The Unreal Engine sucks and here is why.
Tags: Unreal Engine, Unreal, Unreal Engine 4, Game Development

Unreal Engine V is coming out with a tech demo PC neckbeards didn’t like. They all thought it was cringe because it ran at 1440p at 30 fps despite it’s insane polygon counts that got plebian 15 year old 3D modelers to think that this will end low poly modelling for all eternity and we just have sculpt and everything will be fine. No. It. Won’t.

I am slightly positive for this but I am also negative for this because Unreal Engine games in the past aren’t very real.

I have come to the point where I hate Unreal Engine. I am tired of it’s petulant existence.

I for one am a video game snob. I prefer Cryengine over Unreal or In House game engines made by giant asshole corporations. Or just literally anything else because at least literally everything else would be different despite being generic.

I don’t know what it is about Unreal but I can’t stand it. The fact that it’s just “good graphics” over gameplay. That every programmer realizes that his 69 million dollar project was coded easy through Unreal’s assets. In fact we’ll disect why Unreal sucks. But before that let’s talk about why Unreal rocks or has rocked.

UNREAL ROCKS

When I was a teen I got Unreal Gold and I thought it was truly breath taking. The gorgeous 3D graphics and surround sound. The textures looked great and lighting was amazing. There is nothing like it besides Half-Life. It’s pure atmosphere. Has the shooting and gameplay aged well? Not as one would think but this game Unreal was truly inspirational.

Then there was Deus Ex. Deus Ex is an amazing action role playing game. A stealth shooter if you will. You can walk around the world.

Later iterations of the Unreal Engine has brought us games like Batman Arkham Asylum using it’s quirky colors and physics and camera to it’s advantage. You really did feel like Batman and it shows.

Of course only Epic knew how to program Gears of War and it’s an amazing Co-op multiplayer experience .

UNREAL SUCKS

GRAPHICS

Those dead eyes

Unreal Engine has some very awkward 3D graphics. Oh the models maybe complex but everything is simple. Boring even.

Unreal Engine 2 ruined Unreal 2 the awakening for our peeps

Unreal Engine 3 had horrible texture pop ins

Unreal Engine 4 has over saturations.

I am a 90’s kid and I speak for awkward 90’s CGI but Unreal Engine is just made for Fortnite and nothing else. Makes me wonder why this engine isn’t made for kid friendly platformers. Oh but please don’t.

The NPC’s are left souless and lifeless in games like Bioshock for the most part. A feeling that you are in Disneyland seeing those dummy robots talk. The shear uncanny valley.

The insane FOV that is inappropriate for reality.

The particle emitters are all the same.

The global illumination is too bright.

Motion blur and post processing is SFM cartoon level.

We are dealing with a kiddy engine no more and no less.

SOUND

Why on earth is it soo loud?

THE SOULESS WORLD

Unreal engine is made just for first person shooters and third person shooters.

Making Silent Hill games in this engine for even consoles is terrible. The environments are all low poly. The models are the only thing next gen. Downpour was a terrible Unreal game. Unreal 3 cannot do open world sandbox games with ease.

Did I also mention how the NPC’s in these games are simply automatons?

I cannot possibly stand this cardboard facade of a video game world.

Making games isn’t easy and Unreal devs need to realize that they need to put a lot more effort into a video game than just making the world shiny and smooth. It takes months and years of pure money and effort or even love to make a game right. You can even do this in Unreal engine if you just hmmmmm try with all your might or brain.

So overall Unreal isn’t a bad engine. No engine exists! However, when making a game unique you should at least try to turn down the motion blur or implement pixel based motion blur or literally anything. I find it sad that System Shock 2 is more immersive than a 2007 game. Sorry if this was too negative.