Most impressive game engine?

Decima - looks amazing obviously. Playing through HZD right now, and constantly being impressed by it.

ID Tech 6 - Not only did DOOM look amazing, but it's clear that it has a lot of untapped potential. 4K, 170 fps on ultra/nightmare settings, with a gtx 1080 and a 7 year old CPU? Hell yes.

Red Engine 3 - Witcher 3 on high end hardware was an absolute feast for the eyes. Dat moving foliage and draw distance.

Honestly, the engine that impresses me the most though........

The Fox Engine. Unfortunately it will probably sit shelved forever, now that Konami has gone full retardchinko.

Sure this video doesn't look the best, but c'mon. 30 fps on Intel integrated graphics? The scalability of this engine is nothing short of amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09GOqsNdyQ

Edit:

Frostbite - Left this one out originally, as I have zero personal experience with it. But several folks have mentioned that it also is very optimized.

Doom was optimized incredibly well.

Uncharted 4s engine.

I think the results those guys had with a low end system like PS4 ... their engine must be a monster

Yep I was going to say fox engine. Here's to hoping survive's not trash.

Id tech 6 easily. Doom is most optimize game of this generation plus looking amazing too. it feel like proper PC game rather than console port.

The Surge has a pretty impressive game engine: scales pretty well on all the platforms its on.

To me a game/engine is good as long as it has native 21:9 support ^^

@ghosts4ever: Agreed. Would love to see what a game using it would look like that would actually be taxing on a 1080/1080 ti.

ID tech 6 is very impressive. it would be great if elder scrolls 6 is built on it. scrap the gamebyro engine. it's pants.

Fox Engine, MGS 5 can be played on a toaster pc.

FH3 engine.

Gotta hand it to ID Tech 6. DOOM is able to perform so well even on older/med spec hardware that looks amazing on Med/High settings, while being able to take advantage of higher end specs for increased fidelity and visual extras.

Frostbite should also be on the list, with what Star Wars Battlefront. Battlefield 1, and Titanfall 2 is able to deliver, also without needing crazy specs to pull it off.

Took a while for the first mention of Frostbite, which to me is probably the most impressive, it's not custom made for one game, it scales well with hardware and it work across variety of genres well. Dice are some serious wizards.

Engines are just tools. You can make any game engine look incredible or terrible.

@Pedro: No, some engines are just crap.

Decima...... what it's able to deliver on PS4 on H:ZD is nothing short of incredible, also looking forward to seeing what Kojima can do with it in Death Stranding.

Tough choice...all of those are fantastic.

Anyway, i would probably go with Frostbite and ID Tech 6. SW Battlefront and DOOM look incredible and run at almost flawless 60fps on consoles (same for Battlefield 1 on the Pro).

An engine is a tool that's used to help speed up development. You can't just simply look at a game and say such and such engine is impressive/not impressive.

Yeah both ID Tech 6 & Red Engine 3 have impressed me the most.

@Silenthps:

Sure you can. A game that runs extremely well across all hardware/configurations is a testament to an engine that scales very well, which is impressive to me.

MGSV looks and runs perfectly fine even on Intel HD graphics. I'd love to see someone like Bugthesda with their shitty, 15 year old, cobbled together, mess of an engine pull off a feat like that.

I think ID Tech 6 is probably the most scale-able and optimised engine on the market today. Frostbite is up there as well though.

Geo-mod Engine (2001) for terrain destruction by release date.

Doom 4 feels like a console game and the optimisation isn't amazing, it just has only two colours.

Frostbite seems to have the most photo-realism but UE4 has demonstrated that ability too but for actual games I haven't seen it look quite as good as Frostbite. Other than those 2, I don't think any other engine comes quite as close, not that they don't also look terrific. I tip my hat to Dunia, Tech 6, Red, Cryengine 5, ...and hell, even UE 3 still can look extremely good.

Why? Doom doesn't actually have much going on within it, just basically a series of linear connected arena's. It's not going to do open world games very well. Granted Tiago did a good job creating Tech 6, reusing some of Carmack's code as he worked on Cryengine.

Frostbite

whatever Ubi used for GR: Wildlands is pretty impressive.

BF1 is quite a technical feat though given how smooth it plays while looking sublime

Uncharted 4, Horizon Zero, Doom and Injustice 2 are my favorite so far.

No idea. Whichever's the most easy for higher end devs to use I guess?

I'm guessing Unreal is still big and maybe the in house engines of Sony then agian that maybe's more on the Sony artists IDK?

I hope they add a Pachinko minigame which will really be the main game.

CryEngine and Frostbite

Dunia Engine looks and runs great.

Frostbite is probably my favorite, but the Red engine that CD Projekt uses is phenomenal.

