Malleus on 2/6/2009 at 16:05
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
It's not real life military hardware, dude, it's a game and giving you a bit of room to play with your abilities would make it more fun.
It would make it too easy. Though you can play on Alpha difficulty and have 'more fun' messing around - but I played on Delta and I think the game is very well balanced on that difficulty level.
gunsmoke on 2/6/2009 at 21:28
To each his own, but Crysis hardly caters to the strategic military crowd. I thought it was going for the (ala FarCry) action FPS crowd.
Malleus on 2/6/2009 at 21:36
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
To each his own, but Crysis hardly caters to the strategic military crowd. I thought it was going for the (ala FarCry) action FPS crowd.
I had the impression that the game cannot really decide which way it was meant to go. It's too arcady / unrealistic for the tactical crowd, but too slow / boring for the action FPS people ... or something like that. For me, surprisingly, it's fine as it is, even though I come from the tactical military fps side of things.
Chade on 2/6/2009 at 21:39
Quote Posted by Xenith
Well you mostly use stealth because ... you can't really do all the cool stuff you think you'd be able to do, like super-jumping 3 times then stealth-mode behind an enemy, killing him and repeat ... so sure I can decide whether to shoot a guy from some obscure high rock (because I can jump there... most of the time...), or shoot him from some obscure rock on the beach, but I won't get any closer to him or get rid of him in any real other way because it would mean way to much work, way to many ways of failing and not really that fun in the end.
Except that this just isn't true.
I mean, yes, you can't spam your powers. But I played on the hardest difficulty level and successfully used a huge number of play styles. All you need to do is use your head (you don't even have to use it much) and
have a plan ...
You only need to find cover for a couple of seconds before your energy recharges, anyway.
Hell, this is a DX fan forum, isn't it? I struggle to believe that anyone who used multiple solutions in that game would have a hard time doing the same thing in Crysis.
Phatose on 2/6/2009 at 22:21
Oh, I remember this game. It was the one with Korean with bulletproof cotton shirts, and I had a high tech suit so high tech they vaporized me if I died, yet super-bullet-proof mode was still only as protective as korean cotton. By the guys who made the game about the guy on the island which was cool until they fucked it up with mutant monkeys who killed you in 2 hits. Which was like the third level.
Pyrian on 2/6/2009 at 22:28
I modified the Crysis ini file to play on Delta mode but with approximately Alpha-mode power drain on the suit. :D That was fun.
Thirith on 3/6/2009 at 06:53
Quote Posted by Phatose
Oh, I remember this game. It was the one with Korean with bulletproof cotton shirts, and I had a high tech suit so high tech they vaporized me if I died, yet super-bullet-proof mode was still only as protective as korean cotton. By the guys who made the game about the guy on the island which was cool until they fucked it up with mutant monkeys who killed you in 2 hits. Which was like the third level.
On that last bit: I disliked
Far Cry quite a lot. I thought it was tacky and I didn't enjoy it much. In the hands of a better developer, the setting and engine could have been amazing, but it didn't work for me at all (beyond the initial one hour of "Whoa...!").
That's why I'm surprised that I enjoyed
Crysis a lot more. It's still not on my Top Ten list of games, but I had fun with this one, which is more than I could say for
Far Cry. The world was more tactile, which helped. It's still the equivalent of a brainless popcorn movie - but where
Far Cry was Uwe Boll,
Crysis was the Michael Bay who did
The Rock.
I'm not quite sure why I am defending
Crysis, except that I do think many of its detractors have a knee-jerk reaction to it: "Eye-candy, dumb action movie, graaargh!" Yes, it's a dumb action movie cliché wrapped in eye-candy, but as that it succeeds quite well, and it definitely doesn't warrant the vitriolic reaction it gets from some. And it helps if people accept that you don't need to be able to run it at Ultra-High Details(tm) for it to look gorgeous.
Koki on 3/6/2009 at 08:45
Quote Posted by Thirith
That's why I'm surprised that I enjoyed
Crysis a lot more.
Well, I'm not. Far Cry was always about hiding your ass in the bushes, Crysis just gave the player means to do it.
And one note about AI in Crysis: It is, in fact, quite good, but the default settings are too timid. You won't see most dangerous enemy moves(rushing, firing blind, grenades) until your alert meter is maxed out, which almost never happens if you're using the camo. I wonder if there's a way to tweak it.
