Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

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Politoed666

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I do. It's because there's no place to play and no competition. If there was Organized Play for the TFG, then people would play.

I e-mailed PUSA several months ago asking if and when Organized Play for the TFG would be up and running, and they said they had plans for it. What happened? I mean, it's not that difficult to get some events up and running; just follow the same guidelines they use for TCG events! Heck, why not start off small and tack on some TFG tournaments as side events to main TCG tournaments, like States?

I mean, to me this just seems like a big screw you to all the people who actually bought the first series. And it hurts PUSA too. They wasted time and money developing the first set, and now no one will buy it 'cause everyone knows that there will be umpteen more problems in addition to the umpteen they've already had. The least they could do is make an official statement regarding what the heck is going on and when everything will be cleared up. And an estimate of when this POP for the TFG will be ready.

I think I'm starting to rant... discuss. How do you feel about the TFG these days?
 
Politoed666 said:
I do. It's because there's no place to play and no competition. If there was Organized Play for the TFG, then people would play.

I e-mailed PUSA several months ago asking if and when Organized Play for the TFG would be up and running, and they said they had plans for it. What happened? I mean, it's not that difficult to get some events up and running; just follow the same guidelines they use for TCG events! Heck, why not start off small and tack on some TFG tournaments as side events to main TCG tournaments, like States?

I mean, to me this just seems like a big screw you to all the people who actually bought the first series. And it hurts PUSA too. They wasted time and money developing the first set, and now no one will buy it 'cause everyone knows that there will be umpteen more problems in addition to the umpteen they've already had. The least they could do is make an official statement regarding what the heck is going on and when everything will be cleared up. And an estimate of when this POP for the TFG will be ready.

I think I'm starting to rant... discuss. How do you feel about the TFG these days?
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I feel exactly the same way you do.

Only time will tell.
 
there are many problems... the truth is they do break very easily, they are somewhat hard to transport, tournaments would be hard because there are not many good figures, and that next set keeps getting delayed. I think they should just do a demo or something. Like at a battle road i think there was a chaotic demo just a couple guys with starter sets teaching the young kiddies how to play. I tried to do this at my local i brought enough figures for me and one other player and i tought a bunch of kids how to play. There were a lot of people who thought it was fun, but they thought the figures were too expensive, they were hard to find, and why would u buy them anyway, there are no tournys.
 
The problem with the game isn't how easily they break OR OP for it, it's just that the game doesn't require experience. A serious player could play a player with a starter kit and lose.
 
yoyofsho16 said:
The problem with the game isn't how easily they break OR OP for it, it's just that the game doesn't require experience. A serious player could play a player with a starter kit and lose.
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I disagree with that. There are very distinctly good and bad pieces, and there is quite a lot of thought involved with each move. Experience counts for a lot, and I happen to speak from it. It doesn't take more than one wrong move to lose you the game against a good player.
 
I played it at nats at the demo table they had. I spent the entire time pretending I was ash and paying no attention to the game at all. Then the person at the demo told me I had won.

I have no idea what I did or how I did it, but it only took like 10 min.
 
Well, TFG does pretty well at the Leagues i'm involved with. We spent Friday making printed out playmats since the starters are non-existant here. We do have a bunch of 3 spinner boosters, but I have a hard time justifying buying doubles; despite that I share my TFG figures with other League players.
 
There is OP for it at league. It is still popular with the kiddos at our league.

I think tournaments are a bigger issue. I think it would be much easier to 'cheat' with the figs than with the cards. I do not mean fake figs but more non-random spinning. With the TCG it is pretty obvious which attacks the active Pokemon can do and it is simply announced. With the TFG, the player spins in order to determine the attack. I can foresee so many arguments over whether a spin was legal or not. It would almost require a judge at each match and that just isn't feasible. That's just my perspective though from hearing my boys argue during some of their friendly battles. :)
 
Heatherdu said:
There is OP for it at league. It is still popular with the kiddos at our league.

I think tournaments are a bigger issue. I think it would be much easier to 'cheat' with the figs than with the cards. I do not mean fake figs but more non-random spinning. With the TCG it is pretty obvious which attacks the active Pokemon can do and it is simply announced. With the TFG, the player spins in order to determine the attack. I can foresee so many arguments over whether a spin was legal or not. It would almost require a judge at each match and that just isn't feasible. That's just my perspective though from hearing my boys argue during some of their friendly battles. :)
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If they ever did anything like tournaments, I imagine that the best way to guarentee randomness is to make the players use special OP spinners, with corasponding values. But I guess they'd have to clarify sooo much with that.
 
