Videogames you love, videogames you hate thread

[Rökkan]

All good games have their share of "skill" and "chance". Both are things that a game should have, one, to make the game feel "fair" to the player, as in, the player feels like what he does and how he approaches things matter to how well he is rewarded to the game (skill), but the game should also give elements that makes it "new" and "exciting" in later plays, elements that makes conditions and even results of the game change up in unexpected ways (chance).

Angry Birds' mechanic has both of that, as in, there are calculations involved to get the higher scores and destroy a lot of the "level" in one shoot (skill), but there is also the unexpected, which relies on its own gameplay and mechanics - because of its physics, two seemingly equal shots might give different results - even the slight difference in power and angle can make something unexpected happen, or not. Like a piece of wood far away from the range of your fire, that due to the consequences of your shot, unexpectedly moved itself and is on the edge of falling - it might just stay there, or fall, and cause a small reaction, or even a big and completely unexpected chain reaction that destroys a big chunk of the level.

Never played Angry Birds myself to judge whether it is good or not, but it seems clearly obvious that Angry Birds is not purely chance based.