It's been talked about a lot, it's been teased a lot, I've hyped it a lot, but I haven't seen a good place to really discus this apart from threads that seem to be ages old and mostly about the original.
So here it is, the
Not Even Close to Official "The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth" Discussion Thread.
What is TBOI:R, you may ask?
Well, it's a remake of the original Flash-based The Binding of Isaac (and the Wrath of the Lamb DLC) on a brand new engine, complete with a new artstyle (which is sort of a controversial topic), tons of new content from items to bosses to characters and rooms, and a plethora of other things that could not be done in the original.
I'll let the game's wikia tell you what it's about in a decently-detailed form:
The Binding of Isaac is a two-dimensional action-adventure video game where the player controls Isaac or six of the unlockable characters as he traverses through the dungeons located underneath his mother's basement. The video game's gameplay and style are inspired by the dungeons of The Legend of Zelda series, while mixing in randomly procedurally generated floors akin to roguelikes (like traditional roguelikes, death is permanent and the player is forced to restart with nothing if they die) while doing this is in a simple Legend of Zelda like formula. On each floor of the basement below, the player must fight off monsters before he can go into other rooms. Along the way, the player can collect currency to buy items from shops, keys to gain entry into special treasure rooms (as well as special golden chests, libraries that contain book items, and shops), and new weapons and power-ups to increase his chance of surviving. Each floor of the dungeon ends in a boss room, where the player must defeat the boss before being able to go down to the next floor.
It'll be on PC/PS4/PS Vita and likely-ish also on 3DS.
No release date as of yet apart from 2014. The game is nearing the end of development and we may get a proper trailer with a release date as early as next Monday (11th August) but nothing set in stone as of now.
Players who own the original game on Steam will receive a
massive royalty discount, and the game itself will cost anywhere between 10 to 20$, probably around 15$ though. There will be pre-orders, and possibly also promotional items for Team Fortress 2 (Ed said he's "working on it").
Until then though, this thread shall serve as a general Isaac discussion and speculation thread, as well as a news thread, so if anything noteworthy happens, it'd be great to relay it here immediately.
The official blog where updates are posted &
Edmund's personal blog, where questions are answered.
RULES!Be easy on the discussion about Isaac's aesthetics & plot though. After all, this is a video game thread, not a religion thread. The last thing we need is a gasoline-drenched discussion about Christianity here and hoping it doesn't turn into a flame war. I'm pretty sure there is at least one religion-related thread in the General Discussion section, go there if you want to talk about that subject.
Also, once the game comes out, PLEASE use spoilers for about the first two weeks after the game is out. I personally don't care about them, but others likely do, and I doubt they'd want to have their fun ruined. This also applies to the current game's spoilers as well, though to a lesser extent.
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