What was it about this game that every nerd played it and loved it for 5000 hours?
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What was it about this game that every nerd played it and loved it for 5000 hours?
What was it about this game that every nerd played it and loved it for 5000 hours?
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wacky combinations of items
just want to load up a new run after the last to see what kind of cool shit you can get going, and then you get sucked into a run and repeat. Proof that a game can have the simplest gameplay loop and be good.
>Wowee zowee I can't WAIT to play the most mediocre mundane shitty base game so I can see what's in the mystery box!!!
morons like you are the reason cancerous gacha and lootbox systems plague everything these days.
zowee I can't WAIT to play the most mediocre mundane shitty base game so I can see what's in the mystery box!!!
At first I wanted to say it reminded me of crafting in Minecraft
But then I remembered there's almost nothing to craft there
babbys first rougelike
frick you it was shit
You didn't play the game, troony
It has tru soul.
gambling addiction
I've tried it a lot but never able to get into it fully. Might just be that roguelikes arent my thing
only roguelike that accomplished the thing every roguelike tries to do and actually be infinitely repayable i have at least 1000 hours and still learn new shit to this day almost every other roguelike feels like you got everything out of it in the first 3-4 runs or even worse just isn't fun to fricking play
Sorta true
Slay the Spire is excellent but once you figure out the few builds each character had designs in mind by the devs, that's it.
Enter the Gungeon took me a very long time to beat/collect everything and I loved it throughout, but it is not infinitely replayable. On repeat playthroughs you get bored of the areas and there are simply too many guns that suck. Giving the chests tiers was a terrible decision, it should have been completely random and maybe instead of keys you could spend casings to increase chance of rarity tier drop if you're trying to collect certain guns. As it stands I just avoid/break brown common chests.
Risk of Rain 2 plays the best and is seemingly infinitely replayable not because of the combinations or amount of content, but solely because they don't cap your power to stack into infinity. This makes it always fun as hell to play but you WILL get bored at Max power and end up killing yourself to end the run after 3-4 hours of curbstomping the game.
Isaac is infinitely replayable, definitely. It's got the infinite meaningful combos down and the sheer multitude of content keeps it fresh. But is it the most fun? Not by a long shot. Its actually one of the most shit to play because it's awkward, clunky, and so many negative items can make it a chore to play or ruin runs.
what do you think about nuclear throne and crypt of the necrodancer
>infinitely repayable
lol. Sounds like you have only ever played a few 2d platformers and then Isaac. It isn't even playable for more than a few hours before you are bored as frick of the monotony.
Too bad Isaac enjoyers never played any actual good games.
That's how I felt when playing that Shovel Knight game made by Nitrome, shit could have been good if it wasn't a rogue like.
SOVL
Flash Isaac was great...well except for it being flash. Rebirth started off great, but then the dlcs bloated the item pool too much and gl getting any decent runs. JUST GOTTA KEEP CHEWING YOUR STEAK
Sounds like a personal problem
I get all good runs unless I'm playing some stupid Real Hard Core Gamer takes 4x damage and every time you get hit all of your items turn into a new item added that is just an all stats down
Only AB and AB+ bloated the item pools, Repentance came and fixed that by adding actual synergies for lots of items (God bless Killburn by making onions milk a good item).
Hope future updates are about improving the same.
isaac, for me, is a game that's entirely defined by its level of player agency.
contrary to what a lot of people say, isaac is unparalleled in the amount of ways the player can influence a run for the better.
sure, most of it is arcane, obscure, or unintuitive, but that just makes it all the more rewarding to understand and master.
it's not a game for everyone, but it's a game for me and i love it.
On my steam friends list of 100 or so people.... 30 have played this and none have more than 20 hours. It was shit and other rouge lite/likes were and still are better.
>astronomically large amount of items and synergies to obtain, making every run feel fresh
>constant player agency with decisions to always be made
>distinct style and tone
>has a deeply personal story about abuse and neglect, something many outcasts gamers can relate to
>really fricking good music, in all soundtracks, except pre-repentance ridiculon
And even then pre-repentance ridiculon music is alright, it's just not great Isaac music.
still doesn't beat the best
and the best is mudeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vxFtX0w0Bs
Aye, glad he didn't get Tyrone'd
JUST Kidding the best is actually Danny Baranowsky. Trusoulkinoludopilled.
Why do you have this opinion, anon?
I'm gonna say it
I like Mudeth more than danny, yes even including the critical miss that is Non Funkible Token
Maybe on average, but no following song composed for Isaac has topped the KINOCITY of this.
WHAT THE FRICK IS "ISAAC MUSIC", THE NOTION OF THAT HAS CHANGED LIKE AT LEAST THREE TIMES
checklists
>changed three times
>Baranowsky
>Ridiculon
who's the third one?
