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Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 months ago
The game if chess. Several times too!
It’s actually a crazily cool game IMO. You heard of the hyper accelerated dragon? Of the blind swine check mate (even a blind swine can do it) others are from the 13 century and so on…
French, Danish, the London System.
There is something for everyone, even the loser (you’ll eventually lose half your games in a good matchmaking) ; humility.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Chess has a wicked end game.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 months ago
The whole thing feels like a chaotic system, anywhere, even when you’re winning 100 percent, the slightest insane miscalculation might smell doom.
It’s a fearsome game.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It is great, because it starts with more information and permutations than humans can handle and as the strategic window narrows to where humans conceivably can, it depends on what resources had to be expended to get there. I wish there was a video game that had a rhythm similar to chess.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The secret boss in Inscryption Act 3 had a similar feel, but the permutations were much lower. I was constantly on the verge of defeat, but pulled it out not by getting better cards, but by being more tactical with the ones I had.
I also like Europa Universalis IV for the same reason. I like starting as a small country near a large one (starting as an Irish minor is my favorite) and strategically growing in the right ways to survive. There’s a ton of knobs to turn and valid strategies, and everything can blow up with a couple mistakes.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 months ago
Nothing beats playing a human being though (which a video game allows ofc) it allows, at least at my low level, a lot of manuvers depending on who you (think you) play against.