>>17863
Why is this blank?

https://superhotgame.com/play-prototype/

>>17868
That flashing cube will give me a seizure.

>>21487
You need to open it in opera, firefox or IE and have Unity web player installed (http://unity3d.com/webplayer/).

>>21488
Thanks. This is pretty cool even if the graphics leave a lot to the imagination.

>>17863
£17.99 eh lad. Bit rich for my blood.

>>21490
Yeah, I got a copy for donating ~£10 to the kickstarter back when I posted the thread, paying full price is a bit of a stretch for what it is. Especially considering that it'll probably go for a couple of quid in a steam sale or end up in a bundle soon enough though.

http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Survival%20Horror

OK OP I've done some sleuthing.

The poster you're looking for is mentioned (in text only) in a book called The International Business Environment by Brooks, Wilkinson and Weatherston. The bit you're interested in reads:

"Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd produced a poster for a Sony computer game 'Resident Evil', showing a bath full of blood. The ASA decided that the advertisement should only be allowed in adult magazines." (p294)

Unfortunately, they don't give a citation for the ASA ruling, and the ASA themselves only keep 5 years of archives on their website (and charge money for any further digging). However, the Internet Wayback Machine has archives of the ASA's website throughout the years, and, after more sleuthing, I found the ruling at https://web.archive.org/web/19971017075622/http://www.asa.org.uk/adj/adj_1051.htm

The downside to the ruling is that Virgin apparently said that this particular campaign was already over, so the possibility of finding it in back issues of adult magazines like Loaded or Maxim sounds slim, but it's still one avenue for you.

I'm also presuming the forum you found is
https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/2755-banned-resident-evil-promo-poster/
The OP there, twmac, posted a photo of the poster from an MCV article on shock advertising. The photo is displayed as 'not found', and I couldn't find any archived version, but maybe there is one out there somewhere, if you can find a filename (which might be a string of numbers untagged to anything RE related, which would also explain why it doesn't come up on a google search). MCV's online archives
http://www.mcvuk.com/digital-edition/archive/
only go back to 2007, but the article on shock advertising must have been from before July 2005 (twmac's OP date). Getting print back issues is another possibility though, maybe.

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>>21481
Wow. Not OP but well done.

It's a shame so much stuff gets lost to time even in an era where we can record virtually limitless amounts of data.

>>21482

>It's a shame so much stuff gets lost to time even in an era where we can record virtually limitless amounts of data.
It's a credit to the internet today that we assume so much has been archived, and that we assume it's permanent. The internet has come such a long way in such a short period of time, that it's a credit to human evolution that we've been able to cope. Historians will see this as a border between periods of History, but also a culture shock of which we ourselves are unaware. I'm kind of glad I can remember a time when 'rare' really meant something (as opposed to a word in a YouTube video), and there was a sense of accomplishment in having found something you were looking for (by frequenting obscure second hand shops with a wide enough interest to spot the diamond in the rough, or by subscribing to weird underground videotape networks, rather than just looking at the wrong websites).

I only included what I thought was relevant to OP's search, but since you seem interested generally:

* The ASA adjudication is from November 1996, so it is probably tied in to the first Resident Evil game (this may actually help OP and I should have mentioned it)

* Resident Evil/ Virgin Interactive Entertainment Etc has been up against the ASA a number of times.
https://web.archive.org/web/19990422235612/http://www.asa.org.uk/adj/adj_2355.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20000304032445/http://www.asa.org.uk/adj/adj_2795.htm

* The ASA have enforced Blasphemy policies
https://web.archive.org/web/20010105164800/http://www.asa.org.uk/adj/adj_3910.htm

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>>21479
The first one is much better in my opinion. I'd call it a masterpiece, it's got a sense of atmosphere that is so rare in games. It's also scary as shit, but mostly not the "monster coming through the window" shock scare kind of scary (though there is a bit of that), it's audio scary and environment scary, which are much more subtle.

