Is crysis actually fun

Crysis Wars is on a separate disc that comes with Warhead. It's a two disc set. I don't even play Warhead or have it installed, but Crysis Wars I play it every day. It also has a no CD patch built in so once it's installed you can run it without the disc in the drive. You'll have to update to the 1.5 patch though to play Crysis Wars.

 

Seeing as I have some extra money left over, I think I'll pay the $10 or so it costs to get that on Amazon tonight

 

it's worth to try this game but once you try modern warfare, you'll never play crysis again

 

Once you try Modern Warfare you never go back to that game again, not at least for Single Player experience.

 

I agree that CoD4 is a good game, but it is possible to get bored of it after the first couple years

 

I beat both Crysis and Crysis Warhead. For me, both games started to go downhill when the aliens appeared. Shooting them wasn't very satisfactory (i hate mechanical enemies in FPS games) and everything was too white. The boss battle in Crysis was pretty good though. And I gotta say Crytek did a much better job optimizing the game in Warhead: I can play it with everything on Gamer, except for shaders (mainstream) at 1600x900 and still get decent enough fps (with an underclocked card)

 

couple years? more likely couple of days.

 

I have to disagree. Its too white because its all snowy. Effect from the aliens. I think its amazing. Im at the alien part now...

I do agree its probably not AS fun as shooting koreans, but their still pretty cool.

It seems im having more fun playing through it then most people because I simply enjoy the game. I don't overlook things that make the game bad. I love the entire setting of the place. The story, everything. Enjoying the game makes it more fun to play.

 

The awesome snowy landscape is what carries the game through during the aliens bit. Much more-so in Warhead, when the snowy-with-aliens part lasts significantly longer. At least in Crysis, the snowy bit only lasts for a half a dozen footsteps before it becomes an escort mission and then you're out.

 

Got to the snow area after much toil.

It's hard to continue with all the effort I've invested, finding it increasingly harder to play through.

Crysis has no appeal, you can say it's unique. Nano suit and the visuals, but let's break down the equation of a game:

gameplay + pacing + plot = game

Crysis lacks in all 3 areas. Visuals aside, the game is as generic as wheaties. Horrible unrefined gameplay, boring plot, inconsistent pacing.

I borrowed a Warhead box from a colleague to experience the fabled "fun online experience" you all preach about. Jumped onto a server, played Crysis Wars for an hour, and uninstalled. It's a fun game mode, feels like BF2. But you cannot justify raising a game's worth by the multiplayer alone. Multiplayer is to be served as a desert at the end of the main course. Multiplayer is not supposed to carry a game to sucess.

In an earlier posting, someone said the AI was top notch. It's not how the AI imitates reality's soldiers, but rather how they can shoot you 100 meters away while you're in a bush. I should know, I played it on Delta

Perhaps, when I'm 40 I'll finish Crysis. Along with the Witcher.

 

I'm sure many people will disagree, but let me specify why I think you're wrong.

Gameplay: You are given a good amount of freedom to approach the game using any of a variety of effective strategies, yet the game presents different challenges depending on the strategy you take. You're kept on your toes, but you don't have to be a masochist to play. And if this game is generic in terms of gameplay, I have to wonder what you think of any other shooters out there which give you less variety in terms of viable approaches to playing.

Pacing: it's up to you how fast you want to go. The game proceeds at a decent pace if you're progressing at a decent pace. If you're sneaking up to snipe/punch each and every bad guy and then running behind a rock to Halo-up your shields, then the bad pacing is your own fault.

Plot: Yes, this one's generic, but all things considered, it's well-told. See point: Pacing, and also the fact that the game manages to keep up the image of you being a military agent in an international hostage crisis. An interesting plot isn't necessary for a game, but how well that plot interacts with playing the game makes all the difference, and in Crysis, it came together well.

I would suspect, given your descriptions of your experience, I think your problem is that you're playing on Delta but treating it as a brainless run-and-gun, which is a combination for disaster. At the higher difficulty settings, ya sometimes gotta stop and think about what you're doing.

