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[MikeMyers]

I really liked it as a kid and tried to rewatch it now. The artwork, story, and characters are all decent but the duels kill it. The way the duels are executed it allows the heroes to pull out some trump card out of their ass at the last second so there is zero tension. Like when I first saw the Battle City, I predicted the winner every time and was right too.

I saw the first movie in theaters lol

As did I.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

God do I love early 2000 and all the butchered anime we got. Shaman King, One Piece, Ultimate Muscle, Digimon. I can't even remember all the shit I used to watch before realizing it was radically different from the original.

Remember in Shaman King where whenever a character would die they'd say they were "Destroyed."? "Oh man! Faust destroyed all of his opponents up until now, you don't stand a chance Yoh!" Good times.

 

[PK Gaming]

The best duel in the series was Joey vs Marrec because he actually wins, but he faints due to plot.

 

[wanders]

http://youtu.be/oyUluO-1vwY

 

[dakkumauji]

I thank this thread for making me check out where Zexal is at.

I am sooo glad this is ending.

And then it'll get buried and forgotten.

 

[TacticalFox88]

UGH! I just remembered...

The CONSTANT mini-flashbacks to shit that happened ONE episode ago!


UGHGHHHHHGHFLDJLSd

 

[chickdigger802]

I am sooo glad this is ending.

And then it'll get buried and forgotten.

are they doing another show?

 

[Prompto]

God do I love early 2000 and all the butchered anime we got. Shaman King, One Piece, Ultimate Muscle, Digimon. I can't even remember all the shit I used to watch before realizing it was radically different from the original.

Remember in Shaman King where whenever a character would die they'd say they were "Destroyed."? "Oh man! Faust destroyed all of his opponents up until now, you don't stand a chance Yoh!" Good times.

It was glorious. Do kids still watch anime? Is there any on tv at all?

 

[MrSaturn99]

Bad dub, apparently, though I'm not an expert on it.

 

[dakkumauji]

are they doing another show?

Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V is what the new series is called.

 

[Vashetti]

Anyone else adore the final series where we went back to Ancient Egypt and Bakura was revealed to be the ultimate villain?

 

[Ken]

mammoth graveyard, soul arrow, and polymerization to take out blue eyes ultimate dragon was the best thing ever

 

[joelseph]

I still say the heart of the cards thing while playing other card games.

You are a unique snowflake.

 

[Mecha]

I am sooo glad this is ending.

And then it'll get buried and forgotten.

What makes you dislike it so much? I'm curious to know before I ever start it.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

It was glorious. Do kids still watch anime? Is there any on tv at all?

I think there's still the Yugiohs, a new Digimon series and a couple newer ones like Cardfight Vanguard, but I think as the anime industry has evolved it's been harder and more expensive for more kid friendly studios to get the licenses.

 

[javac]

I remember getting these cards with the movie.

I also the 5 pieces of Exodia and the 3 egyptian god cards. WHAT NOW! COME AT ME!

 

[princemarth23]

Sounds like you've only seen the 4Kids dub which is really awful. They basically ruined the characters and really played up the friendship stuff. 5Ds was actually pretty cool btw.

 

[chickdigger802]

lol i remember being in the movie being... wait blue eyes shining dragon sounds like a terrible card.

 

[dakkumauji]

What makes you dislike it so much? I'm curious to know before I ever start it.

The main character is terribly bad. He doesn't know the rules (which is all fine) expect he acts like he knows the rules and gets all offensive when people who do know the rules tell him about it.

I mean, there are parts that are pretty cool (and parts that are stupid), but the main character is probably the worse main character I have ever watched.

 

[PK Gaming]

mammoth graveyard, soul arrow, and polymerization to take out blue eyes ultimate dragon was the best thing ever

ahahaha i remember that

Marrec's* expression after losing to Joey is priceless

*It's Marik

 

[themagicalkitsune]

why

Holy shittt I just realized that mark was a smiley face

This is goddamn hilarious

 

[chickdigger802]

oh god new show description:

The series will follow new protagonist Yūya Sakaki, a second-year middle school student[3] at the Leo Dueling School, the largest of its kind. The Leon Corporation, headed by Reiji Akaba, develops a new dueling system known as Action Duels, in which monsters are given mass and can interact with environments, that quickly reach worldwide popularity with Pro Duels. Yūya's life changes one day when he faces off in an exhibition match with the current Pro Duel champion.

going back to pre duel city yugioh kinda lol. Wonder how the tcg will adapt the new system. maybe the new cards have figures you knock down!

