Yu-Gi-Oh versus Nostalgia.

[@romeorifles300]

Im going to be real, the last time I was into Yu-gi-oh was in 4th grade. Most kids had either a Yugi or Kaiba deck plus a couple booster packs, maybe 1 kid had a polymerization card everyone wanted for their purple monsters, and Yugi and kaiba were still dueling on that island. After like 20 years now I just picked up two of the 4 pack Retro booster packs box sets and I'm having a blast. If they reprinted those original decks id buy a set of each just to duel my friends old school style, paper play mat and all, no bs just back and forth like the original show. I really do enjoy your videos though because it brings me up to speed on just how much the game has changed since I last remembered it. Goddamm.

[@kitkat4892]

Sadly the game can't live off of nostalgia for it's literal first year. I do wonder why people who are focused in on that specific period are so vocal within the community vs other games. Like I played yugioh for 3 or 4 years starting with it's north American launch, I am not nostalgic for launch decks and legend of blue eyes, many of those cards were pack filler. Zombie support was my thing big Vampire Genesis player back in the day lol. I'm not a sweaty player I don't goto locals for ygo but most of my tcg experience is at the pub with friends, that's been a great social environment for all sorts of decks.

[@Boza_]

I'm someone who's newly gotten back into yugioh, the 25th anniversary reprints gave me a new spark I collected from 2002 till about 2005 originally as a kid

[@7itemstone]

Welcome back💯🎴

[@TastySnackies]

I’d love to see sales metrics of nostalgic vs non-nostalgic products. From what I understand, competitive players aren’t going to spend all of their money on sealed product, when they can just outright buy the singles needed for their decks, and need all extra money to pay for events/travel/etc. However, I expect that most nostalgia customers will almost exclusively only buy nostalgic product, or products that are catered to nostalgia. I expect Konami is keeping their game alive through solely the purchases made by nostalgic customers, to subsidize the lack of sealed product sales from competitive players. When it comes to generic casual players, I think the venn diagram between them and nostalgic players are almost a full circle. I expect that casual players who still keep up with the game are a very small fraction of players. And since there is no widespread casual format, like Commander, I don’t think the Yu-Gi-Oh! casual scene will grow at all. So Konami has to depend on sales from customers who are nostalgic for a 25 year old version of the game.

[@otterfire4712]

from what I've seen a fair number of competitive players will buy at least a case and resell their excess singles to buy up the remaining pieces for their deck.

[@kitkat4892]

@@TastySnackies domain format has a lot of potential for the casual scene (commander type format)

[@rafaelmartinelli9377]

Nostalgia is the only thing that keep me playing this game.

[@TaijutsuObi]

@@rafaelmartinelli9377 I’m in the same boat as you. I often take a break from the game but something always pulls me back like a deck I love getting new support and every time, it seems like the game is in a much worse state sadly

[@Allinguts]

100%

[@jvontaylor9533]

@@TaijutsuObimy thoughts exactly, it kinda adds a point to Paul's earlier video, people like us who love our old unplayable nostalgia cards who comes back every other format turn into the midcore ygo player.

[@theeendo3677]

Literally

[@regail7143]

My opinion as someone who got in because of the anime... I think there needs to be a balance, because even if we got a modern yugioh anime series.. it would be the most disconnected from the actual card game, compared to each other era. Turns take so long and decks are capable of so much now that there is no way that an anime would be able to even come close to mirroring it.

[@7thHourFilms]

You're so right. I find it fascinating that the people who want a new Master Rule anime clearly didn't watch Vrains. And this is not a critique of Vrain's plot or writing but the actual duels just got to be too much. Soulburner vs Revolver was 2 full episodes of all of 5 turns. The guy that wrote the duels for all the shows admitted that Vrains was too hard and that was over 5 years ago. There is no way they could write duels for the current format. That's why we have Rush Duel shows.

[@jasmineboivin7758]

I am still so sad that Dark Magician Girl shirt is sold out and they haven't restocked

[@roughlystable9175]

Dropped a video the second I open the app😂

[@DudeRetro]

A Yugioh isekai anime would be amazing. A kid in a card shop playing yugioh gets transported to the world of yugioh and goes on an adventure with some of the monsters from the cards like DMG, Celtic guardian and some others. They could go to regions of the world where there are the other archetypes from the game and there could even be fun Easter eggs in the background of scenes that are images from the cards. That would be sick

[@Cocytus995]

What you described was essentially the later half of YGO GX Season 3.

[@KevinTangYT]

I think it would be a great story to tell from a card game designer PoV. Most of the playerbase are not children, and part of OG Yugioh's appeal is the relative maturity compared to its competitors. You can have Easter Eggs like Trap Holes, Raigeki, trash mobs of Goblin Attack Force and Goblin Merchants selling Pots that act as lotteries. One way to do it could be like the way Fate/Grand Order's Protagonist summons Heroic Spirits that may or may not match the setting. So let's say we have Sanctuary in the Sky vs Pandemonium (kinda like Diablo?) since it was one of the core sets. The protag pulls Vic Viper, Draining Shield, Blade Knight, Swords of Concealing Light, Horus Lv6, MST, Burning Land, ground Collapse. How would they use this to navigate through the world? Take a look at Zenshu as an example of an isekai where the storyboarder falls into their own world they created.

