Several PlayStation Studios are making games in Horizon Forbidden West's engine

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WHYY?
Aren't both games about Aloy's story?

Why wasn't TLOU's engine handed off to other studios to do side stories with alt characters, RE Revelations style? There's also 20 years of apocalypse to set different stories across time too.
 

nongkris

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Good, worked great for Death Stranding.

A big advantage Decima has over Unreal 5 is that Decima games actually get released.
UE5 literally released last year. Of course no big games have been released using it.
WHYY?
Aren't both games about Aloy's story?

Why wasn't TLOU's engine handed off to other studios to do side stories with alt characters, RE Revelations style? There's also 20 years of apocalypse to set different stories across time too.
What on earth are you talking about.
 

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UE5 literally released last year. Of course no big games have been released using it.
So? Would renaming Decima to Decima 2 buy them extra years to work on it before getting compared to Unreal 5?

Soon we'll be entering year 4 of current gen and still no Unreal 5 games, not to mention that the game that actually has a release date (Redfall) doesn't look impressive at all.
 

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So? Would renaming Decima to Decima 2 buy them extra years to work on it before getting compared to Unreal 5?

Soon we'll be entering year 4 of current gen and still no Unreal 5 games, not to mention that the game that actually has a release date (Redfall) doesn't look impressive at all.
So.... it makes no sense to expect UE5 games to have been released yet when the goddamn thing is only a year old. Games aren't made that fast.

Also Fortnite is running on UE5 so technically a UE5 game has been released.
 

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So.... it makes no sense to expect UE5 games to have been released yet when the goddamn thing is only a year old. Games aren't made that fast.

Also Fortnite is running on UE5 so technically a UE5 game has been released.
Yeah, same as UE4. Most AAA games took years after engine released.
 

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Great news. I'm still in awe of how good the character scenes look in Horizon Forbidden West, especially on an OLED TV. It's incredible.

The open world looks great too, even with the "balanced" setting. It's definitely one of the greatest engines ever.
 

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What's the difference between Guerrilla's inhouse engine and Decima? They don't use the Decima brand for Horizon forbidden west.
 

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What's the difference between Guerrilla's inhouse engine and Decima? They don't use the Decima brand for Horizon forbidden west.
Its all the same, more or less.

Decima is the name Kojima made up for what Guerrilla had previously nicknamed the Killzone engine or just referred to as Guerrilla's engine. Its based on Dejima, an old island in Japan that held a Dutch trading post years ago. Named in spirit of the whole Dutch-Japanese connection of course.

Guerrilla do use the word Decima from time to time, they just don't advertise it in Horizon's boot and trailers etc like Kojima does. He clearly likes branding engines, like his old Fox engine.
 

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That's cool hopefully they get it up to UE5 levels though because the bar has been raised