I got introduced to it when season 1 aired on TV and I really enjoyed it. Relinquished and Thousand-Eyes Restrict were my favorites and if I were to play, I'd need my deck to revolve around them, else I would lose interest due to a lack of emotional investment.
It looks like Goat Format would be the perfect way to play for me, but I'm too shy and nervous to play with people because I'm very slow at thinking and would sometimes take 15 minutes for a single turn. I tried to get into Master Duel because there's no chat for people to judge in and I can see the fun of more modern additions like LINK monsters, but it's incredibly overwhelming and I'd first need to practice for hours in a solo simulator before I could be reasonably fast with my decisions and game plan. It's too much work for me right now, but I might try again in the future. I like the fact that Tour Guide and Sangan would be in my deck in that format, they're really cool cards.
I dislike how difficult the modern complexity of the game makes it for friends to just easily pick it up.

What about you?

I haven't touched it since 1st gen where winning is a matter of having cards with the highest attack. Tried watching a youtube tutorial on how to play nu Yu-Gi-Oh and it mindbroke me. Cards with 2 colors? What?

I never really understood how to play meta and neither did anyone around me so I just took advantage of people being unperceptive and having all pieces of Exodia to win.

>>4431
Who was this character. I remember I liked her but have no idea who she was...

>>4432
Why don't you use the reverse image search instead of asking?

>>4432
General kill everyone for the crime of making fiction from Re:Creators

>>4433
oh, right, forgot we had a button for that.
Makes me want to rewatch Re:Creator.

>>4429
I also watched Duel Monsters as a kid, had some cards too but I don't think I ever played the card game irl. I played some of the video games, mainly Forbidden Memories on PS1 where I had no idea what I was doing, and Eternal Duelist Soul on GBA where I had some idea. Then I watched YGO Abridged when that was popular, and I think I might have watched the "Season 0" too at some point. I also tried one of the DS games some years later, because I heard it had a pretty solid story mode, but didn't get too far. By that time I didn't care much for YGO anymore.

Recently I've been reading through the original manga, and it's rekindling my interest in the series.

>>4430
Yeah, I heard modern YGO has reached a level of autism where duels are basically decided on the first turn, sounds off-putting. At least we'll always have the old video games for the classic era.

Pretty much my favorite show growing up. Played a bit with friends with my cheapo scraped together deck and a bunch with Eternal Duelist Soul. I like laughing at what it's become, but I'd never try to play a game anymore.

Buster Blader was and is the best card.

>>4436
>I heard modern YGO has reached a level of autism where duels are basically decided on the first turn
It's complete bullshit.

I know very little of it except the stuff I've absorbed over the years on imageboards. I've never watched it, except MAYBE seeing a little of it as a kid in some 4Kids thing on local TV. I know about D-D-dueling and the crazy hair and Joey's funny face and uhh... stuff like that.
I just never got into it.

There's never been another piece of media which has made children's card games look so cool.

Zombie was and still is my favorite type, even if they suffer in modern YGO with all the GY hate. Waiting patiently for Dark Necromancer and Vampire support that hopefully sticks to a single game plan.
>>4438
Gotta love 10000+ ATK King.

Had a shoebox full of random cards back in the day, watched GX on TV, owned a keychain of >>4437, and played the Tag Force PSP game with a pretty jank Light deck throwing out whatever the packs would give me. It had The Creator as a boss monster.
I never got the proper way to play, but there was some fun innocence there.

I gave Master Duel a try back in 2022, and searching for Zombies I went with Doomking+Eldlich because look at the swagger of this motherfucker, come on. (No floodgates, though.) The undead are always the coolest and/or funniest guys in town. The game was fun to play for a couple months, and I posted some replays here, but I thought it'd be best for my sanity to drop it.
>>4436
>duels are basically decided on the first turn
It depends. Everyone runs several cards to immediately draw what they're looking for, but they also run several cards to stop their opponent from doing just that, and depending on the deck you may be more prone to bricking when you don't get the hand you were hoping for, to the point that you might as well surrender. So the first turn will very often consist of someone playing fifteen cards and whether the other player can interrupt that or not and at which point of the chain will determine if they'll have to face three omninegates several other counters or if they'll immediately give up and quit because you stopped them from getting off the ground. It really is a regular ocurrence.
>>4440
Checked, Bakugan could never.

