Crytek founder Cevat Yerli expressed his discontent with the reception of his latest game Crysis 3 on Metacritic, which is currently sitting at a decent, but not great 78/100 aggregated review score. This is in spite of the fact that the studio considers the game its masterpiece—better even than the original Crysis or its sequel.
"It is better than Crysis 2. It is better than Crysis 1. Technical and creatively, and storytelling — all aspects," he said in an interview with GamaSutra today.
The developer says he thinks he knows why the game isn't scoring so well, and blames it mostly on what he calls "fatigue" for the franchise. "Some games have lost up to 20 percent, despite the fact that the games are quite good still," Yerli said of other franchises. "That's because there's a certain fatigue level with the old generation currently. The markets are down."
Yerli says that players expecting to see major leaps in gameplay and technology are let down by what current generation consoles can offer.
"I think the new generation of consoles will reinvigorate that and help to elevate that again, and elevate new concepts of gaming which old platforms are right now limiting, too."
"The consoles are eight year old devices. Of course, in one way or another, they will limit you. It's impossible not to be limited by a limited console. By definition it's the case. So if it were PC only, could we have done more things? Certainly, yes. Could we have afforded a budget to make a game like Crysis 3 PC only? No. People have to understand that this is a journey of give and take."
Crysis 3 is currently available for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. There's no word on whether the studio plans to release an updated version of the game for the next generation.