 

If I read the above post are their spoilers? Nearing the end of the game and im trying to avoid them as much as possible

 

Feel free to read it.

I think both crysis and crysis warhead are great, I agree with what Histidine said:

 

Why has this thread gone on so long?

 

While I can't agree with any of the points above, I think the largest problem for me is the heavily sandbox oriented gameplay.

Sandbox worlds are great in theory, in practise, they simply do not synergize with the conventional game's premise. A sandbox is gives your the freedom to act upon your objectives, true. Though, there's nothing forcing you to complete your objective. A game which gives you too many options to screw around takes away from the immersion you're supposed to have with the world.

It could be made into an argument that sandboxes promote immersion, but again most of the time this is not executed correctly. A lifeless world in which random npc's and scripted events are scattered that act as the "continue game button".

 

Crysis isn't really a sandbox game, though. You still have objectives to complete, and in a certain order.

 

I wouldn't use the term "sandbox" at all. It's purely linear. You go from one checkpoint to the next. There are a variety of styles to play in, but that doesn't make it sandbox. Doom (yes, the first one!) wasn't sandbox just because you had ten guns and a large level with more than one hallway.

No. Well, assuming you already know there's snow and aliens. But that's given away by the box art, so I'm sure that's not a spoiler .

I generally make an effort to make sure my posts are spoiler-free .

 

Even if you post spoilers, you can always

Spoiler

use spoiler tags!

 

I was thinking the same thing...

 

Is there a better thread I should be posting in instead?

 

I just realized it was 8 pages.

I think Crysis is non-linear. You're given a set of objectives and a bunch of toys within a reserved space of the environment to play around with. Seems like a sandbox to me.

 

Any of you new guys that enjoyed this game should definitely try the original Far Cry if you haven't already. Awesome sand and water effects!

 

Crysis is fun! It has indepth characters, awesome level design and a VERYinteresting sto---ZOMG LOOK AT THE TEXTURE ON THAT LEAF!

 

And how is it more sandbox than, say, Doom? Or The Witcher (where you can actually choose which side-quests to do and in what order)? Or Mass Effect (1 or 2)? Or Diablo?

Actually, any of those games except maybe Doom are less linear than Crysis. By your bizarre definition of sandbox, I think 19 out of 20 games are of the sandbox variety.

 

Well your objectives are pretty linear in Crysis that's for sure. And the open-worldness certainly shrinks as you progress through the game. But the early-mid game jungle levels offer some great opportunity to try your hand at tackling situations in a number of ways and from different points on the map.

Maybe it's not as much a sandbox as say FarCry 2, but it does offer some sandbox gameplay.

 

Just because it's not a dimly lit corridor doesn't make it a sandbox instead...

 

I didn't say that, I am just saying it does offer some sandbox elements in parts of the game. For the most part I think my statement agrees with you but I'm just demonstrating a broader scope to the game than simply nailing it down with an overused label.

 

Okay, fair.

 

Dude,i think every fps game is gr8.U kinda get immersed into the gameplay and story.I have experienced it when i played far cry 1 for the first time!__btw crysis coupled with gr8 tech shud b gr8.

 

Dude, you're writing a forum post, not a text message.

 

He could be posting on an iphone or...Nintendo DS.

 

Look through my post history and try and determine which ones were made from my computers and which ones are from my iPod Touch. It doesn't take much more effort to at least spell properly even without capitalization.

 

... or from the looney bin...

 

I post as well from my iPod Touch as I do from my computers. It's no excuse, really, unless you are using something like the browser on the PSP.

 

crysis was a lot of fun with mechwarrior living legends mod.

 

Just beat crysis warhead after beating crysis. 2 really great games. I don't see whats the point of a 9 page discussion, its simple! Their both really great games.

Warhead is a LOT more action packed then crysis, even if its shorter. Graphics look a lot better too.

 

That's debatable. More vibrant doesn't necessarily mean better. Personally, I found Warhead just on the verge of too saturated.

 

Well atleast it runs better right?

 

I liked Warhead's graphics. It looked like the Natural Mod to me. And I liked the Natural Mod better than Crysis vanilla.