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Your Computer posted:Just play, basically There's a ton of unlockables, like defeating the different parts of the game with all the characters on each difficulty/game mode. Some of it is game-changing like giving the characters starting items or unlocking overpowered items, but others (unless this has been changed) are purely detrimental. Yeah you heard that right, BoI is a game that will get worse as you unlock certain things Some items aren't really detrimental, but I'd say that they're not good either. The big downside though to unlocking more items though is diluting the item pool more and more with each unlock with items that may or may not synergize well.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:18 |
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The real meta-game for Isaac is always picking up Soy Milk and trying to make it good. It got me my first and only Ultra-Greedier kill, combined with Ipecac and Pyro, and literally every other time I get it I die because of it.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:22 |
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If life gives you Soy Milk, cry.... a lot Dizz posted:Some items aren't really detrimental, but I'd say that they're not good either. The big downside though to unlocking more items though is diluting the item pool more and more with each unlock with items that may or may not synergize well. Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth†: Some Items Aren't Really Detrimental
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:23 |
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Is it just nostalgia when it comes to SMRPG? Because that game is so overrated. It doesn't hold up well over time and compared to other RPG fare in the mid 90s...it is very lacking. It is 22 years old. So yeah, I'm guessing it is nostalgia. Was probably great for 8 year olds because it's a game for 8 year olds.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:30 |
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yeah item dillution is no joke in issac since on average it makes runs more dull. i wouldn’t be afraid to wiki the unlock pool and generally cherry pick challenges and unlocks, 100 percenting the game is decidedly not worth it. i’ve actually enjoyed switch issac a lot more because i’m not playing the worst parts of the game over and over to get usually bad extra item unlocks. also gently caress the three hardest bosses in the game for being (mostly) scaled damage sponges.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:32 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Is it just nostalgia when it comes to SMRPG? Because that game is so overrated. It doesn't hold up well over time and compared to other RPG fare in the mid 90s...it is very lacking.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:36 |
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It's too bad licensing would make things too complicated for an American version of that "Shonen Jump Famicom Classic but a lot of the games are poop" mini-console but instead of anime games it's licensed movie and TV NES games from the 80's and really early 90's.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:39 |
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Oh yeah speaking of ridiculously bad poo poo in The Binding of Isaac: some of the curses. I say that unavoidable damage is a sign of bad game design and a terrible way to increase difficulty, but literally the worst way to increase difficulty is to make the screen so dark you literally can't see what's going on. At least in the PC version I could crank up my monitor's gamma, on the Switch? Especially in handheld mode? gently caress you, sincerely Edmund McMillen.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:43 |
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A sequel to Mario RPG is like my holy grail of video game dreams.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:51 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Is it just nostalgia when it comes to SMRPG? Because that game is so overrated. It doesn't hold up well over time and compared to other RPG fare in the mid 90s...it is very lacking. that’s too dismissive imo it’s decidedly kid friendly (i mean it’s mario) , and it’s not hard, but it did so much so well. the battle system, the explorable worlds, most of the mini games, the music, the humor. it’s not like a deep epic baldur’s gate type experience but i think it stands with the other top shelf snes rpgs.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:53 |
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RCarr posted:A sequel to Mario RPG is like my holy grail of video game dreams. Haven't there been a bunch of sequels? M&L and PM series are both from the same lineage, and PM was originally named SMRPG2.
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RCarr posted:A sequel to Mario RPG is like my holy grail of video game dreams. Mine is a modern reboot of Interstate '76 that I also hope never happens because holy LoL would it be terrible thanks to modern open world design conventions and post-release monetization.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:56 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Haven't there been a bunch of sequels? M&L and PM series are both from the same lineage, and PM was originally named SMRPG2. I mean a real sequel that is actually similar to the first game.
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RCarr posted:A sequel to Mario RPG is like my holy grail of video game dreams. Mine is a proper sequel to Final Fantasy Tactics
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:57 |
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RCarr posted:I mean a real sequel that is actually similar to the first game. How similar are we talking here because both PM and M&L share many mechanics with SMPRG.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:58 |
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Princeps32 posted:also gently caress the three hardest bosses in the game for being (mostly) scaled damage sponges. They aren't exactly scaled, there's just a cap on the damage they can take from a single source. Repeated small ticks of damage (like the flies from the Guppy transformation) will still melt them really quickly, but big bursts of damage aren't as effective.
