Tabletop Games

[Psychotime]

Speaking of online games, my roommate showed me some game called Solforge, and I have no idea what on earth he sees in it. Like, at all.

It's such a boring simplistic game with jarring inconsistent flavor, and in a boring way, not the awesome way Yugioh does it.* And the part that makes the question harder to answer is the fact that my roommate is very much a competitive Magic player. He actually bothered with the Pro Tour back in the day to help pay for some of his undergrad.

As I said before, I'm a casual player, and I find that his competitive mindset sucks some of the fun out of the game. So how the hell does he find a game like Solforge appealing when it's simplicity turns ME away?

*Yugioh naturally has scatterbrained flavor given it's origin, but some segments of it are actually appealing, and the lack of a universal "style" makes for wildly different archetypes with their own visual appeal that no other game would do.

They'll have a set of cards about cute princesses made out of desserts, and then costumed superheros in another set! Yugioh does this all the time and no one bats an eye at it. Name any other game where you can have a disconnect like this?

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(Also, if there's one thing that I've ALWAYS hated about Yugioh, it's the fact that they don't name their artists. It's a serious shame.)

Instead of going to the extreme and being awesome for it, all Solforge does is mix generic sci-fi with generic fantasy. The art is good, but that doesn't make it interesting.