UE is a great engine. Its versatile and adaptable to many different types of games and styles. See Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd, Rime, ect, ect ect.
It only depends on what the dev is going for.
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Kingdom Hearts 3 is now using Unreal Engine 4
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UE is a great engine. Its versatile and adaptable to many different types of games and styles. See Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd, Rime, ect, ect ect.
It only depends on what the dev is going for.
Well they're also using UE4 for Scalebound so I guess they're qualified...
Zeyphersan
Banned
I said out loud: "I'm sorry, what?"
Considering this was the number one complaint i would be amazed this is still an issue in 4
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Probably good news and the first step to get back on the right track with their games development.
ShockingAlberto
Member
UE4 isn't UE3 and looks like it supports a versatile selection of styles.
Can't see this as a bad thing.
Can't see this as a bad thing.
Piston Hyundai
Member
I want to say that I saw plenty in the footage of Daylight that I've seen.
If you are developing an in-house engine and can only provide support for one game. Yes, that's a huge problem. It means you're doing it wrong.
Agreed.
kenji_sama
Member
Good. Luminous should be called Unreal at this moment.
Death Metalist
Member
On the one hand I am excited because this means they can be done with the game faster. On the other hand though, I hope they could achieve the style and spirit of their luminous engine, as much as they can. I guess I am neutral to this news. In any case though, I can't wait for the game and I hope to hell that Nomura doesn't disappoint.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I couldn't care less about this, really. When an artist paints a picture, you don't care if they mixed their own paints or crafted their own paintbrush.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
That Luminous development was basically dead.
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
Yep indeed. UE4 can support multiple styles that you can't recognize that such game is using UE4 unlike UE3 which recognizable effects marks.
Hey, at least this should go much better than The Last Remnant!
Epic even has a Japanese office now!
Balmung421
Member
Completely surprised me at first, but I now realize this means the game might actually come out in a reasonable amount of time.
They don't have a choice anymore. Every PS4 game is also released on PS4, right?
This is bad in terms of what it says about Luminous and SE's management in the past, but I think it's probably a basically decent sign for the future. SE's investment in engine development seems to have been incredibly counterproductive, and this way, the FFXV team squeezes some benefit from it while the KH3 team begins learning their way around an engine that's guaranteed to be productive for a long time to come.
Dead Prince
Banned
maybe we'll have multiple paths now
exmachina64
Banned
I'm kind of happy to hear this news.
Daylight had a huge host of technical problems I cant imagine were all attributed to UE4
It's only outdated if you can't do it properly. There's still plenty of devs who make their own engine.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
But what will we do once Kingdom Hearts no longer has Kingdom Hearts combat?
TheRealTalker
Banned
Edit: So what we've seen so far is useless then .... in a visual sense
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Well.. I hope they make they most of it!
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
And nothing of value was lost. The only reason for custom engines is to appeal to the pride of SE and their fanboys. It's not like they licensed their engine to others anyway. It was completely trivial that it was made in-house.
I'm sure in this case Epic will also be bending over backwards to support any needs they have because this is really big for their Japanese expansion ambitions, much like Namco.
rockman zx
Member
This good for us and a little embarrasing for Square.
CamHostage
Member
I hate that this happened as a tech-hound who has loved what Square had in the past done with its game engines, but just as a gamer, I'm happy to see Square not getting so wrapped up in technology development (again) that it cannot swerve and change course in order to get games out to the people. It's the end of an era in one way, but hopefully it'll be for the best in the continuation of a legacy.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I guess since basically ever big western studio has their own propietary engine, japan might be a new market for Epic.
Namco, SE, Platinum....Capcom next? lol
That and everyone else big pretty much made their own in house engines this time lol.
Isn't there only that one indie horror game on PS4 using UE4? Not sure about Xbone.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I just wanted to believe in this engine. It looked so promising.
Hey, at least it will be used on XV...for now! lool
Lucent
Member
I really dislike the Unreal Engine. Mainly because a lot of the games that I've played that used it (Like gears of war) had slow loading of textures sometimes and it was annoying.
But somehow I think Lost Odyssey used it better than most non-Japanese devs did. Really crazy.
Just hope this doesn't have something like bad texture load times.
But somehow I think Lost Odyssey used it better than most non-Japanese devs did. Really crazy.
Just hope this doesn't have something like bad texture load times.
Dead Prince
Banned
didn't mark cerny also talked about UE4? this was plan from the beginning when ps4 was introduced.
You better completely forget that KH3 exists.
Think of this as sort of a VersusXIII kind of deal.It will probably release 2 years after FFXV,optimistically.
I just wanted to believe in this engine. It looked so promising.
They ARE using it for FFXV.But its specifically tied to that game for now.
Pretty sure Black Tusk is using UE4 for Gears, but obviously we haven't seen any of that yet. They're promising big things.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
W-well.. the lighting, anyway.
For the best, probably. I'd rather get a Birth By Sleep than a Dream Drop Distance.HeelPower said: