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#1 Doctor-McNinja
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'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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#2 Revan_911
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Pretty much everyone disagrees with you. A game doesn't get a 9.5 just for pretty graphics. I would say that it's one of the most innovative and fun shooters this gen.
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#3 AnnoyedDragon
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Because it was boring. Because it was uninspired. Because it was completely forgettable.

Doctor-McNinja

Bleh, another person passing their opinion off as fact.

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#4 Brainkiller05
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It scored 9.5/10, it's more than just graphics.
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#5 chaplainDMK
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One of the best FPS games this gen in my opinion. Sorry cuz it aint a corridor shooter man! I promise Crysis 2 will be a linear corridor shooter! Dont judge me!

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#6 Doctor-McNinja
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[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"]

Because it was boring. Because it was uninspired. Because it was completely forgettable.

AnnoyedDragon

Bleh, another person passing their opinion off as fact.

I only gave my opinion, at no point did i state anything as a fact. At no point did i say 'this is the unequivocal truth'. At no point did i declare my views a scientific certainty. Thank you.
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#7 Arjdagr8
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I didn't think the game was that great, which is weird since i normally like those type of games. Something off putting and incredibly boring about it.
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#8 mo0ksi
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Was this really worth making a thread? Do you expect people in SW to listen, even if you are right?
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I only gave my opinion, at no point did i state anything as a fact. At no point did i say 'this is the unequivocal truth'. At no point did i declare my views a scientific certainty. Thank you. Doctor-McNinja

Yet you declared those opinions in a manner that sounded like you were stated facts, you didn't say I think; you said it was.

Opinions are not bullet proof shields against criticism. If you are going to call Crysis "boring, uninspired, forgettable" expect to be asked to elabourate on those criticisms.

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#10 Doctor-McNinja
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Was this really worth making a thread? Do you expect people in SW to listen, even if you are right?mo0ksi
Crysis is a regular feature of system wars; it comes up pretty much every day. There is no harm in sharing an opinion that the game really wasn't all that and discussing it with others, like-minded or not. :)
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#11 naval
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[QUOTE="AnnoyedDragon"]

[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"]

Because it was boring. Because it was uninspired. Because it was completely forgettable.

Doctor-McNinja

Bleh, another person passing their opinion off as fact.

I only gave my opinion, at no point did i state anything as a fact. At no point did i say 'this is the unequivocal truth'. At no point did i declare my views a scientific certainty. Thank you.

While you didn't passed off your view as fact , but your title did seem to imply that you expected people to stop using Crysis as ownage because according to you "it's gameplay is uninspired etc etc"

Anyways ignoring that, so If I don't agree with you and think Crysis has better gameplay and single player than any other shooter released in the past few years Icanuse it as ownage , right ?

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#12 Doctor-McNinja
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[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"] I only gave my opinion, at no point did i state anything as a fact. At no point did i say 'this is the unequivocal truth'. At no point did i declare my views a scientific certainty. Thank you. AnnoyedDragon

Opinions are not bullet proof shields against criticism. If you are going to call Crysis "boring, uninspired, forgettable" expect to be asked to elabourate on those criticisims.

I would happily elaborate; you didn't ask me to elaborate on anything though, you dismissed everything i said as 'another person stating their opinion as fact' which, to repeat myself, i didn't do at all.
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#13 Doctor-McNinja
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[QUOTE="naval"] while you didn't passed off your view as fact , but your title did seem to imply that you expected people to stop using Crysis as ownage because according to you "it's gameplay is uninspired etc etc" Anyways ignoring that, so If I don't agree with you and think Crysis has better game play and single player than any other shooter released in the past few years can I used it as ownage , right ?

You can make any argument you feel like making, everyone has their own view on things. Dont take stuff so personally.
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#14 naval
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[QUOTE="naval"] while you didn't passed off your view as fact , but your title did seem to imply that you expected people to stop using Crysis as ownage because according to you "it's gameplay is uninspired etc etc" Anyways ignoring that, so If I don't agree with you and think Crysis has better game play and single player than any other shooter released in the past few years can I used it as ownage , right ?Doctor-McNinja
You can make any argument you feel like making, everyone has their own view on things. Dont take stuff so personally.

where did I took anything personally ?

