Wally Loved it. Need to go back to it and try out the DLC, but currently busy with Guardians of the Galaxy, which is WAY better than I’d expected it to be…

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    Unreal Engine 5 tech demos look just superb…

    It is indeed - It’s causing a huge stir in game dev circles at the moment.

    Loads of shiny bells and whistles obviously but the big thing for game dev is Unreal are trying to demonstrate an asset creation system where assets can be auto generated to photo-realistic fidelity (all the buildings are computer generated rather than hand made) and for prop objects, we’ll never had to make them again because they aren’t going to look any better down the line.

    It’s something developers have been hoping for, for a long time. Generating a city takes a phenomenal amount of effort and it’s like reinventing the wheel every time. A lot of art work is outsourced to studios in India at the moment but I can see the next revolution being that we don’t need to create anything any more as we’ve already got what we need. It’ll be fascinating if that gets pulled off.

      Wally Intresting. I bet the majority of the work in a game like GTA is getting the City created? Will the next GTA be using the unreal engine or does it use it’s own? I guess the advantage of using your own engine is that you have more control over performance optimisation etc?

          mono-stereo I can neither confirm nor deny anything about what our next project is but all R* projects use our in house engine - RAGE - (Rockstars Awesome Game Engine lol).

          And yeah, doing the ‘world’ for a game is a huge undertaking. The art team work their nuts off.

              Wally Given your recent outsourcing fail I’m guessing you’ll be sticking to an in house engine 😋

                Along_the_Wire It’s not an RPG really - more of an open world action game. There’s a minor upgrade system and a few different costumes but nothing too complex. It holds your hand for pretty much everything - you’ll never get lost or not know what to do. It’s very good. I would definitely jump in.

                    All I wanna know is who else has got PS5 and has pre ordered Eldon Ring? Where my Tarnished at?!

                    Loved the last game, hope this one is as good on the game play.

                    Millsy Boss puzzle game, despite the graphics.

                      Clear bias here with me getting a downvote whilst Millsy, as expected, gets away scot free. Sickening.

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                        Along_the_Wire No no, he had an upvote from someone, so my downvote merely reduced his post back down to zero. No bias, your both twats.