What's with the Unity engine?

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curl-6 said:

Or more specifically, what's with its generally mediocre results in terms of visuals and performance in actual games?

I've seen some almost photo-real renders created with it, yet I struggle to think of any really impressive examples of it in an actual game. Seems almost every time I read that a game's made in Unity, I could've guessed just from the meh graphics and wonky framerate.

I mean, games like Yooka Laylee 1 and Impossible Lair or Panzer Dragon Remake look and run quite nicely, but they're not pushing any limits. 

With other modern engines like Unreal, id Tech, Snowdrop, Cryengine, Frostbite, etc I can think of multiple showcase games.

It has nothing to do with the Engine itself.

The reason is that it is available to practically everyone, and of course not everybody is a perfect 2D/3D artist. As a result, the art suffers quite a bit in most cases.