I was watching Hearthstone the other day. I'm not much for online card games (they are WAY more fun in person!) but it certainly looks promising! Tell me, are you finding the chance mechanics a little too predictable? It may have just been the handful of games that I watched but the outcomes seemed to be stupidly overpowered towards whoever was winning. I didn't see one close game. The player was either dominating or being completely dominated. Are you feeling like that too?
In fact, the very last game I played last night, I was dominating a mage, up 17-1 or so in character HP. They proceeded to wipe my minions off the board while I failed to find a way past their taunt (minion ability that keeps you from attacking their character); they won. I wasn't watching my hand close enough (ran out of hand cards!) and I was just hoping the top card of my deck would save me.
There's an issue with card quality determining games a bit, but what CCG doesn't have that? Matchmaking should even things out after you've played a few games.
But I've only been playing for 1 day and can't even consistently take on expert bots (their cards are just sooooooooooooooo much better than mine).
Maybe that's what I was seeing! The person I was watching didn't have Druid, Warlock or Paladin decks and kept getting annihilated on his Rogue deck but when he played his Mage deck he seemed unstoppable. Playing the same deck over and over would get a little boring to me. I'm glad you're enjoying (enduring?) it! =)
In fact, the very last game I played last night, I was dominating a mage, up 17-1 or so in character HP. They proceeded to wipe my minions off the board while I failed to find a way past their taunt (minion ability that keeps you from attacking their character); they won. I wasn't watching my hand close enough (ran out of hand cards!) and I was just hoping the top card of my deck would save me.
There's an issue with card quality determining games a bit, but what CCG doesn't have that? Matchmaking should even things out after you've played a few games.
But I've only been playing for 1 day and can't even consistently take on expert bots (their cards are just sooooooooooooooo much better than mine).
but it's really getting a little annoying playing against people with legendary cards when I don't even have the basic decks.