[Someone Else]

Seeing how the BioShock topic and the Halo 3 topic (kind of) did so well, I'm going to poke you guys with another non-Nintendo game.

Crysis

This game looks so good, I think I'm having eyegasms. Getting a Nvidia 8800GT card with DirectX 10 for this beauty. It's time for WD to get Vista. My Nvidia 7 series card has served me well in Oblivion and BioShock, but it's time to move on.

What's cool about this game is that, like BioShock and FarCry, you have "abilities" in this game which I believe are powered by your suit. Things like cloaking, super jump, super speed, and so on. Run-and-gun be damned. You can also mod weapons in the game with different parts. Like, you could put a scope on your shotgun if you really wanted to. And I just love the vehicle physics. Multiplayer, too!

[Someone Else]

http://media.pc.ign....90/vids_13.html

Look at the Tech Demo and the Trailer and CryEngine 2 demo. Amazing I tell you!

A simple "wow, that's amazing WD!" would suffice.

[Split Infinity]

I don't know why they decided to focus on the graphics rather than the game itself, but what I do want to know is what the hell is that thing at the end?

[Someone Else]

The game has aliens in it. 'Nuff said. Those were just technology demonstrations, there are newer videos that show some game.

I NEED THIS GAME. Comes out November. I hope my dad gets off his lazy ass and puts in a new mobo along 8 or 9 series graphics card, I know diddly squat of how to put a computer together, and I could buy the card. I just know about parts.

[Caael]

Hooooly shiznit those are some fine graphics. WD, when you get it, make some Hi-def videos just so I can watch them over and over. <3 good graphics.

[Someone Else]

Haha, will do. But all I have is FRAPS which doesn't exactly have the highest resolution video captures. If you can point me to a free one, then awesomesauce.

[Caael]

Fraps will do. I just love watching that game. That's one game that I would never get tired of watching another person play.

[Someone Else]

If anybody wants to upgrade their computers, get an Nvidia 8800GTX. And get Dual Core and two sticks of RAM then get the Crysis beta, and record it for me and Caael to oggle...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=heHpHecAZ5c
^ Yeah, youtube video, has crap quality because of that. Whatever. It's still Crysis, and it has explosions and turtles, so what more could you ask?

[Someone Else]

What I find hilarious is that there's a lot of hate in some of the Crysis videos, particularly from Xbox fanboys. They're trying to poke fun at PC gamers that Crysis will be ported to the 360 one day, when so far the developers just left it with a big "maybe".

You know what I think it is? They're threatened of the power of new PCs vs. the 360. :P PC's will always ALWAYS be a step ahead of consoles. No way Crysis will run right on the 360 or even the PS3, and even if they do port it it will be missing A LOT of details and particles, and the physics will probably be dumbed down.

[Caael]

Crysis makes my eyes cry happy tears.

[Someone Else]

Graphics aside, this should be a fun game. It's based off of FarCry. Any of you played that game? It's fun the way you need to use tactics and select the rigth abilities for you situation, but in Crysis it's a step further. Plants move dynamically as you brush past them, which makes noise and will alert enemies. Trees can fall from the impact of an explosion, which enemies will use as cover. Stuff like that, if you can think it, it'll make a difference in Crysis.

[Caael]

AI finally makes a breakthrough in games. This might be the first PC game I buy in a long time.

[Someone Else]

The minimum specs for Crysis aren't bad, but the recommended ones are... well, they might make you cry. Still though, this isn't a bad time to upgrade, and it won't be a bad idea to upgrade to the full recommended. If you don't play PC games (and many on this board don't) you're really missing out on a lot that this industry has to offer.

Anyway...

Minimum:
Processor--2.8GHz or faster (XP); 3.2GHz or faster (Vista)
Memory--1GB RAM or 1.5GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card--256MB
Hard Drive--12GB
Sound Card DirectX 9.0c compatible

Recommended:
Processor--Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz
Memory--2GB RAM
GPU--NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar

Hahaha! I make the cut to play Crysis, all I need is an 8800 GPU (preferably Ultra but GTX will work too) and Vista OS for desktop (I have a laptop version) to meet recommended, then it's sweet, sweet out of this world visuals.

You might be interested in the full article:
link

[Caael]

* sits in corner, glaring at WD*

[Someone Else]

It isn't so bad, I'll make plenty of videos and host them on a high-quality site like Game Trailers rather than YouTube. Also, I'm sure you can ask for parts on Christmas...

High - http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/82...09011856623.jpg

Very High - http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/82...09011900122.jpg

Not happy @ the brown tint. When will developers learn the real does not equal brown?!?

[Toasty]

Wind Dude, on Oct 6 2007, 02:13 PM, said:

The game has aliens in it. 'Nuff said. Those were just technology demonstrations, there are newer videos that show some game.

I NEED THIS GAME. Comes out November. I hope my dad gets off his lazy ass and puts in a new mobo along 8 or 9 series graphics card, I know diddly squat of how to put a computer together, and I could buy the card. I just know about parts.

The best, fastest, crazyass mo'fo' graphics card I could find: EVGA GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB

Buy three of those and a three way SLi connector, and you'll have the craziest ass GPU setup in all of North America.

See?

[Someone Else]

Yah. And only for over 2000 dollars! :P

One Nvidia 8800 GT will work, I think.

[Caael]

D: I only have the Geforce 7600.

[Someone Else]

That's not so bad. As long as you're in the 7 series (same series as me right now and I can play BioShock with everything turned on except DX10 settings) you still have a fairly recent graphics card. As long as everything else about your computer doesn't suck you could play Crysis with modest settings, which will STILL look good. :P

[Caael]

I'll do that then. I have a massive hard ...

Spoiler

drive. Sorry, had to be done

which is 250GB, and i've used 20gbs. So yeah, i'll have enough space. When's it coming out, or is it TBA?

[Toasty]

WD, do you mean 8800GTS or GTX? Because as far as I know, the 8600GT is the highest card which has just a GT at the end.

[Nick Presta]

Crysis (Beta) actually runs fine on my 7900 GS with everything set to Medium.

However, I am going to upgrade my graphics card this Christmas to an 8800 GTS (The BFG 320MB OC'd). This would be for UT3, Crysis and ETQW.

