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Official Crysis 2 Thread

heatlesssun said:
We really don't have to even go that far. For anyone to just flat out say that the graphics suck, well then pretty much every game's graphics must suck then. Most games on the PC simply don't look this good.
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I would say the graphics are about similar to the first games but with lower resolution textures.

They definitely ain't bad but not really an upgrade over the first in fact it seems like it certain area's they are a downgrade which is why some people are disapointed. Personally I thought this would happen so it wasn't unexpected for me. I don't really care about tiny graphic details these day's if the game play is good who cares. I'm just not buying this game right now because I have many other games I'd rather play.
 
Derangel said:
Dunno. I was in the middle of a fire fight with some CELL people and as I run away and turned around and fired some more a tree came down.
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might have been some scripted event then. there have been numerous comments about trees not being able to be shot down like in the original game. in fact nearly all of the non scripted event destruction has been removed from I have read.
 
cannondale06 said:
might have been some scripted event then. there have been numerous comments about trees not being able to be shot down like in the original game. in fact nearly all of the non scripted event destruction has been removed from I have read.
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It would have to be some pretty darn specific scripting since I just randomly lead the AI into that area because I was running away to heal.
 
Derangel said:
I'll need to get to a spot with a tree again. Or remember to do it. I actually thought about testing it after seeing that, but totally forgot.
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I saw some vids on youtube of people trying but no dice, not even a limb. and I know I have read in threads on other forums where it could not be done. maybe its only certain areas.
 
cannondale06 said:
I saw some vids on youtube of people trying but no dice, not even a limb. and I know I have read in threads on other forums where it could not be done.
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Well that is weird then. Like I said if it was scripted it was some weirdly specific scripting.
 
jebo_4jc said:
Those screens do look decent to me.

But am I correct in understanding that you can no longer shoot or smash the trees down?
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no, but there are not many trees at all. chances are though if you see anything resembling a concrete / stone pillar you can totally smash it to bits though! same with concrete road block things, you some of them you can blast to bits. you can also dynamically dent steel shipping containers by throwing something heavy at them or shooting them with something powerful.

so uh, trees are out but other gimmicky shit is in.


here's some pictures, not the highest settings so

https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/LL...0EkNNogQu4YuXCbGo/10565193/1301266800/ffd49d7

https://photos-3.dropbox.com/i/o/eF...meNygLFA7xT8Z_j1E/10565193/1301266800/ea2deef

https://photos-2.dropbox.com/i/o/0X...2VudiwVxgvyTZ4EQM/10565193/1301266800/7c35901

https://photos-5.dropbox.com/i/o/XY...BzazwHVlhU8vEcONc/10565193/1301266800/8e37f09

https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/YG...MHWOBYhKOelUv3DV8/10565193/1301266800/116749b

https://photos-5.dropbox.com/i/o/rG...1gkmv9LJvEZj7LXGg/10565193/1301266800/1be759c

https://photos-3.dropbox.com/i/o/76...BZj4erBkGTSapjRnM/10565193/1301266800/03bec60

https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/tE...CC5FBYBX6_2tH1TlM/10565193/1301266800/772730c

https://photos-3.dropbox.com/i/o/Yw...9VVVqw7kXOiLzsPys/10565193/1301266800/97eff4b
 
I really hope something good comes from the mod community after the mod tools are released. The lighting engine alone should provide a huge improvement over CryEngine 2. It's a shame Crytek overdoes the bloom so much, because the global illumination is pretty amazing at times.
 
ex0du5 said:
I really hope something good comes from the mod community after the mod tools are released. The lighting engine alone should provide a huge improvement over CryEngine 2. It's a shame Crytek overdoes the bloom so much, because the global illumination is pretty amazing at times.
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If they get released. I'm hoping for some amazing custom configs like we saw with the first game.
 
ex0du5 said:
Stealing these shots from another forum (credit goes to DenisK4):

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Again, I don't hate, but don't like the way it looks. The graphics are oversaturated and lightening looks bad compared to a STALKER.
 
Crysis 1 [2007]

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There's just no room for debate between which game looks better at this moment.
 
Derangel said:
It didn't look anywhere near that good anywhere. Even the best custom configs didn't get it to that level. Well the water got to that point.
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no you can find a few places like that but 95% of the game looks worse. inside environments were horrendous looking and not much improvement over even Far Cry.
 
