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Really enjoying Crysis which I picked up in the Steam sale as part of the 9.99 package. Still slogging through the single player - just got out of the alien cave/ship.

My video card's fan hasn't worked this hard in a while though...
 
Yea, that part of the game really beats up your video card. Glad you're enjoying it, I think I played through the original crysis 6 or 7 times in total.
 
O man this thread is just asking for a "cool story bro" pic...

if only this was genmay...
 
i loved crysis. i still remember when i installed it for the first time 2 years ago, i was dying how nice it looked
 
I never played it past there. Lost my attention. Well, I take that back, I cheated through the rest of it. Got boring.
 
I took my time completing it so each time I played I was really fresh.
Its was mighty enjoyable.
 
I played it all the way through once but that final battle was balls. It was so glitchy for me I think I fell through the surface of that battleship a dozen times.
 
Yea I pretty much feel the same as everyone else here. Everything up to space mountain kicked ass. The rest of it kinda took a turn for the worst lol. It really felt like playing two separate games.
 
Yeah, the game is pretty much over when you go inside that mountain / alien spaceship. Then the game is boring, linear and glitchy.
 
I think I liked the game more after Space Mountain actually. Trying to keep this spoiler free, but finding your losted team member and the giant bug in the canyon were pretty epic imo.
 
yea, for some reason, crytek always seem to make the first half of the game alot better than the second half... even with farcry, when the monsters showed up, i didn't care anymore...

But crysis had the pretty pretty graphics, i couldn't give it up. the sun going through the trees, beautiful. even at the night stages the game lighting was amazing
 
mjz_5 said:
yea, for some reason, crytek always seem to make the first half of the game alot better than the second half... even with farcry, when the monsters showed up, i didn't care anymore...

But crysis had the pretty pretty graphics, i couldn't give it up. the sun going through the trees, beautiful. even at the night stages the game lighting was amazing
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Crytek just needs to learn to make a game that's like the first half of Far Cry and Crysis without any damned aliens or monsters.
 
pigwalk said:
I think I liked the game more after Space Mountain actually. Trying to keep this spoiler free, but finding your losted team member and the giant bug in the canyon were pretty epic imo.
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I think it started to cover more of the story in a shorter time, once you got out of the mountain. Kind of a positive consequence when putting the game on rails. The player's focus shifts towards getting the objectives done quickly to keep the story flowing, rather than goofing around enemy bases for half an hour with the mission objectives at the lowest priority.
 
+1 for enjoying the game immensely until I went into the alien ship and was free floating around. I put it down there and never picked it back up.

I hate zombies and crappy aliens, and all that other stuff in games. It's like all the big titles have tried it in the last few years and people JUST DON'T LIKE IT! I enjoyed uncharted on the PS3 too ---- until the stupid cursed zombies --- give me a break. If I want a zombie/cursed/alien game I'll pick up AVP or Left for Dead.
 
I've played through the whole game twice and then individual maps here and there a few times each. I enjoyed both run throughs. Did the same with warhead 2 complete run throughs with some individual maps played here and there. /Shrug I like both games.
 
Actually,I liked the alien presence in the game,some of us get tired of fighting ordinary soldiers and like an element of the fantastic.There are plenty of other games that are straightforward combat games like the CoD series out there.
 
I actually liked the change of pace / scenery when the aliens arrived. Killing Koreans over and over started to get stale.
 
michael.pa2 said:
Actually,I liked the alien presence in the game,some of us get tired of fighting ordinary soldiers and like an element of the fantastic.There are plenty of other games that are straightforward combat games like the CoD series out there.
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it was the way the aliens were presented in the game that ruined it. IMO they were just annoying more than anything else. grabbing and punching an alien could kill them but several bullets coundnt do the same thing? lol
 
Dan_D said:
I played it all the way through once. The ending of the game on the carrier is where my interest really dropped off. At that point I just finished it because I had enough time invested in the game to want to see it through. Since then I have only played the game to the start of the alien crap, then I have always quit playing it.
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Same here. Dunno how many times I've played to the alien ship but I've only finished it once. Human vs. human was very fun but like Far Cry and RTCW the alien/zombie stuff got old in a hurry.

