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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth |OT| Pixel Heart Mother

Bronetta

Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Downloading it for Vita. Finally a reason to take my Vita with me on commutes!
 
Blindly jumped into this and I have no idea what is going on. Can I not go back to a previous basement? Can I even save? I need to read the OP immediately lol
 

Ferrio

Banned
I've only played it for a bit (45 minutes and died at Mom) and it's definitely easier but in a good way. You have better chances at getting useful weapons/items and there's fewer "fuck you" rooms where the instant you enter you are going to get hit by either an extremely fast enemy or just not have the room to get out of the way (this is more common in the Wrath of Lamb DLC).

That and no more literally useless items, if not only negative penelty items mislabeled.

Oh and Dingle is an asshole. Hardest basement 1 boss.
 

d00d3n

Member
I have been playing on PC so far.

Started my PS4 to get the game there as well, but ... Is the game not released on PS4 yet? Or delayed European release? :(

The bullet hell second final boss was hard, btw. I guess that the decreased difficulty is to pull more people into the game, but
mom's heart
feels like punishment for those of us who are relying on luck.
 
I have been playing on PC so far.

Started my PS4 to get the game there as well, but ... Is the game not released on PS4 yet? Or delayed European release? :(

The bullet hell second final boss was hard, btw. I guess that the decreased difficulty is to pull more people into the game, but
mom's heart
feels like punishment for those of us who are relying on luck.

PSN Europe updates on Wednesdays
 

whitehawk

Banned
Just ran into a bug. Walked into a new room and I had a loading screen. Just tried it again after restarting the game and it's fine.

Are there any actual loading screens in this game? Would seem weird. The game is only 500mb they can just load the entire game into the ram.

Not a huge fan of the game so far though.
 

autoduelist

Member
Just beat
mom
on my second try. Should have had it first try but did something stupid due to not knowing how things worked.

Really loving this game. I need to read up on it some, I just played it like a pure dual stick shooter and did fine, though I had no idea what certain things do (coins? just for the
random slot machine
?) and would benefit from reading up on a beginner's guide.

I got all sorts of things that I had no idea what they did.
Faith? Pope hat? Various color pills
, but you could only have one active (you dropped the other) and i had no idea which colors did what so i just picked one and went with it. Then i got a
'double item' card that i decided to keep instead of pills
... but still had no idea what items they were
doubling
(i never used anything).

So... guide? Or are you just supposed to play and see what happens?

Played on Vita. Perfection.
 

Chronoja

Member
The
super "boss gauntlet"
room is absolutely crazy. Encountered it after killing mom's foot on a run with Azazel, poly + brimstone + anti grav shots managed to clear it
(unlocking the nail in the process)
but it was intense. Unfortunately that run died the next floor due to a general lack of health items.
 

Stoze

Member
Did a couple runs; two awesome game references I ran into:

There's a leaf that gives you a Mario Tanooki tail, and if you do nothing for 2 seconds you become a stone statue which makes you invincible, just like in Mario Bros 3.

Also, I bombed what I think was just a random rock, and a door to the underground opened up. Instead of going to the next floor or something, it changed the screen into a small sidescrolling area ala gameboy Zeldas. Totally took me by surprise, forgot the item I got from it.
 

d00d3n

Member
J
So... guide? Or are you just supposed to play and see what happens?

Try this wiki. Search for items, trinkets, cards or specific items that you are interested in. Note that Rebirth has a lot of undocumented new stuff in it that will not be described in the wiki.
 

Anustart

Member
Just beat
mom
on my second try. Should have had it first try but did something stupid due to not knowing how things worked.

Really loving this game. I need to read up on it some, I just played it like a pure dual stick shooter and did fine, though I had no idea what certain things do (coins? just for the
random slot machine
?) and would benefit from reading up on a beginner's guide.

I got all sorts of things that I had no idea what they did.
Faith? Pope hat? Various color pills
, but you could only have one active (you dropped the other) and i had no idea which colors did what so i just picked one and went with it. Then i got a
'double item' card that i decided to keep instead of pills
... but still had no idea what items they were
doubling
(i never used anything).

So... guide? Or are you just supposed to play and see what happens?

Played on Vita. Perfection.

Cards and pills aren't passive, you need to use them to get the effects.
 
Been playing for a couple of hours. Slightly disappointed at one thing.

Character spoiler:
Eden seems like she'd be really fun to just play around with. Unfortunately, it seems as if you can only use her once for each "token" you collect. I get why they'd do that, but still a little bit of a bummer. Hopefully, there's eventually a way to unlock her permanently.
 

Ferrio

Banned
3 God rooms. Twice it was 2 halves of a eternal heart. Once a prayer card.

So far god rooms suck just as bad as they do in the original.
 

Stoze

Member
3 God rooms. Twice it was 2 halves of a eternal heart. Once a prayer card.

So far god rooms suck just as bad as they do in the original.

They are especially lame considering Devil rooms now give you black hearts, which are way better than I thought they would be.
 
Controller support is a god send. I could never play the original because the keyboard controls were murder on my hands. I just put 8 hours into the game and beat
Mom's heart
. Downloading now on VITA.
 