[Someone Else]

Dude of Wind, on Oct 14 2007, 03:48 PM, said:

WD, do you mean 8800GTS or GTX? Because as far as I know, the 8600GT is the highest card which has just a GT at the end.

In the 8800 series there's the 8800GTS, the 8800GTX, and then there's the 8800GT that comes out on Oct. 29th I believe. I've read that the 8800GT is a fill in between 8800GTS and the 8800GTX, but I've also heard that the 8800GT is a fill in between 8600GT and the 8800GTS

[Nosferatu]

I'm gonna check out some trailers in a bit, but so far WD, you have a good track of not upsetting fanboys, but making them betray their chosen company.

[Someone Else]

So far, yeah. But most of the people in this topic aren't Nintendo fanboys to begin with. :P The BioShock topic was surprising for me, lots of people seemed interested in it. :D

[Toasty]

Wind Dude, on Oct 14 2007, 08:28 PM, said:

In the 8800 series there's the 8800GTS, the 8800GTX, and then there's the 8800GT that comes out on Oct. 29th I believe. I've read that the 8800GT is a fill in between 8800GTS and the 8800GTX, but I've also heard that the 8800GT is a fill in between 8600GT and the 8800GTS

I'm pretty sure it's the fill in for the 8600GT to the 8800GTS. The 8800GTS's usually run $250-$400 depending on stats and brand (quality). Plus, GeForce's chips usually go in order from least powerful in the series to most: GT,GTS,GTX,Ultra. The 8800GTX's and Ultra's are the only ones that can run in tripple SLi mode, but I don't think that you'll need that much power, or even want to pay for it. :P It's more for those people who're glued to their PC desk day and night. Or for those people with WAY too much money in their pockets.

[Caael]

Wind Dude, on Oct 15 2007, 05:11 AM, said:

So far, yeah. But most of the people in this topic aren't Nintendo fanboys to begin with. :( The BioShock topic was surprising for me, lots of people seemed interested in it. :o

Damn right! I'm totally getting Bioshock with my 360.

And Crysis, i've yet to see some trailers. Gametrailers it is, they always have a hi-def option.

[Someone Else]

Yaaaay my computer is working again. Downloading the Crysis demo NOW.

Oh yeah, Crysis demo has been released.

[Someone Else]

Demo made me :D

But when it ended it made me D: because I wanted to play MORE.

Videos coming when I feel like it.

[Caael]

...Demo?


* downloads*

[Someone Else]

Try making huge explosions. I'm uploading a video to the GameTrailers.

[Caael]

Dude.

The demo takes like 30 hours to download! D: I'll leave it downloading over night.

[Toasty]

Awww CRAP. My PC's CPU is 1.8Ghz. D:
And I'm not sure if a dual core 1.8 (dad's or sister's laptop) will work either, though it should. Either way, I doubt I'll et to try it. My dad would kill me if he saw me laying a computer game on his laptop, nd he'd kill me if I touched my sister's without her permission. And I KNOW she won't let me.

Good news is, though, I've got fiber optics, so the download should be fairly quick. I usually average 1.5MBps ( about 12000Kbps or 12Mbps)

[EDIT] Plus I'm only running a GeForce 2 series. However, I know my sister has a GeForce Go 6200. Don't know anything beyond that. So yeah, this kinda sucks. But my mom's been interested in upgradeing the PC for media purposes, so i I can find a good GeForce 7series card for less than $75, I'll have that covered.

[Someone Else]

WAS uploading a video to GameTrailers, but it was ka-huge. I'll try decompressing the video to make it smaller (and sacrifice some quality...) as soon as I actually learn how.

[Toasty]

Open it in Windows Movie Maker and save it as a smaller screen size. And drop the data rate (i.e. if it's set to 1.5mbps, drop it to maybe 900kbps)

[Someone Else]

Why why WHY didn't I think of that?

By the way guys, PC Gamer gave Crysis a 98% rating which I guess is just like a 9.8/10. That's great, yo!

[Caael]

Or you could use MediaCoder to make it a really small mpeg

I like the look of Crysis. Hopefully Crytec will use their game engine for other stuff. Bioshock 2 plox.

[Someone Else]

Crysis is getting top reviews so far.

http://www.gameranki...ges2/931665.asp

[Someone Else]

Crysis came out today wheeeeeeeee.

I'll nag my mom to take me to the store to buy it when she comes home the moment she walks through the front door. :)

[Caael]

Just like an 8 year old.

[Someone Else]

An 8 year old who wants to play the best PC exclusive game to come out for years months.

[Caael]

No, just an 8 year old who wants something.

[Someone Else]

Yay I got Crysis!

All hail the longest install time of any game I've ever purchased!

[Toasty]

Aren't you old enough to drive?

[Someone Else]

I am. I only have a permit, though. And tanks are tough to kill. D:

[Toasty]

What about tanks being tough to kill?

[Someone Else]

Ya know, tanks. They make stuff explode.

I can run everything on high at usually 25 FPS and better!! I don't know how, people claim Crysis makes their PCs cry on their 8600 cards and I'm only using a tiny 7950 GT. Shrug.

[Someone Else]

My only complaint so far is the autosaves. There seems to be either a real lack of them, or too many of them. As in the autosave loads up when you're in the middle of a firefight or it'll take you back right to the beginning of the level. Your best bet is to save manually when you get the chance.

And multiplayer is also a bit tough to get into and seems complicated, but I'm sure it'll make sense after time.

TOASTY/CAAEL buy the game so I'll have people to talk to in the game. :)

[Toasty]

Before I do that, I have to get a rig that'll actually be able to handle more than 1 FPS while playing the game. And then......how much is it again?

[EDIT] I could probably get it to work on my PC for about.....$250? a Socket 423 to 478 adapter is about $60 from Dell (omfg I hate them. But I can't find an adapter from ANYONE else. Not one), Pentium 4 2.6ghz for maybe $70-$100, and a decent card (geforce 7 series, probably 7900GT) for maybe $90-$140. But even then, I'm just barely scrapeing by as far as the proscessor goes.

