Binding of Isaac Rebirth (Nov 4th)

OUAriakas_sl said:

When Rebirth was released game designer Edmund McMillan was disappointed that The Lost unlock was data mined before the community had a chance to figure out the elaborate in game clues. McMillan said that he had figured out a way to make sure that didn't happen again.

That thread details an ARG that started with a tiny patch that changed the icon for the Generous achievement that contained clues in a trail culminating in a few guys digging up a greed statue in Santa Clara. This was all tracked by the game devs and when certain real world activities were completed they released a new patch with the hidden character and his unlocks.

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Sounds like a Neanderthal version of a Lost's Badge quests at defcon.

Reading Daemon right now so interesting to see what happens when the same thing is used in a plot to manipulate, and murder.

Afterbirth needs to come out on PS4 already. I don't want to double dip. ><

Edit: This game might be the perfect game to play while drinking. It just gets funner and funner the more loaded you get.

I got to Heaven(or whatever it's called) tonight while pretty much drunk and beat it. Talk about feeling rewarded. I love this game soooo much.

The Cathedral? I felt pretty happy the first time I beat it. Now that I've played way more... that's where I go if I want an easier run

I beat everything on hard with Isaac and now Maggy. I feel like I've got a pretty good grasp of the game but probably still missing some fundamentals somewhere in there. Like what to aim for with a good first floor start, character-specific advice, things like that. Unlocking the D6 was certainly a game changer though. Between that and Blank Card + Jera rune I've seen some crazy shit and crashed the game a couple times. I've actually avoided unlocking more runes just to make it easier to find Jera cause it's stupidly good even without Blank Card.

Fucking finally...
Nicalis, Inc. on Twitter:

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth Available May 10th, 2016 on PS4 and Xbox One! #Afterbirth #ComingSoon

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New update is out Afterbirth+, edmund going full fuck you with spike chests.

The really big thing is the game has mod support now and Edmund said he'll add some of them to the game if they are good enough.

This whole thing feels like Edmund giving the entire Isaac community the middle finger. Not a fan at all so far.

I'd imagine it is after the hissy fit he threw because people data mined the Lost and didn't go through that insane process of figuring out how to unlock it by trial and error. I like the guys games but he can definitely lack in professionalism and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the stuff people hate is because of that.

Some of it can probably be laid at the feet of Nicalis, the indie dev studio brought in to work on Rebirth originally. Their port of it to the 3DS was a total train wreck.

Is Nicalis one of the worst "indie" publishers in the industry? Why?

It adds official mod support so it's pretty irrelevant honestly. My first two runs I used the new character and stomped my way through despite having not played in months. So IDK only see a small number of new things at all and they seemed to fit right in. Void is interesting and probably OP frankly.

Spike chests are undetectable, resulting in random unavoidable damage unless you skip all normal chests. GOOD DESIGN GUYS.

Portals are a pure DPS check that can spawn in basement 1 when you have 0 damage and just end your run immediately. I don't hate the idea of them, but they are not a basement 1 hazard.

The twins/sisters boss is a boss from a different game just crowbared in to Isaac. They don't fight like any other boss in Isaac and don't follow the same rules of attack telegraphing etc.

Gold item rooms can spawn with no pedestal item in, who the fuck even comes up with that?

Angel rooms still sucks, curse rooms still suck, necronomicon is still a joke item, etc.

Krampus is 100% just Edmun memeing at this point with his diagonal blood laser spin.

Delerium is uhhh, I don't even know. He can instant teleport directly on top of you, and will, often. Also uses the same garbage damage resistance scaling that hush/greed do so fighting him is just another exercise in tedium regardless of how good your build might be.

Whole thing is just worse than Antibirth in basically every way. Here's to hoping official mod support was worth it I guess?

The content added was pretty damn thin compared to mod tools. Should have just released mod tools alone and not bothered if they weren't going to test it enough. Would have probably made less money that way though so I guess let's enjoy the no item rooms.

For those who haven't made it to delirium yet:

It looks like they just repeated their habit of not actually testing their updates since there's like a dozen things in the pipeline for a balance/fix patch already. Like, super obvious things, like portals and stone fatties being too common and some rooms having the wrong monsters and the vis sisters being... the way they are.

I didn't play the other updates right as they released so didn't realize there was this track record Guess I'll come back to it in a couple weeks when they patch it