I am just asking why do you expect people to stop using Crysis as ownage or whatever just because **you** think it's not any good. In other words, if anyone thinks Crysis is good, why can't he use it as ownage ?

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#15 Revan_911
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[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"][QUOTE="naval"] You can make any argument you feel like making, everyone has their own view on things. Dont take stuff so personally.

[QUOTE="mo0ksi"]Was this really worth making a thread? Do you expect people in SW to listen, even if you are right?Doctor-McNinja
Crysis is a regular feature of system wars; it comes up pretty much every day. There is no harm in sharing an opinion that the game really wasn't all that and discussing it with others, like-minded or not. :)

So you're saying "stop using Crysis as ownage because I think it's bad."
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#16 moistsandwich
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I agree with TC.... Crysis isn't a good game, it's pretty... it garnered a ton of hype from its visuals during production and got high scores because of it... the game is MEDIOCRE... nothing more, nothing less.

It's funny PC gamers will deny my claims about the game being absolutely average without its visuals, and then turn around in another thread and tell a Crysis hater that their opinion doesn't matter because they probably didn't play it on High-Very HIgh.

So which is it Crysis Defenders.... make up your minds.

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#17 Doctor-McNinja
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[QUOTE="naval"] where did I took anything personally ? I am just asking why do you expect people to stop using Crysis as ownage or whatever just because **you** think it's not any good. In other words, if anyone thinks Crysis is good, why can't he use it a ownage ?

Taking stuff personally in the sense that you seem outraged that someone would dare throw it out there that Crysis needs to stop being tossed around as ownage on any other game based souly on the same old batch of amazing looking screens. At no point did i DEMAND that everyone stop discussing Crysis. At no point did i say you CANNOT discuss the game or like it or have any view on it any different than mine. Alls i said was that, in my humble opinion, the game failed to live up to its graphical splendour in almost every other department and as such shouldn't be used as a constant benchmark of awesomeness. I'm not the only one to think so. A third of its reviews were 80 or less, saying the exact same thing i just said; looks amazing, but not everything else is up to that standard. The user reviews average in at 7.5. Just sharing an opinion; at no point did i say you CANNOT do or not do anything.
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#18 Pixel-Pirate
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Pretty much everyone disagrees with you. A game doesn't get a 9.5 just for pretty graphics. I would say that it's one of the most innovative and fun shooters this gen. Revan_911

Plenty of games get 9.0 and 9.5 even though they don't deserve it.

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You realise people calling the game nothing but graphics are actually more annoying than those using the game as graphics ownage, since at least those people actually have a valid point.
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You have a point TC, the crysis pics are getting old :P
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#21 AnnoyedDragon
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I would happily elaborate; you didn't ask me to elaborate on anything though, you dismissed everything i said as 'another person stating their opinion as fact' which, to repeat myself, i didn't do at all. Doctor-McNinja

That's because every single person I have asked to elaborate, every single one, pulled the opinion/preference card. With it happening so often; can I really expect different?

You are already put in a bad position because you have called Crysis forgettable when it is very different from the typical FPS. By describing it as not being special; you are hurting your credibility, because in today's market it is special when compared with the typical game.

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#22 Doctor-McNinja
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[QUOTE="Revan_911"] So you're saying "stop using Crysis as ownage because I think it's bad."

I quite clearly said that Crysis is regularly used to debunk or counter discussion of any other promising looking game, usually via posting a particularly impressive screen shot and saying 'Crysis, see!' and little else. I feel that, while the game obviously looks incredible, it failed to live up to the lofty standards of its graphics in many other areas. Like i said, if i had to keep one game for the rest of my life it sure as heck wouldn't be Crysis, and for that reason i think it's silly that it's continually used as the ultimate benchmark in gaming awesomeness; graphical awesomeness? Sure. But not gaming overall.
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#23 Doctor-McNinja
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You have a point TC, the crysis pics are getting old :Pracing1750
That's all i was going for really, 'it's getting old'. I seem to have offended some Crysis fans, and for that i apologise. It was not my intention. My opinion was perfectly valid however, and has been mirrored by plenty of others; even official reviews at the time of release. All this 'your opinion aint facts!' stuff i dont understand. I said no such thing.
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#24 Revan_911
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I agree with TC.... Crysis isn't a good game, it's pretty... it garnered a ton of hype from its visuals during production and got high scores because of it... the game is MEDIOCRE... nothing more, nothing less.

