I do miss the days when Epic would build bespoke games to show off their new engines. Now they just dump it all into Fortnite.
I'm still mad they canned the UT reboot because of bloody fortnite
No, you don't understand, if they hadn't cut UT to do Fortnite, Epic would be destitute and wouldn't have enough money to make the games people actually want them to make...wait...
Just give me an Unreal Engine 5 remake of the original Unreal (no, not Tournament) and I'll be a happy man.
I'd be happy to get og Unreal Tournament in UE5 too. I've sink plenty of hours into the game back then in multiplayer with my friends. No time for that now, but still would be nice nostalgia trip.
The death of the multiplayer boomer shooter (or crack shooter, if you will) is a real shame. They just never really maintained a presence and I’m not sure why. The most recent one I can think of was Quake Legends, which I actually thought was really good! I think the monetary approach behind it was just off.
It’s funny, back then the assumption was that these ultra fast twitch games would be the whole future, and you’d kind of assume that’s what people would gravitate to, and now the most popular competitive FPS is CS:GO by a margin - a pretty slow burn tactical game lol
It's pretty sad. I'm pretty sure it's because of the crazy high skill-cieling. New players come in, get their cheeks pounded, then leave because getting good at the game is a lot of work. The number of skilled players grow and the number of lower-skilled players shrinks until the game is all but dead.
I still play Half-Life's multiplayer occasionally. Quake 1 was always my favorite, but now the closest games we have that aren't dead are Quake Live and TF2 :/
Well that’s kind of my confusion - because CS:GO isn’t an “easy” game per se, but it’s still massively popular.
It’s hard for me to know why. I do think the skill floor (as opposed to skill ceiling) is a decent part of it - but I honestly think a lot of it is just developers who never knew how to adapt that kind of arena shooter into something that actually makes money.
Xonotic never has that big of a player base but among arena shootes (like actual ones) it definitely has the most consistent playerbase.
Also it is a blast.
A lot of people confusing Unreal with Unreal Tournament here.
You're looking at this backwards. If there is unreal tournament 2004 there must be unreal engine 2004...
Proof we're being trickle fed technology
[insufferable pedant mode] well no, because it would be the unreal 5 engine then, wouldn’t it
Most games have it, you just die first and ragdoll.
IRL: turret toss Olympics
