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

PS4 will have the most money thrown at it, and therefore the best graphics. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't have enough studios to make their console look good at this point. And PC has even less as in none.

No. It's not getting harder to wow people with great graphics.

Quite the contrary. In fact, many games get people interest in the first place, exactly because of how good they look. Destiny for instance. The Witcher 3. And so on.

But graphics alone don;t make a game good.

That is the problem. People get wowed by the graphics and then they get the game, start playing it and somehow, for some reason, the fun is not there.

That's the problem.

Game designers need to realize that much like movies, you can't simply use great special effects and think your game will do great.
The first Matrix was technological leap for movies. It spawned sequels to it, but people still prefer the first one to the last Matrix.Same goes for some of the Star Wars movies.

There are plenty of movies that people loved because of how great they looked. Like "The 5th Element". Or "The Guardians Of The Galaxy". Or "The Avengers". They are all movies that depend a lot on the "wow" factor. But they also offer great entertainment.
Same goes for games.

People are getting more demanding not because people are no longer "wowed" by graphics, but because people know that it's possible to do more.

There is more competition.

The best example is people reaction to AC Rogue vs AC Unity.

AC Rogue may be a great game. It may even have a great story.

But people are way more interested in Unity.

Why? The wow factor of the graphics.

From day one I've been a console gamer and I can easily say that console graphics have never been on par with PC graphics and probably never will be. That doesn't make the game any less enjoyable to play on a console though.

Yeah the real problem is that is the only thing crytek has going for them.

I enjoy good graphics but many of the best games ever made, have horrible graphics(by todays standard). I just replayed MGS3 subsistance on ps2(because the HD version cut out snake's dream), and I found those "horrible graphics", to be amazing.

If I read one more person say "graphics doesn't mean anything, it's gameplay and story that counts" on an article about graphics I will go insane! I've read that phrase so many times it is like a parrot learned to type and created thousands of accounts and is now spamming the one phrase it knows over and over.

It goes without saying that gameplay and/or story are more important, so just keep it to yourselves because there is nothing wrong with wanting games to look good as well.

I've been gaming for over 25 years and still revisit old games, so I can appreciate that gameplay trumps graphics. However I still want to see graphics evolve.

if there will ever be a game mixing Deus.EX HR and GTA5 on the graphical Level of crysis3 and ryse ... I can die happy

That's why you "wow" them with the art design.

The Most Emotional Part of Crysis 3 1080P

start at 1:00 and watch till the end, every developer not crytek should be ashamed after watching this

/watch?v=bNW3ZXrmA5E

Still enjoyed the Crysis trilogy for gameplay and story , could have been told better but i got the jist and will still be one if my favorite all time shooter series even if Crysis 2 was a bit of a let down.

I don't even think Crytek visuals are that great. Yeah, lots of depth of field, lush greens, all the bells and whistles... but I think the reason people like the visuals so much is because of these tacky little effects. In my opinion, Crysis and Ryse just look over-saturated and over-processed. The actual models and environmental detailing isn't impressive.

But whatever. I guess I can understand the appeal to Michael Bay-esque over-the-top flashy cinematics, but it's definitely not my cup of tea.

Well the writing should be on the wall in massive highlighted and bold letters, it's not graphics that does WOW people anymore, it's good gameplay... the kind of gameplay that made games interesting back in the day... bloody hell.

No it's not. Ryse is the most graphically amazing game I've ever seen in over 24 years of gaming. If people aren't impressed, they're r*t*rded. There is no rationalization.

On this article's comments everyone says gameplay is most important, but the next time a PS4 game has a higher resolution than an X1 game everyone will be freaking out again.

According to KANBAN -- what once was a "wow" becomes norm over time. It might be hard to wow us with graphics, but it has become very easy to disappoint us either. So try to satisfy us and you'll be fine

GAmeplay and story will always be more important than graphics any day. Just remember that graphics are only used to enhance the gameplay and story to begin with.

By the way, While I noticed some slight environmental details and lighting improvements with pc, the XBOX1 looked just fine for me, I cannot wait to see what games will look like on this system in it 3rd year after dev kits and tool sets have aged.

Crytek should try and make a good game for once.

crysis 3 and Ryse are the best games of the last years ... why I am the only one here 'seein' this ?

both games have superior storys and gameplay ... ...

Here's an idea - you don't have to wow us with graphics, try gameplay and story