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Kinda weird that all of us are getting bandage girl and meatboy during valentines day.

I legitimately adore this game, and give my thanks to everyone who developed it.

This week just for fun I went back to the original and holy shit. I can't believe I actually said I wasn't sure about Rebirth before release. The only thing now is some parts of the soundtrack sound a bit more unique like the shop track.

[QUOTE=Marden;47141490]This week just for fun I went back to the original and holy shit. I can't believe I actually said I wasn't sure about Rebirth before release. The only thing now is some parts of the soundtrack sound a bit more unique like the shop track.[/QUOTE] After having played both, Rebirth has dropped the ball on a few notes. Devil rooms are now both worthless [i]and[/i] overpowered depending on the contents of it. No one wants 3 red chests with spiders in them, but the ability to take 2-heart deals when you have only 1 heart (at no cost other than the 1 heart) makes it far easier to just clean out the room and steamroll the upcoming floors. Going in debt to the Devil in the original felt more fair if you were to try to cheat the Devil by underpaying him, he'd still wring you dry until you manage to pay off that debt. Angel Rooms are similar when they offer you soul hearts and eternal hearts; for the investment in having ignored a Devil Deal, that's just a worthless offer when the player is likely to have a surplus of health [i]and[/i] is very likely to be stacking soul hearts anyway. Ball of Bandages. A functionally-superior Cube of Meat, and all having both means is that getting their respective familiars built just screws the other over. There's a reason why people have been relieved to never have to build either of them again. The original had Famine spawning way too frequently, but now the harbingers spawn so infrequently that it's an insult to be given the opposite item that you needed for that stupid achievement. Double-trouble and Mr. Fred in Womb/Utero just add insult to injury. Some of the visual effects, such as changing sizes (ie mini mush, magic mush, strength, the odd mushrooms) look really bad on pixelated sprites. On vectorized graphics it looks acceptable because they're designed to be scaled in such a way, but pixelated graphics look best when the sprite resolutions are consistent with themselves. That inconsistency just looks wonky. The flash filter doesn't help this, the bitmixing still exists regardless if you filter it or not. Special items. While they're now more reasonable than having every item be special, is unfair to have the counter increment just from having seen a special item even if you don't take it. So if you see Brimstone but don't pick up Brimstone, too bad you're now less likely to get any other special items later. This is especially punishing on curse of the blind because it's now effectively impossible to know that you just skipped over the Stopwatch or Mom's Knife, but the game will increment the counter anyway. Yeah it's still a superior game than the original but it really screwed over some of the things the original did well.

I really don't know what they were thinking with the Meatboy/Bandage girl achievements. It was already hard enough to do in the original. Why make it 10 times harder with completely unfair bullshit? And then add insult to injury by making the player do it twice?

Is it just me or have they nerfed 48 Hour Energy pills? They only ever seem to drop 1 battery now.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;47141746]After having played both, Rebirth has dropped the ball on a few notes. [/QUOTE] Once again man, I love how neat and structured your thought expression is. I do agree, while the game is fantastic, it does appear to have certain balance issues. It feels too easy and overpowered in some instances. Some runs are just too easy. I just feel that perhaps the game could be a bit more exciting if it detected you having a number of extremely powerful items and entered some kind of an "overkill mode" in which it would throw every conceivable thing at you. Maybe it would be also nice to have it as a switchable option, incase you felt like having a power-trip/freestyle run.

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[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;47141830]I really don't know what they were thinking with the Meatboy/Bandage girl achievements. It was already hard enough to do in the original. Why make it 10 times harder with completely unfair bullshit? And then add insult to injury by making the player do it twice?[/QUOTE] Probably the worst part is the fact that getting BOR increases your chances hugely but is still incredibly small. It's a 1/8 chance of getting 4 meat balls or bandage balls, and that's still not counting that your run is ruined if you encounter Fred, Conquest, Headless Horseman, or ANY given double trouble room.

[QUOTE=Lium;47142016]Is it just me or have they nerfed 48 Hour Energy pills? They only ever seem to drop 1 battery now.[/QUOTE] It's random.

[QUOTE=FreaXx;47142979]It's random.[/QUOTE] Really? I've only had 1 battery from the last 5-10 pills. Not a single two.

Having the pill generator + sharp plug + the wafer is pretty overpowered

Hate trying get boss rush mode so much because I feel like I'm throwing away a lot of potential stuff from my run. Especially when I get some good items, but still don't make it, and now all I have left are the boring levels with barely any treasure.

[QUOTE=Lium;47142016]Is it just me or have they nerfed 48 Hour Energy pills? They only ever seem to drop 1 battery now.[/QUOTE] Both it and Hemetomesis appear to be based on luck. On a high luck run, I was getting 2 batteries and 4 hearts consistantly.

