21st March 2006, 6:57 PM
Yep, Melee Link and Ganon looked a lot better. Wind Waker was in a totally different art style so it's hard to accuratly judge.
However, yes, that sort of "magic trick" thing is what I'm talking about. The problem is how easy it is to pull off that sort of magic trick. Stick a DVD player in a fancy box and unless you can open up the box you can't really verify what's going on, and further, they CAN prerender a scene without that "smoothiness" to make it more believable. If a company wanted to, they could lie to a lot of people. Unfortunatly, breaking trust to the degree I describe would result in a lot stronger skepticism on the part of the gaming public, calling for evidence of any claims that a system can do such and such and holding a position of disbelief until such evidence is presented. The technical demo would become useless unless press were allowed to actually open up and examine the inside of the tech demo system.
That said, I hold a position of doubt whenever I can't see the system the demo is supposedly running on. So far I don't have much cause to go beyond that, and I hope no company takes the step that makes further evidence needed.
However, yes, that sort of "magic trick" thing is what I'm talking about. The problem is how easy it is to pull off that sort of magic trick. Stick a DVD player in a fancy box and unless you can open up the box you can't really verify what's going on, and further, they CAN prerender a scene without that "smoothiness" to make it more believable. If a company wanted to, they could lie to a lot of people. Unfortunatly, breaking trust to the degree I describe would result in a lot stronger skepticism on the part of the gaming public, calling for evidence of any claims that a system can do such and such and holding a position of disbelief until such evidence is presented. The technical demo would become useless unless press were allowed to actually open up and examine the inside of the tech demo system.
That said, I hold a position of doubt whenever I can't see the system the demo is supposedly running on. So far I don't have much cause to go beyond that, and I hope no company takes the step that makes further evidence needed.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)