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Is chess the Dark Souls of board games?

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>unpredictable death that is technically predictable if you do a forensic investigation of the scene first
>otherwise lots of boring nothing

russian roulette is the dark souls of traditional games

it's not unfinished so no

No, the dark souls board game is

Yes

>tfw to smart for chess

Battleship is probably an unironically good fit
Mostly trial and error
Good strategy can improve success

battleship is all about playing your opponent

Cool looking game. What is it and what language is that?

Is Dark Souls the Dark Souls of videogames?

chinese chess, like chinese checkers

Chess is the soul of board games

> Don't ignore me you rancid swine

That's fantastic.

Is "Is Dark Souls the Dark Souls of video games?" the Dark Souls of "Is _____ the Dark Souls of ______?"

i wish i had game like that

of course not. casuals love dark souls, while dark souls is for hardcore gamers

>chess
>the person who gets white and goes first is determined by a coin flip
>no way to predict enemy moves with certainty
>one wrong prediction can completely screw you over, practically losing the game for you
Luck based trash.

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>can make an AI that can beat every chess master on Earth thousands of turns in advance
>can't make a competent challenging AI in civ games without it cheating

Reminds me of the game from Avatar last airbender. Someone went and created rules to it

The dark souls board game is the dark souls of board games

Isn't that one basically Go?

Shogi. Japanese
It's like an expansion of chess that adds units and improved the promotion mechanics. You can find English versions online

>prediction
>luckbased
Sorry you can only see the immediate future. I have no idea how you think your miscalculations constitutes it being luckbased. I'm sorry you just got outskilled and your opponent read you like a fucking childrens book

Can't say for sure but i was disappointed when i looked at the rules back in the day. Not super OG

>Thinking one round of Chess is the whole game
>Not able to outwit opponents, thinking moves they'll make before they've even made them
>Babby wants a rewind function

Git gud

>all those dice, cards, tokens, and figurines.
How does this even play?

Seriously. I think he should stick with Chutes n Ladders. Even hungry hippos requires more skill than this guy will ever have

You can watch the video on YouTube explaining how to play, it’s basically a needlessly complex game of craps.

Probably more like an RPG than anything you've ever played

I think it actually looks like a lot of fun, but fairly easy, especially since you can kite most enemies with push-back weapons.
I've never seen a boss battle though, but I know that the boss's attacks are determined by a deck of cards, and once the pile is empty it repeats, meaning you'll learn it's pattern once you've survived or died through one pile.

Don't hate on chutes and ladders. I will backtrace you.

Chess is a completely dehumanizing game. It treats pawns like cannonfodder and racistly colors each side with a different color, when in reality we're all one species united.
Monarchical tyranny is present in the game, the most important piece is the king. While the queen is a powerful female character, it's still an expendable resource when compared to the king.
Chess and thus its creator claims that certain groups of society can only do certain things, for example pawn's movement is very limited. This sort of ableist portrayal of the ordinary people is deeply troubling and problematic. It completely negates the existence of those people whose movement is not limited to the restrictive structure of the chess board.

Will consequences be the same again?

My kinda game!

No because Chess is actually a hard game that teaches you a lot of shit.

chess? more like shit

Like that white people have institutional power? How to manipulate your fellow man? How power struggle all boils down to battle over resources?

Yeah, great lessons. Why don't you go back to your fraternity house and jerk each other off to your capital gains some more

>Being so stupid you cannot predict your opponent or see what the current board most likely leads to.

You sound like the same person who falls for obvious baits in a fighting game.

How to manipulate and lead a opponent is a valuable lesson when it comes to anything competitive. Also stop spewing the 10% higher white win rate meme like that matters to someone at your braindead level of play.

>make the board pieces be identified with kanji instead of simple silhouettes like in chess
what did they mean by this?

>How to manipulate your fellow man?
And this is why you'll always be lower-middle class. Sorry, but taking advantage of stupid people is way more profitable than being a hippie or even a decent person

What kinda wacky-tobaccy were they smoking when they came up with this shit?

Ahh, yes, the Bourgeoisie argument of "competitiveness is valuable, uwu" and "opening move/advantage doesn't matter, just work harder, black player." You're a real gem of a humyn, aren't you? Fuck off.

I go to an Icy League college and am president of several student organizations so I think I'm doing alright

yes, you can predict enemy moves, but not with certainty. and even though its possible to outwit opponents, they can also outwit you and do something you didn't predict. basically, the opponent has a huge unfair advantage if they're better at predicting than you.

it's a game for literates, not peasants

chess, but on the moon

Civ is a more complex game mechanically speaking and programming good AI for that is trickier.
Civ makes the AI's priorities change constantly, while Chess requires minor variations to counter the human's input.

Civ
>randomized map with each tile having a different function
>other AI's along with the human player to confuse
>human player can do variety of different things on one turn
>one turn is not important considering the outcome of the match
>Fog of War makes AI constantly shift priorities when new information is revealed

Chess
>every tile is the same and there's very few of them compared to Civ
>only one other variable to interfere with the AI's plans and that's easily overcome
>human player can only move one piece once each turn
>one turn can be incredibly crucial to the outcome
>all the raw data is available to be used to calculate the most optimal strategy at all times

Nah, you’re just a fag.

I don't see how my sexual orientation matters in this conversation, but keep using ad hominem, shitlord.

