One can dream. Let's just hope that when they make a fourth installment it goes back to it's roots and doesn't continue the railroad CoD approach 2 and 3 did.
@@towelie5997 i haven't played crysis 3 but crysis 2 was really good imo, it gets good when you fight the ceph, yeah it was more linear but you still had options
Crysis made me feel very frustrated about today's games. During its time, it was OK for Crysis to be sub-60 fps simply because it looks so god damn beautiful at max settings. Now games like PUBG and a whole lot of others runs like shit even when the graphical setting is set to the lowest dog-shit possible.
@@metalc.s3170 I used to be a huge fanboy and used to play that game all the time...but the optimization is trash so I uninstalled and instead got the lite version...it's much beeter and it has a really fun 4v4
Know the comment above is 2 years old but I think its still relevant today and deserves a reply. Kalsonic that is because even tho hardware is getting faster, programmers are becoming worse and this is effecting software quality, why are they becoming worse? First because of the first fact that PC's are now much faster, so programmers can write much worse and inefficient code and it will still run at a "acceptable" speed, second and very dangerous to the future of programming, because many new programmers don't know how to really code in low level languages, like c/c++, languages that require you to know more about the underworkings of the PC hardware, like memory layout and CPU special code like SIMD, instead this programmers have grown, to code in higher level languages like C# and now not even writing real code but just linking boxes around in visual coding tools, languages and systems that hide from you what the hardware is doing, of course to make your life easier but at the same time they make you write less efficient and slow code. This is the reason why AAA developers are going away from dx11 and OpenGL and transitioning to Dx12, Vulkan and Metal, even tho this new graphics API's are much much harder to work with they force you to learn low level knowledge and so make faster games using less hardware power.
@@Axetwin You are right in those points. I just wanted to point out that Easy/Normal/Hard only change the Accuracy & Sight of enemies, and wether you can remotely use the vehicle's turrets, as well as your binoculars. The Delta Force difficulty takes away your crosshair & doubles the damage enemies deal to you.
I personally had no problem with the second alien half of Crysis. I still have all three Crysis games installed and regularly still replay missions from them. Being from a country with a comparatively small player base, the few multiplayer Power Struggle games that I was able to play when it was still up were great fun and its absence from the sequels is a pity. Crysis is something I look back on fondly and wish I could show to more gamers today. Edit: The Crysis 2 theme still gives me goosebumps, in fact let me find it and listen to it right now.
I absolutely love the alien parts of Crysis. It makes the whole campaign so much more enjoyable because it's such a change but it's still super fun. I love linear games and more open games like the start of Crysis so I always loved the way the game went.
My issue with second half is how rushed it feels. Core level while polarizing is one of my favorite ones due to how alien it feels and how game really turns turntables by instead of being the hunter to become hunted as intruder that needs to be dealt with. Unfortunately after that Crysis is becoming a mess that underutilize aliens by making 2 short levels and annoying VTOL section. Warhead despite being shorter and in some ways worse than original brilliantly addresses this issue by fixing level design with AI changes and adding Koreans into mix that makes me wish that if Crysis 1 had the same way of handling aliens as Warhead it would be much better received.
I had footage of me throwing frogs into the air and watching them float away like helium balloons. Weird physics glitch. I also threw a chicken through a wall. 10/10 game tbh.
I remember to brag about my HP laptop to be able to run crisis 2 on mid settings, now my phone has more processing power, but seeing the foliage moving, destructible buildings and the mechanics of the nano-suit were mind-blowing Very Incredible production and writing. Definitely subscribing
MandoMonge I mean, consoles run Crysis 2 on Low. So yes, a current phone could run the console variant of Crysis 2 if properly compiled and optimized. But the Very High DX11 version of Crysis 2? Nah.
