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« Reply #4095 on: September 03, 2009, 09:08:53 AM » |
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I like this game, but I think it's a little too hard. I've got the Ice cavern shortcut opened up, but the difficulty of completing the level and then paying the 300,000 to open up the next shortcut is a enough to make me give up. I've died 260 times.
I'm finding the Ice cavern so difficult to get through that Im just trying to complete the thing and get to the tunnel man without dying rather than collecting gold on the way. Because if I piss around collecting gold, then die on the 12th level, I get very angry. And it happens a lot.
I'm not a huge fan of the ghost either. I like to explore, but I'm too scared to go adventuring to far in case the ghost comes, so I end up rushing and die. Couldn't the ghost just not exist? Or is taking your time unbalanced? Like if I could take a few more minutes to ferry stunned enemies to the alter instead of just the nearest 1 it would be cool.
I also get this feeling that you're supposed to start at like level 1 and work up till level 13 to pay the tunnel man with a huge sum of gold (rather than starting at level 9 everytime), but the opportunity cost of dying on on the ice cavern level due to falling is too high to take that approach (unless you're uber good, but if you were that good you'd probably be past the ice cavern stage anyway).
Im probably just too casual lol, everyone else seems to love it :D
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« Reply #4096 on: September 03, 2009, 10:37:18 AM » |
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Trying to make my experience more enjoyable, replacing in-game sounds with Tf2 voice clips. The arrow shooters shout, "SCREAMIN' EAGLES!".  |
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« Reply #4097 on: September 03, 2009, 10:57:54 AM » |
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I like this game, but I think it's a little too hard. I've got the Ice cavern shortcut opened up, but the difficulty of completing the level and then paying the 300,000 to open up the next shortcut is a enough to make me give up. I've died 260 times.
My advice is to try not to think too much about getting the next shortcut and instead focus on learning more about the game and getting better. If you can get to the ice caverns at all you're not doing too bad.  Congratulations on releasing 1.0. It's been an honor to watch it grow.
This is possibly going to sounds stupid, but please make the XBLA game standard def friendly. I find that XBLA games are often developed so much with HDTVs in mind that you end up with eye-strain inducing text, pulled back cameras, and busy looking artwork that just turns to mush on a standard def TV. The XNA games seem to be the worst in this area, but even the ones on XBLA proper are guilty. Have a look at 'Splosion Man if you want to see what I'm talking about.
Having tried to read tiny text on a standard TV, I definitely feel your pain. I'll take it into consideration! I just wanted to bring this up: The open beta of the mac version of game maker has been released. When it comes out proper, are you planning on porting Spelunky to the mac?
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« Reply #4098 on: September 03, 2009, 11:24:37 AM » |
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I've got the Ice cavern shortcut opened up, but the difficulty of completing the level and then paying the 300,000 to open up the next shortcut is a enough to make me give up. I've died 260 times....I get very angry. And it happens a lot.
Welcome to Spelunky, friend. Seriously, the best thing to do at that point is to take a break, if you can pry yourself away. Even with a few hundred deaths under your belt, something, somewhere will jump out at you and take you by surprise. You die easily, and suddenly, but that's just the nature of it. Then you will randomly get a good luck streak and find things you never knew existed  Just keep your eyes open and your head down,and good luck! |
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« Reply #4099 on: September 03, 2009, 04:03:35 PM » |
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I just wanted to bring this up: The open beta of the mac version of game maker has been released. When it comes out proper, are you planning on porting Spelunky to the mac?
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« Reply #4100 on: September 03, 2009, 08:37:30 PM » |
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Damn you, Yu! I swear the door to the City of Gold never appeared for me! Was still a pretty good run, though...
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« Reply #4101 on: September 03, 2009, 08:51:59 PM » |
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652 deaths. One win. Oh my god i finally did it, and i unlocked the Changing and Sun rooms in the same run.  I'm so happy right now. Oh, and a very minor thing but that moon room description before the unlock is still hanging around. |
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« Reply #4102 on: September 04, 2009, 03:30:19 AM » |
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Damn you, Yu! I swear the door to the City of Gold never appeared for me! Was still a pretty good run, though...
Yo Sergio. Sometimes it's behind those malign sentient block things. But I think the same thing happened to me on my last very serious hoarder run. I had Kali's 99 bombs for digging and everything.. Ass.. If I had have made it I think that would have been winning the game right there, like 300000 gold.. Well really that feeling would only last until I can think of another stupid goal.. like geting through without killing anything, always a favourite. |
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« Reply #4103 on: September 04, 2009, 03:34:48 AM » |
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I sent the link to some gaming community and within hours someone made a hacked version  With all traditional kinds of cheats and he also unlocked the save/load function...I didn't even know it's in the game... How many secrets are you still hiding there, Derek?  I'm still waiting for my rescue achievement to see the secret in tunnel screen though... ____________________ I did it! That's awesome!! |
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« Reply #4104 on: September 04, 2009, 08:30:32 AM » |
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I like this game, but I think it's a little too hard. I've got the Ice cavern shortcut opened up, but the difficulty of completing the level and then paying the 300,000 to open up the next shortcut is a enough to make me give up. I've died 260 times. 260? That's it? Don't give up yet! I just beat the game for the first time, check this out:  |
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« Reply #4105 on: September 04, 2009, 09:01:04 AM » |
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« Reply #4106 on: September 04, 2009, 10:22:42 AM » |
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I sent the link to some gaming community and within hours someone made a hacked version With all traditional kinds of cheats and he also unlocked the save/load function...I didn't even know it's in the game... How many secrets are you still hiding there, Derek? I'm still waiting for my rescue achievement to see the secret in tunnel screen though... ____________________ I did it! That's awesome!! It's a testament to a game's popularity how quick people are to ravage it. |
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« Reply #4108 on: September 04, 2009, 12:42:27 PM » |
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I WON I WON ALMOST A YEAR BUT I DID IT I BEAT THAT FINAL BOSS BITCH WITH 2 BOMBS I DODGED THE FROGS, THE SPIDERS, THE SNAKES, THE BATS, I RESCUED THE DAMSELS, I GOT THE GOLD, I WON THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Silly Team Fortress 2 sounds included.  |
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« Reply #4109 on: September 04, 2009, 01:40:23 PM » |
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When you do it it feels like you just climbed the fucking Everest.
And that people tend to retry this game over 1000 times tells me that Derek must be doing SOMETHING right. Very right.
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