Crysis
 

I've played the demo and is awesome but too short. The graphics are great and also the gameplay. What do you think??

yep, it's awesome, but on this computer I had to run it on 800x600 on all low settings to make it playable. Then again, this is a shitty computer and I'm building a new one with a quad core and 8800GT

Would love to play it but my computer would blow up rendering the first frame.

WHEEEEEERE! MUST HAVE IT!

Ps.: I'll update this when I get it. :heh:


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Okay, just played it and, well... I was impressed by the graphics and the gameplay, which is pretty good. The suit energy runs out way too fast and the enemies are hard to hit, but that's probably because I havent been playing shooters in a while. Two things disappointed me in the game though, one of which is the fact that running it on max settings at 1280x1024 seems to be too hard of a job for my 8800GTS - I was hoping I could brag that it ran smoothly oh my setup, but oh well, I guess I was asking too much. Second thing that made me go "ugh..." was the whole Alien attack and what-not. I simply hate shooting games when they're against that kind of stuff - zombies, mutants, aliens, you name it. I'm more of a Military-style shooter fan, so... ( that's the reason why my experiences with STALKER and Half Life/Half Life 2 ended so quickly).

But though it was just a glimpse of what's coming, I'd say the game will deliver.

I enjoyed the demo quite a bit. I'd have to agree with Zero though, fighting verus aliens isn't my ideal choice for a FPS, but I'll work with what I've got!

Gun power and accuracy could use some help though. Shouldn't take 20 shots to kill a person when they're only 10 feet away.

I was able to do 1920x1080 on high with 2x AA at about 20ish FPS. It's playable though, so I'm happy.

Yeah, besides the fact the shots seem to wander aroud like crazy. I also missed the implementation of the sniper scope as we saw in all of those pre-launch videos. That would make for one kickass addition to the whole binnoculars + beach area of this demo.

And after you said you were going with only 2x AA, I tried lowering my 16q to 2, 4 and 8, and I found that I'm getting quite a few fps with everything maxed out as well. It's most enjoyable, I'll say that much :D I just hope we get a few instances where we're out of the whole forest scenery though... it's though to find out where those guys in camo are in the midst of so much bush and trees. And I'll, again, complain about the suit energy running out way too fast. It's hard to do all those amazing combos when you can barely jump once and the energy is out.

Most people with GTXs can't do much more than 2-4X AA on High Detail. I believe it's nearly impossible to do AA with Ultra High Detail under DX10. SLI doesn't work with Crysis, but when it does, it should allow some AA with Ultra High.

That is stupid because Crossfire does work with Crysis demo and as far I know Nvidia has optimized their driver better than ATI for this game

Ya, but when people are reporting 7 FPS with 8800 GTS in SLI, you know there are problems =P

Nvidia better have optimized drivers for Crysis, it's a big fucking Nvidia logo its box :heh:

man i need to build a new pc with Nvdia 8800GT cuz this game is a MUST HAVE!

I got 27fps average with 8800GTS 320mb and E6750 at 1280x1024 and high settings

I just read some dude saying you need a Quad-Core, 2 8800GTX's in SLI and 8 gigs of ram to run it at max settings... and I gotta say I lolled so hard at that. Seriously, that's just a cheap-ass excuse to have his mom get him a new rig. After arcade told me about the AA stuff and I lowered it to 8, it's running smoother than loli chest.

And just a reminder... 12 days :D :D :D :D


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What? Does processing power makes that much difference?
I'm getting 13-14FPS on all High, 1280x1024 and no AA, that with my 8800GTS 640 normally clocked. I get about 23 FPS after I spike it up to 615/950, but I don't want to stress it THAT much. After all, it's almost as fast as a GTX OC'd. It runs on high 70's with the fans at 100%.

The game's out now.

Also, the GT is 100 bucks less than a GTS, but has equal performance to a GTX or so. It came out like a week ago. It has incredible specs.

And now that the full game is out, people with quad cores are seeing a huge jump in FPS. See, the demo is only single core.

Quad cores gain like a 30 FPS increase, or so many people claim. Crysis now uses all 4 cores.

Actually GTS and GT has the same price, where do you saw GT 100 bucks cheaper than GTS??

OK. I played the game.