[@VictorTAnderson]

I'm loving the content grind 💪

[@7thHourFilms]

Dear god, I'll take any new anime (Master Rule, Rush, Lore) or no anime at all over a reboot of DM. Okay, now that that's out of my system: I get why they reuse Yugi and Kaiba. They sell to the elderly (of which I am kinda one). But there should be more of the other shows. Like there should probably be 4 structure decks put out in a year and 2 of them should be anime character focused. So we have the Blue-Eyes one next month which is Kaiba kinda. Blue-Eyes itself is probably as iconic if not more than Kaiba himself so that's 1. Then let's also do a Yuma/Utopia deck or a Leo/Morphtronic deck. Spread the love for the other shows! And then do another structure that's like Lightsworn legacy support and a brand new archetype structure. Make them all have staples, make them affordable, make them diverse in new and old content. Boom. That solves like half of YGO's problems. And then release Rush Duel so Paul is forced to watch peak and not disregard the current anime.

[@kitkat4892]

Fellow Rush Duel enjoyer i see

[@KillSwitchNecro-hq4or]

I'm still playing Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I'll always prefer old-school. It's just what I grew up with. I feel like now it's about who can combo off and have the most negates. And what I remember about old-school Yu-Gi-Oh! was actually both players playing. As for merchandise, I would like to see a diversity of monsters and characters.

[@ONIGIRIKINGU]

Negate died out last format. Yugioh is more interactive and a game where both players are able to play freely compared to old school yugioh. Where there wasnt too much back and forth

[@bej4987]

I want a speed duel anime set in ancient Rome/Greece, with cameos of the ancient Egyptian counterparts of the characters. We could have card games on chariots.

[@shimapancyra]

I actually appreciate the newest legacy supports for the nostalgia deck e.g metalmorph red-eyes and blue eyes link to be able to compete with modern decks.

[@Shenmoki]

Paul is just persistently putting up a mirror to Konami and refusing to elaborate

[@jimmyha1898]

There definitely needs to be a balance between nostalgia pandering and the game itself. I got into yugioh because of how much I enjoyed the DM anime, but I find myself unable to get excited over the 50 millionth reprint of Blue-eyes (especially LOB or Tablet art because I really don't like those).

[@apsamplifier]

_Which do you think is the best path forward for Yu-Gi-Oh: looking ahead or looking back?_

[@JimmysALilGirl]

If we can only have one and for as much as it pains me to say... Looking ahead. We can only live in the past for so long and eventually the older fans will either stop playing or die, so the game NEEDS to focus on the future. BUT, everything old is new again at some point, so the old YGO could make a comeback in the future and hopefully to a mostly new audience.

[@lavalord96]

Before I say anything, I've long since left the current yugioh as one of my main games (one too many ash blossomed cards lmao). However for me personally, I say go back to the roots. I feel like what has happened here is an over-indulgence on power creep to sell more product on konami's part, rather than putting creativity first and foremost into card design. It's even started to affect legacy support; Like making an old boss monster legacy support a floodgate or omni-negate instead of something more unique because there's not really room anymore if they want to make it "viable". Call me "old-minded" but I honestly think the beginning of the end for my enjoyment of yugioh, were powerful handtraps. I think we got gas-lit into thinking that they were a "Necessary evil" to balance special summoning a billion times or setting up turn 1 omni-negate boards, but counterpoint, why not just... Not make and/or ban the cards that DO that? I'll tell you why, these new powerful handtraps were a band-aid fix, so it could allow konami to keep selling grossly power creeping cards, with the least commitment. We've reached a point where a card that lets you banish your opponents entire board aside from 1 card, is seen as a mid-tier option nowadays. That's gonna be a yikes from me bud. Look I'm not gonna say what's fun and what isn't, but if yugioh is gonna survive without becoming a zombie, konami has to REALLY crank up that "fun and enjoyment" factor. Look at what people are playing; Old formats, take inspiration from there. It's what I did for my own custom format, by looking at "Goat Format" and basically starting yugioh over from there to make a differently balanced game, and I gotta say, we had fun with it. I'm usually the kind of guy to keep moving forward, but I think yugioh is a rare exception to this mindset. It's like looking ourselves in the mirror almost.

[@mr2oxking]

I love the anime and because of that have worked on creating something I call LARPing format as a balanced nostalgia form of the game because honestly we need official alternatives so we’re not all forced to play the game the same way across the board with the only exceptions being with your friends that agree on specific restrictions

[@otterfire4712]

Looking to OCG. TCG already mirrors a lot of recent banlist decisions in the OCG so reverting core sets to OCG style boxes and product would help entice the purchase of product from all players and not just whales. They can keep the banlist fairly similar but now they can save a lot of money not having to spend time or money commissioning art and game designers making tcg exclusive and dedicate more towards improving card text layout and mirror OCG's style of text organization.

[@doctorexodia8882]

Honestly, the OCG/TCG is beyond repair. And Rush Duel is repeating some core weaknesses that early yugioh had (such as tons of weird and useless bloat and filler cards). Just reboot Yugioh completely, even change up the rules somewhat more, give it a new anime featuring the changes and tying the monsters to cool characters... and most importantly: design it in a way that allows for a playable and meaningful draftable format. If there was a good playable yugioh draft format, i wouldn't touch another trading card game for the rest of my life.

