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.