Crysis with Crytek

[Wraith]

Crysis after Crysis for Crytek...

It's not been 5 minutes since Crytek were last in the limelight and yet again were back with more sad news of the ever degrading company.. so what now?

Well I'll tell you, Crytek has officially announced that it has moved its development of the free to play shooter "Hunt: Horrors of the Guilded Age" from it's Texas Studio in the US to Germany, Really Crytek?.. especially given the fact that the vast majority of the US development team have apparently quit the company, the reason being the same as what happened in the UK, they weren't getting paid, the UK Nottingham based team who were responsible for the "Homefront" title which has now been handed over to Deep Silver!

So what now for our beloved engine? Well who knows, but one thing is for sure, I bet Crytek are regretting blowing such a huge budget on "Ryse" and not selling the IP rights to Microsoft in return for the development budget to the sequel. All I know for sure is that this ship is sinking fast and not paying your staff is one sure fire way to lose your crew.

Thoughts as usual below.

~Wraithguard~​

Image Sources: Crytek

 

[WYP]

Already wrote up the FP article on this before I saw this thread. Ah well, I'll just link the discussion here.

Recently Crytek has been in a spot of financial bother. Now it turns out that Crytek has sold the Homefront Licence to Deep Silver and is downsizing their US presence.

Read more on Crytek Selling the Homefront IP to Deep Silver and their US Downsizing here

 

[ShaunB-91]

Shame, so how much of Crytek is left, will we ever see a new Crysis?

 

[WYP]

Shame, so how much of Crytek is left, will we ever see a new Crysis?

Wasn't crysis not only supposed to be a trilogy anyway? The story kinda ended, not that it was too great to begin with.

I do really want to see a graphical powerhouse to the scale of the original Crysis though.

 

[ShaunB-91]

Wasn't crysis not only supposed to be a trilogy anyway? The story kinda ended, not that it was too great to begin with.

I do really want to see a graphical powerhouse to the scale of the original Crysis though.

Oh maybe! I've not completed Crysis 3 so I don't know what happened.

 

[barnsley]

Deep Silver could make Homefront quite good. The first one was a bit too MURKIAA for me.

 

[SuB]

Aye, Crysis feels like it's finished. Although they did the whole 'alternate' perspective with that other one didn't they?

The first one will still always be the best to me, I don't really know what happened with the story on that. I.E the main guy you play is NOT 'Prophet' and then Prophet ended up being the suite dude in the other two?? Just confusing as fuck really.

Either way, not sure there will be any more Crysis, but I'm sure they will have more ideas. it's a very scalable engine now compared to before so who knows.

 

[Dicehunter]

Well considering Crytek are a German company anyway maybe this is a good thing that now they are working in their home country again, Maybe sort of a fresh start for them, Being optimistic can't hurt ^_^

 

[WYP]

Aye, Crysis feels like it's finished. Although they did the whole 'alternate' perspective with that other one didn't they?

The first one will still always be the best to me, I don't really know what happened with the story on that. I.E the main guy you play is NOT 'Prophet' and then Prophet ended up being the suite dude in the other two?? Just confusing as fuck really.

Either way, not sure there will be any more Crysis, but I'm sure they will have more ideas. it's a very scalable engine now compared to before so who knows.

Yeah, Crysis 1 and Warhead are easily the best of the series.

I hate it when they change the way the story works in the second game onwards, the Aliens in Crysis 2 are totally different from Crysis. Same thing happened to the Resistance Series on the PS3, they changed how the Game worked to make it more mainstream and it wasn't as good.

I did enjoy crysis 2, but i never replayed it. I still play Crysis sometimes.