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just last night I had a run where I got sacred heart and polyphemus I got to the chest and died, and I don't even remember how. and earlier today I beat blue baby with technology 2 and polyphemus, so I guess that makes up for it

[QUOTE=Simski;40045372]Forever Alone and Attack Fly are near useless, but can occasionally kill some monsters and block some shots.[/QUOTE] Forever alone is amazing on bosses. It does a ridiculous amount of damage if you can account for its movement.

[QUOTE=Simski;40048567]Oh and, holy water also sucks donkey cock[/QUOTE] He should probably have merged it with Lemon Mishap, then make the item throwable or have a quick recharge. If those things are done for Rebirth, Holy Water and Lemon Mishap could be better items. Hell, they should merge the two and call it Holy Lemonade. Which is also the next Sniper secondary coming soon to Team Fortress 2. Expect it around the time Lords of Shadow 2 comes to PC.

Throwable holy water would definitely be an interesting item. I think Edmund would be more likely to make it reference Castlevania rather than TF2 though. [editline]27th March 2013[/editline] Oh... it already is lol [img]http://cdn.wikimg.net/strategywiki/images/d/d8/Castlevania_Holy_Water.png[/img] [editline]27th March 2013[/editline] Still though. If holy water was throwable, I still think he would probably want to keep it as a castlevania reference. That's after all how you use it in that game, and he has also made several other castlevania references in his games. I haven't seen any TF2 references what so ever though, I think he's more inclined to reference retro or indie games than modern games made by big companies.

Yeah; I was thinking Castlevania initially with the thrown Holy Water. It should probably have a similar regen to the Candle, and make it somewhat rarer akin to the Candle's rarity. These kinda "subweapon" spacebar items are actually kinda cool, though personally I almost feel like they should have their own slot and be powered by some pickup that functions like Hearts, the "Candy?" I spoke of many many months ago before I went to Iceland. I still feel that the subweapon slot would be a cool and balanced addition to the Isaac formula, bringing certain items into balance whilst allowing new kinds of items to spring up.

"Activate upon recieved damage" items are generally (aside from the habit), the most shit type of items in the game IMO. They don't really encourage any viable strategies, and work solely as a defensive mechanism when you fail to avoid damage. They're moderately useful, but not fun to use.

Aye; they're not all that fun; they're more like "life insurance" rather than reliable strategic things. I guess that's kinda why not everyone likes Eve; she's more or less built around taking damage to do different things. If we had a special kind of Heart that regenerated every room, a "Lucky Heart" of sorts that absorbed damage before Soul Hearts and Red Hearts, it'd mean Eve could reliably afford to take a hit or two to trigger her bird, though the bird is kinda stupid in that it doesn't go after enemies that are too far away, when it really should go out for blood the instant it spawns. But yeah; a Lucky Heart on Eve would make her more viable since you wouldn't have to squander your red or blue health to make things happen, then pray to Nuffle for a health pickup or Soul Hearts. Still, Nun's Habit is a good modifier for your Spacebar items if you have a health restore; it's almost like a Refresher Orb only you get beaten on, and it's a good life insurance strategy if you have Yum Heart or Book of Revelations.

So long as we get something like a Lucky Heart with the new on-damage items I'm ok with it.

[QUOTE=Winner;40057414]We're not going to stop seeing on-damage item though, Edmund loves the idea of trading life for powerups (it's why his favorite character is Eve)[/QUOTE] I'd love to see really rare and powerful devil room items that cost 3 hearts (or even more) and can't be found anywhere else. I never miss an opportunity to buy items from the devil room, makes the game overall more challenging and more satisfying at the same time. I really like Eve too but I mainly play her for the perma-Whore of Babylon. Just find a few soul hearts and you're set. Dead Bird is fairly useless though. Talking about useless items and trading life for power, does anyone find a use for the Razor? Sacrificing one full heart just for a bit more damage for one room just doesn't seem worth it to me. Also Eternal Hearts should be Lucky Hearts. Their behaviour would fit their name a lot better, they'd have a good reason to be rare, and they'd be a lot more interesting than just a free HP up item.

Why do I suck so much at this game!?

[QUOTE=Lonke;40059186]Why do I suck so much at this game!?[/QUOTE] you'll get better

We all started out with suck; my first run ended when I used the suicide vest. Second run went a lot smoother for me, even beating Mom in the process, though that was probably because my coal-fired brass-pipe 19th century computer caused the game to slow down in places, turning it into a sort of bullet hell shooter. Also, to be honest, I'd watched Ryan Letourneau play through MANY episodes of it, which helped train me for when I actually played, and what got me into the whole discussion of the game without having even played it.

