Has Timmy become too powerful?

If games look the same is because they choose to do so, Unreal Engine, hell, no engine prevents you from making up your own artstyles, it's just devs go for "muh realism".
I swear Yea Forums is fucking retarded when it comes to game development, although I should have known this when I saw people here worshipping the fucking Fox Engine.

>It's so easy to use and allows for so much laziness that devs just use the standard effects and settings if they can get away with it
What the fuck does one have to do with the other?

And devs do choose to do so, hence why everything is going to look the same.
Are you unironically braindead?

>when zoomies who have never even edited a texture pretend to know about game development
These people will tell you Fornite, Ghostwire, FighterZ, Ocotpath Traveller and Borderlands 3 look the same.

>And devs do choose to do so
Some do, and some don't, unless you are telling me Fornite and Stalker 2 look the same.

oh boy, you sure are retard. Games have been using unreal engine since forever and its been used in a variety of genres and styles. Sharing the same core tech doesn't mean the game will look the same, especially when Unreal Engine is developed to be as flexible as it can.

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Just because you are too fucking stupid to notice the similarities because the style is different is not on me. If you can't tell the engine by looking at the game you don't belong here.

What fucking similarities.

Lightning is the most obvious one. Looks like absolute shit.

Do you work with unreal engine in any capacity?

Zoomers are retarded, I remember some of them going
>WOW WTF HOW DID KOJIMA GET THE FOX ENGINE, HE MUST STILL BE IN KONAMI
all because DS looked and felt to play similar to MGSV even though DS used Horizon's engine.

Most of those games have the „ultra low Details after loading“ Problem because of UE

Can you not tell when a game is running unreal engine? Are you blind?

>zoomers don't know the term texture popping and yet will insist they know about graphic engines

You sure showed him you 20 something oldfag without addressing his point

I can, but I used Unreal Engine daily. For a layman like yourself, I doubt you would be able to tell the difference.

I did, because zoomers have this contradictory obsession of pretending to know about everything while also having a below average IQ.

So you understand what the engine is capable of but too fucking stupid to realize that barely any dev cares to capitalize on it.
I will ask again, do you have brain problems?

Sounds like what you are doing right now.

What are you talking about, lightning depends entirely on the game dev.
Hell, Arkham Knight is one of the best looking games of the 8th gen even though not only it came out early in the gen, but it used Unreal Engine 3, not even 4.
And it was all because of lightning and reflections, it's texture work wasn't anything special.

>Working WITH.
With, not for. If anything Tim and his company are working smart, offering a product that can compete with a inhouse engine and save up some sweet development time not being wasted on making the proprietary engine work at least 85%

>die-hard fans help their development on unreal tournament
>cancel unreal tournament, not even admitting it until an year for fortnite
>use the money they got from fortnite to make EGS
>try to enforce EGS monopoly by stealing games fron steam
>install chinese spyware on user's computers
what did Tim Sweeney mean by this

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Yes, everything depends on the devs but devs are lazy and so everything looks the same.
Are you unironically braindead? How many times do I have to explain the same thing?
Unreal Engine games look the same and look like shit.

>everything depends on the devs but devs are lazy and so everything looks the same
Sounds to me like the problem is the devs, and not the engine.
Now imagine these same devs making their own engine.
Oh wait, we have experienced that, for example DICE's Frostbite, that unstable fucking mess that has never delivered a single game that wasn't completely broken on release.

If the devs suck, the game is going to suck and no lightning system is going to make them not suck.
If the devs are good, they'll do their own thing, and will probably also make a game worth playing.

What you should ask is for competent devs.

If they didn't have access to the engine the problem would be solved. Even if their inhouse shit looked like absolute garbage it wouldn't have the same soulless look to it.
Therefore the engine is the problem.
Everything needs to go back to running on idtech 3.

>soulless
>Everything needs to go back to running on idtech 3.
So you are just a nostalgiafag, should have said it sooner before pretending to know anything about game development.

Oky, I can see you either have severe cognitive impairment or you realized how fucking retard you sound and you're doubling down on the garbage bile you write to protect your ego.

Either way, I just posted a picture of a multitude of games that have very few visual similarities between them and that was already enough to close this retard discussion we're having right now. Shit, most devs dont even use the asset store for 3d assets, they have outsource studios for that.

You have shown nothing related to knowledge about game development other than screaming that you can do anything with the engine. But that's not the reality we live in. Go play some video games.

>very few visual similarities
Are you blind or just pretending to be retarded?

I've posted plenty of examples of games that look wildly different while running on the same engine and how one of the best looking games of the generation runs on Unreal Engine 3, not even 4.
Meanwhile you go
>T-THIS ALL LOOKS THE SAME, SOULLESS, THIS NEEDS TO RUN ON THIS ENGINE FROM THE 90S

The irony of it all being that the one game that was still up until a few years ago running on tech based on idTech 3 was COD, which for years got shat on because it looked like shit for a game of it's budget.

