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Lack of creativity and ambition kills gaming not Engines

samoilaaa

Member
This is a response to the Unreal Engine is killing gaming , no it doesnt , UE5 is just a tool , its the develeopers's reponsability to use it properly

- most of the game we have today lack proper writing ( shitty stories that seem to be written by 12 year olds , with 2-3 exceptions every year ) , instead of focusing on well written NPCs they focus on teaching us about racial and sexual preferences

-combat AI is shit , NPC crowd AI in open world games is shit ( with few exceptions like Rockstar games ) , every Company promises that the npcs will react to what players do and will have their own lives and in the end we get zombie npcs , best example is cyberpunk

- they promise a world that will have a high level of interactivity and in the end we get towns with buildings we cant enter , bloated fetch quests that give shitty rewards , barely any destructible environments

- they promise meaningful progression system and we get a shallow skill tree and gear that barely has any impact on the build ( this is a problem mainly to open world games and rpgs )


An engine cant be at fault for all this , these things happen because of developers lack the passion of surpassing what they previously done and we are also at fault because we buy their producs , why would devs make better games if we keep buying shitty ones

Look at larian and how much they improved from project to project
 
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64bitmodels

Reverse groomer.
yeah but also the optimization is shit and that's something that's more easily blamed on the engine

youd be hard pressed to find more than 5 Unreal Engine 5 games actually optimized well

Whether or not you make the best game ever, if people's computers & consoles can't run it then it's about as good as rubbish.
 
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LectureMaster

Gold Member
Yeah, Ubi's games are usually polished at launch, but:

AC:
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AC in modern time:
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First person AC:
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Third person AC:
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Movie adaption AC:
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Every aspect of a great game, be it writing, designing, or optimization, all requires dedication and passion, which are astonishingly are missing in a good portion of the industry.
 

Fake

Member
IMO both are killing the gaming.


Because is the lack of ambition that are make devs opt for using Ureal Engine after and after, without wanting to do their own engine.
 

samoilaaa

Member
yeah but also the optimization is shit and that's something that's more easily blamed on the engine

youd be hard pressed to find more than 5 Unreal Engine 5 games actually optimized well

Whether or not you make the best game ever, if people's computers & consoles can't run it then it's about as good as rubbish.
stalker 2 runs pretty good even on a 3060

yes the game has bugs but only because of the devs

 
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