It's funny PC gamers will deny my claims about the game being absolutely average without its visuals, and then turn around in another thread and tell a Crysis hater that their opinion doesn't matter because they probably didn't play it on High-Very HIgh.

So which is it Crysis Defenders.... make up your minds.

moistsandwich
First of all i doubt you even played it. And second, Crysis game play is not mediocre every professional critic disagrees with you.
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#25 AnnoyedDragon
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I quite clearly said that Crysis is regularly used to debunk or counter discussion of any other promising looking game, usually via posting a particularly impressive screen shot and saying 'Crysis, see!' and little else.Doctor-McNinja

I have seen none of this, I only see Crysis screens get posted when console gamers are thinking too highly of their systems capabilities.

Games as far back as Haze have been declared as Crysis killers. You would criticise the PC gamer posting a Crysis pic in response; but not the console gamer who declared their game graphics king?

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[QUOTE="naval"] where did I took anything personally ? I am just asking why do you expect people to stop using Crysis as ownage or whatever just because **you** think it's not any good. In other words, if anyone thinks Crysis is good, why can't he use it a ownage ?Doctor-McNinja
Taking stuff personally in the sense that you seem outraged that someone would dare throw it out there that Crysis needs to stop being tossed around as ownage on any other game based souly on the same old batch of amazing looking screens. At no point did i DEMAND that everyone stop discussing Crysis. At no point did i say you CANNOT discuss the game or like it or have any view on it any different than mine. Alls i said was that, in my humble opinion, the game failed to live up to its graphical splendour in almost every other department and as such shouldn't be used as a constant benchmark of awesomeness. I'm not the only one to think so. A third of its reviews were 80 or less, saying the exact same thing i just said; looks amazing, but not everything else is up to that standard. The user reviews average in at 7.5. Just sharing an opinion; at no point did i say you CANNOT do or not do anything.

GS user avrage is 8.9...

And this game has alot of haters. Either cuz they cant run the game, or cuz they are fakeboys. Just like Halo 3. It has user score 8.9 too, just cuz cows rate it 0/10 and lemms 10/10.

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[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"]I would happily elaborate; you didn't ask me to elaborate on anything though, you dismissed everything i said as 'another person stating their opinion as fact' which, to repeat myself, i didn't do at all. AnnoyedDragon

That's because every single person I have asked to elaborate, every single one, pulled the opinion/preference card. With it happening so often; can I really expect different?

You are already put in a bad position because you have called Crysis forgettable when it is very different from the typical FPS. By describing it as not being special; you are hurting your credibility, because in today's market it is special when compared with the typical game.

You did not ask me to elaborate on anything; what you've discussed with others is irrelevant. You cannot tell me 'you should expect to be asked to elaborate' as a counter to whatever when you asked me to do no such thing. You said i was 'another person passing opinion off as fact'. I did no such thing. Simple as that, really. Argument over. I'm not 'put in a bad position' because once again, i didn't say what you claim i did. I never said the game was 'typical' or a 'typical FPS.' I said it was uninspired, boring and forgettable. Uninspired because its story was so shallow and its dialogue so melodramatic and 90s action flick. Boring because it featured the same basic actions over and over again; go hear, kill them. Go there, kill them. And it isn't special, not in the sense that it's the same as every other cookie-cutter shooter, but that it's the same Far Cry set up we all played last gen only with a graphical overhaul. Again, just my experience with the game. I'm not saying you HAVE to agree just as a disclaimer there for when you reply telling me to stop making up facts.
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[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"] I quite clearly said that Crysis is regularly used to debunk or counter discussion of any other promising looking game, usually via posting a particularly impressive screen shot and saying 'Crysis, see!' and little else.AnnoyedDragon

I have seen none of this, I only see Crysis screens get posted when console gamers are thinking too highly of their systems capabilities.

