Does anyone play pokemon? Also Hoopa?

[Goblin-King]

So it's the 20th anniversary of the first game. 20 freaking years! Feels like it was yesterday I was looking for mew under the truck...

Been steadily catchin' em all but sadly I missed out on Hoopa...
I thought I would ask here (why not?) if anyone has either a Hoopa for trade or a functioning code laying around.

Also general Pokemon thread I guess

[QorDaq]

Heh... Kind of silly for me to post in a thread just to say, Nope, don't Pokémon ("Do you even Pokémon bro"?)...

But, nah, I don't...*Chuckle*...

[slev]

I didn't even hear OF it until the CCG came out. I'm just too old really. By the time it came out, I was reading for my A-levels at college, listening to Carcass, and playing 40k.

[cornixt]

I've played the card game. It has the same fatal gameplay flaw that all CCGs have, but it is 10 times better than MtG just because it doesn't introduce unnecessary complexity.

[Count Mohawk]

It has the same fatal gameplay flaw that all CCGs have,

What flaw would this be? ...Is it that a large portion of the cards available for play are worse or strictly worse than some of the others?

[Goblin-King]

Best cards are usually the most rare aka most expensive.
Also the randomness. If you can't draw energy or monsters you are boned. No matter how good a deck, sometimes you loose to a bad draw.

I agree that the complexity of MtG is both it biggest strength and it's downfall. I have a hard time getting my friends to play MtG, but something more simple as Card Wars we can all enjoy.

[cornixt]

It has the same fatal gameplay flaw that all CCGs have,

What flaw would this be?

A player with a moderately lucky start (good combination of cards) can beat the other player into submission. It's rarer to have a balanced game when both players have balanced decks. One player gets a powerhouse card and is able to win turn after turn while the other player has to scramble defenses and find something to stop it. Dicemasters, which is a bit like a CCG although it uses dice, seems to have fixed the problem for the main part. Actually, I shouldn't have said "all CCGs" in the first place, I haven't played enough of them to know if some of the less common ones have fixed it, which I'm sure they have.

...Is it that a large portion of the cards available for play are worse or strictly worse than some of the others?

That's the fatal flaw with the CCG system, well fatal in that I refuse to buy into such a system. My kids just see shiny stuff they want to buy though, so I end up playing them either way.

[knightkrawler]

Had sex, got high, listened to Tool and Korn.

[Goblin-King]

What has that to do with pokemon? Jeeze...!

Also this:

[QorDaq]

That's pretty funny Goblin-King... Particularly as it fairly sums up a conversation I just had about a week ago with one of my Resident Pharmacists (who is a Pokemon junkie)...*Smirk*...