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This is the same problem I have playing Risk. I don't enjoy deceiving my friends and having them deceive me. It's hard for me to understand what kind of person
by fenwick67 8y ago
This is the same problem I have playing Risk.
I don't enjoy deceiving my friends and having them deceive me. It's hard for me to understand what kind of person enjoys basically trying to manipulate other people for sport.
- dorchadas 8y agoI've never noticed the issue with Risk, though I noticed it more often with Diplomacy the summer I played it multiple days a week (it was at a "pre-college" camp thing for academically inclined students). We were stuck there for 5 weeks with each other, and it was actually a good experience because it taught us to overcome how we felt towards each other. So alliances would change regularly each game, which was nice, and we all learned how to move on after and go do something else...usually Ultimate.
- empath75 8y agoRisk actually has a different problem— the kingmaking problem. It’s easier for a player to decide who _won’t_ win than it is for a player to use skill to win. It’s easy in the later stages of the game to utterly cripple someone who annoys you.
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- monadgonad 8y ago> It's hard for me to understand what kind of person enjoys basically trying to manipulate other people for sport. Your question contains the answer: it’s _for sport_. Sport and games are a place we can play out desires we’d never want to in real life. Tons of gamers like to pretend they’re shooting people. Strategy gamers orchestrate war and genocide. In sport, boxers pummel each other to unconsciousness, and many boxers are lovely people.
- fenwick67 8y agoYou're not pretending to manipulate though, you're actually doing it. There's a massive difference between deceiving an NPC in D&D and actually manipulating your friends to win at Risk. This is what makes it uncomfortable for me.