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The Binding of Isaac: now with more vague non-endings!
ThatDudeOverThere
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Alright, fuck it, I'm finally making this thread.
The Binding of Isaac is an indie game from half of the creative team behind Super Meat Boy. It's been out for a couple of months, and is slowly building a following for its addictive, "just one more try" gameplay. It's one part Legend of Zelda, one part Rogue, and one part thirteen year old boy discovering Newgrounds dot com for the first time circa 2003.
Storywise, well, I'll let the game set the scene:
You explore randomly generated rooms, find random items, fight horrible mosters, and basically try to make it to the end of the game in one life. Unlocks and acheivements increase your starting character choices and the pool of possible items, but for all intents and purposes, you are starting each playthrough from scratch.
This game is hard.
Balls hard.
Additionally, it features excellent music by the same guy who did Super Meat Boy's soundtrack.
It's only five bucks on steam, for PC and Mac, right here.
There's a demo you can play at Newgrounds.
There's a handy wiki here.
Give it a try.
EDIT:
Edmund McMillen's dev blog for insight into the game's production
and his twitter for discussion of possible future updates
EDIT AGAIN:
Giantbomb's quick look of BoI
EdM's formspring
The Binding of Isaac is an indie game from half of the creative team behind Super Meat Boy. It's been out for a couple of months, and is slowly building a following for its addictive, "just one more try" gameplay. It's one part Legend of Zelda, one part Rogue, and one part thirteen year old boy discovering Newgrounds dot com for the first time circa 2003.
Storywise, well, I'll let the game set the scene:
You explore randomly generated rooms, find random items, fight horrible mosters, and basically try to make it to the end of the game in one life. Unlocks and acheivements increase your starting character choices and the pool of possible items, but for all intents and purposes, you are starting each playthrough from scratch.
This game is hard.
Balls hard.
Additionally, it features excellent music by the same guy who did Super Meat Boy's soundtrack.
It's only five bucks on steam, for PC and Mac, right here.
There's a demo you can play at Newgrounds.
There's a handy wiki here.
Give it a try.
EDIT:
Edmund McMillen's dev blog for insight into the game's production
and his twitter for discussion of possible future updates
EDIT AGAIN:
Giantbomb's quick look of BoI
EdM's formspring
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maybe I will get it
http://www.humblebundle.com/
It's part of the bundle (have to spend at least 5.25) and comes with a few other games. Also, it's for charity!
Sale is only going for one more day!
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it's good!
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"gee what's this tarot card do-OH MY GOD TELEPORT TO THE BOSS HELP"
although movement on the asdw and tears on the directional keys feels weird to me
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thanks for the heads up i picked it up there.
equally thanks for the thread wouldn't have realized this game existed.
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Well worth $5 if anyone's on the fence.
having triple charge shots probably helped
Hell, none of the bosses are THAT hard, it's more a combination of getting to them plus the random nature of items.
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The devil gives you all the cool toys. Having wings lets you make most of the game your bitch. Also lasers.
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I love clawing my way up from setbacks like that, though.
Also, Smash TV seems to be in this game's genealogy somewhere. That was a good arcade game.
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earned heels for my troubles
victory feels sweet
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and there are just a lot of delightfully dark things in the game
like when you first realize why the wooden spoon and the belt are considered speed up items
one of the game's most potent items, the shears, unlocks when you've died a hundred times
also the whole deals with the devil mechanic is pretty baller
sometime it gets kind of tasteless, though
like the wire coat-hanger
Which is a part of its charm, really.
the tasteless humor ends up coming off as creepy instead, which I find adds to the game some
I did a livestream with a few forum folks when I first got the game and had an extremely lucky run wherein I unlocked Maggie and Cain as well as beating it for the first time
Yesterday I finally hit my second bit of luck and beat the full game
technology+devil wings did the trick
found out the hard way that when you beat mom in the depths II you don't get to go back
I had to leave a dollar and two blood banks behind
woo!
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I don't know why I can't get anything done with isaac himself
though eve can fuck right off
Getting a waifer with him helps a shitton, though.
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I tried; no dice
been playing with joy2key and a ps3 controller, but I have to use the d pad
gonna play around with ??? next time I get a chance to play
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Unlocked by defeating the Womb 2 boss 10 times.
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The character is literally called ???. I'm not trying to mask it.
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