OT: What other games are people playing??

[JaydedOne]

Aku said:
Magic the Gathering was a great card game until Wizards of the Coast ruined it. I quit when they bought it and started making it like Pokemon by changing the rules, throwing foil cards in, and made it that you had to have a certain deck type to win and being a good player didn't matter anymore. I even tried going back to it a year later and EVERYBODY had the same exact deck and I asked why and they said it is the only good deck you can make right now. Oh and it happened to be with the most expensive cards also. Wizards of the Coast did the same thing with AD&D. I am still a 2nd edition player.

Heh. As a former WotC employee, I might be considered biased. However, the facts are the facts.

Wizards of the Coast never "bought" Magic: the Gathering. They invented/developed it long before they ever got around to developing Pokemon. As a Magic player from the beginning, it's always been a fact that the Rare/Expensive cards tended to be the game-breakers, although I'd argue that they've moved away from that element rather than towards it in recent years.

Oh, and to stay relatively on-topic, what I'm playing right now is Dom2, HoMMIV (which I'm rapidly giving up on), Madden 2005, and awaiting with horrid anticipation the US release of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.

[Aku]

Well yeah the bs stuff in the beginning of magic like channel and a black lotus and a fireball you die first round stuff got Banned etc from tournaments.

I think Magic was perfect when the deck minimum was 60 cards not when it used to be 40.

Maybe Magic is balanced again I have no clue. I basically lost track of it when it did the 6th edition classic.

[Pickles]

Well if you include computer games (of which Dom2 is the only one just now)
I am playing Bloodbowl, various D20 roleplaying games, Shadowfist, Call of Chtulhu CCG.
I also regularly play Alien vs Predator2 Warcraft III and Rise of Nations but am in hiatus.

Looking forward to the 40k RTS, Call of Chtulhu (though it sounds too "consoley", Vampire Bloodlines & GTA San Andreas.

Pickles