I need to vent. I think I’m driving myself crazy on a game that it’s beginning to dawn on me that I’m shit at.
Anyone know of a game called Balatro? You take a standard deck of cards, have a set number of discards and hand plays to make the best hands you can to reach a certain amount of points, then each round you use the money you earn to get cards that increase the value of your hands, modify your deck to give bonuses to your cards, add, clone, or destroy cards, and get joker cards which give you more bonuses and tweak the game rules. I see the quality and the variety in this game, but I can’t win a single fucking run by myself.
The only time I’ve ever won runs of this game is when my brother is in the room telling me what I should and shouldn’t do. Other than that, I can’t win a single run.
I know how the game works. You need to get jokers that work for the run with which the cards you’re getting work best with. I WOULD try to skew the deck towards things that would be beneficial for the run I’m doing, but you can’t get a good collection of things going if the game never gives you those things.
But ever since a day ago I started searching for threads and posts by people who can’t win, some people saying they still can’t win a single round, even on the lowest difficulty, even after 20 or 30 hours, some less than supportive people said at this point it’s less the problem is luck, but more that it’s starting to sound like you just suck. (Lots of people going “skill issue” too.) And that’s really bothering me. People are able to beat almost any seed on the lowest difficulty, and one guy even said this little nugget to someone who still can’t win even once-
Your problem is that you fundamentally don’t understand basic arithmetic functions like multiplication.
…which makes me feel unwell, because I’m a math lover, and that sounds like a slap in the face to me, and makes me think I might be stupid now if Ive come this far and still can’t win even one measley run despite having the concept down.
And this isn’t even including the higher difficulty stakes which I dread to even know what they entail. And I havent even unlocked challenge mode you get for beating the game with five different decks!
Just today I lost a run very early on, and I showed that seed to my brother to try it, he then sent back the photo and video showing that he beat it with a hundred million point hand, at which point I mentally threw my hands up in the air in surrender.
There’s so much still in this game to see, but if I can’t even beat ONE run on my own, even on the easiest stakes, the problem isn’t that I can’t get good luck, the problem is that I suck.
The constant lose lose lose lose lose is honestly beginning to make me feel bitter inside. And it’s starting having an impact on my confidence.
There’s 2.8 trillion possible seeds in this game, can’t I just win ONE my myself? Do I really just suck that much?
I actually made multiple different images showing my frustrations.
