My worry with Crysis

[Sinny]

after owning a nintendo wii (still do) i found out that graphics is just as important as gameplay, mixing them (as usual) is a very good combo even though i still find donkey kong a good game.

after playing games like Red Steel and Excite truck i realised that their is not a lot of difference between the gamecube and wii graphics, this made me kind of dissapointed even though i was still loving the gameplay of excite truck (Red steel was a flop for me)

so before you go critisizing the graphics, take into consideration that we have to make advancements at some point of time and that being now, of the guys at Nvidia and ati/amd wont be pushed into making the next Beefy graphics card.

also graphics is part of the gameplay, as often enough their is games and will be that require graphics to complete certain parts of the game.

 

[krisboats]

I'm really, REALLY looking forward to it. It looks great and if i enjoy it half as much as i enjoyed far cry it'll be well worth the money.

 

[iMacMart]

have you seen the demo theyre gunna realease to us in month or so man its amazing . watched the whole level and must say i know its awesome.

Linky????

 

[eekfek]

Far Cry looked great at the time but it was your usual graphics > gameplay another overated game ... hopefully Crysis will have gameplay to match but i dont see the point in worrying ... ET:QW is what im looking forward to

 

[Supercow]

Linky????

ANything that poster says, I would take with a pinch of salt.
On second though, make that a wheelburrow full of salt

 

[CuZ]

Here is something to give you some thought.
Its an extract from our May News Update written by Soroc, the Dev lead for OE2, commenting on when he visited Cryteks studios in May.

Soroc is a mature (old ) guy. He is an old school Ghost Recon fan and has extensively played pretty much every FPS out there for both fun and research. He is not given to overstatment.

The most stunning aspect of playing Crysis was the immersiveness of the visuals. On Wednesday of the Summit we got to play the SP game (at that point never shown outside Crytek yet) on one level and the Crytek SP team came in to observe. Like most of you, I have seen all of the videos and thought I knew what I was going to be experiencing. I was wrong. Everything you've seen so far cannot prepare you for the feel of being in this game. You think you know what it's going to feel like...you're wrong. It's overwhelming...I was literally stunned. It does not feel like any game ever made. Watching one player cap a sniper and then couldn't find the weapon in the underbrush...unbelievable. Here in our work, Manglord (one of our level designers) mentioned to me that he has repeatedly been disoriented on his own map in the editor when walking the map. The feeling is insanely real, and we plan to put that feature to good use in OE2. Since you can almost stumble into enemies in some environments, we plan to use that to raise the "pucker factor" of OE2.

Like Far Cry, Crysis is going to let you choose how to play the game. The diffference to FC will be that the level of imerssion is going to make those choices seem more real. The intelligence of the AI is going to make the consequences of those choices more dramatic.
Just watching what you can do with them in the Pre-Alpha version of the Sandbox gives me goosebumps...

Its going to set itself apart from all other games to date, not just because it looks better than them, but it plays in a way i didnt think possible just a few years ago...

On top of that, what ever it retails at is a bargin when you consider its just the warm up act for the free to download Obsidian Edge 2
(Okay Okay enough OE2 pimping already its a Saturday! )

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

Based on cryteks previous with gameplay i'm not too worried, but you never know.

 

[Azrael1]

I think it will turn out fine. People will be buying it to show off their hardware alone.

How else will they justify their 8800 gtx

I know im going to buy it and i have a sub par 1900xt !

 

[Lyon85]

I really don't believe Farcry offered much more freedom compared to a typical FPS. The island probably was big, but I’ll never know because the game does a good job of giving you a very linear path to follow. Sure you could maybe take a slightly different route and start taking marines out from a different angle, but as soon as you drop one guy it turns into the same messy fire fight with shaky AI.

I like what I have seen of Crysis (coming from someone who wasn't amazed by Farcry), but so far I am not convinced you are really free, set loose on an island. I'm not overly convinced about AI yet either, I’ve seen a few pretty stupid moments from videos.

However, I think they have learnt from their mistakes. It does look fun to me, the powers thing looks like a hoot, and the aliens seem to have been designed by someone with eyes (I’m pointing at you, Farcry mutants).

I honestly expect the gameplay will be good, I just think we might all need to reconsider what we think about it thus far.

 

[Lt Goody]

I started to worry about the game when EA got involved.

 

[Echo]

My only worry is that I won't have the stomach* to install Vista when it arrives, and end up playing it in DX9 despite running an 8800 GTS :s

* Seen it first hand when a friend had brand new PC problems - printer window locking up, user accounts corrupting, location of CP elements mashed up beyond belief, etc...

 

[Tom84]

I thought Farcry was overrated, but I enjoyed HL2.

Cant say I was a fan of either HL game but I defiantly gave HL2 more of a go than I did the first. Hated Far Cry with a passion, didn't even think that the graphics were that impressive

 

[Phalanx]

tbh, i'd buy it for the graphics. The gameplay looks pretty lame but I like the graphics so I'll buy it for that reason

 

[KNiVES]

I'll buy Crysis simply because I loved Farcry.

 

[iMacMart]

Same as!

 

[Azagoth]

I'm getting Crysis purely on the basis that FarCry blew me away when I first fired it up, and that was way back on a Ti4400 128Mb. Now I'm just hoping my 7900GS 512Mb will allow me to at least play Crysis with some sense of enjoyment.

 

[Jitters1979]

Hopefully the gameplay will match the excellent graphics. If they do this should be one awesome game.