19:27 Fun Fact. NASA bragged abut their ability to *almost* run Crysis at max settings in 2008 using a custom built Cray XT3 Opteron supercomputer. When they did finally manage to run it at full capacity with no demonstrative frame lag it only lasted for 5-10 minutes before a fatal system crash. So no, even NASA could not run Crysis :D
2007: “Hey i got just got a high end graphics card that can run games beautifully.” “Yea but can it run Crysis” 2020: “Just got a new graphics card and guess what... it can run Crysis” “Yea... But can it run Minecraft with ray tracing”
With regards to the shudden plot shift, i've never totally understood why it baffles people, exactly. It's very clear that Crysis is basically taking it's cue from PREDATOR. An Elite spec ops team is sent into the jungle to deal with an opposing military force, kicks their butts, and is suddenly side-swipped by an Alien force that completely flips them end over end. Or for a video game parallel... CONTRA. In a lot of ways CRYSIS is the FPS sandbox version of Contra. Go to an island to fight some terrorists group, come up against aliens hidden within the island. Does it work? Well, I guess it doesn't for a lot of people... But I absolutely loved it. It does make you feel like a super badass when you go from contending with the Korean forces and then suddenly all bets are off when the aliens start coming in full force. Yes, the mystery is quickly tapped out, but the tension (I felt) ratchets up during the second half. I felt a sense of urgency as I watched more and more and more aliens pouring out of the mountain, until you can literally see tens of thousands of them flying through the air away from the island. I would *love* to see a game try and tackle an alien invasion in an urban setting like Crysis tackled one in the jungle setting. Really giving the player a sense of perspective from smaller scale at first, to absolutely apocalyptic later on. Watching the aliens attack the escort ships and sinking them like something out of 20,000 Leagues was such an "Oh, shit" moment.
OpenMawProductions It baffles people because ITS FUCKING ALIENS. Contra was a game far passed, it’s not like it was weighing in people mind. Nor did Contra by any stretch establish the story telling conventions of military games. I’d hope it be obvious as to why.
I thought the same about the Predator reference but the problem is the way you play as your character for the first half suddenly shifts and most of your tactics just don't apply anymore. I guess it depends on the player but for me, I loved how I had to think my way around the first half (and try different tactics by repeating levels) but in the second half it became a generic shooter. I liked the interior of the ship but didn't like the maze like structure so it kinda went down hill there and then again outside.
If baffles people because it basically jerks you away from the mystery hunter plot to useless korean missions. When you get used to that and start getting good missions about koreans, you suddenly get a bad alien plot. Also gameplay kinda sucks after a while.
I really wanted Crysis 2 to be a game where you lead a global offensive against the aliens, as seen the thousands of aliens pouring out of lingshan... instead we get to have aliens invade new york while the most heavily armed human group spent their resources not on fighting aliens but hunting you...
14 years later I discovered that there were nanosuit mode shortcuts like double tapping crouch/prone for cloak, double sprint button for speed mode, double jump/melee for strength and double S for armor... the more you know.
Pretty much nailed it. The first half of crysis was the best shooter of all times as far as i am concerned. Its fast, tactical, creative, challenging and fun. Also, the multiplayer absolutely amazing. Takes a while to get good at, because mastering the movement is just as important as shooting well, but it was the most fun ive ever had online or on lan parties. No one plays it online anymore sadly, but it was great while it lasted.
Just found your channel, and I'm watching this on November 13th. It's like you made this video for me and uploaded it at just the right time. I'm glad I found this channel - I got hours of quality content to watch. YES.
I honestly loved the Sci-fi alien section and I loved the way you had to try and figure out what to do and at the same time the aliens are learning about you as well, collecting rubbish and stuff. I honestly thought it was a decent and realistic twist from the normal game play and I didn't find it that frustrating. The aliens afterwards though were a bland point in their own power armour.
Lazy Game Reviews uploaded Crysis retrospective called 10 years later, at exact time as you, it's like literally next to each other in my feed. What a coinsidence!
Both Crysis 1 and Far Cry 1 tried to pull a twist similar to Halo CE's Flood and failed. In Halo, we have the badass shotgun and rocket launcher to deal with the Flood. In Crysis and Far Cry, the new enemies are bullet sponges.
The cynical part of me says that the change into an action blockbuster was just Electronic Arts meddling. Call of Duty MW was released literally 1 week earlier, and of course EA wanted a piece of that pie. That said, I liked Crysis on release, but I don't think that I really stopped to appreciate its gameplay back then since I played so many FPS games around that time.
