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

[amak11]

mornelithe said:

amak11 said:

mornelithe said:

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 

Indeed, a valid point, but it's also a valid point that Crytek's been screwing the pooch for nearly a decade with regards to obsessively focusing on their engine, and dropping the ball on gameplay, and/or story etc...   Crytek's engine also hasn't been widely licensed for various reasons, so one would expect them to change tack.  That they're still trying to figure out why people aren't impressed with their titles...well, it's sad to see a dev like Crytek go down the toilet like they have.

Well I said fully licensed out, no so much widely licensed out. Though I do know 1 game this year coming out that uses it is Sonic Boom. 

We all have our bad days, hopefully they pick up!