Half-Life 2 doesn't have the best faces anymore...

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I mean, the faces in Crysis are insane. Sure that pic doesn't have AA becase my PC can't handle it, but the faces and facial animation are amazing. Don't get me wrong, HL2 has great facial animation, but Crysis is the next level.

I agree, TC.

yes you're right about that .. but HL2 is from another time, and I think that it had already lost the faces with other games. Althoug I don't think crysis gets to have the success of HL2.

Just out of curiosity, what other games are you referring to?

Crysis definitely has better looking faces, but what of the animations? The thing hat really made the HL2 faces so great was th way they could convey emotion and thought through their expressions, just remember all of Alyx's sideways glances and those little smiles - games just don't manage that.

Does crysis have that? If not, HL2 still has the best faces, imo...

Crysis definitely has better looking faces, but what of the animations? The thing hat really made the HL2 faces so great was th way they could convey emotion and thought through their expressions, just remember all of Alyx's sideways glances and those little smiles - games just don't manage that.

Does crysis have that? If not, HL2 still has the best faces, imo...

mfsa

yes, the animations are where it counts

I mean, the faces in Crysis are insane. Sure that pic doesn't have AA becase my PC can't handle it, but the faces and facial animation are amazing. Don't get me wrong, HL2 has great facial animation, but Crysis is the next level.

Manly-manly-man

lol just take a look in the mirror ... nothing beats that, not intel octa core + nvidia 15xxx whaatever

yeah right. Mass Effect crushes CrysisDjmaster214

It hasn't even come out yet.

So what it has the greatest story ever made, gameplay & the msot realistic human like behevior of in-game characters ever made .... & in fact the next level will be the next engine from VALVE ! Anyway Crysis a good game solid but predicteble story & gameplay nice but against human characters it becomes repetitive ...you are like aPREDATOR !!! (like in the movie )beckoflight

You are a fanboy. Not only do you not know the story, but you probably haven't even played the demo, and if you have, then you have still tasted a small portion of the gameplay. HL2 has a fairly shallow story, not the best by a longshot. The gameplay is also rather generic other then a few key firefights and physics puzzles. Not to mention the fact the characters in Crysis are quite believable, and there IS a cast of characters you follow throughout the game.

Well... Graphically speaking crysis has better faces, but at least in the demo the animations weren't very good. It seems like the only emotion the characters have is anger. Sorry, but I'm not impressed.

Great game, though:)

Well... Graphically speaking crysis has better faces, but at least in the demo the animations weren't very good. It seems like the only emotion the characters have is anger. Sorry, but I'm not impressed.

Great game, though:)

VNordstorm

Those NK soldiers looks sad

IMO I think Team Fortress 2 have some great facial animations too. I just watched the 'Meet The Heavy' trailer and wow! I thought I was watching a Pixar movie! :shock:
jcwordlife

I would love TF2 as a pixar movie! Probably will get rated M though...

But hey! That would be another achievement!

You have to remember the stock textures of HL2 are circa 2004 and compatability and stability was the aim of Valve's game.

This is 2007 and compatability and stability are not CryTek's game.

HL2 has a fairly shallow story, not the best by a longshot. The gameplay is also rather generic other then a few key firefights and physics puzzles.

Manly-manly-man

LOL

I think you are more likely to be a fanboy, not him. He's just an EA hater.

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HL2 has a fairly shallow story, not the best by a longshot. The gameplay is also rather generic other then a few key firefights and physics puzzles.

onemic

LOL

I think you are more likely to be a fanboy, not him. He's just an EA hater.

the problem with HL's story is none of it has been in game until Episode 2 which has alot of cinematic story telling peices. I remember in previous HL games you only really have a cinematic bit at the start and the end so you dont get a sense that your being told a story. This is why i like Episode 2 sooo much because it's improved on the HL formula soooo much and it was the first time i felt like i was being told a story. Normally you can forget the characters and don't know alot of their names, specially in the First HL but finally in episode 2 you get a sense that everyone is someone.

Of course the only emotion shown in the demo was anger, people were....angry.Manly-manly-man

Ahha how true

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Crysis has some amazing visuals that really make the textures of NPC faces look realistic, who didn't think "wow" during that opening cutscene onboard the transport plane?

