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Foliorum Viridum
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Man, all of the great literature in the world and there's a Crysis book.
I feel bad for anyone who reads video game books in general, but a Crysis one? Can't get lower than that.
Neuromancer
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I'll settle for nothing less than my very own flora-ravaged New York.
Major Williams
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Bow and arrow can be super quiet for stealth. Pumped.
or the entire suit, hoho
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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I hate to be that guy, but Halo: Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund is very good.
It was even going to come out before the game (showing someone felt it could stand on it's own) until Microsoft held it back until the game was out.
Good enough to be my favorite book ever.
Neuromancer
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Imp the Dimp
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Crysis 2 the first sequel to ever look significantly worse at release than its predecessor.
Crytek has to redeem itself BIG after that disappointment.
Crytek has to redeem itself BIG after that disappointment.
Yeah... no.
Pagusas
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...? It does look worse, it is a step back. Crysis was cutting edge and still a pillar of graphical achievement. Crysis 2... not so much.
C'mon now. It did not look worse than vanilla Crysis. Apart from that godawful post-AA.
Pagusas
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http://www.overclock.net/t/954287/side-by-side-comparison-crysis-2-vs-crysis-1-fixed-images
the screens may have a texture mod, but even without the overall scale and quality of assets is just better in 1.
Rated-Rsuperstar
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I need some type of interesting narrative hook. Once I got past the initial first hour the game became a literal bore to play because nothing made sense or mattered. I find the same problem in the current Call of Duty games.
I should also say that I didn't find the gameplay that exciting either. Fighting the brain dead aliens wasn't fun.
Why were they comparing the C2 Multiplayer demo to Modded Crysis. Not a good comparison.
If You completely ignore enhancements in lighting and shaders... maybe.
Special edition will cost 300$ and all that's packed in is the game and a 10 page artbook in the size of a stamp.
Ghost_Protocol
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Do they even care about outdoing Crysis 1 anymore?
I'll side with KKRT00 on this one :
- No.
You could argue which of the crysis games looks artistically better but in no way shape or form does C2 "look significantly worse" or a "step back".
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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I still the Crysis one is the best looking game ever, then again I have only seen the PS3 version of BF3, and haven't seen Witcher 2 at all.
It's fine for a game not to be about it's plot, it is not fine however for a game like that to be filled with long unsinkable cutsense, more moments of walking behind a slow as shit NPC.
If you're about level and combat design then do that and stop with the poor halfhearted attempts at story telling.
Pagusas
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then compare here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AzUCbRCvB8
regardless jumping from one to another feels like a downgrade at times, and other times feels like a completely different art direction was taken (yes i know city vs island, but im talking feel and style, not just environmental, 2 feels more COD while 1 feels more realistic) This greatly effects what i consider "Better looking'.
I'm not really sure I want, Crysis 2 pretty much killed the franchise for me. Still a lovely looking and sounding game, but the story just makes no sense in relation to the first.
Crysis 1/2 spoilers below
I still don't understand
Crysis 1/2 spoilers below
I still don't understand
why a nuclear launch is used as a pretext to speed up the end game. The entire of Crysis shows that the Ceph absorb energy, including nuclear blasts. Why on earth is the same country making the same mistake twice? Thinking about the end game, why on earth did the Ceph wait to attack anyone else after the 1st game... Or the fact that everyone seems to have just laid back for six years waiting for the clock to run out.
Ghost_Protocol
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It absolutely does texture wise.
Yeah, but no one should be playing either game with stock textures at this point.
Well, we are talking about the country that also tried to drown aquatic aliens by sinking a section of New York haha.
Crysis 2 has much more textures and Crysis 1 had many awful ones, but i can agree that there are higher quality textures in C1 than in C2, but it doesnt mean that texture cost was higher.
thetrin
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You seriously need to rectify this. The PC version of BF3 is mindblowing in comparison to the PS3 version. Witcher 2 is also brilliant.
HollovVpo1nt
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That bow would have been 10x more epic if the game was set in a jungle/forest environment.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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At that point it would be close to Quake 1 levels of greatness.
I'm on a Packard Bell laptop I got for writing and video editing, it can't even play Poker Night at the Inventory properly, as soon as I get made paid I'll make sure to get a proper rig.
Neuromancer
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Apparently it kind of is (an over grown NYC)
clutch.as.it.gets.
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They can get two out on the same systems, only with more experience and at the tail-end of a generation so they can send it off with a bang, and then Crysis 4 can be their first game in the next one.
It will look better or at least on par with DX 11 Crysis 2, so how can anyone complain? :>
Money.
CryTek is all about the big profits these days. Not really a niche PC-centric developer anymore.
After play both 1 and 2 I gotta say 2 looks better than 1, maybe some slightly better textures in 1, but overall with all of the lighting/camera effects and little pop in compared to Crysis, gotta say 2 gets it but not by much....now Crysis level openess on 2s engine would properly blow 1 away
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Crysis 2 was the first Crysis game I've ever played.
I am never playing a Crysis game again. I will not be sucked into it.
I am never playing a Crysis game again. I will not be sucked into it.
thetrin
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Well, you don't have to do it IMMEDIATELY. Just, at some point!
AllIsOneIsNone
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These graphics comparisons are a joke. Yes, if you have a 350 dollar graphics card or above, Crysis 1 looks better. But the engine was so poorly optimized that anything below would cause a horribly uneven frame rate. I have a 6950 2gb and on all high settings there was a range from 35 to 60 fps, depending on where I looked. Crysis 2 runs much smoother, looks almost as good (and better in some ways I believe) and most importantly runs on more hardware. Is it really hard to understand why they did that?
Ah yes, ye olde Crysis was poorly coded argument.....
AllIsOneIsNone
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Poorly coded or not, when I look out into the distance in the first game, it gets noticeably choppy. Maybe Crysis 2 is smoother because it doesn't have those draw distances, which means maybe they learned the limitations of their engine the second time around.
Nizz
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I'm game for Crysis 3. I just hope the engine is a little more optimized this time. I ended up getting both Crysis 2 and then Crysis 1 on PS3. I love the gameplay, how your suit powers come into play with how you take on encounters. Also love how you traverse the environments too using the enhanced jump and how you can grab ledges.
So much fun doing things your way instead of following a strict route laid out for you. I've seen people mention how C2 was way more linear than C1 but even if it is, it was still more open than some of the other FPS games of today.
A part of me honestly thought that Crytek would have held off on this till the next round of consoles at least. I really hope it's a steady 30fps this time at least. Crysis 2 seemed to hover at the 25fps mark early on. Later parts of the game seemed to run better, a steadier 30fps.
So much fun doing things your way instead of following a strict route laid out for you. I've seen people mention how C2 was way more linear than C1 but even if it is, it was still more open than some of the other FPS games of today.
A part of me honestly thought that Crytek would have held off on this till the next round of consoles at least. I really hope it's a steady 30fps this time at least. Crysis 2 seemed to hover at the 25fps mark early on. Later parts of the game seemed to run better, a steadier 30fps.
Robot Pants
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Meh.
Crysis 2 was so forgettable. Not really interested in Crysis 3.
Crysis 2 was so forgettable. Not really interested in Crysis 3.
Prophet seems like a dick, just taking Alcatraz body like that.
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