which do yall find more challenging and fun to play?

[games23]

balatro or nickle slot machines?

[kevinforrestconnors]

Is that a video game, or you mean the real thing?

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by Lado:

I was thinking the same, i dont understand the overwhelmed enthusiasm about this game, when you set some jokes up and upgrade some hands the game plays almost by it's self like a slot machine indeed^^

Slot machine gameplay:
-Insert coin
-Pull level
-Wait for outcome
-Repeat

Balatro gameplay:
-Stare at 8 cards, decide what's the best hand currently available
-Peek deck to decide what to discard, what to keep
-Play hands and win
-Stay in shop like 10 minutes to decide between Jokers, Booster Pack
-Stay in Blind selection 5 minutes to decide skip or not, plus form a plan for Boss Blind
-Repeat

TL;DR: I agree that dev should bring back demo, some people simply won't watch review/LP and just blindly jump into Balatro due to "trend", and gets mad this game isn't for them.

[games23]

Originally posted by Ronald Brain:

Slot machine gameplay:
-Insert coin
-Pull level
-Wait for outcome
-Repeat

Balatro gameplay:
-Stare at 8 cards, decide what's the best hand currently available
-Peek deck to decide what to discard, what to keep
-Play hands and win
-Stay in shop like 10 minutes to decide between Jokers, Booster Pack
-Stay in Blind selection 5 minutes to decide skip or not, plus form a plan for Boss Blind
-Repeat

slot machine gameplay - 100% luck / 0% skill

balatro gameplay - 99% luck / 1% skill

balatro is a lottery ticket RNG game

[Pingoso]

Originally posted by games23:

Originally posted by Ronald Brain:

Slot machine gameplay:
-Insert coin
-Pull level
-Wait for outcome
-Repeat

Balatro gameplay:
-Stare at 8 cards, decide what's the best hand currently available
-Peek deck to decide what to discard, what to keep
-Play hands and win
-Stay in shop like 10 minutes to decide between Jokers, Booster Pack
-Stay in Blind selection 5 minutes to decide skip or not, plus form a plan for Boss Blind
-Repeat

slot machine gameplay - 100% luck / 0% skill

balatro gameplay - 99% luck / 1% skill

balatro is a lottery ticket RNG game

If you play it like a poker game, sure it's mostly luck.
If you play it like a deckbuilder, it's 50% luck and 50% stategy.

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by games23:

slot machine gameplay - 100% luck / 0% skill

balatro gameplay - 99% luck / 1% skill

balatro is a lottery ticket RNG game

I don't want to repeat the skill issue joke, but seriously, some people are just bad at video game and think it's all about luck.

Balatro is luck based, that much we know of. How it reward, or punish you, is entirely up to how you play. If you keep fishing for 5 cards hand, if you keep skipping "bad" Jokers, if you keep ignoring tags that might actually save your run, then that isn't luck.

[Arzaac]

Yeah there's definitely a significant skill component in Balatro, judging by these forums. Plenty of people here struggling with white stake after 10+ hours, but if you're good with deckbuilders/poker it should take you a handful of tries at most. Hell, I managed to get my first Gold Stake win at about 20 hours.