games are suspending disbelief and a reluctance to crunch a lot of info down to build a good deck (since that requires working knowledge of all or most of the cards, which can be very time consuming to obtain).
I would actually be more irritated if all the cards in the game are merely collectibles and completely findable, except only in an obscure fashion. If my ability to obtain a card is a game of chance with the odds stacked vastly against me, I don't care if I never collect them all. But if all the cards are fairly obtainable and I still manage to miss them I get very irritated (like with Lunar Legend when I discovered that the card shop stops selling certain cards after a certain point in the game).
The main issues I think people have with card-battling games are suspending disbelief and a reluctance to crunch a lot of info down to build a good deck (since that requires working knowledge of all or most of the cards, which can be very time consuming to obtain).
I would actually be more irritated if all the cards in the game are merely collectibles and completely findable, except only in an obscure fashion. If my ability to obtain a card is a game of chance with the odds stacked vastly against me, I don't care if I never collect them all. But if all the cards are fairly obtainable and I still manage to miss them I get very irritated (like with Lunar Legend when I discovered that the card shop stops selling certain cards after a certain point in the game).
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If you want to get into the nitty gritty of it, a "card" rpg can be broken down as far as the first suikoden. With I believe something like 128 characters, to get them all it was almost like collecting "cards". I mean that was a great game and all, but who used all the characters? I think i remember there being a few useless ones. All in all though I hope this game doesn't let my hopes down.
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