What went wrong?
>>323064662
They make good engines and use them to create mediocre first person shooters.
I do like the first Far Cry, and Crysis can be fun to dick around with, but Crytek's game are largely boring tech demos disguised as games.
>>323064662
Made by Germans who hate fun and love getting raped by Muslims.
>>323064662
nothing, cysis was never more than a tech demo
Highly unoptimized
![latest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/um2gsS4.jpg "latest[1].jpg")
What the fuck were they thinking?
>>323064981
Crytek's founder is a turk, dumb frogposter
>>323065198
>Crytek CEO says consoles are holding back gaming
>decides to go multiplat, games are no longer PC benchmarks
>makes XBox One exclusive as a tech demo, which is lazily ported to PC
I can't think of a company that's sold out harder, besides maybe Overkill Software
>>323065837
DICE comes to mind.
Consoles. No memeing. Crysis series got its wings clipped as soon as they announced Crysis 2 was being built around the PS360.
>>323064662
Nothing , they make good engines with okay techdemo games
Didn't they neglect to pay their employees for like six months or something?
>>323064662
Currently, their most profitable video game is the pay-to-win Warface. Unbelievable.
They make a game engine that is completely GOAT, blows everything else out of the water when used right then """""upgrades"""" it into a shitty UE3 "magic port button" engine and now it's trash.
The biggest thing they did wrong was not put up any proper documentation so anyone who uses that isn't them has no idea how the fuck to use it.
>>323065198
>Damn this looks good
>>323064662
Tried to make up for downgrading in Cry Engine 3 by artificially lowering performance.
Went through absolute, 100% decline in all aspects.
Tried to chase every fad they could(ever since Crysis 2), always came late to the party or failed.
Ryse taking so much time to develop didn't help either, it was supposed to be Kinect title, then it turned into normal game and then into Xbone launch game... you know how it ended.
>>323066603
85% of Crysis 2 sales were on vonsoles
>>323066924
>CryEngine 2 to 3
EA gimped it. The second I saw Crysis on the 7th gen consoles I knew it was all over.
>>323066821
Yeah, all their USA employees quit in protest and they lost the Homeworld IP. I don't get it, they went console to get more money, but now are in more financial trouble then ever. Did they spend it all on coke and prostitutes?
>>323064981
This.
They're probably getting raped in the assholes right now.
Ordered 200 syrian dicks for every crytek developer. All at once
>>323064662
gotta chase dat console money
"call of duty sold millions, why can't we???"
>>323064662
>blur
>>323067180
Homefront I mean.
>>323067090
Crysis and Warhead expansion sold more than Crysis 2 and 3 combined.
>>323067432
That's from BF4 you idiot.
They was kings and shit. Then they saw consoles.
>>323067090
>85% of this generic trash console shooter sold on consoles
Who is surprised? Crysis 2 was terribly optimized, it had a fucking massively tessellated ocean rendered below the fuckign map.
>>323067583
That's actually from Batman...
>>323067180
It's a shame, Homefront 2 was shaping up to be really good, now it's in limbo.
>>323067487
>tfw Crysis 3 died on all platforms fucking quick
It actually had a pretty fun multiplayer.
>Consoles
>EA
>Ryse
Consoles. Please don't even deny it, consolefags. You know deep down it's true.
>>323064662
Nothing. The CryEngine is solid and all of the tech demos they make for it look really pretty.
>>323066823
Chinks man. The most profitable F2P game in the world is Crossfire, that cheap ass Counter-Strike rip off. Not because it's good, but because Chinese people fucking love spending absurd amounts money to get ahead in games.
>>323064662
Sold out to consoles.
They went chasing the console money and it bit them in the ass.
>>323068008
Same with Crysis 2. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Like a nice mix of CoD and Halo.
>>323068535
Except they wanted licensing fees for Cryengine and then three free-to-use engines popped up moments later.
>>323068535
CryEngine is a nightmare to use compared to pretty much all of its competition
>>323065198
I played Ryse for a little over two hours before refunding it. So glad they still accepted the refund.
I wanted to love it so much. I love Crytek, they make absolutely gorgeous games. And Ryse didn't disappoint in the least on that front. But the gameplay. The shitty, overcasualized, braindead, shallow, monotonous, "no need to even tilt the analog stick, you automatically target enemies" Arkham-style combat. The absolute shittiest style of combat ever made.
