GX is the epitome of: Do you liek HEROS and Cyber Dragons? If you don't then you will probably be left wanting. I personally love that Perfect Circle era pre-DAD. Hindsight says that they should've went in harder to differentiate GX from DM and made the initial E-Hero monsters wildly better. Flame Wingman looks pretty mid up against the chaos monsters that pre-dated it by a couple years.
the e-heroes would have been much better if konami could loosen the restrictions and not place a "must be fusion summoned" on every single member that is not a contact fusion. i mean there is a double standard when destiny heroes do not follow this "rule" that all fusions of that archetype need to have this clause. look at mudball man having it and it is practically a vanilla and gladiator beast esedari. both have to follow their archetype's summon restriction gimmick and when gem knights came along, their vanilla was what the others should have been: no effect should mean no restrictions other than its overall card type (i.e. a fusion).
It also didn't help that, around the GX era, I learned about 4Kids' censorship practices. I felt lied to at the time. Combine that with the afore mentioned comedic tone (especially in the dub), and I stopped watching through out the GX era. When 5D's rolled around, I was spending more time at the library to watch TH-cam (Because the house had Dial-up at the time). So I watched the subbed version of 5D's through it, and was stunned by the FAR better writing quality. The best example of this to me will always be the dub's "Yes Yusei, the Black Rose is crying.", to the Sub's "Help me." I'd hate to see how 4Kids would have adapted Shakespeare for children. "And Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after in the Shadow Realm. The End."
That's why I say that English dubs are overall lackluster. There are exceptions like Konosuba or Cowboy Bebop, but in general it feels most actors are not used to act other roles (And cancel culture not allowing to act what you aren't doesn't help with it). GX is the epitome of everything wrong with english anime dub, from questionable voice choices to poor or ridiculous acting to invented dialogue (Remember the Schwarzenegger Mammoth). One would think they improved over the years, but recent shows beg to differ. Good thing in my region there's standards.
@@N12015 Speaking of cancel culture, it also doesn't help that it came to light recently that some people have been deliberately sabotaging dubs as well. I can at least say that 4Kids wasn't going that far, just horribly misguided on their approach. In GX's case, I hear that some of the writing was inspired by LittleKuriboh's abridged series, a fine example of why you should try not to let your IPs memes bleed back into the official source, so as not to become a parody of yourself.
GX really took a good while to find its footing. It's no wonder why many people remember early YGO, and then Synchro era onwards quite easily and fondly, but GX era barely gets that because it was just taking so long to find itself
As much as I love GX, you are correct. I have been building Yugioh Cubes for each era of the game and GX is arguably the lowest in terms of "wow" factor. But I will say, what Yugioh GX did flesh out to an incredible degree is the idea of decks being centered around an archetype. It might not have had a single amazing format like Goats or Edison but it did truly start a monumental change in the game! And to that, I think GX deserves some credit!
I love GX, but that's the era I go back to the least. There are plenty of decks and strategies that I enjoy immensely whenever I replay DM and 5Ds era games, but for GX there's nothing I can say I love playing (Six Sams and Zombies are decks I prefer in the 5Ds era for example). With GX I've always liked the characters and where it takes place more than the decks and formats, while I like everything about the same for DM and 5Ds so the fun factor and nostalgia is stronger with those.
I love perfect circle and dad return. They are freaking awsome. The problem with dad formats at the time was how expensive they were, but with hindsight and easy access they were a blast. Same with Nekroz format while I am at it.
Perfect Circle is by far the best GX Format, and it's not even close. DAD Return post-eban, pre-LODT is good. But no one remembers that format since it literally only lasted like 2 weeks. Pre-eban DAD Return format was an OTK/FTK format, and the two top decks post-LODT were an autopilot deck and a luck-based deck.
