You aren't coincidentally talking about Studio Liverpool?

In a history planning nearly 10 years, these guys have only managed to make one good game. Far Cry.

Firstly, Cevat Yerli has to go.
Then , get rid of these unnecessary studios across all the seven kingdoms. You only need one studio, two max. Less outscourcing = Better management.
Thirdly, hire decent writers, AI designers and spend more time on gameplay.

I was thinking more along the lines of Free Radical (which was eaten by Crytek coincedentally) and Factor 5 (which closed down), but there were a lot of good studios that closed down...

Yes but fat lot of good that does you if EA decide not to publish it on a certain platform.

I'm not saying these sales would have saved the company but it was an opportunity lost....

EA move on to the next shitty decision and Crytek fall by the wayside.

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.

Isn't looking good!

I read it as "We lost a good studio to this last gen" and had just gotten reminded of the shutdown of Studio Liverpool. Though honestly, the very biggest AAA developers, seem to be fine nevertheless. I think it's more like the "2,5 A" studios that are threatened.

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.

Well I guess "can it run Witcher 3" will be the new standard....


In all seriousness, I feel bad for the studio that made Darksiders (vigil I think or whatever it's called now) the rest of Crytek I don't have much feelings either way. Crytek just seemed a little to big for what they were doing since they aren't a publisher, but who knows now since they want to go F2P. I just hope all the employees get paid before something big happens.

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????