I just beat ???? with ????, unlocked... eve's dead bird foot... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKCCKKKK

[QUOTE=bunnyspy1;40059394]you'll get better[/QUOTE] Not possible to get better. You just suck less after a while.

[QUOTE=Simski;40073385]I just beat ???? with ????, unlocked... eve's dead bird foot... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKCCKKKK[/QUOTE] Beating ??? with Eve give's you ???s soul. Yeah it's messed up.

They did a really good job of making a roguelike that is both adorable and disgusting all at once. the unlockable stuff motivates you to play more too, even if you beat it.

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Haven't played in a while but now I suddenly have the urge to play all weekend Fuck yeaaaaa Although I am completely useless at this game now

Say, if you are doing avatar requests, any chance of a Colin Mochrie version of Isaac? Possibly in the similar tux design to my current avatar.

[QUOTE=ironman17;40082687]Say, if you are doing avatar requests, any chance of a Colin Mochrie version of Isaac? Possibly in the similar tux design to my current avatar.[/QUOTE] Oh, I was doing them a year ago, but I forgot to edit that out of the quote. I can still do one, but I can't draw for shit, all of them were done using in-game sprites. Sorry.

I been playing as nothing but Samson for the past umpteen runs, and I can't for the life of me find anything to make him worth playing as. I despise how the character was designed, but I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt as there might just be something worth salvaging from the wreckage. Even Eve and ??? have something to redeem themselves for. Eve is difficult until you play in a certain style. And ??? was intended to be a complete joke character, but then a bunch of mechanics got added that reward you for having few red hearts so he became very situational based on luck. Samson on the other hand, is garbage unless you get an item that changes how he plays so drastically that it no longer matters which character you're playing as like Mom's Knife or Epic Fetus. The best "vanilla" run of Samson I ever had, that didn't involve gamebreaking items, was a run that used Tammy's Head. The tears fired when using Tammy's Head are scaled with the character's damage output, so it pairs nicely with Bloody Lust if you use it near the end of the room when you want to clear things out, or use it at the start of a room to get a quick boost of rage built up to get the ball rolling. Literally nothing else worked in favor of his so-called "berserker" playstyle.

Definitely a miserable character, if there weren't character based achievements I wouldn't even touch him

In what world was it a good idea to have him only gain power per room.

Has there been updates on that Isaac remake yet or what?

I dunno, we haven't heard much recently. Things have been kinda slow coming outta Ed McMillen recently, probably because there's a lot of work being done on Cat Lady Simulator 201X, aka Mew-Genics! as he calls it.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wPidm.png[/IMG] Could someone, uh, Kratos-ify this one (keep the happy face if you can)? It would combine 2 of my favourite game-characters and I would be able to get rid of my current 5-year-old one finally. If someone does grab the challenge, better PM me about it, I have already forgotten about this message. :v:

Samson also has too few things going in his favor. Isaac has rounded stats and luck manipulation Maggie has high health and health regen Cain has boosted damage and luck on his side Judas has high damage and damage multiplication Eve has a damage-triggered familiar and low-health triggered damage multiplication ??? has permanently-active compatibility with low-health triggered items and a unique take on how health is managed Samson has a kill-based damage bonus. That's all. His stats don't give him an edge-up on any of the characters. Either he needs stats that aren't trash, a second item that is useful, or his 1 item needs to be [i]good[/i] on its own.

[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;40130956][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wPidm.png[/IMG] Could someone, uh, Kratos-ify this one (keep the happy face if you can)? It would combine 2 of my favourite game-characters and I would be able to get rid of my current 5-year-old one finally. If someone does grab the challenge, better PM me about it, I have already forgotten about this message. :v:[/QUOTE] And if anyone grabs the challenge, I'd probably like one too, looking like Colin in a tux if possible. (a bit like my avatar with the bottom cutting off the rest of the tux)

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;40134421]Samson also has too few things going in his favor. Samson has a kill-based damage bonus. That's all. His stats don't give him an edge-up on any of the characters. Either he needs stats that aren't trash, a second item that is useful, or his 1 item needs to be [i]good[/i] on its own.[/QUOTE] I was so happy when I beat ??? with Samson because it meant I never have to play as him again.

[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;40130956][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wPidm.png[/IMG] Could someone, uh, Kratos-ify this one (keep the happy face if you can)? It would combine 2 of my favourite game-characters and I would be able to get rid of my current 5-year-old one finally. If someone does grab the challenge, better PM me about it, I have already forgotten about this message. :v:[/QUOTE] Nevermind this. Got so sick of my avatar that I made it myself. :v: Result can be viewed to your left.