[@existinginaspace8347]

Recently trimmed down my hoard. I tried to keep less. But I ended up keeping more than I had planned. Kept 2 small binders of favorites. 3 GOAT decks. 2 meme decks. And 4 of my normal decks. 1 large binder of just cards I like the art of. Still ended up setting aside several binders of holos and rares and other more valuable stuff I'll never play. Selling all this offline is going to be annoying. I ******* hate the IRS and refuse to take E payments and ship. So it's always annoying when it comes time to sell. Usually loose my shirt. But the space is worth more than the cards at this point.

[@wolf0o01]

let's be real if they stopped the nostalgia train then that would be a big hit in revenue since there's like 50 archetypes I would consider Nostalgic. Dark Magician, Hero's, Crystal Beast, anything anime related I would argue is nostalgia. Truth is that nostalgia is why I started playing Yu-gi-oh and why most people leave and then come back. The only reason why people think it's bad... well I think it's bad because they're not making those shitty old cards good. Because then you'd stop buying the nostalgic decks. They truth is that anything that got you hooked into Yu-gi-oh is automatically Nostalgic. At the end of the Day Nostalgia is a Double edged sword on one hand it's nice to see old decks get brought back to life on the other hand there's old archetypes that don't get any love and forgotten about... It's give and take but I get it. I'm also getting tired of seeing another dark magician card that doesn't make the archetype better.

[@nathanielsmith2617]

Man is on a rampage this week and I'm here for it!

[@apsamplifier]

Trying my best!

[@donchindle2958]

That's unbelievably true about the card game feeling barren without the anime. It boils down to """why""" a lot of people play yugioh rather than other card games. DM, Red-eyes, and Blue-eyes all look cool, but a lot of cards looks super cool. They're played widly NOT played because they're top-tier decks, but because I think a lot of people want to roleplay as Seto motherfucking Kaiba.

[@Xfighter22]

To survive, yu-gi-oh needs an OFFICIAL. Low powered format, with a custom ban list, and maybe custom rule set (that still uses the same cards, and the rules are still 90% the same) but has a currated card pool/minor rule tweaks to allow for slower/more back and forth game play while still being able to introduce new cards as the times progress. Edison and Goat are great, but I completely understand that Konami can't make money off a format with a closed card pool, and honestly it would be nice to see a format like edison, in modern yugioh where any deck even if it won't win you a torunament on its own, can still feel fun and not insanely gapped by the better decks.

[@fakename2890]

They could create different rules for each era. The orignal formate could have a draw and lock bird rule added, where each player can only search one card per turn. Also restrictions and costs on spell cards as well as monster card effects. Such as paying life points or discarding cards added to most of there effects if they are made past a set date. Newer cards would require the discard of two cards and no card discarded for the effect can be used at all until the following turn. GX would have rules that allow fusion summons to be better than anything else while limiting everything else in creative ways. 5Ds era would have rules that limit and restrict everything except sychro summonings but also have costs added to very powerful effects. Like a formate set in duelist kingdom that allows all cards, but they each have a bracket that they are in that adds additional costs or restrictions based on what year they where made. Thank soul charge's cost effect added to all spell cards released of a set year or newer. Where it's 1k cost in LP if it's effect is weak all the way up to 5k if it is a strong card given that year. Adding restrictions or additional costs could balance newer cards allowing them to be played. Like pot of greed, but you have to discard four cards before drawing any cards would render it unplayable for most decks. or super poly requirering an additional discard per opponent's monster used for it's fusion summoning outside of GX era's rule set. Custom rules could even give draws and life points for summoning key monsters such as Dark Magician upon summoning you draw one card, instantly making it viable. Some other buff for each DM character's main monster. Imagine some really powerful effect activate upon summoning blue-eyes ulimate dragon that makes it worth the hassle of summoning. Like some effect that mirrors a modern monster's effect, just better under the restrictive rules that the DM era would play under. What effect would Gate Guardian have that would allow it to be worth summoning? Six Sense's effect is the only one I can think of and I would need both effects to just say 5 cards instead of a dice roll for it to be worth it. mill 5 then draw 5. Powerful modren trap card effects added on to DM character's main monster's upon summoning would work to enable old decks to face off against newer decks as long as the newer the deck the more restrictions they have to play under.

[@ONIGIRIKINGU]

As someone who played back when og relinquish came out and stopped watching at playing and watched to only begenning of 5D then coming back in to yugioh due to seeing tearlaments. Im tired of old format, nostalgia and those who want old yugioh or format. They wont buy or are the one that barley buy products or never play the game. They talk about rereleasing old packs and people buy it but lets be real these people who think of old yugioh are those who buy a pack cause they randomly remembered about yugioh, they arent the ones who buy, the deck boxes, mats, new sets, new boxes, pay entry fees that us competitive fans do. Feeding to only nostalgia will kill yugioh

[@ChaosMarx]

I hope Dark Magician Girl is the mascot for the upcoming Master Duel Anniversary.

