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Gamestar.de: The vultures are circling over Crytek [Up3: Eurogamer/Kotaku jump in]
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Freeman
Banned
The first Crysis was the only game Crytec made that I liked, but even that wasn't a particularly great game, although it was impressive.
Crysis 2 and 3 to me are unbearable, pretty much everything I liked about Crysis was gone and everything I disliked was worse.
Ryse seems completely rushed and uninspired, they should just sell that IP to MS or whomever wants to pay more for it.
Homefront looks surprisingly decent, I hope they can evolve into a better studio.
Crysis 2 and 3 to me are unbearable, pretty much everything I liked about Crysis was gone and everything I disliked was worse.
Ryse seems completely rushed and uninspired, they should just sell that IP to MS or whomever wants to pay more for it.
Homefront looks surprisingly decent, I hope they can evolve into a better studio.
Miles Quaritch
Member
EA or Acti?
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Most of the big publishers are making in house engines.
Frostbite, Anvilnext, Fox, Panta Rei, Luminous, etc etc.
Edited my post :3
It's been in development for a long time. Presumably, they were expecting to be in much better shape with hopes of their F2P model taking off in conjunction with their engine licensing at the start of a new generation. Also, THQ was still around to do the major worrying.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Ugh, I don't even want to begin to imagine what King would do with some of Crytek's IP.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
OG Far Cry, the first Crysis, and then....
Principate
Saint Titanfall
They stopped doing what they were good at and eyed up the big bucks.
SatoAilDarko
Member
That list is depressive. It also has the only EA games along with Boom Blox and Grand Slam Tennis I've bought from EA in the last console generation. Aside from finally checking out Mass Effect eventually none of their future projects interest me.
We have a project group at my university where we develope games and for our last game we used the Cryengine. It is a horrible engine. It makes everything overly complicated and it has sometimes errors you have no idea where it comes from.
It looks pretty but nothing more.
And the support was a real mess.
Big developers preferred UE3 in the past and will develop their next games with UE4 (if they aren't developing their own technology).
Indie developers love Unity.
Not all that much room left for CryEngine.
ashecitism
Member
Riot, Wargaming and Valve seem to do alright
Yeah, not sure Germany is the easiest place to run a game company at anyway. But lots of the glassdoor stuff is horrible.
It really sucks that the good people over there might lose their jobs but honestly, given the direction the company has been heading in the lst couple of years, I wouldn't shed a tear for Crytek. Yerli & co seemingly want to embrace everything I hate about modern game development (unoriginality, short term profit goals, F2P etc.).
I wonder if Yerli still thinks that F2P is the one true and bright future of videogaming.
I wonder if Yerli still thinks that F2P is the one true and bright future of videogaming.
shacklesmcgee
Member
No documentation,
barely any tutorials,
no source,
terrible, terrible forums,
over 200 sounds? Have to license a different sound engine for $700,
stop subscribing and lose all access unlike UE4
Probably the worst pipeline I've ever seen for a game editor, you have to use 3ds max and nothing else
I can probably write more if you want
ShinMaruku
Member
We need more companies doing well before we can say if it's good or bad. I think free to play has a space but it must be handled carefully. Some genres do better than others.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Wasn't it someone high up in Crytek that said F2P was the model of the future, anyways? Doesn't seem like a F2P company buying them would alter their future too much, anyway.
Well they do not see how F2P should work looking at Dota 2 for example or even Epic with there new Unreal Tourmanent.
Yikes no wonder i see a lot of devs on twitter praising UE4 and those updates there are in full swing.
Messofanego
Banned
I'm pulling for Free Radical to make good with Homefront 2. They really deserve some success after the Timesplitters games and what happened with Battlefront 3.
Chobel
Member
In this case they'll get some money for the IP plus more money for developing the sequel.
ShogunDarius
Member
I liked Ryse and crysis 1 hated 2 never played 3, but in all honesty this is one company I have no real attachments too,if they were to disappear I can't say I'd miss them, not saying I want them to go just that for some reason they don't have any real nostalgia or anything going for them imo.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
Oh god NO!!!! Crytek better not go under for at least another 5 years and I say this not because I care about Crytek IPs but because Free Radical Design is Crytek UK right now and I would hate to see the Timesplitters guys hit rock bottom a 2nd time! Yeah Sure they haven't work on a Timesplitters game since the purchase and Crytek has made it clear that they have no interest in making a Timesplitters game but at least they are letting Michael Hubicka make Timesplitters Rewind for PC and PS4 right now.
Crytek going under isn't going help Timesplitters Rewind and getting bought out by another company just to have that new company stop all support for Timesplitter Rewind isn't going to help either.
