NEW Crytek Rumor: Bleeding talent, employee frustration, Ryse 2 cancelled

[Eddie_Raja]

HoloDust said:

Eddie_Raja said:

AZWification said:

Oh boy...... I almost feel bad for Crytek!

Almost, but really who cares?!  The only good games they made were the first far cry and crysis.  Far Cry got better with other studios, and crysis got worse as crytek kept pumping them out and took away every unique feature the game had.

If Crysis 1 was a 9/10, Crysis 2 was a 4.5/10.

I'd say FarCry just got different under Ubi...first CryTek's instalment, while having open(ish) levels, was structured with linear story, while Ubi's FCs are open world FPS games...I really can't call one approach better than the other, just different.

Tbh, I know lot of people who don't want to touch FC anymore with ten-foot pole after FC2, being completely dissapointed with switch to open-world design...I even spent time convincing some of them to try out FC3 (demonstrating it in few occasions too), but, for most of them, that switch to open-world is just not acceptable.

Obviosuly, FC now has new audience (along with some old), but I think CryTek maybe needs to get back to the roots, and revisit design of original FC (and in most part Crysis 1) in order to try to win back their original fans and differentiate themselves from current mix of highly linear on one side and open-world on the other FPS games.

I just don't know what they were thinking with Crysis 2.  Crysis 1 launched with graphics that were 6 FULL YEARS ahead of their time.  On top of that it had some great and varried open worldish gameplay and excellent Physics to play around with.  Hell even the 50 player online was worth playing for a while.

Then they make the "Sequel."  A generic corridor shooter lacking everything that made the original great.  It didn't even look much better, and had 12 player multiplayer.  WTF WERE THEY THINKING????