Trying to decide on game to play... - by sh0ck3r
Shadowcat on 29/11/2008 at 23:46
Regarding Crysis and performance (and gameplay for that matter :), just try the demo.
I have a pretty good but not "amazing" PC (Core2 Duo, 2GB RAM, but I went for a fan-less GF8600 video card rather than the faster 8800s), and the demo ran fine for me.
ercles on 30/11/2008 at 02:38
Quote Posted by sh0ck3r
Now I've beaten Deus Ex, Bioshock, all of the Orange Box, tried out Baldur's Gate, played some UT3 and I'm not sated. Trying to decide between Call of Duty 4, Fallout 3, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead and Crysis.
Mass Effect is honestly worth a look, I'd suggest giving it a shot.
RavynousHunter on 30/11/2008 at 10:01
I'd suggest the first two; CoD 4 is a fairly decent shooter, and has some pretty good online play when you don't fall in a team of retarded 10-year-olds who sing bloody Radio Disney or 50 Cent songs through the whole match.
Fallout 3 is... Ok, Bethsoft really taffed it up in quite a few locations that anyone who's played either of it's predecessors (hell, even Tactics, to an extent) will notice easily. All in all though, it's a decent romp and has some genuinely funny parts here and there.
As for that "Most Loved" list, Ultima VII not being in the Top 10 is balderdash!
Aja on 30/11/2008 at 10:45
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
Regarding Crysis and performance (and gameplay for that matter :), just try the demo.
I have a pretty good but not "amazing" PC (Core2 Duo, 2GB RAM, but I went for a fan-less GF8600 video card rather than the faster 8800s), and the demo ran fine for me.
I have a core 2 duo and 4gb of ram and an 8600M GT (the kind with GDDR3), and the Crysis demo runs like shit. On medium settings it's kinda playable but still choppy, and it looks
horrible -- very flat and lifeless and dull -- (original Far Cry looks way better). At low settings it's pretty smooth, but even uglier. At high settings it's unplayable and at very high it crashed my computer. The game just looks downright bad unless you run the 'shaders' option on at least 'high'. The engine just doesn't scale well. The Bioshock demo on high settings runs twice as fast and looks twice as good. I love Unreal 3 engine.
Jason Moyer on 30/11/2008 at 12:02
Quote Posted by sh0ck3r
Now I've beaten Deus Ex, Bioshock, all of the Orange Box, tried out Baldur's Gate, played some UT3 and I'm not sated. Trying to decide between Call of Duty 4, Fallout 3, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead and Crysis.
Fallout 3 = 10/10
Call of Duty 4 = 9/10
Left 4 Dead = 9/10 (or 10/10 if you get your money's worth playing online)
Dead Space = 4/10
I'd also second the recommendation for Mass Effect (9/10).
denisv on 30/11/2008 at 14:05
Quote Posted by Aja
I have a core 2 duo and 4gb of ram and an 8600M GT (the kind with GDDR3), and the Crysis demo runs like shit. On medium settings it's kinda playable but still choppy, and it looks
horrible -- very flat and lifeless and dull -- (original Far Cry looks way better). At low settings it's pretty smooth, but even uglier. At high settings it's unplayable and at very high it crashed my computer. The game just looks downright bad unless you run the 'shaders' option on at least 'high'. The engine just doesn't scale well. The Bioshock demo on high settings runs twice as fast and looks twice as good. I love Unreal 3 engine.
Aja, any U3 game has several times less graphical complexity than Crysis. There's just no comparing the two.
And the idea that it doesn't scale well is just a complete lie. When Crysis came out I had a nvidia 6600 - Crysis was playable and looked good on low, BioShock gave me around 5-10fps and looked like utter crap.
sh0ck3r on 30/11/2008 at 18:59
I had the game experience as Aja playing the demo on two of my friends' computers (one of which was a quad extreme with GTX 280). It was so incredibly choppy, even at lower settings, that I am forced to think the engine (beyond the supposedly amazing graphics that I have not witnessed) is defective or at least extremely inefficient.
Some people have better experiences than others, but there are sure a TON of people frustrated trying to run this game.
Bjossi on 30/11/2008 at 19:04
Crysis plays smoothly for me on medium settings @ 1280 x 1024 (no AA/AF), and I have a 7900 GTX, 2 GB of DDR400 memory and a 2.2 GHz AMD64 X2 4400+.
denisv on 30/11/2008 at 19:43
Whatever. Maybe you dorks just don't know how to use a PC? :p
I've played it on
Celeron 3ghz and nvidia 6600 128mb on low settings
Q6600 and nvidia 8600 256mb on medium-high settings
Q6600 and radeon hd4850 1gb on very high settings
never had any problems. Definitely the best straight FPS I've ever played, and I've pretty much played them all.
