LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Pretty much what the title says. Wasn't sure where to put it but I wanted a bit more serious responses but don't think it quite fits General. Is luck a good thing to exist or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(GigaDrillBreaker) Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 If luck didn't exist, I wouldn't stand a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinkerer Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Oh, darn. I thought you were gonna ask whether we have good or bad luck. I would've picked "Good only in games". ...Of course, then there was that one time my brother hit me with a combo that literally had less than a millionth of a chance of working, so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet MS Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Luck gives way to all forms of complications when you look at quantum. Luck may also be rather rage-inducing in games when it creates moments where an unskilled player, in a stroke of luck, overpowers a skilled player. However, if luck is completely eliminated from games, we end up with theoretically solved games where the best plays can be calculated (e.g. TicTacToe or Chess). Not to say those aren't good games, but occasional, controlled fluctuations of luck are fine from the public gameplay standpoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Flyer - Sakura Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Depending on the situation, luck is either good or bad. If it smiles upon you, then good things happen (i.e. you get the luck draw in Yugioh [which happens very often in the series], win the lottery, guess the correct answer from a multiple choice question you don't know answer to, and so on). However, if it screws you over, then you end up with bad things, such as being given a crap hand in games, randomly falling down the stairs or some other uncontrollable event.In the case of operations, this also means you either die or end up far worse. ----So yeah, kind of neutral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryusei the Morning Star Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Chess mate, the most skillful game created after life. Luck itself is largely eradicated from it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(GigaDrillBreaker) Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Chess mate, the most skillful game created after life. Luck itself is largely eradicated from itSo... What is your opinion on luck..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryusei the Morning Star Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 So... What is your opinion on luck..?Awful, should not exist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althemia Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=503ECphVSCw obligatory since referencing to luck legit though luck is for the most part a stupid concept but at the same time it's undeniable that none of us would be here if it wasn't for us getting lucky in the first place, so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flame Dragon Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Luck is a very good tool in games to a certain extent. As already said it keeps the game from being solvable, if every game were to play out the same you would eventually learn it and be able to beat it on muscle memory. Adding random elements helps minimize this. Following form this is also creates constantly different states allowing a player to test their skill and adapt as need me. Some of the best games of magic are the ones where you got unlucky at the start, but were able to figure out a way to win regardless. It allowing for a less skillful player to win some amount of the time is also a good thing, not bad. Knowing I can play against someone who is better than me but still win is a good thing since otherwise I just wouldn't play. That said you can have too much. One of the reasons I don't like Hearthstone is because I dislike the amount of RNG the games has. Not only does the game have a lot, but a lot of powerful cards (to my knowledge) have a fair bit of luck to them. I recommend checking out Mark Rosewater's Podcast Drive to Work where he talks about the 10 things every game needs. One of them is on surprise and it should touch on this subject a little since randomness leads to surprises. You can also read this article where he talks about luck in games. http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunar Origins Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Luck is why we were born in the first place. Luck is the reason why the card game Yu-Gi-Oh! was popular, and thus why any of us are here in the first place. Luck is why my house burned down last year. It's not something any of us have an real control over; we spend our lives influencing a fate that can go any which direction at any time with little control over what happens. Luck, or under a better name chance, is perhaps one of the most important aspects over our lives, and it's so damn fundamental to life itself that I see no real reason to complain about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flame Dragon Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Thing, is we do have some control over luck. At the very least we can play to our outs so to speak. That even when things aren't going well we can make choices such that, should favor turn, we will be in the best place to capitalize on that lucky break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow Posted September 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2015 Seems a looot of people tend to think of luck as a good thing for the most part, I honestly didn't expect that.Personally I believe luck is important and brings a lot of chances and excitement into an otherwise dull life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourmaline Posted September 24, 2015 Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Things happen independent of human attempts to taint necessary universal determinism into small things that are easier to cope with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow Posted September 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Things happen independent of human attempts to taint necessary universal determinism into small things that are easier to cope with.So what's your opinion on luck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourmaline Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 You read it well enough. Clear too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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