Arkham Asylum was pretty good, especially due to the Metroidvania-style level design and Mark Hamil's amazing performance, but I almost wish it had never released at all. That way we wouldn't have so many horribly underwhelming Arkham-combat clones.
>>323068820
Sure, and the CryEngine is very unoptimized. But it's still solid if you want to make a pretty AAA action setpiece game.
>>323067853
>crysis 1 not generic trash
>>323064662
Made a "good" engine but made shit games mostly their fault for being dumbass
>>323064981
>>323067183
Crytek's founders are Turkish Germans
>>323068693
>used to make shitty clunky linear RPG
>switched to console
>made a great large open world RPG
I don't see the problem
>>323069008
The combat in Arkham is easily the worst thing to ever happen. At first it seemed cool then it sinks in that its just casual shit and a lot of games love to copy it.
>>323067853
>it had a fucking massively tessellated ocean rendered below the fuckign map.
this was so that AMD cards would struggle to render everything while NVidia barely made it to 60fps. they sabotaged the market.
same thing with crysis 3, if you were playing with an AMD, a tessellated plane would load under the game world to make your performance fall.
>>323069435
It's fine in Arkham Asylum. As a series gimmick it worked because combat was never meant to be the primary focus of Arkham Asylum.
The problem with it is that it's showing up in every fucking video game ever now, even heavily combat focused ones like Shadow of Mordor. And normalfags think it's skill based action combat.
>>323069435
Exactly, I'm glad someone agrees. Too many people say "oh, you think Arkham combat is bad? You're not playing it on hard difficulty then!" Hard difficulty doesn't magically increase gameplay depth. The combat is exactly as shallow, enemies just deal more damage and attack more frequently. Batman still automatically targets enemies, Batman still has minimal need for positioning due to being able to counter with the press of a button, Batman still has a shallow moveset if you can even consider mashing A to be a moveset at all. Arkham combat is the most condescening gameplay I've ever seen in a game - it implies the player is an absolute retard who can only mash a button.
>>323069034
It isn't. Does every game need to be a Tim Burton ripoff for you to consider it original?
>>323069435
Yeah, it spread like cancer. Like the CoD of third person games. What a shit industry.
>>323070030
So isn't Crysis 2
>>323064662
Everything went wrong.
EA made them an offer they couldn't refuse, they dumbed down Crysis 2 and 3 for casuals and their shitboxes.
They tried to expand too quickly. They opened several studios and took over Black Sea and Free Radical.
They tried changing their business model to free to play, this was a bad move. Warface was not very successful. They've got some other free to play games in closed beta.
They got suckered into making a Kinect game for Microsoft: Ryse. It sucked so much that they removed all the Kinect controls and had to wait until the Xbox One came along before they could get it running properly. It sold badly.
They lost probably their only chance at success by selling away Free Radical and Homefront 2.
Now they're going all-in on VR and while I hope they will be successful, I don't think they will.
>>323070424
Poor bunch of retards.
Trying to get in on VR is probably their best decision since Crysis 1 though.
So what's the best current engine for good graphics? Unreal 4?
>>323068494
No, crysis 3 looked pretty good for being on the 360
Don't give me shit about crysis not being able to run on consoles, because it was a extremely unoptimizided piece of shit
>>323071125
Unreal 4 can be fucking great but its currently not used at all. It's free which is good but they take royalties from games developed and sold with it.
Only game I have played that used it recently was Ark and thats just a shitty EA survival game that is terribly optimized, completely unplayable.
>>323071151
The game was a generation ahead when the generation had just begun, and people could run it. It was not unoptimized.
>>323071125
Only Unreal 4 game I've played is the Unreal Tournament Alpha.
The fully designed levels look great, but it's also UT so it's pretty light on the grafix because you want speed, not pretty in an arena shooter.
>>323068680
>tencent
fuckin dirtbag chink company
>>323071151
It's not unoptimized. It's just heavily CPU bound.
>>323069949
I wouldn't even blame Batman primarily.
It's very VERY much like Ass Creed combat, and that's been around longer than Bam Ham.
>>323071125
More like it's the only one.
What else do we have? Unity 3D?
>>323071880
>it was not unoptimizided
Even on my 780, I still get frame dips
Now tell me that this isnt unoptimizided. I know games that look way better and run way better. Every pc that I built, I had trouble running this game.
>>323072565
Fox Engine seems to have some potential, but since it's owned by Konami, I highly doubt we'll ever know.
>>323072683
see
>>323072297
You should read about Crysis 1 and multithreading.
