Dude you've been doing this for 2 years? Chilling at 72 subscribers? And you consistently bring this fucking level of dedication? Jesus bruh, you're fucking nuts. Props.
On a binge of the pleb tier playlist after finding your channel through the Morrowind analysis. Great shit so far, hopefully more people find your channel!
the marines are in a lot of these games because the Marine Corps "doesn't have a problem killing aliens." I'm not joking, it was a quote from a Marine PR officer. The Marine Corps wants marines in as much media as possible for recruitment. They are pretty willing to help anyone making something with the military so long as they look badass in their eyes.
Makes a lot of sense actually. They shouldn't have a problem with killing, as long as they don't do it when they're told not to. It's what we pay them for.
The USMC seems more than aware that it's pretty hard to give them "bad PR" in the eyes of the kind of guys they want. After all, Full Metal Jacket is some of the best recruitment material ever made for them and it had a man turned into a soldier so hard that he went nuts and killed his drill instructor then himself, the "how can you kill women and children" scene, and all sorts of other things that would usually be regarded as negative.
Tara Strickland's father was a character in Crysis 1. His death is almost comedic: He goes off with full marine bravado and gets instantly vaporized by one of the heavy walker units. I'd call this a spoiler except Tara comments on his death back in the Wall Street level. Colonel Barclay awkwardly expositions about her during the evacuation. You're supposed to recognize the name Strickland and pay attention to her. All of this falls kinda flat if you've skipped the first game; You get in the elevator and Barklay just starts blathering on about someone you don't know. Also, fun trivia: Nomad (from Crysis) is NOT a mute protagonist. He doesn't speak often, but he does carry on conversations with Prophet, Major Strickland, Psycho, and a few others. This is also true when you're playing as Psycho in the Warhead expansion. In fact, Alcatraz is the only mute protagonist in the entire series.
I definitely remember Nomad speaking but I can't for the life of me remember anything he says. He's Generico McGoodGuy. Prophet and Phsycho had some more personality for sure, mostly Psycho in the first game but Prophet at least has a kickass voice actor to back his lines up.
@@rtyui136 Yeah, Prophet's voice actor is really good. I'm actually kinda disappointed the guy doesn't get more work. Most of what I remember from Nomad is when he gets mouthy with Strickland a couple times, and when he's reporting to JSOC after Prophet is taken. To be fair, I'd actually say his blandness is a positive trait. He doesn't really get in the way of immersion, but also doesn't come across as a complete idiot when people are talking to him. Hell, his orders to clear out the harbor AAs are because he's like, "sounds easy enough," when Strickland's explaining the situation. Though, he's easily the weakest member of Raptor Squad as a character (with the possible exception of Aztec, who's only personality is, "the aliens ate me!")
@@StarkeRealm To some extent I agree. I don't think Nomad being kind of a blank slate is necessarily a bad thing as far as a protagonist for your new IP goes. Would you say Psycho's personality had any major effect on your enjoyment of Warhead? I never did get around to playing it
You didn’t miss much of the plot by skipping out on the first game. The Ceph first appeared on Earth in 2020 on a remote island that ended in a large battle, where a “mothership” was destroyed. The first time you encounter them is in a zero-g section inside a buried ship. They don’t have any sort of power armor to allow them to function in other conditions. Outside of the ship they use drones, robots, and large mech suits. Tara is the daughter of a man named major Strickland in the first game, who commanded the player via an aircraft carrier. Knowing this, the plot twist with her is even worse. Prophet was a side character in the first game, but the most involved of your squad. He helped you fight the North Koreans and Ceph. He was the leader of the squad and the only other member to survive. You played as Nomad, who was not silent, but mostly just followed orders. Nomad died off screen in a comic book and was never mentioned again.
27:58 I'm prob the only person who thought this sounded off, but we usually don't just say our branches. We qualify it with our MOS, posts, tours etc. I get that it's being nit picky though.
I am enjoying your analysis and focus on story telling in games. It seems a lost art as graphics, techical specs, and "looks at this shiny thing" has taken over games! Thank you for focusing on something we have lost in the entertainment industry.
_It seems a lost art as graphics, techical specs, and "looks at this shiny thing" has taken over games! _ When was this not the case? Only adventure games have consistently good stories, usually.
I need you to understand that you are probably my favorite channel on UA-cam for how much genuine dedication you have despite not raking in huge amounts of subscribers or views. Never stop giving it your all Patrician!!!
The biggest thing I love about your series is that I cannot overlook the games I loved when I listen to these analysis's(?). There are so many holes and so many bad qualities, and as a younger person I absolutely ignored these in favour of what I thought I were great games. Yet a critical eye against them truly makes it obvious how bad they really were. Thanks and I hope you do a lot more series!
