Who else dislikes the Unreal Engine 3?

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#1 ONLYDOD
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I sure do
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#2 -GhostMLD-
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Wii owners cause they cant get it in their games?

How can u hate a engine???? It isnt a living thing. What did it do to make u angry at it????!!!!!!!!!

lol joking but seriosuly, its an engine, leave the engine alone!!!

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#3 ONLYDOD
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I dislike the look of it, and it seems like alot of games are beggining to use it, and considering the fact I already dislike it, isn't a good thing for me
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#4 -GhostMLD-
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I dislike the look of it, and it seems like alot of games are beggining to use it, and considering the fact I already dislike it, isn't a good thing for me ONLYDOD

how it looks????? Games like Lost Odessey and Gears of War, two completely different games, each look spectacular in their own right.

I dont understand how u dislike how it looks. Be more specific.

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#5 bizkit_limp
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Source Engine FTW!
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#6 Franko_3
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I think the engine is overrated. The background is way too blurry, remind me the n64 day, and the bloom effect is soooo 2005
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#7 Lebron181
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THE White Engine from square owns all engines.
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#8 Nintendo_Ownes7
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Source Engine FTW!bizkit_limp
I agree the Source Engine is great, also I don't really like Unreal Engine 3 just because alot of the games that use it they make the Characters look like they use alot of Steroids I know it is just a Design choice I just hate the way those characters look.
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#9 II-FBIsniper-II
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I hate how most devs use it.

Bioshock used it well though.

Source Engine FTW!bizkit_limp
Yes!

The only modern games my PC can run are the ones using Source.

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#10 toxicmog
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[QUOTE="bizkit_limp"]Source Engine FTW!Nintendo_Ownes7
I agree the Source Engine is great, also I don't really like Unreal Engine 3 just because alot of the games that use it they make the Characters look like they use alot of Steroids I know it is just a Design choice I just hate the way those characters look.

Lost Oddesy, blue dragon, The Last Remenant and Vegas use it.

All look waaaay different to UT and Gears ¬_¬

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#12 Nintendo_Ownes7
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[QUOTE="Nintendo_Ownes7"][QUOTE="bizkit_limp"]Source Engine FTW!toxicmog

I agree the Source Engine is great, also I don't really like Unreal Engine 3 just because alot of the games that use it they make the Characters look like they use alot of Steroids I know it is just a Design choice I just hate the way those characters look.

Lost Oddesy, blue dragon, The Last Remenant and Vegas use it.

All look waaaay different to UT and Gears ¬_¬

Yeah well I never played those games except for Vegas. So I was just going by how Gears of War and Unreal Tournement 3 looked.
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#13 -Jiggles-
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THE White Engine from square owns all engines.Lebron181

Nope. The CryEngine 2 is easily the best engine out there at the moment.

The Source Engine is pretty damn good too, though.

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#14 Lazy_Boy88
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Yeah it kinda sucks. Reminds me of Xbox1 PC ports. Looks amazing at the time because of some tacked on effects but 3 years down the line when there's better effects it just looks like dated garbage. Custom engines and games with nice art style survive the test of time much better.
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#15 GazzaB
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Im not a fan of the engine. Every game that uses its seems to look boring and drab....with the exception of Bioshock i guess
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#16 -Jiggles-
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Yeah it kinda sucks. Reminds me of Xbox1 PC ports. Looks amazing at the time because of some tacked on effects but 3 years down the line when there's better effects it just looks like dated garbage. Custom engines and games with nice art style survive the test of time much better.Lazy_Boy88

Same could be said for every technologically-graphical game released. Crysis is the most technologically-advanced game on the market today yet I can guarantee that within the next 3 years we'll look back on it and say "Wow, I can't believe that crap use to be cutting edge."

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#17 Re5ident_Evil
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It makes many games just same generic.
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#18 thrones
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Wii owners cause they cant get it in their games?

How can u hate a engine???? It isnt a living thing. What did it do to make u angry at it????!!!!!!!!!

lol joking but seriosuly, its an engine, leave the engine alone!!!

