'Hey, look at this sweet new Vidoc bungie released for Halo Reach'
"Yeah well look at this picture of Crysis, owned!"
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'Man, i was playing some Mass Effect 2 earlier and i really liked the bit where -'
'The bit where it looked nowhere near as good as this Crysis picture!? YEAH, owned! That's on my rig, too!'
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I did it myself at the time, i admit. I posted a picture of Crysis running on my new PC, and boy did it look amazing. I installed some mods to make the textures even sharper, then posted even more pictures of it. But you know why i stopped bragging about it after a while? Because it was boring. Because it was uninspired. Because it was completely forgettable.
It featured the same-old, same-old Crytek gameplay of roaming around a very pretty looking island gunning down brain-dead AI while taking in the beautiful visuals. The multiplayer was absolutely worthless - even the revamped competitive offering in the Warhead expansion. It's a game i put on to impress my friends with the pretty graphics, and even that doesn't really make sense because it's not like i made the game.
In conclusion; if i could only play one game for the rest of my life out of Counter Strike Source, Halo 3, Half Life 2 or Crysis i know damn-well which game i WOULDN'T be picking. It makes no sense to continually use this game to 'own' others when it is essentially a pretty painting. Games are a package, an experiene. Graphics aren't enough on their own.
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