I think Edison is a "improved" GX format. Most GX archetypes are doing well in that format: Heros, Samurais, Machines, Volcanics, Monarchs, Frogs, most of them can play without being shadowed by TeleDAD. Though it does share the format with Synchros. It is a format where most GX archetypes found play as some of these GX archetypes have decent support at that time
Gx cleary had a messy direction that ended up awfully defining the card game. Cause' even when og yugioh wasn't about cards at first that Goth-egiptian atmosphere and intense friendship monologues binded the whole thing: manga, show and game together and pretty nicely. It was very intense from the very begining and until the end. Unlike Gx where you could always end up catching a stupid filler episode where jaden duels agaists the Dark magician girl or some sht while getting neo bubbleman in your booster pack
"People outgrowned Yugioh GX" they said that before seeing Judai having the deepest internal traumas about seeing his friends being sacrificied to make a FRICKING CARD and then becoming a Genocidal Tyrant by being surpassed by the guilty and all caused by an Obsesive Hermaphrodite demon spirit that loved him so much that it literally came back to Earth just to could be with him again...
I think the problem isn't that GX is sillier, because DM has it's fair share of goofy shit, but that starts off goofy and has more serious stories in the later seasons, so most people had made up their minds already (it doesn't help that the last season wasn't even released in the states)
my hiatus in ygo was during the GX where my last booster pack i opened was from power of the duelist. when i came back (although for a few months), it was right before crossroads of chaos was released in the TCG. I remember when dueling against a lightsworn deck and i could not believe how consistent it was and this was not even the best deck at the time (tele-DAD being above it). cybernetic revolution may have had several solid cards and cyber dragons, but their impact to the meta was nothing like what an entire deck had compared to the short lived airblade turbo (which included several cards not found in booster packs ironically) and eventually DAD, gladiator beasts and lightsworn. the late GX era where archetypes became more meta focused instead of individual cards from a themed deck. sure you had six samurai and dark world, but while they were important additions, they were nothing compared to the other deck types I mentioned.
also a fun fact about the last 2 booster packs of series 3 up to strike of neos, the third set of series 5: all special summon only monsters from the main deck (except rituals) could not be special summoned from the graveyard or banishment by card effects that did not fulfill or ignore their conditions (assuming they were fulfilled otherwise). volcanic devil was the first main monster to have the "must first be special summoned" clause since the chaos monsters. it was like konami was being overly cautious because the chaos era broke that chain of "must be special summoned" main deck monsters that were introduced in power of the guardians. in fact series 3 had only 2 fusion monsters that had no additional summon restrictions (reaper and black flare knight), FGD, and DMK were the first fusions to have the "must be fusion summoned" clause while xyz had to first be special summoned and could not be revied from the grave (although it could from banishment if summoned properly).
Trooper and perfect circle is great but late 05 and early 06 is soooo underrated. My biggest success in life was getting my wife into yugioh and that’s her favorite format to play so I am a little biased lol. But honestly it’s a lot of fun with a lot of back and forth and strategic resource management
I think the other thing that is pushing people away from GX is that the Prize Cards shatter GX into tiny oieces. Back then, those cards weren't so accessible, so most people wouldn't have them and almost no one was playing 3 copies. Especially since we now have access to online simulators and every card that was legal at the time, Cyber-Stein completely ruined every GX format up until its banning and Crush Card Virus being everywhere once it gets released doesn't help things either.
@@JanjoZone Gold Sarc was always good but I don't think it was good enough that it would completely break the formats if it was more accessible. It's kinda like Number 106: Giant Hand in 2014. Yeah, it's good, but doesn't break the game and not every deck that has access to it would consider it a staple.
@@JanjoZone Nah, the card is semilimited in Edison and feels like one of those "Great but not broken" cards of the format due to its telegraph and delayed nature. Don't get me wrong, it's THE generic tutor, but it's not a banworthy problem card considering it doesn't see much use in DAD decks despite DAD being limited. That being said, I'm talking about a 5Ds perspective, where extra deck boss monsters are a thing so it's more of a leveler. Maybe it's a bit too good in GX due to the lack of reliable extra deck, but even then I kinda doubt it because of god.
The change in design philosophy also had a roll. Even if your DM era booster pack gave you underwhelming options like a 1200 ATK Level 5 vanilla that nobody in their right mind would add to their deck at the time, it was "technically" something you could use. Come GX, and Archetype support didn't just restrict things further, but a lot of it even in the right archetype was not better than trying to use that old vanilla. If I am, for example, a Dragon player with Dragoon and open a pack of Tactical Evolution, I get 3 random HERO traps that gain LP, 2 Crystal Beast cards that halve effect damage, some low stat Gemini monster with an effect that just changes stats a little, and a Dark World vanilla. Then one gets all "back in the old days".
