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Posted By Robert G. about 6 months, 3 weeks ago
so much detail….
It has been confirmed today that Square Enix has been given a full working kit of Unreal Engine 4, making the studio the first known studio outside of Epic Games to have access to the new graphical engine. Epic has also disclosed that their agreement with Square Enix is a long term deal that will span multiple games.
The Unreal Engine 4, of course, has been long anticipated for years by many game and technology fans. The engine finally got a live demo with footage of the game Fortnite, which is now being touted by Epic as the first game to use Unreal 4. Since the demo video of Fortnite, Epic has kept Unreal 4 under wraps, only breaking that silence today to announce their partnership with Square Enix.
Epic Games Japan territory manager Taka Kawasaki said it best regarding the deal. “Epic has a strong relationship with Square Enix, and it’s an honor to provide their creative and technical talent with the best game technology available for licensing. We look forward to supporting their developers with world-class tools for years to come.”
The only question now is what will Square make? My guess is we will see Final Fantasy in Unreal 4, but that is the obvious answer, isn’t it? What do you think though?
Source: Joystiq
OK guys about the Crystal Tools Engine thingie. SE admitted shortly after FF13 was released that developing their own engine was a mistake. It took way too long to make and the results weren’t anything special. The amazing art in FF13 is just that – the engine itself struggles and doesn’t really achieve anything other, better supported, better documented, more familiar engines don’t do already. Sad but true. Some times things look good on paper but just don’t cut it when actually realised/released.
Unreal Engine on the other hand now has a huge legacy behind it; the vast majority of major dev studios have used UE3 at some point (including SE), which proved itself to be a highly capable multi platform engine (at least in the last few years, where PS3 is concerned). It’s solid, reliable, has huge tech support available for it and everyone is familiar with it. The effort needed to transition to UE4 will be minimal, compared to picking up some entirely new engine.
Lastly, Agnis comes across to me as a proof of concept more than anything. SE wouldn’t even tell what their hardware set up was in order to get that demo running ‘real’ time. If UE4 is a next gen engine, Agnis strikes me as a next-next gen engine, and advances in technology by that time would probably render it obsolete anyway, as is what appears to have happened to the latest iteration of Crystal Tools.
Why can’t S-E license Crystal Tools? I mean, I would totally buy a Wii U if Crystal Tools games popped out of it the way Unreal 3 games popped out of the 360.
But no. Unreal will be king. Again.
Wait, what about Square’s badass engine thing? Was that Unreal too? If so, they’re demo of it looked MUCH BETTER than the actual unreal engine 4 demo.
Yay now we can have higher quality brown and grit in our Final Fantasy games… um.. so we’re done with the Crystal Engine.. ya know.. that amazing, graphically stunning engine that they’re making all those atrocious FF13 games on and took years to develop? Also are we just blowing off that Agni thing they demoed already?
Oh well.. it’s Square Enix.. not like I expect smart moves or decent games from them anymore. Here’s for hoping KH3 has a Gears of War world.
That’s just an art decision. The engine itself doesn’t make the game look like that, Dishonered and Lolipop chainsaw use UE3 and they look far from a grey mess. Besides this is UE4 where talking about, its an impressive piece of new tech.
I agree that Square Enix should be using Agni’s Philosophy. Perhaps the idea is that they want to use Agni’s Philosophy for some games, and Unreal Engine 4 for others?
Funny, l thought they will be using their own new engine seem as they showed off its tech demo to the competitors. I mean the idea behind doing this makes sense, less resources and time wasted on graphical development. Could it be that Squeenix now, doesn’t care about their shiny graphics development? … nah.