Anybody Here Going To Buy The Crysis Maximum Edition?

I am.

Because I haven't played Crysis yet! I'm the proud owner of a new Core i7 from Alienware, and I just installed my new GTX 275 this week, so I should be good to go. I'm looking forward to this game, since I've only ever seen Crysis on U-tube.

If it's as good looking, and as much fun to play as Far Cry 2, and Stalker Clear Sky, then I'll be happy. :)

No, since I got both Crysis games.

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No, since I got both Crysis games.

Macutchi

I'm picking it up just to see what all the fuss is about. They say it's not too linear. We'll see.

They say it's not too linear. We'll see.kimkim01

no

I'll buy it if it hasnt got DRM

i have both so, no

[QUOTE="kimkim01"]They say it's not too linear. We'll see.DanielDust

maybe when I get a better graphics card.

I heard ME is more expensive than buying Crysis and Warhead themselves, so really, what's the point for ME?

Are they going to use the more optimized engine for the original Crysis?

I'm waiting for it to be delivered.Got it off Play.com.Looking foward to playing it on my new computer.

I heard ME is more expensive than buying Crysis and Warhead themselves, so really, what's the point for ME?

mhofever

Crysis = €20

Crysis Warhead = €20

Crysis Maximum Edition = €32

Are they going to use the more optimized engine for the original Crysis?

Wasdie

Actually, Crysis runs better than Warhead with the latest patch and the difference isn't exactly small, but to answer your question, no, they just made a "gold" edition for their games, they are the same, if it happened with Witcher, it doesn't mean that Crytek, EA or others would bother to do that to their games :P.

*Carllfc

It still has DRM and if you're worried about the install limit from Warhead, don't, they released a revoke tool, so you can recover your installs instantly by yourself.

I already bought it, disappointed by the Crysis Wars community. Other than that, I really like it so far. I played the firs hour of Crysis before, and now I can play the rest.

It's surprising how many people think that The Witcher was re-worked into a special edition - no way, that was a massive patch.

The Witcher in its original state wasn't a completed game - the development was way over schedule and the developer had run out of money, and needed to ship the game no matter what. So they released the game unfinished and then spent a year patching it. They called the patch 'a special edition' to avoid having to acknowledge that the original game was not coded properly.

I couldn't believe that they actually got away with that. Some people even thanked them, and wished that other companies would do likewise - LOL!

It's surprising how many people think that The Witcher was re-worked into a special edition - no way, that was a massive patch.

The Witcher in its original state wasn't a completed game - the development was way over schedule and the developer had run out of money, and needed to ship the game no matter what. So they released the game unfinished and then spent a year patching it. They called the patch 'a special edition' to avoid having to acknowledge that the original game was not coded properly.

I couldn't believe that they actually got away with that. Some people even thanked them, and wished that other companies would do likewise - LOL!

Charles_Dickens

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It's surprising how many people think that The Witcher was re-worked into a special edition - no way, that was a massive patch.

The Witcher in its original state wasn't a completed game - the development was way over schedule and the developer had run out of money, and needed to ship the game no matter what. So they released the game unfinished and then spent a year patching it. They called the patch 'a special edition' to avoid having to acknowledge that the original game was not coded properly.

I couldn't believe that they actually got away with that. Some people even thanked them, and wished that other companies would do likewise - LOL!

DanielDust

Charles_Dickens I go from liking you comments because they can be thought out and worth reading (Drakensang) to laughing incredulity with others that certianly are not. I ran The Witcher with just the first patches flawlessly. I know it was not your type of rpg but that doesn't make it bad, just different.

Now a game I did have trouble with was Crysis. It wouldn't let me finish level 3 to go for 4. I've tried replaying it to no avail. I'll try again if I ever finish this rpg you recommended. I love rpgs, usually all of them so they've kept me pretty busy of late.

got mine today. i have to go back to future shop and price match it though. on wal mart.ca its $45, and future shop will do a 110% match, meaning ill get it for around $40 CDN.

( i dont think any canadian stores are selling it for the regular price of $39.99, i paid $60 after taxes lol)

[QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="Charles_Dickens"]

It's surprising how many people think that The Witcher was re-worked into a special edition - no way, that was a massive patch.

The Witcher in its original state wasn't a completed game - the development was way over schedule and the developer had run out of money, and needed to ship the game no matter what. So they released the game unfinished and then spent a year patching it. They called the patch 'a special edition' to avoid having to acknowledge that the original game was not coded properly.