I feel it. Reaper, Perfect Circle, and DAD (and their OCG counterparts) are my favorite formats and it took LONG time just to get an opponent online. And it's a common sight to duel the same person and even MY OWN BROTHER for multiple times 😂
Reaper format actually saw a lot of play as a legacy format back when time wizard was announced but then it dropped off the map because it was discovered that Stein OTK was the single best deck and any diversity that goat didnt provide (which is why people actually played reaper) was squeezed out of the format and then it died
I must say, GX anime was definitely a big downgrade from what the original Duel Monsters was. Like you said, the tone change and shifting away from the ancient Egyptian theme definitely turned me and a lot of fans off. Yu-Gi-Oh was always about that ancient dark magic stuff and GX just wasn't it. The plot felt like a mess alot of the time and many of the cast were severely underused (like my boy Chazz). So yeah, I think GX was one of the main reasons I and alot of others left Yu-Gi-Oh for many years. The series did do an effort to bring back the dark ancient stuff with 5Ds Ancient Aztec aesthetic and Dark Signers, however the damage had already been done and the people that left Yu-Gi-Oh during GX would not come back.
For me GX more nostalgic than DM, because GX was the first Yu-Gi-Oh series I ever watched, sadly only 52 episodes aired in my country and Bakugan came so it just disappeared for me. Later in middle school was when watch again, I started Zexal later started DM and 5D's, but I only started playing in high school in the Arc-V era. I don't really understand "go back when Yu-Gi-Oh was good" because when I started there was owerpowered decks just like now, but in the goat format there was tier 1 and 0 decks too. Because of making almost all deck unplayable I stopped going tournaments in the vrains era. I think better just playing with friend with not that competitive decks than going back in time only for nostalgia, there are good and interesting new decks which are just became forgotten, because not good enough to go tournaments with them.
It's really too bad because you can tell that Konami was very conservative with card design and keeping power creep in check during 06-07 GX. But it turns out players wanted change and once DAD dropped Ko-money was born and they never went back.
Can't speak for others, but the reason I don't play GX formats is because I can't find anyone else to play them with. GX as an anime had an identity crisis but the TCG felt like DM: 2 IMO and was where YGO peaked.
Low impact cards. Out of how many sets can be filtered down to Raiza, trooper, LADD, Stratos and d hero, demise, chimera tech, cyber dragon, and then what? Handful of high impact card out of hundreds is wild. GX is basically gen 2 Pokémon where it was still all gen 1 with some toppings. Then when you do play, it’s either getting OTKd from early GX. Locked by what might be worst retro format of all time being troop dupe where 95% of a decks cards are busted. Or Raiza looped towards the end prior to lodt release which didn’t make things better. The more I play Edison, the more astounding it is that a nearly flawless Yugioh format could exist in terms of high levels of back and forth play. Even 4 years into retro Edison and still no consistent FTK deck exists. While Diva Hero Beat and BW have high win ratios, nothing has been proven overwhelmingly consistent to lock out other decks. I don’t think another format like this could exist, maybe HAT of it catches on. But GX formats could never.
Great vid Janjo! For me, I just had a lot of trouble feeling passionate about any of the GX formats? They weren't bad! But they just didn't give me this spark of joy like the DM formats did. Even in 2007/2008 when the better GX formats came along, a part of me couldn't help but find the nature of those a bit too much of a muchness? Though funny thing, I've had quite a few friends who SWEAR by the Elemental Heroes. As in "Elemental Heroes single-handedly made Fusions good!" Which... not sure I entirely agree with.
Yeah Goat happened during the GX era, but if you search Goat decks, they are mostly composed by cards released in the DM era, the video refer more to "why" exactly the sets released during the GX era weren't meta? E-heros, Roids, Ancient gears, you know, when GX era started to be a thing we were already in the 5ds era.