Not him but I work with it every day, and I don't like that a bigger and bigger portion of game studios are switching from proprietary tech to UE4/5. Obviously it's possible to make a game on Unreal look and feel completely different to other games (Octopath Traveler, Guilty Gear Strive) but many games don't do this. Sometimes there's a certain "feel" that comes with an engine, especially a middleware engine, that some studios don't know how to change to fit what they would want, and games feel slightly more homogenous as a result.

I also just think it's way less interesting when everyone is using the same technology instead of developing their own. Capcom's RE engine, for example, is producing great looking games that have all the latest technological features, and they made it themselves.

holy fuck im not that guy but you are actually retarded. nobody said you cant make a game look different, no shit. its rare. 90% of games are photorealistic man. youre retarded

does baitposting ever get old to you

>y-you are z-zoomers
>y-y-you are just nostalgiafags
Which is it, toddler? They might have different art direction but they feel the same.
idtech is not for looks by the way, it's so the gameplay is actually servicable.

> nobody said you cant make a game look different
>everything is going to look the same.

>if I don't like it it's bait
Used to be called trolling, now it's bait for everything you don't agree with.
Apply yourself and explain why you don't agree with it you dumb fuck teenager.

brain rot moment

>They might have different art direction but they feel the same.
How the fuck does a look "feel" the same.

>idtech is not for looks by the way, it's so the gameplay is actually servicable.
Since fucking when is gameplay tied to the engine.
Do you think New Vegas, Civilization 4 and Bully play similarly, or "feel" the same?
Does MGSV play similarly to PES?

Looks like a monopoly to me.

Not at all his launcher its a meme of being the beated redhead male kid

Fine, I meant feel the same then you retarded fucking monkey. Unreal Engine is garbage unless you go to fucking retarded lengths like arcsys and model individual frames of characters like you were doing sprites.

>How the fuck does a look "feel" the same.
Play more games.

>Since fucking when is gameplay tied to the engine.
That might be the most braindead fucking thing I have ever read.

Take a break from this place, what the fuck
You are so desperately trying to be le epic rage Yea Forums man, its extremely embarrassing

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how come ever since the UE5 release happened, suddenly everyone is acting as if devs using unreal engine is a brand new thing?

>I meant feel the same
No, you are just moving goalposts because you are retarded and are trying to talk about what you don't know.

>Unreal Engine is garbage unless you go to fucking retarded lengths like arcsys and model individual frames of characters like you were doing sprites.
What?

>still only 30% of the engine marketshare

I'm genuinely angry at the fucking mouthbreathers that browse this place.

Play more video games so you will understand how almost every fucking UE game looks the same.

>What?
>g-g-guise trust me I'm a d-dev
Thanks for proving you have absolutely no fucking idea what you are talking about and why Guilty Gear looks like the way it does.
Kill yourself out of my board, toddler.

>I'm genuinely angry
I'll bite and assume you're being genuine, but that's even worse
Either you're baitposting like one user said or you are seriously this angry over this, either way its not good for you and you should seriously consider using this place less dude

>every fucking UE game looks the same.
So now you are going to back to it looking the same, and not the "feel".
Let me guess, you are the kind that was worshipping the Fox Engine back in 2015.

Kojima dickriders should be publicly executed, I hate nothing more than that worthless fucking piece of shit. Literally the Uwe Boll of video games.

>Kojima dickriders
The people worshipping the Fox Engine were precisely the ones who hated him.
Hell, they went as far as shilling MG Survive because of "FOX Engine gameplay", whatever the fuck that meant.

That was like the worst possible way for Epic to even re-engage PC fans after taking one of the biggest hiatuses from the platform from 2007 - 2014. Made a great fuss about going back on PC and getting the community involved and everything only to dump everything silently and only tell the community a year later without any apologies. And it only got worse from there as far as PR blunders goes.
I don't even understand why they are content with pissing off PC players when they are integral to having the Epic Games Store become a thing. No one is going to willfully buy from the store and even worse, they will pirate on the principle alone. Publishers are only engaging for the fat stacks of cash Timmy is fielding them for now. I don't understand the business strategy behind it and it boggles the mind Tim Sweeny is even bothering with EGS when he's making a boatload of money off his longest running and existing cashflow. But of course, it's not enough even after he sold out his company to China and he has the majority marketshare in game engines.
Tim's only hope really for redemption is to actually shut up and stop suing Big Tech companies to put up with competing with Steam properly with features and pricing and possibly revive UT4 as a loss leader just so they can buy back some goodwill from their customers. I don't see any other way with their current strategy it doesn't just fall apart even if UE5 has this many commercial customers.

How do you worship an engine of a game you haven't played?
Those games are literal dogshit.

Beats me.
I have the feeling those people liked the fact that MGSV could run at more than 10 FPS on their 6200 LEs, or the way controls felt, even though the latter has nothing to do with the engine.

Al lot of UE games do look the same, there are parts of the rendering pipeline you can't change, and lesser devs just end up using defaults for most things. This will get worse with UE5, as Lumen has a specific look for reflections.
This of course doesn't mean that every UE game looks the same.