Why's Crysis good?

I played through Warhead, and got maybe halfway through Crysis and stopped playing. The only thing good is the graphics...why is this game a 9.5? Shooting guys is boring, the game doesn't make good use of its physics engine, and the missions are just lame.

Because it's your opinion. I personally thought it was a solid game in (almost) all aspects.

This game is just GREAT.

lol so ur saying all game were u shoot ppl r boring =) ok ur opinion , so i guess ur not buyin cod mw2 then?

lol so ur saying all game were u shoot ppl r boring =) ok ur opinion , so i guess ur not buyin cod mw2 then?

killzoik

How the hell did you come to that conclusion?

It is a garbage game, just like call of duty 4. Crysis is overrated like crazy, its extremely boring. Only thing I liked was being a camo sniper. Call of duty 4 takes absolutely no skill and you have everybody thinking they're good.

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lol so ur saying all game were u shoot ppl r boring =) ok ur opinion , so i guess ur not buyin cod mw2 then?

RobboElRobbo

How the hell did you come to that conclusion?

" Shooting guys is boring"

I personally liked that I could destroy things. I spent most my time using cheats to make myself super strong, I'd toss people through walls and pretend I was a big man....

good times.

Crysis is pretty, other than that...it's got nothing going for it. It's fun, but if I wanted to feel overpowered on an island, I'd play Just Cause again.

why is this game a 9.5?

RobboElRobbo

although you have 2700+ posts, it's obvious that you rarely vist this forum; otherwise you should've known why Crysis gets a 9.5 (and some people still think that it's underrated).

at any event, it's a good way to gather a lengthy, "popular" thread under your belt.

I played through Warhead, and got maybe halfway through Crysis and stopped playing. The only thing good is the graphics...why is this game a 9.5? Shooting guys is boring, the game doesn't make good use of its physics engine, and the missions are just lame.

RobboElRobbo

There's some reasons.

First of all, it gives you certain amount of freedom: you can step some meters -hundreds- from the way that is supposed that you must track, you can choose between a good amount of weapons with a lot of different attachments, you can choose different modes of fire, and you can use the suit powers to play in a different ways of evade totally these powers. Is your choice. And is one of the few fps in that stealth works -no, stealth didn't work in Far Cry-.

Second, it has a very decent I.A. Yes, there's some glitches and if you combo stealth+silencers the KPA turn to a idiotic and stunned mob of chickens, but if you play without the camouflage in delta you will find that they are capable antagonist, that flank, call for reinforcements, search for your last movements, makes a good use of grenades, etc. They don't "cheat", they don't infinite respawn, etc.

Third, the attention to detail. You talk about bad implemented physics but previous than Crysis I haven't seen a humvee driver lost the control because you blow the tyres. You can explode the tank fuels, you can survive a great fall if you hit in the water instead of the ground, there's tons of animals in the maps (kiwis, frogs, turtles, sharks... ) and you can affect with your shoots a lot of items in your environments. Those things are unnecessary to the fps mechanics, but the work invested in makes the game much more vivid, realistic and inmersive. In some of the most hyped fps the attention to detail is pathetic.

Fourth, there are vehicles, you can use them if you want, ant the handle is great. Is not the main attraction, but is a valuable tool in your arsenal, and can be a capital part in the multiplayer (Power Struggle mode).

Fifth, the gunplay is great. Not as great as a UT deathmatch or maybe as a F.E.A.R. Combat, but it's at year's light from the tedious shooting in Bioshock or the gravity-gun oriented Half-Life 2.

But if the game doesn't reach you expectation and you didn't like it is fine. In matter of tastes, any argument is valid. But even if you don't like the game the game is good. I don't like Rolls Royce -Aston Martin or Bentley are more in my tastes- but I 'll never say that RR makes bad cars. The production values in Crysis and Warhead are very high.

Try playing it as a stealth game if you're not having fun with it, that's how I played it and I thought it was really good, went a bit downhill when the aliens turned up, all told, but still a cracking game.

