Top Ten Spacebar items

[Ahhdamnsmitt]

I made a quick video just giving my top ten space bar items. i would love to know the opinions of everyone else to start a discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OstTm3-I2Fk

[DeathFed]

btw say active item not spacebar item because its not official

[Harichi]

Originally posted by guyunlimited:

btw say active item not spacebar item because its not official

But active item makes it sound like it's passive and always has an effect.
Spacebar item is more accurate as you activate it with a spacebar.

[Ahhdamnsmitt]

Originally posted by Harichi:

Originally posted by guyunlimited:

btw say active item not spacebar item because its not official

But active item makes it sound like it's passive and always has an effect.
Spacebar item is more accurate as you activate it with a spacebar.

I feel the nomenclature of the isaac community is space bar items instead of active but hey, call them whatever :D

[Jabelonske]

I do not agree with Unicorn Stump, Blank Card and Tammy's head being so high up in an active items list. You're not considering the fact that by themselves, they're extremely bad items.

Unicorn Stump: okay, damaging orbitals are not THAT rare, but still.

Blank Card: dropped my decent space bar item on the Basement II in hopes of finding good cards or even having game breaking potential at bay. Found a Lovers card on Depths II and nothing more than that till end game. << That's what's going to happen 90% of the time you get Blank card without a good card to go with it in hand. Basically dead item most of the time.

Tammy's Head: Decent damaging tool for every room, but when having only base tears, in most rooms i'd rather use normal shots than having to wait 1-2 seconds without being able to attack.

Again, all three items have really great potential, but they stay at that most of the time. They're combo items and should never be replacement to your already decent space bar item WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ANOTHER PIECE OF A COMBO.

Other than that, good job on the list :)

[Harichi]

Originally posted by royalraison:

Originally posted by Harichi:

But active item makes it sound like it's passive and always has an effect.
Spacebar item is more accurate as you activate it with a spacebar.

I feel the nomenclature of the isaac community is space bar items instead of active but hey, call them whatever :D

I'll call them their respective names, so instead of saying "spacebar items", I'll list all of the space bar items.

[Ahhdamnsmitt]

Originally posted by krawby:

I do not agree with Unicorn Stump, Blank Card and Tammy's head being so high up in an active items list. You're not considering the fact that by themselves, they're extremely bad items.

Unicorn Stump: okay, damaging orbitals are not THAT rare, but still.

Blank Card: dropped my decent space bar item on the Basement II in hopes of finding good cards or even having game breaking potential at bay. Found a Lovers card on Depths II and nothing more than that till end game. << That's what's going to happen 90% of the time you get Blank card without a good card to go with it in hand. Basically dead item most of the time.

Tammy's Head: Decent damaging tool for every room, but when having only base tears, in most rooms i'd rather use normal shots than having to wait 1-2 seconds without being able to attack.

Again, all three items have really great potential, but they stay at that most of the time. They're combo items and should never be replacement to your already decent space bar item WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ANOTHER PIECE OF A COMBO.

Other than that, good job on the list :)

Thanks for the feedback, and I do agree to a degree but the potential upsides to those items in terms of overall usefulness validates them imo. It was tough thinking of the list because I wanted to have items with potential awesome synergies higher up because on their own they can win you a run. I also wanted to make the list much less redundant, I could have had items like red candle or crystal ball in there but I wanted to include variety. But again its all situational on how the run is at the moment, I've had runs where box of spiders with hivemind was my best bet :D

[Smetz]

I would personally replace Pinking Shears with Book of Shadows. I also think the Red Candle is superior to the Blue Candle. That aside, good list.

[Ahhdamnsmitt]

Originally posted by Smetz:

I would personally replace Pinking Shears with Book of Shadows. I also think the Red Candle is superior to the Blue Candle. That aside, good list.

Maybe I've got vanilla nostalgia goggles for blue candle