The third starts off ok but goes downhill rapidly; it wants to be Gears of War but ends up being a tiring slog through endless hordes of the same enemies, with terrible Hollywood-wannabe sci-fi cutscenes shoehorned in every once in a while. By the end I was legitimately sad; the first is so good that it was just depressing to watch the series get churned into forgettable pap. There was also a Wii game (which came as a bonus with one of the PS3 games) if you need more Dead Space, it wasn't particularly good as I recall, and a mobile/tablet game that looked incredible at the time but was completely unplayable due to the touchscreen interface.

>>21481
Regret to inform sir that OP is from 2013. I do hope they're still around.

>>21416
I've never really been a Ryu fan, but I find him more fun to play in this. He has a parry ability which is nice, and allows him to rapidly turn the tide of battle. Way better than before at keeping pressure up.

>>21416
Never been good at combos but I understand that 1 frame links are just gone and many moves are just simpler to execute.

I'm currently maining Ryu and as >>21418 says, parrying is an excellent V skill as long as you remember there's a small startup. It's fun in a fireball war with a Ken player as parrying is enough to confuse them - just mix it up with various strength hadokens after that any they'll soon be jumping in to eat a nice uppercut -> shoryuken punish.

>>21424
Nash's V-Skill is pretty great against projectile spammers. The range and the time it's active make it a doddle to use. Nash in general is good, he's like Guile but with teleportation, and no longer a charge character. I wonder if they'll make any tweaks to Guile when he comes out in April, because if he plays the same way he has done in all the previous games, there's no real reason to use him over Nash.

>>21425

I've not tried Nash yet but I faced one before and he wrecked house. I wanted to try Bison this time round but I just can't do charge characters. Hearing that Nash is a non-charging Guile is intriguing, so I'll have to give him a go - tomorrow I'll have to give Rashid a pop too.

>>21426
Charge characters don't gel with me, which is a shame as I really wanted to play F.A.N.G. Rashid is a lot of fun to play as, but I think his attack power is the lowest in the game so it's all about maintaining constant pressure.

Anyone been looking at the tier lists? Obviously there's fluctuation as it's newly out, but Chun, Nash, Karin, Vega and Bison have all stayed in the top 5, while Zangief is staying at the bottom by quite some margin.

>>21245
I'm not sure but I get the feeling you are confusing apostrophes with commas, which under the current climate is probably a capital crime.

Does anyone know if it is correct to apply the Oxford comma to lists with 'or' instead of 'and'?

>>21246

>confusing apostrophes with commas

Most definitely, but I'm playing silly buggers. I've reached terminal boredom.

>>21246
It's correct, but the people who dislike and/or are confused by the Oxford comma are likely to have even more of a moan than they do when you use one with 'and'. As you've just seen.

While doing my Christmas shopping a couple of weeks ago I popped into a GAME store in London to browse. I saw Trauma Center for the Wii for 99p and thought I'd snap it up. When I got to the till, the bloke gave me a Vault Boy Charisma Bobblehead as a free gift. I've just looked it up and it's going online for around £30. I got given a £30 collectible for purchasing a 99p game. The fuck?

Is it the, um, fallout from this promotion they were doing? I could see the bloke had a big box of them behind the till.

>>21314
It might be worth going back to see if they have any left.

Hurray indeed.

Also, there's a mildly tarted-up version of the first game now available on GoG.

http://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_enhanced_edition

>>21309
This is good, because I could barely play it last I tried. Mouselook should reduce irritation immensely.

>>21247
To be honest, most of the SR series do play like overmodded versions of GTA: SA. Whilst Rockstar tried to make the GTA series a little more gritty in IV (successfully, in my view, before they made V into an awkward compromise), SR took the zaniest aspects of SA and turned them up to 11. I'm not sure I'd call it a GTA-parody, but it certainly owes it a lot.

Speaking of which, I've been playing through SA on PC for the first time recently. Just been playing vanilla so far, though with the graphics options maxed out it's like playing a completely different game to the PS2 version. Would you recommend any particular mods though?