After over 100 tries, i've finished the part 1 (The chest ending) of the Lost. Now onto the Boss Rush and the Dark room...oh boy.

I mentioned to my friend that I needed some kind of BoI-related-thing in my room, and she made me a mini Isaac! [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/jfORo7x.jpg[/img_thumb]

I'd be pretty happy if any future DLC includes no achievements or unlockables for the lost. I think he's an ok character for people who just want the absolute most challenge the game can possibly offer, but for people who just want to try every item, he's a tedious chore and never fun.

BTW I heard you can post item ideas and new synnergies on reddit, and the dev is looking there and will use some of the ideas. Here is the link to the subreddit: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/thebindingofisaac/[/url]

Monstro's Lung, crickets head, pentagram, chocolate milk, crickets body, parasite, a bunch of shot speed up and range up items plus fat odd mushroom to give the shots more height. And technology 2 for when I charged it and guppy to spam enhanced flies. Fired normally it just made a huge mess directly in front of me [t]http://i.imgur.com/Hbl1mgd.jpg?1[/t] but when it hit enemies [t]http://i.imgur.com/abtAVlI.jpg?1[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/GODrZpY.jpg?1[/t] Everything died in one blast lol. that was such a fucking great run. YSDZ DNFN if someone wants to try it, monstro's lung came from re-rolling a bible I got in a chest in one of the arena rooms, can't remember which though.

[QUOTE=Mizo;47150027]BTW I heard you can post item ideas and new synnergies on reddit, and the dev is looking there and will use some of the ideas. Here is the link to the subreddit: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/thebindingofisaac/[/url][/QUOTE] You're not wrong but that is the wrong subreddit..... [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/[/url] Some artist actually got hired from art she posted on that subreddit. EDIT: There is even a thread made by Edmund himself about what combos you would like to see with items.

So I figured it was worth ditching D6 for Tammy's Head when you have homing Brimstone, but it somehow ended up on the ground in a boss room with boss items I wanted to reroll. Luckily I managed to find a curse room with a d20 on an item pedestal, and turned the d20 and boss room item into halo and blood clot.

Why would you ditch Tammy's head with homing brimstone, unless you are worried about the game being too easy. That literally kills everything in 1 hit provided you have decentish damage.

Break a rock and find a ladder Oh boy I hope it's not a shitty trinket [T]http://cloud-2.steamusercontent.com/ugc/528382079084842942/2B59F212500024A90FDB591FE105E7BE24A29F6B/[/T] Sweet jesus And on the same run [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GZs8Ocw.png[/IMG] and finally [T]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/528382079084843210/1CF61995C2B3F5304D961921B7C894DAF23355EC/1024x819.resizedimage[/T] I'd say today was a pretty good day

I got Dead boy, mama's boy but I dont have no damage on caves/depths. I usually fuck up with dumb damage without something like Brimestone+tammy's head

My [URL="https://steelstigma.wordpress.com/"]friend[/URL] did two little Isaac from anodized titanium. I don't wear necklaces nor bracelets so I put them on my backpack. [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/2w2g5t/my_friend_did_two_little_isaac_from_anodized/"]Here is Reddit post.[/URL] [t]http://i.imgur.com/VZbb4wA.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/spWARQ8.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Mizo;47150027]BTW I heard you can post item ideas and new synnergies on reddit, and the dev is looking there and will use some of the ideas. Here is the link to the subreddit: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/thebindingofisaac/[/url][/QUOTE] I just posted a couple of ideas hope he sees I will update my post with results

Finally got all The Lost achievements, it'll be great to have fun playing this game again That is until Afterbirth comes out

I've found on [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/2w3cd9/comic_the_binding_of_isaacs_father/"]reddit [/URL]some quite amazing fanmade comic explaining some stuff about BoI: [t]http://i.imgur.com/2IBpSN4.png[/t]

So, doing the Tank challenge... [t]http://i.imgur.com/ooqBa1r.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/4kFiVRA.jpg[/t] [b]Game, stop it, I don't want dead cats[/b] (PV0Q KQJK if anyone's curious. Also, first post here!)

[QUOTE=Mitchel.;47152724]I've found on [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/2w3cd9/comic_the_binding_of_isaacs_father/"]reddit [/URL]some quite amazing fanmade comic explaining some stuff about BoI: [t]http://i.imgur.com/2IBpSN4.png[/t][/QUOTE] It does make some sense, although I'm still convinced that the real reason behind the monsters is that either they are figments of Isaac's imagination as he suffocates in the chest, in a horrific final nightmare before he dies, OR they are demons based off of Isaac's fears and insecurities as he suffers in his own personal hell after he died by his mother's hand. Either way, we'll probably find out more of the truth once Afterbirth is released and we see the new endings. I'm still wondering what the ending gained from Mega Satan is all about, though. Also I'd be all for having Guppy as an unlockable character, even if he needed tokens to play as a'la Eden.