How do you spend thousands of hours on this? I tried it out but it gets boring as hell after the first couple of runs
>shoot at poorly drawn sprites
>get an item that's practically useless
>die a few floors in after getting nothing
Is there something I'm missing?
Holy shit the guy with 4 achievements from yesterday made another thread. Point at him and laugh
Alright OP, let me explain. It's for the same reason people play online games even if the objective is similar and doesn't change(ie battle royale or mmos or any multiplayer or rouguelite or cardbuilding, etc), because at the basic level they have the same objective but the way it's done is never the same.
>t. terraria,tf2 and tf|2 chad
genuinely coping, sorry you got mindbroken by edmund into playing this mobile gacha simulator
There are a lot of tricks to get better items and better runs. The game really pops off once you get a couple good items because the big selling point of the game is the item synergies. The many items can combine in interesting ways sometimes.
and then you unlock T R A S H items and the pool of items goes to shit.
If im honest, this game is at its best when you are mid way through it, on the late game is become lame as hell
I have everything unlocked and I can manipulate about 80% of runs in my favor. Use the fricking tools you have, be smart, do Devil Deals because Angel Deals are for non-aggressive safe-playing homosexuals
if you are authistic is not my problem man
Game become a chore after you get too much unlocks
It just doesn't apply to Repentance. That's an Afterbirth+ complaint. Repentance has reverse cards including Judgement? and The Stars? and The Fool?, Magic Skin, the Spindown Dice, an incredible secret room pool, Eternal D6 for The Lost, Tainted Lost
If you're not able to get good items with all these tools, that's on you.
>do Devil Deals because Angel Deals are for non-aggressive safe-playing homosexuals
yes i love playing aggressive and getting shit like any of the 2389 babies that flood the pool, a mediocre at best active that isn't worth its price or something that literally hinders your run
get real devilcoper
>Get 3 babies
>Get the Conjoined transformation
>Become the bullet hell
Yes you can always make a run work, but don't pretend the game didn't frick up the item pool and bloat it with a stupid amount of items that range from useless to hurtful
Well yes if you only got good items the game would easily turn into a cake walk after 10 unlocks
if i wanted to play a ultrahard run everytime i play a run, i would just do the challenge again and again
late game i mean after unlocking 70% ish of items
It literally gets better when you unlock more shit. It becomes a game about resource management and item manipulation. You get to a point where you can manipulate almost any run into being broken if you know how to use cards/item spawning items/rerolls correctly
yes, you're missing several types of mental issues to be able to delude yourself it is a good game.
Similar case is with souls games
Download the steam workshop mod that tells you what items are and how they effect your stats. Makes the game actually playable
I liked it, but I can see why it's boring after a while
>Play Greed Mode
>Get Blank Card
>Get Two of Diamonds card
>Refresh the shop stock until a battery is up for sale
>$$$ INFINITE MONEY $$$
>Purchase every item in the Shop, Secret Room, and Treasure Room pools
>Purchase Chaos, now I can get Angel and Devil Room pool items too
>The shop is getting clogged full of item pedestals from all the goddamn active items I'm pulling out of the two item sales
>Refresh some pickups in another room with the D20 until I get a Black Rune
>Use it to clean up the shop and keep pulling
>I now have a like 12:1 Breakfast to other item ratio because I've exhausted most of the item pools in the game
>I can't fricking see Isaac because he's now tiny and invisible and surrounded by giant orbitals and familiars
>Finally pull the item I needed for the catalog and figure I'll complete the rest of the run
>Ultra Greed dies in literally two seconds from the magic paint rainbow hurricane tears I shoot out with every button press
>I'm afraid the game is gonna crash because my damage is averaging around ~500 with so many tear effects it slows down significantly
>All for one item only
That's why Isaac is fun.
False ultra greed has the gay damage reduction so that means it takes at least 3 minutes to kill
Nope, he took literally 2 seconds to kill. It was hilarious because I didn't even need to complete the run. Had green brimstone beams spawning from nowhere, going in random directions, fricking spinning in circles, and lingering long after the other tears were gone.
Okay anon if you say so I'll believe you
boss armor needs a couple of seconds to calculate how much your damage is supposed to be reduced, if you have enough damage to kill the boss before the calculations finish it does nothing
Game would be improved a lot if they added like a dozen straight boring DPS upgrade items among all the pools rather than zany shit that doesn't give you more damage item #314536152
just make the dogshit items give you same usefull stat like DMG or tiers up or you know FRICKING SOMETHING
I just bought the game during the summer sale and it's fun but I'm really confused why some of the items you pick up don't even tell you what they do, like the cards and held items.
People might call it spoon feeding but the mod that makes it so there's a little explainer text on the screen for every item/trinket/consumable you see is a must have for me
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=836319872
I saw that there were mods/guides and such out there already, I was just curious why they make it so vague in-game.
the goal was to have people comment online and collectively find out synergies and what exactly items do and shit
lots of secrets were put in like this like the lost character
40% of the items are jokes that don't do anything
name one item that doesn't do anything
all the items that only have an effect upon taking damage
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>free poison every room
>carries early game greedier mode
yeah i'm thinking SHITTER
>deflects bullets
>poison area of effect that scales with your damage
issue of skill
You aren't missing anything. Just play a better twin stick shooter like Robotron or Smash TV.
card game with time/planning sensitive consequences
yeah, you have to dodge so you don't die
>Is there something I'm missing?
Your youth
Just get lucky bro
You're missing the fact that you are a moron that cant discover things for themselves and has to come crying to Ganker for validation
I miss old Isaac where I could just win by manipulating the RNG. Now everything is nerfed and there are too many trash items so you actually get forced to dodge shit. I also miss when runs were shorter.
>manipulating the RNG.
how? before rep you either got a run carrying item as the run's "special item" or you just dragged your way to the end of the run. what a fricking moronic system that was.
Unironically because it gets fun 10 runs in then again after 10 runs and repeat
It's gambling addiction honestly for me
>this run I had such bad items but next one will be good!
then absolutely coom when you get first floor winning item
>it's another room with 6 spike blocks and a skull in the middle
frick that room
I only play it to keep my fricking ADHD brain at bay.
I can only have fun with Tainted Keeper and Tainted Lost.
It was fun 10 years ago
it's more fun than ever now
frick AB and especially frick AB+
>turn on isaac
>put podcast or some other video in the second monitor
peak comfy
What kicks your ass the most?
enemies? the fricking bloody leapers, for an enemy that has been in the game since flash these morons still catch me offguard
boss? mr. obviously functional himself
oh, i realize now this was a question aimed specifically at OP and not to anons in general
where's the FRICKING delirium patch
It's an incredibly fun RNG Progression Game (proper term, not a roguelike or the even more inaccurate, roguelite, as some shills falsely advertise it as).
But you need mods and most importantly, do not by it
As no developer who falsely shills their game deserves a cent from a gamer.
Get some mods, typically ones he steals and puts into his game as 'dlc' is worth the most I find
>RNG Progression Game
there is no progression moron your character gets reset every time you start up a new run and some unlocks like corrupted data and cursed penny actually regress your savefile