>>21250
As I remember, the first Saints Row was a competent (but not exactly mind-blowing) GTA clone of the True Crime variety, which rather cynically exploited the lack of a GTA presence in the early 360-PS3 generation. They became a bit more knowing and introduced elements of parody in the sequel, and from there just sort of went off into their own absurd universe for SR III and IV.

>>21251
That's about right. I gave the first Saints Row a fair shake, it just wasn't that good.

>>21250
> GTA series a little more gritty in IV
Aye, I noticed that. I played IV some months ago for the first time. Mixed feelings about it with an inclination towards positive. I quite liked it being 'darkier and edgier' whilst retaining the fun bit. But some things in it… just purely annoying. Like the mission where you are bloody required to hang on that damn lorry. I could have killed the driver a hundred times before he would even start the fucking engine. Plenty of other 'scripted invincibility' moments that rustled my jimmies (Pegorino surviving three direct hits from the RPG in the last mission. Boy, was I angry).

> Would you recommend any particular mods though?
Sorry lad. Mine was modded but, for crying shame, I don't remember what I did put in it besides the Spaceenstein (not sure about the spelling) mod. I only remember that most of the stuff was to make the game a bit more realistic and even more of an open world. I liked to fuck around in that game.

>>21250
When you say it's like a completely different game, you're just referring to the difference in graphics, right?

>>21209

A lot of KC's oldfags know that when they come here to use /zoo/, but there will be a whole new generation of shitposters who've never even been here before. It's probably a coincidence.

Allegedly, KC is shutting down though.

I found a lot of it pretty tedious, I didn't get on with Earthbound either though and I think that's probably a prerequisite for really getting the most out of Undertale. I'm sure there's lots of jokes and references I missed as a consequence.

Still, for £7 or so no regrets, the last part of the game is remarkable and definitely made it worth getting there.

>>21210

> Allegedly, KC is shutting down though.

Where did you hear that?

>>21215
Someone posted it here but didn't give any real evidence.

>>21216
It's our new top-used meme.

>>19764

I played over 5,000 hours online of Civ 5 and not been defeated since the early days of Brave New World.

Go straight to the coast, get trade ships knocking food back and forth, and production later on for wonders.. gg.

>>19766

All the relevant wonders get snapped up fairly fast though, so to faff about settling on a coast right from the start might backfire.

I'm playing Prince difficulty, and I removed the barbarians, the game is much more accessible, them 'barians were a right pain in the arse.

I've recently been playing a fair bit of Civ 4 because the only PC in the house is quite out of date and I don't enjoy playing games on my laptop.

Can you not get a space race victory in Civ 5? You need to build the Apollo Program then get the required sciences for the spaceship parts. Normally the space race is my method of victory with any of the Civ games I have played. Even in the good old days of Civ 1 on floppy disk on a 386. Happy days they were.

>>19764
I'm going to revive this thread in vain hopes of there being any more .gs players.

So since January, I've progressed quite well - I usually play on Emperor with 12 other civs and win through domination.

One thing that really helped me was watching this lad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjS3YPjGERM

He plays on Deity, and just demolishes the A.I's. I've employed some of his tactics and tricks, which have resulted in consistent improvement.


So and regular players?

>>21053

It's been a good few months mostly because I played with friends and we just stopped doing it, I try not to play too much on my own because I'm worried I won't have time for the rest of life (although I was playing at a very high difficulty when I was). Now that you've mentioned it again I'll probably end up playing a few games over the week.

The crucial trick I remember to maxing out on high difficulty games was to build wide, cities that only had about 4 population and not be afraid to burn every city you take to the ground (happiness is a real bugger on greater difficulties).

>>21041

>Doesn't vsync fuck with the low latency?