I loved the show but, nos as DM, 5DS or Zexal post awful season 1. When I return see all yugioh anime, the sub version is well better in my opinion, especialy the 4 first anime.
gx was peak competitive yugioh. perfect circle format and gladbeast format are two of the best competitive formats of all time. i'll always be biased though since 2007 was my first sjc.
Daddy Janjo you are so hard boiled
I try 🥚
GX is the epitome of: Do you liek HEROS and Cyber Dragons? If you don't then you will probably be left wanting. I personally love that Perfect Circle era pre-DAD.
Hindsight says that they should've went in harder to differentiate GX from DM and made the initial E-Hero monsters wildly better.
Flame Wingman looks pretty mid up against the chaos monsters that pre-dated it by a couple years.
the e-heroes would have been much better if konami could loosen the restrictions and not place a "must be fusion summoned" on every single member that is not a contact fusion. i mean there is a double standard when destiny heroes do not follow this "rule" that all fusions of that archetype need to have this clause. look at mudball man having it and it is practically a vanilla and gladiator beast esedari. both have to follow their archetype's summon restriction gimmick and when gem knights came along, their vanilla was what the others should have been: no effect should mean no restrictions other than its overall card type (i.e. a fusion).
It also didn't help that, around the GX era, I learned about 4Kids' censorship practices. I felt lied to at the time. Combine that with the afore mentioned comedic tone (especially in the dub), and I stopped watching through out the GX era. When 5D's rolled around, I was spending more time at the library to watch TH-cam (Because the house had Dial-up at the time). So I watched the subbed version of 5D's through it, and was stunned by the FAR better writing quality.
The best example of this to me will always be the dub's "Yes Yusei, the Black Rose is crying.", to the Sub's "Help me."
I'd hate to see how 4Kids would have adapted Shakespeare for children.
"And Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after in the Shadow Realm. The End."
And then Poochie returned to his planet
That's why I say that English dubs are overall lackluster. There are exceptions like Konosuba or Cowboy Bebop, but in general it feels most actors are not used to act other roles (And cancel culture not allowing to act what you aren't doesn't help with it).
GX is the epitome of everything wrong with english anime dub, from questionable voice choices to poor or ridiculous acting to invented dialogue (Remember the Schwarzenegger Mammoth). One would think they improved over the years, but recent shows beg to differ. Good thing in my region there's standards.
@@N12015 Speaking of cancel culture, it also doesn't help that it came to light recently that some people have been deliberately sabotaging dubs as well.
I can at least say that 4Kids wasn't going that far, just horribly misguided on their approach. In GX's case, I hear that some of the writing was inspired by LittleKuriboh's abridged series, a fine example of why you should try not to let your IPs memes bleed back into the official source, so as not to become a parody of yourself.
GX really took a good while to find its footing. It's no wonder why many people remember early YGO, and then Synchro era onwards quite easily and fondly, but GX era barely gets that because it was just taking so long to find itself
Unfortunate, but true
Gx is the epitome of mediocrity
As much as I love GX, you are correct. I have been building Yugioh Cubes for each era of the game and GX is arguably the lowest in terms of "wow" factor.
But I will say, what Yugioh GX did flesh out to an incredible degree is the idea of decks being centered around an archetype. It might not have had a single amazing format like Goats or Edison but it did truly start a monumental change in the game! And to that, I think GX deserves some credit!
It'll get more credit as we continue GX Month!!
I love GX, but that's the era I go back to the least. There are plenty of decks and strategies that I enjoy immensely whenever I replay DM and 5Ds era games, but for GX there's nothing I can say I love playing (Six Sams and Zombies are decks I prefer in the 5Ds era for example). With GX I've always liked the characters and where it takes place more than the decks and formats, while I like everything about the same for DM and 5Ds so the fun factor and nostalgia is stronger with those.
That's fair!
I love perfect circle and dad return. They are freaking awsome. The problem with dad formats at the time was how expensive they were, but with hindsight and easy access they were a blast.
Same with Nekroz format while I am at it.
PC is great!
Perfect Circle is by far the best GX Format, and it's not even close.
DAD Return post-eban, pre-LODT is good. But no one remembers that format since it literally only lasted like 2 weeks.
Pre-eban DAD Return format was an OTK/FTK format, and the two top decks post-LODT were an autopilot deck and a luck-based deck.