Scrooged

Totally wronger about Nintendo's business decisions.
Finally get to play! So hyped.

I can't believe there are over 170 achievements. That's double than the original.
 

DedValve

Banned
Looks like Vita 1000's will have trouble playing this for long periods. I noticed the borders of the game are all black rather than stretching the image to the full screen of the vita (or just adding more room space to there) and the game is already dark as is.

Oled am cry :(
 
Alright, after...7 odd hours with this game, I'm going to be the awful outlier and say that I like the music, maybe more than the OG music.

I'll be honest in that I never found the original music astonishing or amazing. It was in the background and I never really had my attention caught or anything by it. Hell, after a long enough time I turned the music off and played my own while playing.

I'll probably eventually do the same with this music but I find absolutely nothing bad or wrong with it for now.

Anyways, still plugging away.

Edit: To further cement a mountain of hatred against me, I prefer keyboard controls hands down. It is WAY easier for me to control my shots. That could, of course, just be hours upon hours of OG Isaac talking.
 

robotrock

Banned
Looks like Vita 1000's will have trouble playing this for long periods. I noticed the borders of the game are all black rather than stretching the image to the full screen of the vita (or just adding more room space to there) and the game is already dark as is.

Oled am cry :(

Do you think it's prone to burn-in?
 

Stoze

Member
I'll have to play more, but while this OST doesn't even touch the original imo, I feel like the original soundtrack wouldn't feel right in this game.

The new art combined with the soundtrack gives a new atmosphere and tone to the game, and it would feel off if one of those were taken out or replaced. It's hard for me to imagine the older soundtrack playing in The Depths for example, which looks and feels way different to me.

Still, I think it would be cool if they patched in the original soundtrack or make it so there's a chance of floors playing music from the original. That would be neat.
 

Kid Ska

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Does Guppy just not work with laser based items? It's not doing anything with Tech 1. This is some bullshit.
 

Archaix

Drunky McMurder
So I played through two runs and thought...what in the hell are these people talking about saying it's easier? Have I gotten that bad? I got platinum god twice and here I am dying before the Caves end!

Anyway, what's with that weird red pentagon icon? Did I pick up an item I didn't notice? Nevermind, I'll come back later.

...

Oooooooh. That makes much more sense. First normal run I traded in all of my red hearts before the end of the second floor and beat mom on soul hearts.
 

AoM

Member
Just got Dark Boy, holy crap. I wasn't even thinking about it and just got it. That took me foooooreveeeer in the original.
 

MLCodest

Member
Been knocking off the rust a little after not playing the original for a while. Beat
Sheol
twice with Isaac and
Judas.
So far it's lived up to the hype in all areas but I do have a couple complaints. I won't state them until I do some more testing though.

Edit: Also got
Basement Boy, Dark Boy, and Womb Boy
all today. So the skill is still there, just got to iron out the mistakes.
 

marrec

Banned
Played a bit on my PS4 and wow is there a big difference playing with the analog stick vs. keyboard. I suuuck with the stick.

The D-pad is just as bad imo. Except on the Vita.
 

BearPawB

Banned
Played a bit on my PS4 and wow is there a bug difference playing with the analog stick vs. keyboard. I suuuck with the stick.

The D-pad is just as bad imo. Except on the Vita.

i find dpad and face buttons are the best way to play.

Certainly a learning curve.
 

FloatOn

Member
Isaac Rebirth =

giphy.gif
 

-PXG-

Member
Anyone watching Cobalt now probably just shat their pants. That run was epic. This game is crazy and this is just the first day.
 

ZenaxPure

Member
Picked up some item that turned my shot into a giant circle that took up like 1/4th of normal sized rooms and lasted forever doing damage (could move it around with the tear controls), holy shit it was so OP. I flew through the dungeon and destroyed Satan with absolutely no trouble. Loving so many of the new items.
 

DedValve

Banned
Do you think it's prone to burn-in?

very much so. I remember the thread when people got severe burn in from browsing too much internet
porn no doubt
and the black bars on the internet browser burned in.

Same thing will happen here for extended plays. Won't affect the new Vita 2k's only the Oled models.
 

Kid Ska

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Alright, 5 hours and 5 runs is enough for the first day, for me. 4 wins and 1 death with 2 Satan kills is a good start. Favorite synergy so far would have to be quad shot with piercing and bouncing tears.
Lil' Brimstone
is awesome and so are attack spiders. I fucking love this game and it's definitely a worthy successor to one of my top five games ever.
 
Holy hell, my second run even surpassed my first run.

Here's the skinny:
beat Isaac at the Cathedral. I don't think I ever went to the catherdral in the original...maybe once. Anyhoo, twas a glorious run. I had my horsey, Monstro's Lung, Bob's Brain, Trinity Shield, etc...

Here's my seed in case anyone wants to try it.
 

Grief.exe

Member
Dingle is such a tough first floor boss.

Maybe I just don't have the routine down yet, but the boss has a ton of health and a difficult move set to dodge.
 
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