Scratch that. Found a proscessor and a promising socket adapter for about $15 a piece on ebay. Both in perfect working condition. Plus, the proscessor runs at 2.8Ghz. =D Unfortunatey, finding a good videocard for $100 or less is neither easy nor fun.

[Someone Else]

Killing tanks seems easy now, if you can find a place with rocket launchers. Now it's helicopters that are annoying to take down. Usually you can ignore them in densely wooded areas by just sneaking around.

[Toasty]

Yeyz. Found a GeForce 8600GT for $85. Plus, it meets the minimum requirements.

And WD, how much would you sell your 7950GT for if you upgraded?

[Caael]

I'm in more debt than I can count at the moment, WD. I'll buy it as soon as I dont have to pay for 360's and TV insurance and a new graphics card. The memory is fine, I have 190GB free on my PC. I got a new, way better CPU the other day that hardly makes a sound, so the only system requirement I dont have is the graphics. But i'm not sure, would it run on a nvidia geforce 7600 card? If not, then all I need to do is buy the game.

[Someone Else]

I'm not 100% sure which graphics card anybody should go for. I can run everything High on Crysis (though I turn shadows down to medium for a 3-4 boost in FPS) on a 7950 GT at a resolution of 1280 x 1024. People have claimed having to turn the everything down to Medium on a 8600 GPU. Either these people are exaggerating, or they have crappy RAM or CPU, or they have spyware or something else wrong, because it can't be the GPU.

@Toasty: http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&r...=1&ie=UTF-8

[Caael]

Garr, which is better, Geforce 8600GT with 1400mhz and 256MB, or Geforce 8500GT with 800MB and 512MB?

[Toasty]

D: I searched around yesterday, and the average price I found was about $275.

And Caael, a 7600 should do fine. The minimum asks for a 6800, so I think a 7600 should work.

And WD, instead of getting an 8800GT, consider the GTS. I found some on NewEgg for $295, and one was even stock overclocked. The average price I saw for the GT was about $300, so your probably better off going with the GTS. Unless ou don't want it stealing an extra PCI slot. Then get the GT.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....p;x=20&y=25

I would actually suggest this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814150173

[Caael]

I'm not forking out £60 just for Crysis, i'm also using it for stuff like Diablo and watching stuff in HD. I'll go with the 8500, it's cheaper.

[Toasty]

Well I was actually directing the lnk towards WD, since he was interested in the 8800 series.

[Caael]

I wasn't talking about the links you posted, dollars mean nothing to me.

[Someone Else]

I want to get an 8800 GT because it's better.

[Toasty]

How's it better? Enlighten me.

[Someone Else]

Agh, how do I say it...

The 8800GT is basically a faster card.

Here, why don't you just read an article?
http://www.anandtech...doc.aspx?i=3140

Vs. a GTX:
http://www.anandtech...aspx?i=3140&p=9

[Toasty]

Not bad. It stays almost on par with the GTX in most circumstances. It even ha more stream processors. It basically takes the superior hardware from the high end cards, and the superior encodeing/decodeing software of the lower end cards. And even after that, pulls it off with a decent sticker price. Now if only I could find it in an AGP 8x/4x slot type for under $100. :o

[Someone Else]

Beat the single player campaign. It was a blast, but unfortunately the last 1/3 of the game felt more like Halo or a Metroid game rather than Crysis.

In the beginning, you could choose your method of approach to the situations you were faced with. You're approaching a Korean base. Find a hill, use your binocs to look at the area. You have an SMG, and you could put a Sniper Scope on it and a Silencer with a tactical attachement to make your SMG semiautomatic to increase accuracy, making your SMG a potentially deadly sniper. (it's possible, I've done it) Use Strength Mode to have a steadier grip on your SMG and reduce recoil. But why not instead use Stealth Mode and go up that tower and silently kill the sniper in there to get a proper, REAL sniper? But what if using Cloak causes your suit to run out of energy before you get there? There's a Humvee nearby, you could take that, drive straight into the base at 40 MPH and right in the middle of the base where there's a lot of infantry, hop out, and shoot the back of the Humvee where the gas tank is and make it explode all over the infantry. But there's a lot of room for mistakes in that plan.

In the last 1/3 of the game, there's none of that. It's just run through and shoot aliens. If this was any other game, I would've let it slide, but when a game starts as strong and pulled through as strong as Crysis did, I feel a bit left down by the way it ended. It's almost like Crytek was running out of time or something. I still have Multiplayer to go through at least, and you know I'm going to be playing the game through up until the aliens. Shooting Koreans is just more fun.

And there will be a Crysis 2.

[Caael]

Yay for Crysis 2. I want the first one though.

Are all the levels timed? Because a countdown and shooters dont mix well with me.

[Someone Else]

No. You can run around and look at every tree and rock and flower in the level if you really wanted to.

[Caael]

I'll do just that then.

[Someone Else]

Tip for some fun time: Install the Sandbox2 Editor from the Crysis disk, make your own island in the editor, then run a tornado through it.

[Caael]

Dude. Any other hazards you can wreak? Nukes?

[Someone Else]

I think so. You can use Nukes in multiplayer so I imagine you could do it in the editor as well. You could raise the water level too or increase the waves so you could make floods too. Or make a mountain and then put a bunch of boulders on it and roll them down the mountain. Probably some other stuff too. I'll have to learn more about the editor.

[Caael]

I need this game.

Does it have monkeys in it? Everybody knows every awesome game has monkeys in it somewhere.

[Mallick]

itz bad game beleeve me i seen da videos

[Someone Else]

Unfortunately there are no monkeys in Crysis.

I'm getting better at multiplayer. Though it always annoys the hell out of me when I'm in a bunker buying some new weapons, and then somebody runs in and punches me in Strength Mode. (which is an instant kill) It seems waay too easy to punch somebody. Makes other close range weapons pretty much worthless.

[Ironsight]

Is there something like on Forge were you can disable it?

[Someone Else]

Well people are going to mod the **** out of Crysis soon so maybe they will power down the fists a bit.

Also, people seem to favor going on the US side in multiplayer. There was once a time where there were like, 6 people on the US side and only 2 on the Korean side. Damn nationalist Americans...