I actually think there's a lot of narrative potential in Alcatraz. Spoilers for Crysis 2 and 3, i... guess, but since Prophet basically just replaces Alcatraz from his own brain, I'm imagining a genuinely really cool plot thread where Alcatraz and Prophet fight over his body, with the former losing more and more of himself and resenting Prophet for it, and the latter adopting an apologetic but 'for the greater good' attitude about it. And, to be fair, one of the comics or books or whatever has Alcatraz relinquishing control to Prophet under the idea that it's the right thing to do, but where's that juicy conflict? Where's Alcatraz holding on desperately to stop his mind from being overridden? Also, uh, what makes Prophet more uniquely qualified to fight the aliens, exactly? He's fought them before, yes, but Alcatraz kicks a LOT of ass without Prophet. The only help he has was the Nanosuit for a lot of the first half, so the dude definitely doesn't stand out as especially suited towards being a meat puppet rather than The Guy in The Suit. Which means you can make BOTH more interesting characters by keeping Prophet's justification... but reframing it as a weak excuse for why Alcatraz should roll over and let Prophet stay alive. I dunno, braindeath plots skeeve me out in the best possible way, and it's just disappointing to see the wasted potential. I guess Cyberpunk kinda scratched that itch, at least. Probably why I did genuinely enjoy that game, despite its flaws.
Are you sure alcatraz is still alive in there? Psycho literally screams at prophet in 3 for walking around with a dead body inside him. I hated the game for it. I found it disgusting that we were literally walking around with a dead body inside the suit which prophet is puppeteering. 2 also makes it clear that the suit is alcatrazs life support.
It WAS his life support. Alcatraz dies at the end of 2, when Phrophet gains full control but otherwise I agree. It would have been way cooler, imo, if Alcatraz actually spoke and objected to the situation he was forcibly placed in while near death at the beginning of the game. Him not having any reaction to the fact that he's basically dead and the suit is keeping him alive really sucks. Besides ocasional flashbacks of Phrophets life since he was the last wearer of that particular suit I kinda wish he wasn't involved beyond that.
"Its the introduction of the Seth.." "Hey hey people, Sseth here" What I heard... and what I wanted. Love that there is back catalogue to go through, after the success of the Morrowind and Oblivion videos I am surprised the older vids do not have more views yet.
I don’t see why the Ceph were written as a hive mind. I’ve even gone as far as reading the book for Crysis 2, and it’s still not really justified, or even properly confirmed. Cephalopods and other similar species like octopus are actually very individually intelligent. It would have been cooler to see them in a hyper advanced federation, or there could only be one big Ceph kraken that’s taken up residence in the city, trying to make humans eliminate each other.
I found myself just stealth past all human enemies and only opened fire once the retconned aliens show up. At this point I feel it's easier to just consider Crysis 2 and 3 a alternate canon, but it does still hurt we don't get any follow-up to Crysis 1's ending.
As mute protags go, I at least appreciate the fact that they mention during a scan from Ghould (iirc) that Alcatraz is basically near-death, lungs and vocal cords shattered from the intro attack, which is why he is mute. I completely agree that an in-game UI health meter could establish this earlier and show you really how fucked up Alcatraz really is during the entire game. And the suit is repairing him whilst simultaneously merging him with the Prophet consciousness, so restoring his vocals is second priority.
15:15 The patch isn't about the Alien Virus, the thing is called a Bacteriophage. It's basically the Virus Carrier/infector Cell. One of the Dev's probably wanted some visual storytelling about the Area the guy had his Doctor title in and thought the Cell Scientists would simply wear a patch to show their Area of expertise.
This is by far the weakest game in the series. One had something really novel, especially playing it back when it came out, such large battlefields with so many options due to the nano suit, and all of it looking so SO GOOD back then when I played it. While 3 has a far better story, but only if you actually liked some of the characters in the first game enough to care what they're up to now.
3 Had alright gameplay, and the visuals are still top-tier today, but no Crysis game has a great story. 3 Has a really horrible story when you think about it, but at least it wasn’t as much of a mess as 2, where they had to rewrite the game for a book to make it coherent.
Cloaking trivializes the game so bad. I mean, they wanted to make me 'feel like the Predator in a concrete jungle', but I ended up feeling like a dispassionate shooter on a school playground. I gave this game several chances and each time it bored me to death, no matter the difficulty. Your jokes are especially spot on in this one, by the way. Fooling around is one good thing that comes out of boredom and indifference, I suppose.
Wow, I can't believe Richard K Morgan was involved as a writer for this. He wrote Altered Carbon, which is a cyberpunk neonoir about the murder of an immortal one percenter who survived getting his head blown off, because in the future everyone has an implant to digitize their consciousness and can easily download it into another body, and while the murderer did destroy this implant, being super rich means you keep back ups in your own personal satellite. Its a pretty good book, and the later books also delve into the mysterious alien civilization that inhabited mars in the past, the alien civilization they got into a war with and probably wiped each other out with biological weapons. They're not really the focus of it, though, thankfully it doesn't become about the precursor aliens who definitely weren't humans but were actually humans all along. It got an okay adaption on netflix, with a really bad second season with anthony mackie that completely missed the point with the aliens. The Gunship song is based on this series.
interestingly, your arguments here led me to the conclusion that the writing has significant metatextual depth. the suit is the savior. the suit is the competence. the product behind the product is the real hero. the story is about the cryengine!