On an unrelated note, I checked out the band in your sig and they are god awful :D

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I played through Warhead, and got maybe halfway through Crysis and stopped playing. The only thing good is the graphics...why is this game a 9.5? Shooting guys is boring, the game doesn't make good use of its physics engine, and the missions are just lame.

Ondoval

There's some reasons.

First of all, it gives you certain amount of freedom: you can step some meters -hundreds- from the way that is supposed that you must track, you can choose between a good amount of weapons with a lot of different attachments, you can choose different modes of fire, and you can use the suit powers to play in a different ways of evade totally these powers. Is your choice. And is one of the few fps in that stealth works -no, stealth didn't work in Far Cry-.

Second, it has a very decent I.A. Yes, there's some glitches and if you combo stealth+silencers the KPA turn to a idiotic and stunned mob of chickens, but if you play without the camouflage in delta you will find that they are capable antagonist, that flank, call for reinforcements, search for your last movements, makes a good use of grenades, etc. They don't "cheat", they don't infinite respawn, etc.

Third, the attention to detail. You talk about bad implemented physics but previous than Crysis I haven't seen a humvee driver lost the control because you blow the tyres. You can explode the tank fuels, you can survive a great fall if you hit in the water instead of the ground, there's tons of animals in the maps (kiwis, frogs, turtles, sharks... ) and you can affect with your shoots a lot of items in your environments. Those things are unnecessary to the fps mechanics, but the work invested in makes the game much more vivid, realistic and inmersive. In some of the most hyped fps the attention to detail is pathetic.

Fourth, there are vehicles, you can use them if you want, ant the handle is great. Is not the main attraction, but is a valuable tool in your arsenal, and can be a capital part in the multiplayer (Power Struggle mode).

Fifth, the gunplay is great. Not as great as a UT deathmatch or maybe as a F.E.A.R. Combat, but it's at year's light from the tedious shooting in Bioshock or the gravity-gun oriented Half-Life 2.

But if the game doesn't reach you expectation and you didn't like it is fine. In matter of tastes, any argument is valid. But even if you don't like the game the game is good. I don't like Rolls Royce -Aston Martin or Bentley are more in my tastes- but I 'll never say that RR makes bad cars. The production values in Crysis and Warhead are very high.

you said it all man*teary eyes*

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I played through Warhead, and got maybe halfway through Crysis and stopped playing. The only thing good is the graphics...why is this game a 9.5? Shooting guys is boring, the game doesn't make good use of its physics engine, and the missions are just lame.

Ondoval

There's some reasons.

First of all, it gives you certain amount of freedom: you can step some meters -hundreds- from the way that is supposed that you must track, you can choose between a good amount of weapons with a lot of different attachments, you can choose different modes of fire, and you can use the suit powers to play in a different ways of evade totally these powers. Is your choice. And is one of the few fps in that stealth works -no, stealth didn't work in Far Cry-.

Second, it has a very decent I.A. Yes, there's some glitches and if you combo stealth+silencers the KPA turn to a idiotic and stunned mob of chickens, but if you play without the camouflage in delta you will find that they are capable antagonist, that flank, call for reinforcements, search for your last movements, makes a good use of grenades, etc. They don't "cheat", they don't infinite respawn, etc.

Third, the attention to detail. You talk about bad implemented physics but previous than Crysis I haven't seen a humvee driver lost the control because you blow the tyres. You can explode the tank fuels, you can survive a great fall if you hit in the water instead of the ground, there's tons of animals in the maps (kiwis, frogs, turtles, sharks... ) and you can affect with your shoots a lot of items in your environments. Those things are unnecessary to the fps mechanics, but the work invested in makes the game much more vivid, realistic and inmersive. In some of the most hyped fps the attention to detail is pathetic.

Fourth, there are vehicles, you can use them if you want, ant the handle is great. Is not the main attraction, but is a valuable tool in your arsenal, and can be a capital part in the multiplayer (Power Struggle mode).

