I think that video gaming isn't what it used to be. Xbox pretty much has a gaming monopoly. They get EVERYTHING. If it's good or bad. Usualy it's good.

PC lost all there exculsives! No more Crytek, Ubisoft and EA. That hurts. Apart from not having exculsives, PC gets badly made console ports. Since consoles like XBOX, AHHHHH! I HATE YOU!!! don't have half the fire power as the PC, we get watered down and old **** ports like halo 2. These games come out half to three years after. Like GTA 4 and Assasins Creed. So we get to wait 6 months for a game that is already made and is just siting in the warehouses waiting six months for the release.
Think of the poor PC gamers like me waiting for Crysis 2, when we know the cursed console will get it first. The sad thing is that if no one makes good grafical PC games, PC WILL become obsolete and we will have to play with unworthy XBOX controllers to play fun games.

I don't know why people think that a joystick is good for shooters, it's slow, unergonomical and unpresise. I say that X... no I can't write such a horrible name, I'll say the evil one. I say that the 'evil one's' players are n00bs. Real ****ing n00bs. No sorry, XBOX is for little children who think that since they're playing Halo their cool. How can someone be skilled at a shooter with a ****ing joystick AAAHHH! TRY AIMING WITH A ****ING JOYSTICK!!! IT'S A ****ING STICK THAT MOVES!!! IT'S A STICK WITH LIKE 2dpi!!! WTF!!! But, it's true XBOX NOOOO, the 'evil one' is killing the PC. Hacking is sort of responsible but still. The 'evil one' such a basic console. Joysticks ARE outdated. Consoles sould imitate to Wii. 'But, the XBOX has motion sensers too', they are lame and suck balls. The only FPS worthy consoles are PC, Wii and ,yes, the DS. I'm a PS2 owner and when I try to play a shooter, I realise that it's so harder to aim that you end up puting your crosshair in the center and mouving to hit the foes, WEAK!!!

In conclusion, the 'evil one' will kill my hobbie and my children (well maybe not the second one).

PS: If you are a XBOX owner try not to get offended by this.

Oh, I forgot this :evil:

This a guide for those who can't beat Crysis on Delta. This got me trou the game with some form of ease. There are 5 simple tactics to use. The best is to fuse them together.

1. Keep a low profile.

Rare are the FPS that let you use stealth so capitalise on that. In Crysis, like in the first Far Cry, there's a stealth meter and a alert meter. The alert meter is pretty useless because it's clear that the guards are alert. (on Delta it becomes important because the enemies speak Korean). The stealth meter will tell you how visible you are. Try to always keep it at minimum unless in an fight of corse. Use your cloak to get from cover to cover. When in stealth use the binocs to scan enemies. Always try to strap together a battle plan at this point. Study the terrain, enemy posisions and routes.

2. Cloak kills

The best way to live on delta is to do cloak kills. First, find some cover near the enemies but making sure you won't get flanked when recharging your cloak. Best is coners with boxs. Try to have a wall on your back. Second, make sure to had a silenced weapon. Preferably the SCAR because it's accurate, silent and has little recoil. You can use whatever scope but the reflex is very accurate, even at medium range. You peak out of cover or stand up in cloak, then aime for the closes looser's head. The second you fire, hide. This might take some practice but the resolt is Koreans getting scard because bullets are shooting from one spot and they can't find where. Third, wait till your cloak charges. If your seen reposition. Good for guard towers,(they can't get up) just with physics on med, high or v high the tower will crumble on explosions. On low the tower is an invincable structure.

3. Slaughter Cloak kills

You try to get a group of Koreans to the spot where you are standing in cloak. Try killing a guy then stand near him. Sometimes a group of scared Koreans will go look at the dead body hoping to find you. They usualy stay a very close formation. If they are tight slaughter them by unload a clip of SCAR onto the group. They WILL fall like bugs. You need to be very near and cloak or else they will react before you kill them all. This works with up to 5 Koreans. When I say close I mean touching each other. If they are split in an open formation. Run up to a Korean, cloak yet again, then grabe him. then unoload a clip on his pals. They are so surprised that they rarely fight back. One will surely try to run away so just snipe him. Don't use grenades. They take to long to explode, they will flee.

