Naughty Dog's environment artist recreates Half-Life: Black Mesa scene in Unreal Engine

DSOGaming writes: "Rogelio Olguin, who is an Environment Texture Artist/Shader at Naughty Dog, has been experimenting with Epic’s engine and has recreated a scene from Half-Life: Black Mesa in Unreal Engine."

[Kaneki-Ken]

I remember how Neil Drunkmann joke around in Twitter about how he asked Valve to let him and NaughtyDog do Half Life 3 since they haven't release it for more than a decade.

[subtenko]

They should do this but add guerrilla games into the mix. 3 devs, 3 half lifes. So I guess technically is 1.5 lives, the amount of kids people have

[riibhu]

One day I hope naughty dogs would make a PC game utilizing every ounce of power from PCs. The end result would be a sight to behold.

[andrewsquall]

Yet it wouldn't really be when there is always going to be a demographic that need to still be able to run the game when it comes to PC.
For instance, Naughty Dog and their game engine on PS4 exclusives, they get to make their games catered exclusively to the GDDR5 architecture from the moment of conception all the way to release. On PC they are already losing this advantage as the game would more than likely have to support graphics cards and processors from 8 years ago too like DDR3 GPUs.
So now they are left wondering do we have to dumb down our 10 years in advance animations so the game can be released on older PCs too or will we dumb down something else that we are normally proud of.

[OoglyBoogly]

"the game would more than likely have to support graphics cards and processors from 8 years ago too like DDR3 GPUs."

Not necessarily. While that's not a bad thing to have look at the likes of Crysis when it came out. They didn't really care if you had a slower PC. They BUILT that game for high-end hardware. Sure it could run on lower settings but it looked like trash in comparison and not what they envisioned.

Plus an 8 year old processor and/or GDDR3 powered GPU isn't really expected to run any newer games these days anyways. No one is really building their AAA title with the Core2Duo and 8800GTX in mind.

So yeah, while I know Naughty Dog isn't doing this (and never will most likely), it's not like games that are made to be "cutting-edge" somehow automatically fail or won't run for most people.

Not to get all technical but you have to keep in mind the power of PC's today as well. I can get a used AMD 290/290X practically anywhere and a decent quad-core Intel pre-built Dell or something that's off lease on eBay all for like $250-300. A system like this (despite it's price), on the technical level, is like 3-4x faster than even the PS4. Similar systems like this could technically run a game like Uncharted 4 with 2x the graphics (at least) and isn't going to break the bank. So yeah, PC could stand to get a really nice "wow" level game. Though I would argue that on some levels we already do. Think Star Citizen or games like The Division with max settings. Those are really purrrrty games...

[riibhu]

The only thing that would stop naughty dogs from making a PC game is naughty dogs themselves.
And buddy just imagine, if these guys can make a game like uncharted and last of us on a ps4 then wonder what they can do on PC without any limitations over hardware.

[Yohshida]

Remember Crysis? Hell yeah!

[riibhu]

Oh yeah. Crysis is the epitome of what a PC is capable of. I wonder though now that crytek is gone who will make a PC game with the level of graphical details that crysis had at its time of release.( Star citizen maybe but who knows when that game will release).
What this generation lacks is a proper PC game like crysis.

[OoglyBoogly]

Downvote all you want but I'm honestly not that impressed at all. The lighting totally kills it! I mean, on the physical level they look similar enough but the original was way more darker and grungy...how is making it all clean and bright and safe looking with totally different lighting a "recreation"?

Don't get me wrong, the actual work is great! Everything is very detailed and the scene is very well done. To me though a recreation needs to be that...recreating a scene. Making the scene look completely different isn't a recreation. You can't give me a dirty brown football and tell me it's a recreation of a clean white soccer ball.