Summary of the video is: Unity is crap, Unity is shit, Unity is 2D Pixel Art Crap, People are not smart who use Unity.
It seems to be a Game-Dev which has experience but why is he saying that? Is he a hater? Is he a troll? Or is there a little truth in these statements?
facepalm
Alright, now I definitely won’t be watching this.
Either a fanboy of another engine, some sort of elitsits with weird ideas (like “all games must be written in assembler”), or someone trying to gather more views/comments on his video by making people angry.
The engine does have some issues/weak sides, but no engine is perfect.
That’s as far as I got in the video before before closing it. Either his only experience with Unity is from nothing but asset flips or he was fooled into thinking Unity is Torque circa 2002.
Wait, his comments are disabled. Nope, this fucker’s just a shitposter.
Unity has issues, all engines have issues, depending on what game you are making, those issues might affect you more or less and it’s perfectly understandable that one can try Unity and have very valid reasons for disliking it.
But that video is garbage. The guy has a beef with Unity and doesn’t make one single argument as of why. I think he did it on purpose to raise the views on his video (and I guess he succeeded).
Unity is probably the easiest engine to get into. Plus it requires the splash screen on cheap low budget games. Not many high budget games display the Unity logo. So a lot of gamers associate Unity with crappy low budget games made by high school kids.
However if you look at the high budget games made in Unity, you’ll see a very different picture. Unity is used by a wide number of AAA studios. And it’s used pretty much universally by small studios and indies.
I remember watching this a while back. He used to have comments enabled but he was torn apart because he lacks knowledge on what he is talking about and is just spouting nonsense.
Edit: To elaborate a bit, he’s regurgitating the “feature list” essentially and using that as a basis for what is better.
It’s obvious from the video that the guy never used unity and doesn’t know anything about it, he even thinks you have to pay a tax to use it, so who even cares about what he says? That would be like getting medical advice from a car mechanic.
Doesn’t seem that way at all. Didn’t see any reference to his work if he has actually done any.
Everyone has an opinion. People’s opinions only have value in context. It’s no different from gamasutra or any other site. Before you pay any attention to some random person on the internet, check the context. If he hasn’t made any games or has any real experience, his opinion is completely worthless. His only demonstrated skill or experience is the ability to create a youtube channel. Basically you wasted time watching some moron drone on, when you could have been actually been working on making a game. Attention-whores only goal is to waste your time, he is succeeding in that respect. I watched 10secs of the video, and feel that I should send him a bill for my time.
He states at the beginning that he has a day job and is spending his free time working towards a AAA game, as it sounds like he can only work with AAA tools.
His point seems to be Unity does not do AAA out of the box, you open up Unreal or Cryengine and ta da it’s AAA already.
He does seem to like or prefer game engines that provide visual programming so you don’t have to code?!
How many developers especially part time ones can produce or purchase their way to a good quality AAA game?
Which is all meaningless drivel, and illustrates my point. No one spends their “free time” working on a AAA game, that is an oxymoron. He has little to no understanding of game development if that is what he said, so everything after that has no value.
What someone is “working on” means nothing, until they have something to show for it. Being able to make quality games is very easily demonstrable. Anyone can say they are writing the next best-selling novel, or that they are spending their free time making a summer movie blockbuster. Doesn’t mean you listen to them or that they have any valuable advice on the topic.
Dude’s full of it, he’s being intentionally inflamatory just to get views (notice how comments are disabled). There really isn’t much else to say. Hell, footage of P.A.M.E.L.A. even plays in the background while he talks.
Not even that nowadays.
Unity’s new effects stack is pretty awesome, even in beta.
And I’ve seen a lot horrible-looking UE4 games too. People tend to forget, that carefully thought-out art direction is more important than dozens of post-effects slapped onto a game with cheap standard assets.
It’s pretty obvious, that the dude in this video has no clue. Unfortunately, this seems a common perception among Unreal Engine users. You find such comments a lot at the Unreal Engine forums.
The thing is, the most beautiful, creative and successful indie games were made with Unity so far. Firewatch, Subnautica, Slime Rancher, The Forest, Cities: Skylines, Prey for Gods are just a couple ones on top of my head.
Even the highly anticipated Little Devil Inside, was initially made with Unity, until they decided to use Unreal Engine (for whatever reasons, since the game already looked fantastic) and now face tons of issues, which lead to a huge delay that leaves a lot angry Kickstarter backers.