I feel like the decision was more making the game double as a tech demo. The early levels are pretty, big, and show off a lot of the flexibility the engine offers. Then you start to get more linear levels that push the graphics even further and have unique gimmicks. You got stuff like vehicle sections, a zero-g level, a vtol level. The later levels have that frost effect coating everything, lots of scripted events and all the pretty shaders the Ceph bring with them. Then you get to the final boss fight, and it takes place on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the night, so a relatively small area, but I remember that last level looking better than everything else by a fair margin.
Well pretty much Crytek thought they had a moneymaker on there hands like Call of Duty. The difference is you can't go from a crazy openworld game that pushes your computer to it's max (Warhead as well). To a pc/console port that limited the open areas due to the consoles limitations. Reason why first one sold so well in my opinion was also due to word of mouth (but can your computer run Crysis) Was actually a game that was made for high end pc's pretty amazing actually. EA had nothing to do with it really, Crytek simply thought they had a potentially moneymaker clone on there hand (due to Crysis 1/Warhead sales) they gambled on moving to console, but in doing so alienated the high end pc base. Those on PC, immediately noticed dumb down graphics/new "open world" Also one of the first times I can think of other than Half-life/Unreal tournament, where general population did everything in there power to make it even better. Better A.I, longer suit function, higher foliage quality ect.
The level inside the alien base was pretty good. I remember being curious due to the unknown nature of the structure and highly cautious due to the flying squids
I forgot Crysis had the ability to lean! Such an important mechanic! Nice video, very interesting analysis and calm presentation. also nice thumbnail that drew me in.
Also, the Nuclear Cataclysm mod for Crysis 1 seems like a retelling of the story but without the Aliens. It's well made and story and gameplay wise it works well too. Definitely recommend you to check it out too.
Kinda important to note: the sleep dart was invaluable at taking out enemy nanotech suits, as it would put them down instantly and let you wail away at them until they died. The sleep dart was also a lot of fun for extreme stealth missions.
@@Killerbee_McTitties it's been a decade since i last fought those You are telling me darts worked? God.. I spent so much time on them,usually hiding and shooting in weird areas
Regarding the ending monologue, about games that push the limits, etc. Recently I started playing the new Red Dead Redemption, and perhaps it's just the added perspective of first-person requiring more detail in one of Rockstar's open worlds, but I was pretty impressed at first seeing both that tell-tale expansiveness we've come to expect of Rockstar and all of the intricate detail one would expect from an older Bethesda game. The way mechanics were blended together almost-seamlessly. It was the first time in the entirety of my ownership of an Xbone that I thought to myself, "So this is what this machine can do. This is the future of gaming." Then I had to restart a train-mission from a checkpoint and my horse was spawned on the tracks right in front of the locomotive, flattened and I remembered that I was playing a video game. lmao Still a very impressive attempt at pushing the envelope. And I love the irony of an Old Western game being a harbinger of the future.
Rockstar's game design is still very ass backward. If you haven't seen it. NakeyJackey's video on RDR2 is very interesting. Those guys need to decide if they want to do a movie game or an open revolutionary game. Because the only reason they are at the top is because no one else is even attempting of doing it right and proper. RDR2 wouldn't be that hard to beat simply because of it's crippling fault that comes from the contradictory game design. Ubisoft almost did it but... it's ubisoft. Making decisions that just makes you go : what the fuck? WHY the fuck?
