Balanced Competitive Games

Symmetric games, games that gives the exact same power and attributes on both players in a 1v1 game, can be considered as "perfectly balanced", depending the gameplay.
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Arcade puzzle games happens to be really well balanced as a competitive video game genre, but it heavily depends the rules of the game, even if it's the same concept.
- Puyo Puyo Tsu is balanced. Puyo Puyo Fever isn't.
- Tetris Friends Arena with Expert+ rules is balanced, but Puyo Puyo Tetris on a Tetris VS Tetris matchup isn't. Even if it has the same rules, more or less.
You have games that put the same random factor in both players, but a given random might be better for a player in a specific situation and the same given random can be deadly for the other one.

TL;DR: , and are full of crap, is a ruseman, forgot that Chess is a turn-based game and I don't even get the rest of this thread.

It's a "pop of the wood" because it's a fucking pop, not a damn bomb

Playtest that shit and see if it works.
I doubt it will though, chess has gone for around half a millennium without any really big revisions like that.

you have autism

Everyone has autism in this damn site, genius.

E-even me?

Unlimited arrows bow.

Especially you

I think balance is pretty shitty, somethign always gets the short stick while a change fucks with the whole system. you should be creating unique weapons that fill niches, not situations at large.

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