Crysis 2 for $15.99.....hard to pass up!

WorldExclusive said:
Picked up the $12 deal, downloading now. I had this game at launch but it wasn't worth the $57 I paid.
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Wow, where did you buy it from that would accept returned PC games? :eek:
Or did you not even open the game and it was still sealed?
 
Holy Roman Empire said:
My basic problem is that I've already got Steam, which I didn't really want. I've already got Games For Windows Marketplace, which I didn't really want. I've already got Yuplay, which I didn't really want, and I'm getting tired of filling my sdd with applications that apparently just replicate each other's functionality. So if there is a way to do it with one of the half dozen applications I already have, I'd like to implement it. I just want to download and play games. I don't want other useless crap.

thats what, dude.
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I know it kinda sucks. I made a spreadsheet to keep track of what games I have and which digital download place I bought it from. You only need EADM to download and install the game. After the game is on your hard drive, you don't need to run it anymore. It also doesn't run in the background when you start a game either. I just confirmed this by starting up and playing Crysis 2 without EADM running, EADM never started.
 
WorldExclusive said:
Originally Posted by Beezzer View Post
I received the $16 key a few minutes after buying. Unfortunately, it had already been used and did not work. Sent an email requesting a new key or a refund.

You may have to refresh your games list. I used the code, pick my language then it asked me to enter the code again, it showed up as already used. Went to my games list, refreshed it, and Crysis 2 showed up.
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What WorldExclusive said was true because I went through the same thing. I had thought the key was in use because after inputing the key, I did not see the Crysis 2 game show in my games' list and ended up trying to re-enter the key once more. But all I had to do was refresh the games' list, or you can try to just close eadm and reopen, and it should show up. If not, hopefully the seller will help you out.

I purchased the $15.99 deal through the ubid seller that the OP listed and received my key within 15 minutes. Registered the game and had a blast with mp.

@OP Thanks man!!! I was hoping to get this at a lower price point seeing as how I enjoyed playing the demo with friends when the it was available on steam. I'd take the $15.99 deal over paying $50+ any day for a game I'll be spending loads of hours on. :D
 
Heh, I thought this was a scam and then four pages of people arguing with each other. I didn't think this would actually work. I just got the $16 copy.

I don't want EADM on my system. However, I can suck it up for a few days until I beat the single player and then just toss it back off my system.

Thanks.
 
mrtheshaggy said:
Heh, I thought this was a scam and then four pages of people arguing with each other. I didn't think this would actually work. I just got the $16 copy.

I don't want EADM on my system. However, I can suck it up for a few days until I beat the single player and then just toss it back off my system.

Thanks.
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I'm the same way. Couldn't pass it up for this price and received the key within 20 minutes of payment. Installed EADM, logged in and found out that I still own Battlefield 2142 through that service. :rolleyes: Games, games everywhere.
 
Having a blast with the game, mostly single player so far. Game looks pretty darn good and runs smooth as butter. No complaints here...especially for $16!
 
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Forgive my ignorance on foreign nations currency signs, but if I am correct, CJS is now charging $25 for Crysis 2 and not $12?

If so I will gladly take one of the hands of this ebidder.
 
Hmmm on the fence about this one. I loved the first two games, but all the consolation on this one has kept me away. Is this worth the $16 just for a fan of the series, or should I wait for like a $5-10 Steam sale a year from now?
 
GoldenTiger said:
P.S. Yeah, it looks TERRIBLE guys, so ugly! /sarcasm :) (JPEG compression hurts it a good bit but still looks great to me)
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GT, that ss looks like ass man. Not helping the case that it is a good looking game :cool:
 
Broke down and bought it. However I got it for the $12 ioffer link above. That particular link doesn't work, but a quick search on the site revealed there are others for that price. Seemed sketchy at first but got the key and am downloading from EADM now so no issues. Would prefer not to use EADM but my Mass Effect 1 DLC came from it, so I still had it installed.
 
Best $16 I've spent in a while. Not sure why this game got a bad rap. Awesome graphics, good campaign and the multi-player is fun too.
 
wasteomind said:
Hmmm on the fence about this one. I loved the first two games, but all the consolation on this one has kept me away. Is this worth the $16 just for a fan of the series, or should I wait for like a $5-10 Steam sale a year from now?
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When playing the single player I never once said to myself, "This is console-ified." It plays exactly like every other PC FPS you've played before and looks absolutely GORGEOUS to boot.

The suit controls and abilities are much, much better this time around. And they have even implemented a very very good lean system that is extremely intuitive and requires no extra binds, no "locking on" to walls, cover, etc. Just crouch behind a barricade and hit Mouse2...and you lean over. It's great.
 
TwistedAegis said:
When playing the single player I never once said to myself, "This is console-ified." It plays exactly like every other PC FPS you've played before and looks absolutely GORGEOUS to boot.