Games as far back as Haze have been declared as Crysis killers. You would criticise the PC gamer posting a Crysis pic in response; but not the console gamer who declared their game graphics king?

I made a comment just minutes ago in another thread about how silly it was that PS3 owners said Haze was comparable to Crysis. I have made no criticism of its graphics at all, only its gameplay/story/more or less everything else.
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'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.

Doctor-McNinja
You haven't played Crysis, have you?
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#31 naval
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[QUOTE="naval"] where did I took anything personally ? I am just asking why do you expect people to stop using Crysis as ownage or whatever just because **you** think it's not any good. In other words, if anyone thinks Crysis is good, why can't he use it a ownage ?Doctor-McNinja
Taking stuff personally in the sense that you seem outraged that someone would dare throw it out there that Crysis needs to stop being tossed around as ownage on any other game based souly on the same old batch of amazing looking screens. At no point did i DEMAND that everyone stop discussing Crysis. At no point did i say you CANNOT discuss the game or like it or have any view on it any different than mine. Alls i said was that, in my humble opinion, the game failed to live up to its graphical splendour in almost every other department and as such shouldn't be used as a constant benchmark of awesomeness. I'm not the only one to think so. A third of its reviews were 80 or less, saying the exact same thing i just said; looks amazing, but not everything else is up to that standard. The user reviews average in at 7.5. Just sharing an opinion; at no point did i say you CANNOT do or not do anything.

why would I be outraged about this ? Do you really think it is the first time I am seeing some anti-Crysis thread ?

What you said was - "Please stop using Crysis as ownage" - "Because it was boring. Because it was uninspired. Because it was completely forgettable." Aren't you telling others to do based on what you think ?

Let's see some other things you said :-

* GS average user score is 8.9, even though quite a few people have give it a low score because they cannot run it on their pcs .

* Average critic score of the the game is 90+

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#32 moistsandwich
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[QUOTE="moistsandwich"]

I agree with TC.... Crysis isn't a good game, it's pretty... it garnered a ton of hype from its visuals during production and got high scores because of it... the game is MEDIOCRE... nothing more, nothing less.

It's funny PC gamers will deny my claims about the game being absolutely average without its visuals, and then turn around in another thread and tell a Crysis hater that their opinion doesn't matter because they probably didn't play it on High-Very HIgh.

So which is it Crysis Defenders.... make up your minds.

Revan_911

First of all i doubt you even played it. And second, Crysis game play is not mediocre every professional critic disagrees with you.

Crysis2009-09-2621-26-38-71.jpg Crysis War3 picture by Zandeus

Crysis2009-09-2621-27-13-12.jpg Crysis War2 picture by Zandeus

Crysis2009-09-2621-34-15-10.jpg Crysis War picture by Zandeus

You're right I've never played it.... :roll:

gamesetup006.jpg picture by Zandeus

And about your "professional" reviewer comment.... Pffff... chances are I've been gaming longer and have much more experience. I've been a gamer since the Coleco Vision, that's 25+ years.

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#33 KalEl370
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[QUOTE="racing1750"]You have a point TC, the crysis pics are getting old :PDoctor-McNinja
That's all i was going for really, 'it's getting old'. I seem to have offended some Crysis fans, and for that i apologise. It was not my intention. My opinion was perfectly valid however, and has been mirrored by plenty of others; even official reviews at the time of release. All this 'your opinion aint facts!' stuff i dont understand. I said no such thing.

Don't apologize, you have an opinion and this is the proper forum for it. If some people don't like it, they can state theirs. Crysis is a great game, I just don't think it has the replayability of others that have far better multiplayer IMO. And yes, it does grow tiresome seeing the crysis pics pop up all the time in the threads that have nothing to do with the game such as game A vs game B and someone says BUT Crysis wah!

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#34 Revan_911
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[QUOTE="Revan_911"][QUOTE="moistsandwich"]

I agree with TC.... Crysis isn't a good game, it's pretty... it garnered a ton of hype from its visuals during production and got high scores because of it... the game is MEDIOCRE... nothing more, nothing less.

