Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months?

• BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oof. I’ve played a lot of Balatro, but I finished blue stake and went “any more than this stops being fun.” Can’t imagine going all the way to gold for every deck. Is it just a completionist thing? Or is the challenge of it fun for you in moment to moment gameplay?

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  • glitches_brew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For a really long time I never thought I’d do more than one gold deck. That first one was the only completionist feeling one to me.

    I later discovered Dr. Specter’s Balatro University and also watched a lot of Major League Balatro. I learned a ton and thought that maybe I’d give harder stakes another try. There’s a lot of dopamine to be had in applying theoretical knowledge to overcome something you previously thought was nearly impossible.

    Black stake is a whole other beast though. Dr. Specter himself says if you really want to beat it you should be prepared to reset over and over for hours on end.

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    • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sounds interesting! I’ll have to look into those, thanks for the mention! That last bit, I think, is what kills it for me at the higher stakes, I like having the POTENTIAL for victory every run. Having an occasional impossible run isn’t the end of the world, but when it’s more assured losses than potential wins, there’s a line

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