Crysis Has Ruined Gaming...

Crytek and the game Crysis has ruined gaming for me and many other gamers, and I'm sure it has ruined what we have all come to know and love in FPS and actions games.

I purchased Gears of War and Crysis several weeks ago. I have been dying to play Gears of War because it was such a hot game and I don't own an Xbox so I couldn't wait for it to come out for PC.But I also had to get Crysis because that was hyped as a great game by PC gamers so I bought both at the same time a few weeks ago.

I didn't want tobuy Crysis for a while because I knew the System Requirements were high. But people convinced me that it would be ok and still look great on current hardware.

So when I got home, I made the fatal mistake of loading Crysis first. I played through it and got to the alien levels and couldn't believe how ridiculous the alien levels were. I played through the first 2/3rds of the game again and again because they were fantastic. Jungle, N.Koreans speaking Korean. Intense firefights..... great realistic weapons and sounds. I even played without using the nano suit to make it more realistic and challenging, even on Delta. Plus I've played a couple of great user made single player maps.

Well yesterday and today, I finally loaded and started Gears of War.

What a turd this game is. I just can't believe how bad it is. After Crysis, it is a downright joke. Lemmings exclaimed how great the graphics were. They aren't even better than Doom 3 and that came outalmost threeyears ago. Quake 4 blows this pile of turd out of the water graphically.

Here is the real beef: Can't jump. No lean. Reticle is half the size of the screen. The game dumbs down your decisions by placing action commands into one button (on PC it is the Space Bar). The weapons sound kiddie. The graphics and character design is cartoony like Quake III. Gameplay is simple and there is no AI.

This is what so many lemmings that think they are hardcore were saying was such a great game? It is mainstream commercialized crap. I feel bad for the common console gamer. This game is pathetic and watered down. I can't believe I bought it for $50.00.

Crysis, even based on 2/3rds of the game, destroys any previous FPS game based on physics, gameplay, graphics and sound.

Gears of Bores is commericalized console casual crap.

Bring it on!

Crysis is all style no substance. Join the graphics whore line.bellsmye1

says the man who blatantly hasnt played it

Joke thread?Juggernaut140

This is not a joke thread. I just can't believe how lame Gears of War is. Very disappointing.

[QUOTE="Juggernaut140"]Joke thread?Subcritical

This is not a joke thread. I just can't believe how lame Gears of War is. Very disappointing.

:lol: whatever dude.

[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]

[QUOTE="bellsmye1"]Crysis is all style no substance. Join the graphics whore line.bellsmye1

says the man who blatantly hasnt played it

im sorry you dont have the mental capacity to enjoy an open ended sandbox game, and are so enraged by this fact that you have to call people on teh internets stupid :|

[QUOTE="bellsmye1"][QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]

[QUOTE="bellsmye1"]Crysis is all style no substance. Join the graphics whore line.shadow_hosi

says the man who blatantly hasnt played it

im sorry you dont have the mental capacity to enjoy an open ended sandbox game, and are so enraged by this fact that you have to call people on teh internets stupid :|

[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]

[QUOTE="bellsmye1"]Crysis is all style no substance. Join the graphics whore line.bellsmye1

says the man who blatantly hasnt played it

All style and no substance?

That would certainly explain Gears and not Crysis.

In Crysis, you feel like you are THERE. You are in the jungle hunting. Taking cover where you choose. Hitting and running. Deciding how to penetrate villages, SAM batteries. Should you attack from the North or flank from the West? Should you fire without your silencer and draw the enemy out of the base, circle around the hill, take cover, flank and ambush with a grenade? Or should you take cover in the bushand try to drop in unnoticed?

Please explain the process of throwing a grenade in Gears of War and what tactics you utilize to take on the non-existant AI?

Gears, you are on rails playing a cartooney snore fest that is so dumbed down, your cover button covers all of your decisions and actions.

I played Cryisis before Gears of War. I just recently begun playing GeOW (not even a week ago) And I don't agree with you at all... GeOW has not the great graphics crysis has, but it sure as hell has better than Doom 3... UT 3 looks maybe a lil' better, but even there imo they are on par graphics wise. And I really like the GeOW duck/cover system and actually the story is really interessting. I ain't that far into the game, finished the Fenix's dad house thing.haris12121212

Um, you do know your comparing games that are a year apart release date wise right? I mean, they weren't even designed with the same hardware in mind.

Of course a port of a year old game isn't going to live to up a recent release.

haha, The more I think about it the more ridiculous it becomes.

Wha?!?! I played Drake's Fortune and now I can't play any Tomb Raider games!

