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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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  • #32
    richymcdermott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,447 ✭✭✭richymcdermott


    Anyone else having this annoying bug where you are in a middle of a game and it just goes to a loading screen and stays there ?

    I am just experiencing it for the second time now and its even more frustrating since issac was op :mad::mad::mad:


  • #33
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,081 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I played a few hours of the original on PC and while I understood the hook on a purely objective level, I simply couldn't warm to the game.

    Gave the PS4 version a go last night, and now I really get it. Have settled into its rhythm, and love how dynamic each run feels.

    Had an absolute miracle of a run there. The stars aligned and I kept being gifted benefit after benefit. Giant, super-powered yellow tears, double item generator, damage reduction, explodey brain and various others. I was disappointed when I destroyed Mom's Heart knowing that uber-Isaac has been wiped from existence :(


  • #34
    richymcdermott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,447 ✭✭✭richymcdermott


    Nothing gets your heart going than walking what looked like a safe crack in a wall
    fight all the bosses at once
    :eek:

    Have not got this great of sort of accomplishment since soul series


  • #35
    YouSavedMyLife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭YouSavedMyLife


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    I played a few hours of the original on PC and while I understood the hook on a purely objective level, I simply couldn't warm to the game.

    Gave the PS4 version a go last night, and now I really get it. Have settled into its rhythm, and love how dynamic each run feels.

    Had an absolute miracle of a run there. The stars aligned and I kept being gifted benefit after benefit. Giant, super-powered yellow tears, double item generator, damage reduction, explodey brain and various others. I was disappointed when I destroyed Mom's Heart knowing that uber-Isaac has been wiped from existence :(

    Explodey brain is considered a bad thing generally cause it can blow up right in your face and hurt you :D

    Also i agree with you on that feel when you close out a run with a super powered character only to lose it all, forever. Kinda like playing Diablo 3, getting nice drops, then losing them when you quit the game :rolleyes:

    Killed Satan there 2 days ago and again just now. I'm pretty sure he isn't the final boss. What else do i have to do to progress? Keep collecting all the final chest's till there are no more? Kill Satan with each character? Anything else i can do to progress?


  • #36
    Professional Griefer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    YouSavedMyLife wrote: »
    Explodey brain is considered a bad thing generally cause it can blow up right in your face and hurt you :D

    Also i agree with you on that feel when you close out a run with a super powered character only to lose it all, forever. Kinda like playing Diablo 3, getting nice drops, then losing them when you quit the game :rolleyes:

    Killed Satan there 2 days ago and again just now. I'm pretty sure he isn't the final boss. What else do i have to do to progress? Keep collecting all the final chest's till there are no more? Kill Satan with each character? Anything else i can do to progress?

    Kill the bosses with all the characters to unlock more stuff. Do the challenges(havent managed to complete any of the ones I tried).


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  • #37
    TheChrisD
    Registered Users Posts: 4,493 ✭✭✭TheChrisD


    YouSavedMyLife wrote: »
    Killed Satan there 2 days ago and again just now. I'm pretty sure he isn't the final boss. What else do i have to do to progress?

    Not by a long shot, the game should open up properly for you very soon; depending on how many time you've killed the heart so far.
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  • #38
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Finally unlocked Sheol - killed Satan on my first try! Was there a second time as Eden and got greedy - was on very last bit of health and I bombed myself :(


  • #39
    Professional Griefer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    Whats with the room at the start of the Chest thats locked? Anyone know how do I get in there?


  • #40
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    Is this cross save between the vita and PS4? I have some stuff unlocked on the PS4 that isnt showing up on the vita even though I've synced.


  • #41
    2smiggy
    Registered Users Posts: 19,909 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    Downloaded for the ps4, had a few games and am really enjoying it. There are some amount of items and drops. It will take some getting used to


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  • #42
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    I played this for like 2 hours yesterday..... I have no F**king clue what's going on.... google etc has not helped :D
    There's all these things like items and cards and power ups but I'm not sure how they stack or whatever.
    Is this one of those games where you have to memorise what like 150 items do cause i'm lost as to what i'm doing.
    I like the mechanics and how it plays, even though some of the random rooms seem broken.
    Also wtf is the deal with bombs and bombs rocks, I'm lost


  • #43
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Cormac... wrote: »
    I played this for like 2 hours yesterday..... I have no F**king clue what's going on.... google etc has not helped :D
    There's all these things like items and cards and power ups but I'm not sure how they stack or whatever.
    Is this one of those games where you have to memorise what like 150 items do cause i'm lost as to what i'm doing.
    I like the mechanics and how it plays, even though some of the random rooms seem broken.
    Also wtf is the deal with bombs and bombs rocks, I'm lost

    Don't spoil it for yourself by googling! Part of the fun is figuring out stuff by experimenting. Trinkets will give you certain advantages and sometimes you may not know immediately what they are. The main goal of the game is to get to the end, it will slowly unfold the more you complete it. No broken rooms I've found anyway... There are some hidden rooms though behind walls you can bomb! You use a card with Q and a powerup with Space.


  • #44
    YouSavedMyLife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭YouSavedMyLife


    To be honest i have googled what some items function are. But never on the first time i got them. If i don't figure out what they do on about the 3rd pickup ill google them.


  • #45
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    Just like the original, I genuinely don't get what's so great about this at all


  • #46
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    COYVB wrote: »
    Just like the original, I genuinely don't get what's so great about this at all

    For me it's the random element that makes it thrilling. You never know how a run is going to end. It gets surprisingly deep the more you play too when new areas open.