20:50 If the suit is running defibs and the player has to QTE then at that point we're not playing a character. We're playing something that should have gone into a laundry basket labelled TOP SECRET about decade ago but didn't and now it's so nasty it's sentient.
Got hooked on your channel from that Morrowind short. Decided to check out your other stuff, was not dissapointed. A channel worth subbing to. Looking forward to your future videos, I´m really enjoying your stuff!
I personally love the Crysis series. Though all of the flaws you pointed out are true now that I was told about them. Though i play games for fun mainly so don't assume I review games myself or something. Great video though! It would be awesome if you could do a review on ther other 2 games but not many people know about Crysis in general.
I also tried to play this game in 2019 based on all the praise I'd heard over the years. I gave up just before the start of Act II, and I don't drop games very often.
Really great video. Continue to love your gun knowledge. If you want some good gun porn/realism you should try out Insurgency: Sandstorm. Barrel length is realistically modeled so suppressors have a drawback, chambered rounds are accounted for, there's staged reloading, and excellent weapon audio/animations. It's multiplayer only but still worth looking at just for the guns if not for a video.
I remember playing the original crysis when I was a teenager on my first built PC. I haven't really played it since, but I can say that it was way less... narratively focused. Or at least if there was I had very little memory of any cutscenes. There were a few instances of cutscenes between levels, but almost nothing diagetic? I think you'd be shocked at the difference between them if you did check out the original. TBH I bought C2, but I gave up on it in the middle of the first level. I don't really remember why.
why would it be like crysis 1 ? there are two parts exactly like crysis 1, the other is called warhead, crysis 2 is different, and as it should, crysis 3 even more different. they did an excellent job, every other game +sequal should learn to do exactly the same superb job.
I remember playing this game at launch, it was a pretty game sure, but coming of Crysis 1 it was such a step back in scale just to make the game run on Console. The first game had many problems, not even accounting for how hard it was to run, but it had ambition, it was amazing to use the suits varied powers in the giant open ended areas... Not to mention the multiplayer and the modding. And yeah, the story and missions kinda got meh after the big mountain twist, but the first 2/3rds is still amazing. Crysis 2 sanded away all the cool stuff just so it could be a slightly sci-fi modern military shooter with a focus on cinematic set-pieces and a bog-standard multiplayer hoping to compete with CoD.
just wanna say, the music constantly looping is actually a bug not an intended thing, i think there was some way to fix it but its been quite i while since i've played it
35:54 They had that A-10 firing from WING-MOUNTED guns! Okay, you want to use the A-10 because it is a meme plane but you don't even know WHY it is a meme plane?
Glad I came across your channel man! It took me a week or so to watch the whole morrowind video but I really enjoyed ability to watch it like a mini series lol Question for you: Have you considered a Hollow Knight video? Not sure if that’s your style of game or not. Thanks regardless, keep up the good work my man!
Im sure you played crysis 1 already and already know the answers to your questions. I personally like warhead the most because of the end and I applaud any game that makes nukes casual warfare in their universe so crysis 2 also dropped the ball there for me. It's a whole big thing in this game as a cutscene but in the first you just got a prototype gun that shot that shit casually. Biggest loss though was Power Struggle from crysis 1. Servers are dead now but that was the most fun multiplayer mode I've played in a while
"[...] I guess to evacuate people; You've had years to do this and you're still getting people out of the city when its literally falling apart around you [...] and you're still here, what is anybody fighing for?" Actually the most realistic depiction of a U.S. military evacuation in media.
i realised that in first two minutes you went over battlefield 3, prototype, prototype 2 and finally console2 ekhm... crysis 2. and since all those have new york destroyed and 3 have new york infected... we have actual story going on here
I was really disappointed with Crysis 2 after loving the first game and Warhead. A few of the bad aspects you mention, like just one vehicle sequence and the chambered rounds was way more polished in the first game. Crysis 2 is one of the best examples of a "consol-ified" game, up there with Deus Ex Infiinity War.
5:20 I might be misremembering things but doesn't Alcatraz get the paste virus from the suit eventually? Or rather got it immediately after putting on the suit?