My specs: e6600, 2Gb RAM and 8800 GTS 320M.

I tried on vista only and I could only play it at 1024*768 with med settings. Either the resolution or quality settings get changed up then you won't have a smooth playing anymore. Not playing smoothly is not good. The game really is for the next gen hardware. BTW, since I tried in vista I ended eating more then 2 GB of RAM so it started to use swapfile... more delays.

Complains: Some bugs like I see a gun pass though the wall and when I got inside there is no enemy and the gun drops to the ground. Man what the hell are the beta testers doing? Enemy movements seems kinda sucky. I played a few lvls and there isn't much weapons variety.


Besides all that the game environment is awesome. There was some ducks or whatever it was I picked it up and it was still alive in my hand. Pity it dies when I throw it. Or like the melon that when I throw it then it breaks apart.

Anyway need to check more of the game.


Edit: I check the game in winxp. I was able to play at 1280x1024 with med setting. Had to turn off AA coz it was bugged. Extremely bugged. Bah... Vista sux at games.

this game is good and all, but i keep dying a lot, i have to switch armor and strength, invisibilty one at a time which is damn hard, and if you switch to either one, your armor is off,so your naked, energy keeps dying off too quick, ammo finishes too quickly,missions are damn far, travelling is slow,reticule is too unstable and innacurate to a degree where its a pain in the ass, so damn frustrating

No, not really. It's better than the 640MB GTS AND the 320MB model.

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OMG! Another thing I noticed. I saw one of the N-Korean soldiers taking a leak. LOL :D

Did you shoot him??

It was too far. I was using binoculars. I wonder what he would look like it he was killed like that.



BTW, I noticed that crytec really sux at the cinematics. I though they had improved from farcry but the work remains sloppy.


Edit: Bah... I used god_mode to see the ending.

I disagree, I think the cinematics are pretty good, especially the final explosion

I'm going to grab this game as soon as I've assembled my new computer. I'm going for the 8800GT and an Intel Core2 Duo E6850... that should do the trick. I was originally going for the quad-core until I really sat down and read about them. I'm really glad I didn't order the Q6600. Quad-users are raging due to lack of performance in Crysis, and these Intel-quads are not even a real quad-cores... only two dual-cores fused together. (Anyone remember the "fake" dual-cores that emerged early in the dual-core era?)

Nah, everyone who's thinking about quad should wait until at least early 2008 when the Penryn is released.

Can't wait to play the game though... and a lot of other games. My old computer (this one) runs an AMD 64 3500+ and a Radeon 9800 PRO, so it's pretty obvious that I haven't been able to play any recent games. I think I gave up the thought of playing newly released games when I tried out Fear upon its release. :(

Ups... actually I meant when you have interaction with your allies inside the game plus when for example you are inside the carrier... I find it kinda dumb the when you go away the your ally still keep looking at the same place. There parts where other chars kinda look at the wrong directions.


BTW, I have tested another config with my rig and I can have:

1024*768 + FULL AA (16) + all setting in high except the postproccessing that I left in medium. That is running in winxp. Anything higher than that would means delays here and there. Low fps.

Have you finish it??

Yes... I did finish in the hard mode. Now making another pass in the normal mode where I can relax more and enjoy the environment.

My friend just bought the full game of crysis and couldnt pass it on normal and blamed it on his mouse and just went back and bought a G5 mouse for $118 AUS, he came back and still hasnt completed it yet lol

Crysis is a different game from most FPS where you expect to be able to fight hordes of baddies Doom style and win. Still, once you get the whole stealth+headshot routine down then the game becomes much, much easier at least until the later parts. So mayhaps your friend does indeed just suck. ;)

Lol thats what i told him, Im really impressed with the graphics and scenery of the game from what i saw but storyline....lol it suxz

Well storyline, it all comes down to what you compare it to. Crysis' storyline is a hell of a sight more involved and fleshed-out than say Quake 4's. Or mayhaps we even mention something older like Quake 2? Or Doom? :D

It's really hard for many recent FPS game to come close to the storyline classics of the FPS genre, like Half-Life/Half-Life 2, Halo, Deus Ex 1, and Marathon.

Bought it and finished it in 5 days, not in full playing (as in 24/7), but just with 2-3 hours sessions per day.