  • #47
    richymcdermott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,447 ✭✭✭richymcdermott


    bet mom 2 times today which brings me up to 5 times , thing says its gonna get harder WTF! O_o


  • #48
    salamanca22
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭salamanca22


    Must of played over 200 games now a at this stage. Fantastic time waster.

    Only problem is I am playing the vita version and it has slow downs like the old flash version had in some rooms. Get's annoying.


  • #49
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    richymcdermott wrote: »
    bet mom 2 times today which brings me up to 5 times , thing says its gonna get harder WTF! O_o

    Just wait until the 8th encounter or so...! Nasty little surprise waiting


  • #50
    GO_Bear
    Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GO_Bear


    Like with the original I am bloody addicted !

    I have killed every boss with every character on hardmode except
    (the last secret char, I know he exists but have been avoiding spoilers to see if I can unlock him on my own).

    I love the addition of
    Eden and the reroll rooms / items like the D4


  • #51
    YouSavedMyLife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭YouSavedMyLife


    GO_Bear wrote: »
    Like with the original I am bloody addicted !

    I have killed every boss with every character on hardmode except
    (the last secret char, I know he exists but have been avoiding spoilers to see if I can unlock him on my own).

    I love the addition of
    Eden and the reroll rooms / items like the D4

    Jesus every boss on hardmode, thats good going. Probably close to 100% completion? I'm currently working my way through the first 3 bosses with each character on normal :P


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  • #52
    GO_Bear
    Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GO_Bear


    YouSavedMyLife wrote: »
    Jesus every boss on hardmode, thats good going. Probably close to 100% completion? I'm currently working my way through the first 3 bosses with each character on normal :P

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    My secret shame :o


  • #53
    Professional Griefer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    GO_Bear wrote: »
    Like with the original I am bloody addicted !

    I have killed every boss with every character on hardmode except
    (the last secret char, I know he exists but have been avoiding spoilers to see if I can unlock him on my own).

    I love the addition of
    Eden and the reroll rooms / items like the D4
    The secret character sounds, and looks like a real pain. I don't think I'll ever beat any of the bosses with him. Haven't even tried to unlock him, which also looks hard enough.
    :(


  • #54
    GO_Bear
    Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GO_Bear


    Professional Griefer wrote: »
    The secret character sounds, and looks like a real pain. I don't think I'll ever beat any of the bosses with him. Haven't even tried to unlock him, which also looks hard enough.
    :(

    My friend told me that
    9 of the secrets involve or at least require the secret char, so I need 3 more till I get to that point, I know one has to be building meat boy from the horsemen cause you got one in vanilla for it (which is so bloody unlikely now with the addition of bandage girl as you need to get a horsemen every floor and win a 50/50 dice roll four times in a row, I assume you need to break the **** out of the monster manual or get lucky playing eden and start with one or two of the pieces), its also probably safe to assume another is building bandage girl. Not sure what the last one is.
    If I have not unlocked the secret char by the time I get those 3, I will then probably just look online how to unlock, as I also heard it is fairly contrived.


  • #55
    Professional Griefer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    GO_Bear wrote: »
    My friend told me that
    9 of the secrets involve or at least require the secret char, so I need 3 more till I get to that point, I know one has to be building meat boy from the horsemen cause you got one in vanilla for it (which is so bloody unlikely now with the addition of bandage girl as you need to get a horsemen every floor and win a 50/50 dice roll four times in a row, I assume you need to break the **** out of the monster manual or get lucky playing eden and start with one or two of the pieces), its also probably safe to assume another is building bandage girl. Not sure what the last one is.
    If I have not unlocked the secret char by the time I get those 3, I will then probably just look online how to unlock, as I also heard it is fairly contrived.
    Yeah the super meat boy and bandage girl ones are going to be a pain, all down to RNG, just got to get lucky with a early book of rev and get lucky with boss drops.

    Regards the special character, I seen the devs are annoyed that its already found(apparently it was left in plain sight in the code). I think it would take a very long time for someone to unlock him judging on how its done, either way, I've a lot more to do before I even consider trying unlocking him. Working my way through the bosses on normal with the characters atm.


  • #56
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    I've gotten as far as the heart, is there more after that?


  • #57
    GO_Bear
    Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GO_Bear


    Dr. Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    I've gotten as far as the heart, is there more after that?

    Yep tons !


  • #58
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    GO_Bear wrote: »
    Yep tons !

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  • #59
    thorbarry
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭thorbarry


    I've only beaten the heart twice, in about 70 play through. I am playing on the VITA and only last night realized that you could use the cards\ pills. I thought they just gave you stat boosts depending on which one you had equipped.

    Felt like a fool when I realized that :S


  • #60
    GO_Bear
    Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GO_Bear


    RopeDrink wrote: »
    Presume it's mostly thanks to sticking to normal mode.

    You can unlock almost everything on normal mode afaik, I did a full clear on normal mode with each char anyways, to learn the new items/enemies/bosses etc.

    The only secrets I have unlocked on hardmode so far are
    for killing mom's heart with each character (You get extra coop baby skins), although I have heard you need to complete everything on hard eventually to get the final achievement.


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  • #61
    YouSavedMyLife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭YouSavedMyLife


    I noticed sometimes when you do a run Shoel will open in the room where you kill the boss. Then sometimes Shoel will open in the boss room plus a devil room will also open leading to Shoel? Are they effectively the same path? Same for Heaven...


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