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Crytek's Hunt: The Showdown is a "player vs player monster hunter", debuting at E3
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I don't think they will publish the title itself. MS or Sony may be involved.
Another interesting thing: Crytek has a lot of open positions http://www.crytek.com/career/offers/overview
Another interesting thing: Crytek has a lot of open positions http://www.crytek.com/career/offers/overview
Enter The 36 Chambers
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RIP Crytek
This is gonna bomb hard, unfortunately
This is gonna bomb hard, unfortunately
Keyser Soze
Member
I initial reaction is "....so like Evolve," which is not a good reaction to have.
TheJollyCorner
Member
Unless I'm missing something, the basic description reminds me of EVOLVE.
Hope it fares better.
^!!lol same time/same wavelength. We all connected, brehs!
Hope it fares better.
^!!lol same time/same wavelength. We all connected, brehs!
UnemployedVillain
Member
So, Evolve?
Thinking this too.
Mr. Phellps
Member
So Evolve? Good luck with that.
Crysis was a great shooter on top of being visually groundbreaking.
Crysis was a great shooter on top of being visually groundbreaking.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Far Cry was good and Crysis 1 was amazing, but they've mostly been coasting on that for the last decade. Hope this Hunt game is good, but honestly I preferred the original concept of a team of 4 vs. many AI monsters/enemies.
Art Vandilay
Member
My thoughts exactly.
Dicktatorship
Junior Member
So, Crytek's big gamble is one of those asymmetrical multiplayer games that have had some high profile failures and few successes? I hope their remaining employees are sending out their resumes before this thing launches.
It was announced as an f2p game originally.
D
Deleted member 10571
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Everyone wish at least some feel for the current market will say "this won't do well", and yet nobody at Crytek will listen or ignore, just to be incredibly surprised when it actually, well, doesn't do good.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
TheJollyCorner
Member
But hey, maybe it'll at least win a bunch of trade show awards! That accounts for something right?!?!
While I liked the original idea, I am not writing off asynchronous PvP just because the idea hasn't had a success yet. Just because the implementation has been flawed or doomed (depending) does not mean the idea has no merit in and of itself.
Hoping for the best. Would be nice to see them get back in the game with a bang.
Yeah that seems likely given the teaser... that or the "monster" character can issue commands to minions and/or place them, kinda like Fable Legends was gonna do.
Hoping for the best. Would be nice to see them get back in the game with a bang.
Yeah that seems likely given the teaser... that or the "monster" character can issue commands to minions and/or place them, kinda like Fable Legends was gonna do.
Doug Heffernan
Member
I doubt Microsoft wants to get involved with Crytek again after Ryse, but crazier things have happened.
But hey, maybe it'll at least win a bunch of trade show awards! That accounts for something right?!?!
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Evolve, the most acclaimed game coming in 2015
Look on my awards, ye mighty, and despair!'
i mean it did sell over 2 million copies and you can't forget about the tons of DLc it had. It didn't have any staying power but I don't know if it was an outright bomb
The f2p version also attracted 5.36 million downloads, so there was initial interest for something like this. It just didn't make people want to keep playing.
PedroLumpy
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Jiggers, seems like Evolve really poisoned that well.
Triggerhappytel
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Übermatik;238689798 said:
Probably, although I don't know how the company keeps on ticking. They've had fiscal problems since 2014, I think. Don't know if they have anything else besides this in the pipeline.
sixteen-bit
Member
How can they expect this to succeed where Evolve failed?
ThatOneGrunt
Member
I hope it does well. I really don't want Crytek to go away. I feel like they need a winner.
Chris_Rivera
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Tears
Same
UnemployedVillain
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But hey, maybe it'll at least win a bunch of trade show awards! That accounts for something right?!?!
This was so bizarre. At one point I was seriously wondering if those publications were being paid to overhype Evolve because nothing shown of it remotely warranted all the praise it got
You'd have to know very little about the company you're applying for to think that getting a job at Crytek is a good idea.
Evolve demoed really well. Get a handful of press together in an ideal scenario and an ideal setup to play the game and it seems like an absolutely amazing game. The moment it releases full and people realise the 1 v many team balance doesn't work great for matchmaking and the game is lacking in any variety and it all falls apart.
I think the awards it got was because when press tested it, they only got to try and play one level, one hunt, and for what the game was worth, that first hunt was probably actually quite a unique experience and exciting. You expected that there would be more monsters and hunters that offered varying types of hunts and ways to hunt during the full release. The problem came when you started to realize that running in a circle was all there was, no matter what you picked, through subsequent plays. Not to mention the following matchmaking problems etc.
Laurel_McFang
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I am not hearing Evolve I am hearing Monster Hunter with PvP elements. Maybe groups compete to hunt dinosaurs and can also take out other groups?
KiefbladeMaster
Member
Sounds dumb, not everything has to be PvP. The original pitch sounded way better than this.
Even if it's two separate teams competing to hunt one monster, that also sounds lame. Fighting monsters in MH can already be tedious enough.. adding people who can come in and gank you sounds like the worst idea.
Even if it's two separate teams competing to hunt one monster, that also sounds lame. Fighting monsters in MH can already be tedious enough.. adding people who can come in and gank you sounds like the worst idea.
I wouldn't expect MS or Sony want to be connected with a company like Crytek anymore. Publishing a company's game when you know they've not payed employees for months at a time multiple times in the past is a bad look.
Calm Mind
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welp
tragic
Developer
Disclaimer: Was on the team before Crytek Austin went south. No longer involved in any way (and haven't been for years!).
Originally, when we were working on this, the internal goal was somewhat akin to a mission-based 4-Player Dark Souls / Monster Hunter w/ a heavier focus on gunplay (though there was quite a bit of melee as well). Weapons were old-school (lever actions, double barrel shotguns, hatchets, with some experimental-for-the-time weapons too).
Damage and difficulty was meant to be incredibly high to force sticking together and of course, teamwork.
You could gather resources during missions (like Monster Hunter) and even find a crafting bench to build upgrades.
We were also working on complex bosses with multiple stages with mechanics that required teamwork to overcome (similar to a WOW boss, but but action oriented).
There was never any talk about 4 players vs 1 boss (like Evolve), so if they went that direction, it's all new to me (but again, I haven't been involved for years). I'm really interested to see what they've done with the original concept. Sounds like it has changed quite a bit.
Originally, when we were working on this, the internal goal was somewhat akin to a mission-based 4-Player Dark Souls / Monster Hunter w/ a heavier focus on gunplay (though there was quite a bit of melee as well). Weapons were old-school (lever actions, double barrel shotguns, hatchets, with some experimental-for-the-time weapons too).
Damage and difficulty was meant to be incredibly high to force sticking together and of course, teamwork.
You could gather resources during missions (like Monster Hunter) and even find a crafting bench to build upgrades.
We were also working on complex bosses with multiple stages with mechanics that required teamwork to overcome (similar to a WOW boss, but but action oriented).
There was never any talk about 4 players vs 1 boss (like Evolve), so if they went that direction, it's all new to me (but again, I haven't been involved for years). I'm really interested to see what they've done with the original concept. Sounds like it has changed quite a bit.
KiefbladeMaster
Member
The version you were involved in sounds way, way better imo.
tragic
Developer
I will say that probably half the original team (Darksiders 2 team) were massive Dark Souls fans, and a handful (including myself) were huge Monster Hunter fans. Combine that with the GM (David Adams) love for the wild west (see: Gunfire Games logo!) and you had the basis of a lot of really interesting ideas.
and it was the same year splatoon was revealed.