I think Edison is a "improved" GX format. Most GX archetypes are doing well in that format: Heros, Samurais, Machines, Volcanics, Monarchs, Frogs, most of them can play without being shadowed by TeleDAD.
Though it does share the format with Synchros. It is a format where most GX archetypes found play as some of these GX archetypes have decent support at that time
It's because people don't have taste and can't see that GX is clearly the best season
Maybe 🤔
Gx cleary had a messy direction that ended up awfully defining the card game.
Cause' even when og yugioh wasn't about cards at first that Goth-egiptian atmosphere and intense friendship monologues binded the whole thing: manga, show and game together and pretty nicely. It was very intense from the very begining and until the end. Unlike Gx where you could always end up catching a stupid filler episode where jaden duels agaists the Dark magician girl or some sht while getting neo bubbleman in your booster pack
"People outgrowned Yugioh GX" they said that before seeing Judai having the deepest internal traumas about seeing his friends being sacrificied to make a FRICKING CARD and then becoming a Genocidal Tyrant by being surpassed by the guilty and all caused by an Obsesive Hermaphrodite demon spirit that loved him so much that it literally came back to Earth just to could be with him again...
GX is by far the best written Yugioh anime and Season 3 overshadows every other arc from any yugioh series.
I think the problem isn't that GX is sillier, because DM has it's fair share of goofy shit, but that starts off goofy and has more serious stories in the later seasons, so most people had made up their minds already (it doesn't help that the last season wasn't even released in the states)
my hiatus in ygo was during the GX where my last booster pack i opened was from power of the duelist. when i came back (although for a few months), it was right before crossroads of chaos was released in the TCG. I remember when dueling against a lightsworn deck and i could not believe how consistent it was and this was not even the best deck at the time (tele-DAD being above it). cybernetic revolution may have had several solid cards and cyber dragons, but their impact to the meta was nothing like what an entire deck had compared to the short lived airblade turbo (which included several cards not found in booster packs ironically) and eventually DAD, gladiator beasts and lightsworn. the late GX era where archetypes became more meta focused instead of individual cards from a themed deck. sure you had six samurai and dark world, but while they were important additions, they were nothing compared to the other deck types I mentioned.
also a fun fact about the last 2 booster packs of series 3 up to strike of neos, the third set of series 5: all special summon only monsters from the main deck (except rituals) could not be special summoned from the graveyard or banishment by card effects that did not fulfill or ignore their conditions (assuming they were fulfilled otherwise). volcanic devil was the first main monster to have the "must first be special summoned" clause since the chaos monsters. it was like konami was being overly cautious because the chaos era broke that chain of "must be special summoned" main deck monsters that were introduced in power of the guardians. in fact series 3 had only 2 fusion monsters that had no additional summon restrictions (reaper and black flare knight), FGD, and DMK were the first fusions to have the "must be fusion summoned" clause while xyz had to first be special summoned and could not be revied from the grave (although it could from banishment if summoned properly).
Its just Monarch reaper, ddt, and tds. That's why
Trooper and perfect circle is great but late 05 and early 06 is soooo underrated.
My biggest success in life was getting my wife into yugioh and that’s her favorite format to play so I am a little biased lol. But honestly it’s a lot of fun with a lot of back and forth and strategic resource management
I do enjoy summer 2006 format!
Monarchs were so good!
I think the other thing that is pushing people away from GX is that the Prize Cards shatter GX into tiny oieces. Back then, those cards weren't so accessible, so most people wouldn't have them and almost no one was playing 3 copies. Especially since we now have access to online simulators and every card that was legal at the time, Cyber-Stein completely ruined every GX format up until its banning and Crush Card Virus being everywhere once it gets released doesn't help things either.
Gold Sarc too!
@@JanjoZone Gold Sarc was always good but I don't think it was good enough that it would completely break the formats if it was more accessible. It's kinda like Number 106: Giant Hand in 2014. Yeah, it's good, but doesn't break the game and not every deck that has access to it would consider it a staple.
@@JanjoZone Nah, the card is semilimited in Edison and feels like one of those "Great but not broken" cards of the format due to its telegraph and delayed nature. Don't get me wrong, it's THE generic tutor, but it's not a banworthy problem card considering it doesn't see much use in DAD decks despite DAD being limited.