Give me a break.

Well yesterday and today, I finally loaded and started Gears of War.

What a turd this game is. I just can't believe how bad it is. After Crysis, it is a downright joke. Lemmings exclaimed how great the graphics were. They aren't even better than Doom 3 and that came outalmost threeyears ago. Quake 4 blows this pile of turd out of the water graphically.

Here is the real beef: Can't jump. No lean. Reticle is half the size of the screen. The game dumbs down your decisions by placing action commands into one button (on PC it is the Space Bar). The weapons sound kiddie. The graphics and character design is cartoony like Quake III. Gameplay is simple and there is no AI.

This is what so many lemmings that think they are hardcore were saying was such a great game? It is mainstream commercialized crap. I feel bad for the common console gamer. This game is pathetic and watered down. I can't believe I bought it for $50.00.

Crysis, even based on 2/3rds of the game, destroys any previous FPS game based on physics, gameplay, graphics and sound.

Gears of Bores is commericalized console casual crap.

Bring it on!

Subcritical

[QUOTE="Subcritical"]

[QUOTE="Juggernaut140"]Joke thread?Juggernaut140

This is not a joke thread. I just can't believe how lame Gears of War is. Very disappointing.

:lol: whatever dude.

lol yeah, its a joke thread XD. Seriously ive played both and crysis doesnt make any game worse. Also Gears looks great compared to most other fps's except crysis and the art and character style is farrrrr from cartoony... Yup must be a joke thread.

[QUOTE="Subcritical"]

Well yesterday and today, I finally loaded and started Gears of War.

What a turd this game is. I just can't believe how bad it is. After Crysis, it is a downright joke. Lemmings exclaimed how great the graphics were. They aren't even better than Doom 3 and that came outalmost threeyears ago. Quake 4 blows this pile of turd out of the water graphically.

Here is the real beef: Can't jump. No lean. Reticle is half the size of the screen. The game dumbs down your decisions by placing action commands into one button (on PC it is the Space Bar). The weapons sound kiddie. The graphics and character design is cartoony like Quake III. Gameplay is simple and there is no AI.

This is what so many lemmings that think they are hardcore were saying was such a great game? It is mainstream commercialized crap. I feel bad for the common console gamer. This game is pathetic and watered down. I can't believe I bought it for $50.00.

Crysis, even based on 2/3rds of the game, destroys any previous FPS game based on physics, gameplay, graphics and sound.

Gears of Bores is commericalized console casual crap.

Bring it on!

DrinkDuff

Yeah, I've played Quake 4 twice. Got a user review up here at Gamespot. I wrote it a long time ago.

Jumping is bad? Not a useful gameplay mechanic? But having the game dictate what actions you perform is something good (context sensitive action)?

What's next, auto aim in an FPS?

Oh yeah, consoles got that one covered too.

I guess you missed the part where Gears was the best looking game ever at the end of last year. Doom3 looks better? Yeah right. Vyse_The_Daring

I guess you missed the part where Gears was the best looking game ever at the end of last year. Doom3 looks better? Yeah right. Vyse_The_Daring

Gaming on a PC, Quake 4, based off of the Doom 3 engine looks better than Gears of War. Ok?

Gears of War was also supposed to be a great action game. To me it is a watered down, commercialized, streamlined, casual, borefest, where all of your in game options are predetermined and guided by your SpaceBar (PC).

There is one thing to have linear gameplay. With Gears of War, you have linear input. That is freakin' great...........

I heard it started to suck when it got the aliens, and that the online wasn't as good as other games.

Doesn't matter to me though, it's just I read that in a PC biased magazine and heard about it from like a bunch of people.

After that, I just figured spending the money would be pretty lame, because the game wasn't as good as I'd thought it be, and to spend THAT much, there's no way I'm risking that.

[QUOTE="DrinkDuff"][QUOTE="Subcritical"]

Well yesterday and today, I finally loaded and started Gears of War.

What a turd this game is. I just can't believe how bad it is. After Crysis, it is a downright joke. Lemmings exclaimed how great the graphics were. They aren't even better than Doom 3 and that came outalmost threeyears ago. Quake 4 blows this pile of turd out of the water graphically.

Here is the real beef: Can't jump.No lean. Reticle is half the size of the screen. The game dumbs down your decisions by placing action commands into one button (on PC it is the Space Bar). The weapons sound kiddie. The graphics and character design is cartoony like Quake III. Gameplay is simple and there is no AI.