Crytek going under isn't going help Timesplitters Rewind and getting bought out by another company just to have that new company stop all support for Timesplitter Rewind isn't going to help either.
You all seem to forget that they ported Crysis 1 to last gen after Crysis 2 IIRC, so that sort of game would have absolutely been possible on the additional platforms providing additional profit. They changed their vision and we all can only speculate why, but consoles aren't to blame.
Seismic response
Banned
I think there is a lot of potential in the IP. I hope MS does buy it. They just need to cut the kinect garbage out from the start, revamp the fighting system and add some RPG elements. Would love a RYSE game that told a story focused on different time periods a la Asscreed.
ShinMaruku
Member
As long as the talent is put in proper places and the skills of that studio's staff enriches other games, I will consider that a win.
How much would the Ryse IP really be worth?
(I'm not sure trying to carry CryTek on your back would work)
Where are the tutorials for the newest version of CE3? I was curious if its UI has changed with its move over to a physically based system, but I can't find anything at all.
Stretch Goal 50m $: port to UnrealEngine/Unity4.
(I'm not sure trying to carry CryTek on your back would work)Where are the tutorials for the newest version of CE3? I was curious if its UI has changed with its move over to a physically based system, but I can't find anything at all.
MegalomaniacWR
Neo Member
Its surprising how many people preferred Crysis & Warhead over Crysis 2 and 3. While I agree it went into a total different direction I had no fun at all playing Crysis despite being a huge Far Cry fan. Truly Crysis was just a Far Cry clone with the Nanosuit and I didnt like the Nanosuit in Crysis. Crysis 2 was again a totally different game but it had the right pace and was very enjoyable to mind. Crysis 3 was not really well executed - I agree.
About Cry Engine I wouldnt agree. The engine didnt make serious progress in the last 3 years. They had a hard time cleaning up the code to support X360 and PS3. Now Unreal4 is at a similar level in terms of rendering and definitely the better and more complete package. Epic also gives much better deals and with the subscription model there are anyways just two engines to consider - Unreal 4 and Unity depending on what you really need.
About Cry Engine I wouldnt agree. The engine didnt make serious progress in the last 3 years. They had a hard time cleaning up the code to support X360 and PS3. Now Unreal4 is at a similar level in terms of rendering and definitely the better and more complete package. Epic also gives much better deals and with the subscription model there are anyways just two engines to consider - Unreal 4 and Unity depending on what you really need.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Again that clearly took a long time and wasn't easy, and the whole essence of what made games like far cry and Crysis successful was making the ultimate sandbox using the latest tech (physics,AI scale and graphical techniques etc) and pushing the higher end of pc's. That's where the great gameplay game from, they gave you a sandbox unlike anywhere else There's a reason why they changed focus with 2 and 3 because last gen console really don't go hand in hand with that and it clearly took significant work for them to get it the first one last gen. Linear fps clearly aren't their forte.
They went with small more linear design because those sorts of games are what work best with the last gen consoles that had significant bottlenecks.
Also I'm not sure you realise but Crysis was an extremely scaleable game the difference between low and ultra was outstanding and not simply because of graphics but physics destructibility etc.
I've been saying for years that Cevat Yerli is one of the most idiotic CEOs to ever grace the gaming scene. He took what was an amazing PC track record, with profitable games despite marketing them terribly, and squandered every bit of it because of stupid unrealistic expectations, misplaced blame for a lack of the success they thought they deserved, and shambled toward crappy console and free-to-play games because they were the latest trends Cevat thought would bring them immediate success instead of just focusing on what they were good at.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
You've got two legitimate examples: Riot and Wargaming. It seems a bit silly to compare Crytek to a company like Valve that has such a solid source of income outside of its F2P
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My tradition is that every time I upgrade hardware I always first play through Crysis 1. Such an awesome game.
Shame that Crytek managed to fuck everything up after it. C2 is enjoyable game, but way different than what everyone wanted. Everyone wanted Crytek to create Far Cry 3 in beautiful CryEngine. Instead they went more and more into corridor shooters and totally nonsensical storylines, culminating everything with fucking Ryse. Their only F2P effort was totally average Warface, which had competition from 1000000 other similar [and better] games.
They need to consolidate, stop messing around with F2P projects that will only give them small returns and very large risks. If nothing else, they need to go with the way of Platinum, and start making action games for other companies. Homefront 2 is a good start in that direction, game looks good and has a great potential. Lets hope that they will not fuck up the story just like with C2/C3.
So it's basiclly a engine that you normally only use in-house since he developers would be the only ones that can use it properly.
And they want to sell it to others to use it without proper "we want of license this out" usability passover.