>>4428
First experience was playing one of the GBA games
I remember getting slate warrior and thinking "That's it, there's not going to be a card more overpowered than this"
I've been meaning to play more modern yugioh, the technical autism of the game is fun in its own way

>>4428
My experience with yugioh is me trying to play WH fantasy and the table next to me smelling like satan's asshole

I watched the dubbed anime after school at my cousin's house and went on to (poorly) play the TCG at my middle school and in events for a couple of years. I don't really remember how to play. Through Yugioh I was also introduced to the WoW TCG and Magic; I trailed off playing the former around the same time as Yugioh and played 1 Magic event in 2006 then properly got into the game in 2013 and played for about a year. I returned to the game about 2 years ago; it's still possible to have fun with it but I largely think it's a shadow of its former self.

The appeal in most of these games for me is the art and how the cards look overall. I don't think most Yugioh art is a masterpiece or anything but some of it is still cute.

>>4442
>but I thought it'd be best for my sanity to drop it
I should really do the same and kick off the stockholm shackles. Good taste btw.

>>4445
>The appeal in most of these games for me is the art and how the cards look overall
Modern gacha could learn a thing or two about design variety from YGO.

My beautiful wife Raye!

>>4448
Yu-Gi-Oh sure has changed.

My experience with it mostly comes from ignoring the original dub and having a friend who insists it's the greatest thing ever. But he doesn't play the actual card game or even own any cards. He plays it on Xbox with a bunch of annoying black guys and tries to get me into it about twice a year. I play it for maybe a week before I get sick of the grind for the cards I actually want. All of them laugh at me for playing Madolche, Evil Twins and other cute/loli themed decks. Then they rage when I beat them using loop holes and things they consider unfair. Since the entire game is a stupid system without any sense of balance where everyone uses the same few cards to auto-play through a game. Usually, they'll resort to the same tactics I'm using with a different deck type then declare that it's no fun to play with me and spout memes I don't understand. I get bored with it after a week and forget about it until he talks me into trying it again.

During the Xbox 360 days when it was impossible to play on PC/Steam they mass reported my account because I used a hacked save file to save myself the trouble of spending weeks unlocking the cards I actually wanted. Real nice community. When it's obvious they're all doing the same exact thing I did.

I find most of the people I've met through it annoying and stupid. The only person I know IRL that constantly attempts to talk me into coming back just sits on his bed all day smoking pot and playing this damn game. Screams at his children to bring him snacks and then wonders why they don't listen to him. Refuses to leave the house or even his room for 5 minutes to hang out with the rest of us. He's basically isolated himself and missed 12 years of his daughter's lives because he's addicted to the game.

>>4450
If you haven't played in awhile Evil Twins (I think that's the name) is basically vtuber deck. But there is some loop I can't remember the details of where you can attack with the big lolis multiple times. You can even remove the card from the play field then bring it back out and attack again IIRC. Basically, once you have two cards on the play field which are super easy to draw and play there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.

I made a lot of long time "experts" at the game rage quit that week. They claimed the deck I had was broken/unfair or something to that effect. Even though 90% of the cards in the game are like that.

That's the "meta" of yu-gi-oh. Everyone uses broken shit until the next ban list comes out. Which just results in more broken shit. So most decks are built around the same handful of cards plus whatever monster happens to be over powered in whatever deck type you're running.

I took it serious for about a month and it was easy to get up to speed and beat people that had been playing for years. But none of it felt like an accomplishment because it's boring and easy. The people that are addicted to it take pride in the grind. They're like gacha players I guess. They get really really angry if you tell them you avoided the grind through a hacked save file or a bot. On the PC version I had a bot that would just play the game while I was away so I could farm candy or whatever the fuck you needed to buy deck packs. Really horrible game designed to get you to spend actual money. Took days sometimes weeks to build the actual deck I wanted. It isn't fun. At least with the 360 game I could avoid that and unlock the entire card list with a usb thumb drive.

The only fun part was making people that hate lolis rage. I only play cute decks and most people playing the game seem to really really hate cute girls. But now that it's rare for people to use public voice chat I can't hear them rage anymore so I lost interest. Just another fun thing discord and party chat ruined.

