It basically just looks like C2 has been designed with the accommodation of consoles in mind. Lower video RAM and so on combined with a lot to pack in on-screen.
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Crysis 2 actually reminds me a lot of the two FEAR games, mostly due to the more confined environments and the increased amount of time indoors. Similar looking soldiers too.
It's growing on me since I've stopped trying to play it like the original Crysis and just take it for what it is. Fighting the aliens is definitely more rewarding this time around. I'll probably get this for PC down the track when I have a computer that actually meets minimum specs (apparently requires an 8800GT minimum).
I'm very underwhelmed with the visuals. It heats the hell out of my video card but I'm just not getting that "WOW" reaction I got when I first cranked up Crysis 1. Even the "epic" scenes in NYC are just bland and the textures are nowhere near as exciting.
Eh, at least the AI isn't completely stupid this time around.
You did not just say that?
You know what I miss the most? Tossing a grenade into a house and watching it blow up into a hundred pieces. They really gimped the physics engine in Crysis 2.
You are again on of the few who thinks Crysis 1 had any AI at all ?
Yes, because you know, concrete or steel & concrete buildings explode totally like wooden houses.
sigh
Sigh ? Do you seriously consider as real throwing a grenade in a building built from concrete and explosion doing more harm than breaking windows and maybe doing minor damage to few walls and the interior of the room where it exploded ?
Don't care if it was realistic or not. It's not about that. It's simply that it was FUN to actually blow stuff up into pieces. Nothing in Crysis 2 seems to budge. Everything seems like its glued to the floor and made out of adamantium. Tossing around grenades and explosives just don't satisfy like they did in Crysis 1.
You are again on of the few who thinks Crysis 1 had any AI at all ?
Yes, because you know, concrete or steel & concrete buildings explode totally like wooden houses.
M'God you fail.
I fail ? Do you really think a grenade can do any major structural damage to any building not made by bolts, but from steel & concrete (like the skycrapers and buldings in which the whole Crysis 2 game is situated). Because we are talking about grenades, right ? Not a box of C4 exploded at same time right ?
New caps for crossfire users. Flickering is fixed and better crossfire performance, per the release notes. Anyone try these yet?
http://www.rage3d.com/cap/
okay, just played through Crysis 2. Ending sucked and didnt seem like it ever hit a climax. Game seemed messy and not well put together. They tried to make it too movie like.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-the-making-of-crysis-2
Nice article.
Say what you like about Crysis 2 and consoles, but Cryengine 3 is an extremely well engineered bit of software.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-the-making-of-crysis-2
Nice article.
Say what you like about Crysis 2 and consoles, but Cryengine 3 is an extremely well engineered bit of software.
Is there any word on when the DX11 patch will hit? I'm holding up on playing C2 until the patch.
If it were a DX11 patch that somehow added "fully or nearly destructable environments or items" that would turn some heads. Obviously that's not going to happen.
I just don't think the eventual DX11 patch is going to be earth shattering, either.
Anyone waiting for DX11 before they begin playing is a fool. If you don't understand why, then there's no point in explaining it to you.
Even if the difference is negligible, at least we (likely) won't be paying full 59.99 new release price.
Why would you say obviously? I would tend to agree but if this is indeed an nVidia funded effort there is this little thing called PhysX that I could see being thrown into this effort though of course that's never been mentioned from what I've seen
But of course with this crowd I could see more bitching about the use of a proprietary technology that added features more than the features not even being there.
It's little wonder why Crytek didn't cater to the PC elitist crowd really. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
"Nvidia bought them off!" and so forth.Anyone owning an ATI card would have some legit beef I would think.
There's some legit complaints here, past the shrill whining, cacophany and suck my flaccid balls rants and such that I think go past nitpicky elitism myself and I'm saying this as someone that likes the game a lot and probably give it an 8/10.
Even if the difference is negligible, at least we (likely) won't be paying full 59.99 new release price.