Or in the case of Borderlands 4 and a plethora of other Unreal Engine 5 titles: they’re optimized for nothing and there aren’t even options to turn off most of the expensive graphical effects, despite the engine being able to scale down to mobile devices.
This is absolutely unacceptable and if this happens with nearly every big release, then that also speaks badly of the engine itself. Similarly to how languages like C++ are very powerful and can be used to great effect... and people almost inevitably still write code that has memory safety issues. That comparison should make a few ears perk up, my point is that fewer developers should use Unreal Engine 5 if they can't use it well (same as with the languages).
Frankly, I place more trust in studios that have their own engines or use literally anything other than UE5, like what happened to KDC:2, a modern game that looks good and runs great across a wide variety of hardware. Or how they fixed Cyberpunk 2077, it took a while to get there but now both the visuals and performance are quite good across the board.
