Epic Games Announces Paragon Game

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Epic Games Announces Paragon Game

While Epic Games is still hard at work on their Unreal Tournament game powered by Unreal Engine 4, this afternoon they surprisingly announced a new game: Paragon...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Epic-Games-Paragon

[magika]

Cue another moba.

[utack]

Could be a AAA Title with Linux support and no Console support?

[r1348]

Cue another moba.

More like an Arena FPS, basically everybody is trying to have their TF2, even Blizzard with Overwatch.

[gens]

not really surprising
for you see when the coding team is done with the game, the art team has to finish up the models/animations/textures/sounds/etc
but the coding team has not much to do so they can go work on another game instead of going on vacation

[magika]

not really surprising
for you see when the coding team is done with the game, the art team has to finish up the models/animations/textures/sounds/etc
but the coding team has not much to do so they can go work on another game instead of going on vacation

So that means they are done with Unreal Tournament and Fortnite?
From what I've seen UT is far from being "done", and Fortnite is ain't even public yet.

[ElectricPrism]

More like an Arena FPS, basically everybody is trying to have their TF2, even Blizzard with Overwatch.

Sounds like when Square Enix wanted to be Blizzard and made this MMO to try to copy wow - what a great hit that was!

Overwatch will be TF2
SomethingOftheStorm will be Dota2 for kiddies

The only thing we dont have is SC2 for Linux, I'm all open for suggestions to ditch SC2, after all I'm sure I could save some of the $60 or $180 it would have cost on 3 expansions buying a different franchise.

I hope its a FPS.

[Geopirate]

The only thing we dont have is SC2 for Linux, I'm all open for suggestions to ditch SC2, after all I'm sure I could save some of the $60 or $180 it would have cost on 3 expansions buying a different franchise.

If you're looking for a AAA RTS, Planetary Annihilation has a native Linux client, even 64bit which actually seems to make a noticeable difference. It's more Supreme Commander than SC2 though.

[SXX⁣]

If you're looking for a AAA RTS, Planetary Annihilation has a native Linux client, even 64bit which actually seems to make a noticeable difference. It's more Supreme Commander than SC2 though.

Total Annihilation (SupCom) like games are complete opposite to Star Craft. And PA even more different due to unique game mechanics. Even Spring based games (ok, open source and not AAA) have more in common with Star Craft than PA.

[gens]

So that means they are done with Unreal Tournament and Fortnite?
From what I've seen UT is far from being "done", and Fortnite is ain't even public yet.

there are multiple teams working on a big game
design/whatever_its_called team has to make the blueprint, then the coding team can really get to work, and then the graphics team can really get to work
(actually there are more teams on a AAA game)
so it is better to have multiple projects in production so that every team has something to do

let's not forget that games like this take years to finish