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I'm actually finding that, despite the 'streamlining' of the suit, I'm playing the same way that I did in Crysis. That might sound strange, but hear me out:

- I only really used strength in Crysis to jump to high places and for one-hit melees. Both of these can be done in Crysis 2: holding down jump for strength jump and holding down melee for strength punch. If I ever need steady aiming, I can just equip the appropriate nanosuit module.
- Cloak is pretty much the same, so nothing there.
- Armor mode, regardless of what others have said about it 'draining energy all the time' (which it does), isfar more powerfulthan it was in Crysis. You're practically a walking tank when you have it activated. When armor mode isn't activated you're only slightly weaker than you were with armor mode in Crysis 1.
- Although speed mode is gone, the new sprinting finds a nice balance between the slow default sprint of Crysis and the speed mode sprint. It's faster than the default sprint in Crysis, but also lasts far longer than speed mode used to.

I'm guessing many won't make sense of that, but I needed to put it out there :PNotTarts

Armour mode has been downgraded in almost every perceivable manner. Not only does it constantly consume energy, as opposed to being situational based. But you still take health damage when you are hit, the enemy used to have to eat through your energy first. So you could have full energy and a little health, and die when hit in Crysis 2.

I call that inferior.

Stealth mode is also worse. Energy consumption used to be situational based, meaning it consumed at different rates; depending on how active the player was. Now it consumes at the same rate, regardless of player movement, and runs out "much" faster as a result.

I call that inferior as well. Nanosuit 2 looks like a downgrade for the most part, it has just streamlined its use.

[QUOTE="NotTarts"]

I'm actually finding that, despite the 'streamlining' of the suit, I'm playing the same way that I did in Crysis. That might sound strange, but hear me out:

- I only really used strength in Crysis to jump to high places and for one-hit melees. Both of these can be done in Crysis 2: holding down jump for strength jump and holding down melee for strength punch. If I ever need steady aiming, I can just equip the appropriate nanosuit module.
- Cloak is pretty much the same, so nothing there.
- Armor mode, regardless of what others have said about it 'draining energy all the time' (which it does), isfar more powerfulthan it was in Crysis. You're practically a walking tank when you have it activated. When armor mode isn't activated you're only slightly weaker than you were with armor mode in Crysis 1.
- Although speed mode is gone, the new sprinting finds a nice balance between the slow default sprint of Crysis and the speed mode sprint. It's faster than the default sprint in Crysis, but also lasts far longer than speed mode used to.

I'm guessing many won't make sense of that, but I needed to put it out there :PAnnoyedDragon

Armour mode has been downgraded in almost every perceivable manner. Not only does it constantly consume energy, as opposed to being situational based. But you still take health damage when you are hit, the enemy used to have to eat through your energy first. So you could have full energy and a little health, and die when hit in Crysis 2.

I call that inferior.

Stealth mode is also worse. Energy consumption used to be situational based, meaning it consumed at different rates; depending on how active the player was. Now it consumes at the same rate, regardless of player movement, and runs out "much" faster as a result.

I call that inferior as well. Nanosuit 2 looks like a downgrade for the most part, it has just streamlined its use.

Maybe you're talking about MP, but in SP it's been a similar experience to Crysis for me. I'm really not going to bother arguing about anything here, because that's just how I've percieved it, and I've got no doubt that it's probably going to seem different to other people.

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Of course

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Jebus213

Post unmodded Cysis and you'll see theres nothing to be impressed about. It was great back in 2007 but it's complete **** now and I guess some have a hard time excepting that.

Crysis 1, unmodded. Try turning the settings up next time. Maybe then, you will have a hard time accepting it too.

but...but...TEH FOLIAEG!

Non Tarts I'm with you on this one...AD,try to play game instead of making false assumtation. I played both Crysis,now playing Crysis 2 and it gives you as many option if not more.Its more interesting especially because verticality.You can climb on so many things,get in some parts of buildings and make your tactics based on that.

Its more fun to me than Crysis 1 to be honest.

Non Tarts I'm with you on this one...AD,try to play game instead of making false assumtation. I played both Crysis,now playing Crysis 2 and it gives you as many option if not more.Its more interesting especially because verticality.You can climb on so many things,get in some parts of buildings and make your tactics based on that.

Its more fun to me than Crysis 1 to be honest.

Bus-A-Bus

False assumptions? Feel free to point out what in my above description of the suit powers is incorrect.

Stealth mode is also worse. Energy consumption used to be situational based, meaning it consumed at different rates; depending on how active the player was. Now it consumes at the same rate, regardless of player movement, and runs out "much" faster as a result.

