Monday, April 9th 2012
Epic Games Has A PC-Exclusive In The Works
Get this - Epic Games is working on a PC-exclusive. This teaser was released by Cliff Bleszinski and Mike Capps of Epic Games, at PAX East. "We might be working on a PC-only title," said Bleszinski. "Let me say that again: we are working on a PC game," Capps added. Capps told Joystiq that the project is currently underway, and that Epic Games intends to keep it PC-exclusive. This fits into the scheme of recent developments at Epic Games. Epic unveiled its latest Unreal Engine 4, with demos that made the most bleeding-edge PC hardware sweat, and so it is only apt that the first game will serve as a technology demonstrator, and will probably offer jaw-dropping visuals that make use of the resources today's gaming PCs can expend.
Source:
Joystiq
43 Comments on Epic Games Has A PC-Exclusive In The Works
so the prodigal son returns..... Or should i say - Look what the cat dragged in.
According to Mike Capps:
"Everyone knows the middle class is disappearing from the console business. Gears of War, I hope will do really well, but a pretty good game doesn't make its money back anymore," Capps said. "A game like Homefront sells a couple of million copies and they close the studio, right? That's not enough anymore. That's pretty depressing. You don't want to see what happens to an industry where it's Call of Duty, Halo and Gears and no-one else has enough money to make any games anymore. That's not a fun industry."
"I can't bet my entire company every time I make a game," Capps concluded. "That's a really dangerous business."
In other words - they are the victims of their own success. They've boycotted the PC market over piracy, then theyve saturated the console market so bad they cant make any money so come crawling back to the PC platform....
Dont worry Epic studios....I'll make sure to get your game and play it
Right after i torrent it.
you will see the engine at E3.
Sure the graphics are 100x better, theyve added more game types - some which even include vehicles but its just so slow paced.
I still find myself playing UT99 every so often and its not for nostalgia's sake.
I don't mind slowed down gameplay to an extent, but there should always be a place for those fast chaotic sci-fi shooters--like Quake 3, UT99, Tribes, etc.
there are some games out there that despite what the devs do, it will never topple the one they made before it as the first always sets the benchmark for later games in that series.
They should have included an option to speed the game up though. even if its just a mutator. that way it caters for both styles of players - the 'oldskool' and the newer generation who might not like the faster pace of classic UT99
My money is on them switching to one of the next gen consoles (yes, that awful phrase is back) as lead platform once they get final development hardware.
If the game looks good i wouldnt be surprised if microsoft or sony pay them off to make it an exclusive for their next machine.