alt Hacker NewsNot to dismiss the effort by dev, but all Unreal engine games look photoreal these days. My point is that photorealism does not show effort these days.
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Sharlin • yesterday at 10:02 PM
No engine in the world can make bad assets look good.
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arjie • yesterday at 10:06 PM
Oh wow, I didn't know engines provided that much functionality. Thank you.
Most of the review is about the art assets, and I doubt the big ones (e.g. the trains themselves) are off-the-rack Unreal assets. An engine like Unreal 5 will cast your assets in harsh relief. Which is to say, if your game's assets look custom and look good in Unreal 5, it does indeed demonstrate effort and skill.