I couldn't believe that they actually got away with that. Some people even thanked them, and wished that other companies would do likewise - LOL!

Rickylee

Charles_Dickens I go from liking you comments because they can be thought out and worth reading (Drakensang) to laughing incredulity with others that certianly are not. I ran The Witcher with just the first patches flawlessly. I know it was not your type of rpg but that doesn't make it bad, just different.

Now a game I did have trouble with was Crysis. It wouldn't let me finish level 3 to go for 4. I've tried replaying it to no avail. I'll try again if I ever finish this rpg you recommended. I love rpgs, usually all of them so they've kept me pretty busy of late.

On my previous computer, a 3 GHz Pentium 4, with a 7950gt, and 2 gigabytes of RAM (a system that was well above spec) The Witcher was virtually unplayable on day one. Let's define unplayable.

The load times were insanely ridiculous.

After becoming involved in a heated discussion at The Witcher forum, in which I was told, point blank, that the load times were perfectly acceptable, I decided to get out my stop-watch and actually time the loads.

Here's what happened during a ten minute play session in Vizima (this is all main-quest related, by the way).

I entered a building to meet with an NPC - load time 34 seconds. This NPC told me to go meet with another NPC, so I had to leave the building and re-enter the city - load time 65 seconds.

I ran my character three blocks away and had to enter another building - load time 37 seconds.

After talking with that character I turned around and left the building - load time 67 seconds.

My quest took me into the sewers so I ran three blocks down the road to the sewer entrance and entered - load time 55 seconds.

In a ten minute session I spent exactly as much time staring at a load screen as I did in actually playing the game. I could also mention the generic NPCs, the atrocious ending to the game's first level in witch you have to fight The Beast (here, the game went from being incredibly easy to being virtually impossible - and this is not to mention the fact that my frame rate dropped to fewer than 5 frames per second during this battle), and the ludicrous inventory management screen.

But forget about all of that - because the load times themselves just killed this game dead. I'm glad that I can have this discussion here though - because I have a lifetime ban from The Witcher forum for writing exactly what I just wrote. They don't allow people to be critical of their game. Which is quite frankly pathetic. Everything that you've mentioned about the so-called 'enhancements' to The Witcher are not 'enhancements' - they're features that should've been in the original game.

I really wish that people would stop 'thanking' CD Projekt for having given us a game that wasn't fully cooked. It's incredible that these people keep on saying: "It's too bad that other developers don't do that." Yeah, that's a real shame isn't. All developers should release games that are unfinished. Then they can spend the year after the game's release making a super patch - but instead of calling it a patch they can refer to it as 'The Enhanced Edition' and win kudos from their fans by not charging for it!

Hooray! Let's all embrace this new marketing strategy brought to us by the wonderful folks at CD Projekt.

EDIT: You know what, forget about it. Let's just all slit our throats now, or go jump off a cliff or something, so that we don't have to endure anymore of this crap.

Am I allowed to ask a question here: Are you guys trying to destroy my Crysis thread. I'd really appreciate it if you guys stuck to the main topic of discussion here. Thank you.

Am I allowed to ask a question here: Are you guys trying to destroy my Crysis thread. I'd really appreciate it if you guys stuck to the main topic of discussion here. Thank you.

Charles_Dickens

Oh I see. I didn't realize that I had sabotaged my own thread. Well thanks.

Nah. I already have Crysis, so I guess I'll just buy Warhead sometime soon and be done with it.

As long as you have the rig to run it, crysis is a great game. I just beat the first one today, was awesome. I play it on the highest settings with my 4gb RAM, 3.0ghz dual-core, and GeForce 260GTX. Runs great. I'll be getting warhead soon. I hear it looks and runs much better as well.

I just purchased my new rig last week. I had crysis before and was running 2gb RAM, 2.4ghz dual-core Athlon X2, and GeForce 7800GTX. It ran like crap. medium-low settings with 15fps. It really wasn't even worth playing until I got the better PC.

I have maximum edition, and I've only played Crysis and Crysis Wars which is basically Crysis multiplayer. Let me tell you, it's a REALLY good value to buy it. Can't wait till I finish Crysis so I can play Crysis Warhead!

NO NO NO. I hate to play old FPS game. I completed Crysis with my 7300GT and Warhead with 8800GT TurboForce Edition (Got 30-35 fps at ENTHUSIAST setting and 4x AA). There is no need to play this game with GTX 275 and core i7.