Do not worry about not having played Crysis (which is a better game IMO), I remember playing Crysis 2 years ago and for the entire game i wondered what happened, who are those people and really what does the game have to do with Crysis 1? :-P
Aye, Crysis 2 was a great mess that I found unpalatable and also an eyesore. Conversely, the first Crysis had a pretty decent plot, as far as I'm concerned. Never played Warhead, but I've heard it's even better than 1, and I didn't care enough to play 3. I did like the ending theme in Crysis 2 though. I've heard good things about his books ("Altered Carbon" and "13", specifically), though I don't think I've read any of them. To (maybe) play devil's advocate, it's possible he was handed the list of setpieces the "director" wanted in the game, and just had to come up with a narrative that ties all of them together. I wouldn't know though.
@@shanehenson315 Do you know what a joke is? Also I don't call it a movie game because of a focus on cutscenes, I'm talking about the "feel" of the game. Obviously "The movie game" would be Heavy Rain or Beyond: Two Souls or any David Cage game really.
Oh cmon gunship isnt that bad. Personally i think there's something to be said about using lyrics as just another instrument instead of as a tool to add narrative to music. Sure theyre not mutually exclusive but i dont think its that bad. There's better synthwave artists of course but i dont think it merits your scourge.
Personally i like Crysis 2 as a generic shooter and it's my favourite game in the Crysis series. People always praise Crysis 1 for it's open levels, but what's the point of an open level if there is nothing on the outside of the objective.I also like crysis 3, but it feels too short.
Agreed. Couldn't give a damn about the plot, although some ideas are interesting, like the bio-warfare and the concept that Alactraz is basically a dead man walking (Would have been interesting to see that explored more tbh) But gameplay wise, it's really fun and open ended. You can really approach situations in some many ways it makes replaying quite enjoyable and I like the setting, especially near the end as central park gets yoinked out of the ground, its pretty cool.
You have my attention after the Morrowind review. Always love to hear what fellow elitists have to say! Not enough echo-chamber hugboxes of that type if you ask me. Have subbed and will await your further videos :)
Please bear in mind that I had 6 subscribers when I uploaded this video.
Shows you had good quality from the start. Man I've got some Deja vu here.
Sheesh, nice work
It takes dedication to make quality content for six people. It's sort of inspiring, really.
Yes but please explain how i can fit bears in my mind.
Thats no excuse for high quality content.
"It's ok, you're safe, I'm CIA" is something no CIA agent has ever said.
Hearing those words would cause me more concern, not less.
@@Patrician
I'd probably start screaming so they'd have to silence me quickly.
You dare to ignore Im Cia, the most prolific CIA operative, who fought against a confirmed Big Guy and tragically lost his life?
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I can't believe what they did to his airplane.
“Are you thirsty? Would you like a drink? We’ve prepared multiple buckets of water in advance for this meeting.”
Dude you've been doing this for 2 years? Chilling at 72 subscribers? And you consistently bring this fucking level of dedication? Jesus bruh, you're fucking nuts. Props.
Content material and subscriber base is living proof of quality over quantity.
@@chiiiheeee You are too rude. Romans need to support each other.
72 a week ago? nice
FInally won youtube algorithim lottery. Well deserved :)
That's hard to believe, this dude makes some of the best reviews on UA-cam
"And you are?"
"They call me Prophet."
"Prophet who?"
"Prophet Skywalker"
😐..... 🤢🤮
Glad you popped up in my recommendations keeping me entertained on the night shift.
Same
On a binge of the pleb tier playlist after finding your channel through the Morrowind analysis. Great shit so far, hopefully more people find your channel!
Same, I want to save the Morrowind mammoth for last.
Same
the marines are in a lot of these games because the Marine Corps "doesn't have a problem killing aliens." I'm not joking, it was a quote from a Marine PR officer. The Marine Corps wants marines in as much media as possible for recruitment. They are pretty willing to help anyone making something with the military so long as they look badass in their eyes.
Makes a lot of sense actually. They shouldn't have a problem with killing, as long as they don't do it when they're told not to. It's what we pay them for.
The USMC seems more than aware that it's pretty hard to give them "bad PR" in the eyes of the kind of guys they want. After all, Full Metal Jacket is some of the best recruitment material ever made for them and it had a man turned into a soldier so hard that he went nuts and killed his drill instructor then himself, the "how can you kill women and children" scene, and all sorts of other things that would usually be regarded as negative.
I'll give Crytek one thing, their vision of not-so-distant-future NYC has aged really well.
Tara Strickland's father was a character in Crysis 1. His death is almost comedic: He goes off with full marine bravado and gets instantly vaporized by one of the heavy walker units. I'd call this a spoiler except Tara comments on his death back in the Wall Street level. Colonel Barclay awkwardly expositions about her during the evacuation. You're supposed to recognize the name Strickland and pay attention to her. All of this falls kinda flat if you've skipped the first game; You get in the elevator and Barklay just starts blathering on about someone you don't know.
Also, fun trivia: Nomad (from Crysis) is NOT a mute protagonist. He doesn't speak often, but he does carry on conversations with Prophet, Major Strickland, Psycho, and a few others. This is also true when you're playing as Psycho in the Warhead expansion. In fact, Alcatraz is the only mute protagonist in the entire series.
