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I suck at spelunky; I also suck at 10,000,000 on iOS

Look before you leap indeed; I went from being nowhere near getting past the jungle levels to managing it multiple times very quickly once I discovered that you can look down.

love the spring boots, love the baseball glove, love the climbing gloves, and the pickaxe. i'm not a fan of the handheld weapons at all. it's too annoying to use them when there's only one thing that you can hold your hands at a time - drop the weapon, pick up the damsel, move the damsel down a bit in the level, go back to get the weapon, repeat repeat repeat.

I find the boomerang pretty useful despite those issues, and at least it's usually possible to get one very easily and without paying.

woohoo, broke the 100K barrier!

This fuckin game. You fuckin guys.

i love this stupid fucking game, even though i can barely break 60k and it's taken me weeks to even get to the ice caves

This is going to be another one of those times where I am outside of the ilg mindset I think because I just played the spelunky demo and oh man did I ever hate it. Sorry dudes.

Well what did you hate about it.

i'll tell you what i hated, spending ten pounds and two hours making myself very angry. seriously this game is sooooooooo frustrating and i know that's kinda the idea but it's just bad for my health. i made it to area 2 (level 5) ONCE. Sure I'd eventually get better at e.g. actually looking out for arrow traps instead of getting hit by them EVERY TIME, and i could use the wiki for other playing tips but why? whhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyy? just to try and get my name up on a leaderboard? it is not enjoyable.

Dude.

It's just a bit of fun.

not for me clearly!

i can see how it could be frustrating but for me the beauty of spelunky is that i almost never feel like death is random. every once in a while some crazy shit goes down but it tends to be pretty entertaining. in general death is the result of me fucking up.

Most of my deaths are suicides after I get off to a kind of lame start and just want to die. Other than that, most of my damage either comes from stupid mistakes, or the randomized dark levels. I know there's an opportunity for lots of points in those levels (the glow-in-the-dark flying things are only worth $5K in the first levels though, not $10K or $15K), but my experience is usually just burning through a bunch of ropes, and still accidentally landing directly next to a creature, or landing on spikes, or a bat flying in out of nowhere. it'd be nice if they adjusted the enemies/landscape on the dark levels to compensate.

i find it easier to focus on opening up the shortcuts. i have to bring tunnel man a shotgun before i can open the ice caves shortcut, sadly i have not perfected my shopkeeper ganking technique. dude gets irate.

shopkeeper ganking was CRAZY hard on the PC version

speaking of irate shopkeepers, is it EVER worth taking the golden statue? it seems like every other time it ransacks the shop and then i have a crazed murderer on my trail

I almost always take it - I need my points! You're right though - probably 25% of the times I grab it, the shop keeper will end up killing me at some point, or make me miss some good stuff while I try to avoid him. Then again, probably 25% of the time, besides getting the statue points, the boulder will clear out some good gems or a shop or other good things I'd have missed out on too.

Friend leaderboards are just broke in this, right? They don't seem to be ordered by score, or depth, or by the alphabet or anything, unless I'm missing something really stupid. The global boards seem fine, idgi.

Almost got a half decent score at last but then tunnel man asked me to give him $10,000. Not sure it was a good deal anyway, not using the shortcut much.

(also I don't think I have you on my list adam, I'm Jimdoo).

so i finally got to the jungle levels and figured out that if you save the woman/man/dog you get extra life. making progress!

how does high score work? do you get calculated on gold per level, or on overall goal after one adventure playthrough? does game ever end or do u always eventually die?

so many questions

we should already have a spelunky thread but anyway, here:
http://tinysubversions.com/game/spelunky/

so spelunky is great! i'm totally addicted. also love all the nethack homages + influences all over. it kinda is sidescrolling nethack

really hate the art style on dust: an elysian tale, it looks like a substandard vanillaware rip

they should release the PS2 vanillaware games on vita

can anyone explain to me how spelunky high scores work?

Mordy - what's the confusion? High score is based on how much gold you have when you die.

i guess it's weird bc for instance, ZS is rank 2368 which i think is best among my friends, but he is at the bottom of my list and my rank 6782 (looks like third best?) is at the top and the 2nd best rank on my list is 4 down. it's not actually arranged by high score?

the order the scores display on the friend's leaderboard is borked, yes. the scores themselves are legit.

Is it just sorted alphabetically, maybe? The important thing to remember is that my score cannot be topped!

i'll top it, tho not soon - going away from my xbox for 2 weeks :(

i'll top it, tho not soon - going away from my xbox for 2 weeks :(

what i have promised has been fulfilled.

$104,150.

I'm really disappointed there's been no response to my bold spelunky score. Where is ZS?

Is it just sorted alphabetically, maybe? The important thing to remember is that my score cannot be topped!

DAMMIT, Mordy! I haven't played for weeks and it will take me ~300 deaths to get back into peak form!

I'm at something like 290 deaths, haven't even seen the ice caves yet, still pretty addicted though. Anyone got past them? Anyone clocked the game?

I got to the last room of the ice caves (that's the place right after jungle right?) when an ice breathing mammoth hit me and i broke into a million pieces. i think i can actually open up the shortcut if i can find a shotgun to give to the tunnel guy.

the farthest i ever got was also the last level of the ice caves.

I also have yet to make it past the ice caves (can't remember if 3-3 or 3-4 is the best I've done). Still working at it though.

i actually successfully bought the ankh recently. didn't get to unlock city of gold unfortunately (or even escape the black market alive). once i do tho gg

i just checked and i have 172 deaths

posting to ilx from xbox beta dashboard

did it take you 5 mins to type that out?

Hahaha well yes

Happy wars is pretty awes btw

Although also buggy as shit

Bunch of random XBL sales this week. Stacking only 300 pts! Might pick up some other Pinball FX tables too. See the first comment.
http://majornelson.com/2012/09/04/content-coming-soon-to-the-xbox-live-marketplace-12/

Also, Joe Danger - worth $7.50?

i'm enjoying it - like trials meets sonic the hedgehog, sort of.

picked up stacking - for $3.75 its kind of a no brainer, but i sure wouldnt pay full price for it, no matter how charming it might be.

http://www.drudgesiren.com/siren.gif new spelunky high score: $112,125 http://www.drudgesiren.com/siren.gif