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[QUOTE="DanielDust"] Actually they could have "patched" it but they did more than that, they made a lot of new dialogue lines, re-recorded voices, sounds etc, added new monster, edited old monsters and they improved the graphics engine. It's funny how some people don't see how much they really worked on it, and most of it were things that they didn't even have to do (except bug fixes). Say whatever you want but NOBODY does that nowadays, they bothered way too much and it's sad to see people like you that, not that they don't care about their work, but they actually make them sound like lowlifes that released some piece of crap, bad coded, game, which is not true since it was great right from the "basic" version.Charles_Dickens

Charles_Dickens I go from liking you comments because they can be thought out and worth reading (Drakensang) to laughing incredulity with others that certianly are not. I ran The Witcher with just the first patches flawlessly. I know it was not your type of rpg but that doesn't make it bad, just different.

Now a game I did have trouble with was Crysis. It wouldn't let me finish level 3 to go for 4. I've tried replaying it to no avail. I'll try again if I ever finish this rpg you recommended. I love rpgs, usually all of them so they've kept me pretty busy of late.

On my previous computer, a 3 GHz Pentium 4, with a 7950gt, and 2 gigabytes of RAM (a system that was well above spec) The Witcher was virtually unplayable on day one. Let's define unplayable.

The load times were insanely ridiculous.

After becoming involved in a heated discussion at The Witcher forum, in which I was told, point blank, that the load times were perfectly acceptable, I decided to get out my stop-watch and actually time the loads.

Here's what happened during a ten minute play session in Vizima (this is all main-quest related, by the way).

I entered a building to meet with an NPC - load time 34 seconds. This NPC told me to go meet with another NPC, so I had to leave the building and re-enter the city - load time 65 seconds.

I ran my character three blocks away and had to enter another building - load time 37 seconds.

After talking with that character I turned around and left the building - load time 67 seconds.

My quest took me into the sewers so I ran three blocks down the road to the sewer entrance and entered - load time 55 seconds.

In a ten minute session I spent exactly as much time staring at a load screen as I did in actually playing the game. I could also mention the generic NPCs, the atrocious ending to the game's first level in witch you have to fight The Beast (here, the game went from being incredibly easy to being virtually impossible - and this is not to mention the fact that my frame rate dropped to fewer than 5 frames per second during this battle), and the ludicrous inventory management screen.

But forget about all of that - because the load times themselves just killed this game dead. I'm glad that I can have this discussion here though - because I have a lifetime ban from The Witcher forum for writing exactly what I just wrote. They don't allow people to be critical of their game. Which is quite frankly pathetic. Everything that you've mentioned about the so-called 'enhancements' to The Witcher are not 'enhancements' - they're features that should've been in the original game.

I really wish that people would stop 'thanking' CD Projekt for having given us a game that wasn't fully cooked. It's incredible that these people keep on saying: "It's too bad that other developers don't do that." Yeah, that's a real shame isn't. All developers should release games that are unfinished. Then they can spend the year after the game's release making a super patch - but instead of calling it a patch they can refer to it as 'The Enhanced Edition' and win kudos from their fans by not charging for it!

Hooray! Let's all embrace this new marketing strategy brought to us by the wonderful folks at CD Projekt.

EDIT: You know what, forget about it. Let's just all slit our throats now, or go jump off a cliff or something, so that we don't have to endure anymore of this crap.

Temper temper. Look I'm not saying your experiance with "that game" was a good one. I'm sorry for that. In fact on my XP machine my experiance was pretty much the same. But it was my machine as much as the game. Games always over exaggerate their lower running specs in my opinion.

I would have let this die but you inferred that there was "no way" I had a good experiance with the game and that simply isn't true. My new machine ran it clean and pure. Load times weren't a problem. Also I have not "thanked" anybody for anything, I havn't played the latest edition and probably won't as I rarely play games more then once.

I would not have banned you as those forums did, I appreciate you opinion and your passion. Perhaps you should do the same. If your going to put it out there be prepared for the result. But I don't think it's worth slitting our throats or jumping off a cliff. That seems a little too dramatic.

Lastly, enjoy Crysis. I would get the combined edition depending on the price. It should run very nice on you new machine.

Crysis: £10 - anywhere! That if you dont already own it. Warhead sucks and Crysis Wars is dead. No I wont be buying thiis.

That and Crytek defected to Consoles; f**k'em!

NO NO NO. I hate to play old FPS game. I completed Crysis with my 7300GT and Warhead with 8800GT TurboForce Edition (Got 30-35 fps at ENTHUSIAST setting and 4x AA). There is no need to play this game with GTX 275 and core i7.

