u/glossyplane245

I'm currently in the plaza. I already bypassed the 3 associated areas tied to the different characters and failing the minigames multiple times. However I didn't do Olivia's where you kick the shit out of her 3 times in a row. I did Walter and Giovanni's and then saw a new area and got too intrigued. I'm wondering if I locked myself out of any experiences by doing this, BESIDES her associated brief area to open up the gate.

I was reading the wiki for >!griggs!< who goes hollow, and in the last line of his quest line description it says “He will attack, so be nice and end his misery.” This got me wondering, is there any way to actually end the misery of an NPC who’s gone hollow? Or will >!griggs!< just wake up at a bonfire and go back to wandering around attacking anyone they see completely mindless and insane?

I’m particularly struggling with Sif. I feel like no matter what I do I’m not dodging the attacks and obviously I’m fucking something up but I don’t know what it is. Is there something fundamentally different about how the dodging works in ds1 compared to the other fromsoft souls like games? Like I beat orphan of kos summonless and underleveled and the sword saint + demon of hatred but I can barely scratch this dog in the middle of the woods without getting absolutely rolled?

The dodging in this game just feels different and I don’t know why but I want to understand it.

Inb4 any comments just coming to say “skill issue”, yeah no shit that’s why I’m asking, to try and fix it.

You can also knock on doors to get funny little quips / lines of dialogue, and when he calls you you’re supposed to pick up I think to stop the ringing and he talks to you before hanging up, like breathing heavily into the microphone or saying he’s gonna kill you when he gets you

Like giving me 7 golden chests on one floor but no keys or ways to get keys. Or like 75% of the curse rooms I go into being just spiders. Or literally only ever giving me bums for things I don’t have as much of (had like 99 bombs from a pyromaniac safety scissors curse of the tower run, guess which bum I never got one of). Or the d6 rerolling like 5 different items in a row into items that would probably kill me like bobs brain. Or dark bum spawning a spider up my ass right as I go through a door.

Seriously it’s not just me right I need other people to give examples of shit like this so I know I’m not just crazy

I’m not the most experienced or skilled Isaac player but I’ve beaten Satan on hard with a few characters and moms heart on hard with like 7 of them so I’m not totally terrible at the game, but I just can’t no hit this jumpy bitch. Her jumping on its own is manageable if I pay attention but she’s just CONSTANTLY shitting out spiders. I kill 3 spiders, she shits out a spider spawning sack, I kill it and while I’m killing it there’s 3 more spiders, then while I kill them theres 3 more spiders and 2 spider sacks. I’m putting in a couple shots every wave of spawns but there’s just sooooo many that I always get hit at least once and haven’t been able to found a consistent method not to when I have no way of killing her quickly.

Like how razor blade implies Isaac despite being such a young child is actively cutting himself

I’ve seen one that comes with all of those games (one is called the retro pistol I think that claims to have 600 games) but they require a computer and I want to play on a tv, and I’m not really sure what the market is for this kind of thing so I figured I’d ask here to see if more experienced knowledgeable people could help

I DO have ps2 hooked up to my TV with a composite cable (or whichever the 5 prong one is) but I’m not sure if the og light guns would work and even if they did it might be more expensive to get the og light guns and all the games

Like just by definition they’re an enemy

I’m on collection of mana. I genuinely don’t understand what you’re meant to do to fight him. I got knocked unconscious like 50 times and I just have to lay there for like 10 seconds either letting him come up and bitch smack me or cast acid breath or gem missile (or whatever that one is called). I don’t understand what the intended method is here besides hit him when the bar hits 100. I tried watching a speed runner fight him and he didn’t get knocked unconscious once and he barely even took damage.

It’s weird because I remember having 0 issues fighting him as a kid on the SNES but now that I’m older and have experienced lots of very hard games like ninja gaiden black dark souls spelunkey wolfenstein 2 etc he fucking dogwalks me like I’m nothing. I can’t dodge the scythe, have no way to block it, even if I try to run a circle around him it comes back around like a boomerang and hits me, and the hit box for it is way bigger than it looks, and every time I get knocked out it gives him time to cast spells or walk up and hit me again.

It is of course entirely possible his ability to teleport around the world with his army isn’t in the lore but the portals that summon demons and stuff are real at least so I’m just curious what’s preventing them in general but the from just putting a giant portal in the middle of a capital city and letting a bunch of already manifested demons and warriors in past all the walls and defenses

The long victory objectives always seem to make me go so far out of my way or require so much busy work

Edit: just to elaborate on what I mean: ghorst is a pretty easy campaign once you get his zombie stack going. But you have to take over the ENTIRE empire for his long victory objective. And you start with like 50 enemies between you and the empire. And also 50 enemies the other directions that will all also declare war on you first chance they get.

I’m just curious if it’ll probably still happen at least once before I finish the game

Edit: so far I’ve hired a fighter named LeBron James and one named hulk hogan, and 2 wizards one named Joe Biden one named chat, both are manlets, if any were yours then congrats

I don’t frequently have a ton of units with snipe in my armies and I don’t frequently go out of my way to try to take advantage of the snipe usually even though I probably should.

This also goes for units with snipe and stalk. Like in theory if you put a unit with snipe and stalk behind them it will be invisible while constantly shooting them but I’ve always assumed the ai, since it’s pretty omnipotent and just pretending not to be at all times, will send something after it eventually, since that’s what a reasonable person would do in that same situation upon noticing they are taking damage from a hidden snipe unit.