I've been thinking about what I like in games.
I find for all types of games I play (board games, tabletop RPGs and video games) I enjoy games that have a mix of skill and luck the most. From a fun standpoint, I find that mixed games are generally the most fun vs ones that are all skill / all luck or lean quite heavily towards one side.
If I had to choose between only luck based or only skill based, all other factors equal (otherwise the games are both the same quality etc), I would prefer the game that is only skill based, but the games I enjoy the most are generally a mix of both. This applies too all types of games I play, but I think video games benefit less from luck. Luck is still a good thing in video games in terms of making it fun in my opinion, but video games I feel still benefit from it being a smidge closer to the skill side as opposed to luck compared to a board game or tabletop game.
At the same time, I have started playing Arena and the Platform Cash Cups in Fortnite in the last couple of seasons of Fortnite (admittedly on the late end of the last season and I missed the very start of this season - but it's for a good reason I hope to share with you soon), and that is different again.
Fortnite is competitive regardless, but when you are actually playing competitions in games (not just Fortnite) where people can win money, I think that's where some games might need to change their skill / luck mix a bit.
I've had a lot of fun with Fortnite over the seasons and I honestly quite like the public matches (ie not the comps) to be that bit wackier. I enjoy the game at any point, but I've enjoyed it a bit more I feel when it is a bit wackier, which typically is when luck is a bit more involved because there's random things that may be overpowered in the game.
However, I would not have wanted luck to be as important as that in competitive modes. It's not a gamebreaker. I've killed people who were using op weapons in Fortnite before. It's not impossible to counter. But it would suck to have lots of money on the line and lose because someone had better luck than you.
This isn't a reason for a whole game to have less luck involved though. Sometimes it is too intrinsically part of the game to avoid the luck built into it. It is an argument for games like Fortnite to tweak their "competitive" modes as opposed to keeping it the same as the normal matches.
So basically, I prefer games, regardless of medium, to have a mix of luck and skill rather than being wholly or predominantly one or the other. If I have to choose one or the other, I prefer all skill to all luck. I think video games are more fun when they have both skill and luck but I think their mix (depending on what the game is ofc) should generally trend a little bit more towards skill than a board game or tabletop game should.
