What/Who is the fourth horseman?

>>716357861 (OP)
>sweetbaby
uh that controversy is so 2023, grandpa

>>716357861 (OP)
It's You, the player.

>>716357861 (OP)
Replace Unreal with Japan, and the fourth one would be Europe.

>>716357861 (OP)
whoever the hell is running xbox into the ground

christcvcks aka collective shout

>>716358039
nobody's falling for this, schlomo

>>716357967
>Japan
>Europe
They're the only ones making good games.

>>716357861 (OP)
What's Unreal Engine doing there? I've played Alice: Madness Returns, two Gal*Gun games, Severed Steel etc and I like them. what's wrong with Unreal Engine in general?

>>716358396
>not a single good game made to date
>the only ones
>>716358749
On /v/, most of the posters' only experience with games is via Digital Foundry videos on YouTube. They'll post screencaps they made on their phones (the only electric devices in their favela shacks) talking about how much it stutters. Most of the posts devolve into apoplectic buzzword fits.

>>716358882
Heh, somehow, I can believe that. Honestly, I've played some games developed with some version of Unreal Engine and for the most part they run fine.

>>716357861 (OP)
nortubel

>>716357861 (OP)

>>716359012
It has slight grounding in reality, but /v/tards are too dumb and brown to know what it is.
>there are a lot of premade assets that get reused a lot
>AAA titles tend to be outsourced, so they buy a sweatshop full of Indians for the project duration. said indians are just concerned with meeting the specification, not necessarily doing it well. this leads to all options being turned on and no concern for performance
>hyper-realism is a fad right now, so /v/irgins think "all UE5 games look the same," despite evidence to the contrary. they will fight tooth and nail to show Wukong looks exactly like Fortnite
>Lumen has a weird smearing effect in motion, like the effect has a delay in fading. you can see it in stuff like the Oblivion remaster (block/let go repeatedly, and you see your weapon or shield smearing the surroundings), but it's not THAT obvious most of the time
>there tends to be no concern over filesize, though that's not inherent to the engine itself, but the bottom feeders that are hired to develop due to its ease of use. i have a few UE5 games that go from 3-10GB
That said, it's a solid engine and has been since UE1, and can be used well with competent developers. The problem is that AAA developers have turned into the stereotypical corporation, which means churning out focus grouped low effort trash that's bigger and bigger. AAA publishers are like Michael Bay, but they can at least make a good game once in a while.

>>716359627
>AAA publishers are like Michael Bay, but they can at least make a good game once in a while.
This is a good way to put it.

>>716360274
Yeah, and just like a Michael Bay flick, you go in expecting explosions, a bunch of noise, and probably walk away dumber than you were going in-but hey, sometimes that's exactly the kind of junk food you want. The problem is when every damn meal turns into a Bay-directed buffet of asset flips, shader vomit, and aggressive monetization. Give me a janky AA game with heart over another Ubisoft checkbox simulator running on UE5 sludge.

>>716361805
Except nothing Michael Bay directed was ever worth watching.

>>716357861 (OP)
It's wild to think back to how a few years ago /v/ was in hysterics over how Sweet Baby was some Blackrock-backed evil that was going to destroy gaming then fast forward to today and the real organisation destroying gaming is a dozen post-wall Australian roasties.