Are we talking about pre-repentance Ridiculon, or post Repentance
I didn't consider splitting them in several categories
Yeah, new tracks feels noticably different from the previous tracks
My favourites are Downpour and U.Death
Ultra Greed's theme is the only one that I prefer the ridiculon's version, that shit slaps so fricking hard.
mudeth lost his spark and his newer works don't sound like isaac music.
simple as.
mmmmm ye
>post-antibirth mudeth
shaka daka ding ding
all they had to do was fix the beep beep in the mines.
He did
https://mudeth.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-default-lines
Honestly, mausoleum had better athmosphere in Antibirth.
When is /boig/ going to come back
Probably when Online Co-op drops
Isaac is a terrible game, there just wasn't any better options at the time. The people still playing it are mentally ill and very lazy.
First notable roguelite game
To be honest though nowadays it seems pretty bad, often you dont even get fun combinations of Items I feel
I cant take any more runs where I have shitty damage in basement and just have to slog through it
Yeah, the thing that keeps me from going back to Isaac is that it's just not very fun to play in its base form. Isaac's default tears feel awful to use, and 90% of the enemies in the first few floors are passive damage sponges that walk away from you, often while spawning more enemies. It's a total chore before you get some power-ups. So I tend to fall into this trap of instantly restarting over and over if I don't get something interesting in my first two treasure rooms.
It's the unlocks man, at first you get like 5-10 achievements per run so the happy accomplishment hormone goes crazy, them you discover how crazy things go when mixed and then you notice you just spent the last 4 days trying to get that mark for that character you just can't enjoy but your brain needs to see that unlock screen one more time untill all post-its are complete and alm challenges are done.
I'm mad.
I'm mad because I'm never going to be as inspired as Edmund was when he was making Isaac nor come up with such excellent lightning in a bottle-tier gameplay when it comes to making my own games.
>I'm never going to be as inspired as Edmund was when he was making Isaac nor come up with such excellent lightning in a bottle-tier gameplay
neither will edmund lmao
It's got that patented Newgrounds Sovl™
What's the trick? Do I just have to go outside for once? Do I have to move to California, get my parents into alcoholism and Christian zealotry and draw webcomics featuring shitting pissing fetuses?
Hit the reset button in the back of your head, with psychedelics.
>Go to california
>For newgrounds Soul
No anon, Newgrounds Soul is specifically because it's EVERYTHING, BY EVERYONE
I've not been psychologically abused enough for me to have creativity. I've just spent my free time playing video games and jerking off to thickset women rather than developing relationships or having interesting experiences.
Go to whatever it's hip with with the army.
you'd get to make a cool vidya of the horrors of war, just be sure to complete the game before you an hero.
But I wanna make video games, not die for Israel
Where will you get punishment for your soul to inspire your art, then?
You'd need to be some kind of psycho to deliberately cause tragedies in your life, right?
Army anon here, army is dogshit and I would never recommend anybody join
I’m not even a real soldier I’m signal and all we fricking do is menial meaningless bullshit, all day every day, we cancel our weekends to accomplish more menial meaningless bullshit, it’s awful.
See that container? Better get ready to take shit out of it and put it back in differently because that’s what you’re gonna be doing all weekend!
Frick the army
I had almost forgotten that slogan
https://vocaroo.com/14GnPnHlhDeE
FACT: NEWGROUNDS WAS FUNNY WHEN WE WERE ALL 12 LIVING IN THE SUBURBS LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK WATCHING DRAGONBALL Z DRINKING PEPSI WHILE PLAYING HALO CO-OP ON THE EASIEST SETTING DURING WHICH WE CONSUMED DORITOS AND LOOKED AT PAINTBALL GUNS ON EBAY IN INTERNET EXPLORER CONNECTED THROUGH AOL ON A 56K MODEM BEFORE HOPPING INTO OUR BALDING FATHERS' LATEST MIDLIFE-CRISIS-IMPULSE-SPONSORED JAPANESE-BUILT SUV TO HEAD TO THE MALL AND GET MORE SKATEBOARDING SHOES AND THIRD-RATE IRREGULAR LEVIS AND MOUNTAIN BIKE PARTS BEFORE HEADING HOME, VOTING DEMOCRAT AND jerking off TO THE LATEST SEARS CATALOG WHILE HUFFING PAINT IN YOUR GARAGE BEFORE TALKING TO PEDOPHILES ON AIM PRETENDING TO BE WHATEVER CAMprostitute THEY'RE RANTING ABOUT ON MYSPACE WITH A MATRIX QUOTE/ANIME CHARACTER NAME/TRIPLE SIX-ASTERISK-PARENTHESES-SURROUNDED SCREENNAME BEFORE HEADING TO YOUR SUPPOSED "GOOD SCHOOL" IN THE MORNING TO BUY MORE POT TO SMOKE DURING YOUR COUNTER-STRIKE LAN PARTY WITH JIMMY AND THE REST OF HIS FRIENDS TAKING RITALIN AND ADDERALL AND PROZAC EIGHT TIMES A DAY BEFORE TAKING A CASUAL PASS AT LOCAL, STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL FIGURES, LEGISLATURE, OR STRUCTURE TO APPEAR EDGY AND INTELLIGENT IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDWEISER-SNEAKING, LIMP-WRISTED, NEAR-TO-COLUMBINE SOCIOPATHIC "DEEP" FRIENDS WHO PLAY THE VICTIM WHEN THEY START LOSING ARGUMENTS SIX DAYS BEFORE THEIR BOTCHED SUICIDE ATTEMPT SIMPLY BECAUSE SCHOOL TRAMP NUMBER TWELVE WOULDN'T GO UNDER THE BLEACHERS WITH THEM TO LET THEM GET TO SECOND BASE BEFORE THEIR THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY.
