Skyrim on Cryengine 3. Thread

why?

I quite like it where it is. 6GB download, runs fine on old computers while still looking great, and a bit of a nostalgic feeling to the whole thing.

You think big but that's not necessarily a good thing. I see you're young and would like everything to be freaking awesome, but games are very hard to make. The CryEngine was not created to handle huge games such as Skyrim, and it would take a ridiculous amount of work to recreate every aspect of it using CryEngine 3. Just scrap that whole idea, throw that away.

Now that doesn't mean all hope is lost. One thing you can do to skip this whole process of remaking the whole game from scratch is by making mods for it. That way you can increase the detail in current Skyrim as much as you want without having the trouble of remaking everything on a different engine (which isn't necessary).

Will that be easy? Absolutely not, but it's a hell lot easier than remaking a game from scratch. Modding takes a while to get used to, but with some patience you'll be making your own games from existing ones. I suggest you get the Development kit and start making your own stuff instead of asking people on a dead forum to make it for you.

^This person clearly has never used CryEngine before. CryEngine can do it and would likely do it better than Bethesda's shitty hacked up GameBryo "Creation" engine- it is a very powerful engine, but because its powerful its also very complicated requiring knowledge of C coding is a must as well. Hence why I say too complex to even bother doing it because by the time he's even learned to use the engine, another TES title will be out.

Edited by: formerlyknownasMrCP

7 years of porting to come out only looking slightly better, if its even possible to do those things without heavily modifying it. Not to mention, most models and textures wold have to be redone, or expanded upon to gain any benefits from the engine. Skyrim is fine where it is imo.

I'd like to point out the Cryengine 3 was build from better foundations then creation engine and is far more complex, but a lot more stable. The Cryengine can be used for massive scale maps and landscape without question, far beyond that of the handling of Creation Engine, plus it would do so without bottlenecking the CPU or the GPU and will not restrict the game to 32 bit. You cannot argue here in any way, these are the facts. Skyrim of Cryengine 3 would be a lot more stable, it would be a lot more immsersive detailed and textures would use better tessellation. Skyrim would be so much better running on Cryengine 3 easily. 

BUT

Moving Skyrim to Cryengine 3 is another story, the engine is the building blocks of any game, to say such a thing would be saying that you would have to create the game from scratch. Ofcourse the product created at the end will be better then the following games because of the Engine but practicality sake says that you would need an entire team, say the entire bethesda team working on making Skyrim from scratch (So bascially you are creating a brand new eldar scrolls game) on the new engine.

dude we just need a bigger team! then everything will be ok... here I'll rite out a list...

245 programmers
60,000 artists
1 animator
1 ideas guy (he's a good voice actor too)
20 composers 

this is going to be epic! get your hopes up!

Like I said, we'd have to make the game from start to finish, we couldn't really import anything. So yeah.