[Someone Else]

I've been away from home a few days and I'm already in a Crysis withdrawal. D:

[Someone Else]

I've been away from home a few days and I'm already in a Crysis withdrawal. D:

[Caael]

At least you have the damn game D:

[Toasty]

Yeah, but at least you could actually play the game if you had it. D:

The faster CPU shoud be here soon, so now I just need to find a good deal on a GPU.

[Someone Else]

What became of the demo you downloaded on that random high-end computer, Toast?

[Toasty]

The connection was super slow because there were aton of iPod touches on the network (the Sony PC was connected to the Apple Store's WiFi. Lol), and I only got about 100 Kbps. I had to leave by the time I got to 11%. D: But it would've been pretty sweet, even if I got kicked out of the store for it.

So anyway, I found a GeForce 6800XT for $99. I'm trying to convince my mother to cough up the money for it atm.

[Someone Else]

You sure you can't hold out for anything better? Sure it meets the minimuim, but there's so much better cards out there at a better value...

[Caael]

Wait a tic, if I have the Geforce 7600, then that's over the minimum, right?

[Someone Else]

Indeed. You'll be able to run Crysis at around 10 FPS if you put everything on High. Usually, that would be terrible. But for some reason, 10 FPS looks very smooth in Crysis, and looks something more like 20 FPS. People have talked about it, we think it has something to do with the "Post-processing" setting. I'd recommend you turn shadows down to Medium at the very least, however.

I like to turn shaders down to medium when I play on multiplayer to get a huge boost in FPS.

[Toasty]

The 6800GT out-performs the 7600 though. At least from what I've seen in reviews.

[EDIT] The 7950GT AGP is te best card I can get for my PC. The 6800XT AGP is the best thing I could find that would fit my PC and still be within $100. I can barely stretch the budget to the 7800GS AGP's price, but I don't know if it outperforms the 6800 (for sure, at least) though I assume that it does.

[Caael]

On Multiplayer, i'll tone down everything because I dont want any lag or anything going slow. On single player, i'll have them relatively high.

It's not mind-numbingly difficult is it? A lot of game videos make it look near impossible.

[Someone Else]

I'm assuming you mean the single player. Not really. There are four level of difficulty to choose from. I played on Normal so far. Some parts were pretty challenging, but mostly you'll just need to actually think and have a plan before hand, and you'll survive. And, I mean, if you've played an FPS on a PC before the rules are mostly the same. You'll need to find lots of cover though if you want to live in bigger firefights.

[Caael]

Never played a shooter on PC before, so i'll start on easy and work my way up.

[Someone Else]

Totally off-topic: if you ever buy Oblivion, buy it on PC, Caael. Mods make Oblivion so much better.

[Caael]

It's cheaper as well, and probably a lot easier to control.

Gametrailers gave Crysis and 8.8, which is agreeable, as it's pretty, but doesn't break new ground.

[Someone Else]

I'd give it a low 9 or a high 8 on a scale of 10. 8.8/10 is fair and right. The multiplayer is just okay, and the last 1/4 of the single-player game was disappointingly linear and leaves a bad taste. Crysis doesn't do anything new for the FPS genre. It does combine lots of elements from other shooters, however, but that's not a bad thing, and it does very well and makes it better than other shooters because of it.

So, no, Crysis isn't a revolutionary FPS in terms of gameplay, but Crysis is a revolutionary for games as a whole on technical terms. If anything, Crysis a tech demo (a very fun demo) of what games will become in the next years. The physics are remarkable in this game, everything interacts with you. The AI is a little clunky at times, but that's forgivable if you take into account that the AI is genius at it's best. The enemy actually does a great job of throwing grenades when you think you're safe behind cover, they flank you, they even get confused when you cloak from a distance and will shoot where they last saw you.

[Caael]

About Oblivion on PC, modding is basically cheating, which i'm not a fan of on RPGs. Any other game, i'll cheat my way to hell, but with RPGs I feel acomplished when I level up and crap. Plus i've found it for a tenner on 360.

I wont be getting Crysis for a while, but it's just as well as if I bought it now, it would only just run on my card. So WD, you'll have to keep playing strangers for a while.

[Toasty]

The modding that he's talking about isn't what you think (at least I'm pretty sure). There's mods for stuff like better weather renderings/effects, and stuff that makes it better without cheating. That's why the PC version is better.

On a side note, my friend got oblivion for the PC from a friend, and let me fool around with it on my PC because he couldn't get it to work on his. I haven't tried playing it yet, but my graphics card sucks balls, so I won't be surprised if the graphics are sub-par.

[Caael]

Oh. Well i'd rather have the 360 version run fine without tweaks, than the PC version either being crap graphics, or running slow with high graphics.


So yeah. Crysis. That's always fun.

[Someone Else]

Modding isn't the same as cheating. In fact, you could mod Oblivion to make it harder if you wanted to. Modding also allows you to make your game fresh and new every time, kind of like how in an online RPG the developers add new content.

Basically, if there's something you don't like Oblivion (and you'll find one) chances are there's a mod that fixes or changes it. Take the leveling sytem for example. Oblivion has a leveling system so that monsters are always the same difficulty when you level up. You'll never come across a fight that's too hard, or a fight that's too easy. There are mods that take the leveling system away and make a more static world.

Really, buy Oblivion on the PC. You're a fool if you buy it for the 360 when your computer exceeds minimum specs, and if you're concerned about graphics, there are mods that help to make it look better with low settings, such as lower-poly grass.

[Someone Else]

Ahaha, the AI just did something stupid and funny.

I was approaching a smaller KPA outpost in a Humvee. There was a sloped rock nearby so I ramped it and bailed out of the car. Apparently the KPA who were occupying the outpost didn't see me bail out and thought I was still in the car when it hit the ground. So I was in cloak mode and watched the KPA repeatedly shoot the Humvee thinking that I was still inside of it. One of them had the bright idea to throw a frag grenade at it. The car exploded and a healthy sum of the KPA perished with it.

[Toasty]

Oblivion is ghey and won't work (probably because my graphics card isn't supported, but w/e), and Crysis won't install. It just opens up a DOS window that closes very shortly thereafter. And then nothing happens.

[Caael]

Fine fine, i'm convinced. PC Oblivion.

WD, you've accomplished something I never thought possible. You actually have me wanting PC games that aren't RTS'. I commend you.

