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.
What game is it and why do you think it's the best card game?
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:
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!
When I was a kid I used to collect Dragon Ball cards printed by Panini. Decades later and scavenging my parent's basement I found the collections. Unfortunately even if I remember completing all the collections, some of the cards were in a bad shape or missing, so I decided to fetch the missing ones in a second hand market (like a grown-up kid fetching and bartering cards 😂 ) till I managed to rebuild the collection back to its former glory.
So now I can showcase the binder where I keep my entire collection with pride. Posting the images, though I don't know if I should have made a video instead. Gotta think about it.
If you search around you can find the English version of it. There is no button mashing, it's a puzzle game after all where you play as a mole that moves rocks and digs below the surface to cross obstacles.
The wooden pieces of Quarto are really nice to touch, and create a very visually appealing game.
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!