I’ve played Civ 6 for countless of hours, and I gotta say Unciv managed to hook me up to my phone. It can be played on a potato and yet the gameplay is on par or even better than Civ 6.

Thanks to the devs for it!

I understand your point. Though honestly DRM-locked games should have some kind of compensation, like lower price. Games like Zelda or Mario don’t usually have such treatment, whose digital version always has full price.

I always wonder who buys a Mario or Zelda game digitally at full price.

Do you think so? First, it seems a cumbersome feature. Second, you are NOT the owner of the game since you do not even have the possibility to sell the game, should you wish to.

I can see the advantage over regular DRM games, where you can lend the games. But depending on the price range nothing beats having the physical cartridge.

And that’s why I love GOG. It would have been interesting if you can completely transfer the ownership of the virtual card, but I don’t think Nintendo will permit such thing.

This means that it is not natively supported, is it?

I’m a big fan of gen 2 so I mostly played romhacks based on that. To me the GBC offers a better experience than GBA because of the chiptunes compared to sound samples. Some personal recommendations:

• Pokémon Polished Crystal: it’s pokémon crystal, but natures and abilities have been added, new movesets making lot of pokémon viable and interesting, and overall it’s an enhanced experience from the original game. I fully recommend it
• Pokémon Prism: another romhack of crystal, but it’s a complete overhaul of the game where action doesn’t happen on Johto and Kanto, but on completely new regions Naljo and Rijon. It’s an incredible experience, and the soundtrack is top notch (the gym leader music is amazing)

Basically fightcade allows you to play online with those games :)

Do you play in fightcade or in some other way?

What game is it and why do you think it’s the best card game?

Tetris attack is nice. If you had a Gameboy color, try Pokémon puzzle challenge, you’ll love it!

Try LinkedIn, that’s where I got most of my jobs.

I never played Secret of Mana. I might give it a shot shortly!

Seconding this. Yu-Gi-Oh abridged is super fun.

DURO, MONSTA CARDO!

Never knew about such accessory. Back in the day playing with 4 people must had been a lifelong experience!

Then maybe I’ll stick to the digital version. It just streamlines the experience and I can focus on what is important: meaningful strategic decisions :D

Well explained, I could feel right away the adrenaline rush of finding something unexpected and trying to come up with a story for it!

Thanks for sharing your experience!

Fortunately, in steam, gog and android there is a digital version of Through the Ages, which is 100% faithful to the physical game, has a lot of challenges and online play. That’s mainly how I play, and a 4 player game with AI takes about 20 minutes.

I sold my physical copy of it. It was a difficult decision, because it’s probably the best card game ever made. But it’s very fiddly, and it takes about 1 hour per player. In the end for strategy games I care about making meaningful decisions, not fiddling with pieces.

I’m curious, did you ever find anything interesting with a metal detector? If so, what it was and where did you find it?

Thank god it says “Fake card” at the bottom. Otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to ascertain if it was a real playable card :joy:

When I was a kid I liked to collect Panini trading cards of Dragon Ball and other mainstream TV shows from the time. To me, the form factor of a card is amazing:

• in a small piece of paper, the artist needs to convey a picture shot which is significant and visible enough, as well as some text or description
• they are usually standard size of 63x88, which makes it easy and cheap to find sleeves and all kind of goodies like binders
• because of the previous points they are easy to store everywhere without occupying too much space

This fascination for cards made me get into card-related hobbies as a growing adult, like cardistry, card magic tricks, Magic the Gathering, LOTR LCG, as well as collecting. I was motivated to intensively play card-related games (nowadays my favorite card games are Race for the Galaxy, Through the Ages and Slay the Spire, and keep collecting valuable cards from TCG games (until prices started to skyrocket, the point where I decided to leave).

For a long time, I stopped collecting, but about two years ago I wanted to collect cards again, which coincided with the apparition of Lorcana (which has beautiful cards of my favorite Disney characters). The problem? I was not willing to sink in an enormous amount money. Still, I wanted to have something special and meaningful to me.

What did I do? Easy, I created my own cards! I created a krita template (which I will share when it is polished), grabbed fanart and screenshots of my favorite movies, shows and videogames, and designed cards for them and printed them into my local printer shop. And the result was amazing, I learnt a lot in the process and it’s given me a lot of ideas on other kinds of cards I could print.

If you’ve reached this far, thank you very much for reading my story!

Oh I did that too with my dad, though my dad was not very gamer. Ken, alongside Ryu is one of the easier Shoto characters to play