[Someone Else]

Dude of Wind, on Dec 2 2007, 02:16 AM, said:

Oblivion is ghey and won't work (probably because my graphics card isn't supported, but w/e), and Crysis won't install. It just opens up a DOS window that closes very shortly thereafter. And then nothing happens.

Ancient computers FTW?

[Toasty]

Dell Dimension 8100 from the year 2002 FTW.

GeForce MX/MX400 is ghey. And it's what I got. 32MB of onboard RAM = phail.

[EDIT] If my parents can't get me a Wii for Christmas, they'll probly get me a GeForce 7900GS. Which would be nice.

[Caael]

Demo downloading 5%.

Question: Can I play online against people who own the actual game in the demo?

[Caael]

OMFG the demo didn't fuc king work! I downloaded it fine, no hitches, run it, starts winrar self extracting, it gets to 98% and has some fuc king error about a sound file missing!. So now the cun ting thing wont work!!

And if somebody tells me I need vista for it to work...

[Toasty]

The Crysis demo? Heck, I didn't even get that far! And no, you don't need vista.

[Someone Else]

Earth Dude, on Dec 4 2007, 03:03 PM, said:

OMFG the demo didn't fuc king work! I downloaded it fine, no hitches, run it, starts winrar self extracting, it gets to 98% and has some fuc king error about a sound file missing!. So now the cun ting thing wont work!!

And if somebody tells me I need vista for it to work...

You got a corrupted file. Download it somewhere else.

[Toasty]

I tried it from two different torrents and at least one or two different direct downloads. One of which was from Nvidia.com. None worked. They didn't even begin to extract.

[Caael]

Which mirror did you download it from, WD?

[Caael]

Crysis blows. I suck, the graphics wont run any higher than on the lowest, and it looks crap then, it's so easy to die for nothing, your guns dont kill anybody, despite shooting them in the head and its frankly ****.

[Laharl]

Earth Dude, on Dec 5 2007, 10:16 PM, said:

Crysis blows. I suck, the graphics wont run any higher than on the lowest, and it looks crap then, it's so easy to die for nothing, your guns dont kill anybody, despite shooting them in the head and its frankly ****.

Damn, that there is some SERIOUS LULZ XD

seeing how you've been hyping it up since the dawn of time

[Someone Else]

Considering that the year is 2020, North Korea is a world power, and each infantry is armed to the teeth and in full body armor, it makes sense that it might take a while to kill somebody unless you actually do headshots.

Caael, cloaking is your friend. You can't just run up and expect to take on a full army like in most shooters. Here's a strategy for you, run behind something like a big rock, let your suit energy charge some, go into cloak and sneak somewhere else. The enemy will still think you're behind that rock, and this gives you an advantage. In a way, cloaking was overpowered in this game.

[Caael]

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seeing how you've been hyping it up since the dawn of time

The only praise I actually gave it was the graphics.

Headshots do nothing. I equipped the recoil scope or whatever, aimed at somebodies head with the laser sight and it did bugger all through the head.

[Caael]

I take back everything I said before.

This game

is awesome.


The interactivity is just phenomenal. You can shoot trees down, and depending on where you shoot them, where they'll fall. I was shooting birds and it plummeted down, hitting another bird as well. You can interact with just about anything. It's amazing.

[Someone Else]

I see Caael gets it. :P This makes me happy.

Also Caael, if you didn't notice the cross-hair is dynamic and becomes bigger (and therefore, more difficult to aim) depending on how fast you're moving. This could be why you can't get headshots. It LOOKS like you're aiming at their head but really your bullets are spraying everywhere but their head. The cross-hair is biggest while sprinting, running, and jumping. Try crouching or going prone whilst behind something to pick off the enemy while the cross-hair is small.

Also, maybe your shot hit their helmet...

[Caael]

Helmets are a *******...

Nah, I completed the demo on thursday. I couldn't believe how much stealth is involved. It's nothing like Halo where its a massive gun battle, because in Crysis, if you stay in the firing line for longer than about 3 seconds, you're dead.

I do love this game though. And there's so many ways to do things. I made a tree fall on a car that was coming along, causing it to spin out. I threw a saucepan at somebody and killed them. The interactivity is amazing, and theres so many ways you can do something. Theres this part where 2 soldiers are hiding behind trees, waiting to kill you, but you can run up a cliff to the side and push logs on them to flush them out and kill them.

I noticed the crosshair thing, it's pretty clever. But I dont go running around trying to score headshots, i'll hide behind a rock with cloak on, line up the shot, shoot and then duck, wait for cloak to recharge, and if I missed, shoot again, or find somebody else to shoot.

And i've never been able to shoot out the tires of a truck on another game. That's another feature, the vehicles. I've only driven 2 (The truck and the boat) but they're so realistic. If you're sitting in the ****pit view, everything looks so real and you really feel you are actually driving it. But boats are a ******* while you're running around on shore, and they're always shooting at you. But the car gun is most effective at it.

The customization of the weapons is really cool as well, there's so much you can do with your different guns. The guns are also pretty cool. I only got to play with 4 ( Pistol, 2 machine guns and a shotgun) but they are oh so satisfacting when you shoot people with them.


I need this game. I've played the first level and i'm in love with it.

[Toasty]

What mirror did you download it from?

[EDIT] Nevermind. It installed pretty easily. The only problem is, I can't play it because my graphics card sucks. It won't even start up.

[Someone Else]

Caael-

http://crymod.com/portal.php

Fans make customized versions of the demo's level here. Play around with those if you want.

[Caael]

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7012/wthkorean3kc1.png

He died like that. I shot him in the head from the cliff. I found it hilarious.

[Someone Else]

Yeah. Static ragdolls aren't the best thing ever. Crysis was made by Crytek which happens to be a German company. Germans have a low tolerance to violent games, so as a result you get things like ragdolls which stop moving as soon as they hit the ground to tone violence down, so things like that happen.

Wait, what level did you put the physics? I think your card should be able to handle physics set to High.

http://www.tweakguid...m/Crysis_1.html

[Caael]

I tried textures on medium, everything else on low and it was all jumpy. Whats so good about high physics?

[Someone Else]

Ah, still choppy with lowness? Then I guess there isn't much you can do.

