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I love this game! Another great run, but it ended at the heart . I'm just going to say that I could have beaten ??? with this build, even though I have no idea what that battle is now. Sorry to hear people are having buggy experiences. I frequently walk into rooms and ask myself, how would I possibly get through this if my range wasn't high enough? I had the Three Dollar Bill a couple of times and I swear it gave me zero range tears for one room. Like, my tears didn't even go past my toes.

I beat Satan! The original game got pretty stale as I closed in on the last few achievements. Restart until you get a good first item, get a soul heart, then go for devil deals. I am so happy to be playing casually again and unlocking tons of things every run. I am also ecstatic that amazing synergies are happening naturally as well as through some careful consideration. Basically all of my old strats are useless and I have to find new ways to bend the game. I'll never be the best at dodging so getting deep into the mechanics is the only way I survive in Isaac. I should have mentioned, I have 100 hours of play time in the original game, but I've probably watched another million hours of people play the game on Twitch. I really want the two Isaac racing leagues to keep going. It remains to be seen if this game can be raced.

I'll admit mine, 100 hours! A big part of the game is getting items, reading the mysterious text, and trying to figure out what they do. After that you find out what they actually do and you feel smart or dumb. There's also the moment when you get the joke. I laughed pretty hard when I got the "R U a wizard" pill. When I first picked up Number One I was like, "Nice, gold tears! And Isaac is smiling! This means I got, like, the best item, right? Yeah!"

Got my first mom kill! I picked up two "The Dollar"'s with Cain and found this awesome free-to-play-pay-to-win item that let me unleash hell. You can use it as much as you can afford, as quickly as you can tap the space bar. I took a big break from Isaac after getting platinum god. My success had to do with the game chugging every time there were a ton of bullets on screen. Now the game is super smooth and I'm taking a lot of stupid damage. No time to type interesting things, gotta get another game in before work!

I had a very similar experience. The story belly-flops into the supernatural with no grace. I spent one chapter conserving my ammo and not enjoying that, even finishing the level without using the shotgun. Next chapter, I decide to use my ammo and I run out, which means game over in Alan Wake. The game put me at a checkpoint where there just wasn't enough bullets to get through.

That is fucking terrible. If I had to get three more sludge I would have quit the game at that point, especially if I knew what I know now about what follows. I have a big rant ready to unleash but it's not worth it. x 1000

I think I'm going to quit. There has been a string of quests that have misleading and or inaccurate directions. I haven't fallen in love with any of the characters. The combat has not evolved. At this stage everything is taking longer and longer to accomplish. I slogged through a very combat-heavy area with the promise of a safe town ahead, only to find that town full of killer robots. It's like the game dangled the prospect of characters and dialogue in front of me for hours and and then pulled a switch-a-roo.

To continue the allusions to dicks and all that I'm disappointed to say that the game never brings me to climax. I've been playing for over 25 hours and the experience has been consistently good but there's never a good sense of momentum or payoff. I reached the second boss and once again there were no revelations in the story, just the standard "FUCK RANGERS *KABOOM*" Right now I'm about to hand over a nuclear device to some shady people, hopefully so I can get some really good gear, which will hopefully keep the combat easy enough so that I can enjoy the story, so I am motivated to finish the game. But I really don't want to give these guys the device because it runs counter to how I've been role-playing. I want to reach Los Angeles before I quit, I'm a sucker for the big cities in WRPGs.

The combat turned around for me when I dumped a ton of skill points into sniper rifles for a recruited NPC. The lack of sneaking is odd but I'm having fun initiating combat with a usually-lethal sniper shot. I've returned to the prison after exploring the world, spoiler for those stuck there: My party is seven strong and armed to the teeth. Ammo is not an issue. I tried for a good while to find a way to talk or sneak my way into the prison but its denizens might as well be killer robots. I've decided that the game doesn't punish you for massacring jerks, in fact it awards you, so the genocidal campaign against Redd Skorpionz Managment Incorporated LTD *R has begun. In a universe like this there is the opportunity to show bad the guys as nuanced or useful or manipulable, but unfortunately they are just rabid animals that need to be put down. The combat is a lot of fun so I will oblige.

I'm also stuck in Happy Valley, and I too am trying to roleplay the game to a certain extent. I probably could save and reload a thousand times to kill all of these dudes but I determined to find the password to Red's shop without resorting to what is essentially fiction-breaking time travel with the F9 and F11 keys. Since the urgency of the situation has died down maybe I'll explore the world map a bit.

