onanie said:
If MGS was best cinematic showcase, is there a better example on the x360?
Assassin (ATI's Ruby demo). On real hardware, ran well at the last press show, realtime engine, cinematic perspective with heavy use of streaming mocap (i.e. not interctive gameplay footage but instead pre-captured data tweaked to look like a movie). It is for all practical points and purposes a "cut scene" of an advanced engine (one, mind you, actually written to take advantage of the R520 GPU, but ported to the 360 so it is not necessarily specialized).
Ps- I am NOT saying Ruby is better. I am giving an apples-to-apples, as close as we can get, comparison. As I deposited at the very beginning of these STUPID debates, that art asset quality, art direction and balance, art theme, and engine technology need to be paired well. People have a very hard time telling the difference between ART and TECHNOLOGY. And what "looks good" is NOT necessarily a TECHNICAL issue, but 1. a preference and 2. the result of a well planned, expensive project.
People extrapolating this about the power of machines when it is more indicative of the SKILL of the developer, the project budget and manpower. The fact we have so many threads after this point trying to compare a cutscene with streaming pre-canned animation to ingame perspective/gameplay is hillarious and really demonstrates the true colors of posters. Xbox and PS fans are waiting at every corner to bash the other platform. I am tired of hearing how game X shows how bad the PS3 is, and how game cut scene Y shows how inferior the Xbox 360 is. Its like ALL objectivity is thrown out at the first chance to dance a jig. One dev praises a console and the fans get all made and call him an idiot, another dev praises the other console and the other fans question his honesty. People never sit down and think about perspective, business model and affiliations, history, and technological roadmap and how these honestly influence their opinions. Nope, if someone says something good about the 360 it is because they are a lazy PC developer. If someone says something good about the PS3 is it is because they are in Sony's pocket. It is sad and this is NOT why I joined this forum.