DSOGaming writes: "A couple of days ago, we had the pleasure of interviewing Nicolas Schulz, principal rendering engineer at Crytek’s main studio in Frankfurt. Nicolas shared with us some new information about the PC version of Ryse and CRYENGINE itself. In addition, Nicolas shared some of his thoughts regarding current-gen consoles and PCs . Kudos also to Crytek’s Jens as without her this interview wouldn’t be possible. Enjoy!"
Crytek : In episode two of Our Story, the team discusses the evolution of Crysis into Crysis 2 and 3 (and the pressures that came with it), how a local connection landed an incredible collaboration with legendary composer Hans Zimmer, and the New York trip that inspired much of Crysis 2. For the gladiators among you, you’ll also get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the development of Ryse: Son of Rome and the attention to detail that went into it.
Battlefield Bad Company 2, Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, and a handful other EA games have finally had their online services shut down.
I had no idea that Bad Company 2 was still running, and only now that I know, I want to jump on! 😥
I was able to find games in the Vietnam dlc on ps3 the last week. There were articles on here about the server closure when it was announced in April
BF1943 is the only online MP game that I was genuinely interested in. Been playing since launch 14 years ago. Hate that I couldn't put in as much time to play as I'd hoped for during the final week.
I got really into 43 when I bought Bf3, and preferred it. Everything that I disliked or found annoying about Bf3, wasn't an issue in 43. Too bad they never bothered releasing it on PS4 or PC.
Dead Space 2...... I wasn't even aware that had multiplayer. Nevermind that it was apparently one of their best multiplayers!
Dead Space 2 multiplayer had been hanging on for years - I'd boot my PS3 up to see some familiar names in lobbies. This will definitely be missed!
From underrated Xbox One launch titles to absolute emperors of the strategy genre, history heads will love these games based around Ancient Rome.
Ryse was awesome, i have no idea why it wasnt recieved well and why we havnt seen another, Rome conquered so much, you could take the action anywhere, and it looked great when xbox one came out, now would be even better.
"DSOGaming: The first Crysis game was a title with unbelievable (for its time) visuals and physics."
Even today it's still a visually impressive game, clearing forests with a machine gun or tossing something heavy onto one of the many makeshift buildings shows it collapse in a realistic way. I'd love to see a open world Crysis game that's aimed at future high end PC's like the original with outposts in Far Cry and side objectives that reward you, don't know if we'll see another game though.
Please, do not talk Crytek. Begin first to make good games, then the talking. Tech does not matter as gameplay and game mechanics do. I do not state that graphics are not important but there are certain other aspects, which are tremendously more relevant for making a good quality game, dear Crytek.
Crytek talks?
I actually enjoy these talks, because it better helps show the evolution of technology in games.
Overall this interview confirmed everything I've said and thought about Ryse, and what they did to get it up and running.
"Polygon counts for in-game characters are around 40K for the first LOD and going up to 85K for hero characters."
"Besides the quality of surface materials and character faces in particular, there are also some great advances in realtime simulation."
I knew some character models looked noticeably lower detailed than Marcus (Boudica was one of those characters).
And it seems they put most of the detail into the Character models faces (which is the smart thing to do, to sell the realism, and improvement). So I assume more developers will start doing this to make their character models look better.
The game should run in 1080 and around 40fps on FX 7850.
Should have brought Rome to PS4 would've better sale numbers