Going through the ship is pretty fun I guess; I'd just rather stalk and harass Koreans. :D I will say that I've seen some pretty solid mods for the game.

Warhead handled the alien bits a little better.
 
I actually enjoyed the game more after space mountain, mainly because I prefered the pacing. Initially the game was just pretty but I didn't really give a crap because the pacing was slow and boring. Big open spaces dont really get me excited unless I actually have some reason to explore them, in Crysis it just felt like there was a big open space between me and the next objective, so it was still linear, just with a big open space in between :p

But yeah, I only played through it once, tried to play through it a second time but got bored very quickly. Didn't massively enjoy it and didn't see what the big deal was with the graphics. On the highest uber setting it looked great but wouldn't run well on my at the time mid-ranged PC. Below the uber setting everything looked bland and the lighting looked unpolished.
 
Anyone else feel the Alien cave was a god-tier moment in fps gaming? DEM ALIEN HIGHWAYS(or whatever you want to call it, their transportation system that had all the cool glowing lights).
 
eggrock said:
Same here. Dunno how many times I've played to the alien ship but I've only finished it once. Human vs. human was very fun but like Far Cry and RTCW the alien/zombie stuff got old in a hurry.
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I thought the content in RTCW was entirely fitting and appropriate, considering the fact that the Nazis had a real-life fascination with the occult. The idea that they were conducting research and trying to find related items was entirely plausible, and made the game's atmosphere eerier. I remember feeling some uneasiness in the later levels because I had no idea what kind of supernatural monstrosities awaited me.
 
Crysis is nowhere near as good as some people think it is, but it's not as bad as others have said.

The single biggest problem is the quite frankly ridiculous enemy A.I.

"Hey, what's that... gunfire... let's go and investigate... oh look, our comrade just got shot... let's crouch over and walk right over there to that spot to see if we can get shot too... and let's all do it together... because... well, we're just stupid that way... we were trained by The Marx Brothers."
 
Yoshiyuki Blade said:
Yea I pretty much feel the same as everyone else here. Everything up to space mountain kicked ass. The rest of it kinda took a turn for the worst lol. It really felt like playing two separate games.
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Exactly. Like two different games as far as I'm concerned. The thing is, for me, Crysis up to the point where aliens show up is, and continues to be, simply the most enjoyable gaming experience I've ever had. It has taken me a while to realize why that is. It's these three things.

1. The eye candy - obviously. Just a breathtaking experience with it cranked all the way up. Nothing else I've seen even comes close.

2. The LACK of being rushed by means of the artifice, so commonly used to make a game feel fast paced, of a voice in your ear, (usually a team member of some sort) exhorting you to hurry up and rush into a suicidal situation.

3. The Nanosuit. Here , for me, is believable near future Sci-Fi at it's best. (As opposed to very much the opposite as far as the aliens go). Mastering and using the nanosuit imparts the ability to take on hoards of Korean bad guys on your own. Great fun.

This first part of Crysis - up to the alien mountain - has provided more re-playability than any other game. Having done it countless times, I still eagerly look forward to an evening with the first half of Crysis like this:

Crank up the eye candy - turn UP the difficulty - grab a cold one - take my time and just enjoy.
 
imyourzero said:
I thought the content in RTCW was entirely fitting and appropriate, considering the fact that the Nazis had a real-life fascination with the occult. The idea that they were conducting research and trying to find related items was entirely plausible, and made the game's atmosphere eerier. I remember feeling some uneasiness in the later levels because I had no idea what kind of supernatural monstrosities awaited me.
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Absolutely,to me RTCW was and still is one of the best games I've played. It had an Indiana Jones feel to it.
I also agree with the comment made on the nanosuit,I'd love to have it in the STALKER games,it's frustrating to finally get a decent suit and then have it ruined by battle damage because it can't repair itself.
 
All shooting games are repetitive. People gotta relax and stop complaining. Shit, if u can do better, make ur own game
 
I don't agree with that statement at all. Granted, there's the standard shoot through the obstacle motif, but devs can do a lot to continue and add to the story by using the environment itself.
 