-GhostMLD-

Same way fanboys can hate systems somehow.

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#19 bizkit_limp
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[QUOTE="Lebron181"] THE White Engine from square owns all engines.-Jiggles-

Nope. The CryEngine 2 is easily the best engine out there at the moment.

The Source Engine is pretty damn good too, though.

I agree CryEngine 2 a great engine, but u need a powerful computer to run crysis, however with the source engine games like HL2 and CSS could run on most low end PCs.
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#20 shadowlink797
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I'm alright with the engine it self. Though I don't really care for the plasticy look that it causes. What bothers me is that almost every dev uses the engine, because of this every game starts looking similar. It gets stagnant after a while.
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#21 Vandalvideo
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Ugh, an engine's look isn't defined by the engine, its defined by the willingness of the developers to take initiative and make their own art and renders. Most games look simliar because companies don't take the initiative to specialize the engine.
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#22 Brainhunter
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The unreal engine 3 is an impressive engine that can benchmark itself on many mediums. Unfortunately, many developers that use it for their games don't implement their own artstyles and techniques and rely on the "base engine" of UE3.

What I admire with developers like Square-Enix, Capcom and Rockstar Games is how they go out of their way to build their own engines for making their games. It adds more diversity to the oversaturation of UE3-rendered games.

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#23 HeroOfCows
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THE White Engine from square owns all engines.Lebron181

Nah, CryEngine 2 and Dunia will probably be the best for a while (Dunia is the engine used for Far Cry 2). Besides mate, White Engine is called "Crystal Tools" now.

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#24 -Jiggles-
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[QUOTE="-Jiggles-"]

[QUOTE="Lebron181"] THE White Engine from square owns all engines.bizkit_limp

Nope. The CryEngine 2 is easily the best engine out there at the moment.

The Source Engine is pretty damn good too, though.

I agree CryEngine 2 a great engine, but u need a powerful computer to run crysis, however with the source engine games like HL2 and CSS could run on most low end PCs.

It takes a pretty powerful computer to run Crysis... on all Very High at an upper-class resolution (1650 x 1024 or higher). Crysis can run pretty well on a low end machine as long as you run it on the preferred settings (if you're going to use a 6800 card, you're going to be running it on all low, case closed).

Source Engine is great for scaling back a few years as you said, though. Games still look great even today with the right hardware.

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#25 mmogoon
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Awesome engine.
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#26 MADVLAD123
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I like it. It really looks great and it seems to do gangbusters for textures.

I also like the Source engine since it does the dirty and gritty look real well.

But what was the engine Crackdown used? That whole cell-shaded, marker outlined look was real slick and stylish.

Also Dead Rising had some great visuals and the amount of zombies on screen was amazing (last level with the tank was incredible...must've been like hundreds of zombies around you).

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#27 MagnuzGuerra
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I hate any engine that spits at the face of my 6800. (So, yes I dislike UE3 :lol: )
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#28 angelkimne
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Whats bad about it, some of the best looking console games around use it.
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#29 skirlnik
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I've about had enough of it. Some of the games look amazing, but a solid in-house production engine with a unique look and feel is my preference.
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#30 Heydanbud92
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i'm sick of seeing it used in games beside GeOW 1 & 2 but no i don't hate it.
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#31 Killfox
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I hate it and its over used.
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#32 chrizz1
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being as I make my own models and use ut3 engine and have tired source ut3 is a dream compared to source all, you do is export as a acs file and bam i you can get it into ut3, whereas source is a pain to use and inferior to ut3. Which is why unreal engine is popular-its easy and shows off models well

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#33 Makari
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I like it. It really looks great and it seems to do gangbusters for textures.

I also like the Source engine since it does the dirty and gritty look real well.

But what was the engine Crackdown used? That whole cell-shaded, marker outlined look was real slick and stylish.

Also Dead Rising had some great visuals and the amount of zombies on screen was amazing (last level with the tank was incredible...must've been like hundreds of zombies around you).