 

[kewlmyc]

Loved the show as a kid. Even dragged my mom to go see the movie with me (no amount of apologies can ever make her forgive me for that). Everyone was pretty much cheating though in the show.

As for the actual card game, I liked it. Not as much as the Zatch Bell card game (you had mini books you put cards in, shit was cash), but still a lot. I remember when I actually managed to win a game by summoning Exodia. I was king of the lunch room.

 

[javac]

lol i remember being in the movie being... wait blue eyes shining dragon sounds like a terrible card.

I like the design. It's pretty sick. Always rubbed me the wrong way that Joey had Red Eyes Black dragon. And it was weak as fuck. 2400 attack and 2000 def. If I remember correctly he loses the card in a duel to Kaiba?

 

[Dennis]

http://youtu.be/oyUluO-1vwY

Lets be honest though. That other dude got D E S T R O Y E D

 

[BTM]

I think I stopped watching after the Egyptian god stuff. It was probably my favorite show as a kid.

And wow, I just noticed that their friend-hand thing was a smiley face. Absolutely hilarious.

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

I remember seeing her when I was a kid and being so confused because she looked almost exactly like kaiba's lil bro

Kaiba has issues.

 

[javac]

why

Best Friends Forever Club.

 

[BocoDragon]

I guess I'm moving into oldGAF... Because when this show came out, we all knew it was garbage. And I'm talking anime fans here.. Thought it was garbage.

 

[weaKwillO]

oh god new show description:



going back to pre duel city yugioh kinda lol. Wonder how the tcg will adapt the new system. maybe the new cards have figures you knock down!

The TCG is just adding the new summoning mechanic called Pendulum Summons. The interaction stuff would probably be more reserved for a video game of sorts.

 

[Soriku]

Over the past week I've seen nostalgia for Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories. Did people actually enjoy that game? It gave no fucks to the TCG's rules, and got pretty hard. The only thing I really enjoyed was the ancient Egyptian setting, and seeing their counterparts of the show's cast.

It had a crazy good soundtrack and was fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkgWlLzkmgg

It was too hard though. Never beat it.

 

[chickdigger802]

so did zexal succeed in bringing in kids to the game away from cardfight and other tcgs?

 

[ultron87]

"Why the fuck is he playing Knowledge Pool!? Has no-one in this shitty show heard of Delver? Man my Legacy deck would destroy those guys"

The ultimate villain would play Storm. And be Kai Budde.

 

[javac]

Forbidden Memories was awesome. I loved when you pressed Square or was it circle during an attack and it gave you a 3D battle with some hilarious music in the background.

My main game was Worldwide Edition on the GBA.

The memories. Mystic Elf is hot.

 

[Mecha]

so did zexal succeed in bringing in kids to the game away from cardfight and other tcgs?

I doubt Cardfight has a big kid fanbase in the west. Yugioh is still one of the big 3 TCGs, but I doubt Zexal had anything to do with it.

 

[TacticalFox88]

Put soooo many hours into this.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

I doubt Cardfight has a big kid fanbase in the west. Yugioh is still one of the big 3 TCGs, but I doubt Zexal had anything to do with it.

Last I heard Yugioh was still the biggest cardgame in the world in terms of overall popularity.

 

[Haly]

The ultimate villain would play Storm. And be Kai Budde.

They wouldn't even need to make up any bullshit for Modern/Legacy.

There's already enough bullshit for 13 episodes.

(I want to see Yugi play Elves.)

 

[Slavik81]

I ran Gearfried + Butterfly Dagger + Royal Magical Library in high school with Chaos Emperor Dragon for a similar instant win. Along with Painful Choice just in case it was early in the duel and I couldn't play CED yet. Used the traditional banlist so it was within the rules.

Gearfried + Butterfly Dagger + Royal Magical Library was never an instant win under the official English rules. At least, not from between the initial release of the game and the IoC set. Long before those cards all got an English release, Konami/Upper Deck learned from the Japanese metagame and introduced a distinction between 'destroyed' and 'discarded' so Gearfried's effect would not trigger Butterfly Dagger.