I used normal mode, since Half Life 1 was the last pure FPS I played. Graphics went fine with a last generation pc, all details set to max and AA set to 2x with DX9. I've only had 2 crashes in total, and some rare slow downs during the movies inside the game. So I'd say that as far as I'm concerned, the game was well developed, I've seen games with a whole lot of bugs compared to this (to mention a recent one, Bioshock).

I liked the gameplay, while as for the storyline I didn't dislike it, but found it too short. I actually was surprised when it ended



Aside from that, the only point where I did have troubles was



Overall I did prefer the first part compared to the second. Though nothing really special was seen in terms of storyline or originality.

Oh, and Helena Rosenthal is hot! :naughty: :p

I'd give it a 7 all in all. Wonderful graphics but that's pretty much all about it. Don't buy it if you expect a "long" experience. As I said, in 15 hours or so it was done in normal mode.
That's also me, I prefer rpg games like Morrowind or Oblivion where, even if you have a mission ongoing, you can hang around a bit making the experience wider (and longer).Didn't try the multiplayer mode yet, not a real fan of it.

Also renamed the thread from "Crysis demo" to "Crysis" since the game is long time out at this point of time.

I think the last 2 perse bosses were kinda lame. It's you vs something uber huge!

I got the hang of this game, but its an ok game, fun killing NK baddies though, but after sometime, i get lagg, hate killing the same thing and just give up and continue playing Halo3 on xbox360. Opponents lack the dynamics, they can just fight like a human, but nothing that can jump on ya like saying new things or those idiots get together and throw something creative at me. Maybe im just starting the game, when i got to the corn field and chopper, thats it, it just became too much to bare, the boredom i mean. But id probrably continue after i finish Halo3.

Finished it today after playing it on and off the past few weeks.

Ran it at all high settings with AAx4 on DX9 @ 1280 by 1024. Solid frames per second, but it did have some difficulty with cut scenes.

As an FPS buff I was definately impressed with Crysis, and definately one of the best in years, probably since FEAR. It took a lot of things from FarCry (obviously) and from Half Life 2. There were some sequences in the game that just made me keep thinking, Half Life 2, while at the same time being very original.

It's also a tale of two games if you ask me. The first 2/3 of the game was what Crysis was hyped out to be, and probably the part that I most enjoyed. The last third of the game was different, not saying it was bad, but it really is what seperates Crysis from all other FPS.

Going back to the first 2/3 of the game, I loved it, I want more. The North Korean AI makes you think and respond, it makes use your nanosuit and it makes you plan things out before you do it. I wish the entire game would have been about this, seeing as I'm not that keen on shooting non humanoid looking aliens.

I'm gonna say that Crysis is a thinking mans FPS, because you can't run and gun.

Lol noobs. I finished the game after 12 straight hours of gaming right after buying it on wednesday the 14th at 2 PM :heh: Since I didn't see much feedback here, I didn't even care about coming back. Good that we're having some action here now though =)

Still, played the game on Very High settings with no AA and under DX9, solid 20-24 FPS and 2+ FPS with my GTS overclocked to 575/900. Very very playable, that much I'll tell you. I do plan on writing a review later, but now I just don't have the time for that with finals week coming up and such.

And I have to agree that the game was rather short. I was expecting it to go further, but I think the last 3-4 missions were much quicker than the first five. It did take me over an hour to go through Core, because it's one hell of a maze, I'll tell you. And between sporadic "OH SHI-"s and "WAAAH!"s, I managed to get through it without many problems ( considering I had 5 bullets in my pistol for 80% of the map :heh: ). However, you guys did hear that Crysis will actually be a trilogy, right? InCrysis has more on that. Which, to me, is extremelly awesome since I just loved this game to my heart's content.

I'm not sure about you guys, but I loved the storyline, even if it is a little fishy and has all the known cliches of the FPS genre. But really, there're 1001 ways of completing the first few missions and you can take a different route every time. I've seen a guy sleeping while the other was singing and a quick Cloak + Get back + smack you biach and then hit the other dude with your weapon throwing him back 30 feet did put a smile on my face.