Few thoughts from someone who completed "korean section" of Crysis 1 over 30 times (if not more): 5:12 there is a point to changing other attachments: -when it comes to optics,reflex sight is for close engagements. Choice between assault scope and sniper scope may seem obvious in favor of sniper scope, but when you take into consideration that assault provides slightly lower magnification and takes less space on screen (so you have more awareness), it's preferable for most medium range encounters (unless you want to go for some super precise shots) -underbarrel attachments add another firing mode to your weapon, so while normally you can go between full auto and semi in single press, with an attachment going from semi to auto will take 2 presses and in some cases this might be costly. -sleeping dart is super OP, with a single shot on any part of the body you can take enemy out of fight for decent amount of time, it also works on korean nano soldiers which turns any encounter with them into a joke if you know this. While normally it recharges slowly, but when you switch fire modes it resets and it's ready to fire. Combine it with speed mode to increase rate at which you can do this and you can easily take out entire patrols with just a dart (then finish them off with melee while they sleep),in most cases it is easier and safer than using guns. What you say is only true when it comes to laser/flashlight. Laser is very usefull and has no drawbacks, while flashlight has very limited utillity, makes enemies detect you easier and negates your clock. Also suppresor doesn't lower damage but it increases damage drop off over range, which is important distinction. Damage reduction is inconsequential in close quarters. It also doesn't effect one shot headshot on standard soldiers. 5:30 Those fences can be jumped over in strength mode, so actually game doesn't force you into specific entry points (and you even say it later on). If you are quick enough you can even do this stealthy by switching into clock mid jump. Even 2'nd level base that is surrounded by minefield can be entered anywhere player wants, all it takes is shooting 2 claymore mines (unlike jumping mines they will always kill you), this will destroy fence and then you can just sprint on SPEED mode past jumping mines. Those fences and walls actually make approach easier since they block line of sight for the enemy. 6:50 Two important notes regarding difficulty. On every difficulty game restricts amount of enemies that can at one time accurately shoot at player. On every difficulty there is "mercy mode". Once player health drops past certain point, enemies give player a short break from hitting him. On one hand if player is unaware of this, barely surviving can feel great. On the other if player know this, it starts feeling very artificial. Enemies will just fail to kill player despite being capable of doing so and this might happen several times in single fight. 7:38 this is scripted, normally they use flares early on (they are slow and must be fired from certain spot, plus if you kill guy even after he shot flare, but didn't put flare pistol away trigger won't activate) or radios (as far as sync between animation and trigger they are exact opposite of flare, trigger happens even before guys starts speaking). There are also 3 exceptions, one of them is semi-bullshit, one is obvious bullshit that can be only avoided by abusing grabing
8:35 AI only "works" if player doesn't use cloak much.Effectivelly using cloak breaks AI. 10:10 SCAR(or FY with fire ammo)+strength mode+sniper scope in practical terms is only slightly weaker than sniper rifle/gauss in 99% of engagements and you can get single silent headshot (or dart). 10:22 ARMOR: is objectively weakest of all modes. It can tank only few shots before running out of energy. And once out of energy you either hide or die. Also 100 points of armor are not equal to 100 points of health, you have 2 times more health. Ironically best use for ARMOR is when you are in cover, as it regenerates energy fastest. CLOAK: Avoiding damage is cheaper than tanking,so it's better at keeping you alive than ARMOR. While at first drain rate when moving can feel extreme, given how littered with cover enviroment is you can cover pretty long distance (and then quickly regenerate energy with ARMOR). Also while CLOAK will drain all energy when you attack while using it, there is nothing stoping you from quickly switching back and forth while killing enemies. SPEED:. When sprinting you loose your momentum as soon as you release sprint key. This means that you can't combo it with STRENGTH for longer jumps. Ramming, while fun is very inefficent. Better way is to lauch yourself forward with speed plus jump, switch to STRENGTH and punch a guy. Only time when when ramming is preferable is when it would end up ragdolling enemy into water since it will kill him. STRENGTH:in theory it should result in one hit melee kill on standard enemies, in pracise it is somewhat inconsistant with armored ones. Most usefull at stabilazing aim, recoil reduciton is nice but it drains energy bit to fast. Throwing objects is fun, but rarely useful. Throwing soldiers into other soldiers is fun, but rarely useful. If you grab a guy and throw him, he will die no matter how far you throw them. But if you punch grabed enemy in any other mode it will still kill him, but it won't cost you energy. Sidenote 1: enemies don't take fall damage. Sidenote 2: grabing and killing by grabing is perfectly silent. On the topic of suit modes, it would be nice if there was another one just for recharging energy and health. In existing system recharging energy and fighting at the same time only works in SPEED mode, since as long you don't press sprint you won't drain any, while in other modes it is either drain by enemies (ARMOR), or by shooting/melee (STRENGTH). 15:00 apart from early section before you get to first fire, prophet excort mission is more about forcing player to defending certain spots, since enemies won't kill him as long as he is near fire. Even if he takes some damage while moving from one fire to the other, you can just go back to the last one and he will be restored to full health also ammo isn't problem, level has sufficent amount and even if you are wasteful when you meet prophet you get alien gun with infinite ammo 21:08 fun fact: you can see alien before it hits you, but camera cuts to you falling just few meters before actual contact is being made
Oh man, the visuals, the music, the gameplay - just got a bit blown away by the nostalgia train that hit me. *sniffs* Thank you so much for this beautiful critique of a game that is - at least to me - the best shooter I've played and something I will forever remember fondly and dearly in my heart. 10 years...the 14 year old me was just gobsmacked at the visual detail, back when I was playing on 1280x1024 with my 8800GTX (which I still have but don't use anymore). Good times, 2007 was a great year. EDIT: Just read the comic strips along with the SOS New York track from Crysis 2 as musical background. The last frame of Prophet walking off as Nomad lies in the dirt just killed me a little inside. Shame it didn't get the visual representation it deserved. Lots of interesting plot lines in there.