Fifth, the gunplay is great. Not as great as a UT deathmatch or maybe as a F.E.A.R. Combat, but it's at year's light from the tedious shooting in Bioshock or the gravity-gun oriented Half-Life 2.

But if the game doesn't reach you expectation and you didn't like it is fine. In matter of tastes, any argument is valid. But even if you don't like the game the game is good. I don't like Rolls Royce -Aston Martin or Bentley are more in my tastes- but I 'll never say that RR makes bad cars. The production values in Crysis and Warhead are very high.

You make a good point. I guess the game just isn't for me. They could have done so much more with the physics engine and details but they didn't. When you shoot people there isn't much blood at all, it just looks fake. I love the environments a lot but there's just something wrong with the missions. Also, the graphics feel very un-optimized. It's running at 60fps, then all of a sudden it's at 25.

I personally liked that I could destroy things. I spent most my time using cheats to make myself super strong, I'd toss people through walls and pretend I was a big man....

good times.

WPxPaladin

Yeah... that's a really fun :P

On an unrelated note, I checked out the band in your sig and they are god awful :D-clippa-

You can't tell me you you hate everything about they're music. Most people hate the death vocals, but the instruments are just amazing. Tegernako is the best song in my opinion.

Try playing it as a stealth game if you're not having fun with it, that's how I played it and I thought it was really good, went a bit downhill when the aliens turned up, all told, but still a cracking game.

On an unrelated note, I checked out the band in your sig and they are god awful :D

-clippa-

i agree....i loved the games until the aliens.....then i got really bored. after i beat the games the first time, then i only played until the aliens came, cause i really hated the aliens....but i did like the way the aliens were completely different than any others......i am very much the ut 99 guy, this game is okay to change it up, but i couldnt get back into it.

my real beefs are the shootin....i guess i just cant aim, but headshots r impossible. that and the aliens....kinda killed the game for me

[QUOTE="-clippa-"]On an unrelated note, I checked out the band in your sig and they are god awful :DRobboElRobbo

You can't tell me you you hate everything about they're music. Most people hate the death vocals, but the instruments are just amazing. Tegernako is the best song in my opinion.

Yeah, I don't dislike everything, I am allergic to roaring so you might be right about the vocals :) Check out cardiacs, best band ever ever :D

You make a good point. I guess the game just isn't for me. They could have done so much more with the physics engine and details but they didn't. When you shoot people there isn't much blood at all, it just looks fake. I love the environments a lot but there's just something wrong with the missions. Also, the graphics feel very un-optimized. It's running at 60fps, then all of a sudden it's at 25.

RobboElRobbo

It always massively confuses me when people say Crysis is horribly optimised. The amount of stuff going on behind the scenes in this game is phenomenal. The graphics, the AI calculations, the physics... even 2 years on they're still better than anything that has been released so far, and yet people insist the game is unoptimised simply because it occasionally dips into a low frame rate on their current-gen hardware.

I mean, when a game looks as good as this, are you really holding the fact that it occasionally dips below 25fps against it??! Please...

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You make a good point. I guess the game just isn't for me. They could have done so much more with the physics engine and details but they didn't. When you shoot people there isn't much blood at all, it just looks fake. I love the environments a lot but there's just something wrong with the missions. Also, the graphics feel very un-optimized. It's running at 60fps, then all of a sudden it's at 25.

broken_bass_bin

It always massively confuses me when people say Crysis is horribly optimised. The amount of stuff going on behind the scenes in this game is phenomenal. The graphics, the AI calculations, the physics... even 2 years on they're still better than anything that has been released so far, and yet people insist the game is unoptimised simply because it occasionally dips into a low frame rate on their current-gen hardware.

I mean, when a game looks as good as this, are you really holding the fact that it occasionally dips below 25fps against it??! Please...

