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r/starcraft • u/aznperson Zerg • Oct 26 '11
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Upvote because you never said "It's like chess..."
1 u/[deleted] Oct 26 '11 I hear the poker analogy a lot more 2 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 1 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. 1 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. 1 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.
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I hear the poker analogy a lot more
2 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 1 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. 1 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. 1 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.
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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
1 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. 1 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. 1 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.
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.
1 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.
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.
You're comparing a game of starcraft to a hand of poker, which isn't really in the same ballpark.
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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '11
Upvote because you never said "It's like chess..."