I definitely remember Nomad speaking but I can't for the life of me remember anything he says. He's Generico McGoodGuy. Prophet and Phsycho had some more personality for sure, mostly Psycho in the first game but Prophet at least has a kickass voice actor to back his lines up.
@@rtyui136 Yeah, Prophet's voice actor is really good. I'm actually kinda disappointed the guy doesn't get more work.
Most of what I remember from Nomad is when he gets mouthy with Strickland a couple times, and when he's reporting to JSOC after Prophet is taken.
To be fair, I'd actually say his blandness is a positive trait. He doesn't really get in the way of immersion, but also doesn't come across as a complete idiot when people are talking to him. Hell, his orders to clear out the harbor AAs are because he's like, "sounds easy enough," when Strickland's explaining the situation.
Though, he's easily the weakest member of Raptor Squad as a character (with the possible exception of Aztec, who's only personality is, "the aliens ate me!")
@@StarkeRealm To some extent I agree. I don't think Nomad being kind of a blank slate is necessarily a bad thing as far as a protagonist for your new IP goes. Would you say Psycho's personality had any major effect on your enjoyment of Warhead? I never did get around to playing it
You didn’t miss much of the plot by skipping out on the first game.
The Ceph first appeared on Earth in 2020 on a remote island that ended in a large battle, where a “mothership” was destroyed. The first time you encounter them is in a zero-g section inside a buried ship. They don’t have any sort of power armor to allow them to function in other conditions. Outside of the ship they use drones, robots, and large mech suits.
Tara is the daughter of a man named major Strickland in the first game, who commanded the player via an aircraft carrier. Knowing this, the plot twist with her is even worse.
Prophet was a side character in the first game, but the most involved of your squad. He helped you fight the North Koreans and Ceph. He was the leader of the squad and the only other member to survive. You played as Nomad, who was not silent, but mostly just followed orders. Nomad died off screen in a comic book and was never mentioned again.
That FOV is absolutely horrible
27:58 I'm prob the only person who thought this sounded off, but we usually don't just say our branches. We qualify it with our MOS, posts, tours etc. I get that it's being nit picky though.
They just wanted a fast way to say "PMC bad" as was custom for the era.
@@Patrician agreed, and I always thought their design was basically knock off storm troopers from SW, which I found lazy
As a former 6154 I can confirm.
I am enjoying your analysis and focus on story telling in games. It seems a lost art as graphics, techical specs, and "looks at this shiny thing" has taken over games!
Thank you for focusing on something we have lost in the entertainment industry.
_It seems a lost art as graphics, techical specs, and "looks at this shiny thing" has taken over games! _
When was this not the case? Only adventure games have consistently good stories, usually.
Wtf good jokes that don't overstay their welcome and excellent breakdown. 152 views WUT c'mon you deserve way more.
I need you to understand that you are probably my favorite channel on UA-cam for how much genuine dedication you have despite not raking in huge amounts of subscribers or views. Never stop giving it your all Patrician!!!
The biggest thing I love about your series is that I cannot overlook the games I loved when I listen to these analysis's(?). There are so many holes and so many bad qualities, and as a younger person I absolutely ignored these in favour of what I thought I were great games. Yet a critical eye against them truly makes it obvious how bad they really were. Thanks and I hope you do a lot more series!
I remember being very confused while playing this game back when it came out. The plot seemed to have dementia.
Glad to know it wasn't just me.
I absolutely love the Hammer in 3. In my last playthrough, I held onto the first one you get as it is cosmetically different than the CELL ones later.
Finally... a gun-literate game reviewer. Thank you.
I actually think there's a lot of narrative potential in Alcatraz. Spoilers for Crysis 2 and 3, i... guess, but since Prophet basically just replaces Alcatraz from his own brain, I'm imagining a genuinely really cool plot thread where Alcatraz and Prophet fight over his body, with the former losing more and more of himself and resenting Prophet for it, and the latter adopting an apologetic but 'for the greater good' attitude about it.
And, to be fair, one of the comics or books or whatever has Alcatraz relinquishing control to Prophet under the idea that it's the right thing to do, but where's that juicy conflict? Where's Alcatraz holding on desperately to stop his mind from being overridden?
Also, uh, what makes Prophet more uniquely qualified to fight the aliens, exactly? He's fought them before, yes, but Alcatraz kicks a LOT of ass without Prophet. The only help he has was the Nanosuit for a lot of the first half, so the dude definitely doesn't stand out as especially suited towards being a meat puppet rather than The Guy in The Suit.
Which means you can make BOTH more interesting characters by keeping Prophet's justification... but reframing it as a weak excuse for why Alcatraz should roll over and let Prophet stay alive.
I dunno, braindeath plots skeeve me out in the best possible way, and it's just disappointing to see the wasted potential. I guess Cyberpunk kinda scratched that itch, at least. Probably why I did genuinely enjoy that game, despite its flaws.