Frequently. It would be better if it stayed at 30fps the whole time, no change. Inconsistency is a huge pet peeve of mine...

who says crysis isgood? it's just a cinematic game

Unbelievable. I cannot imagine what's not to like in that game. chandu83

same here, one of my all time favourite shooters

who says crysis isgood? it's just a cinematic game

Count_MarCus

[QUOTE="chandu83"]Unbelievable. I cannot imagine what's not to like in that game. Macutchi

same here, one of my all time favourite shooters

Christ... I have never played a more basically enjoyable FPS than Crysis. It was the nanosuit, the way it let you play the way you want. Open ended levels to use each of your powers and give your personal play preference a chance to shine. Whether you want to stealth snipe, rush with shotgun, throw a badguy into a group of 4 and take them all down while on the ground. The game gives you arguably the most choices in approaches to different situations since Deus Ex. No, the story isn't great, and the atmosphere is pretty standard. It's the gameplay itself that counts.

It's like watching Arnold Swarzeneggar or Sylvester Stalone movies. No, they're not technically great, but damn do they put on a good show, and damn if its not fun to watch them.

I didn't feel it brought anything special to the table other than the graphics. And some of the "features" felt very superficial and unimportant. "Zomg physics! If you shoot the tree in the middle enough it tears in two!" I never had that happen in a real firefight, only when you were intentionally shooting a tree for that effect did I see it collapse. I think if it weren't for the graphics, Crysis would have been just another generic FPS.stoutlad

[QUOTE="stoutlad"]I didn't feel it brought anything special to the table other than the graphics. And some of the "features" felt very superficial and unimportant. "Zomg physics! If you shoot the tree in the middle enough it tears in two!" I never had that happen in a real firefight, only when you were intentionally shooting a tree for that effect did I see it collapse. I think if it weren't for the graphics, Crysis would have been just another generic FPS.chandu83

The point is that I feel Crysis didn't do as much to establish itself as the lord of FPS's as all of you would lead people to believe. I'll give it graphical prowess, but beyond that nothing else made me say "wow." And "generic fps" isn't the insult you think it is. Think about it: Pretty much all that can be done in a first person shooter has been done. Is that to say that all fps will forever be boring? No. But they won't be fresh or revolutionary until they do something NEW. I got Crysis, played through it once all the way since I had already bought it, and have since uninstalled it and never touched it again. It just wasn't fun for me like HL2 (which I still revisit) or other previous FPS

tl;dr: Crysis brought nice graphics to the table, but that's about all it did. It didn't have the immersion factor for me *at all*, and I fail to see why people revere it. Please explain to me.

I played through Warhead, and got maybe halfway through Crysis and stopped playing. The only thing good is the graphics...why is this game a 9.5? Shooting guys is boring, the game doesn't make good use of its physics engine, and the missions are just lame.

RobboElRobbo

2 reasons:

nano suit and customisable weapons, these combined let you tackle any situation in a huge variety of ways. hell, i dont think you have to kill anyone if your careful enough.

Crysis is good because, when you hide in a house in Crysis, the house kills you.

I like the Physics in the game, also graphics thats about it

i like crysis cuz its purty and stuff

To me, Crysis was a purely graphical experience and nothing more for the first 3/4 or so of the game. It gets better though.

I played through Warhead, and got maybe halfway through Crysis and stopped playing. The only thing good is the graphics...why is this game a 9.5? Shooting guys is boring, the game doesn't make good use of its physics engine, and the missions are just lame.

RobboElRobbo

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[QUOTE="-clippa-"]On an unrelated note, I checked out the band in your sig and they are god awful :D-clippa-

You can't tell me you you hate everything about they're music. Most people hate the death vocals, but the instruments are just amazing. Tegernako is the best song in my opinion.

Yeah, I don't dislike everything, I am allergic to roaring so you might be right about the vocals :) Check out cardiacs, best band ever ever :D

I'll be downloading some of this.

MorbidToaster

legally?

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I'll be downloading some of this.

Macutchi

legally?

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I'll be downloading some of this.

MorbidToaster

legally?

oh ok i dont even know if thats legal:P

i just despise music pirates. far, far more than computer game pirates