[@AnonAnon-b8j]

I don't mind BE or DM being mascots for the franchise, but I understand rotating mascots to help variety. Blue Eyes and Dark Magician have evolved from being just monster cards to archetypes. I think it would do Konami good to at least update decks like them for the modern game and I do believe we are there with BE synchros and DM XYZs. This could help nostalgic players ease their way into learning the modern game while sticking with the classic monsters they are attached to. I wish Konami would also give these decks good support. I like playing DM and I've been interested in checking out Gaia because of the surprisingly lot of cards that have been printed for him only to find out he isn't good much like DM. We can say Konami caters to BE and DM but it's not like us DM players are eating good either when support doesn't facilitate the spell/trap gameplay and insistance on using the OG DM and DMG cards. I think it hurts when they plaster DMG up and get people who wanna play DMG only to find out these cards kinda suck.

[@CyrusIsnt]

Yugi never used a D wheel yet theres too much DM d riding 😂😂

[@ValBLdn]

My yugioh experience - watched the OG show 20 years ago and had the first cards. Disappeared for 20 years. Came back and now collecting reprints, speed duels and watching KZbinrs duel with old sets. No understanding or interest in the meta game 😂

[@paulerichson]

You know after watching RedMufflerMan's Joey Vs Weevil But It's Modern Yu-Gi-Oh. I think it is possible to do a new anime in that style set in that world. And maybe even focus more on the characters thinking about the meta game or trying to find some new hand trap or important part of their deck before a tournament.

[@vincentpoirier845]

time wizard is a start to get new people in they should print sets to give reprints of those cards (possibly with new foils to get more collectors) then move on from there with updated formats (like move on with new banlists and sets to support them) while starting with a dm era set would make sense rotate between eras not just dm

[@coolbrotherf127]

The biggest thing most people miss about older Yu-Gi-Oh is that it took more turns to play even in the "modern" formats before around 2018. Condensing the game down to "Did you have the out in the opening hand?" Doesn't lead to a fun game play experience for a lot of casual players and takes months of studying to get caught up on all the details of the current competitive meta. More turns allow for more exciting build up, pay offs, and big plays as players fight for control of the board. The modern competitive format goes to turn 5 at most and older formats would go to at least turn 10-15. I think that's what other popular games have done well. Even with some power creep, most games have mechanics that physically limit how quickly a deck can win to at least give the opponent the semblance staying competitive even if they weren't going to win. For the average player, depowering the game a bit so that certain cards can't just "do everything" and give the game time to ramp up into a late game state would make it much more approachable and readable for people.

[@TastySnackies]

@@coolbrotherf127 if I have to spend the 10 minutes to set up my playmat, pull out my deck, shuffle it, and begin the game, only for it to end within 3-4 turns, or heaven forbid an OTK, then I’m not gonna bother with it. Games gotta last to at least turn 8-10 before the time needed to set up would be incentivized.

[@mohammedsarker5756]

tbh a lot of Yugioh players would probably be happier just switching over to MTG

[@coolbrotherf127]

@@mohammedsarker5756 I mean, 90% of people playing anything but MTG or Pokemon are probably ex-Yu-Gi-Oh players. Games like Flesh and Blood, One Piece, and especially Elestrals are filled with them. I know because almost everyone at the locals for those games are all people I used to see at the Yu-Gi-Oh locals 5-10 years ago. Every year the Yu-Gi-Oh locals shrinks as it's pretty much just a play testing group for the few people trying to top the next YCS event. Anyone not that serious just loses every game and quits showing up. It's why I moved onto other games that were more accessible for casual players as I don't have the time to play all the time as an adult with a full time job.

[@kitkat4892]

​@@mohammedsarker5756 was gonna say, the yugioh a lot of people seem nostalgic for was just a less good magic, and those who want those longer games should check out magic it's power ramp through turns is it's core thing.

[@cubiCampla]

Your videos are always so nice and easy to listen to. I think konami REALLY needs to focus on other formats and reprints (they did good with Maxx C recently). Not only time wizard format, but maybe a commander style thing like they tried with Cross Duel. but we see how well that turned out... I think unfortunately that anime waifus print money, especially if their effects are good and konami wants money at the end of the day. They can just come up with new rarities and slap old cards in new sets for the nostalgia players. Edit: I do kind of miss the old style cards that were kind of like grotesque monsters in a painterly art style. It really feels like a different game with the same name nowadays. The turns go so fast with no resource system.

[@vdinh143]

I mean, without the fantasy from the anime, does Yu-Gi-Oh as a card game stand on its own? If you're printing new cards that uses a mythology from somewhere, what even is Yu-Gi-Oh as a brand? Is it just a card game with no cost and crazy first turn? As someone who came back for nostalgia, i am perfectly happy with dragon link, branded or even tenpai. I chose the blue eye structure deck to get reacquainted with the game then explored and decided to main dlink on my own and it doesn't feel any less Yu-Gi-Oh than dark magician. But if i hadn't had that blue eyes starting point, i don't think i would be playing at all. So in my opinion, Konami needs to balance both: keep the nostalgia alive and competitively relevant but also create other tie-ins with new, compelling anime products. Look how much good Edgerunner did for Cyberpunk, although it's also a top level anime so maybe that's a bit of a high standard.

