Crytek Says It's Getting Increasingly Difficult to Wow People With Graphics

[amak11]

mornelithe said:

amak11 said:

mornelithe said:
Crytek continuously misses the point. It's not their graphics that people aren't impressed by. It's the rest of the game.

Considering they also maintain and update Cry Engine I would argue that they don't have a lot of time for game design. The engine can make beautiful stuff, but Unreal 4 came and pretty much put it to shame. I agree it's really hard to wow people with graphics now a days. People are just spoiled by fidelity. 

Every developer updates their engine, and most other developers realize there's a happy medium.  Spending all your time on the engine takes away from the rest of the game.

But for developers who have fully licensed out engines (Epic and Crytek), tend to have a good amount of teams working solely on the engine and enhancing it.  WIth the finanicial issues Crytek has, I assuming they were trying to wow people with a pretty game instead of a good story and great gameplay. Can't do all of one without sacrificing parts of the others. I'm just glad the engine itself hasn't died off