Your thoughts on Crysis?

N'Al on 11/12/2007 at 10:13

I haven't watched the Workprint version myself yet either, but I don't think it'll be something to warrant multiple viewings, i.e. you'd watch it once just to see what it's about, but then that's it. So I'm guessing it's not necessarily worth it.

But the fifth disc did have another documentary on it as well, which went into the differences between the versions, and how they approached making the Final Cut. Don't know whether you'd lose that one as well if you went for the 4-disc set.

Rogue Keeper on 11/12/2007 at 12:27

I think that 3-hours long Dangerous Days documentary (which comes even with 2-disc edition) pretty much answers everything essentially important for normal people and the featurettes on other discs are just additional in-depth tidbits.

N'Al on 11/12/2007 at 13:13

BR Numbers, did you have problems playing the Dangerous Days commentary? My disc seems to stutter and hang ever now and then, no matter which DVD drive I play it in (1 Xbox, 2 laptops).

N'Al on 14/12/2007 at 17:56

I finally got around to seeing Alien 3 SE - much better than the theatrical cut. Greater characterisation of pretty much everyone in the film, less incoherent cuts, etc. Good, even. :p

The only thing I found strange was why they had to get rid of the chestburster scene at the end. Ah, well.

And so, to finally get this thread back on track: (http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=a371304c7909513e857e050e93641346&action=dlattach;topic=16185.0;attach=6021;image) Lotsa dead Koreens.

accordian on 15/12/2007 at 01:48

Quote Posted by N'Al

BR Numbers, did you have problems playing the Dangerous Days commentary? My disc seems to stutter and hang ever now and then, no matter which DVD drive I play it in (1 Xbox, 2 laptops).

I don't, but I am playing it in a traditional DVD player.

N'Al on 15/12/2007 at 10:37

The stutters were worst on the Post-Production section of the documentary. Once I skipped that the rest was fine. Shame I didn't get to see the rest of that section, found it quite interesting (i.e. the whole voiceover-no-voiceover bit). Disc doesn't look scratched either, which is why I was asking.

Anyway, more Crysis stuff: Crysis really is (http://kotaku.com/gaming/craziness/1800-in-video-cards-still-doesnt-max-crysis-333598.php) graphics-intensive, hence a (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/14/crysis-sales-in-crisis-ut3-gets-fragged-too/) bad sell?

HybridVision on 15/12/2007 at 15:38

Looks like I'm not the only one bored by yet another PC FPS. If there weren't so many of them offering more or less the same experience, maybe sales would be healthier. As it is, only HL2 is really trying to give us more than the run-and-gun gameplay we've had since Doom.

denisv on 15/12/2007 at 19:05

Quote Posted by HybridVision

Looks like someone's talking out of their ass. You've never played Crysis, have you?

Aristed on 15/12/2007 at 21:32

only HL2 is trying to be different to doom? what about stalker or bioshock? Crysis goes for freedom of approach and strategic/action paced gameplay totally different--buy it...

perhapses crysis could be a slow but fairly steady seller. with high system requirements many people will be forced to put of buying it until they have a better system, and when they finally come to buying a new system then to show of their new g card they may want to throw as much as they can at it...

the articles however are horribly misleading, just because the very high settings cannot be run even on 3 8800s does not mean to say that you can't run it well on a mid system. Indeed software and not hardware limitations could well be the cause of that "low" frame rate, my system can run crysis on high setting with no problems but still struggles to cope with FEAR at max with lots of aa...
+the article also forgets to mention what res they were running at which is massively important when it comes to performance. In short don't believe these idiots, imho they are just looking for something spurious to infer...

june gloom on 15/12/2007 at 22:12

Quote Posted by HybridVision

You don't play a lot of games, do you.