It just took me a while to realize that
Edmund "McShillen" McMillen
Edmund "seizures are fun, not a 1 run" McMillen
gaymund "Don't blame me, it's your PC" McFatten
Edmund "Game gives you grin? Item reskin" McMillen.
Edmund "Character's perf? Time for a nerf" McMillen
Edmund "it's just a bug, now give me a hug" McMillen
Edmund "Lower the axe 'til all items are lax" McMillen
Eggmund "I'm such a hack, I'll nerf the Sack" McMuffin
Edmund "you knew the cost of spoiling the lost" McMillen
Edmund "enjoying lilith? too bad she's killith" McMillen
Edmund "Nothing is safe, I'll nerf a year late" McMillen
Edmund "There'll be no fun until the ARG's done" McMillen
Edmund "If it clears a room, the item is doomed" McMillen
Edmund "If you're having fun, I'm getting my gun" McMillen
Edmund "Eat that steak slow, let the juices flow" McMillen
Edmund "open the hatch when you download my patch" McMillen
Edmund "If you're feeling gay, a nerf's on the way" McMillen
Edmund "If the item's a hit, let's turn it to shit" McMillen
Edmund "If there's fun to be had, I'll make it bad" McMillen
Edmund "Pull the nerf trigger on every demon Black person" McMillen
Fatmund "You don't know how to click, now suck my dick" McDonalds
Edmund "Think My Game's Thrillin'? Not With This Villain" McMillen
Edmund "Fun is worthless excrement, nerfing is my element" McMillen
Edmund "I'd collect unemployment before I'd give you enjoyment" McMillen
Edmund "That item there was excellent, now it's barely relevant" McMillen
Edmund "Your tears to me are like a choir, it's a bug I'm not a liar" McMillen
Edmund "they said the the game was too easy so I just broke everything because I'm fat and lazy" McMillen.
was a stupid fat frick who made a shit game
now someone post the siren
it used to be about a 30 minute long game
that is absolutely priceless
then they kept adding shit like every roguelite to the point I have to play for 90 minutes even at a good pace. I don't want to play a fricking 90 minute roguelite run
This. It got way too long, which in addition to being unfun to sit down and play, also made it even more annoying when you got a shit run - but not shit enough to die in the first few floors, because you're a decent player and can clear them with any build - and just lose all that progress, or get tempted to reset. When I'm almost always tempted to reset even though I have like 1000+ hours combined with the original and rebirth, something has seriously fricking gone wrong.
>90 minutes
jesus fricking christ anon what the hell are you doing to spend all that time
i do mega satan streaks and rarely pass 30 minutes
R key rigging in secret rooms with moving box
sounds like a you problem
I don't remember, I haven't played it in like 6 years but it was long past the point where I had stopped doing omega slow stuff like playing slot machines
in a world where games have become more and more like movies, its nice having something that is pure gameplay with a ton of replay value. core gameplay is simple but good, random layouts keep it fresh, but really its success it about the items (collecting, unlocking, trying to make a run work, etc)
It has an absurd amount of build variety.
Granted getting that build is almost pure RNG, but typically in every run you are getting a different experience. A big reason why is because it's not afraid to be absurd, and it's not afraid to frick the player over. Most roguelites are much more restrained, and are also limited by higher production values.
i cant stand this game and its outdated memes for real
Getting broken runs and seeing what kinds of crazy synergies/interactions is fun, even after Dead God
Lilith a cute
I've been watching some tboi videos by Florian Himsl lately
Did you know Eternal Edition was made with streamers in mind?
I'm going to install EE mod and defeat everyone with Forgotten
I think he is overpowered enough to make it fun
Florian himsl is a b***h ass motherfricker and he stole my 100% completion and my shelf in SteamHome violently rocketed across the room knocking all of my shit all over the place.
But, aside from that he's an alright guy, pretty cool, even
>newgrounds trash
god I still haven't unlocked everything
>religion le bad
Honestly it's the only good Roguelike
Everything else is a poor copy that contrarians only like to seem cool.
Noita is close but it's too autistic to be enjoyed.
I would say Spelunky is the only exception, its a game so mechanically good that it makes every run enjoyable, no other game makes dying so fricking funny
boring slog