>>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

>The numbers you want to look at are CPU and HD temperatures. You don't really want those going far above 70 and 55 respectively. (On my desktop, full-on Prime95 gets the CPU no higher than 59C.)
70C is about right for CPUs, that's Intel's recommended max temp for their modern CPUs, anyway - the chips won't start falling over until >100C, but they'll still function fine at 80-90, you're just running the risk of shortening their lifespan. It's worth pointing out that some models of GPU have, by design, been running at 95C as their intended standard temperature for years now:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/10/28/is-the-amd-radeon-r9-290x-too-hot/1

With respect, I'm not sure why you'd prioritise monitoring HDD temp as they never get particularly hot; unlike CPU/GPU, they don't get much hotter from working harder. Monitoring CPU/GPU temps is significantly more important as they fluctuate to a much greater degree, and both are dependent on heatsinks and fans to keep them cool. Heatsinks get clogged with dust, fans can break. HDDs just sit there.

>>20995
The renderer on the PC port of GTA IV is fucking useless and not a good indicator of anything much, incidentally. But yeah, get speccy or hwmonitor and check what temperatures you're seeing with various games and go from there.

>>21000
>With respect, I'm not sure why you'd prioritise monitoring HDD temp
In a laptop it's a good proxy for internal temperature, and unlike the motherboard you'll almost always get a reliable reading. High CPU temp? It's working hard. High CPU and HDD temps? You probably have a ventilation problem.

>>21001
Interesting idea, but laptop HDDs aren't ever actively ventilated. In any case, it's usually obvious enough if you've got a ventilation problem - the CPU will be idling at a high temperature, and the fan will be constantly going at full blast. The HDD temp is irrelevant for diagnosing air flow issues.

I suppose that if you had high CPU at idle and low temps everywhere else that could be an indicator of poor heatsink seating/shitty thermal paste application, but that's kind of an edge case.

>>21002
>Interesting idea, but laptop HDDs aren't ever actively ventilated.
They are, however, made out of materials that conduct heat, and come with working heat sensors. The temperature fluctuates a lot less than the CPU so to borrow an analogy from statistics you know you're looking at the man and not the dog.

>>21003
It's pretty obvious what you're looking at if you're seeing high CPU temperatures and ~0% CPU utilisation. I'm trying to imagine a situation in which the HDD temp reading would be useful; if you can't get a laptop's CPU to idle then you've got other problems.

>>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

Are we ever going to get another poster who plays Jagged Alliance other than me?

Have you played 7.62 High Calibre? It's realtime with pause, but closer to JA than you might think.

>>20897
I'll give it a look, cheers. Blue Sun?

>>20898
Go for it, looks like it mostly does general improvements without changing too much.

Electro-City. It adds more lights to the wasteland and installs solar-powered lampposts on the highways so you can see what you're doing when you leave at night. This is especially useful if you install Fellout which makes it REALLY REALLY DARK at night, doubly so when combined with the Realistic Wasteland mod mentioned above. Also I like a star-dome replacement mod to make it look more pretty, and also replacing the pipboy with the Readius so when you wear the Ranger Armor you get to have both gloves. For that you need NVSE.

>>20824

>REALLY REALLY DARK

Oh, boy it really does. I took Early Riser after checking it out, because it's bedtime anyway once the sun's down.

Getting trapped in a midnight sandstorm is a riot.

>>20825

There's a cool weather mod you can get as well. It will rain or sandstorm massively etc. The rain is acid rain.

>>20826
I installed Nevada Skies. At night I couldn't see my arse in front of my face, so I had to install the Brighter Nights .esp. During sandstorms I couldn't see anything either so I disabled them too. Weather is one thing but making the game unplayable isn't exactly fun.

>>20824
>>20825

Realistic Wasteland Lighting is great, especially when combined with the washed out version of NMCs texture pack . The vanilla game never quite nailed the atmosphere of being in a scorching hot desert, and the other weather/lighting mods I've tried made the environments too dark, even during the daytime.