For me, if I ever hear "card-based" or "soulslike" I have absolutely no desire to play a game, no matter how many people reccomend it.

I'm also not a huge fan of modern "roguelikes" but I've sunk days into nethack and games like that.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Any sort of deck-building because it feels like homework

    This is why I skipped every game of Gwent

    • dannoffs [he/him]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      I maintain that Witcher 3 is great storytelling shoved into a shit game.

        • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          When I first played Witcher 3 I was like “why the fuck would I play a card game in this vibrant, immersive, story-rich action-adventure game?” and then somewhere along the lines I got to the point where I was running around the whole game world ready to suck dick for Gwent cards. I have no idea how they got me, but Gwent is easily the best game-within-a-game I’ve ever played.

          • dannoffs [he/him]
            hexagon
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            8 months ago

            Gwent is easily the best game-within-a-game I’ve ever played.

            Counterpoint: Yakuza Pocket Circuit.

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Because you didn't have to run around collecting dice and then use a spreadsheet to organize the dice into an optimized dice stack meta and then lose anyway when you don't draw the right dice from your pile of random dice

    • coffinwood@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      I played Gwent at every opportunity in the Witcher game and thought I'd love the stand-alone Gwent. Boy was I wrong. The mini game was simple enough to learn and not that hard to master. Gwent stand-alone is just too complex to have some simple fun with it.

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Should have done like me and literally refused to play a game of Gwent to save a dude's life

        Like sorry bro that sucks and all but I'm just going to kill all of these people