IMO, the reasons nobody plays:

-No OP (big one)
-boring game
-repetative game
-expesive game
-boring and repetative game
-poor concept
 
well they said that they would have op events for this in october but that never happened and the new set is delyed so we wait till it comes out and then I think something will happen
 
I've seen a few people say it's based on lucksacking powerful attacks rather than building a decent strategy. I disagree.

There are a few ways in which strategy incorporates into the TFG. First off, players need to use good strategy to build their team in the first place, incorporating speedsters, goal-guarders, and big-hitters into their team in good proportions. Then, when actually playing, the player needs to decide which Pokémon to send in what directions, and where to move once the opponent begins their turn. Shall I attack his Pokémon or run away? Shall I make a run for the goal or play defensive?

There's a lot more to the TFG than meets the eye.
 
playability = horrible: play Pokemon TCG, its cheaper, there is infinite more variety, and you cant carry 2'000 TFG figures around like you would cards.

Collectability = alright: they look sorta cool sitting on a shelf, and you can say you have every different kind ever made(if you do)

overall, pokemon TCG is much more rewarding, less expensive, and muuch more established than the TFG.

-Kaz
 
koolkidkaz said:
playability = horrible: play Pokemon TCG, its cheaper, there is infinite more variety, and you cant carry 2'000 TFG figures around like you would cards.

Collectability = alright: they look sorta cool sitting on a shelf, and you can say you have every different kind ever made(if you do)

overall, pokemon TCG is much more rewarding, less expensive, and muuch more established than the TFG.

-Kaz
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In the end, the TFG is actually not more expensive because you only need a team of... 6, is it? Pokémon figures to play. In a TCG deck, you need a 60 card deck, and at least two of those cards are likely Claydol... which run around 15-20 U.S. dollars each. Whereas with the TFG, you can most likely pick up all the figures you need to play online for about the price of just those two Claydol.

Now, I'm not putting down the TCG. I personally enjoy the TCG more than the TFG, but I still feel that false information such as "the tfg is moar expensive" needs to be rectified.
 
Politoed666 said:
There are a few ways in which strategy incorporates into the TFG. First off, players need to use good strategy to build their team in the first place, incorporating speedsters, goal-guarders, and big-hitters into their team in good proportions. Then, when actually playing, the player needs to decide which Pokémon to send in what directions, and where to move once the opponent begins their turn. Shall I attack his Pokémon or run away? Shall I make a run for the goal or play defensive?
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bolded for emphasis: This is really not so true. The playmat is incredibly basic. The only real choice is: do I send the figure left or right? You could go into the middle but there's only so many places to go from there. The playmat needs more options to it. The only aggressive play happens in the first 3 turns when you rush for the opponent's goal, at which point the opponent sends a figure to counter (because they lose if they don't) and if the counter works, you will lose because you have nothing to protect you and if the counter fails the opponent loses because they have nothing to protect them.

I once spent 10 minutes with the same figures going back and forth between the bench, the arena, and the pokemon center, before one of us finally make any kind of advancement. It is too easy to get into a position where nothing develops from the game because there's no other influences on the game because of the limited trainer cards you can use and because you can only move one figure a turn.

Politoed666 said:
In the end, the TFG is actually not more expensive because you only need a team of... 6, is it? Pokémon figures to play. In a TCG deck, you need a 60 card deck, and at least two of those cards are likely Claydol... which run around 15-20 U.S. dollars each. Whereas with the TFG, you can most likely pick up all the figures you need to play online for about the price of just those two Claydol.

Now, I'm not putting down the TCG. I personally enjoy the TCG more than the TFG, but I still feel that false information such as "the tfg is moar expensive" needs to be rectified.
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That is not true. It only appears that way because the TFG is not played. If it were more popular, such staples, like Claydol for the TCG, would emerge and cost just as much as a Claydol. A TFG's team is only cheaper compared to a deck of cards because no one plays it. It never got the chance to develop such staples.

For why we haven't heard anything new about the TFG, I'm guessing the economy has put the last nail in the coffin.
 
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The game was fun and while expensive to collect it wasn't too expensive to have a set to play with.

Series 2 was never released right?


I think it was released at a wrong time and maybe not marketed enough. There were a lot of ads on saturday mornings when it first came out but it soon faded.


I kind of hope they are re-tooling how to do things and the game is not dead since I really liked it. Not to mention they were also the BEST Pokemon figures ever released IMO. They should have also been sold on the toy section at stores not the TCG...

I don't know such a wasted oportunity. Didn't the game fail in the test markets as well? I would think that this game could have been a success in japan though.
 
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