BM00 said:
I'm not "try"ing anything. Crysis 1 looks better than Crysis 2.
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anybody can post images from Crysis 1 and Warhead that look no where near as good as those and you know it. nice cherry picking though as some of those are not even from the actual game anyway.
 
cannondale06 said:
no you can find a few places like that but 95% of the game looks worse. inside environments were horrendous looking and not much improvement over even Far Cry.
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Yeah the interiors were pretty bad. Crysis 2 drastically improved those thankfully.
 
cannondale06 said:
anybody can post images from Crysis 1 and Warhead that look no where near as good as those and you know it. nice cherry picking though as some of those are not even from the actual game anyway.
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If by cherry picking you mean spending roughly 10 seconds copying and pasting images I've found at that site's Crysis 1 repository of nice looking pictures -- then I'm guilty.

More than 95% of Crysis 2 doesn't look as good as the 5% of Crysis 1. Do you think I take joy or have an agenda by proclaiming this? Just trying to put some perspective in the discussion.
 
BM00 said:
If by cherry picking you mean spending roughly 10 seconds copying and pasting images I've found at that site's Crysis 1 repository of nice looking pictures -- then I'm guilty.

More than 95% of Crysis 2 doesn't look as good as the 5% of Crysis 1. Do you think I take joy or have an agenda by proclaiming this? Just trying to put some perspective in the discussion.
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and so am I. I fired up Crysis and Warhead and MOST of the game is not impressive looking today as it was in 2007. Crysis 2 has some bland textures, foliage no better looking than Crysis 1 and some over saturated colors. other than that its pretty decent looking and easily equals Crysis 1 in most areas.
 
cannondale06 said:
and so am I. I fired up Crysis and Warhead and MOST of the game is not impressive looking today as it was in 2007. Crysis 2 has some bland textures, foliage no better looking than Crysis 1 and some over saturated colors. other than that is pretty decent looking.
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I'd argue that is wasn't even impressive looking in 2007, but thats just me.
 
I'm not interjecting Crysis 2 doesn't look good; it's one of the best looking games ever made; however, what's better looking in the graphical department than Crysis 2? Well for starters, its predecessor: Crysis
 
cannondale06 said:
nice try but the actual game looked no where near that good in most places.
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Not to mention the game was plagued with uniformly-lit areas, jittery objects/NPCs and terrible animations between stances (pretty much teleportation). Crysis is good for taking screenshots, but there were far more immersion-breakers than Crysis 2.
 
Derangel said:
I'd argue that is wasn't even impressive looking in 2007, but thats just me.
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Then you'd be arguing with an overwhelming majority of people who still regard it as the pinnacle of pc graphics. I think you're just trying to be outlandish; and that's ok -- just letting you know what you'd be getting into.
 
Derangel said:
I'd argue that is wasn't even impressive looking in 2007, but thats just me.
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well the vistas were pretty good for the time. with mods it could be quite stunning but yeah the standard version was lacking in many areas. it was odd that very high made some things look worse than high or even medium in some cases.
 
BM00 said:
Then you'd be arguing with an overwhelming majority of people who still regard it as the pinnacle of pc graphics. I think you're just trying to be outlandish; and that's ok -- just letting you know what you'd be getting into.
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I'm not remotely impressed by graphics. Crysis 1 looked good, in fact it looked great. But so what? You want me to be impressed with a game I want more than a pretty picture. If I want to stare are pretty pictures I'll go to a bloody art gallery. I haven't been impressed by graphics since the 90s.
 
Derangel said:
I'm not remotely impressed by graphics. Crysis 1 looked good, in fact it looked great. But so what? You want me to be impressed with a game I want more than a pretty picture. If I want to stare are pretty pictures I'll go to a bloody art gallery. I haven't been impressed by graphics since the 90s.
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Well since the past half dozen posts or so have been made solely about the comparison of graphics between the 2 games you'll have to excuse me when I just assumed you were also posting in regards to it.
 
cannondale06 said:
anybody can post images from Crysis 1 and Warhead that look no where near as good as those and you know it. nice cherry picking though as some of those are not even from the actual game anyway.
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All of those are modded to hell and back, and not to mention the screenshots are taken with unplayable settings. They are art shots, nothing more. The foliage in Crysis looks nothing like the pics in that gallery. Compare Crysis 2 to vanilla Crysis, and it looks pretty damned good.

cannondale06 said:
no you can find a few places like that but 95% of the game looks worse. inside environments were horrendous looking and not much improvement over even Far Cry.
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Pretty much.