Tian_2008

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[QUOTE="Rickylee"]

Charles_Dickens I go from liking you comments because they can be thought out and worth reading (Drakensang) to laughing incredulity with others that certianly are not. I ran The Witcher with just the first patches flawlessly. I know it was not your type of rpg but that doesn't make it bad, just different.

Now a game I did have trouble with was Crysis. It wouldn't let me finish level 3 to go for 4. I've tried replaying it to no avail. I'll try again if I ever finish this rpg you recommended. I love rpgs, usually all of them so they've kept me pretty busy of late.

Rickylee

On my previous computer, a 3 GHz Pentium 4, with a 7950gt, and 2 gigabytes of RAM (a system that was well above spec) The Witcher was virtually unplayable on day one. Let's define unplayable.

The load times were insanely ridiculous.

After becoming involved in a heated discussion at The Witcher forum, in which I was told, point blank, that the load times were perfectly acceptable, I decided to get out my stop-watch and actually time the loads.

Here's what happened during a ten minute play session in Vizima (this is all main-quest related, by the way).

I entered a building to meet with an NPC - load time 34 seconds. This NPC told me to go meet with another NPC, so I had to leave the building and re-enter the city - load time 65 seconds.

I ran my character three blocks away and had to enter another building - load time 37 seconds.

After talking with that character I turned around and left the building - load time 67 seconds.

My quest took me into the sewers so I ran three blocks down the road to the sewer entrance and entered - load time 55 seconds.

In a ten minute session I spent exactly as much time staring at a load screen as I did in actually playing the game. I could also mention the generic NPCs, the atrocious ending to the game's first level in witch you have to fight The Beast (here, the game went from being incredibly easy to being virtually impossible - and this is not to mention the fact that my frame rate dropped to fewer than 5 frames per second during this battle), and the ludicrous inventory management screen.

But forget about all of that - because the load times themselves just killed this game dead. I'm glad that I can have this discussion here though - because I have a lifetime ban from The Witcher forum for writing exactly what I just wrote. They don't allow people to be critical of their game. Which is quite frankly pathetic. Everything that you've mentioned about the so-called 'enhancements' to The Witcher are not 'enhancements' - they're features that should've been in the original game.

I really wish that people would stop 'thanking' CD Projekt for having given us a game that wasn't fully cooked. It's incredible that these people keep on saying: "It's too bad that other developers don't do that." Yeah, that's a real shame isn't. All developers should release games that are unfinished. Then they can spend the year after the game's release making a super patch - but instead of calling it a patch they can refer to it as 'The Enhanced Edition' and win kudos from their fans by not charging for it!

Hooray! Let's all embrace this new marketing strategy brought to us by the wonderful folks at CD Projekt.

EDIT: You know what, forget about it. Let's just all slit our throats now, or go jump off a cliff or something, so that we don't have to endure anymore of this crap.

Temper temper. Look I'm not saying your experiance with "that game" was a good one. I'm sorry for that. In fact on my XP machine my experiance was pretty much the same. But it was my machine as much as the game. Games always over exaggerate their lower running specs in my opinion.

I would have let this die but you inferred that there was "no way" I had a good experiance with the game and that simply isn't true. My new machine ran it clean and pure. Load times weren't a problem. Also I have not "thanked" anybody for anything, I havn't played the latest edition and probably won't as I rarely play games more then once.

I would not have banned you as those forums did, I appreciate you opinion and your passion. Perhaps you should do the same. If your going to put it out there be prepared for the result. But I don't think it's worth slitting our throats or jumping off a cliff. That seems a little too dramatic.

Lastly, enjoy Crysis. I would get the combined edition depending on the price. It should run very nice on you new machine.

Crysis: £10 - anywhere! That if you dont already own it. Warhead sucks and Crysis Wars is dead. No I wont be buying thiis.

That and Crytek defected to Consoles; f**k'em!

dbpvivi

Where I live Crysis, if you can find it, is still selling for $30. The next game, Warhead, is also selling for $30. The Maximum Edition, which includes both games, is selling for $55. So that's a total savings of a whopping $5.

I was surprised that the pricing wasn't more aggressive - but oh well, since I haven't played either, then it makes sense to buy the complete package. The thing is, if you're a gaming enthusiast, especially a PC gaming enthusiast, then I think you owe it to yourself to play Crysis at least once, just to see what all the fuss is about. I did the same thing with Wing Commander 3 back in the day. I bought that title just to find out why everyone was going crazy over the thing.

yes, if it drops to 30 or 40. Until then, No.

yes, if it drops to 30 or 40. Until then, No.

