Crysis 2

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So I got to play Crysis 2 on Sunday on both Xbox and PC at Eurogamer.

Awful framerate, repeated lockups, sub-par graphics on the Xbox, obvious console port with console screen promps on PC version.

Don't know what else to say, just don't get your hopes up.
 
hmmm..... I was thinking as much about this....

Funnily enough i finally finished Crysis today after having a stupid amount of lockups on the final part of the game and so I was quite disapointed when i saw the ending as i realised this sequel has nothing to do with the how the previous game ends :(
 
It'll be like the original crysis release with them gibbering that "we're still optomising" 2 days before it hits store shelves.
 
if this is true, what on earth has happened to Crytek, used to be one of the best PC devs along with Valve, why oh why did they go down the console route ? Greed and money ?

I remember when Far Cry came out, it was simply mind blowing that transition from the cave to the outside world, it was a metaphor, the cave a nod to the old style and current fps of the time, and the passage into the outside island a slam bang welcome to the future.

A real shame, never trusted that Cevat mind
 
Hmm OP, if what you experienced is true then it is strange indeed. Normally we would expect the sequels to excel. Metal Gear Solid series come to mind. Kojima started with a small game which grew to one of the best series in the gaming world along with graphics progression.

I think Crytek set the bar too high especially with regards to graphics in crysis and now they are having trouble exceeding that bar. Or they aren't that bothered with developing crysis 2 further and just want quick buck on it as long as the name sells:confused:.
 
Mortster said:
if this is true, what on earth has happened to Crytek, used to be one of the best PC devs along with Valve, why oh why did they go down the console route ? Greed and money ?
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Practically all devs focus on consoles now, so I don't think you can just blame Crytek. They just followed the trend.

Long live Valve.
 
Mortster said:
I remember when Far Cry came out, it was simply mind blowing that transition from the cave to the outside world, it was a metaphor, the cave a nod to the old style and current fps of the time, and the passage into the outside island a slam bang welcome to the future.
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My biggest wawaweewa moment in gaming. Ever. :cool:
 
KNiVES said:
Haha, it's like you guys think Episode 3 won't appear on consoles alongside the PC version.
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Last i checked valve actually create the pc version then port it to consoles, in other words they do it they way it should be done. Not an obvious made for console ported to pc pos which seems to be the majority of games these days. I really couldnt care if consoles get it or not as long as the pc version is a true pc version, and it will be.
 
Played both versions at Eurogamer also. The PC version did perform and look better than the 360 version and the 360 version looked like when you used to run a PC game in software rendering. So there is hope for the PC version to be better yet.
 
Gerard said:
It'll be like the original crysis release with them gibbering that "we're still optomising" 2 days before it hits store shelves.
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They were only gibbering about that because of all the crybabies who couldn't run it at the highest settings. The game was pretty well optimized for what it does, even though what it does could have been achieved by other means (ie more pre-calculating and less real-time) with similar good looks.
 
:( dear me, i thought people here had more sense...open your eyes, the gaming world IS consoles at the moment, not business worth its weight can survive without brancing into the console market and also you'd be seriously naive to think that developers aren't in it to make money, even the 'holy grail' company valve want to make money, thats the purpose of business...! the sad thing is the sooner people realise that consoles are the market at the minute the sooner they might actually start enjoying gaming again rather than constantly complain about 'console ports' and what not. also please for the love of baby jesus stop it with the 'linear' and 'open world' rubbish already, there is no such thing as a true open world game, the closest i have seen personally is fallout 3 but you are still jammed in by the constraints of the gaming world, so i argue is it any less linear than a straight path? fallout 3 just takes the scenic route but at the end of the day its just a linear story tarted up to look 'open world', same with far cry, same with crysis, same with far cry II, same with grand theft auto, you absolutely cannot progress without completing set objectives typically in a predetermined order, hence how its still linear...:D
 
Mark my words

Gaming for the majority is following a huge trend at the moment.

PC - MMORPG

Consoles: Fighting/Racing/FPS/Sports

Everyone i know, are playing either MW2, Fifa 11, SSF4 or Racing.

Thats it. Everywhere you go with lads its Fifa 11 fever. Those not into football are playing MW2. Even now theyre still playing MW2 and a little SSF4.

Because of the compo scale of Fifa, they will laways year on year atleast for the next 4 years have growth and consistency in their market.

SSF4 is huge in the East and America. We have a small community in the UK. So Capcom are settled with their releases in this genre for atleast another year.

Somebody in this thread got it right -

They used to release games for the PC, then move to consoles.

Now theyre taking the cheap and nasty way by making it for consoles and then porting over to PC....

The trend they havent picked up on though, and im sure OCuk sales will show, is that a growing number of people (those young un's who are getting older) are now moving onto the PC and spending a lot of time on the PC usually working on it.

The PC gaming market will rise and a lot more people will be in the complaints about dissatisfaction of console ports.

Companies if in their right mind atleast someone will pick up on this and design thtat killer FPS that will push the PC to its limit and be the game that we want it to be and not the let downs of the coming future!
 
kapows said:
Companies if in their right mind atleast someone will pick up on this and design thtat killer FPS that will push the PC to its limit and be the game that we want it to be and not the let downs of the coming future!
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Not just FPS but also hopefully 3rd person action/adventure game aswell. There doesn't seem to be many 3rd person action/adventure games this generation apart from just cause 2 etc.
 
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