If we're just showcasing what the engines can do, CryEngine 2 can look really damned good. But given the stock art assets, it didn't look all that great. Also, the lighting system is but a shadow of the lighting system in CryEngine 3...I think once DX11 + POM is out, along with the sanbox editor, we're going to see some pretty ridiculous stuff from the mod community. It's just a shame the base art assets from Crysis 2 are not an improvement over the first game.
 
BM00 said:
Well since the past half dozen posts or so have been made solely about the comparison of graphics between the 2 games you'll have to excuse me when I just assumed you were also posting in regards to it.
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Just because I don't go "Ooh pretty!" when seeing good graphics doesn't mean I'm not perfectly capable of comparing them.
 
Gotta say: Things start picking up once you hit the harbor area and get close to meeting up with that Gould (sp?)scientist. Good action. A couple of wild ass firefights. When you get stuck in his lab...that gets pretty intense. I had to bring out all the bag of tricks to get past that one.

Nice! :)
 
ex0du5 said:
Stealing these shots from another forum (credit goes to DenisK4):

crysis22011-03-2511-23gyf3.jpg


crysis22011-03-2508-42bzjl.jpg
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I realize that the discussion here is mostly about the technical merits of Crysis 2, but just look at the amazing art direction of that top screenshot.

In-game, you just run through that area - you don't even engage in battle there. That area was provided for atmosphere alone. See those photograpgphs over to the left - remind you of anything. Yup, that's right out of 9/11. And look at the garbage bags, and the ambulances, and all the e-vac signage - that communicates to me that there was some kind of biological cleanup taking place. The burned out tank suggests that something went horrible wrong there, but it happened a while ago, and now everyone is just gone.

When you run through that area there's all sorts of debris floating in the air, and the shadows from the trees dance slowly on the asphalt - it's not as static as it appears in the screenshot. You move through that area in about twenty seconds, and can't help but wonder what the hell is up ahead. That's purely about creating atmosphere.

Man, if that doesn't excite you then you must have ice water flowing through your veins!
 
BM00 said:
Crysis 1 [2007]

modded pictures to try and win an argument

There's just no room for debate between which game looks better at this moment.
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ok and here's what it looked like without custom content / mods
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fuckin sweet
 
WabeWalker said:
I realize that the discussion here is mostly about the technical merits of Crysis 2, but just look at the amazing art direction of that top screenshot.

In-game, you just run through that area - you don't even engage in battle there. That area was provided for atmosphere alone. See those photograpgphs over to the left - remind you of anything. Yup, that's right out of 9/11. And look at the garbage bags, and the ambulances, and all the e-vac signage - that communicates to me that there was some kind of biological cleanup taking place. The burned out tank suggests that something went horrible wrong there, but it happened a while ago, and now everyone is just gone.

When you run through that area there's all sorts of debris floating in the air, and the shadows from the trees dance slowly on the asphalt - it's not as static as it appears in the screenshot. You move through that area in about twenty seconds, and can't help but wonder what the hell is up ahead. That's purely about creating atmosphere.

Man, if that doesn't excite you then you must have ice water flowing through your veins!
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Indeed, that's something most people simply don't understand or care for. Looking back at this thread is a huge joke when people gave such hasty conclusions on how the development of Crysis 2 was like. But narrow-minded (focused solely on graphics) forum whining and blanket statements on the *entire* development process has become the norm and I just gotta sit back and take it. :D
 
The game starts off pretty absymal to me but picks up nicely after meeting up with the scientist Gould. I still believe Crysis/Warhead with the CCC tweak + ToD + DoF looks better than this game (and these aren't even really classified as a mods).

This isn't to say that in the future Crysis 2 can't or won't look as good compared to Crysis after a patch or community tweaks/mods -- but with comparing the shipped game, most people are griping about the let down of what 4 years could have meant for the pc release.
 
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