>>323064662
>PC neckbeards still clinging to that piece of shit Crysis after all this years
Crysis war always garbage, Crytek was always a bad developer.
>>323072521
The only difference is Screed combat has all the enemies circle around you and attack one at a time, while you insta kill with a counter attack. Bam Ham combat has them all in a big group while you hop over them constantly and counter attacks over and over, and need to finish them off to kill them quickly.
They're similar because Bam Ham combat is based off of Screed, but Bam Ham combat is being very clearly being cloned because mouth breathing casuuls think it's skill based. I think everyone is bored of Screed combat now.
>>323072258
I don't even blame them. If I could make billions of dollars by getting 1% Chinks to spend absurd amount of money on a cheaply made online shooter, I'd do it.
The funny thing is, Crossfire has some pretty clever game modes that I haven't seen in other games or at least not many. I played it years and years ago
>>323072757
>Fox Engine
lol nope
It looks like garbage.
>>323069178
>turkish german
no such thing. you're either a german or you're not. subhuman cockroach shits will NEVER be german.
>>323073238
I thought it looked pretty nice in Ground Zeroes.
>>323072757
That god-tier lighting and optimization.
>>323073238
>Last-gen game
>>323072982
>not reading the first few replies saying the exact same thing and that it was only good for its graphics and it was wasted potential
typical consolecucks, not informing themselves
>>323064662
They made shit games nobody wanted with a good engine that everybody wanted to be.
Fucking morons had egos the size of mountains, thinking a great engine is all you need to sell a game.
>>323073470
It did
>>323074647
Something about the lighting/shaders in both GZ and TPP seems really lovely.
I'm glad they added a DoF setting in graphics on TPP. I had to use the GZ mod tools, which are not exactly user friendly, to turn off DoF on GZ and not lose some of the shaders/lighting.
>there will never be a Crysis collection remastered on the latest cryengine
>>323073612
It has pretty good vegetation density and render distances, it's just not shown much in the game.
>>323075441
I do like that as you increase resolution, the LOD increases with it.
Anyone who says CryEngine has been downgraded since CE2 is a retard. If you go on their forums and look at their user art gallery, you're going to see some of the most gorgeous real-time, optimised-for-gameplay enderings you've ever seen. There are even scenes from Crysis re-rendered in the modern iteration of the engine, and they look 5x better. It's the games themselves (Crysis 2) that aren't graphicslly stunning. The engine is fine.
Incidentally, Crysis is one of my favourite games of all time. Not because of the graphics (though they are good even to this day, eight years later), but because the gameplay allows you to approach a situation from pretty much any angle all the while presenting a good challenge. It's also epic as fuck... that final battle. How can you complain when it involves flying through tornadoes and fighting 50-foot aliens on an aircraft carrier with a gun that shoots miniature nukes?
>>323075040
There will never be a game like Crysis that is so visually impressive and demanding it is used to benchmark hardware for 6 years.
>>323075735
Are there any fan missions for Crysis? I would have preferred a more generic " shoot Koreans " sim to be honest. Or even just a free play mode where I can sneak around the entire island.
pretty simple, they make shitty games
>>323075935
The closest we've gotten to that is TW3, but even that falls short because of the downgrade.
Fucking consoles, man.
>>323075935
There are, but Crytek only just dropped support for Crysis mod uploads a month or two ago. You might have to do a bit of searching to find them uploaded elsewhere than on their site.
I never got into Crysis 2 and 3 for some reason. Something was way off, I think it's the godawful HUD and tiny FOV. I'm fine with console-ish FOV most of the time, but it was nearly unbearable in Crysis'es. It's a shame because I really wanted to like it, the gameplay itself felt solid as fuck and it was overall really reminiscent of Halo and Halo 2 which I really like.
>>323073292
Tell that to the thousands of them roaming the streets of Berlin, the dirty hijab wearing shit head mothers who sit at every mall munching on sunflower seeds and spitting on the ground while their kids run around screaming and pissing off shoppers... Face it anon, it's over.
>>323064662
Consoles.
It fucked what story they made in Crysis with "ALIEN IS HUMANIOD AN UNDER EARTYH LEL"
I refuse to believe they exist. Crysis is the only game that exists to me.
>>323077351
They were pretty good, better than most FPS but they didnt't have the same magic as the first Crysis. The multiplayer was criminally downgraded as well.
>>323064662
They forgot about gameplay somewhere between crysis 1 and 2.
>>323077893
Crysis was a overrated mediocre game from the start.