Brendissimo35

Well, I bought it.

Man, what a disappointment! All the hype didn't match my expectations at all. Graphically (at 1680*1050 in DX 10) I don't think Crysis is even as strong as Far Cry 2, which in my opinion looks more modern, and runs a whole lot smoother. I don't even think it's as good looking as Fallout 3, which is a whole lot sharper and clearer.

Holy toledo - was that ever unexpected. I mean, yeah, the water sure is nice, but... the game just doesn't blow my mind. I'd rather hang out down by the river in Africa.

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NO NO NO. I hate to play old FPS game. I completed Crysis with my 7300GT and Warhead with 8800GT TurboForce Edition (Got 30-35 fps at ENTHUSIAST setting and 4x AA). There is no need to play this game with GTX 275 and core i7.

07pops07

At 1280x1024 resolution. The card is of GIGABYTE.

Maybe...

I wanted to get Warhead off steam when it came out but then I saw it have been DRM'd and I was like meh...maybe I'll buy it somewhen =\

I ordered it at my local game store.

it should be here in a week or so

i am getting it. i must have this awesome game in my collection.costyssj4

Honestly, it's not that awesome.

In hindsight, I can honestly say that Half Life 2, when I first played it, four years ago, was an amazing, amazing experience on my then brand new PC.

Whenever you compare one game of a certain genre, to another game of a different genre, people always say, oh you're comparing apples to oranges there, but what they fail to see is that PC games are supposed to create experiences, and the experience of playing a game can easily be compared to the experience of playing any other, regardless of what genre it is. PC games are PC games. This why Half-Life 2 raised the bar right across the whole board for me - the experience of playing that game would now be compared with the experience of playing every game thereafter.

Crysis does not even come close to matching that experience - it's just not on the same level.

I have maximum edition, and I've only played Crysis and Crysis Wars which is basically Crysis multiplayer. Let me tell you, it's a REALLY good value to buy it. Can't wait till I finish Crysis so I can play Crysis Warhead!

dbd333

yeah i plan on getting it. but only after i upgrade my pc (see sig below) to a new cpu (phenom II 940 deneb, slightly OC) and my gpu to a new second wave or higher dx11 gpu.

so all in all ill be able to max it with AA and AF with extremely playable framerates by im guessing around xmas to my birthday which is in january.

. I just can't get over that the graphics are kind of meh. The god rays are cool for the first ten seconds, and the water's pretty, but after that... meh. Personally, I don't think that the performance hit in DX 10 is worth it - but in DX 9 you lose the god rays and the water quality (the only two features that matter) and the game looks completely and utterly ordinary. And what's the deal with the textures in this game - at the very highest settings, with maximum anisitropic filtering, the textures aren't sharp at all. I'd even go so far as to say they're borderline fuzzy. Charles_Dickens

I can't disagree more with you. Firts of all, I see no reason to play the game under Direct X 10 -even on Vista- because the fall in performance and the fact that sunrays, dynamic day/night cycle (even in multiplayer Crysis Wars) and almos ALL DirectX 10 effects except object morion blur and destructable enviroments (in mp) are avaliable under Windows XP and Direct X 9 with better framerrate.

Second, the game has the more dense wireframe and best dynamic lighning I have seen ever. And most of the textures -except in older mp maps as Mesa- are simply top-notch. I thought that the weapons textures in KZ2 will supass the Crytek creation, but the final answer was a no. Most of the textures in Enthusiast settings are superb in Crysis Wars and simply jaw-dropping in single player. Even more: Crytek clearly has improved his artistic design in the latest works, so in the new maps as Graveyard, Peak or Ruins the amount of detail is absolutely insane. Take a tour:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48357.htmlhttp://www.gametrailers.com/player/48357.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Z66XqocWchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Z66XqocWc

Technically, the only thing in that I can see a improve over the Crysis standards in in the lack of complex ragdoll death animations as in KZ2. For all the rest, most of the games in the market looks like a joke compared to Crysis/Warhead/Crysis Wars, except maybe S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Take the uber umbalance in the UT III maps between the explendid indoors and the uber-poor outdoors maps, with cheap grass and the lack of vegetation (Warfare maps landscapes are really bad), take the Source games with his "must load the elevel each 50 steps", or the Oblivion/Fallout "must load any time that you enter/out from a building/dungeon, etc.

You don't like the gameplay and I respect your opinion, and your rights to discourage another players to prevent the purchase based on it, but your complaits about the graphics are a nonsense.