Is The Last Remnant that bad of a game?

[Pristine20]

mrstickball said:

Pristine20 said:
Didn't last remnant use the unreal engine? How can the same engine that produced the gears series on 360 and is often held in high regard in terms of 360 development produce so many bugs? I can only imagine how buggy the ps3 version would be if it releases while I'm still alive lol.

Yes, TLR uses UE3.

I did a bit of research, and backtracking with licensees of the Unreal Engine. What it boils down to is that A LOT of studios use UE3 once, and rarely ever again. Most developer's first UE3 game has been pretty shoddy in terms of what it did from a technical standpoint: Lost Odyssey, The Last Remnant, Mass Effect, are all UE3 games...And the first time it was used to create a game by that studio. Lost Odyssey is the best of the lot, but still quite a ways away from the better UE3 games.

On the other end, you have Gears of War (Epic) and Bioshock (2k Marin/Austrailia) which were technically brilliant...Both studios have had multiple titles developed on the UE platform...Obviously, Epic made UE3 which gives them an even bigger edge.

 

I guess at the end of the day, it's better to use your own in-house engine  in most cases. Or maybe the "laziness" that led most developers to "borrow" engines leaked into the final product.