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Crackdown was done on RenderWare. Other RenderWare games off the top of my head.. Burnout Paradise, Burnout 3, pretty much everything Burnout, GTA 3/VC/SA, Bully, Manhunt, MK: Armageddon.. Most people in this thread don't really realize that the engine doesn't entirely dictate the visual look of a game. These 3 games are all running on the same engine - Gamebryo: Sid Meier's Pirates!:  Civilization 4:  TES 4 - Oblivion:
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#34 KillaHalo2o9
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Unreal Engine rocks man its pumping out games like Gears of War, UT3, and Gears 2 (Best engine out there).
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#35 dipper145
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yes the engine changes the way the game world is visually designed! I make cents!
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#36 espoac
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Call me crazy but I found UT3 visually underwhelming. Sure UE3 can pull off some nice normal maps but I'm more impressed by lighting and effects like motion blur and depth of field.
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#37 Teuf_
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Unless you're a modder or a developer licensing it there's zero reason to care what engine a game uses.
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#38 Teuf_
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Call me crazy but I found UT3 visually underwhelming. Sure UE3 can pull off some nice normal maps but I'm more impressed by lighting and effects like motion blur and depth of field. espoac


Gears of War has enough DOF to make you need glasses. It also has motion blur, but only from the camera turning (like Halo 3 and Uncharted).
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#39 kaangonultas
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Havok physics engine 5.5 that is being specifically developed for the PS3 will blow everything out of the water
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#40 bobbetybob
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[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]I sure doAmyMizuno
I agree. The Unreal Engine 3 masks low polygon count by using complex shaders, but to the trained eye, everything ends up looking horribly normal mapped (looks like plastic).

Agreed, in fact a lot of next gen games look like this, it's kinda annoying in my eyes, I don't get amazed at people who look like they are made from metal, it's fine if they are wearing metal armour, but when surfaces like stone somehow look shiny, it's just like "WTF?"

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#41 sambalimbo
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[QUOTE="Nintendo_Ownes7"][QUOTE="bizkit_limp"]Source Engine FTW!toxicmog

I agree the Source Engine is great, also I don't really like Unreal Engine 3 just because alot of the games that use it they make the Characters look like they use alot of Steroids I know it is just a Design choice I just hate the way those characters look.

Lost Oddesy, blue dragon, The Last Remenant and Vegas use it.

All look waaaay different to UT and Gears ¬_¬

and lost odyssey lags xD

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#42 user_nat
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2 of my fav games this gen use it, Gears and Mass Effect.

So I wouldn't say I hate it.. overused maybe.

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#43 Drukter
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iD Tech 5 is going to kick ass! Can't wait to play around with it.
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#44 CheeChee_Macko
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The Source engine is my favorite but I also like the Unreal 3 engine.
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#45 lawlessx
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how can you hate an engine? :?

i love the unreal 3 engine and i cant wait to see how gears of war 2 looks with the update.

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#46 foxhound_fox
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*raises hand*

In this day and age, you expect a graphics engine to utilize MSAA.

Mmm... CryEngine 2 and X-Ray 1.5... *drools*
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#47 heretrix
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I don't dislike it as much as I'm just tired of it.
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#48 porky_ownsu
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gears, turok, and rainbow all were pretty nice games engine wise.
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#49 Pure_Awesome
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I hated the UT3 engine after Gears of War - you know thats now Gears trademark graphics, but then after that, every developer used it, and most games look very similar.... its getting really old.
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#50 FinalCrystal21
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The UE3 is great for shooters (and bioshock) but I thought Lost Odyssey would have looked so much better with it's own customized graphic engine, I mean LO looks great and all, but since it uses a larger ranges of color, it does show some blemishes on the UE3 engine, Some textures looked a little too blurry. But it call all lead to how well epic gives support of their engine. I mean only epic (and the people who did bioshock) really show the full potential of the engine, other companies haven't gotten the right optimization of the engine. Even Last Rement (using this engine) could look better by using cystal tools (since it is an enix game). I think companies should make their own interal graphics engine too show off their game (like rock start using their RAGE engine (Table Tennis->GTA4) It will make their games look their best...