This is what so many lemmings that think they are hardcore were saying was such a great game? It is mainstream commercialized crap. I feel bad for the common console gamer. This game is pathetic and watered down. I can't believe I bought it for $50.00.

Crysis, even based on 2/3rds of the game, destroys any previous FPS game based on physics, gameplay, graphics and sound.

Gears of Bores is commericalized console casual crap.

Bring it on!

Subcritical

Yeah, I've played Quake 4 twice. Got a user review up here at Gamespot. I wrote it a long time ago.

Jumping is bad? Not a useful gameplay mechanic? But having the game dictate what actions you perform is something good (context sensitive action)?

What's next, auto aim in an FPS?

Oh yeah, consoles got that one covered too.

Jumping is an extremely stupid idea in FPSs and most non plumber related games. People talk about wanting to be immersed in games, go walk around your local city and count the number of people you see jumping from Starbucks to their office building.

Or better yet go paintballing it is a lot like Halo honestly (sarcasm).

[QUOTE="Subcritical"][QUOTE="DrinkDuff"][QUOTE="Subcritical"]

Well yesterday and today, I finally loaded and started Gears of War.

What a turd this game is. I just can't believe how bad it is. After Crysis, it is a downright joke. Lemmings exclaimed how great the graphics were. They aren't even better than Doom 3 and that came outalmost threeyears ago. Quake 4 blows this pile of turd out of the water graphically.

Here is the real beef: Can't jump.No lean. Reticle is half the size of the screen. The game dumbs down your decisions by placing action commands into one button (on PC it is the Space Bar). The weapons sound kiddie. The graphics and character design is cartoony like Quake III. Gameplay is simple and there is no AI.

This is what so many lemmings that think they are hardcore were saying was such a great game? It is mainstream commercialized crap. I feel bad for the common console gamer. This game is pathetic and watered down. I can't believe I bought it for $50.00.

Crysis, even based on 2/3rds of the game, destroys any previous FPS game based on physics, gameplay, graphics and sound.

Gears of Bores is commericalized console casual crap.

Bring it on!

donny666

Yeah, I've played Quake 4 twice. Got a user review up here at Gamespot. I wrote it a long time ago.

Jumping is bad? Not a useful gameplay mechanic? But having the game dictate what actions you perform is something good (context sensitive action)?

What's next, auto aim in an FPS?

Oh yeah, consoles got that one covered too.

Jumping is an extremely stupid idea in FPSs and most non plumber related games. People talk about wanting to be immersed in games, go walk around your local city and count the number of people you see jumping from Starbucks to their office building.

Or better yet go paintballing it is a lot like Halo honestly (sarcasm).

I played Cryisis before Gears of War. I just recently begun playing GeOW (not even a week ago) And I don't agree with you at all... GeOW has not the great graphics crysis has, but it sure as hell has better than Doom 3... UT 3 looks maybe a lil' better, but even there imo they are on par graphics wise. And I really like the GeOW duck/cover system and actually the story is really interessting. I ain't that far into the game, finished the Fenix's dad house thing.haris12121212

then you're at the end almost... sadly. i dont really understand what this chump is talking about blah blah gears of war is a turd of a game blah blah. Crysis and GeoW are two different types of games and Quake 4 looks like ass compared to both.

Huh? At the end of 2007 Crysis was by FAR the best looking game with others looking better than GeoW.[QUOTE="Vyse_The_Daring"]I guess you missed the part where Gears was the best looking game ever at the end of last year. Doom3 looks better? Yeah right. l-_-l

i think he meant at the end of 06 we did after all just begin the new year...

[QUOTE="haris12121212"]I played Cryisis before Gears of War. I just recently begun playing GeOW (not even a week ago) And I don't agree with you at all... GeOW has not the great graphics crysis has, but it sure as hell has better than Doom 3... UT 3 looks maybe a lil' better, but even there imo they are on par graphics wise. And I really like the GeOW duck/cover system and actually the story is really interessting. I ain't that far into the game, finished the Fenix's dad house thing.V_Zarnold_N

then you're at the end almost... sadly. i dont really understand what this chump is talking about blah blah gears of war is a turd of a game blah blah. Crysis and GeoW are two different types of games and Quake 4 looks like ass compared to both.

This chump is saying just this:

Gears of Wars' gameplay is linear. Alot of game are linear. What is extremely disappointing is how Gears of War couples linear gameplay with linear user input. Do you know what I mean? You know, when you walk up to a cement barrier, and the game pre-determines a set action you can take, and you initiate this action by hitting the same button that performs other linear, pre triggered actions throughout the entire game.