4. How to deal with nanosuited soldiers

They piss every Crysis player even on easy. The high endurance and cloaked nanosuited soldiers. How to deal with them? Do step one, then try a modified version of step three. You make sure that the soldier is alone and none of his pals will see (they are equiped with snipers). You then rain a **** load of bullets on him, with preferably a minigun. Get em from behind they are slow as hell.

5. What not to do

A. drive a truck on delta

B. die :D

C. snipe someone with an assault scope

D. use flashlights or laserpointers

E. directly attack a group on delta

F. snipe a nanosuited soldier

G. miss a grenade in a guard tower (while standing there)

H. think your armor will save in delta

I. wast your precious SCAR bullets early in the game

J. go in water while cloaked

K. try to give Koreans cookies

L. actually try something mentioned in step 5

This is a guide on how to buy good PC parts while saving a lot of money and still play Crysis on high. I am going to list some parts that I think are good for a custom PC. I'll keep the price around 800$-1400$ (prices may vary). Note this is a remake of the first one witch wasn't well structured. The Radeon series 4 and GeForces series x2 aren't taken in account here, maybe next time.

First, we need to decide what you want in a PC. Here are the two choices viewed: Performance and Economy Gaming. The Performance will have all the high tech parts and high OC capabilities and keep the price at -1400$. The Econo will feature gaming without OCing with components that are much less expensive but will still max out the present day games (except for Crysis, expect high though). Here we will also pick the OS. Both groups viewed here should get Vista but if you want to save more money go for XP. Once you made your choice we can move on.

Second is CPUs. Your CPU affects your overall performance though your GPU will affect your game performance. Choosing the right CPU is crucial. Here's a overview of the brands and modals:

Intel makes core duos and quad cores. Core duos have higher cache than AMD X2s so a 2Ghz dual core equals the 3Ghz AMD. The quad cores arguably better than core duos but they perform similar. A 3Ghz quad and a 3Ghz dual are about the same performance wise. The quad lets you multitask better though. That being the only upside of a quad, for both PC types I recommend a dual core.

AMD now. AMD has three types of CPU: X2, Phenom Triple, Phemon Quad. Phenoms are the same as a Quad core Intel. X2s are the dual cores. As I said above the 3Ghz is about equal to a 2Ghz Intel since they have low cache.

Now for the CPU I recommend Intel core duos. For the performance I recommend a 3.0Ghz for max performance (200$). If you want to OC there are plenty of after market fans like the Noctua NH-U12P witch is the BEST fan to my knowledge. Now for the econo PC I recommend a 2.4Ghz (150$) and a stock heatsink. That CPU can perform very well and is capable of any present game with ease.

CPU comparison chart

Quad vs Duo

Thrid, GPUs, Graphics Cards, Video Cards call em what you want. They are THE most important thing for gaming, your CPU is too but not as important as a GPU.

There are two brands: ATI and NVidia. ATI has been trying to catch up to NVidia for years as a result NVidia is still better. I recommend a 8600 or a 9800 GTX from nvidia and a 4850 from ATI. The 8600 is 100$ It's a good card for the econo group. It's cheap and will play every game until Crysis 2. It can't max out the high end games but does a good job on med and high. The 4850 is a awesome card it's highly recommended to the performance group (200$) it's better than the 9800GTX. The 9800GTX is the same price as the ATI and is less powerful. I recommend it to SLi users because a 4850 is much better. The Nvidia gtx2 series are monster performance cards (way overkill). Benchmarks:

Desktop video

Laptop video

Fourth, the RAM. The sole PC upgrade of the 90s. First for XP you need a good 1.5 to function well on games. For Vista at LEAST 2gigs but I would go for 3gigs since Vista takes a lot of RAM to work. DDR2 is the best value/performance RAM out. DDR3 is just expensive, it doesn't have enough power over the DDR2 to pay that price. For the econo, get the cheapest DDR2 RAM you can find (regular Super Talent is good). For performance you can get the higher clocked RAM but it doesn't help much in performance.

