their needs in terms of what the code needs to look like, how the engine should be architected, their tools and asset pipeline, the expertise that knows the engine inside out and so on.
Yeah.
what do you base this on? graphics?
From looking at what UE4 can do in general -The feature set advertised by Epic since 2012/2013.
Looking at the UE4 threads on GAF and Reddit and seeing all the stuff people in their home studios made on their own.
Youtube is also pretty good for that.
Also looking at the github and the the list of things they have added to it and what they are going to add to it in the near future.
And from dicking around with the engine on my comp.
show me a game running on ue4 that does what destiny does. I'm not talking about graphics but the whole thing, the game.
I don't play desitiny, so I can't make any kind of comparison. Please tell me about all the cool stuff destiny does that nothing else out there does.
I do know that destiny's editor doesn't handle editor changes in real time, making it a cumbersome piece of kit.
this is a pointless comparison. it's a demo asset taken out of any actual gameplay context. it's meaningless and just as interesting as showing a prerendered gameplay section. it's a nice piece of art, but that's all there is to it. bloodborne is an actual game. so the comparison is inherently unfair. you don't actually know if they could make bloodborne look like that while playing the same on the ps4.
...The Hunter's Dream is a separate area from the entire rest of the game. As far as I'm aware - I haven't finished BB - you don't fight there, its not "in the world" like every other Souls hub save Demon's (Demons had more NPCs that you could tussel with, on the PS3).
It's loaded into its own little bubble with player character related stuff, networking for bloodstains and minion signs, up to 2 extra NPCs (AFAIK), a code structure for saves, and code for event sequences for elsewhere in the game (for handling outside events like the transitions, DLC, equipment, NPC interactions) that don't factor into the "in the moment" performance budget. Kind of (but not entirely) like a tech demo in a bubble, but in a retail game.
If they could make BB look like that, with the better lighting and shadows on PS4, they probably would have done it. Or maybe their engine isn't as capable.
Maybe you open a gate that leads to that field of flowers from the trailers, or something? If its is linked to another aspect of the world, then I take that back, it counts.
