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Author:  Echo 419 [ Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:03 pm ]
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Me and my friend kinda get into these little squalls about which game engine is better so I decided to ask you people which is better in power/features and user friendly the Unreal engine or the Source engine?

I say the source engine for power and features
Author:  cyberax [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:07 am ]
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6 of one and half a dozen of the other!
In other words, they both have their place...I don't think one is better than the other, they both have good things and bad things :)

It's like saying, which is better, a GM or a Chevie ?

I've generaly found that, it is the first game released with that specific engine that tends to make people think one engine is better than the other....it's just an illusion and the skills of the people doing the artwork for the game at the time trying to show off the engine as much as possible that people tend to say, hey that engine is way better, when in reality, they're all fairly similar....

there, now that should spark a debate :p
Author:  Echo 419 [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:00 am ]
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Interesting reply it should spark another saga in our little battles but since its getting kinda late (or early 4:59 AM) I should really try to get some sleep or ill crash at dinner time tomorrow :D
Author:  DarkCarnivour [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:27 am ]
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You can generally do whatever is needed to make the best game on earth with any modern engine... The differences between the engines are far outweighted by the creative abilities of the developers...
Another point is that the two engines you mentioned were released years apart, so the newer will have more fancy little features and stuff.

This question will probably never be answered until one company gets a monopoly and is the only one developing an engine. Course, without competition, their engine will be worse than what it should be...
Author:  DK [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:56 am ]
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Healthy competition breeds better products in the future.

Think of it as gaming evolution.
Author:  Baklajan [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:57 am ]
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Current Unreal engine is generally thought to have better performance and optimization, while Source is believed to be more developer-friendly and crash-proof. After Source 2 was out (it's now the game engine of the updated HL2 and E1), a number of advanced graphical effects and support for 2048x2048 textures and stuff alike came at the price of a worse performance, Source no longer sounds like Performance to me.
Author:  Bjossi [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:25 am ]
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This is no brainer, Source wins hands down. It is newer, has better graphics, more features, etc. etc.
Comparing engines with a big age difference is generally a bad idea.
Author:  SX [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:41 am ]
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I like UE3 better than other engines
Author:  OCAdam [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:36 am ]
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cyberax wrote:
It's like saying, which is better, a GM or a Chevie ?


A Corvette! :P

PS, It's Chevy. Or just Chevrolet.
Author:  cyberax [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:05 am ]
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OCAdam wrote:
PS, It's Chevy. Or just Chevrolet.


yeah, noted, sorry to all the Chevy fans 8)
Author:  Echo 419 [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:10 am ]
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But the unreal engine 2 and the source engine in half life 2 were being used at generally the same time weren't they? In a press release valve said they were using it back in 2001 to start modeling the faces and speech. And Half lie 2 and Unreal tournament 2004 were released 6 months apart it would seem kinda hard to create a whole new engine or start from the middle in that little of time.
Author:  Bjossi [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:44 am ]
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Unreal Engine 2 was first used by UT2003, which was available in October 2002...
Author:  James [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:09 pm ]
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Source beats the crap out of Unreal 2/2.5, Unreal3 beats the crap out of Source. done
Author:  Echo 419 [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:13 pm ]
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James wrote:
Source beats the crap out of Unreal 2/2.5, Unreal3 beats the crap out of Source. done


This was starting to be a good conversation :@
Anyway my friend also brought up the so called flaw that the Source engine has something about the sound and how the engine screws it up.
Author:  Bjossi [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:02 pm ]
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The sound in Source is fine in all the games I've played.
Maybe your friend was bringing up a flaw that his audio hardware & software are causing.
Author:  James [ Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:18 am ]
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Echo 419 wrote:
James wrote:
Source beats the crap out of Unreal 2/2.5, Unreal3 beats the crap out of Source. done


This was starting to be a good conversation :@
Anyway my friend also brought up the so called flaw that the Source engine has something about the sound and how the engine screws it up.


maybe his computer sucks....?
i played HL2 while running windows on my mac and every thing ran perfectly and the sound played great.
Author:  Echo 419 [ Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:50 pm ]
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He has the same PC I do but he could just be naming off things to try to put the source engine down
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