It's funny PC gamers will deny my claims about the game being absolutely average without its visuals, and then turn around in another thread and tell a Crysis hater that their opinion doesn't matter because they probably didn't play it on High-Very HIgh.

So which is it Crysis Defenders.... make up your minds.

Doctor-McNinja
First of all i doubt you even played it. And second, Crysis game play is not mediocre every professional critic disagrees with you.

I could honestly care less if you think i played it; i gave it high-praise when it first came out and even posted screens of it running on my rig. Everyone has their opinion; agree or disagree all you like. Telling me i didn't play the game because my long-term experience of it differs to yours is just silly.

I wasn't responding to you. And Annoyed Dragon pretty much owned you.
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[QUOTE="AnnoyedDragon"]

[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"]I would happily elaborate; you didn't ask me to elaborate on anything though, you dismissed everything i said as 'another person stating their opinion as fact' which, to repeat myself, i didn't do at all. Doctor-McNinja

That's because every single person I have asked to elaborate, every single one, pulled the opinion/preference card. With it happening so often; can I really expect different?

You are already put in a bad position because you have called Crysis forgettable when it is very different from the typical FPS. By describing it as not being special; you are hurting your credibility, because in today's market it is special when compared with the typical game.

You did not ask me to elaborate on anything; what you've discussed with others is irrelevant. You cannot tell me 'you should expect to be asked to elaborate' as a counter to whatever when you asked me to do no such thing. You said i was 'another person passing opinion off as fact'. I did no such thing. Simple as that, really. Argument over. I'm not 'put in a bad position' because once again, i didn't say what you claim i did. I never said the game was 'typical' or a 'typical FPS.' I said it was uninspired, boring and forgettable. Uninspired because its story was so shallow and its dialogue so melodramatic and 90s action flick. Boring because it featured the same basic actions over and over again; go hear, kill them. Go there, kill them. And it isn't special, not in the sense that it's the same as every other cookie-cutter shooter, but that it's the same Far Cry set up we all played last gen only with a graphical overhaul. Again, just my experience with the game. I'm not saying you HAVE to agree just as a disclaimer there for when you reply telling me to stop making up facts.

"Go here, kill them. Go there kill them" Isn't that the point of almost every single FPS out there? At least Crysis gives you diversity in ways of dispatching your enemies.
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#36 Doctor-McNinja
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[QUOTE="dommeus"] You haven't played Crysis, have you?

Everyone has their own experiences. That's not to say every opinion can be accepted as a valid one by any means, but i dont think anything i said is unreasonable. I appreciate my opinion of the game may differ to your own, but that doesn't make what i said 'wrong' at all. My point of view has been mirrored by many others; even critics at the time the game was released said exactly what i said; that the graphics set a new standard, but a standard which everything else fails to meet. As for me playing the game, i gave it high praise when it first came out and posted screens of it running on my PC. The whole 'you must not have played it' argument in response to someone who does not appreciate a game to the same extent that you do is getting old.
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#37 Doctor-McNinja
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[QUOTE="shalashaska88"] "Go here, kill them. Go there kill them" Isn't that the point of almost every single FPS out there? At least Crysis gives you diversity in ways of dispatching your enemies.

Obviously killing stuff is going to feature in every FPS, but it's difficult to really phrase my thoughts on that without sounding as simplistic as it already does. :P Hopefully you know what i'm trying to say; it feels repetitive or mundane in a sense, in a similar way to the missions in the first Assassins Creed. They just felt like repeating the same, fairly small cycle of actions over and over in different places.
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#38 Vesica_Prime
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Since we use the 'we only use GameSpot' rule, I'll pick a few choice quotes from GameSpot.

"easily one of the greatest shooters ever made." -GameSpot review

"It was this open-ended, emergent gameplay--the ability to let us tackle our challenges in whatever way we wished." -GameSpot on Crysis winning Best Shooter of 2007

I don't think that a mediocre game would garner such praise from GameSpot really. And as for the graphics the fact that the game was made in 2007 and still claiming superiority over other titles in terms of graphics just shows how excellent they really are.