Are you sure alcatraz is still alive in there? Psycho literally screams at prophet in 3 for walking around with a dead body inside him. I hated the game for it. I found it disgusting that we were literally walking around with a dead body inside the suit which prophet is puppeteering. 2 also makes it clear that the suit is alcatrazs life support.
It WAS his life support. Alcatraz dies at the end of 2, when Phrophet gains full control but otherwise I agree. It would have been way cooler, imo, if Alcatraz actually spoke and objected to the situation he was forcibly placed in while near death at the beginning of the game. Him not having any reaction to the fact that he's basically dead and the suit is keeping him alive really sucks. Besides ocasional flashbacks of Phrophets life since he was the last wearer of that particular suit I kinda wish he wasn't involved beyond that.
Great example of showing why you don't give up and keep on doing the thing you are passionate for. GOOD JOB Man!
Bro I love your channel. Keep up the good work
"Its the introduction of the Seth.." "Hey hey people, Sseth here"
What I heard... and what I wanted.
Love that there is back catalogue to go through, after the success of the Morrowind and Oblivion videos I am surprised the older vids do not have more views yet.
I don’t see why the Ceph were written as a hive mind. I’ve even gone as far as reading the book for Crysis 2, and it’s still not really justified, or even properly confirmed. Cephalopods and other similar species like octopus are actually very individually intelligent. It would have been cooler to see them in a hyper advanced federation, or there could only be one big Ceph kraken that’s taken up residence in the city, trying to make humans eliminate each other.
I found myself just stealth past all human enemies and only opened fire once the retconned aliens show up. At this point I feel it's easier to just consider Crysis 2 and 3 a alternate canon, but it does still hurt we don't get any follow-up to Crysis 1's ending.
Wow! The quality of your videos is astounding. More please!
As mute protags go, I at least appreciate the fact that they mention during a scan from Ghould (iirc) that Alcatraz is basically near-death, lungs and vocal cords shattered from the intro attack, which is why he is mute.
I completely agree that an in-game UI health meter could establish this earlier and show you really how fucked up Alcatraz really is during the entire game.
And the suit is repairing him whilst simultaneously merging him with the Prophet consciousness, so restoring his vocals is second priority.
I've been slowly watching your videos. So happy to see the insurgence of subscribers you've received, this content is fantastic
Hargreaves voice actor and dialogue were great imo.
Those aliens might actually be dunmer under Dagoth Ur, they have tentacles and use weaponised corprus.
2:45 That aged like fine wine 😂❤️
15:15
The patch isn't about the Alien Virus, the thing is called a Bacteriophage.
It's basically the Virus Carrier/infector Cell.
One of the Dev's probably wanted some visual storytelling about the Area the guy had his Doctor title in
and thought the Cell Scientists would simply wear a patch to show their Area of expertise.
I decided to not get this game when it was revealed that the plot of Crysis was pretty much ignored.
If I hadn't subscribed after I saw the Morrwind Analysis, the BassAckwords joke would have gotten me.
This is by far the weakest game in the series. One had something really novel, especially playing it back when it came out, such large battlefields with so many options due to the nano suit, and all of it looking so SO GOOD back then when I played it. While 3 has a far better story, but only if you actually liked some of the characters in the first game enough to care what they're up to now.
I'm just sad they offed nomad randomly in some stupid comic
3 Had alright gameplay, and the visuals are still top-tier today, but no Crysis game has a great story. 3 Has a really horrible story when you think about it, but at least it wasn’t as much of a mess as 2, where they had to rewrite the game for a book to make it coherent.
Ya know, I'd say Warhead is the strongest of the series.
@@fragarena9910 they didnt
Thanks so much man, this dedication is craxy, been watching though all the back log
Cloaking trivializes the game so bad. I mean, they wanted to make me 'feel like the Predator in a concrete jungle', but I ended up feeling like a dispassionate shooter on a school playground. I gave this game several chances and each time it bored me to death, no matter the difficulty.
Your jokes are especially spot on in this one, by the way. Fooling around is one good thing that comes out of boredom and indifference, I suppose.
Great vids, glad I found your short retrospectives of TES
8:51 Ah a fellow man of culture I see
Wow, I can't believe Richard K Morgan was involved as a writer for this. He wrote Altered Carbon, which is a cyberpunk neonoir about the murder of an immortal one percenter who survived getting his head blown off, because in the future everyone has an implant to digitize their consciousness and can easily download it into another body, and while the murderer did destroy this implant, being super rich means you keep back ups in your own personal satellite. Its a pretty good book, and the later books also delve into the mysterious alien civilization that inhabited mars in the past, the alien civilization they got into a war with and probably wiped each other out with biological weapons. They're not really the focus of it, though, thankfully it doesn't become about the precursor aliens who definitely weren't humans but were actually humans all along. It got an okay adaption on netflix, with a really bad second season with anthony mackie that completely missed the point with the aliens.
