Anyone else a bit burnt out on all games seeming made in unreal engine 4/5?

Putting aside how it steam-lines development for devs, it has a particular feel and outcome that’s just not at home in stylized games with certain feelings as you said. Square modified a version of unreal 5 for ff16 and that game is one the engine was absolutely designed for in feel, tone, and their goals of wha the game is going to be looks wise.

I worry the success of games who use it, the ease of just licensing it, and the streamline design for devs will lead to all games being homogenous

Yes that is a serious upside I did highlight in the OP. There is a trade off for it though as I outlined. Unreal is surprisingly rigid in one way and it’s what your game can actually look like, in turn setting the tone and all that follows. I just don’t want some games to lose that special art style for the sake of cheaper licensing engine that admitted will make things easier for them to make games and faster.

Also not all games are story and narrative driven. Would you want FromSoft to move to unreal 5 in their soulsbournesekiro style of games? I sure as hell would not

That’s just simply not true. At least bigger budget games with scope or something above middle ware. Yeah Japan cranks out a lot but a lot of it shite and a lot that wasn’t is begging to adopt unreal 5.

I wouldn’t want UR5 for a dark souls game because, I’ll admit the draw distance is insane, the fidelity of background can’t be topped and more. I’ve said it’s a good to great engine just not right for all games. That is because it can really only actually produce one kind of art style so to speak and that’s cutting edge photorealistic human mocapped into uncanny valley territory. And that’s great for some stuff like FF16 is going for a world grounded in something real with a GoT type revenge plot. It’s fantasy yes but set much more in a grounded realism than Dark Souls and it doesn’t fit dark souls, it doesn’t fit elden ring, or Bloodbourne. I’d be happy with a Sekiro remake of it in UR5 lol

We are talking unreal 5 here as it’s current gen. It’s not like im making this shite up out of thin air. Go listen to “the experts” talk about this shite and complain about it. And no not journalist fricks. Devs, insiders, etc.

And yes all fantasy worlds have to have some grounding in a reality of their own picking and choosing what they bring from our world or the story without this the story would suck and make no sense. Harp on about summons fighting but the game isn’t about that anymore that halo is about a set piece battle on a warthog. It’s a story of revenge and the loss of a princes title and brother on a revenge tour for 20 odd years.

Soulsborne that exactly ain’t as much as I love them. I know many people have a hard on for unreal 5 for some reason and it s a great engine they can produce amazing games. But I just don’t get white knighting for corporate licensing to studios not in need of its capabilities but ease of use turning our gaming stale.

If you don’t care to go research all of the 5 min of articles to read maybe 10. Throw in a YouTube video being you to 20 min total then it’s not worth discussion with you.

Also check when those games you listed came out to just reiterate a point. Unreal 5 is not unreal 4

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Go listen to “the experts” talk about this shite and complain about it. And no not journalist fricks. Devs, insiders, etc.

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again, you're pulling stuff out of your arse



show us where devs are complaining about unreal

Halo has been dead, and Halo Infinite cast the franchise into the Shadow Realm.

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you dont seem to understand what you are arguing.

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Lol you must be new here. You’ll quickly learn that this is the case with pretty much anything he has to say

The devs will never complain about unreal as it relates to how easy it makes doing their job and cross platform development.

They have complained about what I’m posing here which is getting the expected reaction because unreal is insanely popular and for mostly good reasons. Why should I do your work for you if I’m such an idiot as a few propose it should be a simple 2 minute search to dunk on me.

Ofc I’m not making it up, youll see that, and just exit thread. I’d prefer more companies what capcom has with the incredible reengine and use unreal when and where appropriate

Quick downvote and the search will now be on resulting in some sub tack or blog with 20 people reading it as a dunk

ITT I presented a perfectly well reasoned take about my worries with unreal, preferring companies with the resources for it follow capcom with re engine, all giving unreal much of the proper respect it deserves. But since 70% of this board are casuals at best and have only been told Unreal 5 is Christ second coming they view it as a personal attack on themselves. Losers

And no, I dont mean casual as pejorative its simply the reality of what many who post here are. You see in all the time with how much time they have to play games, asking about certain genres, etc.