Crytek Buys TimeSplitters Dev. Free Radical

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  I can't hear it anymore. Good looking games aren't techdemos. Get your facts straight. And Warhead was... : Johnnsen
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    I didn't say Crysis was a tech demo because it was a good looking game, I said it was a tech demo. Callin... : Mystery0000
    • QFT live with it people : vujinovicm
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      wtf are you on about? You obviously aren't aware of the definition of a game or did Crytek rape your dog?... : nodebug
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        Alright I'll humour you: The script for Crysis was written by a 10 year old. The gameplay and every... : Mystery0000
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          I don't know why I'm replying to this because it's on the front page, but whatever. Crysis was one of ... : Begawkiness
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            I love games that provide freedom also, take Dark Messiah for example, while it seems fairly linear the a... : Mystery0000
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              Crysis had some excellent set-pieces. The depth is only accidental in the sense that they didn't build a... : Arcanum
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                I wouldn't even really call the depth accidental even, but QFT that Crysis is far closer to full freedom ... : TerranUp16
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                  "Nevertheless, calling Crysis and/or Crysis Warhead "tech demos" is a supremely counter-productive insult... : Mystery0000
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                    If a "tech demo" is so well-designed such that it CAN be the aforementioned sandbox... then apparently it... : TerranUp16
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                      I haven't played Dues Ex so I don't know what that's like, but you can take Fallout 3 as an open-world ga... : Mystery0000
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                        Your low assessment of the AI contradicts my observations- besides the helicopters, the AI doesn't have i... : TerranUp16
                        • Not sure how your observations could be contradicted, try this: 1. Find a bunch of AI standing around ... : Mystery0000
          • You are a bigger man than I as I wanted to point all those out but I just couldn't do it. Personally I... : SlingBlaze
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      What? Seriously... what? What does Crysis not have that Call of Duty 4 does? Or is that a tech dem... : Zyrusticae
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        What does Crysis not have? - Interesting characters - Good pacing - Well thought out gameplay mechan... : Mystery0000
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          play warhead because they address alot of those 'problems' and have shown that they can definitely achiev... : ballystix
          • I have, I find that saying it has achieved the Valve-level of anything as bizarre. Although you're right ... : Mystery0000
        • I recently bought Warhead, was a fun entertaining game. It doesnt deserve this trash you are saying abou... : Melll
        • Eh? Really? The gameplay mechanics are not well-thought-out? Frankly, I think whoever designed the nanosu... : Zyrusticae
    • jesus I cant stand stupid posts. : klearlyunseen
• Garbage post..... : CrabsJarrard
• You suck at liking games. : eonix

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  After all the negative press Crytek released about Crysis being pirated too much. You're a bit naive i... : dedgecko
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    Yeah, because 1.5 million copies is crap. : M337ING
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      Sure you may possibly see a TS4 PC release - but I wouldn't expect it to be anything great, but perhaps j... : dedgecko
      • I've wanted a PC TimeSplitters since the original came out, so anything will satisfy me. :D And yeah, ... : Shadsy
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  Before Haze went all PS3-exclusive, that was slated to come out on the PS3, X360, and PC, so even w/out C... : TerranUp16
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    haze was a failure because it's gameplay sucked, not just performance issues. : omwibya
    • 1. Haze was NOT the total shit that everyone wants to say it was, and 2. judging from the Star Wars Battl... : Endymion_
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      It ran at "576p"- sure, its gameplay and story didn't help it, but nor did such scaled-back graphics. : TerranUp16
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        The PS3 doesn't have the power the PC has for graphics. : coolbreezr
        • Ofc, nor does the 360, but "par" for X360/PS3 games is 720p (though ofc CoD 4 bucked this as well and wen... : TerranUp16
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  Eh, I have no desire for this. Timesplitters was never meant to be played with a m+kb really. They didn... : Begawkiness
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    What does "true 1:1 free aim" mean? : Endymion_
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      It controlled all loosey goosey, which was great. : Shadsy
      • All of the TimeSplitters games were that way if you mean what I think you mean, the target reticle is unl... : Endymion_