[@KatToTheFourth]

I think a big thing that makes the newer archetypes less interesting to me is that I feel the anime characters personalities bled into the archetypes quite a bit. Junk on its own is just cool robots, but in the context of the anime they're the cards nobody wanted who had their potential come to fruition because of Yusei. For me I play archetypes like Red Eyes etc. and it reminds me of the anime characters I enjoy. Kinda cheesy but I really feel the lack of the anime makes these newer archetypes feel so much less personal and a lot less interesting as actual monsters, even though older archetypes have objectively less going on. As for reboots, I think Yu-Gi-Oh could easily take the Cardfight Vanguard approach. Start over by printing new cards with a lower power level, and the old Yu-Gi-Oh continues as an eternal format. The new cards can still be used in Eternal YGO without the old cards affecting the new format. CFV also prints new sets around 3 times a year for the old format, so Eternal YGO players would still have new cards and archetypes to look forward to.

[@kitkat4892]

What you're asking for is Rush Duel and they need to bring it to the tcg

[@doctorexodia8882]

You have problems with reading comprehension, because he made several points that are NOT met by Rush Duel. ​@@kitkat4892

[@blugrave4345]

Do a Yugioh refresh of the anime as you said. But, make it based off of speed duel that's already there. Then, they can rerelease some of the sets but in non 1st edition. Keep the game simple as it is. Then, after get through all of the original and GX game, start a sequel anime. This anime will take place after with characters from the original and GX meeting one another. Then it ends with the duel bikes becoming a thing. PS I love speed duel.

[@chikasnotmadjustdisappoint6266]

It doesn't help that Yugioh has a big issue in drawing in new players due to it's insane pricing and steep learning curve. Because of this the majority of Yugioh players are those who grew up with the original anime with Yugi and Kaiba and have play it since the beginning when the game was way more simplistic. As a result, this would only incentivize Konami even more to cater towards that crowd since nostalgia is such a very powerful tool.

[@codyhanson1344]

Being competitive may be pricey, sure, but you don't need to be competitive to be involved. In fact most people aren't. What is needed is either a much stronger casual community, like MTG has, and/or draftable booster sets, like MTG has, in addition to simpler card design, which would help the learning curve.

[@herlastborn]

I don't mind the "nostalgia" factor when they don't push it so much. If they were to present their Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician decks, piloted by actual dueling masters and not just some random people, I think people wouldn't hate "nostalgia" as much. What got me playing the game is seeing "top" duelists in the anime play their hearts out for whatever small victory they could get. Also, something that would be nice is if they could do a duel while presenting the lore of the decks they are playing if it's a modern deck. It would be cool if someone who might be checking out modern YuGiOh could have some context for why viewers would be excited when a "lore moment" happens. It could double as a way to provide context as to why some cards have specific effects and present my favorite thing about YuGiOh: the art.

[@xInfiniteCaliber]

If you wanna bring back those people, do a DM or GX Sequel series.

[@johnnywu8708]

Honestly, numbers will show that old YGO does way better than the new lore archetypes they release, but I'd wager that's also because old YGO had a lot more time, and Konami actually lets old YGO shine, whereas they have no faith in their big lore archetype that releases once every several years. They don't push them at all, and the one thing people have been begging for, they're only now beginning to slowly dip their toes in the water. If Konami cooks with those OVA's, they will be able to attract that broader anime audience and get new blood in that way.

[@ZephyrNadir]

If they were to revisit the DM era, I'd hope it would take place after the dark side of dimensions story, and focus on Yugi and Kaiba with their modernised decks, introducing new reimaginings of old decks with all the new summoning mechanics of modern Yugioh. I do love DM era stuff, but as much as I want those nostalgic monsters to be usable, the player base can only withstand so many retrains of old cards before I feel they will lose their charm. On the other hand, DM (battle city era and after) was easy to follow and understand rules. I feel like a "modern" anime that showcased the modern playstyle, would be borderline unwatchable for the majority of people. Long board set ups, handtraps galore, and 2-4 turn duels wouldn't be as marketable or appealing as the older 'I get maybe 2 monsters in a turn to make an extra deck monster and sit on that until my opponent figures out a way to destroy it' style of yugioh.

[@bleack8701]

I'll be honest, without nostalgia I wouldn't even bother with the game. It has so many issues that if I didn't have the nostalgia for it, the thought of even playing the modern game wouldn't even cross my mind. I also only cared about Branded and Magikey because they told a story through the cards. Most archetypes are just whatever visually. Nothing really captures the clean design of a Dark Magician. Just look at his original card design and look at the current card designs today. We went from a portrait of a magician to this zoomed out landscape photo with very detailed background on a tiny card. Look at Cyber Jar. It's simple and to the point. Now look at Dramaturge of Despia and I can barely see the guy because hes 1/2 of the image and he's 1/3 of the entire card. Even cards like Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Chaos suffer from that to an extent because his art is almost full body. If thr art iist stopped right before his knees and it was zoomed in, the character on the card would be much more memorable. Then you jave monsters like Albion, which I just remember as "that one red fusion branded monster" because it's also full body and it's hard to see any identifiable features Then there's rhe dact that Konami of America deopped the ball on marketing anything past GX so now they replace protagonists from other shows with DM characters (looking at you Mako). The marketing is stuck in the past, but the card game has become something so different thay if it was renamed to something else I wouldn't think it's Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@josephcourtright8071]

I don't think these two groups need to be in competition with each other. We just need more formats. Give me an anime based format. Keep the modern format.