That being said, I'm talking about a 5Ds perspective, where extra deck boss monsters are a thing so it's more of a leveler. Maybe it's a bit too good in GX due to the lack of reliable extra deck, but even then I kinda doubt it because of god.
The change in design philosophy also had a roll. Even if your DM era booster pack gave you underwhelming options like a 1200 ATK Level 5 vanilla that nobody in their right mind would add to their deck at the time, it was "technically" something you could use. Come GX, and Archetype support didn't just restrict things further, but a lot of it even in the right archetype was not better than trying to use that old vanilla.
If I am, for example, a Dragon player with Dragoon and open a pack of Tactical Evolution, I get 3 random HERO traps that gain LP, 2 Crystal Beast cards that halve effect damage, some low stat Gemini monster with an effect that just changes stats a little, and a Dark World vanilla. Then one gets all "back in the old days".
Good point!
The GX show was felt so much more juvenile, as a kid I disregarded it. Way less cool than Yugi dueling with Egyptian Gods
Egypt is cooler B)
Eh, i think gx was a bit better, both sub and dub
I was never really a fan of the GX show but the manga is my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh thing outside of OG Yu-Gi-Oh stuff.
I watched all of duel monsters, skipped gx and watched the first season of 5Ds. I didn’t watched GX until I got back into the game in 2018
I feel it. Reaper, Perfect Circle, and DAD (and their OCG counterparts) are my favorite formats and it took LONG time just to get an opponent online. And it's a common sight to duel the same person and even MY OWN BROTHER for multiple times 😂
Reaper is plagued by Stein. The only good DAD format was the 2 week format after the emergency banlist and before the release of LODT.
Reaper format actually saw a lot of play as a legacy format back when time wizard was announced but then it dropped off the map because it was discovered that Stein OTK was the single best deck and any diversity that goat didnt provide (which is why people actually played reaper) was squeezed out of the format and then it died
Yeah it's sad
It's because of Cyber Dragon 😂😂😂 Enough Said
Rough
I must say, GX anime was definitely a big downgrade from what the original Duel Monsters was. Like you said, the tone change and shifting away from the ancient Egyptian theme definitely turned me and a lot of fans off. Yu-Gi-Oh was always about that ancient dark magic stuff and GX just wasn't it. The plot felt like a mess alot of the time and many of the cast were severely underused (like my boy Chazz).
So yeah, I think GX was one of the main reasons I and alot of others left Yu-Gi-Oh for many years. The series did do an effort to bring back the dark ancient stuff with 5Ds Ancient Aztec aesthetic and Dark Signers, however the damage had already been done and the people that left Yu-Gi-Oh during GX would not come back.
Agreed!
For me GX more nostalgic than DM, because GX was the first Yu-Gi-Oh series I ever watched, sadly only 52 episodes aired in my country and Bakugan came so it just disappeared for me. Later in middle school was when watch again, I started Zexal later started DM and 5D's, but I only started playing in high school in the Arc-V era. I don't really understand "go back when Yu-Gi-Oh was good" because when I started there was owerpowered decks just like now, but in the goat format there was tier 1 and 0 decks too. Because of making almost all deck unplayable I stopped going tournaments in the vrains era. I think better just playing with friend with not that competitive decks than going back in time only for nostalgia, there are good and interesting new decks which are just became forgotten, because not good enough to go tournaments with them.
You forgot to talk about Six Samurais. One of the most impacful archtypes to come from this era.
Except... they did absolutely nothing at the time, they only became meta way later
Six Samurai were more of a 5Ds deck then GX the strategy really didn’t come together until storm of ragnarok
It's really too bad because you can tell that Konami was very conservative with card design and keeping power creep in check during 06-07 GX. But it turns out players wanted change and once DAD dropped Ko-money was born and they never went back.
@@connermorgan9223 there's a happy medium
2007 is my favorite year of yugioh 🤷♂️
Not a bad year!
@@JanjoZone your videos on the 07 formats rock💪🏼
@@charltonmccoy5300 Thank you! Deff felt my history videos got into a groove during then!
