Who wants to play the Crysis demo?
TychoCelchuuu
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<div class="IPBDescription">We all want to play the Crysis demo!</div><a href="http://na.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/demos/Crysis_SP_Demo.exe" target="_blank">So download the Crysis demo and let's all play!</a> Of course, it's singleplayer, so we won't <i>know</i> that everyone else is playing, but whatever.
Seriously try this sucker out. It's everything Far Cry was, only 10 times more polishes, with twice as much awesome added on top, and with better graphics. They also replaced the crappy cheesy story with what seems like a very well done cheesy story. Everything feels great: it's the prettiest game I've ever played, the controls are super well done (especially for the suit/gun mods), it's eassy to pick enemies up by the neck and hurl them through the wall to make a building collapse, all the trees are destructable, etc. Really, it's well worth trying. My 2.6GHz Core2Duo + 8800GTS 640MB ran everything at High at 1280x1024, but Far Cry scaled reasonably well and I'd imagine Crysis does too.
Do eeeeet. Report back with specs + performance. I'm curious.
Seriously try this sucker out. It's everything Far Cry was, only 10 times more polishes, with twice as much awesome added on top, and with better graphics. They also replaced the crappy cheesy story with what seems like a very well done cheesy story. Everything feels great: it's the prettiest game I've ever played, the controls are super well done (especially for the suit/gun mods), it's eassy to pick enemies up by the neck and hurl them through the wall to make a building collapse, all the trees are destructable, etc. Really, it's well worth trying. My 2.6GHz Core2Duo + 8800GTS 640MB ran everything at High at 1280x1024, but Far Cry scaled reasonably well and I'd imagine Crysis does too.
Do eeeeet. Report back with specs + performance. I'm curious.
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Edit: No okay seriously download it. It comes with the editor. This thing is awesome. It's 100% real time, you can see the changes you make in the freaking game as you make them. It's so awesome fiddling around with stuff. I made the water crystal clear! It looks awesome. I also found the alien. And you can change the wave size and they lap up against the shore and everything. Or change the wind direction and watch the trees lean over.
As for performance, it does very well O_O. My 2.2Ghz X2 Athlon/2GB Ram/2600XT at 1680x1050 with a majority of settings high, and some medium, it plays decently, could toss some more stuff down to medium if I want more fps, but eh, then it wouldn't be as sexy.
It does resemble Far Cry though... alot. Still good though.
As for performance, it does very well O_O. My 2.2Ghz X2 Athlon/2GB Ram/2600XT at 1680x1050 with a majority of settings high, and some medium, it plays decently, could toss some more stuff down to medium if I want more fps, but eh, then it wouldn't be as sexy.
It does resemble Far Cry though... alot. Still good though.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's brilliant news as I have exactly the same spec, but run my monitor at only 1280x1024, so should get away with nearly all high...
It's EA, but I'm so sold.
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Game of the year? Before it's released? Overhype moar.
Overall it was pretty fun, nothing I sat and gasped "holeh poo!" about though. Hope the whole freeze and alien thingy gives some diversity later, as tycho said, it's much like Far Cry, hell, even FarCry 2 looks less like FarCry then Crysis.
"Hey what is that?" "A car driving by iteself??" "it's coming straight for us! shoot shoot!" *Thump Thump*
*reinforcements comes sneaking around the car* "SURPRISE MACHINEGUN SPRAY!" *budda budda budda* - True story.
They could have tuned down the hp regeneration, you could simply duck behind anything, wait for 100% energy then cloak and stand still until full hp.
I don't think I fired a single shot at one of the outposts, just threw everything I could pick up at anything that moved. I am saddened however by the fact I could not punch down even smaller trees or a rackety hut wall EDIT: Sorry, depends on graphics settings apparently. Much visual flare was lost due to my 3,6 intel and 7800 gtx but even on low at least the characters had amazing detail.
Them koreans are ######s, I had a few as shield yet they never doubted a second before mowing me down with one of them at front. They also hurl grenades like madmen on roofs and everywhere also sniper patrol boats.
Did anyone look at the different difficulties? Quite interesting choices, at hardest they speak korean instead of english and the binocular doesn't highlight enemies. Sure hope more follow this trend then "more HP and Damage" ones.