I have nothing meaningful to say yet, just that the game is pretty good! I spent an hour making my party too, and I probably could have done it a lot better, but I'm going to persevere. The writing is very good at balancing the two aspects of an apocalypse fiction, overwhelming suffering vs goofy humor. I just reached Happy Valley, where the locals enjoy suicide and assisted suicide. I am quick saving and quick loading a lot just to learn how the game works, I was shocked that the game doesn't really have a combat tutorial but having played the old Fallout games and Jagged Alliance there's nothing new here other than some nifty concentric circles like you'd expect from a modern game. The first thing I fought killed one of my characters with one attack. I mean, killed him permanently. The first boss I faced was god-like in its abilities, but with some finagling I was able to kill him and drag my party back to a doctor. Remember "You must gather your party before venturing forth"? That doesn't exist in this game. You can move one character across a map and when he or she touches the 'leave area' thingy your whole party will go with. That means running through hallways full of poison gas or snaking through a field of enemies with one character. I've also run into a few bugs but like Bjorn nothing that couldn't be solved with reloading. When I play a game like this I am quicksaving constantly anyway to avoid the pitfalls that the designers put in there intentionally, so any unintentional problems have been a mild nuisance.

The real elephant in the room is, is there a jump button, and if so, if I see a mountain can I mash the jump button to climb it?

I'm not making this up, there are BIG SISTERS. So obviously, you gotta keep playing.

*Looks at can of worms all spilled out again* fuck this, I'm out

Hey Murdoc, you weren't trying to trade for the AI's last piece of a resource, were you? I'm having no trouble trading surplus resources 1:1 on King difficulty. The 3MA episode on Brave New World is great. I think it was Rob who said that Gods and Kings was a bridge to nowhere, and BNW now completes the structure. All the disparate elements of Civ V are tied together in BNW. Civ V's religion system has its fans and they make some good points. It's funny because in IV they were like little badges that you wanted to collect, but they actually had big political implications, whereas in V there is a never-ending war in every city over followers but I don't see any international ramifications. In my most recent game I discovered that you can actually miss out on founding a pantheon if you're too slow to gain faith, so that whole system is now locked out to me. Can't say I miss it too much, sure I'm missing out on some bonuses but from a gameplay perspective those menus, buttons and spreadsheets are not as fun as the other menus, buttons and spreadsheets to me.

Thank you for clarifying. Not only is this significantly different than what others were speculating what you were saying, but - Nevermind, then!

I guess that my comment came off as an argument as to what is in the realm of plausibility for the game. Someone expressed disappointment (I hope that's a fair way to put it) that the main character appears to be white. I was just trying to say, if he is white, that makes sense to me. Not, he must be white and here is the evidence, just, if he is indeed white, I wouldn't be surprised. I hope that distinction is clear. Just so people have a better idea of where I'm coming from: Sean has said this is a story about the place where he grew up. I think Wisconsin's demographics are important to its identity, certainly more so than alcohol brand names and logos. Regarding occupations, I live in one of the most multicultural places in the world, and still certain occupations are dominated by certain racial groups. When I'm told the game is set in Wisconsin in the early 90s and features a fire lookout, that brings a whole lot of baggage. I admitted up front that I was speaking anecdotally, not as a get-of-jail-free-card, but just as a way to impart that this was my personal read on the situation, based on my life experiences. It was in the spirit of casual speculation, nothing more.

Could you please elaborate? Reading a 17 page thread authored by dozens is probably a bad way for me to figure out what you're saying.

Well, to paraphrase Sean on a recent episode, if a creator makes a decision then then that decision was important. I think if you ask him directly you have a good chance of getting an answer (questions@idlethumbs.net). Looking around the net I see that Wisconsin is 86-88% white. Just as an anecdote, I know a lot of non-whites who go camping and hiking, but people who work in nature preservation are overwhelmingly white in my experience.

Well, I'm going to be that other guy. Why do you ask? For the record I have no idea either. Well, I have an idea that he is white, I suppose.

Thank you so much both of you!

I've followed you.

I am going to be the worst person in the world and recommend that you pick up Brave New World. For a game called Civilization V it's really good! It's funny, in that thread you call the trading in Civ V vanilla broken, whereas I would call it something else... maybe, crippled? You can't trade technologies, you can't trade maps, you can't trade lump sums of gold without declaring friendship, you can't trade contacts, and if you aren't a peacnik, you can't trade anything at all!

I don't believe this is the case. In previous games production and gold per turn would get a penalty based on distance from the capital, that I know for sure, but I believe happiness was always based on other factors. I like this interpretation.

Another constant mantra is that all the claims of harassment are fabricated. I ain't particularly a fan of the popo but seriously what do you have to do to get arrested around here.