Female pawn used to be the weakest piece in the game, but then some queen decided "nuh-uh, it should be mary sue" and so it became the most powerful piece in the game. It stuck because it added depth to the game.

Also, in chess every piece has a pre-determined move pattern while in Civ you only have to watch how far you can go, but you can move in a completely unpredictable ways.

Is Dark Souls the Dark Souls of comparative analogies?

No multiplayer related thing can be achieved with certainty. Some situations that shit ends up in can. But as for the whole you'll always have to subside luck with better insight into situations.

>50 replies in, nobody still mentioned the real DS of the board games
Get out plebs

Holy shit that chessboard. How much is it?

Othello?

Post video game chess

Baduk

about 300 dollars

I wish my PS2 still worked :/

post cool chess sets instead

to ward off baka gaijin

You're not supposed to predict instantly... the idea is that you think of a move, then find if it's good or bad based on which other moves are available. It's more likely that you'll find several different good moves since you may not have time to calculate every possibility. Then, according to what the other plays, you continue on that path, that you previously have thought on. However, it may also be true that a movement seemed stupid and was rejected by yourself, but now that it has been played, you try to find reasons you haven't found already.

It's pretty complicated, and 0 luck is involved. If you make a bad move it's only because you haven't think enough.
If "luck" is depending on the other player's skill, then every game ever made is a matter of luck. hell, everything in life is a matter of luck then.

You're mistaken. Dark souls gives you the option to scope out the scene in the first place. You're not supposed to in Russian roulette.
LISA is more accurate.

Well, is it a jap game or a chink game?

korean, as you can tell it's really the thinking mans game

>chinese letters
I wonder

Nigger that's nothing. Go look up Rising Sun if you want to see a lot of figs.

Boss battle are enjoyable and where the game shines. Otherwise it's full of grind and hoping to draw the right item cards. Really repetetitive and slow outside of boss battles. Not worth the price.

Mortal Kombat Chess

Mahjong is superior

>thinking luck has anything to do with chess
>not adapting your strategy on the fly when your opponent does something you didn't predict
>thinking being white and going first is any kind of advantage against any player worth thier salt
>waaaah I can't read my enemies moves ahead of time so unfair
Never breed, user.

>literally everything about that series
Jesus, what a ride

While we're on chess and vidya:
youtu.be/Ky19-1fuL2U
Most famous chess match ever redone by Bioware

>the white group on the top left
How does that even happen?

Roll2win

This.

No, your odds in Russian roulette are pretty high as long as you don't point the gun vertically when you spin the barrel, because the weight of the bullet will cause it to land at the bottom almost every time

>you'll always have to subside luck with better insight into situations
what i'm trying to say is that other players can have better insight than you, and there's absolutely no way to control how much insight they have. its not my fault i wasn't born a genius like bobby fischer, that's completely up to luck.

>If "luck" is depending on the other player's skill, then every game ever made is a matter of luck. hell, everything in life is a matter of luck then.
not true. for example, when you get an item in mario kart, it might seem random at first, but you actually get better items the worse you're doing. this cancels out the luck of being good at the game with the luck of item drops. if you play mario kart 100 times, everyone wins about the same amount of times, but if you play chess 100 times the player born more smart will win more often. if chess had a mechanic where the less skilled loser got some sort of advantage, such as the king being invincible when you have less pieces than your opponent, the game would be much more fair. it would also prevent players from killing all your pieces for the fun of it before they kill your king.

Let's go you scrubs

It's alive though
Looks like a low 3-4 shimari invasion gone wrong

>you can do x
>but your opponent can also do x, so it's not fair if they're better

What the fuck is your point here, dude? Yes, that is how games work, fuck off.

Top white is alive, but it's still big to capture the leftmost group

Oh my god you are like a caricature of those pseudo-intellectuals that everyone else thinks are insufferable persons to interact with. You must think yourself as the smartest guy on campus, too?

I know I took the bait

It's almost like a board game and a video game appeal to different types of players. Also
>it's not fair I'm not a chess genius
Neither are 99.9% of all chess players. It's not a game of "insight" or knowing what move your opponent will make. It's about reading the game as it unfolds and reacting accordingly. There's a reason the board is set up like a battlefield; you don't have the luxury of knowing your enemy's moves in advance and yes, one mistake could be fatal. It's all about changing your game up with every move

>Icy League
>Looks like you need to CHILL out!

>if you play mario kart 100 times, everyone wins about the same amount of times

Bullshit. Try playing with someone who not only plays when his friends come home.

It's
>tfw to smart too play chess
you retard

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Chiss

I love this set but it would be so much cooler without the movie graphics, ring, and words on it and was instead just the fort

>Soloing this shit
Almost as bad as using the pump-action bandage gun to solo the heal boss in ICC as a non-healing class.

ps2? This is DMC4

Back in TBC I did it every week before reset on my mage and rogue if I hadn't raided that week.

That's DMC3, my guy.

So the Dark Souls/RR analogy works if you're allowed to spin the barrel first?

Neither of what I mentioned is hard to solo, just boring and time consuming. Fortunately there's really nothing left in Kara that I want, and I only care enough about Invincible to try every now and then.

Then what's the video game of Dark Souls: the board game?

>humyn
Do people not realize this is bait?