Then there is the fact that the weapons sound weak and flimsy.

Gameplay: weak and flimsy. Everything is decided for you. You just need to push the button and your actions are decided for you.

Then there is the fact that the graphics were toughted as being cutting edge and magical. Half Life 2 blows Gears out of the water graphically. So doesn't Quake 4, and Doom 3, etc. All three of the games are older than Gears.

Now, I've heard, in this thread, a console fanboy say that Quake 4's graphics are terrible. But this poor gamer probably hasn't played Quake 4 on a PC. He probably played it on his 360 and hence is stuck looking at compromised graphics.

Well I'll tell you this: Gears of War is casual. The only thing Hardcore in this game is that the hardest difficulty level is called "Hardcore". I think this is what started lemmings thinking that they play hardcore games and the Wii is casual. I got bad news for them: Gears of War is casual.

They need to play Crysis.

[QUOTE="Juggernaut140"]Joke thread?Subcritical

This is not a joke thread. I just can't believe how lame Gears of War is. Very disappointing.

That's cool, just understand that everyone else and God disagrees.

By gosh, everything ruins gaming. Motion controls ruin gaming, casual games ruin gaming, over-the-top violence ruins gaming, generic shooters ruin gaming, too many consoles ruin gaming, World of Warcraft ruins gaming, and now amazing graphics ruin gaming?

You can't please anyone around here.

gears of war was the second most played game on xbl during christmas week surprisingly.

i disagree with tc its a good game. i spent a lot of hours on that game. i still think its one of the better games out there. im sure crysis is a good great game as well. i havent played crysis, but i can imagine being good after playing far cry.

[QUOTE="haris12121212"]I played Cryisis before Gears of War. I just recently begun playing GeOW (not even a week ago) And I don't agree with you at all... GeOW has not the great graphics crysis has, but it sure as hell has better than Doom 3... UT 3 looks maybe a lil' better, but even there imo they are on par graphics wise. And I really like the GeOW duck/cover system and actually the story is really interessting. I ain't that far into the game, finished the Fenix's dad house thing.Jared2720

Lemmings exclaimed how great the graphics were. They aren't even better than Doom 3 and that came outalmost threeyears ago. Subcritical

This is where I stopped reading.... lol what a Hermit.... does ur mom charge you rent to stay in her basement?

[QUOTE="Subcritical"]

Lemmings exclaimed how great the graphics were. They aren't even better than Doom 3 and that came outalmost threeyears ago. Veterngamer

This is where I stopped reading.... lol what a Hermit.... does ur mom charge you rent to stay in her basement?

I bet you made this post from your mom's basement eh?

^^ Allot of PC gamers bash Halo, personally I think it's a very solid game it just gets dragged down when the third threat are introduced (like in Far Cry & Crysis).

But Gears is the worst game I have played in a long time. It looks ugly, the gunplay's unsatisfying, the story'sa joke,multiplayer feels old as hell, physics are nonexistent, and it's painfully repetitive blah blah blah. This game has no redeeming qualities. I still can't believe Epic made a game worse than Unreal 2.

[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]

[QUOTE="bellsmye1"]Crysis is all style no substance. Join the graphics whore line.bellsmye1

says the man who blatantly hasnt played it

Stop whining because you cant run it :roll:

tramp i fully agree, i cant see my self paying for Gears of War after getting it. Lame repetitive get behind a wall and shoot blind shoot over and over again, boring linear environments, blocky cartoonish looking steroid-using characters that all somehow had the same build as if their inbreeding mother was all the same. Plus the story is the weak sauce compared to most pc games which is why I could instantly tell this is a consolized piece of crap game with no redeeming qualities as a 3ps except it plays just like you would an fps; but worse.NEOSPARKING

I don't agree with either of you. The characters were not blocky or cartoony, I have no idea where the **** that inbreeding part came from.

Crysis is all style no substance. Join the graphics whore line.bellsmye1

Says the console fanboy who has never played Crysis.

[QUOTE="NEOSPARKING"]tramp i fully agree, i cant see my self paying for Gears of War after getting it. Lame repetitive get behind a wall and shoot blind shoot over and over again, boring linear environments, blocky cartoonish looking steroid-using characters that all somehow had the same build as if their inbreeding mother was all the same. Plus the story is the weak sauce compared to most pc games which is why I could instantly tell this is a consolized piece of crap game with no redeeming qualities as a 3ps except it plays just like you would an fps; but worse.Juggernaut140

I don't agree with either of you. The characters were not blocky or cartoony, I have no idea where the **** that inbreeding part came from.

lies i have proof