The best tactic is to find a hill or something so you can get a good view over everything then cloak and just stand on top of it while marking everyone with the binoculars (which however cant mark people inside buildings, even if it detects them).
Game of the year? Before it's released? Overhype moar.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
He wasn't overhyping. This is really really good. The AI is challenging, the graphics are <i>superb</i> even on medium. The guns feel nice and the customisation system is smooth. The suit powers are done really well, though I feel you're given too little energy to play with, but I was playing on hard I suppose. The facial animations are on par with HL2.
The post-processing effects range from super-overdone, like the one you get when you are shot, to super-cool, like the one you get when you activate speed mode, to nicely subtle, when you get a speck of dirt on your visor.
Oh and also: The demo was too much for me to finish in a single sitting. It's huge.
--Scythe--
And oh, the EA bloat, where they stick in their logo everywhere, as if watching their unskippable logo-playback wasn't painful enough. How I hate your capatalistic schemes of exploitation.
Looks like someone's criticising a game before he plays it through. You'll see real-time lighting changes soon enough. If you want you can go into the sandbox editor and do it yourself. And even if the good graphics <i>were</i> just a result of "abusing parallel mapping to the max" (they're not), why the heck would that matter? Do you have some vendetta against parallel mapping (which doesn't exist)? As long as they DO have good graphics, it doesn't matter how they made them.
Edit: The EA logo is more than skippable. Just rename/delete the movie file in the game's folder.
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I get fairly good FPS, but obviously slow downs every now and then. Honestly though, farcry looks better than this game on low.
You'll forgive me if I don't spend a lot of time listening to the drivel about the latest over-hyped another-fps.
What I really wanted to know was: What does this game offer that I should really care about? What is different enough to justify me giving a damn?
The posts since then indicate that it is just another fps full of pretty. I really could care less about things like that, especially since it seems very unlikely I could play it at all.
What I really wanted to know was: What does this game offer that I should really care about? What is different enough to justify me giving a damn?
The posts since then indicate that it is just another fps full of pretty. I really could care less about things like that, especially since it seems very unlikely I could play it at all.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You seem bitter about something.
The graphics are brilliant, the map editor is innovative, and supposedly the game play and ability to interact with the environment are very well done.
Regardless of whether you will be able to play a game or not isn't really an excuse for not having at least heard of it. Epically when it was as widely talked about as Crysis was.
What I really wanted to know was: What does this game offer that I should really care about? What is different enough to justify me giving a damn?
The posts since then indicate that it is just another fps full of pretty. I really could care less about things like that, especially since it seems very unlikely I could play it at all.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Okay, you want to know what the game offers you, but you don't want to listen to "drivel" about "the latest over-hyped another-fps." Put another way, you want to know enough about the game to make a judgment one way or another as to whether you should care about it, but you don't want to have to listen to information about it. Great.
Yeah, see, those places where they <strike>hype</strike> talk about upcoming renditions of the same old fps gameplay we've been rehashing since Doom, I don't really pay attention to them. For obvious reasons. Thats why I haven't heard of Crysis.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Put another way, you want to know enough about the game to make a judgment one way or another as to whether you should care about it, but you don't want to have to listen to information about it<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I wanted to know what was <i>different</i>, what made it so <i>special</i>. What, ultimately, separates it from Doom. And frankly, if the only answers I get are "Its prettier and with cooler weapons! And super-strength!", then that just isn't enough for me.
And yes, I am bitter. Because I have to watch great game companies like Looking Glass die in an industry full of people churning out Doom++.
Response-to-Liku-Edit: Never played HL2. Nothing I've seen or heard about it has lead me to believe that it's really any different than HL1, other than it has a gravity gun, and a gun that can pick up and throw random objects never really seemed all that different than a gun that throws bullets.
Edit: The EA logo is more than skippable. Just rename/delete the movie file in the game's folder.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think your mistake is taking my opinion serious. It was never meant to be fair and balanced, and I didnt hide that I didnt play trough it. Well ok, I meant parallax mapping, thank you for pointing that out. And that's the entire problem, it doesnt look good. They seem to follow the same philosophy the one who's responsible for oblivion's heavily abused bloom had. The logic that 1 dose of bloom = good, 3 doses of bloom = 3 times the goodness is just a crutch for the talentless developer.
Somehow I just don't think it will work out like I'd hope.