Chapter 43: Show Off or Hype?

This Christmas Eve was very noisy, and the release of the project of Future Oasis set off a storm.

For a game, there is a certain lag in the shock brought by an excellent design core. No matter how well designed a game is, it takes a certain amount of time to experience it before you can feel the value of the game's design and creativity.

This is a very subjective thing, players have different tastes, different aesthetic levels, different game preferences, and different feelings about a game. No matter how good the game is, it will also meet players who are not interested in it at all, and many times it has nothing to do with the quality of the game or the level of the player, it is just a mismatch.

However, the shock brought by technological innovation is incomparably direct and quite objective.

From 2D games to 3D games, from mosaic graphics to full HD textures, if a game has such a technological innovation, then players will be deeply attracted even if they don't experience the game, just by looking at a few screenshots or a video.

Equally. It's always the technology, not the design, that starts a new generation of gaming.

The technological innovation of "Lost Secret Land" is naturally not as intuitive as the shock of the leap from 2D to 3D, but it is also obvious. The game graphics are always the first element of attraction, and the visual impact brought by the full 4K texture is enough to set off a storm.

Around Christmas, there was a lot of news in the gaming world, but the new project release of Future Oasis stood out and became a hot topic.

Su Anxian and his assistant sat speechless, not knowing how to comment on this thing?

Start singing hymns?

If these things are true, then it is indeed possible to sing praises, although Su Anxian stands with a poisonous tongue, but he is never polite when he blows.

Provided that these things are true.

"Brother Su, do you think their new project is really so powerful?" The assistant is also a game enthusiast, a veteran, and knows the weight of this video.

Su Anxian didn't know how to answer, the video must be powerful, I don't know if the project is powerful, and no one can tell how much water this thing has.

The industry has a long history of flooding promotional videos, and a few years ago, UBI's masterpiece "The Division", whether it is publicity or trial play, the surprise brought by the game screen is still vivid.

The result? After the real picture effect of the game came out, players called this game "The Whole Shrinkage", and you can imagine how huge the gap is.

But now, these videos and screenshots disclosed in "The Lost Secret Land" are hard to believe that this is just filling with water, which is simply fantasy.

If this is the work of a big factory, with their technical accumulation, it is not very difficult to accept to make some breakthroughs, although it may be filled with some water, but there should still be a breakthrough.

But what kind of team will Oasis be in the future?

An indie game team, five people, Lost Secrets is their first project.

In the first project there was such a technology? Who are these people?

Su An was silent for a moment and said: "Let's wait and see, this thing won't stand in line first, I estimate that there must be a lot of saliva in the past few days, collect specific information." ”

How he wished it was true, but reason told him that the odds were quite low.

Although he has a good impression of Su Li. But it's not going to happen right now.

Compared with Su Anxian's caution, others will not have so many scruples, and from the next day, "The Lost Secret Realm" swept the pages of major game media, and those few screenshots and three videos quickly spread on the Internet.

As Su Li expected, their "Lost Secret Realm" received far more doubts than positive voices at the first time.

Human beings are often an experiential animal, and when evaluating a thing, the first reference object is accustomed to choosing one's own experience and existing cognition.

In the future, if Oasis is a newly established company, or a domestic company, or not a company that is not yet an industry leader, what is the probability that such a team will make a picture of this level?

According to people's experience, the first reaction is definitely impossible.

To put it mildly, it just raised more objective questions, for example, a relatively large game media compared the videos and pictures disclosed in "The Lost Secret Land" with some of this year's masterpieces. The content of the article is well-written, even the current masterpiece, and it is far from reaching such a level in terms of graphics.

The article is written very objectively, and it explains the technical difficulties of full 4K mapping, but between the lines, it means that even the world's big manufacturers can't do it, how can you do it.

And if you are not polite, or want to use the topic to play, you are far less polite when you speak.

For example, this article, titled "False Show Off, Bad Hype", fired directly at the Future Oasis and the "Lost Secret Land" project, without mercy.

"The development of technology has its own objective laws, and in the game industry, some annual technology conferences such as Siggraph are the vane of technological innovation. In China, in terms of graphics programs, only a very small number of people can barely keep up with the development of technology in a relatively high-pressure environment every year, let alone lead the technological trend through self-development. ”

"We all hope that there will be companies in China that lead the technological trend and start technological change, but it is an unavoidable reality under a beautiful vision. But if someone takes advantage of the player's vision and hypes it up through some false means, such behavior is despicable and clumsy. ”

The article directly denounced the video of "Lost Secrets" as a false propaganda, and they absolutely could not have possessed such technology.

This opinion is in the majority, with many saying that if the game's actual graphics are really like this, even the "Titan" will not be enough to fall.

"Titanfall" is the gaming's nickname for some games. It's not too difficult for a game to add 4K textures to all the models. The hard part is that you have to make the game run smoothly.

Games are meant to be played, not seen, and that's all about the technical power and optimization of the game engine.

The Titan series is currently a high-end graphics card in the consumer field, and it is also the top graphics card for general household machines. Many games have good graphics, but the optimization is so poor that even well-configured machines can't run smoothly, so they are called "Titanfall".

And now, when this concept is used in some domestic games, it has become a picture that is obviously not very good, and it is a special card to run, which is the optimization level of the black game company.

Criticism has become the mainstream, and a small number of people like Su Anxian have chosen to wait and see, and no one wants to stand up for the future oasis now, after all, this matter is a bit beyond people's understanding.

At the same time, it is not only players and media who are concerned about Future Oasis and "Lost Secrets", but also some domestic and foreign game manufacturers have also set their sights on them.