Aristed on 19/12/2007 at 15:47
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
I had a LOT more fun w/FarCry (hell I still play it frequently), and it was worth upgrading for. This is NOT.
i would say given the expense of upgrading and the length (short) of Crysis that you are right. but mostly because when far cry came out HL2 and doom 3 were also around the corner and i don't think that one game will ever be worth upgrading for. It looks as though Crysis will remain alone in its high requirements for a while, with games on the unreal 3 engine and all cross platform games not needing an upgrade it doesn't look like a necessary time for an upgrade...
gunsmoke on 19/12/2007 at 16:05
FarCry has much better multi-player, as well. I have made lasting friendships from that community. I just can't praise that game enough. I mean, considering how green the CryTek staff was at the time, they put out a AAA title that shook the market up, and raised the bar for all future titles to come. The genre was getting stagnant at the time.
june gloom on 19/12/2007 at 21:17
I didn't like FarCry. Something about it just seemed "off" to me. A big part of it was the "no saves" function, which just pissed me off.
NamelessPlayer on 22/12/2007 at 03:20
I've been playing Crysis on my new system for a bit, and it's quite impressive. A Q6600, 2 GB of DDR2, and a 8800 GT 512 MB net me a playable experience with Very High settings(though on 1024x768 and no apparent AA or AF). (Yes, I know, framerates may be a bit low, but my prior system performed much worse on MINIMUM. Thus, I'm thankful for what I can get.)
However, I haven't hopped online yet. Don't want to run into any arrogant douchebags. Would any of you have a server or two to recommend?
Koki on 22/12/2007 at 22:41
I don't think there's anything to recommend. Crysis generally failed in multiplayer department, there's max about 500 or so people on.
Briareos H on 23/12/2007 at 01:03
Just finished this today. I hadn't read the thread, I hadn't read any review online and apart from seeing a few screenshots or hearing a few "it's far cry 1.5 with boring aliens" I had nothing to build any expectation from. We'd received our shiny new 8800 GT two days ago so I thought I would give it a go and with a hunch, I started a game in Delta mode, the hardest setting.
I didn't expect this game to be good on anything but the atmosphere and presentation. Well, I had a blast. I have no idea how the other difficulty modes play, but playing on Delta is incredibly tense and satisfying. Crysis is not a "mindless shooter" or "half life in a bigger tunnel", it's a fucking stealth shooter for at least two thirds of it, and a damn fine one with that. You have an incredibly vast array of ways to approach a situation, exploiting the terrain, the physics, the buildings, ambushing korean patrols, crawling like the predator behind the prey invisible and ready to strike, or throwing a few grenades to a precise point to catch the attention of guards and expose them to your gunfire, using a vehicle-mounted turret, setting up remote controlled bombs, etc. etc.
As you need only a few bullets to die on that setting, everything must be well thought out, calculated, planned -from the beginning of the assault to even the escape routes- : "Should I miss my stealthy ambush and get spotted, what's the best way to go ? That dense forest to the north, with the risk of being caught by a nearby patrol ? That jeep in the backyard, if only I can get it out of the camp quickly enough ? That cliff to the south, leaping towards the safe waters down there, but far away from my objective ?". Yeah, right, it asks for some intellectual effort. Most people will just want to run in there, gun everyone, save and reload if killed. But the game gives you the power to make it a fantastic experience and that's the same thing which made the gameplay of Thief appealing to me.
Crysis is, in a few words, a goldmine of voluntary satisfaction in tactics and combat with sheer amazement from the atmosphere and technology thrown inbetween. Of course that is for most of the game, the part before the alien facility. After that, it became a bit too linear and over the top (unlike HL2) for my tastes, but the combat was still as fun. The plot is your basic sci-fi hollywoodian script, but the characters are surprisingly believeable and a few ideas are brilliant. This itself would make the game redeemable if it played like Far Cry 1.5. So add to this the technology (graphics, physics), the setting and the gameplay, and you have my third contender FPS of 2007 with Orange Box and Stalker. I'd even put it oh so slightly above Episode 2 (for all it does NEW).
Time to pick up a random save near the half of the game and get back to sneaking or killing koreans in a completely different manner than what I first did.
man why did I even waste my time finishing bioshock ?
mothra on 25/12/2007 at 09:46
yeah, you speak my language.
unfortunately I have my troubles with mid-20s FPS when playing on higher difficutly settings. most of the "stunts" I wanna try don't work out cause I just miss more headshots or have trouble doing 180s quick enough.
and since I can't get the game to play >60 on ANY setting I just go for long-range and the pretty pictures. But shooter-related I would say it tops everything before it (CODs, FC, HLs)
Koki on 25/12/2007 at 20:17
Finally some decent opinions - decent because I agree with them.
Finished that shit 5 times. Best FPS since Deus Ex, definitely.
june gloom on 25/12/2007 at 22:00
Quote Posted by Koki
Finally some decent opinions - decent because I agree with them.
This explains so much about you.
Rogue Keeper on 28/12/2007 at 13:59
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).
My Asus DVD Player (LG drive) crashed about two times when I skipped some chapters, but I get similar hangups and crashes with other film DVDs as well when I'm skipping sections, so I didn't find it extraordinary.
Anyways, great documentary, precious unused footage, I was like :o all the time. However I am disappointed by the new color scheme of the film as well. Too much green/blue tint and too dark, so I created my own color profile for it.
