Pretty much. Which is why I am excited for Athia as they now have a finished engine from the get-go and experience from releasing XV with it.
FF7-R co-director Naoki Hamaguchi on the Unreal Engine 5 demo: "When I saw it, I could feel the new sparks of creativity being stirred within me"
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Pretty much. Which is why I am excited for Athia as they now have a finished engine from the get-go and experience from releasing XV with it.
plus i think they have the hardware for the visions they want. They were clearly limited by the hardware for XV for the vision they wanted. Have you seen the quality of textures in those caves though? Dear lord
I have a folder full of screenshots of that game from my PC playthrough. Its beautiful to look at. Ran it at 200% resolution scale and on high settings, makes it pop really well.
Yes, in terms of technicality. VII:R is nowhere near XV. VII:R has winding curves, can hide a lot due to its design and you really see it when climbing the tower and everything outside of a close distance becomes a really, really bad looking skybox. Like blurry AF. But because of its really, really short draw distance it can make other areas look very impressive like the character models.....even though XV is nothing to scoff at. I am still amazed they pulled off XV the way they did in basically 3 years.
Maybe with the insane streaming tech, and massive boost in GPU and especially CPU. Maybe that overworld can become a reality in part 2.....who knows.
The quote in the slide is actually "More effort than a normal engine upgrade, but not 10x". So some work is involved, but that makes sense. Shouldnt be too big of an effort though :)
I'd feel more assured if instead of saying it gave him new ideas, he said 'yes, we can make flying airship now'
I think part of the difficulty in using the engine stemmed from current-gen CPU constraints. Just like was the case with AC:Unity, Ubisoft were (rightfully) assuming that the CPU's on current-gen consoles would be more powerful, so they initally designed their engines around that (Unity looks quite different compared to the current games).
Heck, even Epic removed features from UE4 because how weak they were. I think we might really see LE shine this upcoming generation, especially with the addition of SSD's. That Project Athia trailer looked insane...
Yeah. Those CPUs are massive bottlenecks, especially for bigger games. Unless you have endless money.
Not sure if it's happenstance or brilliant planning on Squeenix part, but where Part 1 ends and P2 begins is perfection for the hardware for next gen.
Full open world Airship or bust
Full open world Airship or bust
And just think, this is the beginning for using SSD as a baseline. The console manufactures arent going back to mechanical hard drives.
PC requirements will go up, this is the dawn of a new era.
Won't happen, because a game like FF7 has to many different environments and assets for the current workload.
I talked about FF16, which could use UE instead of the luminous engine.
I know and FF15 looked great. But given their development issues using the engine and the FF15 team working on a non FF game, it's possible FF16 wont be build in LE.
"Vakarian said:
What's the engine used for FFXV? Some parts of the game looks incredible and some like ps2 era textures but in HD."
This is what you replied to by saying UE4 my friend. Look back at your post if you need.
I do agree with you though. After FF7 I reckon they'll definitely be using UE5.