Unreal Engine 4 "years away", says Rein

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rocketpig said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Onyxmeth said:
Epic saved HD gaming. Imagine how many less games we would have without middleware engines.

Epic probably did more damage than good with it. The costs of developing HD games are still too unreasonable to be the standard however things like their engine allow people to still raise the bar artificially which makes life very difficult for many developers (especially those who cannot utilize that engine).

That's not really fair. There have been several statements from developers about how UE3 has jumped their game ahead of schedule by as much as a year (The Last Remnant, for example) while using a proprietary engine would have slowed down the production schedule quite a bit. It's also a versatile engine used from everything to shooters (Gears, BioShock) to lengthy RPGs (Lost Odyssey, Last Remnant). Given the state of gaming production, it's pretty hard to view Epic as anything other than a boon to the industry.

Lost Odyssey used UE3?