StingingVelvet: I just feel like we've long passed the point of diminishing returns. Yes it looks better, but the hardware and development time cost is so astronomic compared to what it adds to the experience. "AAA" games are already getting more rare and more expensive, meanwhile games like Minecraft and Fortnite are the most popular games in the world. It's all just a bit meh to me.
AB2012: Yeah there's a big gap between tech demos / engine "showcases" vs real-world. In fact we've already seen the same thing with that
famous photo-real apartment in UE4 demo on Youtube. Visually impressive but given UE4 launched back in 2012, clearly it hasn't translated to any such AAA game after 8 years for various reasons (tech demos showcased during PR announcements / conventions are designed to be under 5 minutes in length and not include 10-80hrs of gameplay, tech demo makers are hardcore engine enthusiasts whilst the average game-dev still struggles with simple stuff like rebindable keys, mouse acceleration, etc, and sticks to the usual templates and pre-made assets, sky-high "Minimum Requirements : 2080Ti, 11GB VRAM" will just result in a massive commercial flop for any game, and a lot of people have figured out that "looking pretty" and being fun to play have never really been related.
Thats why the new engine should be good, it helps devs to be more effective.
For example that texture database looks awesome.
vsr: Great graphics.
Unfortunately Epic Games does not support Linux platform, like iD software did (before was bought by Bethesda).
I bet way more games would support linux if putting out linux version would be a very easy and cheap task.