However HL2 has better animations i think as all the little things Alyx and the other NPC's did like sideways glances, winking, smiling or rolling their eyes looked brilliant.

Both games have done a great job for facial textures and animations but they beat and lose to each other in different areas i think. HL2 has better animations while Crysis has the better textures and visual appeal to its characters faces, i still can't get over how well detailed they are!

On a side note however i am going to say TF2 has some great facial textures and animations which remind me of some early Pixar movie draft. I'd love to see a M-Rated Pixar movie about TF2 lol.

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Crysis definitely has better looking faces, but what of the animations? The thing hat really made the HL2 faces so great was th way they could convey emotion and thought through their expressions, just remember all of Alyx's sideways glances and those little smiles - games just don't manage that.

Does crysis have that? If not, HL2 still has the best faces, imo...

Bill900

yes, the animations are where it counts

Of course the only emotion shown in the demo was anger, people were....angry.Manly-manly-man

Yeah, but Half-life is still the better game :)w7w7w7w7w7

Nice to see you've already played through Crysis, and can make that statement.

Crysis has better graphics, just compare the system requirements and no1 can discuss. Animations were solid on crysis,although not too realistic. Who didn't hate the demo for not being able to mess with the bodies? and that silly crap double pistol?

Like someone said above, we do forget how amazing the game is and keep insisting on it's low points. I didn't see anything like the natural environment on crysis; and I didn't see either anything like how natural the characters on hl2 looks.

For those who claim crysis to be a better fps than hl2, I think we should consider, first, the FPS stile. HL2 stands for a linear FPS: it's not like crysis, where you can have numerous approaches; but still , that's NOT a bad quality of HL2, it's a different stile.

Crysis can have those approaches, but , in the demo, I felt like doing the same thing around the level. You sneak near the enemy, show up and blast him off , cloak again, get behind the second enemy, blast him off, cloak, and that goes on.
I've tried too the Rambo way: rush to the enemy, punch him on the face, blast his friend, cloak, jump on the house, destroy it, cloak, explode everything. It's like:get to the enemy, use your cool suit to munch them.
Although repetitive, it's really addicting, for some time. I trully hope the action to continue intense, but to be different through the game.

That feeling never ever came to me in HL2. Although the premise is simple(one army men to destroy the bad guys), it has got it's own credit for how variating the action can be in the game. Sometimes you're running from the cops, other times killing them, blasting zombies etc. The game manipulates you, and, if you let it, it's great to see how the game does it.

First, we need to analyse the gaming **** and then, compare. It's like comparing WIC and C&C RA2.

I mean, the faces in Crysis are insane. Sure that pic doesn't have AA becase my PC can't handle it, but the faces and facial animation are amazing. Don't get me wrong, HL2 has great facial animation, but Crysis is the next level.

Manly-manly-man

Download the cinimatics V4 mod for HL2, that beets out Crysis hands down, same comparison in faces then, but way better facial animation for hl2 also.

Crysis has much better facial animation, You've got to be kidding yourself to say otherwise. Half-Life 2 goes out of its way to attempt to portray emotions to the point where it's awkward. Crysis is not kidding around. You're invading an island of North Koreans - there isn't exactly a whole range of emotions you'll be goin through. I'd even go as far to say Crysis is the better game. GodLovesDead

I think you're blind if you think that crysis has better facial animations than HL2. Maybe you just haven't played HL2 in a while, because the difference between HL2 and crysis's facial animations are like night and day. Crysis may have the better looking faces, but it doesn't come close to having better facial animations.

No game released thus far, including crysis can match the uniqueness of alx's smile or the look of despair on the citizens of city 17. No game released thus far has been able to put in these small little details that make the characters seem a lot more real than usual.

If I'm right, the Cryengine 2 character models have much more bones in them than the half life 2 models, maybe a multipler people wouldn't believe if they heard.-Unreal-

It's very possible, but it's how it's used that counts. Had very advanced shaders, mapping effects, etc. back in its days, HL2 a game built on an older less advanced engine still looked better. It's how you use the technology given to you that dictates how good your game will look.

Slowmotion.

yeah right. Mass Effect crushes CrysisDjmaster214

[QUOTE="Djmaster214"]yeah right. Mass Effect crushes CrysisDedicationism

It depends on what he's talking about. Facial animations, faces in general, the game?