Fifth motherboard. This is fairly simple after your done with the first four steps. Find a motherboard that supports all your components. If you want SLi or crossfire you need a board that supports it. In a SLi board look for a 750 version. A good none SLi board is 100$. A good SLi board is 150$. When looking for compatibility look for matching socket, PCI-E, DDR2 and SATA support (for the hard drives).

Sixth, Hard Drive. Get a 7200Rpms SATA and that'll do the trick. Get around 250 gigs.

Seventh, we need a case to put stuff in. This is mostly for aesthetic so you can pick any case. To go with the case you need a PSU so go with a Corsair 650W, it can power about anything. Always go with known brands like Antec, OCZ and Corsair because the voltage on their PSUs is the true power, something like Apervia is only the number of max power. For the case you can shop around.Personally I'd buy a Antec 900. They're a little rare but it's a sweet looking case and it has a lot of fan openings. Last I looked on pricewatch they were 150$. As for the power supply it's about 100$.Of coarse you can always save some money by getting a generic case witch is just as good but be sure to get some good case fans.

Eight, cards. Sound cards are important for all gamers. They take weight of the mobo and CPU. They DO give extra FPS and are very cheap, 40$ (they prevent that crappy fiz you get on cheap mobos). Phyx cards aren't a good buy, nothing supports them, most geforces have better ones integrated.

The rest like CD drives and Displays are your choice. With displays just remember that LCDs have MS witch is the time it takes for the picture to appear. Cheap LCDs have 12ms, very bad, you can notice the 'ghosting'. My preferred LCD is the 19'' samsung syncmaster with 2 ms.

I hope this guide has helped you make good choices for your future PC. If you have comments or questions feel free to post send me a PM.

Special thanks to: Kodex for helping me correct V 1.1

PS: AB means Angry_Bosmer

PS 2: prices may vary

I'm the Angry_Bosmer. As you can see (like very clearly), I love Oblivion and ... well I hate wood elves actualy(up yours Maglier, you joined the cusred Blackwood Company after I saved your ass twice). I'm a adicted PC gamer, I got trou Crysis on Delta (not without trouble). I don't play online because I can't afford building a PC that will let me play Crysis online. So I run it on med with my pentium 4 and HD 2600 (AGP). Its a good rig but I'd be retarded to put it on Vista. I've started PC gaming with Neverwinter Nights in 2004 (the only game I ever played online). I wanted to buy a Imac to play NWN. Lucky I didn't! I somehow ended up with my seamingly (office level) PC that seemed to (and did) kick ass. I forgot about NWN and got to like shooters. With Call of Duty 2 and Quake 4. When Crysis came out, I bought some new gear, yet it still seems like a internet surfing rig (it's sure as hell not one). I guess thats my story.

Before discovering the noble art of PC gaming (thats right PC RULES), I was a trator PS2 gamer. Splinter Cell, San Andreas and Call of Duty, I have em all.

Back when I was like 5, I used to like wacthing by big brother play Sonic the Hedhog 2 (GES). I was little, so I didn't think I could play, I was scarded to look retarded. One day I picked up that controller and outscored him by a million points. I then knew I was good at this. 4 four consoles later (NES, GES, N64, PS2), 2 handhelded systems (GBC, DS) and 2 PCs later, I learned that I only suck at two things,

1.Rock Band on Hard (not anymore :D )

2.Smash Bros. Melee (not brawl)

As for why I finaly joined Gamespot after like 3 years of reading their reviews, its to have an intelligent thing when in extreme bordum.

Top 5 Games that marked my life:

1.Sonic the hedhog 2: It started my gaming 'adiction'.

2.Warcraft II: I used to play that with my cousin at the age of 6. Unlike Sonic, I sucked at it, yet it was horribly fun. Now I can laugh at the bad stratagies I had.

3.James Bond Goldeneye: Yet again another game I played when I was little. That game got me my first consol (N64), the NES and the GES were my brother's.

4.GTA San Andreas: I was good at that game. I was in grade 4 when I got it ... it didn't mader I didn't know what a hore was then;). I beat that game at least 25 times and I couldn't go two days without playing it. (I was gone for 3 weeks on vacacion that year:cry: ) I never cheated, not once!

5.Crysis: It was the best 10 hours of my life.