Crytek Thinks Crysis 2 Backfired on Them

Crytek explored a new direction with its Crysis franchise in

Crytek explored a new direction with its Crysis franchise in the development process for Crysis 2. With the original Crysis being a game that made a name for itself by literally being unplayable by large segments of the gaming community, Crytek looked to make the franchise more accessible to all walks of gamers. The game was designed for both consoles, and to be playable on most PC setups.

According to Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli, the new plan "backfired a little bit". Crysis 2 was met with criticisms from the PC community, who thought that the game had been dumbed down for consoles, and practically neutered on PC by using DX9.

A few months have passed since the release of the game, and although many critics enjoyed Crysis 2, some PC fans have been left with a bitter taste in their mouth of the franchise. Crytek looking to win back some of those PC players, has recently announced that DX11 support would be making its way to the game, and from the early screenshots it looks exceptional. Yerli knows that the DX11 capability is only going to be able to be experienced by a small portion of the gaming community, "a gift to the high-end community", as he described it. One that "lifts up Crysis 2 and gives a sneak peak of how PC gaming will evolve in the future, if you support a high-end preference".

The update which is scheduled for this Monday, June 27th should do well to win back some of the hardcore fans of the franchise, that catapulted the game's popularity a few years back.

By Bill Hess on June 25, 2011

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John

And they’re right. It did. DirectX 11 3 months later won’t fix the damage done. It should of been available day 1. We’ve already finished the game. I am disappoint.
Jac

No doubt the game was rushed out and in my view wasn’t the finished product. Not until patch 1.2 was the game fit to release IMO. The ongoing development shown by Crytek has been great though.

Despite its DX9 limitations it is still one of the best looking games out there and this upgrade seems likely to make this the best looking game yet.

I will certainly be playing through again with the DX11/texture packs.
Dan

Never knew anybody even still played this game. The SP was a blast. The MP was really average to me. I got to rank 7 and was done with it.
aberkae

We forget the game was delayed to begin with, so no excuses!
A handfull of gamers actually probably still own dx9 capable cards, true pc gamers own dx10 or even dx11 gpus.
For example AMD 3 quarters ago announced that they sold more than 25 million dx11 gpus, that’s excluding Nvidia’s figures and that’s excluding figures till today which is probably in total of 50 million units +. That’s not a small market ! Not even a handfull! Its actually equals to the amount of WIIs sold to be exact if not more according to some articles. So what were thinking?
John

@aberkae I hear ya man. Its bullsh*t isn’t it.
Hms

I think a bigger issue than dx9 graphics has been the simplified halo like shoot to proceed gameplay. Basically not only the graphics but also the singleplayer content has been lower in quality than crysis1. I am not sure if this is because of consoles because dead space 2 has been consistent in the content area and more importantly true to the original. Too much attention to money degrades creativity.
Kanga-Who!

Unfortunately, the game was killed by the development,not DX11 or lack there of.

An updated version of WARS was all that was needed, a few new little tricks, new maps, maybe a new game mode and that’s it – not a total redesign of the game. In it’s current iteration, it is flawed, unenjoyable and unplayable to those who have come from WARS and C1.
xcdkx

You pc gamers are nothing but a sham.
Harmon

Crysis felt like a Far Cry clone. I do not want to play in a jungle…I don’t wanna spend hours on end running through palm trees fighting Korean stereotypes.

Crysis felt just like a technical demonstration. It didn’t feel like a game, at least to me. At least Crysis 2 felt like I was playing something.

I’m sorry everyone is so young that the first game they ever played with aliens and marines was Halo and thus everything has to be compared to Halo.

I’m also sorry that gamers only give a shit about graphics these days. If something doesn’t have the best graphics everyone bitches about the graphics and then the gameplay. But more than half the time i see people playing games with amazing graphics and terrible gameplay. The difference? If the graphics are good enough, gamers are too distracted by pretty visuals to realize that gameplay isn’t fun.

Don’t complain about developers for making bad games. They make what sells, which is quake, over and over in new packaging. They also can sell any piece of shit with good graphics. Battlefield 3 doesn’t look that special, except graphically.
- nick
  
  just…. no
waldo

the beta for ps3 for this game was an EPIC FAIL!!! Nobody could even play!!!
- nick
  
  Thats why its a beta lmao do you even know the purpose of a beta?
Cory

About fucking time. I’m still disappointed in you crytek.. Maybe now i’ll delete the game and go buy it if I can find it fire cheap. I usually don’t support fuck ups like crysis 2, like other’s shouldn’t. Glad you art least came through in the end and realized it was a mistake.