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Unreal Paris - Unreal Engine 4 tech demo

Saw this yesterday, amazing how far graphics has come in the last 10 years. I always wonder what graphics will be like in the future. I suppose some or all developers are looking for that photo real gameplay. Maybe a little scary when things start to look real!
 
That’s really good but I wonder how much of its fake light that only works as everything’s static or if its not fake how demanding it would be with multiple moving objects. Still very good for a static scene.
 
Looks nice, but lets wait and see how many devs actually take advantage of it all and make games that look that good lol..
 
Rroff said:
There is usually an ini file to change screen parameters in the tech demos.
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No ini in the files and I couldn't get launch parameters to work either might of been using them wrong though.

Can you imagine a game like Identity in this detail with the rift or similar :). Maybe in another 10 years time.

Just thought I'd add that Identity is a kickstarter game that will probably never be made but it's a good idea for a game.
 
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Eh, tech demo's do nothing for me. Something like the Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor on the other hand is what will actually move games forward. Let me interact and affect the world around me like never before. Showing me a static, photo-realistic apartment is just, well, meh. Show me fully destructible environments and I will be impressed. That is what the video game medium is all about; INTERACTIVITY and GAMEPLAY. Gameplay hasn't advanced in any meaningful way since 2000. Advanced Warfare plays no better than Doom 3 for example. Assassin Creed 1 plays pretty much exactly the same as AC4, just not as pretty.

Something like this demo falls apart as soon as control is given to the player. Touch the bed, the sheets don't move etc.
 
Not very impressive, I normally hate tech demos because they never come to reality. Blame the consoles I do :p
 
Bonjour said:
Will there be a UT4?
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I would genuinely love a decent older style UT game again but with updated graphics.

But more seriously, haven't we been having Unreal 4 engine tech demos for an utterly absurd amount of time now and absolutely nothing worthwhile in the real world to show for it. The games out that use it are ones I've basically not heard of and a very quick look at the likes of Daylight and graphically it looks dire.

Anyone know what the first AAA type title using UE4 is supposed to be? Pretty tech demo's are great but what you get in a game is the only thing I give a crap about. UE4 has been talked about and shown for SO damn long but where are the games taking advantage of it.

First line on UE4 on wiki
On August 17, 2005, Mark Rein, the vice-president of Epic Games, revealed that Unreal Engine 4 had been in development since 2003
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Could purchase a licence for it since May 2012, it was first shown in a demo in June 2012. 2.5 years and still seen nothing impressive beyond a tech demo.

Stop making tech demos, make a god damned game and help some developers make a game with it rather than putting more time and money into tech demos /epic slap to Epic.
 
The more I run this the less impressive I find it. Everything looks fake for example all the lights look static and pre render, same for shadows. All the objects are static as well. If this is what I think it is then the problem with this method is it looks great while everything is static but as soon as anything moves it looks terrible as none of the shadows or lights move. They must have spent hours positioning everything and baking on the shadows and lights which does look great but it means nothing can move or the illusion is broken assuming I am not wrong on how they did it.

It’s more a piece of art then a useful for games.
 
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