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#39 Doctor-McNinja
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[QUOTE="Revan_911"] I wasn't responding to you. And Annoyed Dragon pretty much owned you.

I quoted the wrong person and deleted the post before you replied there, but i guess i wasn't quick enough with the edit. It has since been re-directed at the correct person. I've replied to everything Annoyed Dragon said with my own point of view, i dont feel anything i've said has been de-based by any means. Claim what you want though, by all means.
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#40 lucfonzy
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You have a point TC, the crysis pics are getting old :Pracing1750

They are getting old, but they sure as hell look better than anything else out there, can't deny that!

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#41 moistsandwich
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What Revan? you have nothing to say now? PWNED!

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#42 AnnoyedDragon
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You did not ask me to elaborate on anything; what you've discussed with others is irrelevant. You cannot tell me 'you should expect to be asked to elaborate' as a counter to whatever when you asked me to do no such thing. You said i was 'another person passing opinion off as fact'. I did no such thing. Simple as that, really. Argument over.

Doctor-McNinja

No, argument not over. You didn't say "I think" you said "it was", you were speaking in a matter of fact manner. Now you are playing the opinion card to try to get out of it.

I'm not 'put in a bad position' because once again, i didn't say what you claim i did. I never said the game was 'typical' or a 'typical FPS.' I said it was uninspired, boring and forgettable. Uninspired because its story was so shallow and its dialogue so melodramatic and 90s action flick. Boring because it featured the same basic actions over and over again; go hear, kill them. Go there, kill them.

Doctor-McNinja

You must hate pretty much every FPS out there then, because most did far less than what Crysis did. Go there, kill them? You used no tactics whatsoever did you? You didn't utilize the game; and you are blaming the game.

This is my problem with most people, they are so used to movie like experiences from games they don't know how to actually take advantage of a interactive experience.

You sound like you are using generic anti FPS criticisms, hoping they happen to apply to Crysis.

And it isn't special, not in the sense that it's the same as every other cookie-cutter shooter, but that it's the same Far Cry set up we all played last gen only with a graphical overhaul. Again, just my experience with the game. I'm not saying you HAVE to agree just as a disclaimer there for when you reply telling me to stop making up facts.

Doctor-McNinja

You are calling Crysis "not special" because it is similar to one other game? As opposed to the majority of FPS out there that are all original experiences? You are actually calling it Far Cry with better graphics? Far Cry? Are you kidding me?

This is getting ridiculous, I have to go out soon; and your attempts to criticise Crysis are just interchangeable FPS attacks that pretend Far Cry games are a dime a dozen.

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#43 Danm_999
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The threads you talk about are solely about graphics. They either claim the game in question is the graphics king, or that the game has dethroned Crysis as the graphics king. Even if we ignore the praise Crysis gameplay received, that doesn't negate that bringing Crysis visual quality into threads purely about graphics is a relevant endeavour.
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#44 Doctor-McNinja
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why would I be outraged about this ? Do you really think it is the first time I am seeing some anti-Crysis thread ?

What you said was - "Please stop using Crysis as ownage" - "Because it was boring. Because it was uninspired. Because it was completely forgettable." Aren't you telling others to do based on what you think ?

Let's see some other things you said :-

* GS average user score is 8.9, even though quite a few people have give it a low score because they cannot run it on their pcs .

* Average critic score of the the game is 90+

naval

If you honestly want to extrapolate from my post that i'm 'telling people what to do' you go ahead. There's no point me even arguing with that. If you cannot take a post on face value, i'm not going to sit and argue on and on with no purpose. I didn't tell anyone what to do, i merely pointed out a situation which i think is getting old - namely 'Crysis is the god of all games' type behaviour - and then gave my opinion on why it isn't credible to be treated as such. At no point did i make any demands of anyone, tell anyone that their opinion is wrong or anything else of that nature.

So hopefully that'll put a stop to that line of argument, though i doubt it will. As for the rest; my source of user reviews being in the 7s was Metacritic, last time i checked. It may have since changed. As for average critic score, a third were less than 90. Like i said earlier however, i was drooling all over it when it first came out. Things change.