Quote

Physics Quality:

This setting controls the impact of physics on the game world. The higher the setting, the more interactive and realistic the game world will be, and in turn the more gameplay options you will have available to you when determining things like combat strategy. The most significant impacts of this setting at each level below Very High are:

# High: Slight reduction in some breakage effects, and the amount of vegetation affected by wind.
# Medium: Further reduction in some breakage effects, and a reduction in the amount of distant vegetation affected both by wind and general physics
# Low: Significant reduction in realism - no longer are you able to break objects or buildings, even when using weaponry, and most vegetation will no longer be affected by wind, nor will move when brushed against or shot, though you can still cut down trees. This reduction in physics has an important impact on Crysis gameplay, and it is strongly recommended that you do not use Low physics for this reason.

Unless lots of stuff is being blowed up at the same time, I doubt you'll notice a big performance difference with physics on high. Have tried lowering your resolution as well?

[Caael]

Ah. That would be why i've been crashing into building posts for them to damage my car and not hurt the building. But I changed it to high, no lag or slow down, and to celebrate this, I tore down the enemy base with my fists in power mode. Then through some explosive barrels in there, drove a car in there, shot the fuel tank and ran like hell.

I love Crysis :D
And my resolution is at 800x600

[Toasty]

D: I HATE MY COMPUTER!! I want a new one... Dang thing can't play the awesomeness that seems to be Crysis.

[Caael]

Quick question: Does it only run on vista, or does it run on XP as well?

[Someone Else]

Ya it's on both. I think you or somebody else already asked...

[Someone Else]

Alright, I have to share this. You can say Crysis is the same as every FPS but prettier and with more advanceder physics. I'd argue with that, and say that Crysis does have more besides that.

But if you look at this, you might understand that graphics and of course, physics are just as important as gameplay. http://youtube.com/watch?v=WLoe-_E4q8Q

Those look like movie explosions!

[Caael]

I am buying it.


Crysis is the best game I have ever seen, and possibly the best shooter I have ever played.

Thank you WD, for introducing me to this awesome game.

[Toasty]

I don't know about movie quality (or real life), but they're better than any others I've seen in games. They just look too symmetrical. Like, instead of having a big bulge of flames on one side and a smaller bulge on the other, it's even all around.

If you look at explosions in real life, even with similar amounts of explosives placed evenly apart, they don't look symmetrical. But they're still the best I've seen from any game.

[Someone Else]

I can see what you mean about symmetry. Maybe he didn't add any wind in the island.

[Ironsight]

1:06 was the most realistic looking IMO

[Someone Else]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2BbwGI-f_s4

Hahaha, this is funny.

[Split Infinity]

That soldier is ***.

And what's with the explosions? They look totally two dimensional, and the way the panels fly off is completely undrealistic for a bazooka hit. And they glitch.

[Someone Else]

O RLY? It's not perfect? Damn you, Crysis, for your imperfection!

Seriously, show me a game that looks better and with more interactive physics.

And it better not be COD4. COD4 doesn't have NEARLY the amount of interactivity Crysis does.

[Split Infinity]

Imperfect? The freaking panels twitch like crazy! How can you not see that?

[Ironsight]

I saw that too. But the video was a test, so maybe they fixed it already.

[Someone Else]

Spam King, on Dec 19 2007, 10:23 PM, said:

Imperfect? The freaking panels twitch like crazy! How can you not see that?

There was only one part of the video where they glitched like that. Other video games that have lots of physics objects moving at the same time and close to each other have this problem as well. Given that there were lots of objects moving at the same time, and only two of the (large) panels did this out of maybe more than 100 objects moving at the same time, I think it's impressive compared to other games where they would start twitching for no apparent reason. (I'm looking at you, Oblivion)

As PDM would say, less qq more pewpew.

[Split Infinity]

Explosions still look fake to me.

[Someone Else]

Fair enough. I think they look great.

[Ironsight]

Same here. Better than i've seen on any games i've played yet.

[Toasty]

I FINALLY got to play Crysis. My friend's PC, amazingly, was able to get it to run, albeit at low settings all around (I convinced him to set physics to medium), but it's still just...awesome. We BARELY got it to work on all high settings when Nomad wasn't even moveing, but everything was REALLY detailed. Heck, it looks great with everything on low and only 2X anti-ailiasing.

But the gameplay was awesome. It's a LOT harder than Halo or GoW or CoD, or anything like that. The AI is top notch. It took me a while just to get to the third or fourth checkpoint. But you just have to realise that this ISN'T a run-in-and-shoot-everything kind of game. It's an "observe from afar, move in, strike, and take cover" kind of game. If you just run in, you'll get butt raped by crazy monks on acid every time.

It's fun though. I wish I had a computer of my own that could run it. D:

[Someone Else]

You had trouble getting to third and fourth checkpoints? You must have been playing the uber easy shooters for your whole life then. XD Crysis doesn't get really hard until, I don't know, maybe the other half of the second level.

Crysis looks butt-ugly without at least High shaders and medium shadows IMO and whatever setting applies to vegetation. The rest of the settings are extra eye-candy, and while nice, they aren't needed, but hey, it gives more immersion.

Crysis patch 1.1 was released recently! If your friend has the full version, tell him to download it Toasty.

http://files.filefront.com/Crysis+v11+Patc...;/fileinfo.html

[Toasty]

Alright.

Well, to tell you the truth, I've never exactly been a "pro" at shooters. The first and second fire fights you encounter were the hardest for me. I just got lucky in the first one and they kinda just came up the hill on the left one at a time, and I got head shots easy on them all. And tranks are fun. :P Especially since they're unlimited. Makes things a LOT easier imo.

As for the graphics, I don't spend a lot of time looking at realistic graphics in games, so Crysis looks awesome even with all low settings.

[Someone Else]

If he tells you the Crysis patch isn't working, tell him to go to Add/Remove, go to Crysis, click "modify" and then click "repair" while in Setup. Then run the patch.

[Toasty]

Alright.

But dude, Crysis. is. AWESOME. Just finished the first mission today. It's actually pretty easy to get headshots, but tranks really, REALLY come in handy. One hit anywhere on the enemy takes them down long enough to get up to them and kill 'em, or to at least stop them from shooting at you for a while.

