If you've ever watched some of the top twitch players of that game, like joob, you can note that they more often than not have a successful run, even on the highest difficulties. Which would imply that it's not just rng determining whether you can win.
Joob streams everything, and even on Ascension 30 he still manages a positive win ratio. Yes, he loses too, sometimes you just have bad luck. But my point isn't to say you are worse than Joobs (who is a spreadsheet keeping madman) but to say that the game is winnable beyond just getting lucky with rng.
That actually just speaks to my point. A spreadsheet-keeping madman with the ultra-attentive attention to detail can still lose despite not making any calculated mistakes. It is possible to play perfectly and still lose because the RNG decides you don't get to win this time. For those of us who are NOT spreadsheet-keeping madmen, that just means it happens all the more.
I disagree, to a point. Yes, it is possible that rng fucks you and you lose through no fault of your own, but that is not the same as a game being rigged. My instinct is to bring up blood bowl, because that's the game with random chance I play the most, but so as not to do the thing, let's talk poker instead.
Rng leaving a game possibly unwinnable is just a feature of roguelikes. But on normal and lower Ascension levels, there are actually very, very few truly unwinnable games in slay the spire. The madman I mentioned plays on Ascension 30. On lower levels he can win damn near every time
The thing is Poker is against other players, so if you lose it is because another player is better than you. "Every hand's a winner, and every hand's a loser" so to speak against other human beings. But Slay the Spire is a computer-generated obstacle course. You can't bluff your way past it, and if the first act gives you shit relics even though you hit every single elite on your way to the boss, you may as well lay down and die and try again, hoping that RNGesus smiles more benevolently on you next time... and if Act 3 decides to give you only the relics that benefit those who pick them up in act 1 (hey, every power/skill/attack you pick up from now on, 3 spaces from the boss, will be upgraded! isn't that helpful? The next two non-boss chests, of which none remain, will have double loot! Oh, and the next two curses you get will be negated! Good luck with the boss! Oh, and since we saw that by act 2 you were building your deck based on playing the most cards per turn you can, we've decided the final boss with be the Time Eater.)... GG no re!
The frown I make when I get an egg near the end of Act 3 would make the pre-nice Grinch jealous.
Hey every game these days is about who can dress up Tower of Hanoi-type gameplay in the most appealing trappings possible. You can thank China, which is apparently attracted to games that emphasize grinding.
Yeah, I recently started playing KSP again.I already have 200 hours in Animal Crossing...
It's a good thing we're all locked down and have nothing else to do or I might need an intervention.
There will be no discussion of the number of hours in any game here.
Well I'm playing on PS4 because fuck the epic store
It was a small printing, like a lot of PS2 era Castlevania stuff.
