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The Kobayashi Maru - No-Win Scenarios in Games (2019x44)

Air date: Oct 09, 2019

Ah, the infamous Kobayashi Maru. The no-win Star Trek scenario is actually more common in video games than you might think. When games employ random elements, you increase the odds of creating a scenario where before the player even touches the controller, they have already lost. That must be a huge game design mistake, right? Well... It's not always so simple.