The official rules were really quite complicated. Konami/Upper Deck clearly made some of the rules up as they went along in order to fix unexpected card interactions like Butterfly Dagger + Gearfried. Another great one is the fuzzy distinction between cost and effect (for which they flip-flopped on whether you must pay upkeep costs on continuous effects that have been negated).

I think my favourite, however, was Relinquished. It was the most complex card imaginable. The effect of absorbing opponents' monsters resulted in the smallest card text I've ever seen, and required an errata to get right. The original text, for example, missed what happens when you absorb a face-down monster.

Even better, the fusion of Relinquished, Thousand-Eyes Restrict, had even more abilities. Some were not even written on the card, because they couldn't fit. The errata added all the abilities of Relinquished to Thousand-Eyes Restrict on top of its own complex ability.

 

[Nachos]

Loved the show as a kid. Even dragged my mom to go see the movie with me (no amount of apologies can ever make her forgive me for that). Everyone was pretty much cheating though in the show.

As for the actual card game, I liked it. Not as much as the Zatch Bell card game (you had mini books you put cards in, shit was cash), but still a lot. I remember when I actually managed to win a game by summoning Exodia. I was king of the lunch room.

Let's face it; nothing can ever make up for dragging our poor parents to those sorts of movies. Still love my mom dearly for putting up with my nonsense.

And if the card game fever didn't dry up around me when I was still in middle/elementary school, I would've rocked this so hard:

 

[javac]

I think my favourite, however, was Relinquished. It was the most complex card imaginable. The effect of absorbing opponents' monsters resulted in the smallest card text I've ever seen, and required an errata to get right. The original text, for example, missed what happens when you absorb a face-down monster.

Even better, the fusion of Relinquished, Thousand-Eyes Restrict, had even more abilities. Some were not even written on the card, because they couldn't fit. The errata added all the abilities of Relinquished to Thousand-Eyes Restrict on top of its own complex ability.

Any idea what deck this came in? Maybe Pegasus' Deck? I had this card but no idea where from lol.

 

[weaKwillO]

Even better, the fusion of Relinquished, Thousand-Eyes Restrict, had even more abilities. Some were not even written on the card, because they couldn't fit. The errata added all the abilities of Relinquished to Thousand-Eyes Restrict on top of its own complex ability.

Thousand-Eyes Restrict is still banned in TCG and OCG to this day.

 

[chickdigger802]

I doubt Cardfight has a big kid fanbase in the west. Yugioh is still one of the big 3 TCGs, but I doubt Zexal had anything to do with it.

does yugioh though? Havent been keeping up with tcgs in a while, but its kinda weird that koonami hasn't released the last psp and the new 3ds game in the west.

 

[Slavik81]

Any idea what deck this came in? Maybe Pegasus' Deck? I had this card but no idea where from lol.

It was originally released in MSL (the 3rd set, IIRC) and later the Pegasus starter deck.

Thousand-Eyes Restrict is still banned in TCG and OCG to this day.

Huh. I quit the game about the time the first ban list came out. Seems an odd choice for banning, since it wasn't ever really that powerful.

 

[TacticalFox88]

Thousand-Eyes Restrict is still banned in TCG and OCG to this day.

You know your shit is broken when Egyptian God Cards are allowed before your card. haha

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

And if the card game fever didn't dry up around me when I was still in middle/elementary school, I would've rocked this so hard:

I played the shit out of this, my local Toys R Us went out of business right when this came out and I got a shit ton of cards for next to nothing. Then a month later nobody wanted to play it and we want back to Yugioh. Still, it was a solid cardgame.

 

[The Silver]

Did anyone play the Yugioh: Reshef of Destruction game?

I still have terrible terrible memories of being stuck at Great Wall of China fighting 5 guys in a row, I have no idea how I beat that game.

 

[Zee-Row]

Put soooo many hours into this.

I almost got that game just because I liked the boxart. Yugioh art is usually very cool!

 

[ThatObviousUser]

You know your shit is broken when Egyptian God Cards are allowed before your card. haha

The God Cards were never allowed, ever. I mean for one thing they're all colored wrong (except Slifer Osiris), and for another they don't even have their effects on them.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

The God Cards were never allowed, ever. I mean for one thing they're all colored wrong (except Slifer Osiris), and for another they don't even have their effects on them.

The most recent versions they put out are technically legal in the casual ban list, but never tournament play.