AnnoyedDragon

Stealth does drain based on your movement. If you crouch and move slowy, it drains slowly. If you run it drains faster. Depletes even faster based off the height of your jump. Completely drains when you throw a grenade or open fire.

I don't see the big problem with health drain in armor mode. It makes more sense for MP.

I made this to poll almost identical to the next graphics king poll that had three PS3 exclusives and a mulitplat. This poll has three 360 exclusives and a multiplatform. Same mirrored effect. Also it was hard to guess of pretty 360 exclusives lol.caseypayne69

a multiplat over a ps3 exclusive? lolcampzor

which is also rather silly considering multiplats which can be played on PC easily beat PS3 exclusives graphically.

i'm assuming this is mainly because it would be rather embarrassing after a couple of years of them claiming the 360 the was maxed out and couldn't produce graphics anything like the best PS3 exclusives. it would seem clinging onto this idea is more important than just enjoying graphics actually continuing to improve on BOTH consoles.

on consoles gears 3. for all platforms crysis 2

Crysis.

Crysis 1 and Warhead. Crysis 2 has better lightning but has worse wireframe (1.7 million triangles x shot vs 3+ millions in Crysis 1) has worse water, worse facial textures and weapon modelling, much worse water, lacks parallax mapping and doesn't suppot time of day cicle neither in the campaign or the multiplayer, whereas both of them were supported in Warhead, Crysis and Crysis Wars. Oh, also moves maps with much smaler size and supports 20 players less in the mp, having also much worse antialiasing and a low quality motion blur filter.

Stealth does drain based on your movement. If you crouch and move slowy, it drains slowly. If you run it drains faster. Depletes even faster based off the height of your jump. Completely drains when you throw a grenade or open fire.

gamecubepad

Saw/heard none of that regarding Crysis 2. It drains at the same rate regardless of how you move in multiplayer, and I hear single player is the same.

Crysis 2 easilly

Alan Wake win in art though

Of those, Alan Wake.Willy105

[QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

Stealth does drain based on your movement. If you crouch and move slowy, it drains slowly. If you run it drains faster. Depletes even faster based off the height of your jump. Completely drains when you throw a grenade or open fire.

AnnoyedDragon

Saw/heard none of that regarding Crysis 2. It drains at the same rate regardless of how you move in multiplayer, and I hear single player is the same.

Yep, so does the armor mode it drains even if your not moving or getting hit....

i find the lack of shogun 2 in this discussion annoying

[QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

Stealth does drain based on your movement. If you crouch and move slowy, it drains slowly. If you run it drains faster. Depletes even faster based off the height of your jump. Completely drains when you throw a grenade or open fire.

AnnoyedDragon

Saw/heard none of that regarding Crysis 2. It drains at the same rate regardless of how you move in multiplayer, and I hear single player is the same.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you guys don't know what you're talking about, and that you're making assumptions to back your anti-console bias.

With a stopwatch, I timed the energy drain rate for Stealth in SP. Standing still it takes 1min40secs to drain the suit energy. Just walking, no running, it drains in 14secs while cloaked. As I previously stated, it also drains faster when you run, jump, and especially if you open fire or throw a grenade.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you guys don't know what you're talking about, and that you're making assumptions to back your anti-console bias.

With a stopwatch, I timed the energy drain rate for Stealth in SP. Standing still it takes 1min40secs to drain the suit energy. Just walking, no running, it drains in 14secs while cloaked. As I previously stated, it also drains faster when you run, jump, and especially if you open fire or throw a grenade.

gamecubepad

So you pirated the game huh? Because as far as I'm aware, it's not out yet.

I base my criticism on my experience from the multiplayer, and what I hear from people in the leaked beta. If they have changed that in the final release, that's good. But there is a lot more I have issues with than just stealth mode. Believe it or not, some people legitimately have issues with the game, and their opinions are not simply brushed away; because you personally don't have a problem.

So you pirated the game huh? Because as far as I'm aware, it's not out yet.

I base my criticism on my experience from the multiplayer, and what I hear from people in the leaked beta. If they have changed that in the final release, that's good. But there is a lot more I have issues with than just stealth mode. Believe it or not, some people legitimately have issues with the game, and their opinions are not simply brushed away; because you personally don't have a problem.

AnnoyedDragon

You PC gamers were so enraged by the fact that Crysis was coming to consoles and that your god-dev Crytek was now consolizing the best PC game that you discarded your usual attention to detail and started making baseless assumptions. This is something you guys just can't seem to acknowledge. You should be hyping the game, but instead you just hate on it.

There's so much misinformation floating around the web, a lot of it from angry hermits. You guys claim Crytek betrayed you, but it's you guys who are jumping the gun here. There's always gonna be shortcomings with any game, especially if it's multiplat. Accept it and move on. Crysis 2 is a great game. Stop trying so hard to make it seem broken and devoid of any of the core Crysis gameplay elements.

