1. Always-online requirement
2. Unoptimized games
3. Bloated data from 4K texture and uncompressed files
4. Overpriced
5. Obsession with photorealistic graphics, making everything looks the same
6. Killing servers and not letting people play the games offline
7. More sequels, remakes, and remastered
8. The need for the latest hardwares just to play a game
9. Renting the game even though it said "buy game"
10. Microtransactions

Using UE is not only about streamlining development... it's also so studios can easily fire devs and rehire newbies with lower salaries but who already know how to use this engine. No training required. At the end of the day it's all about cutting costs anyways

Worst part about UE5 it isn't even looking better. Medium settings, upscale, framegen and you get picture of UE4... at best. Yay! Spending 500$ on GPU so you can have decade old quality.

"PSSR on the PS5 and USSR on XBOX" .. standing ovation..

The fact Robocop didn't use CryEngine is strange as its gameplay mimics Crysis a lot.

The "Clunky" feeling in UE5 is the micro FPS drops that the naked eye can't see.

Horse armour feels so long ago now....

Love how brutally honest you are instead of tip toeing around sensitive topics, keep up the good work!

3:12 the word master is so used until recently. Many UE5 courses that are aimed at teaching material shaders make a "master" material that governs all the child materials that are instanced by the same master material.

The more realistic a game looks the less I'm interested in checking it out.

This is your "how unreal 5 is literally killing games" from 6 months ago extended?

Never played Fortnite and proud of it.

This "photo realism" is nonsense. A bunch of blurry pixels with poor performance.
And they use deffered rendering because otherwise they can't use their disgusting GI lumen.
You lose fps so they can use lazy and bad looking GI or ray tracing which is also unstable noisy and blurry and in order to work properly you have to use TAA which is soap on the screen.
I hope people stop buying games made on this engine. Unreal Engine 5 is plague to the gaming.

Modern gaming industry: the term enshittification seems reasonable

Games looked better than 10 years ago and it runs on potato and I don't even need nvidia reflex to kill input lag that is part of all UE5 games. I don't want miracles, I just want to have standard we already had, do I want that much? Why are today devs and publishers that aggressive and say we don't want development and other bullshits....I don't see any development in games that have 1/8s delay and when you go to populated areas, your 1000 eur gpu runs on 60% and you have 30 FPS.
Robocop is only of few games where you can disable lumen which clearly shows that all those artifacts and noise are really caused by lumen, how the hell is stiss an acceptable standard now and all studios accept this? How can it pass thru some quality check and stuff like that? It's totally crazy that in all 2020s games, when you look into lights or reflections, it looks like in some dos game, this is not acceptable quality, not with such HW requirments.
I don't know it RedEngine is superior in visuals, but RedEngine games don't have any input lag and it generally feels better and that feeling is all games are about, when everything feels weird in UE5 games, I just can't feel comfortable while playing it.

20:20 - I am one of those people who played Stalker in 2007 when it was originally released, so I remember it pretty well and NO, it was definitely not THAT buggy and THAT badly optimised as Stalker 2. I finished OG Stalker on some Celeron D with geforce 7600GT in AGP slot, it was playable and Xray engine is one of engines with the lowest input lag, so even with low FPS, it still feels great compared to modern games where I feel lag when fps drops under 120, it's ridiculous, I didn't need it in the past in PC only engines, it was playable with 30-60 FPS.

I am really glad that our Czech Warhorse studios used CryEngine, I am not pretending that engine is perfect and has 0 problems, but at I don't like when some companies have monopoly and monopoly of UE is not good. What I don't understand is how Crytek is completely useless and lazy to use this oppurtunity of very successfull KCD and KCD2 to promote CryEngine more, they completely missed that oppurtunity, they did literally nothing. They should start screaming "Look at how well KCD2 looks and runs, we can offer you our engine with all support and better conditions than Epic"  but nope, they did nothing, they are probably ok with beying dead studio developing weird engine that almost nobody uses.

CD Project should at least give rights for their engine to someone who will be using it.

I don't like many things about FC5, like unlocking weapons in gaming shop before you can find them outside, BUT FC5 is one of the beset looking and the best optimised games ever! And gun play feels so smooth and enjoyable, no input lag, everything is just right, I finished it in NATIVE 4K on some RTX 2070 Super and I was getting like 70 FPS, today games look worse and I am getting the same FPS with 5070 Ti with DLSS, it's ridiculous

2001 me: Happily grinding out Diablo 2 almost two full months before 9/11…A wide eyed 18 year old staring out across a world of wonder. Thank you modern life for destroying that misplaced trust in humanity.

They don't respond to what we say.  They respond to what we do.  So long as we keep buying them, they will keep doing it.  I stopped buying games at release because it is normal for games to release unfinished.  I wait for reviews.  Also I don't mind spoilers, so I watch Lets Plays before deciding to buy.  So the 5th dumb decision is to buy at release.  And let me add, the 6th dumb decision is to pre-order.  But I guess, if it is your job it is not dumb.

11:00 A typical Unreal engine 5 stutters

IMO the main problem is that studios are only hired to make games. They do not have copyrights for the title so they dont benefit if game sells. They just want to develop game as cheaply as they can. They arent paid for the extra effort or time taken. EA and microsoft bought lots of independent studios just for the copyrights for different game titles and fired people working there.

I remember playing splinter cell on pc in 2002 with lighting and shadow effects unheard of at the time…I think about it every time a modern game runs so poorly on powerful modern hardware