I recently bought a tablet, and have dived (dove?) real deep into Hearthstone. I've spent hours reading guides, reading up on deck builds, even outright copied "top tier/popular" deck builds. Yet I still can't get past one aspect of this game... The luck.
To me, Hearthstone is summed up in the following. Dude gets a 5-5 card, or 8-8 card, or whatever. Gets a card that doubles it's health, gets another card that double it's health, get's a card that makes it's attack equal to it's health, all in the span of 1-3 turns, then kills me... Meanwhile, I'm drawing mana crystals and 1/1 champions the entire game. Now, before you get all "DUrrmmm that cant actually happend DUrrrmmr" understand that I'm not being entirely literal. I'm just giving a general example/overview of the "gist" of this game in my experience.
I know the common question will be "what deck/build are you using" and let me just say this. I've read what feels like a million articles on deck building (as well as play strategy). I've even outright copied decks that people consider to be "top tier" and played many, many games with them. I by no means think that makes me an expert, I just can't get past the fact that, in the end, greatest deck build aside, it all comes down to "did you get better draws compared to the other person?" I'm firmly convinced that an expert deck builder could build a deck for an average player, and they would probably (expert and average player) win the same amount of matchmaking games. Because once you get into the ACTUAL game, it's mostly luck...
For the record, I feel the same about games like Poker. I feel like Poker is a shit game. There's a reason it's super boring, and when it get's down to two people, it can go on forever, and usually you just have to split the winnings. In a group, you fold, and you fold, and you fold, until you get a hand that you are likely to win. Most hands (or matches/games) are a crapshoot. It's all about increasing your odds of winning. Sure, it takes a bit of smarts, and memory (remembering what's been played, etc.), but in the end, it's luck.
I've never felt good about winning in this game. Any time I win, I feel like it's because I got lucky, and got better card draws than the other person. Any time I lose, I feel like it's because the opponent got lucky, and received better card draws than me. I never feel like there is skill involved... And in the end, that's all that matters, feel... If this game could hide the luck aspect. The illusion aspect. Then maybe it would be okay. But it's laid bare. I never feel good about winning or losing, and thus, this game is nothing...
I really hope I'm missing something about Hearthstone. It's a huge, popular game that a ton of my friends play, and I like the idea of card games like this and Magic, and would like to get into them. But if luck is even 50% of it, I think I might be done. I don't want the determining factor of whether not I win to be mostly luck, or hell even 50/50 luck. And I just feel like luck is such a huge, majority part of this game that I can't reconcile it.
What do you guys think? I honestly want all opinions, even ones saying I'm wrong and an asshole. Because in the end, I want to like and play this game!
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