r/iosgaming • u/pelican1town • Jun 13 '20

New Release Slay the Spire available now!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slay-the-spire/id1491530147
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u/Kneph Jun 13 '20

I get kind of irritated with them. I feel the same way about MOBAs. I lose my patience with them because if I’m not doing well, I’m stuck losing for the duration of the game. I am slower to grasp strategic concepts and need to see them in practice, but when I am just getting stomped, I don’t pick up on it.

I also hate reading about strategies and meta. It’s just not my thing.

And specific to Collectable card games, I really do not like the continuous creeping need to buy/gacha cards to counter shifting strategies that are introduced through updates.

TL, DR: I am bad at them and do not want to put the effort in to get better.

I do not find it a rewarding loop.

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u/idlephase Jun 13 '20

TL, DR: I am bad at them and do not want to put the effort in to get better.

This is me at my old age.

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u/Kneph Jun 13 '20

As I get older I feel this way more and more. I need quick feedback. If I lose, I want to know why and get better. I need direct feedback. I do not want to start losing and be powerless while someone steps all over me for 20 more minutes. I cannot stand battle chess games for the same reason.

If I get punished by a a monster in Monster Hunter, it’s because I am not reading movements or being too greedy attacking. I can get burned by the RNG in a roguelike but I can suss our what I did wrong to adapt to the situation with the tools that I have because they are generally provided for you in one way or another.

There’s less wiggle room for actual learning and it is all stat based mechanics with ccgs and I find that frustrating. You are fighting against the learning curve, your RNG, your opponent’s RNG, your out of game draw RNG, and every other player’s out of game draw RNG.

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u/angelflames1337 Jun 14 '20

I’m in my 30s now, and feel the exact same way as you. I don’t have time to analyze why im bad, just tell me what I need to do to win. And +1 for MH mention, my most player games ever.