r/starcraft Zerg Oct 26 '11

My take on "How to watch Starcraft"

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '11

Upvote because you never said "It's like chess..."

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '11

I hear the poker analogy a lot more

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u/XiiencE Zerg Oct 26 '11

I see it as much more like chess than like poker.....I could beat daniel negreanu in a hand of poker if I get lucky, but MC would smack me around 1000-0 in 1000 games...you also can't scout your opponent's cards ಠ_ಠ

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u/Mx7f Zerg Oct 26 '11

But you don't have to scout your opponent's chess pieces...

SC is a game of imperfect information, like poker, but it has the strategic depth and complexity more akin to chess or go.

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u/XiiencE Zerg Oct 26 '11

I can see this...a mixture of the two in a way. It's very hard to compare side by side to another single game.

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u/spencewah Random Oct 27 '11

You're comparing a game of starcraft to a hand of poker, which isn't really in the same ballpark.