Spelunkin' With Scoops: Spelunkin' With Scoops: 01/06/2014

@ozzie said:

@fobwashed said:

amazing

Yes.

Man that was an epic run Patrick. Further than I ever got in all my dozen or so hours I got obsessed with it. I'll be happy to watch any further Spelunking with Scoops.

Great. Always down for Spelunky.

A perfect Spelunky video, the highs and lows of that unpredictable bitch all in one. Good stuff.

Kind of unrelated, but it's an utterly amazing Spelunky video (that spoils the game almost entirely, so seriously don't watch it if you want to discover all the secrets yourself); Last warning. Spoilers tread beyond here. I mean, you'd need the spoilers to understand what an undertaking this is, but still.

When you've exhausted the normal style of progression and learning, maximizing your collection of treasure is all there is left, really. I didn't quite care about treasure & score at all early on (and by early on I mean the first 50-80 hours) aside from having enough to buy the items I want, I doubt the real new players feel differently. There's so much to grasp and understand and conquer in the beginning that score is the last thing on your mind and the depth is not readily apparent. Seen so many people mention how they quit Spelunky for good after a few hours because they didn't get it or couldn't get into it. But if and when it does hook you and after your skill pretty much plateaus and you've beat the game the normal way, done it the speedlunky way, and have or know you can do it the hard way and defeat Hell and King Yama , the high score hunt is pretty much all that's left. Aside from lowering your speed run time or doing crazy stuff like the impossible for 99.99% eggplant run.

The ones who progress the furthest still have the likeliest chance to get the highest score and most treasure, but not always. It's often a strategic trade-off in wasting bombs for more treasure, trying to collect it all including the idols, risking health and life for a few gems beyond those traps and enemies, stretching your time in each level to the max so you can grab it all. Then there's higher level stuff like ghostrunning or angering the shop keepers and stealing all the items rather than paying for them, to hoard your gold and boost your score. It still shows the stage you died on the leaderboard, so it's not like you can't see who made it furthest of your friends in The Daily Challenge, but it's really all about the high score like classic arcade era games.

Trying to afford the Ankh in the Black Market and learn what it could do was what originally started me down the path of caring about the treasure. I wanted enough to buy it for $50,000 and still have surplus for bombs and other items. Not always easy to do in the first handful of levels! At least not initially.

Awesome game, awesome video. I'm surprised how well Patrick did after playing for such a short time, I don't think I got that good that quick. I hope you stick with the game, @patrickklepek!

I picked up Spelunky on the Vita when it was on sale for $3.75, and it really rekindled my love for the game (especially with the Daily Challenge stuff on the PSN version), I've been back into it for the last couple weeks. I finally bested Olmec for the first time while playing on the Vita, even after a couple hundred runs on the XBLA version. It was a great feeling!!! (Now to try and get to hell...)

Speaking of, I gotta say, I was really impressed with the bomb trap that Patrick was putting together, I thought he had it for sure. I had never tried anything like that, I usually just run under Olmec back and forth, using bombs once I get near the bottom. The one run recently that I had the jetpack + shotgun combo (which is crazy good), I ended up accidentally getting squished by Olmec, but then I came back a couple runs later with way worse items, not many bombs, and somehow won after a long drawn out battle. Spelunky be crazy.

I love Patrick's hubris of "I've only been playing since Friday and look how good I am!!"

Knowing full well that he'll never make it that far again (without the jetpack/shotgun combo, anyway).

Really happy to see you embracing the joys of Spelunky, Patrick. Not to mention Dark Souls!

Keep 'em coming.

Oh okay we're just gonna keep ripping off Idle Thumbs in every way possible are we? :)

Surprised you got to Olmec already. Only a few days ago you were complaining about the mines and jungles. Props!

Well @patrickklepek you did it, you inspired me to give Spelunky another shot. I had played it only a couple of times and managed to get to the jungle, but struggled so much. After a little bit I actually managed to get to the temple, and now I am hooked on it.

You sound like a big choo choo train!

http://www.hark.com/clips/whmsdktylc-you-sound-like-a-big-choo-choo-train

@fobwashed said:

I love this.

Really enjoyed watching Patrick die at that boss :D

If you only knew how poorly I was playing on Friday.

@patrickklepek these are good tips. You missed the mattock at the bottom of the snake pit twice. Its always there and saves you the need of bombing your way out. Also whenever you kill a vampire he leaves a cape.

A couple days ago I got all the way to the entrance to 5-1 with the items required, without realizing I had to use Olmec as a platform to get in. Fuck this game.

I would watch this on the regular. I just don't find DOTA all that accessible, since I haven't the foggiest what's going on. I also really liked when I watched Anthony Birch of HAWP would post daily SPELUNKY videos.

