Vanilla Crysis...underwhelming!

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#1 dom2000
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With all these Crysis threads floating about I thought there wudnt be much harm adding another! Hopefully it floats to the surface! When you guys talk about Crysis being the most ridiculously good looking game ever created im assuming you guys are talking about modded crysis as opposed to vanilla crysis! Cause ive got Crysis running at 1680x1050 on my computer with a mixture and high and very high and while its overall the best looking game ive played its certainly not head and shoulders above everything and it most certainly is no where near photorealistic! Sure you can take a pretty screenshot somewhere, which quite a few off you are quite good at on this forum, which makes the game look amazing but in vanilla crysis anyway i find it hard to belive you can just ignore all the low resolution textures that like to stick out like sore thumbs! Overall the game (or any game for that matter except Machinarium :) ) ceases to amaze me graphically! Damn the consoles for limiting the pc's graphical experience!

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#3 Steameffekt
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Put your settings on all "enthusiast" and then come back.

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#4 lucfonzy
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I'm talking about vanilla. I've never modded Crysis and to me it has the best looking visuals out there. I still get that wow factor when im creeping through the jungle, or looking up at the sun in the water.
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#6 tagyhag
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Vanilla Crysis doesn't look too bad. (But of course modded Crysis looks better)

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And as far as some low-res textures go? That's to be expected considering maps are literally more than 5 times the size of KZ2 or Halo 3 maps.

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#8 deactivated-5ef52b89b6fd0
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I think it looks great, why does everyone try and pick on Crysis? It never works, running out of things to post about in SW.

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#9 lucfonzy
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I think it looks great, why does everyone try and pick on Crysis? It never works, running out of things to post about in SW.

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All the console guys are taking note because Crysis 2 is coming out... I really hope it can top the first one, but I doubt it will.
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#11 Xtasy26
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With all these Crysis threads floating about I thought there wudnt be much harm adding another! Hopefully it floats to the surface! When you guys talk about Crysis being the most ridiculously good looking game ever created im assuming you guys are talking about modded crysis as opposed to vanilla crysis! Cause ive got Crysis running at 1680x1050 on my computer with a mixture and high and very high and while its overall the best looking game ive played its certainly not head and shoulders above everything and it most certainly is no where near photorealistic! Sure you can take a pretty screenshot somewhere, which quite a few off you are quite good at on this forum, which makes the game look amazing but in vanilla crysis anyway i find it hard to belive you can just ignore all the low resolution textures that like to stick out like sore thumbs! Overall the game (or any game for that matter except Machinarium :) ) ceases to amaze me graphically! Damn the consoles for limiting the pc's graphical experience!

dom2000

Try putting everything on Very High and Enthusiast for Warhead and then come back. It will still look better than Killzone 3/Gears of War 3, God of War 3, Uncharted 2, etc.

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#13 GTSaiyanjin2
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I think Crysis looks great, but not as good as some hermits make it out to be. Its not a generation ahead of consoles. I have a few mods for Crysis that do make the game look much better, but the vanilla version is not the best overall graphics I've seen.

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#14 tagyhag
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[QUOTE="tagyhag"]

Vanilla Crysis doesn't look too bad. (But of course modded Crysis looks better)

And as far as some low-res textures go? That's to be expected considering maps are literally more than 5 times the size of KZ2 or Halo 3 maps.

mayceV

off topic, the anime in your sig, is it good? my sister keeps telling me to watch it. On topic: ZOMG!.

I'm not a fan of football and I LOVE the anime, that's how good it is. :P

It has the perfect balance of action/drama/humor. It's over-the-top (Players running at the speed of light, quarterback threatening people with guns) and it just makes it better. :P

Plus it does a great job in teaching you football if you don't know the basics/advanced plays.

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#15 R4gn4r0k
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I agree with TC: Machinarium is one amazing looking game.

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#16 mayceV
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[QUOTE="tagyhag"]

[QUOTE="mayceV"][QUOTE="tagyhag"]

Vanilla Crysis doesn't look too bad. (But of course modded Crysis looks better)

And as far as some low-res textures go? That's to be expected considering maps are literally more than 5 times the size of KZ2 or Halo 3 maps.

off topic, the anime in your sig, is it good? my sister keeps telling me to watch it. On topic: ZOMG!.