The suit controls and abilities are much, much better this time around. And they have even implemented a very very good lean system that is extremely intuitive and requires no extra binds, no "locking on" to walls, cover, etc. Just crouch behind a barricade and hit Mouse2...and you lean over. It's great.
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Some areas look great and others look consolized. Outside looks better than inside areas.
The Advanced Settings config helps the visuals a bit, also fixes FOV.

http://wasdie.blogspot.com/2011/03/crysis-2-advanced-graphics-options-17.html
 
Well I played and beat it and enjoyed it...now that I have installed my 2nd 6970 I get the horrible flickering bug. 11.5a didn't fix and now it moved to Mass Effect as well. :(
 
So I'd just like to follow up on this since I bought it as I stated above after originally being on the fence about it. I'd say it was definitely worth the $12 I paid for it. Maybe a bit more, but definitely wouldn't have felt good if I had paid the full release price of 60 bucks.

I enjoyed it, and I just want to give a quick run down of my thoughts;

THE GOOD:

The Graphics - No they aren't on par with Crysis 1, or Warhead, or even some community mods. However, the graphics are still pretty good. There are definitely tons of places where the textures are questionable, and obviously scaled back for consoles, but given the whole package, it still looks better than a lot of other games out there. People preaching the graphics suck are just hating for the sake of hating. They don't suck, but they definitely don't live up to the expectations set by its predecessors.

Performance - Running tri-sli gtx 280s, I didn't have many issues. At one point my gpus were nearing 85c and started to artifact. I immediately shut down and decided to finally clean out my case which I hadn't done in 5-6 months. Things were actually pretty clean inside, and after using some compressed air to blow out what little dust was inside the cards, I rearranged the order of the cards in the slots and ended up with slightly better cooling. Never saw temps over 78c after that. Most of the time I ran 60fps solid with vsync on. Only once in a while did it drop to 45ish. Though with all that said, I never really had issues running the first two games, so this doesn't matter much I guess.

The Story - It isn't amazing, but it was better than I thought it was going to be. I was worried with this being a multiplatform sequel that the story was going to get kicked to the back seat to lessen the confusion for the console kids, and overlooked for the COD multiplayer console meat heads. Surprisingly it tied in pretty well with the first one, with only leaving a few plot holes that weren't massively detrimental to the overall enjoyment of it.


THE BAD:

No Nomad or Psycho - Not even mentioned. Psycho is briefly seen in a flashback, but that is it. Booooo.

No manual saving - Perhaps I missed it, but I don't think I did. Where the hell is the manual saving? Or quick saving? Checkpoints only? Are you kidding me? Granted there were a lot of checkpoint locations, and you can load up previous auto saved checkpoints from the menu, this lack of a common feature in PC gaming is absolutely unforgivable.

The suit - Man oh man. Why did they change it. Honestly, the suit was fine in the first one. This is for me, the biggest, dumbed down element of the whole game. I never had a single issue switching modes on the fly to run, jump, stealth, punch, get armor ect ect. I felt very limited with battle field mobility in this game. It was either stealth around and knife everything, or go guns blazing in armor god mode. I never felt like I had options to be creative with how I progressed.

Unlockable, purchasable, suit upgrades - Useless tacked on feature that had no purpose. Kill aliens, get nano catalyst to spend on suit upgrades for each of the 4 modes. Except you can only activate one upgrade for each mode out of the possible 3-4 upgrades available for each suit mode. By the way, only 1 of the 3-4 upgrades for each power is worth a damn and they are the ones that reduce the drain on your power.

So why the others were included, or why any of them had to be unlocked rather than just given to you is beyond me. The only time i felt like one of the other upgrades was useful was when you get attacked late in the game by stealth units. I used the stealth tracker upgrade to help kill 4 enemies. Whoopty doo. That was worth the points and time to unlock it.

Fall damage - Maybe its just me, but I don't remember the fall damage in the first two games being so stupid. I jump 10 feet down die and have to restart from a checkpoint. I jump down 10 feet in armor mode and lose all my suit energy. I fall 600 feet in a scripted story event and get up and go on my merry way. Who thought this was a good idea?

The level designs - I felt like 90% of the game I was playing in a canyon. The same trenches and multi-tiered sunken city blocks full of trash and debris wore on me quickly to the point it broke immersion for me. Only when I got back to undestroyed streets, building corridors or rooftops game play did it seem to feel varied again. The levels felt small in comparison to the other games. Consolitius definitely struck here, and did more harm then good.

NPC dialogue - When I say NPC, I mean the ones you are currently fighting with, like the soldiers who are with you, or the story NPCs who wait for you to come near them before the next objective is given. Never in gaming have a heard NPCs harass you so much. It was constant spam.

If you need to go to an NPC to say go up an elevator, they will yell at you every 3 seconds if you aren't near them. What if I want to explore the area I just fought in to find some collectables for the unlocks? What if I want to look at the building that just collapsed, or take in some of the artwork around the level. I can not do this without some NPC constantly harassing me to continue on. I have never in all my years of gaming heard anything like it.