I think this one may seem a little dry because it's such a sandbox of ways to play through it. You can go complete stealth to take out a base one guy at a time or take a truck, drive it through the camp, jump out and shoot the gas tank to have it kill several people at once, go strength mode and do max carnage, etc.
 
guitarslingerchris said:
I think this one may seem a little dry because it's such a sandbox of ways to play through it. You can go complete stealth to take out a base one guy at a time or take a truck, drive it through the camp, jump out and shoot the gas tank to have it kill several people at once, go strength mode and do max carnage, etc.
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this is what is soo cool with crysis.. you can do whatever you want.. HOW cool is that!!!!
 
WabeWalker said:
Crysis is nowhere near as good as some people think it is, but it's not as bad as others have said.

The single biggest problem is the quite frankly ridiculous enemy A.I.

"Hey, what's that... gunfire... let's go and investigate... oh look, our comrade just got shot... let's crouch over and walk right over there to that spot to see if we can get shot too... and let's all do it together... because... well, we're just stupid that way... we were trained by The Marx Brothers."
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On the easier difficulties yes. Try it on the hardest and you'll feel completely different. I played it on the hardest difficulty up to the alien ship with no cheats --- VERY satisfying.
 
Its quite fun on Delta difficulty, though not necessarily hard. It just gives me every reason to try and get as many headshots as possible. I loved to headshot snipers on the towers with a silenced rifle. I also don't get why some people claimed to have "headshotted" a guy 5 times before they dropped, because it really makes no sense.
 
Well, I played it last year, as I was able to build a rig that would run it on max settings. I had fun with it, although I must say the game overall is pretty average, but the graphics are really amazing, no arguing about that.
 
the game is 2 years old, how come nothing matches it yet in graphics? I dont understand
 
mjz_5 said:
the game is 2 years old, how come nothing matches it yet in graphics? I dont understand
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In my opinion, not only is it costly to produce, but people will just bitch about how bad it runs on their systems, making the developers look worse. I doubt we'll see such ambitions from any developers from here on out due to what Crytek experienced. The only way a high budget developer can get away with that is if the game itself will kick some major ass.
 
I think crysis is a great game. The graphics are outstanding. my only problem with games these days is they are really short.
 
mjz_5 said:
the game is 2 years old, how come nothing matches it yet in graphics? I dont understand
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I never really thought the game was that good looking. Even maxed out the graphics were unpolished. You could take an awesome looking screenshot, then 5 seconds later take a screenshot that looked pretty average.

Personally I think there's other games that look as good as Crysis simply by virtue of the fact they are better polished and more consistent (inconsistency like the trees looking awesome but the grass looking horrible).

But part of the reason no other games are raping out systems like Crysis is 1) consoles, 2) devs realising they get more players by making the game accessible to a wide range of systems.

I can't say I really enjoyed Crysis until I got a 4870 (had a 320mb 8800GTS before that). Even the 4870 couldn't max it, but at least it got consistent frames at a graphics level that didn't look sub par compared to COD4 and UT3 which I was also playing at the time. I certainly didn't enjoy online gaming (Crysis Wars) until the 4870 and I could actually get 40+fps consistently (but by the time I got the 4870 no one was playing it anyway).

Compare that to a game like COD4 which ran well on a wide range of systems, and though it didn't look awesome maxed out, at least on a low end system it ran and didn't look like arse, where as Crysis looked awesome on a super computer, but both looked and ran like arse on a low end machine.

So yeah, why would you spend all the money making a high end game that only a select few can play at reasonable settings when you could release a game with average settings that people can play on mid-ranged PCs, maybe family PCs that dont have a good gaming card, or even laptops.
 
mjz_5 said:
the game is 2 years old, how come nothing matches it yet in graphics? I dont understand
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Primarily because anymore, getting better graphics involves a lot more art than it used to. When Quake 1 came out, to beat it graphics-wise you only needed a more technically capable engine. Sure you had to make textures and models to go with it, but they were all low-res, low-detail items. If you want to best Crysis you're going to need a huge number of artists, you're going to want to go out into the field and take all kinds of reference photos, AND you're going to need a more technically capable engine.

It's just too expensive anymore.
 
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