In this episode, @Farfa, @JoshuaSchmidtYGO & @Cimoooooooo all sit down to discuss content creation, some history of the game, favourite formats and much more! Cimo's channel - @Cimoooooooo Twitch - / cimoooooooo
I'm forever grateful for Cimo bringing out prog during covid. Watching it and then starting a session with a friend are huge parts of what helped me keep my sanity during that time 😅
There is no way link and Rargh's youtube content is what inspired the progression series. thats almost surreal considering how relatively small all these channels are.
Its so cool hearing other people past it feels nice a breath of fresh air from the game and getting to know the creator background its kinda nice and talking about the experiences with yugioh in general
Id say my issue with dragon rulers at the time along with shaddoll was that it felt so hard to punish them even if they committed a lot of resources. Their cards would just allow them to get things back from the graveyard for free while whatever i was playing (clearly not as good) would just have only whats in my hand/set on field.
oh cool i just finished the blindfold video when this got uploaded. i really like cimo series. history was amazing early on when the wheel was still a thing and im planning on setting up a prog with friends and maybe start a md masochist account.
One of the things I like about a diverse format is it makes it harder for people to fill their side deck with blowouts and instead makes you play cards you can side in that are better in that matchplay instead of just going oh I'm going first side in anti spell tcboo and d barrier
Yes, it's bad for turbo autists who want to reduce all aspects of the game to spreadsheets, however it's better for the audience as it allows more upsets, less set in stone results.
I do miss Cimo's competive content. As someone who never played the competive side of the game, it helped me learn the game and apply it to Master Duel. Also felt his banlist reactions had more energy to them when he actually played versus just keeping up with the game from the outside. I do wish he'd use an auto sim for Prog though.
Nadir makes a good point about prize support. I've been playing since LoD/PGD and as a little kid looking at the goats of game playing in the SJCs, I fantasized about playing a final and winning a Stein, Gold Sarc or CCV. And then the idea that only those players had access to this rare card that had an obvious advantage, was just cool. Those cards were cost neutral to make but they created their own value. They were hugely expensive. YGO teams were created so people could maximize the chances of getting copies to play in events. These people had unfair advantage but then again old SJC were top 8 or top 16 and so to consistently top during the SJC time was much harder than it is today. It was your reward for being super good. If they bring this back somehow in a form that works for modern YGO they never need to do money prizes.
Speaking as someone who need to travel half the country for a LOCAL! Price support and such matters little to me as a consumer who can't engage much with the community outside of MD, what matters more for me and my very, very small group of friends that play is that we can't justify buying Accesscode until a week ago, when it was released before/at the start of Covid.
The main issue with remote dueling is that you lose the hand gestures interaction between your board and your opponents, in a feature match you can see duelists pointing at which things they're targeting and stuff.
But on the other hand if prices were better there would be even more players, I think the return on their investement here would be huge for the company
holy shit youtube is unbearable with the ADs lately. 10mins into the Podcast and i already had 2 ADs inbetween and 2 before the video even started. Opera AdBlock do your thing please ffs
Oddly enough, his inspiration and story for Progressions Series felt inevitable for the things that interested him. When I was younger, I was really into the Dragonball Z CCG by Score. It was huge at the time around 2001-2003. I basically used to do a "progression" series with my decks and cards for the sets. I found it fun to kind re-move through the releases chronologically, so when I saw Prog was a thing, I got super engrossed in it.
Personally I'm just so glad Edison and Time Wizard formats became a thing and actually got fairly popular because without that I wouldn't be playing Yugioh most of the time. I typically enjoy playing rogue decks and past a certain point a number of years ago it became nearly impossible and less fun trying to get the decks I enjoy to be viable. I still play advanced some here and there but not nearly as much as used to and not as much as Edison. I hope they continue to support Edison and other formats and eventually have actual full scale regionals and YCS for them not just side events.
Its funny, for the longest time, there was this thing that everyone was convinced that Cimo and Farfa didn't get along or something. Now, they've done 2 things together recently. It's funny, the Euro boys don't have blister packs? We have them Target and Walmart big time here. I think in Japan, they did the blister hanger packs with the little cutout built into the top of the pack, maybe?
I'm from Germany and have seen blister packs in electronic stores. But they were in reusable cases, they would remove them for you after paying and then they could put another pack inside. Grocery stores, if they sold cards at all, always sold stuff in solid packaging, like structure decks or special editions, never individual booster packs. Places that sold them either had them locked and you had to ask staff to open it for you, or they have them directly at the register where you couldn't just open them without being seen
In the OCG, packaging for individual packs for all sets are larger compared to TCGs, so they can just open the set and hang the packs on a display rack directly without having to resort to blister packs. packaging for packs in every set is larger
alex doing anything with his existence other than producing content, let alone producing content for a channel other than his own, is fucking surreal to see. every single time. guy's a fucking cryptid
@@JohnnyVasquez8 yeah, e.g. history of tcg meta + history of tcg jank when both series were so deep into modern that research took longer than filming iirc
The price support model is what's always been lacking in ygo. I do like the idea of the stamped cards like everyone in top 32 gets one, then everyone in top 16 gets another copy of the same card with a top 16 stamp and so on with it stacking as you progress further. Also with the anime having iconic cards it would be cool to see them give a ycs winner something like a dark magician with a champion stamp and it's own flavor text as opposed to another vanilla with no real collectors value.
I think Yu-Gi-Oh! is at a point where it can't "die" fully. Look at another competitive gaming environment like Smash, besides Nintendo obviously creating and providing the game initially, the scene has been driven completely from grassroots platforms of enthusiasts. So even if Konami stopped supporting their game completely tomorrow and never made another product for it again people would keep playing it and hosting tournaments, exploring all the past formats that remain unsolved, creating custom banlist/cardpool formats etc. Over time we may even see some sort of agreed upon way to print proxies. Those who hosted tournaments, or other people prolific in driving the competitive scene could choose to design new cards to release and allow in their tournaments.
1:14:03 i actually started playing Pokémon and right now the meta feels so nice. Its like edison atm in vibes and just so inexpensive. It feels nice not seeing a buyer wall that gate keeps players. Love the game and i its let me just... not spend so much on yugioh or at all and its a game that is a lot better for my time commitment. This is also excluding the nice prize support which is only a plus. All in all Pokemon is nice and i wish yugioh was a lot similar to how its structured but eh
Yeah the anime and merch just really push it over the edge. The card game is just a small (relatively) facet of the franchise and because of its widespread approach and nostalgia, its just beyond popular.
the the love of fucking god please tell people to turn crisp off in discord. its so cancer trying to hear people when they get loud or something and all you hear is garbled CB radio nonsense
He really does. He’ll ask them a question and 1. He cuts them off immediately as they were about to answer or 2. They’re in the middle of their answer and he cuts them off to crack a joke or take over the conversation. 🤦🏾♂️
Tbh alot of formats that tend to have a wide amount of decks utilize back row more and because of that alot of high competitive players whine about it cause their side choices are just ment to stop monsters/extra deck not back row...my casual deck has managed to last alot longer than it should due to 75 percent of players not having any real removal exept duster (i still lose but the fact it gets into turn 3 and 4 makes to so funny to me) and if they had said cards it for back row removal it bricks their decks... May skill drain remain so that mystic mine stays banned
