In Other News – 23 June 2014

Seriously? Not even remotely the issue. F2P model has worked for some, and Crytek hasn’t been in that realm for long enough for it to have had this effect.

No, the problem is their middleware is too expensive, and the games they DO make, are utter garbage. Sure, they may look pretty, but the writing, plot, script, and direction are fucking terrible.

Crysis 1 was decent, only because the level design and freedom of exploration/attack were top notch, to go with a pretty fantastic engine. Crysis 2 was an abortion of everything that made Crysis 1 (turning everything into a corridor shooter) great, Crysis 3 attempted to expand the level size, but ultimately was just a slightly larger expanse of corridors.

Crytek’s great at making pretty middleware, but they should immediately fire their entire writing staff, because they fucking blow.

Here’s more on it though:

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/crytek-in-deep-trouble-adoption-of-cryengine-not-good-ryse-development-catastrophic/

Another serious issue w/ Crytek, is the amount it costs for them to build a game/engine, versus that of other extremely successful devs. Look at CD Projekt Red and their work. Their engines are tight, graphically impressive, great story, and they cost less than what, 20 million to make? And then look at Crytek who could use 5 times that, easily?

It makes no sense, especially given, for all intents and purposes CDPR’s games are a much much better overall package.

It was an awesome graphical tech demo though. 😉

2 was buggy, that was kinda the issue there. But, Far Cry 2 and 3 are also not Crytek games. Crytek sold the IP, or didn’t own it in the first place.

Yeah, it was a pretty big deal among the PC community when Far Cry changed hands. Allot of my PC gaming friends who loved the first one, hated where they took it in the 2nd, though the 3rd was received much more favorably.

To each their own, for many the original Far Cry was a noteworthy exception to the shitty Crytek IP rule. Same with Crysis 1.

Definitely, the sub-par plot of Crysis 1 was easy to overlook, because you were too busy sneaking around, or speed dashing into and laying waste. The 2nd and 3rd just sucked, because the things that allowed us to overlook the plot in 1, were gone in 2 and 3.

Yeah the simplification of the suit was really a horrible idea, and proved the point of how difficult it is to shrink down PC control scheme to console/controller. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

And killing people with chickens was awesome.

It was also a heck of allot of fun trying to run speed boost jump into the air, then switch to the sharpshooter and snipe someone while in the air flying through trees lol.

Or just straight up punching vehicles off the road…that was fun.

Especially when you amped up the difficult. Delta (I think), difficulty, made your suit pretty much irrelevant, at least as far as sneaking went. They could hear your footsteps, and they’d track you down pretty damn quick lol. Back then, only GSC’s X-Ray engine had a better, more complex AI system.

Oh I loved the hell out of Crysis 1, don’t get me wrong, I just didn’t think the plot was anywhere close to the engine in regards to effort. Far Cry 1 was indeed badass, but I still have to put Stalker on top of them all.

Yeah, but have you played this?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha

It’s a legit standalone mod, created from the 2004 build of Shadows of Chernobyl that GSC released to the public in 2009. They’ve meticulously recreated other areas from the game, as well as whole new areas to explore, as well as new ‘layers’ to the areas. It’s one of the biggest mods I’ve ever seen, and yeah, check it out.

And it’s fairly well graphically updated 🙂

Stalker is brilliant. The MISERY mod for Call of Pripyat is insane.

Do it!

Far Cry 1 was one of the best FPS games ever made for PC. It almost stole DOOM 3 and Half Life 2’s thunder when released earlier that year. Completely open ended approach to every combat scenario and awesome graphics (at the time).
You are the problem (as usual) :-p

Hahahah.