I'm not a fan of football and I LOVE the anime, that's how good it is. :P

It has the perfect balance of action/drama/humor. It's over-the-top (Players running at the speed of light, quarterback threatening people with guns) and it just makes it better. :P

Plus it does a great job in teaching you football if you don't know the basics/advanced plays.

sounds good, now I want to look into it been looking for a good anime. anyway if you haven't seen it watch CANAAN. its pure amazingness I've deicated my avatar to it. Now I just need a decent sig.
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#17 McainTehNub
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I agree, Crysis doesn't even look that good without mods. Even then, it's still not that fun to play.

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#18 LucLongleyMVP
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I got my popcorn ready, do you?

Also lol Crysis is the best looking game even in Vanilla mode.

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#19 deactivated-5ef52b89b6fd0
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I think Crysis looks great, but not as good as some hermits make it out to be. Its not a generation ahead of consoles. I have a few mods for Crysis that do make the game look much better, but the vanilla version is not the best overall graphics I've seen.

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How is it not? The consoles have 512 mb of ram total, and 5 or 6 year old graphics cards. You are wrong about that.

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#20 deactivated-5ef52b89b6fd0
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I agree, Crysis doesn't even look that good without mods. Even then, it's still not that fun to play.

McainTehNub

:roll: Posts you pics of crysis. I some how dont believe you have the game. What you said is a common response to downplay crysis. Not really buying it.

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#22 tagyhag
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sounds good, now I want to look into it been looking for a good anime. anyway if you haven't seen it watch CANAAN. its pure amazingness I've deicated my avatar to it. Now I just need a decent sig.mayceV

Oooooh I've been meaning to watch it, I really enjoyed 428: Fusa. :D

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#23 General_X
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Man, when will these hermits stop bringing up Crysis :roll: [spoiler] In case you can't tell this is extreme sarcasm [/spoiler]
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[QUOTE="mayceV"]

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#25 dom2000
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Lol i got some people agreeing with me :) I think i can survive without the shields. Im pretty sure i said overall its the best looking game ive ever played in my little opening paragraph....yup there it its! Why do u guys have to get so defensive so fast over Crysis's graphics? I can see why you annoy half the board. When you talk about Crysis you should really talk about its fantastic gameplay instead of its graphics! And thanks for the unmodded pictures of Crysis, thats more or less exactly like it looks on my computer just add a few jaggies and stick by what i said. It is not head and shoulders above every other game in every graphical catagory.

If the likes of Uncharted 2 and killzone were on pc and werent the jaggie low resolution messes they are on the consoles they would easily compete with vanilla crysis i think! I replayedd Crysis warhead last week (a jobless bum like me has nothing better to do) and the only part of the game that really impressed me graphically was when u were in the cave! Now that looked (and sounded) amazing! Its only when you run crysis on the top of the top computers with all the best mods in custom levels were it gets into a league of its own in terms of graphics!

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[QUOTE="mayceV"]sounds good, now I want to look into it been looking for a good anime. anyway if you haven't seen it watch CANAAN. its pure amazingness I've deicated my avatar to it. Now I just need a decent sig.tagyhag

Oooooh I've been meaning to watch it, I really enjoyed 428: Fusa. :D

what's that anime called?

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#27 dom2000
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I agree with TC: Machinarium is one amazing looking game.

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Its an amazing game in everyway! Games like that is the reason I more or less only play my computer! I urge anyone who has not played this gem to get it...now! I guarantee it you will fall for its charm in under 5 minutes!
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#28 tagyhag
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[QUOTE="tagyhag"]

[QUOTE="mayceV"]sounds good, now I want to look into it been looking for a good anime. anyway if you haven't seen it watch CANAAN. its pure amazingness I've deicated my avatar to it. Now I just need a decent sig.AtlanticRock

Oooooh I've been meaning to watch it, I really enjoyed 428: Fusa. :D

what's that anime called?

The one in my sig? Eyeshield 21.
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#29 AtlanticRock
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[QUOTE="AtlanticRock"]

[QUOTE="tagyhag"]

Oooooh I've been meaning to watch it, I really enjoyed 428: Fusa. :D

tagyhag

what's that anime called?

The one in my sig? Eyeshield 21.

Thanks, long ongoing series a la Naruto/Bleach/One Piece, or it has an ending/contained story?

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#30 gamer-adam1
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Man, when will these hermits stop bringing up Crysis :roll: [spoiler] In case you can't tell this is extreme sarcasm [/spoiler] General_X

I know its a joke, but if Crysis didnt allow mods, hermits wouldnt talk about it no matter how good it looked

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#31 tagyhag
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Thanks, long ongoing series a la Naruto/Bleach/One Piece, or it has an ending/contained story?

AtlanticRock

It has an ending, but the anime is 145 episodes long.