[@Ked7]

An anime deck only tournament would be fun. And it would be incentive to play more “pure” builds. Perhaps ban some handtraps in that format.

[@coolbrotherf127]

Even if they don't have an "anime" format, some kind of official depowered format designed to make sure duels can't be won faster than like 8 turns with the average game going to like 12 would make it a lot more accessible. Giving the game state a clear early, middle, and late game would be more interesting than the "win in one turn or scoop" meta that we have these days.

[@W_Sir_Morpheus]

I mean they did a anime format it was called speed duel, they printed cards for that format and everything, see where that went....

[@W_Sir_Morpheus]

I mean, im perfectly fine with dark magician, blue-eyes, and DM era stuff being the mascots. They resonate with the players or casual fans more so then idk stardust dragon even through stardust itself has its place in nostalga. But if you ask a random millennial about yugioh their gonna mention blue-eyes, or exodia sooooo yeah🤷. Besides Pokémon has Pikachu as their mascot, theres hundreds of other Pokémon to pick from but they stick with Pikachu, nostalgia sells.

[@hectormoreno3940]

Couldn't find the shirt on the Website :(

[@pyunker11]

Anime reboot but it's speed duels.

[@kitkat4892]

Speed duels dead tho

[@pyunker11]

@kitkat4892 main game is ded tho

[@onilady1186]

I'm all for nostalgia. I think you can market it two ways tcg side new cool cards merch ect to satisfy that side and a nostalgia side for people that just want their rose colored glasses and fond memories, I'd love to see more character merch in February we finally get a cute mai figure with the re-ment set I'd like a new master rule anime with a female protagonist I think it would help blaze a new path.

[@waynemcmillian5445]

I think if you have played Yu-Gi-Oh during the 2000 and you kept playing it and you start seeing the game slowing start to get faster and more complex and getting more mechanics like synchro, XYZ, and Pen summoning really started killing the card game .

[@RapDog62]

Agree. Synchros killed the game so hard it's why Edison is the least popular retro format.

[@gabrielfeldinger6533]

Truly had the exact opposite experience. Played since LOB and the synchro era was my favorite time to be playing, and pendulums are why I came back after quitting

[@Ked7]

I like the concept of the new stuff, I grew up on the anime.

[@androiduser3895]

I played from inception until pendulums, I left because of the ban list not the fact that pends were a thing. I gotta say late synchro early to mid xyz was peak, but I returned a couple of years ago and I do like today's game as well

[@kitkat4892]

There are people who are interested in the Brand of yugioh but never got into yugioh outside of the bare minimum and they get upset at what the game is vs what it is in their head. Somebody who was into set 1 and starter decks and the anime and who wants to feel like they have a place in modern ygo should be able to play Rush Duel because its simple and their favorite characters are STRONG archetypes... BUT STILL ITS NOT PRINTED IN THE WEST AAAA. The day they release rush can't come soon enough!

[@theeendo3677]

Kinda reminds me of old-school runescape vs runscape3

[@CrossDuelBattleArena]

I like older yugioh better but love current yugioh because all the support for old school anime cards we never had before, like all the cool dark magician and red eyes support & I like all the new cool cards like Zeus and baronne de fleur but to me it makes sense for the newer cards to get stronger & stronger if new summoning mechanics came out or not. So yugioh is still the most fun card game to me and in my opinion if you where a really good duelist back in the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! or around the time of GX or five D’s you are still a great duelist now and if your playing master duel you should be able to reach the highest rank still even if you’re using a anime or under powered deck, it took a while but I got to diamond one rank in master duel with a dark magician deck I made. And that deck was very underpowered when I made a pendulum magician deck. I was able to win way much easier with a deck that still not very popular. So I don’t really have any complaints besides the one turn kills but it seems to me most of the complaining and quitting is happening from old school players who were not that good back in the days and they can’t win now so they just frustrated 😤 and that’s a skill issue problem on their part not Yu-Gi-Oh’s problem. Or maybe they where good duelist back in goat format but they can’t understand the new play style and they are not good duelist still, but Like learn to make better decks and make better plays. Or use a stronger similar deck to the one you love. Like I did with pendulum magician. As a magician fan but don’t blame Yu-Gi-Oh as being horrible just because you can’t win currently like you used to back in the days, I’m not talking about you. I’m just saying for the people at that applies to. Great video as always.

[@braddtheodd3390]

For a reboot, maybe they could try to animate the manga? All of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime are pretty different from the manga, maybe it could be interesting.

[@kylemarlobaula987]

Actually..since we already have a lot of cards and different archetypes now, konami can start with lore format.. main deck should contain 75%-80% archetype.. and then the rest should be same type (for monsters) and any spell/trap.. This way, we won't lose the variety.. and archetypes won't lose some of their cards due to the ban list.. The reason for having the same type of monsters as tech/extender is a homage to the duel kingdom/battle city where decks are using the same type of monsters..

[@ZackeroniAndCheese]

I want a remake of Duel Monsters and GX that follow the manga. Not a remaster!

[@robleavold84]

Absolutely love the original anime watched it a million times but the other one which I really loved was Zexal I was never good at the card game but the anime’s always pulled me in and we’re entertaining.