The Gunship song is based on this series.
interestingly, your arguments here led me to the conclusion that the writing has significant metatextual depth. the suit is the savior. the suit is the competence. the product behind the product is the real hero. the story is about the cryengine!
The battlefield 3 reference was unexpected.
20:50
If the suit is running defibs and the player has to QTE then at that point we're not playing a character.
We're playing something that should have gone into a laundry basket labelled TOP SECRET about decade ago but didn't and now it's so nasty it's sentient.
The lead writer also previously did work for the Syndicate remake? oh dear.
Got hooked on your channel from that Morrowind short. Decided to check out your other stuff, was not dissapointed. A channel worth subbing to. Looking forward to your future videos, I´m really enjoying your stuff!
I personally love the Crysis series. Though all of the flaws you pointed out are true now that I was told about them. Though i play games for fun mainly so don't assume I review games myself or something. Great video though! It would be awesome if you could do a review on ther other 2 games but not many people know about Crysis in general.
I also tried to play this game in 2019 based on all the praise I'd heard over the years. I gave up just before the start of Act II, and I don't drop games very often.
Really great video. Continue to love your gun knowledge. If you want some good gun porn/realism you should try out Insurgency: Sandstorm. Barrel length is realistically modeled so suppressors have a drawback, chambered rounds are accounted for, there's staged reloading, and excellent weapon audio/animations. It's multiplayer only but still worth looking at just for the guns if not for a video.
Good video. Sick Halo Reach jokes. Hoo-rah
was he saying seth or seph? if theyre a hive mind i think it's funny just calling them all seth
Underated video.
anyone else be like "hey hey people seth here" when he said the arrival of the seth
You have a criminally low amount of subscribers, but it went up by one :)
I remember playing the original crysis when I was a teenager on my first built PC. I haven't really played it since, but I can say that it was way less... narratively focused. Or at least if there was I had very little memory of any cutscenes. There were a few instances of cutscenes between levels, but almost nothing diagetic? I think you'd be shocked at the difference between them if you did check out the original. TBH I bought C2, but I gave up on it in the middle of the first level. I don't really remember why.
the cinematography of the game makes my eyes hurt.
35:54 I guess the aliens have been living under the sea so long they forgot how to fly.
This story is basically a SiFi channel original movie or Asylum movie plot.
Crysis 2 was gonna be like Crysis 1 but well, a lot of things happened inside studio and here we are...
why would it be like crysis 1 ? there are two parts exactly like crysis 1, the other is called warhead, crysis 2 is different, and as it should, crysis 3 even more different. they did an excellent job, every other game +sequal should learn to do exactly the same superb job.
@@Najstefaniji what i aöim talking about is not the cod style(crysis2) but free roam style(crysis1).
I remember playing this game at launch, it was a pretty game sure, but coming of Crysis 1 it was such a step back in scale just to make the game run on Console.
The first game had many problems, not even accounting for how hard it was to run, but it had ambition, it was amazing to use the suits varied powers in the giant open ended areas... Not to mention the multiplayer and the modding.
And yeah, the story and missions kinda got meh after the big mountain twist, but the first 2/3rds is still amazing.
Crysis 2 sanded away all the cool stuff just so it could be a slightly sci-fi modern military shooter with a focus on cinematic set-pieces and a bog-standard multiplayer hoping to compete with CoD.
I did enjoy the illegal aliens joke in the opening cutscene though
Crysis 4 will be the Knack killer.
You should review Crysis 1 , Would love to hear your take. C2 is the worst in the series ,the first one is the best but isn't perfect.
A10s not being fighters aside, they also don't have guns on the wings.
Around 6:30 I'm think "So it's just like NYC irl today" lmfao
just wanna say, the music constantly looping is actually a bug not an intended thing, i think there was some way to fix it but its been quite i while since i've played it
I mean, if I was a hive mind, I'd still have individual drones gloat over people.
35:54 They had that A-10 firing from WING-MOUNTED guns! Okay, you want to use the A-10 because it is a meme plane but you don't even know WHY it is a meme plane?
tbf firing 20mm gunpods is better than the 30 when trying to hit air targets for sure
18:00 funny, I guess the writer thought the same why alcatraz is overwritten in 3
Glad I came across your channel man! It took me a week or so to watch the whole morrowind video but I really enjoyed ability to watch it like a mini series lol Question for you: Have you considered a Hollow Knight video? Not sure if that’s your style of game or not. Thanks regardless, keep up the good work my man!
Crysis 1-2 got great fucking Remasters.
And I'm glad Crysis 3 is also playable now again, with a few smaller, but welcome tweaks.
Good video. I've added a few more to playlist and will subscribe if they're good too
Glad I found your channel, you make my graveyard shift go by smoothly keeping me entertained!! Thank you so much for your work, do you take requests?