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• Forgot how Crysis was poorly optimized... Far Cry 2 is one of the few games that even approaches Crysis i... : TerranUp16
• based off of what logic riddle? Crytek is an amazing company. If anything, TS will be a better game, over... : dozerking
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  People still on the Crysis was poorly optimized bandwagon, huh? The game still looks better then games be... : mchart
  • Who said that only politics has it's Gorebots and Bush drones. Sadly most people just repeat the argume... : silverback1138
• Yeah it's always the developers fault that we can't run these tachnology pushing and demanding games. : ElArabDeMagnifico
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  Crysis was one of the best optimised and scalable games in ages. I played the demo on my P4 3 ghz, 1gb ra... : st4rdog
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    i'm sure you did but it looked like a game made in 1999 at the settings you had to select to make it play... : yacoub35
    • On low settings it looks better than Far Cry . Far Cry is from 2004 not quite 1999. : qwplayer
    • funny, my Crysis looked very decent on a CPU that's five years old now, and a video card that's two years... : yuried
  • Its funny because Assasin's Creed has higher recommended settings then Crysis and well Crysis looks WAY b... : SlingBlaze
• having requirements beyond what your system is doesn't make something badly optimized. it just means you ... : thebigbeefsandwich
• The CryEngine is pretty damn well optimised. : Mystery0000
• CryEngine 2 is very well optimized, it was just a year or so ahead of it's time. The hardware targeting ... : Arcanum

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  How about a remake of TS1 so PC gamers can see what they were missing out on. : MeestaNob
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    TS1 wasn't very good at all, they really didn't come into their own with the franchise until TS2 and even... : Begawkiness
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      I'm thinking you're not very good at TS1. : Endymion_
      • What would that have to do with it? I have no idea how good I am at it because I haven't played it since... : Begawkiness
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      Agreeing with Bega on TS1. It was damn good fun, but still in need of some polish as far as the series g... : SigmaDraconis
      • Any problems that TS1 has are absolutely removed from its gameplay. Insofar as that is concerned it absol : Endymion_
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      TS1 was awesome. TS2 was probably the best but TS2 was still better than 3. : kodt
      • I keep swapping back and forth between 2 and Future Perfect because while I *do* feel that 2 was better a... : TerranUp16

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  Why would they not be able to continue work on BF3? : Derfud
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    Because Lucas Arts took them off the project like the bunch of idiots they are : MOB712
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      It was looking way too good and someone at Lucasarts couldn't stand it, so they cancelled it. : paketep
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        There was a small chance that a Star Wars game worth playing might hit the PC and they HAD TO BE STOPPED. : MeestaNob
        • IT'S A TRAP! : Landrosradick

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• Yup. The most FPS fun I've had recently is with the Crysis games. : SlamDunk

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  I think there are many inclined to disagree with you. : quadeh
  • I actually enjoyed the Timesplitters series myself. I thought they were pretty good and above average pe... : silverback1138
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  Go back to the stone age, retarded talking troll. : mittense
  • Not trolling friend. I bought all the timesplitterses. They were good, but only because there was nothing... : retarded talking dinosaur
• I think that you have a very poor understanding of FPS game mechanics and fun. : Endymion_

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• This is very interesting, i hope Crytek give's them plenty of freedom, but with oversight of course. : mrhankeydinks

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• I said the same thing. : aggro crag
• holy crap : marmite
• Interesting. Very interesting. : Dr_Cube
• Indeed. : carmainp
• Absolutely. : MeestaNob

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• . : mittense
• Actually, they aren't even a "hump on EA's shoulder". Crysis and Crysis: Warhead were published through ... : TerranUp16
• Crytek is awesome?. In which universe?. Apart from the buaaaaambulance universe? : paketep
• Personally, they're one of my favorite FPS developers. Valve, Id, Monolith, Raven Software and Infinity ... : silverback1138

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• Because it's under new management and may now have the funding to continue the projects it halted? : Chris Faylor
• Because hiring back the people that worked there and are familiar with all of Free Radical's products, en... : mittense