Castlevania in Unreal 4

[hanselthecaretaker]

http://www.techspot.com/news/66875-castlevania-fan-remake-puts-unreal-engine-4-good.html

It looks pretty cool.

 

[Zombie Proof]

Dude, that shit is tight!

 

[gorfias]

It is terrific and shows that this thing should be re-released! I'd pay $10 for it!

ITMT: Quite a site you have there.. http://www.techspot.com/news/61225-photorealistic-scenes-created-unreal-engine-4.html

Fantastic what they can do with Unreal 4

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I really want to see the next MK with UE4.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Yeah, it's either innocent naivety or a fairly shameless, calculated plug. Likely a bit of both.

When actual games look like those images, then we can start dropping jaws.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Just.. the "Gamers have long been promised realistic graphics but to date, not much has really come close to delivering photorealistic imagery. Epic Games? Unreal Engine 4, however, may very well be the first." of the article is beyond silly.

True. Cry Engine 3, Fox Engine, Frostbite and probably some others (I've seen some pretty impressive stuff from Unity) are all capable of achieving similar results. It might be harder in some than others, but the potential is there.

When actual games look like those images, then we can start dropping jaws.

And that's the kicker, isn't it. Rendering photorealistic environments as a still image is one thing. Doing the same thing in real-time with free camera control in a full-fledged environment with dynamic lighting, buttloads of particle effects, physics and all the moving parts and visual goodness we've come to expect from modern games. That's entirely another.

Still, I'm sometimes astounded by how far visual fidelity has come. Show something like Battlefield 1 to the me from a dozen years ago and you'd have a hard time convincing me it isn't some elaborate pre-rendered cgi.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Most of it mostly just comes down to hardware. Photorealistic renders aren't extraordinarily difficult. I mean, creating a photorealistic game is perfectly feasible. But you'll be running at a frame an hour.

Well, yes, that's what I was hinting at. Even a potato laptop can render one photorealistic frame given time.

Progress is being made though. Crytek's Cinebox [footnote]which I believe is now split off into a different company called FilmEngine or such[/footnote] engine, based off of its CryEngine, can purportedly render cgi cinematics in real time on a single commercial grade pc. Example here of one such movie [http://preview.thelordinquisitor.com/#]. Not a game, true, and not photorealistic either. But still an impressive piece of technology if it can do as it claims, and, you know, one step at a time.