If your really into cards you may as well go spend your money on Pokemon or Magic cards. Why? Because why spend your money on a game that makes your cards look pretty instead of, I don't know, uh, ACTUL FREKING CARDS.

Fail.

@ Neonie:

These are actual cards. The difference here is that you get the cool, HD visuals to go along with it. If the card game is tight (and I don't know anything about card games), why wouldn't you want to try something new?

I think it's a cool idea, personally. Since I first saw the live demo at E3 2006, I've been impressed by the game and its tech. Granted, I might never play it (unless I end up reviewing it), but that's another story.

I'm in. me and my friend play MtG quiet a bit. this seems like it will be fun.

@Nick

Ya but your spending like $70 for the game, and the booster pack (and for some reason a camrea?)

When you could go ahead and get a Magic booster pack for $10 then spend the other odd $60 on Magic card packs at like $5 a piece and by the end of it have A LOT more cards then if you had bought that game. It just seems like anyone who actully wanted to go ahead and collect cards would NOTICE this and go the smart route with their money.

Ok...so, question.

From what I understand, this game works by you basically "scanning" the card you want to play under the camera, right?

What's to stop people from making copies/printing out the cards, instead of blowing money on booster packs and whatnot?

I'm interested in EOJ, but only if there are people to play it with.

And Neonie, go take your whining elsewhere.

that's fun I guess... I will probably never have a ps3 though.

@anemone

Hm good point, but I'm sure there are still other routs to go as far as card games besides magic that would be cheaper.

Other then that I seem to be in "check"

Scissor me timbers!


Oh, scissor me!!

I just Hate Plastic (*snip*snip*) packages. 'Cause if your collecting stuff and also playing the same stuff you'd have to buy two. Maybe I can steam the back of.
Oh and wasn't there supposed to be like some sort of stand for the camera?
Also, Cheers!

This looks cool, and I really like the concept, but I just can't imagine me playing this.

@ShadowXOR
No, not drugs, I just don't play casual Magic. Actually it's quite the opposite; I used to be involved in the high end tournament Magic scene. Yes, you are correct that you can play casual magic for the price of a starter deck. Sorry I didn't even consider casual Magic due to the fact that most of the magic community tends to ignore it. I should have said, to play with anyone who is a serious player. To be honest Magic was more fun back when I played casually. After you become more involved, it all boils down to math and smart reads. While that's great for competition, most of the imagination that made it fun is gone at that point.

this interests me... i used to play MTG in high school... kinad had to quit after jobs and people moving away made it too hard to find people to game with.

I will admit, i'd rather see it on 360 or wii though... MS would need a decent IP to go with it though... piniatas would not interest me... maybe something halo based... I'd be more likely to play a halo card game than a halo RTS(unless it was on PC) Like someone up above me said... camera card game+pokemon = poverty for all

also, for shitty packaging, i prefer a good sharp utility knife to scissors... it does the job better, you just have to be careful to not cut your hands off in the process.





PS: all this talking about card games on consoles has me thinking... when was the last time we got a new deck for UNO... I liked most of the special ones they had... I was hoping we would see a free halo themed one as halo advertising or something..

This game has me very excited. I for one can't wait to get my hands on that plastic Chinese trap.

To those worried about cheating I think it works this way. You have to scan your deck (30 cards total) before playing an online game. This deck will be saved to your hard drive so you only need to enter the deck in one time. Once you're online you select the deck you would like to use and the game automatically shuffles and draws your cards each turn. When you want to play a specific card you must find the actual card and scan it, which has a small bar code that recognizes it to avoid duplicate uses and such.

Obviously the developers took care into making it hard to cheat. Pretty much everything you thought could happen as far as cheating, they have some preventative measure in place. Add in the fact they'll probably put out patches to correct anything that isn't working properly.

I hope so at least...

I found that napalm works well

I think it's a very interesting idea, i'd probably play it if i had a PS3. I'm sure their are lots of card game players who would love to play their card games with some nice visuals to go with them.

Y'know, if they wanted to, current card games like yu-gi-oh and magic could get in on this in the future. Sure the current cards couldn't since they were not designed to have what ever is used by the camera to detect them, however, newer generations of cards could have the chips or whatever put into them. It would even give them an escuse to rerelease the old cards just so you can get them for the game... many current players might not like needing to bascially start all over (though they can always choose just to keep playing like they normally do), but newer players will be utterly thrilled. Hell, part of the work for making such games is already done since my cards have already been turned into 3D models for other card based video games (though they might want to update them for PS3).

@Raidensolid
1)Seeing as wizards of the coast is handling the card end, it is VERY likely
3)Doubtful, if they were gonna give you non-material cards to play, then there would be no point in making trading cards to begin with...

Yeah ummm.... no. You wanna play a card game without paying out the ass? Culdecept Saga is coming out for 360.

shows how dumb I am... for some reason I thought Culdecept saga was a horse racing sim.... don't know where i got that idea...

looks fairly fun actually... then again, I was a fan of PSO episode 3, even if it didn't get much of my time. It is one of those games that I would like an excuse to go back and spend some time with.

I'm actually surprised to see a game like that getting a western release... EBgames' website says January and only $40. Microsoft seems to be doing better about getting games released globally lately... here's hoping that I'll get a chance to play Operation darkness and maybe even oneechanbara vortex next year too

Booster packs??? Don't y'all nuccas have inkjet printers?

$69 is a great price considering it includes the camera. Early impressions of the card game suggest it's pretty good too, but no matter how good it is, I really don't see this appealing to anyone but Yu-gi-oh / Magic the Gathering fans (i.e pre-teen boys and nerds). I'd actually be embarrassed to be seen playing the game.

Perhaps they have other bundles in mind. Singstar has potential to reach a wider audience if it was bundled with a camera as well as microphones.