With veteran heel dragger Tetsuya Nomura in charge, we all know that Kingdom Hearts III is several years away. However, the legendary developer seems eager to shake off his longstanding reputation, by being proactive and switching production to Unreal Engine 4 – ditching the firm’s in-house technology in the process.
“Surely and steadily, we're progressing on schedule,” the former Final Fantasy XV chief exclaimed in an interview with Famitsu magazine. “For various reasons, we've changed the game engine to Unreal Engine 4, because of which we've been facing rendering troubles. But Epic Games has been really cooperative and helpful, so we're progressing just fine.”
Of course, there’s absolutely no word on when the Disney tie-in will ever release, with Nomura instead stressing that he’s busy beavering away on new outfits for series stars Sora and Riku. As long as they’ve got ample zippers about their person, we reckon that everything will be hunky dory behind closed doors.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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we'll if it help gets the game done quicker and better then I'm all for it
Progressing fine? Ha!
Unreal huh? Isn't that the engine that makes everything look like it's made out of plastic (and you hate w/ a passion?). I don't want KH3 to look like Batman.
I'm sorry why even bother to make an in house engine then.
Square Enix just loves to haemorrhage money it seems.
@ShogunRok FF XV uses it, and it's only been a year since we first saw it in it's Luminous Engine form.
Unreal engine for a game with unreal progress.
The Unreal Engine is a great engine for developers as it can make the development progress a lot easier and quicker. Just because its the Unreal Engine doesn't mean every game will look similar in art or graphics style. The latest "Alice" game was made by using the Unreal Engine but to look at it you couldn't tell. Its just a really good engine to work with. I know Rocksteadys Batman series has that Unreal Engine look but the new Batman Arkam Knight pushes the Unreal Engine 3 to its limits for which you can tell as its a great looking next gen game using a last gen engine and the only reason they're still using it is because they had a deal to make three games with that same engine.
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