[QUOTE="AnnoyedDragon"]

So you pirated the game huh? Because as far as I'm aware, it's not out yet.

I base my criticism on my experience from the multiplayer, and what I hear from people in the leaked beta. If they have changed that in the final release, that's good. But there is a lot more I have issues with than just stealth mode. Believe it or not, some people legitimately have issues with the game, and their opinions are not simply brushed away; because you personally don't have a problem.

gamecubepad

You PC gamers were so enraged by the fact that Crysis was coming to consoles and that your god-dev Crytek was now consolizing the best PC game that you discarded your usual attention to detail and started making baseless assumptions. This is something you guys just can't seem to acknowledge. You should be hyping the game, but instead you just hate on it.

There's so much misinformation floating around the web, a lot of it from angry hermits. You guys claim Crytek betrayed you, but it's you guys who are jumping the gun here. There's always gonna be shortcomings with any game, especially if it's multiplat. Accept it and move on. Crysis 2 is a great game. Stop trying so hard to make it seem broken and devoid of any of the core Crysis gameplay elements.

So much ad hominim here. Have you considered that people genuinely feel that way about Crysis 2? Just as you seem to believe Crysis 2 embodies what Crysis is about and improves on it, others may consider their experience with the demo/beta to be less than optimal.

Anyways, back on topic: Crysis 2=blurrier-than-killzone-zone :D

So much ad hominim here. Have you considered that people genuinely feel that way about Crysis 2? Just as you seem to believe Crysis 2 embodies what Crysis is about and improves on it, others may consider their experience with the demo/beta to be less than optimal.

Anyways, back on topic: Crysis 2=blurrier-than-killzone-zone :D

rpgs_shall_rule

I don't care how you feel about Crysis 2. Don't spread all this misinformation about the game. You know, like AnnoyedDragon did about the Stealth issue. This is only 1 of many false assumptions angry hermits have made.

If you're gonna hate, at least get your facts straight. Sheeesh.

You PC gamers were so enraged by the fact that Crysis was coming to consoles and that your god-dev Crytek was now consolizing the best PC game that you discarded your usual attention to detail and started making baseless assumptions. This is something you guys just can't seem to acknowledge. You should be hyping the game, but instead you just hate on it.

gamecubepad

My attention to detail is just fine, it's what makes me criticise this game in fact. Read what I have said. Based on the multiplayer demo, and what I was hearing from the people playing the beta, that is how cloak mode worked. I was not making a "baseless assumption", I was making a criticism based on the available information.

If this has changed in the retail product, then the available information has changed. The problem is you are picking on little inconsistencies in information like this, and trying to use it to invalidate the opinion of anyone who isn't worshiping the game...

There's so much misinformation floating around the web, a lot of it from angry hermits. You guys claim Crytek betrayed you, but it's you guys who are jumping the gun here. There's always gonna be shortcomings with any game, especially if it's multiplat. Accept it and move on. Crysis 2 is a great game. Stop trying so hard to make it seem broken and devoid of any of the core Crysis gameplay elements.

gamecubepad

The interface is console orientated, the graphics are console orientated, the way the controls feel are console orientated. All the available information is saying that this game was built, 100%, for consoles. They have just padded and tweaked the game for the PC version. Even basic things like making sure the graphical options offer good scalability, and turning off the aiming smoothing when the mouse is in use, are a afterthought.

Now. Given that Crysis was original a PC game, don't you think people have a right to be a little narked? Being a good game in its own right isn't good enough, it is being compared to its predecessor and rightfully so. If you like and prefer Crysis 1, Crysis 2 is terrible to you.

Of those, Alan Wake.Willy105

[QUOTE="caseypayne69"]I made this to poll almost identical to the next graphics king poll that had three PS3 exclusives and a mulitplat. This poll has three 360 exclusives and a multiplatform. Same mirrored effect. Also it was hard to guess of pretty 360 exclusives lol.marklarmer

a multiplat over a ps3 exclusive? lolcampzor

which is also rather silly considering multiplats which can be played on PC easily beat PS3 exclusives graphically.

i'm assuming this is mainly because it would be rather embarrassing after a couple of years of them claiming the 360 the was maxed out and couldn't produce graphics anything like the best PS3 exclusives. it would seem clinging onto this idea is more important than just enjoying graphics actually continuing to improve on BOTH consoles.

Fail poll is fail.

Shoulda put some PS3 games on that list, they would've won no doubt.

Edit: after reading a bit more of the posts I know why there were no PS3 games on there.

Fail poll is fail.

agpickle

Why, because it confirms what every review does ?

Hmmm. Reach had some pretty graphics.