Game engines you especially like/don't like

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Mass Effect 3's underwhelming presentation might be more reflective of Bioware than the engine. Frostbite delivers great visuals but primarily just when DICE is using it for Battlefield games. Also, the Battlefield games tend to treat PC as the lead especially during the 7th gen.

I think the OG Xbox could have handled Bioshock in some form. Just look at the iOS version of Bioshock, that looks much worse than games like Doom 3, Half Life 2 and Riddick on the OG Xbox. What I was really saying is the project likely changed very much over what might have been planned for 6th gen hardware, it just kept the same engine. That's why UE is so popular though, it certainly does scale.

I think the engine in general was getting stale around Mass Effects 3's release.
I would constantly "moan" when I heard a new title was using Unreal Engine 3 at that point. Haha

Mostly it's due to the way it streams/mips in textures, it was entirely unnecessary on PC with it's abundance of memory and horsepower.

I think I was more skeptical about the engine based on who was using it. By the time Mass Effect 3 released we were kinda bored of what they were doing.

However, Batman Arkham City looked fantastic and made better use of PC hardware. There are notable games that made great use of the engine but also a long list of crap.