Crytek: Graphics Are “60% Of The Game”

[FoggyFishburne]

Crytek: Graphics Are “60% Of The Game”

Holy fuckin' shit.

Well, there you go. We've reduced an interactive medium to an arbitrary number of pixels projected on our screen and a machine calculating whether or not the grass should be swaying in the wind right now. Apparently that's why we chose video games as our hobbies, that's what entices us. Screw Super Mario Bros., Bastion, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, Morrowind, they can all go to hell. This guy gets it, Mr. Yerli doesn't. In fact, I'm not even sure Yerli understands the medium or is talking about graphics in the wrong context.

To illustrate a point, I ask you to play Loneliness. There's virtually no graphics, I mean it's just a simple flash game, white background with white dots. It couldn't get any more simpler than that. But I had a more profound experience with that game than I had with any of the Crysis games. Play the game, and share with us what you felt and thought. It's not the tech that moves people, it's what you can do with it to stimulate the audience in a positive way that moves people.

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[Garrison72]

Well he's full of shit, and seems to be defending the fact Crysis games have always had mediocre gameplay.

 

[Agent_Blue]

And so it begins.

 

[avydia1.388]

I think graphics are 50% of the game

 

[Agent_Blue]

Holy fuckin' shit.

Well, there you go. We've reduced an interactive medium to an arbitrary number of pixels projected on our screen and a machine calculating whether or not the grass should be swaying in the wind right now. Apparently that's why we chose video games as our hobbies, that's what entices us. Screw Super Mario Bros., Bastion, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, Morrowind, they can all go to hell. This guy gets it, Mr. Yerli doesn't. In fact, I'm not even sure Yerli understands the medium or is talking about graphics in the wrong context.

To illustrate a point, I ask you to play Loneliness. There's virtually no graphics, I mean it's just a simple flash game, white background with white dots. It couldn't get any more simpler than that. But I had a more profound experience with that game than I had with any of the Crysis games. Play the game, and share with us what you felt and thought. It's not the tech that moves people, it's what you can do with it to stimulate the audience in a positive way that moves people.

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First off, you strike me as just the right mate to hang out with and drink a pint or two.

But even before attempting to reply to your post, a personal request which deep down I have no hope of ever seeing fulfilled: Mr. FoggyFishburne, for the love of Mother Teresa, will you tone down your hyperbolic diabolizing caricatural depiction of adversary points? 10 out of 10 times you do have a solid albeit questionable point underneath all those layers of verbosity, so why, I ask you, do you feel compelled to exaggerate and distort beyond reason?

Just let your reasoning speak for itself.

 

[Glaroug.531]

Foggy, you're like the Legendary Gaahl /> . Tell it like it is in its purity. Stay true Foggster.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDiKSHqBIc[/media]

 

[Krisk7]

Relax! They are just selling their engine ... or maybe just talking about their games.

 

[Agent_Blue]

Foggy, you're like the Legendary Gaahl /> . Tell it like it is in its purity. Stay true Foggster.

You're thirsty for some blood, are you?

I'll give you a pint bloodbath alright.

Just you wait.



Black Metal, really?
Who would have thought.

 

[Pangaea666]

Like a dog with a bone.

 

[Sirnaq]

Graphics are important as long as they don't get in the way of the gameplay. If game looks like absolute shit or just poor quality product, it's bad. If the game is 5 hours of ultra realistic movie it's also bad. Developer should care about graphics but shouldn't be constrained by it.

 

[Agent_Blue]

Wildly OT, is anybody familiar with the British Idiom

like a spare prick at the wedding

No?
Alright.

Back on topic.

 

[KnightofPhoenix]

Yea, I played Legacy of Kain for the graphics, didn't you know?

 

[iisvloi]

My priorities in a video game from most important to least important.

1) Good, enjoyable gameplay

2) brilliant story telling.

3) graphics, and that is a very low three at that.

 

[Cs__sz__r]

Foggy, you're like the Legendary Gaahl />/> . Tell it like it is in its purity. Stay true Foggster.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDiKSHqBIc[/media]

That dudes a little out there, even next to his peers.

 

[Nex3t]

well maybe it's the 70% of the game... if the game is bad, like, say, Crysis 2

 

[CostinRaz]

To be fair the Crytek CEO is talking about his own games in which case the notion that graphics are 60% of the game is very much true. Graphical quality is what made the Crysis games as well known as they are, that's simply a fact because without those graphics the games aren't that good honestly. I liked them though even without considering the graphics but not a huge amount.

As far as I am concerned tough the perfect game should be a combination of amazing graphics, story and gameplay. All woven in together to form a perfect tapestry of artistic excellence.

 

[Mataresa]

Well, I always felt, that the goal of the Crysis games was to push graphical fidelity to the limit. More like a science project in Computer Graphics which happens to have some gameplay in it. Definitely their focus is on the graphics. And I think there is nothing wrong with that. We need companies, that push the boundaries. For games with great gameplay or brilliant narrative we have other companies. Diversity in goals is good. It is already worringly enough, how many just go for casual games or cow clickers. Let them make huge advancements, then it will be easier in the future to create the graphical fidelity in the future and more emphasis on the other things can be put. The day we will reach true foto realism will be a good day, cause then we don't get distracted by it anymore.

 

[Agent_Blue]

To be fair the Crytek CEO is talking about his own games in which case the notion that graphics are 60% of the game is very much true. Graphical quality is what made the Crysis games as well known as they are, that's simply a fact because without those graphics the games aren't that good honestly. I liked them though even without considering the graphics but not a huge amount.

As far as I am concerned tough the perfect game should be a combination of amazing graphics, story and gameplay. All woven in together to form a perfect tapestry of artistic excellence.

I can tell you're really Wichat in disguise. The voice of reason around here.

 

[Agent_Blue]

Well, I always felt, that the goal of the Crysis games was to push graphical fidelity to the limit. More like a science project in Computer Graphics which happens to have some gameplay in it. Definitely their focus is on the graphics. And I think there is nothing wrong with that. We need companies, that push the boundaries. For games with great gameplay or brilliant narrative we have other companies. Diversity in goals is good. It is already worringly enough, how many just go for casual games or cow clickers. Let them make huge advancements, then it will be easier in the future to create the graphical fidelity in the future and more emphasis on the other things can be put. The day we will reach true foto realism will be a good day, cause then we don't get distracted by it anymore.

Not too sure about your last sentence, would have to give it a long thought. Otherwise, I can tell you're Wichtat in disguise as well. Another voice of reason around here.

 

[Mataresa]

Not too sure about your last sentence, would have to give it a long thought. Otherwise, I can tell you're Wichtat in disguise as well. Another voice of reason around here.

Haha, too much credit there. I would never dare to compare myself to Wichat. ^^