EPIC showing off next-gen tech/Unreal Engine 4 March 5-9

I for one, don't give a crap about the Unreal franchise, I think Epic should go make another IP, I enjoyed Quake more than Unreal anyway.

Unreal 3 was such a bad game; it was DOA with the PC. Unreal Tournament 2k4 was an amazing twitch based competitive shooter. It will be interesting to see the requirements for Unreal Engine 4. I think I read somewhere the Samaritan Demo was running on 2 580GTX's but I always take that with a grain of salt. I believe Crysis was supposed to be running at 30 FPS on 2 7800GTXs in SLI. Even 2 8800s struggled with Crysis.

However, gamers are not quite spending the crazy amounts of GPU money they used to and mid-range cards seem to be where it's at and I think PC developers are taking advantage of that. Quite honestly, The difference in IQ from Crysis 2 on Ultra preset to Extreme is not very much yet the graphical demands are tremendous to push out that level of tessellation (and poorly implemented at that).

However with the Kepler and shrink to 28nm technology, I think the requirements for this engine will be quite high and not many high end systems of today will be maxing this out. All speculation of course.

Dave_NBF

It was 3, they said they could get it down to 1 with optimization.

It's going to be beautiful.

I also tend to think it won't be as huge a leap as people are expecting. We did have the Unreal Engine 3, and then 3.5.musicalmac

I also think this. I just want good visuals like what samaritan showed but the engine geared more towards PC development. So it can be taken full advantage of

EDIT: Maybe I spoke too soon

Who the hell cares

it will be another pre rendered tech demo that we never actually see in game because of console limits

the next Xbox uses a 6670, that card is so weak

the other UE3 tech demo was running off 3 580's, why the hell are they making a more powerful engine when next gen consoles will only use like 10% of its power?

Who the hell cares

it will be another pre rendered tech demo that we never actually see in game because of console limits

the next Xbox uses a 6670, that card is so weak

the other UE3 tech demo was running off 3 580's, why the hell are they making a more powerful engine when next gen consoles will only use like 10% of its power?

HaloinventedFPS

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Who the hell cares

it will be another pre rendered tech demo that we never actually see in game because of console limits

the next Xbox uses a 6670, that card is so weak

the other UE3 tech demo was running off 3 580's, why the hell are they making a more powerful engine when next gen consoles will only use like 10% of its power?

Spartan070

Maybe, still, we will never see a game use it thanks to consoles

[QUOTE="Spartan070"]0% source 100% speculation/rumor They are showing off the engine to prospective clients, behind closed doors. You honestly think that will be a rendered video? :|HaloinventedFPS

Maybe, still, we will never see a game use it thanks to consoles

If Samaritan was running on a late version of UE3. I can't even imagine what UE4 is going to look like. Especially since Epic says they are shifting more focus towards the PC than they have in the past few years

Evz0rz

Who the hell cares

it will be another pre rendered tech demo that we never actually see in game because of console limits

the next Xbox uses a 6670, that card is so weak

the other UE3 tech demo was running off 3 580's, why the hell are they making a more powerful engine when next gen consoles will only use like 10% of its power?

HaloinventedFPS

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Who the hell cares

it will be another pre rendered tech demo that we never actually see in game because of console limits

the next Xbox uses a 6670, that card is so weak

the other UE3 tech demo was running off 3 580's, why the hell are they making a more powerful engine when next gen consoles will only use like 10% of its power?

Bruin1986

just rumors nothing has been confirmed it would be on every website if microsoft confirmed 720 specs.

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Who the hell cares

it will be another pre rendered tech demo that we never actually see in game because of console limits

the next Xbox uses a 6670, that card is so weak

the other UE3 tech demo was running off 3 580's, why the hell are they making a more powerful engine when next gen consoles will only use like 10% of its power?

wewantdoom4now

just rumors nothing has been confirmed it would be on every website if microsoft confirmed 720 specs.

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Well I hope more devs next gen build their own unique engines, I don't want more look alike games using the unreal engine.

edo-tensei

This is the opposite of where the market trend is going.

As it becomes more and more important to have very refined, highly complex engines to tackle higher end hardware ANd multple platforms, it will continue to become more and mroe common place for studios to license existing engines, and for comapnies that focus ONLY on creating game engines to florish.

Why spend 2+ years, a ton of money, and a ton of resources to create an engine when you can license one and start creating your game righ away?

Unfortunately "just saying" doesnt guarantee a company a profitable 4 year project. I'd sooner see more games every year like this gen, then extend that period by twice as long. I also don't seem to remember these look alike games that you're referring to, Bioshock, Gears of war, Mass Effect, Batman AA/AC, Mortal Kombat, Lost Odyssey, Borderlands, Mirror's Edge, any many others were all unique lookng games.

Now if you meant an artsyle like Zelda, Slycooper, Ratchet and Clank, and Mario, then that's a different story. Those games tailor to a specific audience and genre (platformer, third person).