So, Crysis came out in 2007...

lmao that butthurt

Although the game cheaped out on gameplay, aside from a few a gun battles and walking around, it was mostly sit, watch, walk and QTE, i wanted so badly to defend this game but i can't. Not after the final "boss fight" there is simply no excuse for The Order of 1886.

And they achieved none of that. Ever since Crysis 2, they are going downhill. They haven't made a good game in ages, and they had to sell their studios and IPs to stay in business.

MGS5: sure
Vanquish: mechanically I can give or take. Vanquish can be more gratifying on harder difficulties, but there is way more to Crysis mechanics
Far Cry 3: **** and No
STALKER: yes to Shadow of Chernobyl, no to Clear Skies, gonna go with no to Call of Pripyat, though I do like that game.
Max Payne 3: literally only does the core shooting better, it's not more dynamic, it's less so, it's horribly, the story is garbage, it dropped mechanics that its predecessors had.

And on hard and delta, nah simply shooting wasn't always your best option, and given how replayable that first half of Crysis or all of Warhead are, yeah I'm not seeing too many games that deliver the dynamic front. And flipping from action and stealth? You did it at the press of a button, with max speed to boot. Might need to explain that front better.

Because of the dynamic stuff, Far Cry doesn't even apply, Dishonored's combat isn't really an option, and all of Deus Ex: HR has poor game feel to its mechanics be it stealth or the shooting. Crysis and its expansion are certainly doing that free form stuff in a far more fluid manner.

C'mon, man. Crytek is a business. They're entitled to expand their business as they see fit. Crytek may have made some bad decisions. But, don't bring up integrity and dignity (or lack of them). It's not like they broke the law or something.

All game companies have money in their mind. It's what pay the bills, pay the salaries, allows them to buy whatever they need to make a game.

Well said and sad really.

I don't have to cherry-pick the screenshots. Crysis consistently did poorly with man-made structures in the first few levels.

The levels: Contact, Recovery, Relic, Assault, and Onslaught all had lackluster structures. It wasn't until Awakening that structures and interiors got better. Of course, that also coincided with the levels becoming smaller and more linear.

I actually liked the other aspects of the game better (such as gameplay mechanics) which is why it still is a favorite. I still have Warhead installed.

It's amazing that to this day we still don't have the hardware that can run this game. Just look at that foliage...you need a whole gpu to run that separately. You still need a separate ram stick just to take in all of that shader memory dump. The gods at Crytek really made something special, nobody even knows how they did it. Just like the pyramids, there are many speculations surrounding Crysis...that perhaps aliens came down and developed the game with their high end alien PCs.

Oh tell us how well it performed on consoles that crytek almost went to bankruptcy. They should be realised that only shit fps games like cod sells on consoles.

@jun_aka_pekto:

The only somewhat bad one there is the security guy on the floor. The rest aren't too bad. Certainly not as bad as the first two Crysis screenshots. The third one is from Awakening. Already there is an improvement and improves even more by Reckoning (4th image).

I think that the biggest thing in Crysis that shows its age is the SSAO....... If it had a more modern implementation it would bring it up to current standards.

Hmmmm....

Too bad Crytek didn't make a patch that allowed improvements in Warhead to transfer over to Crysis:

@jun_aka_pekto said:

Too bad Crytek didn't make a patch that allowed improvements in Warhead to transfer over to Crysis:

All you had to do was run Crysis in Warheads upgraded engine...

Not this sh*t again... No it doesnt

And detailed AI? Are you fvckin serious? It has some of the most retarded AI I've ever seen. Even Killzone 2 had better AI then it at the time. Quit goofin

The game looks butt ugly now, it's unfathomable how many PS4 games look better than Crysis mod or not modded.

Not even pulling the big boys like UC4, The Order, Killzone SF, DC, Infamous, Detroit and etc. You are done delusional TC.

Would've been better if Crytek made a conversion patch. But, it looks like something I'll try once I finish Warhead's SP campaign.

Never modded either game because I was happy just the way they are.

Nice tip. I did it and it works. However, everything is blurry when moving the mouse. Have you encountered this issue before?

Wait someone seriously still think crysis is graphics king? Have you seen crysis 3? Or the Order? Or killzone? Or Infamous? Or just anything current gen on a good high resolution monitor? I almost want to go so far as to say Mario Kart 8 looks better to me. The PC version of shadow of mordor even.

Crisis looked good for the time, but a lot of games caught up and passed it to be honest. Then again I have to admit that I'm a fan a games artist style and honestly Crisis looked technically impressive but from an aesthetic view it was ok. Lots of greys, greens, browns, and other various others colors that are featured in a game featuring a battlefield scenario. I like the art style of games more like Sunset Overdrive and even Infamous Second Son.

FINALLY came the time when you can say that unmodded crysis looks like shit for today's standards. Fallout 4, yes, Fallout 4 on pc looks better than crysis (without mods of course)...

Crysis's art style was always its weak point.

Reason Half-Life 2 and even Doom 3 can look great somewhat today is really good art direction.