Magic 2015: Duels of the Planeswalkers coming this summer
It's time for yet another Duels of the Planeswalkers game. Magic 2015 is coming out this summer on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, iPad, Android, and Kindle.
It's time for yet another Duels of the Planeswalkers game. Magic 2015 is coming out this summer on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, iPad, Android, and Kindle. With the tagline of "Hunt Bigger Game," this year's edition focuses on Garruk Wildspeaker, a deadly hunter who has decided to make you his prey.
The 2015 edition will include the ability to build customized decks and features a more robust deck builder and premium booster packs.
The game will be showcased at PAX East this weekend. According to IGN, it is skipping PlayStation platforms this year, in spite of having made regular appearances on PSN in previous years. Here's the first trailer:
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It's time for yet another Duels of the Planeswalkers game. Magic 2015 is coming out this summer on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, iPad, Android, and Kindle.-
If it's not a significant improvement on last year's dud, I'm finished with this series. Between the shitty drafting thing, the totally unwarranted "deck slot" selling, and the constant removal of cool shit with each iteration, it feels like they keep making the games worse, rather than better.
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I've got real cards and a few friends that just got back into it, so not playing this isn't a big deal. But I really liked ti the first few years, and last year's entry was just tremendously disappointing.
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I just wish it was every other year. I get the itch to play randomly, but with it coming every year I feel like I never get a chance to unlock and learn each year's cards before the next game comes. I've always loved the interface and having a cooperative card game is SO much fun, but I'm just pretty lukewarm on the whole thing now.
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I think every other year, and focusing on the brand new sets exclusively would go a long way. That way, the meta is very, very different each time around and you can have completely new deck types. I feel like they put so much from the "Magic 20XX" set for each year that you lose most of the flavor of new settings/rules.
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the core sets are designed for new players though, the fall blocks are labeled as expert expansions. The core set does have a different mechanic each year, it just has fewer and simpler ones than the fall sets.
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once a year is infrequent for a Magic release, there are 3-4 new sets released every year. If you play a lot one set gets stale within a few months usually.
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That's mixed messaging though. I'm pretty sure you and I have actually had a conversation where you explain that Planeswalkers isn't intended (or fun) for dedicated fans like you. So if it's going to be casual, give it a casual schedule.
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I guess once a year seems fairly casual to me, especially given its price tag. It's not like you're required to update and use the new cards. There're a few other reasons to do more frequent updates than every two years. For one, that's a really long time to wait to get new modes, better UI, make the game faster, etc. It's nice to just get new features. The other thing is they surely want this aligned with real Magic sets. They'd like for it to get you into paper Magic or Magic Online. I think people would be a little surprised/disappointed if they grabbed the latest "real" Magic stuff and found their favorite cards from DotP aren't there, the mechanics and setting are different, etc.
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I'm surprised people are so annoyed by the option of more content. I mean, Hearthstone is going to have a slew of new cards added every year too.
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well that's another issue. I thought you guys were with the complaint above about too frequent releases in terms of card pool. I totally buy that the app is poor quality. I tried the latest version on my new iPad Mini Retina and it crashed at the same cutscene every time. I think I got through 1 match in the campaign and then couldn't progress farther. WotC does not know how to pay enough to get good software. Sadly DotP makes their other digital products look stellar.
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wait you play magic?!
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yeah they're in an awkward position where they don't want to cannibalize 'real' Magic products so they make this one in the middle. The right thing would just be to put Magic Online everywhere in a worthwhile form (like Hearthstone) with better tutorials/onboarding like DotP does. The cost of playing will still look really bad next to Hearthstone though, although maybe I'm underestimating how many people are now spending money on that (and how much).
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Pretty much everyone above rank 10 has spent 200+ on hearthstone.
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I actually agree. The drafting thing sounds great in the last game. Their implementation was horrible.
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in what way? (didn't play it)
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You get to draft one deck for free, after thats its $2 per deck you want to draft.
Its the only deckbuilding in the whole game, so its not like you get to keep the cards. You just pay $2, you get like an option of like 5 cards, you pick one (do this 40 times), you build a deck, its set in stone. Its basically the same as Hearthstone Arena. Except Hearthstone can be free, and you can't keep your deck forever. When you played online in Magic with drafting, it was basically only the best drafting decks left, and since it was random some were completely amazing and people would use them over and over and over and over again (hearthstone the best decks still are finished after 12 wins). If I recall you unlocked a few more card options after you won a few games too, which was really hard if you got some poor draft picks.-
ah, weird. I didn't realize they'd added some hybrid draft/sealed deck mode. They must really be struggling with how to deal with Hearthstone without cannabalizing real Magic.
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That was not my experience at all. When I built my deck back when it was released (I didn't pay money for extra slots, but I believe I got two included not just one) it was the standard sealed variant you have at paper events (maybe you start with one fewer pack or something). You got to open all the packs to form your pool that you got to build your 40 card deck out of. As you played the campaign, you got a few more packs to add to your pool and you could edit your deck at any time. My only complaint was that you had to purchase additional slots.
I never did online with it, but I can envision the problem SlingBlaze mentioned where there is no lifetime of the deck(since there are no events).
I am not sure the draft discussion came from since that doesn't exist at all in Duels (yet? don't know what they will add this year).
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