[@Hynotama]

Change is not necessarily evolution. Change can very much be regressive.

[@Merilirem]

I don't care about the anime cards or old cards. I just like what I like. Always have. Chaos is mostly everything I like. I also just like necromancy. Which Yugioh doesn't have a lot of tbh. In other games I love playing necromancer themed decks.

[@Pwrplus5]

Been said a million times but the reason some of the pacing is off in the DM anime is because it is not a full or thorough adaptation of the manga. Filler aside, cutting out the entire first 25% of the story and then trying to awkwardly insert a bunch of characters who were supposed to show up way earlier and also rush in backstories for the ones that are just thrown at you in the first episode like the Kaiba brothers does not make for a well structured plot, on top of filler. IMO it's only 'worse' than future series in any way because of a very poor adaptation and even poorer dub, or because of the obviously much more primitive dueling. Takahashi's original vision and story as told in the intended way is still the best the series has ever been, and the fact that aspects of that shine through so hard through the shoddy anime pacing is a testament to what he accomplished.

[@Pwrplus5]

On the subject of a reboot, I think it would be an alright idea if it were a chance to do it the right way and take the 'risk' of not having any dueling at all for the first however many episodes spent on the rest of the story, but if they were just going to jump straight to duelist kingdom again it would be an absolute waste of time and effort, and a new series in a new setting would be way better in that case. Either way, we definitely do need a new anime because the brand without it is just too impenetrable to a wider audience.

[@robertsixx775]

Y'know whats sad, Konami isn't even doing Nostalgia baiting that well. Because theres lots of people like myself who grew up with like 5Ds, Zexal and Arc V and had them introduce players to this game. and yet they really Nostalgia bait with those series. Which feels like a missed opportunity from a business standpoint, of course I know DM stuff would sell better but theres still a market for the other series as well.

[@W_Sir_Morpheus]

I mean 5ds sure, 50/50 on zexal, arc v is too new compared to those imo.

[@robertsixx775]

@@W_Sir_Morpheus I mean Arc V came out in 2014, which is fairly old. So theres no doubt a lot of people who grew up with it and are nostalgic for it same goes for Zexal.

[@W_Sir_Morpheus]

@robertsixx775 11 years is old that's fair. Maybe it's new to me cause i didn't grow up with that, basically stopped at the tail end of 5ds.

[@JiragoxxxxxxxxxxxxXX]

where do i cop that shirt

[@apsamplifier]

I actually mentioned it in the video! This comes from ThinkNu, although the Dark Magician Girl may not be available anymore.

[@sapphireglaceon]

EXODO FLAME

[@PaulBrown-fl2dk]

Where’s the sweatshirt from? Looks nice

[@aaronwightley9752]

Look to the past to head for the future they just need to make more of a retrain deck like caltic gardians with stern mysticand dark blade

[@CaptainComedyyy]

Making a naturia deck. what cards should i buy to make it? thx.

[@tonykennedy3593]

The anime definitely helped with the game becoming as big as it is, same with gx, 5Ds, Zexal, Arc V and Brains, most of these new archtypes i find boring

[@One87X]

An anime of modern yugioh wouldn't be a fun watch. I couldn't do it.

[@Ked7]

My suggestion for the card game side, mainly. As there needs to be balance. At least(yearly) Nostalgia 1 alternative game stuff like speed(only structures/collections) or rush(can be packs as well as listed above) 1 alt format set, like to support Edison by making cards from those times more accessible. Kinda like retro pack. 1 starter to teach new people the game, and maybe every three years a new two player starter as we have never gotten something like that before. - new 2 or 3 structures. 1 being a more nostalgia one, like the new blue eyes the other two being more vs/lore style decks, like a fire kings vs atlantians release. 1 competitive card set, like the rarity collection 1-4. 2-4 deck build sets, they don’t have to all be meta. Probably 1 revamp, 1 new meta, 1 new fun(like that one archetype that has a burger as a card, in each set. 1 deck build sets with two meta contenders, and one deck that nearly perfectly counters them when paired with an old archetype, just for the lols. A running MD anime. It could possibly one merging the magic and tech sides of yugioh’s story since we have had 3 magic and 3 tech(yes I am counting Arc-V and zeXal as tech, since it was magic but based upon tech) so far. Edit: forgot the tins. 1 pack in being a nostalgia card. Perhaps one year the best friends get that slot, then the main antagonist, then rivals, then the protagonist and then go through the series. Tins would be a rarity collection but reversed, reprinting cards in common that only have high value prints, such as magia, and in demand cards as those other slots.

[@greysunomain]

Id love more yusei stuff. With like junk gear like cloud in ff7.

[@Orangemushroom554]

People say it's nostalgia because modern Yu-Gi-Oh! isn't appealing to a general audience for being too complicated, many ppl that talks about yugioh are casuals that don't even play the game. yugioh being very meta focused(what I see in Master duel), hard to learn, play, and win, and there's no reason to bother getting into the game, also having trouble attracting new players The original show was fine and iconic, but it wasn't great. People watched it because there wasn't much else to watch back in the day.

