Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Im pretty sure the actual, physical Trading card games like MtG and Pokemon gave us all these games with card mechanics in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Culdcept (1997), Baiten Kaitos (2003), Kingdom Hearts - Chain of Memories (2004). Then the card games weren’t as popular for a bit, then the digital ones died out.
And then Blizzard released Hearthstone in 2014. I haven’t played the other ones to know for sure, but I believe Yu-Gi-Oh Master duels crafting system can directly trace it’s roots to it. Trade cards for dust of a specific rarity, dust from 3 can form a new card, Shiny cards give enough dust on their own for any card, etc. .
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I really thought hearthstone came out much easier than 2014.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
I think it had like a year long beta where people were playing before full release. I know I was personally playing in 2013.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I remember playing WoW and working on getting all of the battle pets available by playing other blizzard games. But I thought this was in 2012. There was at least one obtained by playing hearthstone.