At one point, there was a section where I had to meet up with Chino I think it was. Just before the gun ship comes, I'm escorted by two or three soldiers, and there was a giant ocean freighter or cargo ship beached off on the side of the area. Anyways, after the first wave of aliens, I don't know if it was a bug, or glitch, but the dialogue saying something like lets go, was repeated non-stop by both soldiers, talking over each other, endlessly for 5 minutes while I was exploring. I'm not exaggerating this either. There was no pause whatsoever after the end of the line, before it started again. Only when I went to the blue objective marker did it finally stop.

The textures - I know I mentioned graphics as being on the good side, but quiet a few textures were of such low quality I don't understand how they made it into the PC release. Honestly. A high resolution texture mode should have been included.

Flickering textures - I have no idea if this is a driver related issue, or a SLI related issue, but any time there was a level with rain, or sometimes just night time with heavy lighting, there was an annoying case of texture flickering around puddles and light sources. I didn't spend much time researching this issue but it was annoying nonetheless.

Lack of graphic options - I didn't need to bother with them, since my system is pretty beefy, but come on. Any PC game having 3-4 preset graphic options, with no room for people with lesser systems to tweak is laughable at best.

Terrible screen/visor filter - I'm not 100% sure what it is, but there is some kind of post processing filter over the screen. I think it was put in to make it look like you are viewing everything through a visor or digital interface. Its hard to explain, but it has a very unique slightly off convergence look. When you look at objects or lights, you can see a sort of rainbow effect with the primary colors red, blue, and green. Its like an interlaced tv up close. I'm not sure many people can see it, but it is there, and it is distracting.

The best easy to see example is some of the advertising posters/screens in the game for the Hargreave-Rasch company. It looks like the screens are screwy you can faintly see the separation of colors, like they are damaged or overloaded. This effect is separate from the one I am complaining about above, but is along the same lines of what is applied to the screen.

Its blurry - Not really sure why, but everything looks blurry. The blur is similar some some ways to image scaling, but nothing is being scaled because i'm playing at my native resolution. Unless it is some kind of post process filter rendering in low res and scaling like consoles do? Perhaps a side effect of the terrible AA in extreme mode? Which leads me to my next point...

Lack of proper AA - Ok I know Crytek resorted to a deferred lighting scheme to make this work for consoles, but the lack or proper AA is frustrating. The edge AA employed in the extreme graphics settings just isn't enough. I'm sure a decent AA mode could have been made compatible, but the lack of any apparent attempt at doing so is just stupid. More reason to believe consoles have harmed this release.

The multiplayer - Everything that was unique about Crysis and Crysis Wars multiplayer was scrapped for a COD clone with a nanosuit. Terrible in my opinion. While I can still have fun in the multiplayer, I would definitely load up Crysis Wars before Crysis 2 for my multiplayer needs.

Crytek - Yes the company gets listed under the bad. They took a good PC franchise and gutted many of the things that made it good for multiplatform release after promising the PC version wouldn't suffer as a result. While the final product was still enjoyable, this claim was definitely a lie.

Cevat Yerli - Shame shame shame on you. You lied all throughout production and marketing about this to PC players and fans. You're a tool. Also, having your name plastered all over the opening credits made me want to slap you. You're a tool. No mod tools. You're a tool. No promised DX11 features. You're a tool. Hope you learned a big lesson with this release. Tool.


Well that about sums it up. You might have me pegged as a console hater, but in fact I am not. I have all the major consoles and enjoy playing them. I do however prefer gaming on my PC, and if a PC version of a game is available, i will get it over a console version without hesitation. While I enjoyed Crysis 2, it is hard to say Crytek did not turn its back on PC gamers, or neglect them, because they certainly did.

Regardless, I'd recommend people try this game if they can get it on the cheap because it is worth playing. I hate to say I support the dumb down with my wallet, and its hard to argue I don't. I just hope Crytek listens to all the criticism, takes the advice, and improved upon the next game without letting the PC fan base down again.

This post is longer than I thought it would be, and if you read it, thanks for reading. Hope this gives some incite that you might not have found elsewhere.
 
Crysis was a big bag of lies. I wouldn't even be remotely interested in buying/playing this game if it was $0.99. Like the person above me said, Cevat Yerli is a piece of shit, and he deserves nothing but failure.
 
nerdydesi said:
Wow, where did you buy it from that would accept returned PC games? :eek:
Or did you not even open the game and it was still sealed?
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It was a major online retailer. I'm not going to say which one because some people may abuse the system.
The game was opened and I returned it as a defective product because it lacked promised features, broken CD key and MP login.

I didn't buy a digital copy on purpose because I knew there could be issues and I was right.
Really wanted to pay less than $10, but for $12 the game is good enough for that price.
 
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