VS.

[jester]

Any one who likes comic should try Upper Decks......

VERSUS (Marvel & DC)

it's awesome

[lordrahl]

I play VS. System as well. (as does Tom Filsinger ) I would also recommend it to anyone interested in comics or CCG's in general. It plays very much like Magic: The Gathering without worry of being mana screwed and with multiple layers for your characters instead of one.

Rahl

[sethemilydad]

I am thinking about purchasing this game. What would I need to buy to get up and going? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[deadlikeme]

sethemilydad said:

I am thinking about purchasing this game. What would I need to buy to get up and going? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Are you looking to play tournaments, or just casually with some friends? To play competive tourneys can be a bit expensive. If you're just going to play with some friends I'll send you some wholesale sites where you can buy older boxes very cheap.

[JamieOD]

I heard the two characters from Penny Arcade have their own VS decks which I found funny.

[sethemilydad]

Just casual play.

[dbfnq]

Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade have UFS decks, actually. Very different game. UFS is videogame beat-'em-up characters (Street Fighter and Soul Caliber, notably) with a deck representing a single character. Vs is comic book characters (Marvel and DC superheroes) with a deck representing a team.

I've got the Marvel Vs game on DS. It's a very solid system, and seems to have learned a few things from other CCGs - you won't get mana drought in Vs, or have a pile of cards that only work with a particular rare character.

[sethemilydad]

Okay, I have to admit that I have never played Magic or any of the other games like it. So, could you explain to a complete novice how this game plays? I'd appreciate it.

[JamieOD]

dbfnq said:

Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade have UFS decks, actually. Very different game. UFS is videogame beat-'em-up characters (Street Fighter and Soul Caliber, notably) with a deck representing a single character. Vs is comic book characters (Marvel and DC superheroes) with a deck representing a team.

I've got the Marvel Vs game on DS. It's a very solid system, and seems to have learned a few things from other CCGs - you won't get mana drought in Vs, or have a pile of cards that only work with a particular rare character.

Thanks for the correction. I got the two mixed up.

[dbfnq]

sethemilydad said:

Okay, I have to admit that I have never played Magic or any of the other games like it. So, could you explain to a complete novice how this game plays? I'd appreciate it.

Be warned; while Vs isn't particularly complicated as CCGs go, if you've never played one before you may not find it all that simple either.

In very basic terms:

At the beginning of your turn, you play a card face-down. Your face-down cards (resources) provide points with which you can resruit characters and equipment. The more powerful a card is, the more it costs to recruit, and the more turns you'll have to wait to bring it into play.

Then combat happens. If you have the initative (which alternates from turn to turn) then you attack first. Once you're done, your opponent attacks you. Characters compare attack and defence scores to see who wins. If your character is stunned, you lose life points - lose all your life and you lose the game. You can do more damage by attacking a weak character with a strong one.

At the end of the turn, one of your stunned characters gets knocked out of the game. Any others return to play for next turn.

Of course, there's a lot more to it than that. Characters have teams, and team-mates can do combined attacks or defend each other. Nearly every character will have a special ability. And there are cards that can be played during combat to change the outcome.