19 Things Video Game Fans Are SICK Of
17. Unreal Engine
Epic Games' ubiquitous Unreal Engine is by far the most popular game-making engine in the world - heck, it's even infesting movies - which goes to show that a product's level of quality has very little to do with its popularity (a phenomenon evident to anyone who's ever tried to force down a Big Mac).
Unreal Engine may make developers' jobs easier - this writer wouldn't know, having not created a single line of code since scraping through high-school programming with a C - but the results are often anathema for PC gamers. Unreal games on PC tend to be horrendously optimized, with stuttering and frequent crashes to desktop being common problems (Zero Company providing another recent example of Unreal almost borking an otherwise excellent game). And as the above screenshot shows, even when Unreal games run properly the engine's lighting quirks give every object the glossy sheen of a TV-ready labrador.
Remedy, for the love of God please license out your excellent Northlight engine and save us from this hi-def hell.