I had some trouble at the lest level also, but that's a known bug and I managed to fix it on my own. I don't need to say I had the WORST headache the following day, but oh the sweet memories of Crysis were there :D

I also recently finished Crysis, and really enjoyed it. The later bits of the game got pretty epic. I'm glad we'll see more of it in the future.

And you had only 5 bullets for your pistol? Maybe you had a different difficulty and it's different then, but I started out with an SMG and the minigun, then got shotgun and full ammo once inside the maze (I ended up blowing through almost all of it by the end though; should've grab+punched more often).


EDIT: My funniest death had to be when I accidentally ran my speed boat onto land. I got out, and started maxstrength punching it to try to knock it back into the water and it blows up in my face, taking me with it. :p

Yeah the Core took me close to an hour to complete. It was one of the defining features of Crysis, consideirng I don't think something like that has eve been done before. There were a lot of those garbage rooms or what not that Nomad says is where they put things they've collected. Those rooms usually had a hand full of ammo in there, but yeah I barely got out, specially the last room, it felt like if I moved an inch I would get hit by something.

Just thinking about half of the game makes me want to go back and play it. However, I wonder how Crysis 2 will play out, seeing as they are going back into the sphere and I didn't particularly enjoy blasting those aliens.

The more I think about it, the more I want FarCry 2 to come out!

Once I got the gauss rifle again though, blasting aliens got a hell of a lot easier. ;)

Yeah, back on "Onslaught", when I first got I was laughing at how pathetic it was.

It's a great weapon against the aliens, specially the big ones, but it fails against the hordes of North Koreans.

20-24 fps is not playable for me. I need 30+.

I'm easilly satisfied :D But yeah, it does stutter around quite a lot on those FPSs. Pretty lame for the newest Gen hardware, but hey this is what makes Crysis so sweetzors.

No seriously, the last level was so full of traps it's not even funny. I think I died about 10 times beating the last boss just for stepping into the flames on the deck of the ship. But I think my funniest death to date ( and one of the most aggravating ones either ) was during a multiplayer game. This dude closes one of the gates to the Prototype factory in Shore but leaves the other side open and puts a mine right on the ground. Me and 2 other players get into a vehicle and drive like mad bikers into the Prot Factory, and I'm like "KAY GUYS LET'S RAID THE PROT-" * Car is blown to smitherines, everybody flies 200 meters and fall into the sea *. Couple of suicides made me lol too, especially when I'm going really sneaky into an enemy facility and checking for Claymores and C4s and comes this dumb teammate raiding in Speed mode and triggers all of them at once, while I'm watching his body get thrown around like a ragdoll from afar.

Core was simply amazing. I mean, it wasn't very different from your "I'm all alone now, I need to gtfo of here if I don't wanna get stuffed and collected" type of map in most FPSs, but seriously, it was SO original. The zero-g made ALL the difference on that thing.. Seriously, I lost gravity at the beginning of the map and three seconds later I couldn't tell what was floor, what was ceiling or the walls. And you get VERY confused throughout the level because of that. Fighting those blue aliens on that environment, all alone and in complete silence was one of the greatest thrills I've ever experienced in a game.

I had those two when I first got into the level, but the first time I had an encounter with an alien, I simply freaked out. I started shooting like a crazy hobo and quickly ran out of bullets. Until I got the FY71 and a Shotgun at the storage room, I was using Grab/Shoot in the face with the pistol/punch for most of the time. That was one hell of a ride.

After you get out of their base and go into the next level where , it's also one hell of a job to get through the swarm of aliens and those HUGE cliffs from the mountain that fell off. I freaked out and jumped - Oh nanosuit, thank God for your existence. After that, my adrenaline was at 100%. Seriously, I think the last 2/3 of the game are the most intense, even if they're not as "good" as the other parts. You're running for your life from a horde of killer aliens, having to protect everyone, being followed by a huge exoskeleton and having aliens falling and shooting everyone. The sounds, the scenes, everything was just so intense I couldn't take my eyes away from the game for a single second. It was great like that.

Oh, and need I say I killed the huge exoskeleton with the Nade launcher from my SCAR and the Gauss rifle? GOD THAT TOOK LONG. I was saving my Rocket Launchers for later, only to find out there's a crate of them around, one of those that give you an infinite supply of launchers... seriously, that sucked.