I had been playing the game blind and I've never had a shotgun. I got the jet pack very early on, but didn't know to activate it and died. I've made it three times to the temple and died on the first stage.

Watching Patrick I've learned that you NEED the shotgun to make real progress. I'm somehow always short on money, with no shop keeper to sell me nice things, and nothing but useless stuff in crates.

@fobwashed said:

You always find a way to cheer me up after a shitty day internet. Also this is going to be good.

@erisron said:

@fobwashed said:

I love this.

Just got to this moment, amazing haha!

I like this. There is not as much of good spooky games out there when compared to the amount of awesome that Spelunky can dish out.

Use my doubt as motivation!

Okay, going to buy Spelunky now. Giantbomb continues to be the reason I buy games I wouldn't normally try.

Watched this live, ahhh mazing first run!

I loved the video. I'm just surprised that someone who writes so passionately about women in video games, you didn't choose the random damsel option (even though a damsel, by definition, is a woman). But if you just want to rescue women, that's cool too. Just an option I thought you'd like to know about.

That was awesome. You're going to hell in no time, Patrick! Also, you actually did pretty dang well in the temple considering you didn't know what any of those enemies do.

I've watched a bit of this being played, @patrickklepek , and I gotta say the combo of you learning and educating us on what you know so far is engaging. The items and deaths and mechanics can be incomprehensible if you haven't played, so your narration is great! Also, that was very entertaining failure.

Those of you talking about how shitty the chat was, let me tell you it was nowhere near as bad as Load Our Last Souls. The people who watch LoLS seem to want Rorie and Ian to shut up and let Vinny fail. Here, people just wanted Patrick to play better. He kept making silly mistakes and surviving, which was still fun to watch. I guess there isn't that level of schadenfreude with this game as there is with Dark Souls. Maybe it's the lack of carryover progression.

39:08 The agony of defeat

Hell yeah, this was fun to watch.

This is a fantastic feature. I love watching roguelikes, but not so much playing them, And Spelunky, in my opinion, is one of the best mostly because it doesn't have the whole pointless "you have to unlock the really useful items by doing random objectives" thing that almost every roguelike now has. Also Patrick really surprised me, he has a really good grasp on the core mechanics, and could totally become a god at this game with time. Keep it up Scoops!

I prefer using a dualshock 4 on the PC version. Mainly because I feel like I play better with a d-pad

The music in Spelunky reminds me so much of the Genesis game Crusader of Centy. Great stuff.

This was great and perfect for solo cast.

He uses the same character I do. She seems like she is the one that wants to win the most.

Patrick "Lucky Runs" Klepek!

I also started playing Spelunky recently, I've opened the shortcuts all the way to the Temple but that place is rough when you don't have any upgrades.

Love Spelunky. Unlocking all the achievements in this game stands as one of my proudest moments in gaming. Have fun Patrick, you will pull your hair out a thousand times over trying to see everything this game has to see.

Awesome :D I got this in a Steam deal at Halloween, and I finally beat Yama last night. Godspeed Patrick!

A new Breaking series: Breaking Patrick: Spelunky Eggplant Hell run.

@csl316 said:

@ozzie said:

@fobwashed said:

amazing

Yes.

Excellent.

Such a great video, spelunky runs are so tense to watch, especially the few times you managed to -just- avoid death by some miraculous means. But the whole time you watch knowing that it will be some minor mistake that causes death, as always, and lo.

The seed in the Temple was exceptionally kind too, giving a nice clear run through with barely any lava and only a couple of the awful crushing blocks. Next time you make it there I can only imagine the horrors...

Between this and his Dark Souls run yesterday was amazing. Somebody's probably pointed this out but there's a pick axe at the bottom of every(at least most of) snake pit.

Watched that live; it was awesome. Such sweet, sweet tears.

@patrickklepic I don't care what anybody says, that was great fun to watch and I hope you keep it up! I'd really appreciate it if you explained some more detail as to how the game works. Specifically, how,to unlock the guy that "warps" you to other stages. I work 12hr graveyard shifts in the ER and this content is always a great end to my night. Thanks!

Oh my god, I've never even reached Olmec before and that was infuriating to watch. You bought this on yourself Scoops, you've gotta use your head out there!

This is great. I could never get into Spelunky, but it's a lot of fun watching you play. And man, Spelunky has some fantastic music.

@fobwashed said:

LOOOOL! Dude, that's an amazing gif, really. Hahaha, can't stop laughing. :D:D:D Fucking A! LOL

A.B.C. Always. Be. Clothing./Carrying?

Great video. Hope to see more :)

@ozzie: Awesome Gif fits perfectly with the spelunky vibe.

Great way to begin the new year GB crew.

Worst time and place to die in a Spelunky run.

great feature!!!! :)

Fucking Love Spelunky!!!! :D