It's those lucky guys videos cheat?

[kendal]

Seriously, every single Binding of Isaac video i see on Youtube people get most powerful items on couple first floor and on my last run (second luckiest ever) i got nothing much and died to mom, because had 4 (FOUR FREAKING) hearts, only one DMG UP and a few those followers that shoot along with me, even though i almost got her.

The luck of those people are just out from this planet or they use some kind of cheat?

My best run was when i got an item that turned my tears into explosive green bomb-like tears, so it was like 2 hits KO on bosses.

[Huiléole (FR)]

Not at all. The more you play, the better you will play, and the more items you will unlock.

About the items, in Isaac it works like that: when you find and get one item, it is added to the collection, and every items which are already in the collection have a 1:1 chance to spawn besides the other items in the same pool. When an item isn't in your collection, it has something like "1/(3*tot items)" to spawn. And morely when you begin as the item pool is very small (you unlock items by completing the game with each characters), you have "more" chances to find bad items.

But well, as the beginning is so much easier in opposite of the one the game will be in the later levels, it balances the difficulty a quite bit.
And also as the choosed items are random, there can be very easier run than other, altough every run are possible of course ;).

[kendal]

Hmm... And there is an easy way to unlock new items, other than finishing the game? Once in a while appears a pop-up saying that a new item is avaible. But i don't know how it works, i think its something like "if you kill 50 spiders it will unlock that item", but i'm not sure about that...

[Huiléole (FR)]

It depends of which items, some of them will unlock when doing something, like playing in the Arcade room, but most of them are unlock after you complete the game, from the boss in the 8th chapter, to the chapter 9, "9_2", 10, and that mostly means 4 items for every 7 characters to unlock.
But really, don't think about the items to unlock now because the game will be much harder after every runs, and just play the game normally and try to learn to "dodge" ennemies, and when you find an item and you don't know what it does, always get a look of what he will do, in that way it will help you a lot, because there are some items you really need to beware, like the Dead Cat which will give you 9 lives (and count for 1 of the 3 items to transform you into Guppy) but will reset your life to 1, the Tick, Cursed Skull, and so on.
There are multiple website which give you item informations, for example: http://platinumgod.co.uk/

Bad recommendation mostly, but if you want some fun during the beginning, you can install the SpiderMod which contains multiple tools with a cheat panel, a thing that will allow you to try a lot of things to know if it is good or not... but don't use it to much, or you won't get better^^.

[kendal]

I don't like to use any kind of cheat, i'll stick it to play on my spare time and try to not get much mad, you know, some runs are just frustrating. Thanks for the tips.

[kendal]

Just killed mom's heart!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=379619855&fileuploadsuccess=1

[8-bit]

I know your pain. I've still yet to kill mom. I have only killed her leg(?) once but have yet to finish her completely. It's an unforgiving game!!

[AubreyHearts]

the one time i beat mom, i got quad shot and cyclops. don't ask how it makes sense, but with one eye, i shot 4 shots. i was amazed how powerful i was, and after that run, never got those two items again. 3 words. my. luck. stinks. except for that one time i got quad shot and cyclops. and thats why i only have one mom kill in my stats.

[Ackranome]

I've noticed the game is amazingly easy with Maggy - I keep her Yum heart until I can get someting that gives me flying like pony or a devil deal.

If I don't get a "cool" or "good item" I try to find the habit - and it basically gives me infinite life or - enough regen to the point I can beat the game consistently even without getting "epic fetus" and other OP gear.