Square's New Engine: Luminous

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQB9ds2AYwM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQB9ds2AYwM</a>

Unreal Engine 4 already looks like shit.

Holy fuck

if anyone can make an engine that look like 100% real life. that person will be instant LEGENDARY GAME DEVELOPER IN THE UNIVERSE...

This is Final Fantasy? It ain't bad.

Square has to do a whole lot more than make a pretty game to get me back. FFXIII was a pretty game, too. I'm not falling for it again.

Reiterating most of my posts about e3, DAYUM!

Woohoo? It probably took them months just to show that off, big deal. What games can it make?

I hope all of you understand that other companies than Square are going to be using this engine to make games. It's a tool and a damn good one at that considering the physics and fantastic aesthetics I can hardly imagine as being rendered in real time. Final Fantasy was just used as a setting/theme for the tech demo although FFXIII Versus is apparently being delayed to run on it.

You're a tool and a damn good one at that.

I hope all of you understand that other companies than Square are going to be using this engine to make games. It's a tool and a damn good one at that considering the physics and fantastic aesthetics I can hardly imagine as being rendered in real time. Final Fantasy was just used as a setting/theme for the tech demo although FFXIII Versus is apparently being delayed to run on it.

Wow, you don't say. You mean this is like the Unreal Engine except everyone can use it?

I hope you understand that this is the result of high-end computers and not a next gen dev kit.

Not going to deny it looks amazing and I'd play it. But it's a tech demo running on bleeding-edge systems. The demo was also co-developed by Square's CG studio. Crytek's next engine and UE4 will likely look just as good as non-playable tech demos.

It remains to be seen whether anybody uses this engine.

You're a tool and a damn good one at that.

;]

I hope all of you understand that other companies than Square are going to be using this engine to make games. It's a tool and a damn good one at that considering the physics and fantastic aesthetics I can hardly imagine as being rendered in real time. Final Fantasy was just used as a setting/theme for the tech demo although FFXIII Versus is apparently being delayed to run on it.

Wow, you don't say. You mean this is like the Unreal Engine except everyone can use it?

;]

I hope you understand that this is the result of high-end computers and not a next gen dev kit.

Not going to deny it looks amazing and I'd play it. But it's a tech demo running on bleeding-edge systems. The demo was also co-developed by Square's CG studio. Crytek's next engine and UE4 will likely look just as good as non-playable tech demos.

Everything at E3 ran on high end computers. Obviously this isn't a direct example of what everything is going to look like coming out of this, but it does what a tech demo aims to do by showing off the potential. This is also an engine being developed for next gen games so how is it not a next gen dev kit?

I hope you understand that this is the result of high-end computers and not a next gen dev kit.

Not going to deny it looks amazing and I'd play it. But it's a tech demo running on bleeding-edge systems. The demo was also co-developed by Square's CG studio. Crytek's next engine and UE4 will likely look just as good as non-playable tech demos.

> implying nobody else has the technology to do what Crytek and Epic are doing.

Also I'd like to point out that I'm well aware that UE4 is capable of producing results like this and will be just as good (if not better.) Just saying with everything out so far this is the most impressive.

Tech demo? Or CG movie?

It's rendered in real time, so tech demo.

I also just realized how absolutely terrible the bug things look compared to everything else.

At least the music was pretty.

Okay, then it was pretty impressi-PARTICLE EFFECTS PARTICLE EFFECTS PARTICLE EFFECTS PARTICLE EFFECTS PARTICLE EFFECTS

jk its pretty awesome

Remake Final Fantasy VII and IX in it

My mind would be straight blown the fuck up if they remade VII and IX in this engine. I'm for it.

Remake VI in it.

Square doesn't want anything to do with good games anymore. They'd rather churn out FF XIII-3, Crystal Chronicle games, and half-assed MMOs.

But if they do remake something, they'll probably remake FF I for the thousandth time.

Yeah, Mistwalker is the real Square anyway.