Crytek: Graphics Are 60% Of The Game
Crytek has always pushed the visuals of its games but in the great graphics Vs gameplay debate, Cytek boss, Cevat Yerli, believes graphics win and actually account for ’60% of the game’ and its immersion.
The guys from xbox360 caught up with Cevat Yerli to ask him one of the most debated questions in the history of gaming…
Crytek boss Cevat Yerli is – like many whose stripes rank them well outside of PR influence – a man who speaks his mind.
When asked whether he feels better graphics mean better gameplay or not, his answer surprised us.
Why? Because finally, here’s someone using common sense to reach what is in our opinion the right answer to this question.
“People say that graphics don’t matter,” says Yerli, “but play Crysis and tell me they don’t matter. It’s always been about graphics driving gameplay.”
“In Crysis 3 it’s the grass and the vegetation, the way the physics runs the grass interact and sways them in the wind. You can read when an AI enemy is running towards you just by observing the way the grass blades.
“Graphics, whether it’s lighting or shadows, puts you in a different emotional context and drives the immersion.”
“And immersion is effectively the number one thing we can use to help you buy into the world.”
“The better the graphics, the better the physics, the better the sound design, the better the technical assets and production values are – paired with the art direction, making things look spectacular and stylistic is 60 per cent of the game.”
You may, of course, disagree with him.
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Hey people are we members of different forums? some of you wants gameplay rather than Graphics but a majority in this forum is focusing mostly on Graphics, SSAo, AA, AF, SLI.
i dont judge anyone. its not my business. i just want to point this. People wants their TITAN to struggle under heavy load of a game. Else game is crap.
On the other hand, Some whines about if their TITAN struggles. oh the Dilemma or how u call it.
Somebody need to write a tesis about his.
We ofcourse want graphics but we also want gameplay too. A game is nothing but a hollow shell without a good gameplay.
Take skyrim for example, its a great and huge world but the depth are just too shallow that it just felt bored after a while.
Chuck Norris
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Stupid. While great graphics on great games can really push you into the game, if the gameplay is boring the game is bad. The purpose of a game is to entertain, not to drive us dumb about special effects on explosions. That is shallow, like pretty much everything anno 2013. Give me fun and i´ll give you my money, if you bull**** me i´ll give you the middle finger. And give me FFVII any day.
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I've enjoyed MUD's more than I have Crytek titles, I'm deadly serious. So I imagine my opinion on his statement is pretty obvious.
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We ofcourse want graphics but we also want gameplay too. A game is nothing but a hollow shell without a good gameplay.
Take skyrim for example, its a great and huge world but the depth are just too shallow that it just felt bored after a while.
his point is that a ton of people here are basically graphic whores but then claim that gameplay is key. whenever theres a game posted with bad graphics, it gets laughed off even if it has decent gameplay. on the other hand, games like skyrim are flaunted for nothing other its modding and graphic capabilities.
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Hey people are we members of different forums? some of you wants gameplay rather than Graphics but a majority in this forum is focusing mostly on Graphics, SSAo, AA, AF, SLI.
i dont judge anyone. its not my business. i just want to point this. People wants their TITAN to struggle under heavy load of a game. Else game is crap.
On the other hand, Some whines about if their TITAN struggles. oh the Dilemma or how u call it.
Somebody need to write a tesis about his.