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# ? May 14, 2018 14:59 |
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SettingSun posted:How similar are we talking here because both PM and M&L share many mechanics with SMPRG. Identical. I want them to just ship the original Mario RPG with a new title.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:00 |
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RCarr posted:Identical. I want them to just ship the original Mario RPG with a new title. It was called the Wii U.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:02 |
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Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga I think even had the same director as Mario RPG.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:04 |
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I want a Mario RPG with 3 party members, enough of this "2 person party" horseshit, that's not a proper RPG party
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga I think even had the same director as Mario RPG. As of 2014, he still thinks Mario RPG is the best game he ever worked on.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:13 |
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I want a Mario RPG where you can gently caress Daisy.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:19 |
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Let me tell you all about this game called Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:21 |
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DLC Inc posted:I want a Mario RPG with 3 party members, enough of this "2 person party" horseshit, that's not a proper RPG party Mario RPG had 3 person parties though?
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:25 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Is it just nostalgia when it comes to SMRPG? Because that game is so overrated. It doesn't hold up well over time and compared to other RPG fare in the mid 90s...it is very lacking. Mario RPG was my first RPG and it showed me what a cool genre that was. Now looking at my Switch library of almost 80 games and something like 12 of them are RPGs. Just because something is for kids doesn't make it bad, in fact that can often be a very good thing. There are a lot of kids around, after all.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:26 |
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So is "Star Fox Grand Prix" on the F-Zero Rammers level of stupid "leaks" or is it on the level of "Star Fox+ Metroid game" in terms of stupidity https://www.gonintendo.com/stories/308975-rumor-retro-studios-working-on-star-fox-grand-prix-for-nintend
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:26 |
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That makes that one ending of Command canon
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:29 |
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DLC Inc posted:I want a Mario RPG with 3 party members, enough of this "2 person party" horseshit, that's not a proper RPG party Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam gives you the three person party of Mario, Luigi, and Paper Mario
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Brother Entropy posted:i hopped off of isaac once they started introducing bosses that take a fuckton of time no matter how powerful your shots are
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:33 |
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Isaacchat: I'm not especially good at the game, and I haven't curated my item unlocks in the slightest, and I don't feel that the game is unspeakable bullshit or that my experience has been hurt by the unlocks at all. I can win a good majority of runs, and the unlocks have on the whole only made things easier. There was a streamer who had a winstreak in the hundreds, so a bunch of wins are definitely plausible (admittedly, I wouldn't play that safely because I find it boring)
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:36 |
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Eh, there really isn't unavoidable damage in Isaac. Once you get to a certain skill level, you start to view health as a currency. I'm not great at it, but my friends are on a whole different level with the game, and they're by no means pro-gamers. It gets much easier when you know what items do what. Isaac is like jazz, sometimes it's the items you don't take.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:38 |
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It's possible to win in isaac from almost any situation but games where you have garbage tears and do minimal damage for most of the run are certainly not fun and the frequency of those has increased every time a bunch of new items has been added to the game
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:45 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:Eh, there really isn't unavoidable damage in Isaac. Once you get to a certain skill level, you start to view health as a currency. I'm not great at it, but my friends are on a whole different level with the game, and they're by no means pro-gamers. It gets much easier when you know what items do what. Isaac is like jazz, sometimes it's the items you don't take. If only I had put another two thousand hours into BoI I too would be able to understand it like jazz
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:49 |
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There's also Isaac apps you can download that tell you what the items are and how to unlock them.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:52 |
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You weren't kidding about the Celeste soundtrack. Holy crap.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:57 |
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Check out the B-Sides sound track too. 2Mello's track feels straight up David Wise.
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# ? May 14, 2018 15:58 |
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Eurogamer are reporting the Star Fox Grand Prix leak as well. Looks like it might be legitimate. https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/996021609864548352 I wanna go vroom vroom as Wolf.
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# ? May 14, 2018 16:03 |
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JordanKai posted:Eurogamer are reporting the Star Fox Grand Prix leak as well. Looks like it might be legitimate. Oh boy, just what I've always wanted.
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s.i.r.e. posted:Oh boy, just what I've always wanted. Unironically. What a cool, cool, fake leak
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