[Someone Else]

Lolz I never use tranquilizers. I never saw the point. They're best used to take out one guy because if you tranquilize someone when there's others there, everybody become suspicious.

And if there is only one guy you might as well cloak, grab him by the neck, and melee for insta kill.

[Toasty]

Havn't tried that yet. Will soon though. Hopefully.

Anyway, what's in the patch? My friend won't use it if it's got bug fixes because he likes to exploit games.

[Someone Else]

Split showed me this video. Thanks Split!

http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/watch-3000-...ysis-333902.php

@Toasty this is what gamershell.com said:

Fixes:
Damage dealt to vehicles when shot by LAW has been made consistent
F12 (screenshot) now works in restricted mode as well
When player melees during gun raise animation, their gun will not be in a permanently raised position anymore
Memory leaks and potential crashes

Updates:
Improved SLI / Crossfire support and performance
Improved overall rendering performance (DX9 and DX10)
Enabled VSync functionality in D3D10

Tweaks:
Reduced grenade explosion radius in multiplayer
Clamped water tessellation to avoid cheating in MP
Reduced LAW splash damage vs. infantry in PowerStruggle mode
Slowed Rocket projectile speed down in MP slightly

[Toasty]

Alright, I e-mailed him about it. But what's LAW? And how exactly can you use the water to cheat in multiplayer?

[Someone Else]

LAW stands for Light Anti-tank Weapon.

I dunno what the "water cheat" is.

[Caael]

I really hope this comes to 360, as now that I have one, i'm probably never going to have the chance to buy it on PC.

[Someone Else]

Well, don't get your hopes too high, because Crysis as it is now it would make your 360 and a PS3 explode. If Crysis were to come to consoles it'd have to be waay dumbed down. Less physics objects, smaller maps, a few visual effects taken out, it wouldn't even be Crysis anymore.

[Toasty]

Well, the PS3 could probably handle it. I mean, it's technically got an 7-core CPU under it's hood, but that CPU also isn't nearly as fast as your 3.2Ghz dual core. It'd still be dumbed down a bit.

But even more than the 360 and PS3, I wanna see this on the Wii! THAT'D BE AWESOME! [/sarcasm] :ph34r:

[Caael]

Yeah I suppose. CRYSIS WII WOULD KICK ASS!!

I'll just stick with Frontlines then. Similar gameplay to Crysis but set in a city.

[Toasty]

I can't wait for a Crysis 2 of sorts. There's going to be a few new games comming out *for PC obviously* that'll use the Cryengine 2, the Cryengine's (the one used in Crysis) successor. THOSE will have awesome physics.

[Caael]

I really want more games with Cryengine. Not just shooters, but like riven/tomb raider type game.

[Toasty]

How about SSBB with the Cryengine? That'd be interesting. :ph34r:

I'd like to see some adventure/action games or raceing games with this engine. That'd be awesome.

[Drizzy Drake]

What is CryengineÉ

EDIT-How do you change it so it puts a question mark insted of that E thing.

[Toasty]

It's probably something on your PC.

The Cryengine is the Physics engine use in Crysis. It's a program in the game of sorts that uses complex algorithms to calculate how far something flies/how big an explosion, how certain objects fall/etc.

[Drizzy Drake]

Dude of Wind, on Jan 14 2008, 07:58 PM, said:

It's probably something on your PC.

The Cryengine is the Physics engine use in Crysis. It's a program in the game of sorts that uses complex algorithms to calculate how far something flies/how big an explosion, how certain objects fall/etc.

So another program to make games more realistic, word.

[Toasty]

Well it's more of an actual part of the game, a block of code imbeded into the software, so it's like a part of a program. That program being Crysis.

[Drizzy Drake]

But it should still be easy to embed(sp) that code into other games.

[Toasty]

Yeah, with a few adjustments.

[Someone Else]

Dude of Wind, on Jan 13 2008, 11:25 PM, said:

Well, the PS3 could probably handle it. I mean, it's technically got an 7-core CPU under it's hood, but that CPU also isn't nearly as fast as your 3.2Ghz dual core. It'd still be dumbed down a bit.

But even more than the 360 and PS3, I wanna see this on the Wii! THAT'D BE AWESOME! [/sarcasm] :)

No, the PS3 can't. Not enough RAM.

And if you put the Crysis disk on top of the Wii I think you can safely say that Crysis is on the Wii. =D

And CryEngine 2 is more than just a physics engine. It makes the whole damn game play. Most games use more than one engine for each part of the game. Half Life 2 uses the Source engine for graphics and play, but also uses Havok for the physics. At least that's what I understand. CryEngine 2 is the only engine used in Crysis.

And CryEngine 2 is being/has been optimized for PS3. No word on 360 as far as I know.

[Toasty]

True about the RAM. But I thought the PS3 had at least a GB? MY friend has 1.5, I have 1. I could probably play it if I had a better GPU.

And yeah, I think that's about as close to Crysis being on the Wii as anyone will get. =P

Pretty much every game has some level of a physics engine though. There HAS to be SOMETHING in the game's code that determines what falls where and whatnot. Though not all require one I'd say. Like most handheld games, and many strategy games.

[Caael]

Wind Dude, on Jan 15 2008, 04:47 AM, said:

No, the PS3 can't. Not enough RAM.

And if you put the Crysis disk on top of the Wii I think you can safely say that Crysis is on the Wii. =D

And CryEngine 2 is more than just a physics engine. It makes the whole damn game play. Most games use more than one engine for each part of the game. Half Life 2 uses the Source engine for graphics and play, but also uses Havok for the physics. At least that's what I understand. CryEngine 2 is the only engine used in Crysis.

And CryEngine 2 is being/has been optimized for PS3. No word on 360 as far as I know.

Like that twat on youtube who put Halo 3 on his ipod, by placing the case on the ipod:P

[Toasty]

I have a friend who knows someone who put DOOM3 on their 1st gen Nano. He apparently played it with a gamepad.

[Drizzy Drake]

I am not calling you a liar, but that doesn't seem believeable. I mean maybe Doom1-2, but Doom 3. That just sounds farfetched.

