Unreal Tournament III on PS3 back in 2007 (2008 for 360) was the last time we saw a major release in Epic's Unreal franchise. Fans have been patiently waiting as the North Carolina-based studio continued to pump its resources into the blockbuster Gears of War trilogy, which concludes this holiday season. But what's next? Will Epic return to the franchise that shares its name with the company's middleware business? Judging by recent comments, we think there's a good chance.
Epic: "Buckle up—it’s nearly time for the State of Unreal! We’ll be streaming live from Unreal Fest Orlando at 9:30 AM EDT on June 3.
Catch all the action here, including a first look at the latest tools and technology we’re working on, live demos, new product releases, partner projects, and all our big news—live as it’s announced."
Just got back from a tech conference in Orlando. I loved it. I want to go back! Loved the Witcher 4 footage.
Epic CEO believes the gaming industry is undergoing gravitational change. Many games are released with high budgets, and they’re not selling nearly as well as expected.
They are selling.
Gaas are a very risky model to follow.
Epic is lucky with fortnite, it’s the reason why they’re making such claim.
Development costs increased yes, but for me it’s due to folk relying too much on advanced hardware.
A great game is regardless of raw power, ask Nintendo
You blame powerful hardware? It’s most certainly because devs aren’t given enough time, mismanagement by superiors, forced dei and shit writing all around.
Taking advantage of more tech means more time and therefore more cost, which can be risky if the sales don’t follow.
It’s what i meant.
With high inflation, government money printing, and rising debt, many people will have to cut back on entertainment to afford food and shelter, especially with no increase in living wages.
Sweeney is worth $7.6 billion, and a sell out. Turned his back on Unreal Tournament. With that much money he has way more than enough to make a new UT with UE5. If not he should just give the license away to fans and they will most likely make it better. Never liked Sweeney after he abandoned UT.
Do you really want a new Unreal Tournament though?
Games like Resistance, Warhawk, Unreal, Halo, Last of Us Factions, Unreal Tournament.... they just don't exist anymore.
If a new Unreal came out, it would have a battle pass, skins, nonsense currency, and would have to be free to play.
One time payment online multiplayer games that don't hold people's attention for infinite hours [service] just aren't enough for publishers anymore. This new generation of players too - they just seem to get bored if there's no endless progress bar to fill and unlock emotes.
I miss when multiplayer games were fun too but they aren't anymore.
(If anybody else is with me here, come play Warhawk on RPCS3, we've still got a sweet community of players over there and always love new people joining)
I do want another one yes, just build upon what made UT2004 so good, one of the best arena FPS ever made. I still have it installed and play sometimes. To me it seems these types of shooters is where you see the most skill, no hero shooters where you have someone healing/helping you rack up kills, with Quake and Unreal there is no crutch is kill or be killed lol. Best for fans to make it, it can be free with no season pass shit. Maybe Quake 5 might come out one day and be like Q3.
Warhawk, resistance, socom confrintation, killzone 2. Ps3 was amazing with the multiplayer shooters
@emixx116:
Still is mate. All 4 of those games have active communities on the real PS3 or emulation through simple DNS changes (and getting whitelisted through the Discord I suppose). MAG as well !
Get rid of all the political crap along with DEI. Then they’ll start selling again. When you attack your fanbase and the consumer, what do you expect to happen?
No. Tim Sweeney is not so subtly spreading the bullshit narrative again that single-player games are dying - he's saying that people want to play games with their friends instead.
If anything, the big budget projects that are consistently failing to make money are the type of games that he is pushing. Metaverse, live service shit. Single-player games are more likely not to bomb.
But rather than sniffing out this bullshit, you're opportunistically going along with it to mindlessly scream about DEI. C'mon, man.
The main issues that do exist are outdated game design (Ubisoft, Bethesda), budgets getting too big in general and shoving live service into traditionally single-player projects.
The Supreme Court seems to have given it's final verdict on Epic and Apple's legal battle in the US.
Woot! Bring on more Unreal Tournament!
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I think it would be a waste of resources to make another arena style game...the marketplace has passed that style of gaming by.
If you look what popular now it's COD and that style of game play. Unreal hasn't really been very successful in that FPS realm. Cliffy B is always talking about what makes COD popular...why don't they take a stab at the demographic.
Make a Gears Of war FPS. This time make it exclusive to the 360 where the hardcore controller and hardcore demographic live...they don't want another Bulletstorm catastrophe...O_o
Still UT99 making damn sure I never lose it love the game and always will first game that got me into online gaming.
I bought UT3 for PS3 gameplay was fantastic graphics were great BUT it felt like a half put together game. Online mode was cheapily done and the singleplayer was pretty dull to put it in the best way. If they commit to making a full fledge game lot of features clan support match making rank system etc.. it could be a better game.
If I remember right unreal doesn't have a story. I like at least a decent story, I really don't like games that's just strictly online, I just feel ripped off for some reason. But hey sell it at 30 or 40 and I might try it.