Director doesn't rule out switching to Unreal Engine 5 for Part 3 of Final Fantasy VII Remake

[John Elden Ring]

FF7 Rebirth Director Naoki Hamaguchi said Rebirth took 4 years to develop in parallel with FF7R Intergrad. He says they are considering using Unreal Engine 5 for the final game, but believes what players want most is for them to deliver the game in good shape as soon as possible. He says he will make a decision based on whether it will be faster to switch engines or whether it is best to make it all at once as it is now.

We'll have to evaluate the merits and demerits of the engine, but I think it's something to consider - it's similar to considering switching from SVN to Perforce.

Even so, the director understands that the fans want the final part as soon as possible and he doesn't yet know if switching engines could end up lengthening development too much, so it's something he'll have to consider consciously.

But I think what our users are looking for most at the moment is to deliver the last game in the series in good shape as quickly as possible. I'm trying to think about this in a fair way and decide whether the change will speed up the process or whether it's better to create the whole series the way it is now.

 

[rofif]

ue5 kinda sucks from what I've seen so far

 

[AllBizness]

I dont mind, the game will look better graphically on UE5 and UE5 would make it look really good on the Pro as well.

 

[anonpuffs]

Please no

 

[Evilnemesis8]

It all depends on the trade-off between new UE5 features(that they haven't engineered themselves) and what their own custom branch of UE4 is capable of doing. There's an argument for both, but unless we know the very specific particular of what's under the hood and what the plan is for Part 3, can't really know the correct decision.

 

[Shmunter]

ue5 kinda sucks from what I've seen so far

Won’t properly flex till PS5 Pro

 

[KvallyX]

Won’t properly flex till PS5 Pro

I’m gonna go with next gen for the flex. Right before Unreal 6 debuts and brings everything back to 30fps again.

 

[Shmunter]

I’m gonna go with next gen for the flex. Right before Unreal 6 debuts and brings everything back to 30fps again.

Nah bro, watch the magic soon

 

[Yurinka]

Rebirth already looks great, I thought it was already using UE5. I think that if it looks as good as Rebirth it will be enough, I don't see the need of changing the engine unless it gives them extra performance or something like that.

 

[arvfab]

While Rebirth was a beautiful game, it suffered a lot from sticking to UE4. Lot of texture loading issues made the game look very inconsistent. If the engine switch brings only improvements and no drawbacks, I'm ok waiting a few months more to have a better product.

 

[YeezyDude]

I hope so since this won't be out until 2026 at least... So if they move to UE 5 so will they take better advantage of the PS5 Pro for example. But I won't be surprised if they decide to still use UE 4 tbh.

 

[ethomaz]

It makes sense... their base is already done in EU4... so porting to UE5 is a no brainer.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

Depends on the type of UE5 game we're talking about.

If they're taking a game written for UE4 and then just switch to UE5 then it's going to be horrible because it'll be a UE4-looking game with all the shader cache problems.

If it's a native UE5 development with proper Nanite and Lumen implementations, then we could be seeing something very special.



Also, the modern UE5 builds are much better performing than the ones we got in 2021 (of which games released in 2023-24 were built on).

 

[YeezyDude]

Depends on the type of UE5 game we're talking about.

If they're taking a game written for UE4 and then just switch to UE5 then it's going to be horrible because it'll be a UE4-looking game with all the shader cache problems.

If it's a native UE5 development with proper Nanite and Lumen implementations, then we could be seeing something very special.



Also, the modern UE5 builds are much better performing than the ones we got in 2021 (of which games released in 2023-24 were built on).

Agreed... I hope it's done the right way or I think they should stick to UE 4 if the game will have a lot of issues running on UE 5. But I guess we'll see what happens once the game is revealed in 2025 hopefully.

 

[ethomaz]

Depends on the type of UE5 game we're talking about.

If they're taking a game written for UE4 and then just switch to UE5 then it's going to be horrible because it'll be a UE4-looking game with all the shader cache problems.

If it's a native UE5 development with proper Nanite and Lumen implementations, then we could be seeing something very special.



Also, the modern UE5 builds are much better performing than the ones we got in 2021 (of which games released in 2023-24 were built on).

Shader cache problems will be a issue even being native UE5... on PC.

But we are talking here about PS release that won't have any shader cache problems at all no matter UE4 or UE5.
This game releases Exclusive to PS5 for years.

 

[Entropi]

I don't think that Lemmon is worth the squeeze.

 

[Airbus]

UE5 is newer so of course are better than UE4

We re gona see better improvement for part 3

 

[Killer_Sakoman]

I dont mind, the game will look better graphically on UE5 and UE5 would make it look really good on the Pro as well.

You are talking about PS6 by the time this game comes out.

 

[Killer_Sakoman]

Eitherway, SE is one of the worst UE developers. They are unable to deliver an UE game that can load its textures.

 

[JAHGamer]

Eitherway, SE is one of the worst UE developers. They are unable to deliver an UE game that can load its textures.

nah FF7 Remake was amazing, idk what happened with Rebirth. Obviously the scale is much larger but Remake looked better all around.