And the manga goes further after the end of the anime. (333 chapters)

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#32 strangeisland
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btw most of the graphical mods you see only change crysis' colors or if you consider changing color a great leap into a whole new crysis

vs

see how above pic does not look like plastic

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#34 deactivated-635601fd996cc
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Crysis's scale pwns. And btw most of the mods you see posted here only change ambient settings, meaning they only change COLOURS. They don't change textures or models or anything else.
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#35 strangeisland
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Crysis's scale pwns. And btw most of the mods you see posted here only change ambient settings, meaning they only change COLOURS. They don't change textures or models or anything else.ocstew

lol that's what i just said

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#36 deactivated-635601fd996cc
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[QUOTE="ocstew"]Crysis's scale pwns. And btw most of the mods you see posted here only change ambient settings, meaning they only change COLOURS. They don't change textures or models or anything else.strangeisland

lol that's what i just said

And in those shots, the poly easily passes 2 million. Plus all the shaders that console games would dream of rendering.
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#37 strangeisland
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[QUOTE="strangeisland"]

[QUOTE="ocstew"]Crysis's scale pwns. And btw most of the mods you see posted here only change ambient settings, meaning they only change COLOURS. They don't change textures or models or anything else.ocstew

lol that's what i just said

And in those shots, the poly easily passes 2 million. Plus all the shaders that console games would dream of rendering.

Just shown in the Nathan Drake face (main character) vs Korean face (standard NPC with lower poly count than nanosuit character)

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#38 deactivated-635601fd996cc
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[QUOTE="ocstew"][QUOTE="strangeisland"]

lol that's what i just said

strangeisland

And in those shots, the poly easily passes 2 million. Plus all the shaders that console games would dream of rendering.

Just shown in the Nathan Drake face (main character) vs Korean face (standard NPC with lower poly count than nanosuit character)

http://au.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27066622 Supposedly Nathan is rendered with 80k polys and he still looks like a joke compared to a korean character, around 10k polys.
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#39 jun_aka_pekto
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I suppose Crysis can look pretty bad at 1280x768 2xAA/16xAF and an offscreen shot......

Meh. Good enough for me. Excuse the moire patterns. It's an old LCD TV. Plus, the patterns don't show up while playing.

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#40 Easyle
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I was very underwhelmed by the graphics. Best graphics yet? Yes, but barely.
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#41 DraugenCP
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Better yet, Crysis has some of the most enjoyable gameplay in a shooter this gen.

Crysis wins.

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#42 SilverChimera
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I agree, Crysis doesn't even look that good without mods. Even then, it's still not that fun to play.

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Oh, but it is :D . It's very fun to play.
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#43 McainTehNub
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[QUOTE="McainTehNub"]

I agree, Crysis doesn't even look that good without mods. Even then, it's still not that fun to play.

Advid-Gamer

:roll: Posts you pics of crysis. I some how dont believe you have the game. What you said is a common response to downplay crysis. Not really buying it.

lolIf it matters that much to you.

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#44 flashn00b
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I have never modded my crysis, and i still say it's good in both graphics and gameplay.

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#45 redneckdouglas
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Still looks better than any console games.

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#46 Upparoom
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Chocolate Crysis is much better, you should try that 8)

[spoiler] YEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH *CSI MIAMI INTRO STARTS* [/spoiler]

Yeah, I find that some hermits do get overly defensive about Crysis. I've never personally played it and I'm sure it looks amazing, but hermits don't need to justify that with 6884x5667 resolution ultra realistic super texture mod with camera shaker and Korean face wrinkle physics screens in every thread that mentions Crysis. All that stuff eventually sort of puts people off from the game.

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#47 Skittles_McGee
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I don't play Crysis modded, there are posts of mine discussing why if you care enough to look for them. But which then makes me ask, did we play the same game? Even unmodded it was more than noticably better looking that other games. I didn't have to look for it, it was just plain as day.
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#48 karasill
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I agree with TC: Machinarium is one amazing looking game.

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I bet most people don't even realize it's a Flash game. I do agree the artwork is amazing...
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#49 karasill
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Crysis is a great looking game and running on my GTX 460 at a nice smooth framerate I must say it's the best looking game out there. With that said it's not what hermits make it out to be, it's not light years ahead of console games (Vanilla version). I mean it's 3 years old for crying out loud :?
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#50 deactivated-59d151f079814
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The best looking parts of the game are during the American Invasion and on ward.. Inside the mountain, on the slopes of the frozen end.. And on the carrier all look jaw dropping.. Furthermore you should at very least use the CCC mod.