Can't speak for others, but the reason I don't play GX formats is because I can't find anyone else to play them with. GX as an anime had an identity crisis but the TCG felt like DM: 2 IMO and was where YGO peaked.
Yeah that's completely fair
Reaper format being a fun format until it got broken in half certainly didn’t help
Hate when that happens
Turns out, cyber stein is a good card!
@@jacobjensen7704 who would have thought!
I lpve GX for being a transition.point in the game.
Both combo aa well as control decks had a spotlight.
Gx was actually my favorite era
Low impact cards. Out of how many sets can be filtered down to Raiza, trooper, LADD, Stratos and d hero, demise, chimera tech, cyber dragon, and then what? Handful of high impact card out of hundreds is wild. GX is basically gen 2 Pokémon where it was still all gen 1 with some toppings. Then when you do play, it’s either getting OTKd from early GX. Locked by what might be worst retro format of all time being troop dupe where 95% of a decks cards are busted. Or Raiza looped towards the end prior to lodt release which didn’t make things better. The more I play Edison, the more astounding it is that a nearly flawless Yugioh format could exist in terms of high levels of back and forth play. Even 4 years into retro Edison and still no consistent FTK deck exists. While Diva Hero Beat and BW have high win ratios, nothing has been proven overwhelmingly consistent to lock out other decks. I don’t think another format like this could exist, maybe HAT of it catches on. But GX formats could never.
More or less!
Exactly plus not helping is I hate to say it gx slow weak set format didn't not help 5ds brought much need power but not stupid like links did
Great vid Janjo!
For me, I just had a lot of trouble feeling passionate about any of the GX formats? They weren't bad! But they just didn't give me this spark of joy like the DM formats did. Even in 2007/2008 when the better GX formats came along, a part of me couldn't help but find the nature of those a bit too much of a muchness?
Though funny thing, I've had quite a few friends who SWEAR by the Elemental Heroes. As in "Elemental Heroes single-handedly made Fusions good!" Which... not sure I entirely agree with.
I still enjoyed them! Watch out for a GX Fusion video later this month!
I don't think they should even have a band list, like y even make the cards if ur gonna band it? Makes no sense
i still like reaper
I mean if you want to be technical GOAT format is a GX format… in practice it mostly isn’t however.
I would suggest watching the video!
Special summoning disc commander with LADD is good yugioh imo
I do like the ladd
I like GX, cause GOATS have very broken cards, like Delinquent Duo, The Jars, Metamorphosis, etc
I m actually building GX cards to play with my friends haha
Hell yeah!
That's me. I'm the Metal Fish.
Oh snap 😯
GOAT is litteraly early GX
Watch the video!
@@JanjoZone i did
Goat formqt is A GX FORMAT
It's me, I'm nobody.
From someone who loves Kingdom Hearts 2, that's not a bad thing 😎
@JanjoZone
Your cool points just went up 10 fold for referencing my favorite game franchise, as if they could even go higher.
- Aaron the Editor
@@rubyretro Oh I absolutely love KH!
@JanjoZone
Think we'll get KHIV next year? I'm hopeful we might, if not the following year.
@@rubyretro Given their track record I'd be surprised. Look how long it took for KH3.
Goat format is a GX format, so that's an inaccurate statement.
Wait till the video!
Yeah Goat happened during the GX era, but if you search Goat decks, they are mostly composed by cards released in the DM era, the video refer more to "why" exactly the sets released during the GX era weren't meta? E-heros, Roids, Ancient gears, you know, when GX era started to be a thing we were already in the 5ds era.
I do
I guess i'm a nobody.
Kingdom Hearts 2 incoming
I loved the show but, nos as DM, 5DS or Zexal post awful season 1.
When I return see all yugioh anime, the sub version is well better in my opinion, especialy the 4 first anime.
Yeah I need to watch the sub!
"PromoSM" ☺️
It’s not a children’s card game in Japan (OCG). But ok. 🤣🤣🤣
gx was peak competitive yugioh. perfect circle format and gladbeast format are two of the best competitive formats of all time. i'll always be biased though since 2007 was my first sjc.
A fun time for sure!
Ummmm, you're wrong.