[@cantrip7]

Such questions make me wonder: is there a way to design simple yet modern cards for nostalgic/anime-centered product? Like, blue-eyes engine stuff makes blue-eyes playable (technically), but via complicated protection, graveyard effects, awkward use restrictions... Or awful novel-length spells like "Dark Magician is immune to battle damage on Tuesday, can't be destroyed by spells on Wednesday..." In a nostalgic product, I'd like them to try to make cards very simple and functional *and reasonably powerful,* using modern summoning mechanics and *simple* engines.

[@kingvegeta7868]

The further yugioh goes away from its roots and "evolved" the more i hate it. Every "new thing" yugioh has done past 2016 has been horrendous and thats why yugioh isnt yugioh anymore and its now "modern"

[@gambitgambles]

If Konami had me in charge of Yugioh in the Americas I would make our own type of GOAT format. I would release the legend of blue eyes 2, Metal Raiders 2 and Spell Ruler 2. These sets would help old fusions and vanilla monsters to have more impact on the game. I bet Yugiboomers would buy them in an instant. (Just see how the retro pack sold) but Japanese people just don't care about old Yugioh.

[@kitkat4892]

Why you make it about japan bro 😂

[@CyrusIsnt]

I want Duelist Advance to have Raye and/or Albaz on the cover

[@josephcourtright8071]

But how will I know that its a yugioh product if it doesn't have blue-eyes on it?

[@CyrusIsnt]

@josephcourtright8071 We had yugioh product with yubel, Zarc, a shark card and the big YUGIOH stamp 😂 Not to mention Dark saviors sold extermely well it sold out under a month i think it was the last deck build pack to do that

[@melo-d1393]

I enjoy old school 2003 style with normal, effect, spell, trap, fusion, and ritual. Xyz, synchro, link is too much

[@DarkAuraLord]

"I enjoy old school 2003 style" he said, while not joining the GOAT format community. TEN THOUSAND YEARS in the dungeon. TEN THOUSAND!

[@TastySnackies]

@@DarkAuraLord He means keeping the game alive in the 2003 form, but with updated design philosophies. People that are nostalgic for 2003 Yu-Gi-Oh are nostalgic for BEWD and B. Skull Dragon, not for GOAT format. The majority of nostalgic players probably don’t care about a snapshot format - they just want their 4-star vanilla beatsticks.

[@melo-d1393]

@@TastySnackies lol yeah, pretty much . I use the newer updated cards as well but I don’t play with the links, xyz, or synchros. 2003 style lol

[@DarkAuraLord]

@ That's just branded.

[@necessaryevil2560]

Honestly when it comes you yugioh I think the fanbase who only watched the dub needs to fully watch the sub of each anime and just see how much better the story is but people don’t wanna hear it lol the voices are great in both but dub changes truly suck

[@makenaiyomi1083]

Personally I don't think the nostalgica is overblown. Its there yes, Yugi and Kaiba are kind of the poster childs of the game but Konami really started to release lots of modern cards merch as well. We got Monsters like Accesscode, Ash or IP as figures, get the lore anime (which I'm so hyped about) To me its a good balance right now. As a Yugiboomer I also enjoy every retrain I can get so I win anyway.

[@WangFire]

1s in chat

[@SlaaneshsBestBoy]

Yugioh has lost is design in artwork and how the game is played. Has nothing to do with nastolga.

[@DavidsFeverDream]

If think you should just change the channel name back to APS Amplifier it just sounds better but idk maybe putting Pod of Greed in the name helps with engagement/the algorithm

[@venomromulus]

Having yugi and kaiba and their ace cards should be the priority it’s what they’re known for they are the mascots. I literally see it on almost every Pokémon product at retail, I know very little about Pokémon but even I recognize the Pokémon on the packaging. That’s like advertising DC and ignoring the trinity.

[@JimmysALilGirl]

You changed the name of the channel? That's cool, but I think putting the Pod of Greed first would be better. I mean, it's the only consistent thing on the channel, right? I know it's been said TOO MANY times at this point, but we really need more formats. The more options we have on how to play the more likely we are to play.

[@johnnynguyen9240]

My personal taste for a new Yugioh anime and game mechanic would be a new anime with different characters, alongside with the chronicles, and summoning mechanic that's not as generic as links, xyzs and arguably synchros. I want Yugioh and its audience to move on from the 'good old days' and embrace a newer anime, but still retain reverence for what came before. The new anime would need to continue with the timeline, whatever that is since I think Vrains fitted with the manga timeline rather than the anime, after Arc-V. It would also need a new summoning mechanic because that's just the thing with every new era. I suggest something like contact fusion and the new monsters have a red background which is different from the rest. The new summoning mechanic can be slow and fast but essentially not as generic or body-heavy like links. Just my idea, I think the solution is to acknowledge and respect the past instalments and gameplay but still evolve and move on to newer prospects.

[@sapphireglaceon]

How about we just let it die and they can make something new

[@gabrielfeldinger6533]

Why?

[@apsamplifier]

What do you mean by that?

[@thomas5585]

I think it's time to abandon long form stories and make short 4 episodes arcs set in universe about archetypes. Like the gates in Masterduel.

[@fesc22]

New yugioh sucks ass and is generic as hell. Bring back Yami Yugi and redo that series. Yugioh without the anime would never be popular now.

[@gabrielfeldinger6533]

What's generic about new yugioh?

[@spicymemes7458]

No remakes. Continue on from Dark Side of Dimensions.