20th April 2006, 8:50 PM
You have confuzzled me! I don't know what I'm going to say next!
The voice acting in Star Fox 64 was pretty good, and the low bitrate actually WORKED in that game, flawlessly, because every single conversation was done over radio. Well, strike that. The one time it was glaringly obvious the voice recording had certain audio limitations was the very end of the game when you hear that low quality coming out of the mouth of General Pepper even though he's in the same room with you. If only they could have bumped up at least that small amount of dialog to an adequate bit rate, but as it stands the rest of the game sounds perfect as is and it's another example of how sometimes hardware limitation can actually be turned into an advantage (this isn't to say that low quality bitrate couldn't fit on a CD :D, I'm just saying they made it WORK here).
The voice acting in Star Fox 64 was pretty good, and the low bitrate actually WORKED in that game, flawlessly, because every single conversation was done over radio. Well, strike that. The one time it was glaringly obvious the voice recording had certain audio limitations was the very end of the game when you hear that low quality coming out of the mouth of General Pepper even though he's in the same room with you. If only they could have bumped up at least that small amount of dialog to an adequate bit rate, but as it stands the rest of the game sounds perfect as is and it's another example of how sometimes hardware limitation can actually be turned into an advantage (this isn't to say that low quality bitrate couldn't fit on a CD :D, I'm just saying they made it WORK here).
"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)