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#45 Solar-X
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Every game has haters. There's no AAA+ game which has ever been made that hasn't had people rebelling against its success. Just because your opinion is that the game is not that great, that doesn't make you any less wrong. Sorry but that's the truth.

Crysis not only looks stunning. But it plays beautifully on a good rig. And the single player scenario constantly changes to keep things interesting. It;s easily up there with the likes of HL/HL2 and any other genre defining FPS which has ever been created.

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#46 Revan_911
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What Revan? you have nothing to say now? PWNED!

moistsandwich

I said i doubt you even played it. I didn't say you haven't played it. And i only saw Crysis running on a monitor, i can find that kind of pic in Google .

And what you're saying is that every proffesional reviewers oppinion is wrong, because you "the experienced gamer" say so.

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#47 lucfonzy
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"Please stop using Crysis as ownage"

No.

Why shouldn't we compare recent releases to one of the best games in recent years.

And as for gameplay, you seem to be one of those unfortunate players who cannot think and therefore must play rail shooters.

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#48 lucfonzy
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[QUOTE="naval"]

why would I be outraged about this ? Do you really think it is the first time I am seeing some anti-Crysis thread ?

What you said was - "Please stop using Crysis as ownage" - "Because it was boring. Because it was uninspired. Because it was completely forgettable." Aren't you telling others to do based on what you think ?

Let's see some other things you said :-

* GS average user score is 8.9, even though quite a few people have give it a low score because they cannot run it on their pcs .

* Average critic score of the the game is 90+

Doctor-McNinja

If you honestly want to extrapolate from my post that i'm 'telling people what to do' you go ahead. There's no point me even arguing with that. If you cannot take a post on face value, i'm not going to sit and argue on and on with no purpose. I didn't tell anyone what to do, i merely pointed out a situation which i think is getting old - namely 'Crysis is the god of all games' type behaviour - and then gave my opinion on why it isn't credible to be treated as such. At no point did i make any demands of anyone, tell anyone that their opinion is wrong or anything else of that nature.

So hopefully that'll put a stop to that line of argument, though i doubt it will. As for the rest; my source of user reviews being in the 7s was Metacritic, last time i checked. It may have since changed. As for average critic score, a third were less than 90. Like i said earlier however, i was drooling all over it when it first came out. Things change.

The thread title is "Please stop using Crysis as ownage"

To me, and I'm sure the majority, that sounds like YOU ARE ASKING for something from US.

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#49 Danm_999
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[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"]

[QUOTE="naval"]

why would I be outraged about this ? Do you really think it is the first time I am seeing some anti-Crysis thread ?

What you said was - "Please stop using Crysis as ownage" - "Because it was boring. Because it was uninspired. Because it was completely forgettable." Aren't you telling others to do based on what you think ?

Let's see some other things you said :-

* GS average user score is 8.9, even though quite a few people have give it a low score because they cannot run it on their pcs .

* Average critic score of the the game is 90+

lucfonzy

If you honestly want to extrapolate from my post that i'm 'telling people what to do' you go ahead. There's no point me even arguing with that. If you cannot take a post on face value, i'm not going to sit and argue on and on with no purpose. I didn't tell anyone what to do, i merely pointed out a situation which i think is getting old - namely 'Crysis is the god of all games' type behaviour - and then gave my opinion on why it isn't credible to be treated as such. At no point did i make any demands of anyone, tell anyone that their opinion is wrong or anything else of that nature.

So hopefully that'll put a stop to that line of argument, though i doubt it will. As for the rest; my source of user reviews being in the 7s was Metacritic, last time i checked. It may have since changed. As for average critic score, a third were less than 90. Like i said earlier however, i was drooling all over it when it first came out. Things change.

The thread title is "Please stop using Crysis as ownage"

To me, and I'm the majority, that sounds like YOU ARE ASKING for something from US.

The TC obviously wants to have his cake and eat it too; create an extremely opinionated thread and at the same time not express any assailable opinion.
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#50 Blazed
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Too funny.