Absolutely, which is why it presents such a technical challenge. In VR, almost anything that interferes with the relationship between head position and the visual display will reduce the immersiveness of the experience and induce motion sickness or disorientation. Tearing, latency and frame jitter are all unacceptable, so the only way to get a good experience is to use graphics hardware with enough performance in reserve to render each frame on time even when things get hectic.

The Oculus SDK does all sorts of clever things to mitigate the unreliable nature of the graphics pipeline. The head tracking is predictive, to reduce perceived latency - frames are rendered based on the predicted trajectory of your head rather than the measurement at the beginning of the frame. Each frame is slightly warped at the end of the rendering process based on a new reading from the head tracker, to more accurately match the correct head position and compensate for pipeline latency. Oculus are incredibly committed to getting every last detail right.

Part of the problem is that GPU manufacturers have been using buffering to cheat on benchmarks. They write drivers that maximise FPS, at the expense of latency and jitter. This is more or less the exact opposite of what you want with VR - a relatively low frame rate is acceptable, but latency isn't. Fortunately, Oculus have John Carmack on board, who is an absolute genius at low-level graphics hacking.

>>21043
>frames are rendered based on the predicted trajectory of your head rather than the measurement at the beginning of the frame.
If it gets this wrong, wouldn't that introduce the kind of frame jitter you're trying to avoid?

>Part of the problem is that GPU manufacturers have been using buffering to cheat on benchmarks.
Quelle surprise.

>>21046

>If it gets this wrong, wouldn't that introduce the kind of frame jitter you're trying to avoid?

Of course, if the prediction is wrong then you'll introduce error rather than reducing latency. Predictive tracking works well for Oculus because a) it only has to predict one frame in advance, a few tens of milliseconds and b) the motion sensor updates very quickly, allowing for fine measurement of velocity.

There is a blog post by Oculus about tracking prediction at the link below, which includes the graph to the left. The graph shows the tracking error in degrees during a rapid series of head movements, zero representing perfectly accurate tracking. The blue line shows error with prediction turned off, red shows the first iteration of their predictive algorithm and yellow shows the version used in the consumer Rift. As you can see, predictive tracking provides a huge reduction in effective tracking error.

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/the-latent-power-of-prediction/

So, Assassin's Creed, then.

>>21048
Better than Unity, still not as good as AC2.
Some modern day story progression, not much though.
Victorian London very atmospheric, might feel better because it's home country, recognizable landmarks etc. Graphics worse than unity, but more happening, smoother etc.

It's one of those shitty delayed online releases like with GTAV. Apparently due out on consoles in early October, and on PC in January.

>>21007
Who cares? It's MGS, the multiplayer will be token at best, these days all AAA games need to have some way of enabling 12 year olds to teabag each other online.

>>21008

I can only assume you never played MGO for MGS4, as it was ace and it will make a welcome return. The reason it's being delayed is because the game released unfinished and is missing the final chapter as well as it's online mode.

>>21008
What's so bad about multiplayer, lad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9DHmig8iY

>>20974
It also helps to steer clear of threats altogether if you want to top the leaderboard with no allies.

Browser game thread?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCO1HsOcXM4
This seems more interesting to me. The pace is faster, skill cap higher and there's less randomness.

Is the screen supposed to randomly turn white to fuck you or is that just my browser.

>>20993
That'll be your browser.

>>20957

Oh fuck you, I'm going to spend the next two weeks playing CTR and Crash 2.

>>20850

The girl in Crash Bandicoot ended up being his sister, if I remember right. They changed quite a lot of stuff in the final product. I can't say I'm not glad they did, what we got was brilliant.

Rumour has it that Sony are going to make another All Stars game, so there might be a Crash game off the back of it or before it as a way to reintroduce him to people. I don't think Sony own the rights to Crash though, but if it means a new game I'll definitely give it a try.

>>20850
I don't understand this obsession with third-rate stories being bolted onto games. Just give me good gameplay. They made the right choice.

>>20923

Well said, that man.

The only time I want story is if it's an RPG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTi5EaocGaY