>>4428
Watched the show on and off as a kid, from the begining but I have more memories of GX and 5Ds

My schools library got Shonen Jump every week and the librarians set up a first come first served rule for the special edition cards - they made fun of me for having to walk to school but living so close meant I was often the first in the library to get the cards, which I still have to this day. Played the game in a tabletop afterschool club with a cheating autist who liked spitting on people, that didn't last too long. We didn't know the rules so matches were about as asspully as the show. I had my SJ cards and randoms I got trading things from other kids and a few I was able to buy at the store, nothing to make a decent or even full deck with but it was enough for me just to hold them in my hand and feel like a duelist

Hobbies and priorities changed as I grew up, I didn't really keep up with the franchise as a whole until Duel Links came out. I played at the start but stopped because my phone could not handle the game + life priorities. A few years ago I finally got a better phone and started playing again, sometime after XYZ but definitely before pendulums. I've been playing ever since, and when I realized I could also play through Steam I had it up on my other monitor while I worked almost always. At this point I love the game and I hate the game. I don't really bother with the recycled events they throw at us every month and only bother with ranked because playing casual mode gives me AIDS. It's all the same cookiecutter garbage decks they copied from someone else anyway. I really just focus on deck building and testing, and waiting to see what happens with its overarching plot

I even rewatched the original series last year. I'm aware there are some movies so I want to watch those before starting 5Ds (skipping GX, didn't like it back then, don't wanna watch it now). I plan to start reading the whole manga within the year. I love the series and really need to move away from Duel Links into these other things, it's killing me. I'd like to try some of the older Yu-Gi-Oh games too, that should help

>>4450
>>4451
Whew, I understand and feel sorry for your horrible experiences.
Personally I'd rather not touching the game at all than resort to cheating and not involved in gaming group if I already see signs of them being insufferable.
This is why I only play free YGO simulator like Edopro if I feel like playing.

>>4447
I know from working on Fortnite that it has a certain design philosophy when it comes to releasing skins: it has quotas, that some must be goofy, some manly, some girly, in the same way that gameplay items are designed to appeal differently to different demographics (casual, competitive, clueless, etc.), and I think Yugioh does achieve something comparable with its mechanic and visual design, but that this wouldn't really be applicable for your run of the mill waifubait gacha. The two prior games have lots of elements that all come at the same time, in batches, while the lottery machine releases its new prizes one or two at a time, and creating a SHAB requires more work than creating a card. I don't think this level of diversification would work as well, Mihoyo already does a lot just by adding men instead of just girls.

>>4446
I should add that the alternative Eldlich art also has some insane levels of swagger. A golden conquistador necromancer sitting idly in his throne of ruins, his whole theme perfectly tickles all of my fancies. In fact, I bought this one card just to have it next to my monitor because it's that cool.

>>4450
>>4451
Triple pasted: for dodging the grind, for pubstomping, and for doing so with the power of cute.
Although I understand why they'd get you banned like that, local card game matches are tabletop-adjacent in that the level of fun very much depends on what the people are collectively willing to set as the standard of play. Lots of stories out there about kicking out optimizers or cheeselords.

>>4454
cant believe we have a Fortnite dev in kissu!

The most meta thing to do is not playing Yu-Gi-Oh at all and just fapping to the porn. Konami doesn't want you to play the game anyway.
And I say that as somebody who has played on and off since the very beginning, dueled people in the streets, and been to tournaments.

>>4450
>>4451
As a longtime player who burnt out on it shortly after Tearlament (this is peak yugioh gameplay btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGVM0Yfw4d8), I think this percpetion of the game is sort of "wrong". Of course, it's a competitive game, of coure you play what you know works best. This is one of the key factors about yugioh that causes a lot of friction. There is not really a "casual yugioh", you can play old formats, but you're still playing old format meta. You can play lower tier decks against each other, but those decks are bad, precisely because the anti-meta tools every deck plays impact them much more severely.
The game is fun if you play it properly, the game stops being fun when you play bad decks against good decks. And most people unfortunately are casuals and don't know what the good decks are or how they play. It all just looks very unfair (it is, but you also ought to be doing unfair things).

Yugioh is a fun game, if you get to play it, but it is also a game centered around not letting other people play yugioh.

>>4451
Live Twin Spright sure was one of the ways to play the deck. It was far from the best one, because Trouble Sunny didn't come out on time, but it was one of the ways. Live Twin on its own is unfortunately quite bad.

>>4448
Here's to another thousand years of Sky Striker.
She really is the new Aleister.