Epic 'Not Currently Working On An Unreal" Game

[Gambit84]

As far as Unreal being stale, I dont believe that to be true. If EPIC made a new Single player/Co-op game Unreal game IN HOUSE and gave it the TLC that Gears is getting, I have no doubt it'd be a triple A title.
That being said, Gears of War made a bigger splash for their Unreal Engine than UT3 did. I suspect they will focus on the Gears IP heavily while launching the new engine.

Another Unreal will come eventually, but it will be a far time off and probably wont get the development attention it deserves until its a good business decision to back off the Gears IP.

 

[Agent_5]

Not until someone new is willing to inject fresh baby batter will conception take place.

Are you saying BU should host a fapathon? I'd be in if free monkey pr0n was involved.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

A fourth game was confirmed way back in January.

Enjoy.

I don't know that I would say it was "confirmed". Information was uncovered about the existence of some kind of project.

 

[ambershee]

There have been interviews (including with CliffyB) that are indicative of it's content; I'd say that's more or less confirmed.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

I thought so, too. But Google disagrees with us.

 

[LivingPuppet]

At this point, I'll be surprised if Epic makes another Unreal game. When Epic leaves a franchise to start doing something else, it's usually done for. Either way, they should just make UT3 free and give it the TF2 treatment.

 

[BITE_ME]

English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired

I thought so, too. But Google disagrees with us.

Your Google sucks compared to mine.

"Epic Games has filed three trademarks for something called Gears of War: Exile."

Link

 

[Severin]

Epic's core game making philosophy of "when everyone says it's done, keep polishing!" came from our experiences with Unreal Tournament 3

Fixed.

UT2007 has been in development for a while now. How is everything progressing?

Mark Rein: It's coming along pretty well, there's a lot of work to do. You know, UT is a game that has a lot of content, a lot of levels; it takes a long time - especially now with next-generation-quality artwork to get that all done and polished. Plus UT is such an important franchise to us we really want to take our time and get it right - that's why we've never really had a release date for this game, it's just when it's done, which really surprised us when people wrote 'the game is delayed' - what do you mean the game is delayed? All we said was that it's not coming this year, that doesn't mean it's delayed. We confirmed to people; don't save you money for this game for Christmas because you won't be getting it. Buy Gears of War (laughs).

"when everyone says it's done, keep polishing!"

Was a line they trotted out while they were hyping UT3.

 

[Nevzat]

not big suprise atleast better than getting crappy unreal game

 

[Sir_Brizz]

Your Google sucks compared to mine.

"Epic Games has filed three trademarks for something called Gears of War: Exile."

Link

I don't see the word "confirmed" in anything you just linked to A filed trademark doesn't mean much.

 

[Plumb_Drumb]

still, I would like to see what People Can Fly are working on, and I hope it's not another Bulletstorm game, unless they change it up big time.

 

[Vaginal Epiphany]

Desaturated my ass. The original Unreal had a good enough setting to make an epic sequel with the good old unreal feel, but instead they outsourced it and turned it into some shitty b-rate sci-fi movie game. The single player mapping community has plenty of great ideas to suck out from the original setting and have made plenty of campaigns that are both aesthetically pleasing and fun to play. If a studio the size of Epic would seriously undertake making an Unreal sequel and kept it true to the original setting (Na Pali was pretty damn fucking perfect, the ancient vs dark tech setting was so good and only went to produce awesome feats of level design) they would sell bucketloads.

Though I bet the next Unreal title (unless it's another 'tournament' game) will have regenerating health and 4 weapons, not to mention chest-high walls, no jumping and linear level design.

They could just continue the story from more or less where Unreal ended. Imagine if instead of that stupid bullcrap plot we had in Unreal 2 they would have followed off with another game on Na Pali that would explore more of the mysteries of that planet. I mean, it had tons of potential. I mean, U2 would have been a million times more faithful to the franchise if instead of that stupid race in the second game would have been replaced by the Nali. At least they were already a developed race, what with all of their mysterious gods and all that jazz. I pretty much always imagined their 'gods' were just their highly advanced ancestors or some shit, you know, with Vandora and her flaming chariot from the sky. Also, they could fucking levitate, man, how cool is that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpr0tUPA1Rk

God, how the mighty have fallen.

 

[Capt.Toilet]

Never could understand the hype behind the game. I have tried playing it on 3 different occasions and have gotten bored around the time I found the minigun type weapon. One thing it does have going for it is the soundtrack but other than that I just can't get drawn in.

 

[Plumb_Drumb]

Never could understand the hype behind the game. I have tried playing it on 3 different occasions and have gotten bored around the time I found the minigun type weapon. One thing it does have going for it is the soundtrack but other than that I just can't get drawn in.

The soundtrack is one of the best I've ever heard

 

[Phopojijo]

A fourth game was confirmed way back in January.

Enjoy.

From the studio that brought you Unreal Tournament.

 

[Gubbubu]

This firm is completely mad. First they drop Unreal 2 into Legend Entertainments, now they drop Unreal 3 into the arms of God of Nihil. Unreal3 could be not only a new legendary game, but a financial success if they don't do halfwork. I'm soooooo disappointed.

 

[Gubbubu]

Yes and an Unreal Movie (a far better than the Doom was) wouldn't be bad too. With Vin Diesel as P849.

 

[Plumb_Drumb]

damn, thyis is the most amzing shit ever. let me knowl.