Unreal Engine

“lots of games just switching to one of the existing engines that supported it natively, and started the modern dominance of Unreal Engine”

“Unreal itself performs very well if you use it correctly and has really good documentation for best practices”

“can do big, static worlds that have lots of instancing, but that's achieved using large amounts of preprocessing”

“nobody _really_ cared about how long packaging a build took, it got ad hoc improvements, but then epic decided to invest in it and its improved monumentally in the last 2-3 years”

“the support and community around Godot, Unity and Unreal still make them a no-brainer”

“in defence of using ue5 for a 2d platformer, you still get a ton of features to help you build out the platformer”

“every other game being made in Unreal Engine nowadays is one of the biggest contributing factors to them all feeling so samey”

“it's kinda crazy that Epic lets you use UE for FREE until you start making serious money on the game that you made”

“people can build more ambitious games that are more likely to make their creators rich if they use Unreal”

“if you get comfortable with a specialized tool like a CAD software, or a game engine studio like Unreal, it's not invisible at all”

“free up to $1mm in revenue. Anyone can go and download the engine and use it as much as they want free”

“Unreal’s abstractions are not always great - some things are abstracted to hell and back”

“Powerful and flexible, at the expense of not being able to know how it will be used ahead of time.”

“Unreal 5 is massive and complex, and there comes a point where it takes longer to understand how to layer on your own customizations than just to start from scratch.”

“Unreal gets this criticism a lot, but it's usually because many studios choose to stick close to the rendering defaults”

“UE5 seems to be user friendly enough that most of the game development can be carried out just by artists and game designers”

“Trying to do open-world in UE3 required making some fairly invasive and substantial changes”

“I can spot a unity or unreal game from miles away. They have a smell if you will that is very hard to escape.”

“Crab Champions (UE4, have to use nonsense upscaling stuff that makes the game hideous just to maintain 60fps at 1920x1200).”

“I'm actually pleasantly surprised to see them build and ship an MCP instead of a subscription AI agent service”

“UE is definitely used to obtain simulation data in other domains (this is coming from first hand experience in big tech)”

“getting up and running is quick, any competent introduction will have the student getting something on screen”

“The possibilities for Claude + Unreal + the years and years of free assets I've collected from Epic's Unreal store are exciting!”

“has lots of features based on SDFs that are used to great effect in games that run on consumer hardware”

“people who want to build games should absolutely use Unity, Unreal or Godot in no particular order”

“With UE5 you get authoring tools up and down the stack, so your artists and storyboarders and level designers can all start creating the world”

“The way it handles lighting, fog effects and color in general makes me feel "I'm home".”

“If you want to make a 3D game then Unreal, Unity, or Godot are appropriate choices.”

“existing game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine falling out because of all the performance issues they have”

“Unity, Unreal, Monogame are a few engines via which ambitious games are regularly shipped.”

“the one thing game engines like unity or unreal get right IMO is having a pretty GUI for doing basic things”

“These kinds of technologies that box film makers in are surely contributing to the boring same-y-ness of modern film and tv.”

“Using real-time rendering with Unreal or whatever gives you more flexibility in exchange for visual quality.”

“the engine went too far into cinema production, and making it a performant game engine requires code refactoring”

“Unreal Engine allow for fast and quick iteration on CGI/VFX, so it dramatically reduces the time to make them”

“My production experience with Unreal has been solely limited to background and lighting support, for which it is excellent.”

“One major advantage is that the cinematographer's main job, lighting design, gets easier”

“QNX should be licensed like Unreal Engine. If you ship enough products using it, it gets noticed”

“Unreal Engine (5 almost specifically) is another example of things that are unoptimized by default, very easy to notice”

“you still need the actual game code to load the asset correctly. It's a major pain in the ecosystem.”