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by r41nbowdash 2821 days ago
The main advantage of using Unity is its out of the box support for multiple platforms, and garbage collected runtime, other than that it's slower, and graphics are on the ok-ish side (the best looking Unity game i've seen is Battletech), and i'm not sure about its open-world capabilities (Firewatch and The Long Dark world sections were rather tiny), possibly there's a way around it.

It seems that Unreal Engine is a better choice (Mass Effects, for example), but its pure C++ (with lua scripting), which means x3-4 as much of code, and trickier interoperability.

I dunno, tough choice. Good luck with your project!
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calferreira 2821 days ago
I don't think graphics are only engine related. This game was made with unity and it looks awesome

https://store.steampowered.com/app/261570/Ori_and_the_Blind_...

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r41nbowdash 2821 days ago
Yeah, nice assets can really make a difference, the thing is you can pull twice as much polygons in the same scene with Unreal Engine (oversimplyfing)

http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/projects/pacman-benchmark/thesis-co...

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esistgut 2821 days ago
I would really like to see some more recent tests as Unity before the 2018.x releases had a "ux/easy of use/developer first" approach but they did significant improvements on rendering quality and efficiency on the 2018.x versions.
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r41nbowdash 2821 days ago
Technically, they're wrapping a native library, so it's possible to create a benchmark where there's no performance gap whatsoever. The bottleneck is at the intersection of the runtime enviroment with the library, which makes comparison difficult.

FWIW it's a good piece of code, and i like it.

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cpv 2821 days ago
Not related to the engine, but this one has also some awesome soundtracks.

Album on bandcamp, but feels much better in the game: https://garethcoker.bandcamp.com/album/ori-and-the-blind-for...

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lfowles 2821 days ago
Don't forget that Unreal has Blueprints. You could practically finish an entire game on blueprints alone! I recall that The Solus Project was almost entirely blueprint based.
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chupasaurus 2821 days ago
There is no out-of-box support of Lua in UE4.
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