You're right, DOOM is very linear, and the polar opposite of what an open world game would be. The creators have admitted it's not really geared towards open world games. Too bad, otherwise Fallout 4 might have actually been something more than Fallout 3.5 w/ all the same bugs.

I'm having a hard time bringing to mind any other corridor/on rails shooters that achieve this level of visual fidelity, at 4K and over 170 frames per second on a high end rig though. Considering some console games are still struggling to even keep a solid 30 fps.

That's an awful lot of spare performance in the tank.

They could probably use it to make an open world along the lines of FFXV, where there are still some invisible walls here and there.

I don't remember where I read this, but apparently the reason ID Tech 6 wasn't considered at all for Fallout/Elder Scrolls, wasn't so much about the graphics required for an open world, but the ability to handle so many little/movable objects just isn't something ID tech 6 is geared for.

OMG, I really hope they give up on that engine. Fallout 4, even heavily modified, has severe limitations that were so obvious. Hopefully they do go with ID Tech for Fallout 5/Elder Scrolls 6

Does Doom have time of day, distant LOD and asset streaming?

And the only obvious answer is GTAV engine, I have no idea how they got that working on a PS3 and still be good enough for next gen systems and PC. A close second was Fox engine for the same reasons. Massively scalable.

Uncharted 4's engine

CryEngine is my favorite, both Ryse and crysis have won best graphics awards in the past

ID tech 6 doom 2016 runs and looks great even on consoles

Frostbite battlefield 1 game looks insane especially on pc ultra settings.

A good engine is a good engine. If you look at what C.I.G. are doing with Cryengine/Lumberyard (now Starengine), another powerful linear FPS engine, imagine what a talented studio, with the resources and time available, could do with IDTech 6.

Cry Engine 3

Dunia Engine 2

Luminous Studio

Mizuchi

The Tomorrow Children

I'm not an "engine aficionado" - but I will agree the Decima engine is nothing short of amazing. Taking a step back from Horizon, and realizing it is running on a 7850-70ish GPU and a meh CPU... it boggles the mind. Same for Frostbite. These allow for impressive results on what is, at the end of the day, pretty dated hardware

Or the games were just crap.

True, just like a terrible builder can have all the best power tools, and still be a shit builder. Doesn't mean the tools can't be compared against each other and rated on their effectiveness.

An engine being a tool doesn't take away from the fact that some are just better than others, come on dudes. It's just like anything else.

There are tons of asset creation tools out there that have similar uses. But you'll be hard pressed to find a character artist who doesn't agree that Zbrush is the best digital sculpting package of the bunch. Or a texture artist who doesn't agree Photoshop is the best place for texturing in 2d space, or Mari for 3d space.

Some tools are just better than others.

That's what she said.

@Pedro: That too

Decima, Uncharted 4 engine, UE4, Frostbite engine, IDTech 6, and Fox Engine.

The Overwatch engine, 30fps on an Intel GPU.

Good thing ID is using tech 6 for Quake...........oh wait no...........contracted in a failed studio/engine instead.

I don't know much about engines, but IdTech 6 seems easy to run with great visuals, so I'll say that one.

Lumberyard, is an open world engine. You can do large maps with Cryengine 2 but Cryengine 3 is being used for Kingdome Come which is a huge open world game. Lumberyard adds Amazon's social media features and I presume it has all the work that Robert's team put into it too such as 64 bit positioning..etc. I don't know what Cryengine 5 adds beyond that but I keep wondering what ever happened to Cryengine 4? But CE 5 and UE 4 seem extremely similar. BTW Cryengine 4 tech demo looked amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseq4T81P7g

Tech6 coded to do open world wouldn't really be Tech 6 when it's done, probably everything except the runtime would have to be redone because how the engine is geared to perform various tasks. Cryengine 1 had to be completely reworked into what became Dunia engine and I'm sure today it bares little resemblance to the code in CE1.

The best thing about Cryengine 5 now is that it's 100% royalty free but everyone still seems to flock to UE 4, maybe it's a support thing.

I don't know what it's called but I'd say the GTA V engine. It can render an entire city and/or countryside filled with people, traffic, animals, grass and other plant life, lakes and the ocean, dynamic weather with day and night cycles and all of that in sandbox go anywhere do anything anytime you feel like it world at 1080p 60fps.

Surely that must be up there with the all time great game engines.

Hmmm it's a tough one. game engines have their strengths and weaknesses. Unreal Engine 4 seems to get nicer results more quickly, but ID engine with DOOM...man that looks and runs amazingly. I would love to see a sequel to The Evil Within and using that (since they used ID 5 engine with the first).

I think a lot depends on the genre. I prefer open world/sandbox games, so I'd have to go for REDengine 3 (Witcher 3) and Rage (GTA V). Both do incredible things in terms of creating a living, breathing world and I can't wait to see what they'll look like in a true next-gen title.