Just tryed Crysis

[snowdog]

First impression:

I love playing it.


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I can't believe people are saying CoD4 looks better, if you like linear gameplay fine, cod4 is great, I've finished it ages ago, and loved it, looks great, plays great, but has no replayability imo, but I can't seem to get people saying the gameplay in Crysis is poor.
You can play it how you like, kill how you like, walk where you like, be sneaky or just assault em in a car, you can avoid enemy's or kill all of them, I can't see anything wrong with that, the nanosuit is perfect and very fun. The world is completly destructable wich is awesome too.
And the people on about the GFX: You lost me, I've been playing it all high, 4x AA, 1280x1024 in dx9 and it looks awesome, I've spent half the time taking screenshots and admireing the animals / gfx / water...

Now can anybody tell me, why do you think the gameplay in Crysis is poor, as after an hour playing, I find the complete opposite.
And if you find the graphics poor: Are you blind or something, or do you just have a poor gfx card ?

 

[snowdog]

For the first time CoD4 is nice.

But any 2nd time it's boring as hell, just infinate enemy's coming and you can't go where you like.

So what it runs on more pc's ? Most hardcore gamers will just buy new hardware to run the newest games maxed.

 

[snowdog]

Runs fine though on high here, looks superb, better than anything...

Everything high, 1280x1024, 4 x AA. Win xp.
Everything is smooth, this is on a G92 8800GTS 512 mb @ stock..

 

[snowdog]

On a sidenote, does anyone know what this is, my rocks are acting up:






Is this a Crysis bug ?
Is this my gpu acting up (oh no, it'd be my 2nd G92 card being ******) ?
Or is it the Nvidia Driver?

( oh and yes I know that game desperatly needs AF, will force it in nvidia panel for the next session . )

 

[snowdog]

Seems a bug because it happenes here too . I dont use AF it gives a FPS drop too and I only like using 16xAF nothing lower.
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Ahhh, okay . Was starting to get worried that it's my card again, already had a dud Asus 8800GT, if this Gigabyte 8800GTS would also be borked, I'd probably stay away from the 8800's for ever lol.

COD4 runs crap for me, sure its getting 60+fps a lot of the time dropping to 30 odd sometimes due to this awfull stuttering I have for some reason but crysis is so much less annoying at 25fps than COD4 at 60fps stuttering.

Odd, I've played through it on an 6800GS @ 1280x1024 & medium settings + disabled stuff like specular maps, shadows etc... and it was perfectly smooth, tryed arcade on some of the missions with my 8800GTS and it was smooth as silk maxed.

Well its exactly the same gameplay as FarCry, except the Trigens are now Aliens.

How can you say that? I can't recall having a nanosuit in Far cry and being able to destroy trees, destroy every hut possible, pick up everything, etc ?
Even if it would be the same, so what? Farcry was perfect.

It sucks because it is just FarCry with a gfx mod, so everyone feels ripped of paying full price for the same game that has just had a gfx mod slapped onto it, and a mod that eplaces the trigens with aliens.

Well, tbh, if you don't wana pay then just get it in a less legal way ( yes everybody does it anyways), but I have no problem paying for such a beautifull game.

Look at all those free mods you can get for the likes of Oblivion, Stalker etc... that enhance the gfx, enemies etc... this that and the other, they dont release those games again in a box with all those mods slapped on em and charge full whack again do they, hell no, you just download the mods of the net.

Nothing looks as pretty as crysis, comparing Stalker & Oblivion with Crysis graphics is completly innapropriate, Crysis looks much better and I doubt a mod for farcry would do the same.

What they should have done was, just release the enhanced gfx pack and alien mod for FarCry for free download from their site, as everyone has FarCry already, we only needed the mods.

Cryengine one would never look this good. Also the Vehicle handling etc is far superior in this game, I doubt a simple mod can change the whole physics.




Anyways, I've played it till the 2nd mission ( just after the first alien appears), and still hooked on it, It's Farcry, but then so much better, I just love blowing everything to pieces from the korean camps to whole forests . The graphics are amazing pics don't do it justice it looks a mill times better in motion.

 

[snowdog]

What am i missing.

The superbness of the games, the fun in shooting smart (ai) koreans, the awesome gfx that you stand staring @ for half the game ?

Replaying Far Cry is not the same, Crysis has a different story, different maps, nicer gfx, bigger interactivity with objects, it all adds to the uniqueness of the game.

 

[snowdog]

CoD4 > Crysis. Stop over complicating it.

In your opinion.

Gameplay and gfx wise Crysis is far better imo, CoD4 is WAY too short and too linear, it's all pre-scripted cinematics and the ai always does the same. Sure it was awesome the first time I played it, but when I fire it up now it's more like: meh.

And ignore the mp as I don't play mp in those 2 games.

 

[snowdog]

So what you're going to the same point, the thing is the journey, in CoD4 you can't even climb over a low fence in some lvls where it'd be obviously possible in reality, because it happens to be the scripters don't want you to go there.
In Crysis you can go any way you like, wich is what I want.
Sorry but I'm a physics and freeroam junkie, I love interactive & destroyable terrain and I like a bit of freedom of where to go, wich is why I like crysis, and for example why I like Flatout 2 above most other racing games, I just want a game where I can destroy half the world, in CoD4 tehre's just way too little destructable stuff.


EDIT:
I'm also probaby tired of Modern Combat games in Urban area's and secretly wish CoD4 had been WW2 again .
I mean I love modern combat in jungles, but not that much in cities.
In cities imo WW2>Modern Combat.

 

[snowdog]

Why in Oblivion, I still have to go and complete the mission in the same place, and they'll always start in the same place. If there was no structure to games everyone would get lost, they wouldn't be able to control the quality and nobody would want to play it.

GTA is quite nice though while it can be unstructured, ahhhhh the hours I've spent pointlessly driving around the countryside listening to K-DST: ''America - A horse with no name'' , that had no structure at all I just enjoyed the drive around SA for hours n hours, sometimes make a mess by making a huge crash on the motorways, ahh good times.

 

[snowdog]

What lightning settings are that?
How much worse does the standard ''high'' setting look like compared to that, I have yet to come across a level that looks like that, I'm in the 2nd lvl atm, is this later on?

 

[snowdog]

In XP, 1280x1024, 4x AA, all high settings work perfectly for me, don't know fps but it's more than smooth enough, I only check for fps if I eperience lag lol, but since I dont, all I can say is: it's smooth...