Im sure you played crysis 1 already and already know the answers to your questions. I personally like warhead the most because of the end and I applaud any game that makes nukes casual warfare in their universe so crysis 2 also dropped the ball there for me. It's a whole big thing in this game as a cutscene but in the first you just got a prototype gun that shot that shit casually. Biggest loss though was Power Struggle from crysis 1. Servers are dead now but that was the most fun multiplayer mode I've played in a while
"[...] I guess to evacuate people; You've had years to do this and you're still getting people out of the city when its literally falling apart around you [...] and you're still here, what is anybody fighing for?"
Actually the most realistic depiction of a U.S. military evacuation in media.
The Crysis games certainly have their flaws, I won't deny that, but they have always been a guilty pleasure of mine.
i realised that in first two minutes you went over battlefield 3, prototype, prototype 2 and finally console2 ekhm... crysis 2.
and since all those have new york destroyed and 3 have new york infected...
we have actual story going on here
I was really disappointed with Crysis 2 after loving the first game and Warhead. A few of the bad aspects you mention, like just one vehicle sequence and the chambered rounds was way more polished in the first game. Crysis 2 is one of the best examples of a "consol-ified" game, up there with Deus Ex Infiinity War.
5:20 I might be misremembering things but doesn't Alcatraz get the paste virus from the suit eventually? Or rather got it immediately after putting on the suit?
@G4ts33n null Metal.
Classic case of cargo cult development. Crytek knew what features to include, just not why they were including it.
Do thief 4 please. Fucking trainwreck which I couldn't stomach despite having it pirated.
Do not worry about not having played Crysis (which is a better game IMO), I remember playing Crysis 2 years ago and for the entire game i wondered what happened, who are those people and really what does the game have to do with Crysis 1? :-P
I play to forget life, not to watch movie. Since 2005 I watch youtubers that do the hard job for me 16:14
"I have watched enough Hentai to know where this is going"
Aye, Crysis 2 was a great mess that I found unpalatable and also an eyesore. Conversely, the first Crysis had a pretty decent plot, as far as I'm concerned. Never played Warhead, but I've heard it's even better than 1, and I didn't care enough to play 3. I did like the ending theme in Crysis 2 though.
I've heard good things about his books ("Altered Carbon" and "13", specifically), though I don't think I've read any of them. To (maybe) play devil's advocate, it's possible he was handed the list of setpieces the "director" wanted in the game, and just had to come up with a narrative that ties all of them together. I wouldn't know though.
I played this some years back, and I NEVER remembered those boss fights with the walker things
16:15 do you remember what game he's playing/referring to perchance?
The Last of Us
@@Patrician Oh, THE movie game. Colour me surprised.
@@shanehenson315 Do you know what a joke is? Also I don't call it a movie game because of a focus on cutscenes, I'm talking about the "feel" of the game. Obviously "The movie game" would be Heavy Rain or Beyond: Two Souls or any David Cage game really.
Oh cmon gunship isnt that bad. Personally i think there's something to be said about using lyrics as just another instrument instead of as a tool to add narrative to music. Sure theyre not mutually exclusive but i dont think its that bad. There's better synthwave artists of course but i dont think it merits your scourge.
I didn't even bother getting Crysis 3.
I'm kinda curious: what was the seamen joke you teased?
I've never seen that grenade rrspawn bug. Wow that's bad.
Personally i like Crysis 2 as a generic shooter and it's my favourite game in the Crysis series. People always praise Crysis 1 for it's open levels, but what's the point of an open level if there is nothing on the outside of the objective.I also like crysis 3, but it feels too short.
Agreed. Couldn't give a damn about the plot, although some ideas are interesting, like the bio-warfare and the concept that Alactraz is basically a dead man walking (Would have been interesting to see that explored more tbh)
But gameplay wise, it's really fun and open ended. You can really approach situations in some many ways it makes replaying quite enjoyable and I like the setting, especially near the end as central park gets yoinked out of the ground, its pretty cool.
22:45 - “didn’t you die”
“He didn’t make it”
Whatever.
Is doom the only game to do silent protag that doesn't just follow along?
The Cryo Stasi
So wait, is Alcatraz jut dead or do they have to work out a time share?
I feel like Crytek is allergic to success.
That rome game only confirmed it
@@DeriDraws That game was literally the biggest case of wasted potential I’ve ever played.
You have my attention after the Morrowind review. Always love to hear what fellow elitists have to say! Not enough echo-chamber hugboxes of that type if you ask me. Have subbed and will await your further videos :)
38:14 - so edgy xdddd
Story about presumably normal people.
-My name is John Smith, what is your?
-The call me slayer.
XDDDD
I think it's pretty clear that crysis is just a tech demo that had potential enough to be a full fledge game.
4:45 this beginning is pure cringe. the game, I mean