Almost every single mention of it I see online makes it sound like the most freaking addictive drug. Any of you seen that Star Trek TNG episode where this weird addictive headset game takes over the Enterprise? Just like that.
It’s probably a good game, but all those posts feel really off putting to me.
I don’t like that kind of game. I didn’t like Balatro. I’m more into realism and simulation though. I had no idea why all of my favourite sites couldn’t stop talking about it. Honestly, I think standards have fallen a lot further than we thought. Again though. I’m surviving until the release of Elder Scrolls 6. Balatro was never really on my radar.
Balatro.
Almost every single mention of it I see online makes it sound like the most freaking addictive drug. Any of you seen that Star Trek TNG episode where this weird addictive headset game takes over the Enterprise? Just like that.
It’s probably a good game, but all those posts feel really off putting to me.
It’s a really fun game. People exaggerate the “addictive” aspect because… you know… “internet”
It’s also a card game. Card games are practically synonymous with human civilization. So it already has innate appeal to a wide audience.
Big number go up, get brain drug dose. not much more to it than that.
I don’t like that kind of game. I didn’t like Balatro. I’m more into realism and simulation though. I had no idea why all of my favourite sites couldn’t stop talking about it. Honestly, I think standards have fallen a lot further than we thought. Again though. I’m surviving until the release of Elder Scrolls 6. Balatro was never really on my radar.
We live in a world where bastion and undertale and tw3 are ‘good games’.
There are times when hype and marketing and fad take over, and nobody can see that the game is poor or ho-hum… Or in the case of undertale, pure shit.