[Toasty]

Well it was a DOOM game. And the iPod has a pretty good pixel count on it's screen.

[Someone Else]

No way Doom 3 was played fully from the Nano. Maybe he ran it on a computer and used the Nano to display the game.

[Toasty]

Possibly, but it might've been one of the other games.

[Drizzy Drake]

Dude of Wind, on Jan 15 2008, 08:12 PM, said:

Possibly, but it might've been one of the other games.

Doom 1 or 2 sounds WAYYYY more believable.

[Laharl]

Crysis got owned by Yahtzee XD

who reinforced what i've being saying for months

[Someone Else]

...the dice game?

You're going to have to explain this to me.

[Drizzy Drake]

I believe he is a game reviewer, if I'm not mistaken. It's all explained in the last couple pages. I'm jsut real lazy.

[Someone Else]

Oh the Zero Punctuation Guy.

I'll watch it then.

Well, I'll admit my breath was baited a bit there. And whoop-dee-****ing-doo! It looks like he didn't totally hate the game. Bit hard to tell between the British humour. I don't think he talked about one of my favorite things about the game, though, and that's the weapon customization. But then, when you don't really review games I guess you don't have to talk about all the little bits that make it good.

[Toasty]

Laser-sight on the pistols = awesome.

And reflex sights are WAY better than the standard sights. Seriously.

[Someone Else]

Yes, the ironsights are a bit sucky.

[Caael]

WD, have you encountered the shark yet?

[Someone Else]

I have not, but I know they exist.

[Toasty]

My friend ran into one. Happens whe you go out of bounds.

[Someone Else]

I am getting a little annoyed at how many body hits the enemy can take and how fast you can die even in armor mode. Guess that's what you get when you play almost exclusively on hard. XD

[Someone Else]

Anyway I can record gameplay videos with free software? By free meaning I don't have to pay for it. Illegal or preferably otherwise.

I want to record some of my schemes to complete objectives.

[slomz]

I am a big FPS guy like halo 3, battlefield 2, cOd4. I only stray towards multi player not much of single player guy. Online play is just what I love. So would you reccomend me getting it for just online?

[Toasty]

Wind Dude, on Jan 22 2008, 08:01 PM, said:

Anyway I can record gameplay videos with free software? By free meaning I don't have to pay for it. Illegal or preferably otherwise.

I want to record some of my schemes to complete objectives.

My friend just found a REALLY good program that'll only drop your FPS by about 10. I'll ask him for the installer.

slomz, on Jan 23 2008, 07:53 PM, said:

I am a big FPS guy like halo 3, battlefield 2, cOd4. I only stray towards multi player not much of single player guy. Online play is just what I love. So would you reccomend me getting it for just online?

Honestly, the multiplayer isn't all that great. You can't destroy buildings or blow up gas cans or anything like that. However, the vehicles can explode.

The single player in this is awesome, so even thoguh you prefer multiplayer, I think you'll like it. But the multiplayer leaves a bit to be desired in my opinion.

[Someone Else]

slomz, on Jan 23 2008, 07:53 PM, said:

I am a big FPS guy like halo 3, battlefield 2, cOd4. I only stray towards multi player not much of single player guy. Online play is just what I love. So would you reccomend me getting it for just online?

Yeah multiplayer in Crysis isn't that great. But you're missing a lot if you exclusively play FPS for multiplayer, so for that reason I'm recommending you pick up Crysis anyway.

[slomz]

How many people worldwide play it?

[Someone Else]

Good question. I can't say for sure. But Crysis is popular in Germany because Crytek is indeed a German company, so you'll run into a lot of German players. :(

[slomz]

Wind Dude, on Jan 24 2008, 07:22 PM, said:

Good question. I can't say for sure. But Crysis is popular in Germany because Crytek is indeed a German company, so you'll run into a lot of German players. :(

Do they have stats and leader boards on like a website or something.

[Someone Else]

In mid-December it was 1,500ish. It'll probably have gone up by now. Crysis is only a 3 month old game.

Like I said, you're buying this for single player.

[Someone Else]

Wow, Xfire can record movies now.

There's goes my recording problem. :D

[slomz]

If you were to reccomend a multi-player fps game for pc, what would you say?

[Someone Else]

I personally don't care for Multiplayer, but Team Fortress 2 in the Orange Box is supposed to be good.

[Someone Else]

Toasty, next time you play Crysis do this:

On the Crysis shortcut, go to it's properties, click on the Shortcut tab, and in the "Target" section add -devmode to the end of it.

It enables developer mode. Start Crysis from the shortcut and load a map like normal. Press F1 and you can get a 3rd person camera which is really cool although it's no good for shooting. But Nomad's animation is really cool and realistic, he has a center of gravity for his turns and jumps. If you want it to go back to normal just delete the -devmode from the shortcut.

[Toasty]

I e-mailed it to my friend as he's the one who "owns" it.

[Someone Else]

The game for the 360 and PS3 built on the CryEngine2 is apparently not even a shooter. Sorry, Caael. Maybe Crytek listened to Yahtzee and decided to make an exploring game. :ph34r: I'll get it on the PS3 for sure.

[Caael]

Exploring is good too. Hopefully the CryEngine will overtake the Unreal engine soon.

[Someone Else]

Unreal is cool too; BioShock uses it. But yeah, I'd like to see more CryEngine2 games, definitely. Yay, physics.

[Caael]

Unreal is good, but it's way overused. Most of the shooting games on the market today use it, and some that aren't shooters. I think Lost Planet and Too Human use it. And I was told Half Life 2 used it, but i'm not sure.

[Someone Else]

Half Life 2 and the other Valve games use Source. Good engine, for it's time, and it's aged fairly well but it's dated now.

Unless another engine comes out that's has more or most of the stuff CryEngine2 has and is better optimised, I see CryEngine2 taking shooters and other games by storm within a year or two.

[Caael]

I'd like to see it put to effect in a WW2 game.

[Someone Else]

If I recall correctly, there is an ambitious mod for Crysis in development for a WWII inspired campaign. WWII weapons, tanks, and areas. =)

[Caael]

Awesome. I really would like to see more games take advantage of the engine. Maybe Bioshock 2.

[Split Infinity]

Might I ask what makes this engine so unique?