Everything retro has done is better than anything cryteks done gamewise.
Retro has released 4 games, and they are all critically acclaimed from both critics and consumers. Even on metacritics use scores, they are near identical, while crytek has a massive schism between critics (which also have plenty 7 average scored games) and users, often 4 points or more.
Why WOULDNT people have high expectations for retro? Everything they have done has been gold.
100% Of the games they've released have been shown to be of the highest calibur.
I said the likes of.
Crysis 1 was pretty good, but in a similar tale, the second and third games in that series also disappointed.
I mean metroid prime didn't get bad bad, but it didn't get better either.
3 metroids, 1 compilation of metroids, 1 mario kart 7 track that had to be patched, dkcr.
To me personally, it's not an impressive list.
They're relatively new, and haven't really done anything AAAAAAA yet.
Keeping in mind Prime was before costs and standards skyrocketed.
Metroid Prime, MP2 and MP3 were all just amazing. Style wise, graphically there is nothing to compare to it.
DK is probably my least favorite game, but that's because I don't really like DK. Hence, I haven't played it and probably not a good person to judge said game.
So why shouldn't I have huge expectations?
Because I don't want to see you hurt when julio says killzone is better.