When I built a PC in 2008, my goal was "good enough to run Crysis". I spent literally thousands, and I was able to run the first half of the game with high settings, however the later half required that I turn shit way down if I wanted to see multiple frames per second. I could run literally any other game at max settings w/o framerate issues. Shit was wild af!
This is a great video. I remember that once i beat this game I would play the first half of the game over and over again. Never played the second half again.
Second part allmost fill like a challenge for all the weapon systems on the game. Like they where extremly hard to kill, required good aiming powerfull weapons.
Wait a minute... you are Raycevick's brother or bro (as in friend)? Cuz if it's the former I'm really surprised and not surprised at the same time. Haha. As for the video - Crysis. This word still carries a weight, all these years later. It's a flawed gem that deserved better, but I'm going to say we could've ended with a much worse deal if Crytek didn't stick to their guns (graphics). It's also one of my favourite games of all time, just because I was fascinated with it when it was released. The first half of the game was grounded and these graphics were just unreal. It took a good few years for other games to even catch up it (Far Cry 2 in 2008 looked pretty sweet though (by using a little bit of CryEngine code in its Dunia engine actually)). But yeah, it's been 10 years and weirdly we are where we are and kind a not where we thought we might be when this game came out. Surely 2 whole generations of consoles would've been released by now, right? Great video again!
Well over a year late, I feel its worth noting that crysis actually gives the aliens away during the intro skydive. Its been a while, but IIRC theres an audio cue from someone asking what the thing is, and if you look around you see a flying ceph loop in from the side to knock you out of the air.
28:25 God damn Vikings man, not only did they get first to everywhere on Earth, the got to a moon of Jupiter first as well? Nice. (Also fun going through your older content Whitelight, as I discovered you recently. Great video even today, but it makes your new content stand out as exceptional even more, nicely done)
One of my first memories in which I learned how different Crysis was started when I first approached those two guards on the beach. I had the difficulty switched to "Delta" just to see how it would be. I was at least 30 yards away standing in the open when they spotted me and instantly fired, like switch I watched my body drop in a few shots. I was genuinely surprised at not only the speed in which I was detected and killed, but also the distance which they were able to do so. Even with all of Crysis's perks and faults, it was clearly a different type of FPS and that's why I loved it! I highly enjoyed the zero-G mission because of how confusing and difficult it was. Crysis had built up my skills with the nano suit, and this mission just flipped everything I ever learned over on its head. If you felt like a rat in a maze, desperate and confused just hoping to survive long enough to find a way out then you'll know exactly what I mean. Even after I got out the remaining missions carried a sense of dread in comparison to the superiority of Act 1. Now I had to fight off the aliens which were much faster and stronger than the soldiers I was used to; not to mention the limited resources available to fight them. I wanted OFF that island because of how much I feared those things, and I treasure that experience because of it. The final level was reminiscent of watching the final act of Jurassic Park 2, after all that hell you just got out of, it still wasn't over. My first play through I did everything in the wrong order by prioritizing the larger targets before the respawning smaller ones, thus rather than killing off the small ones and focusing on the big ones before the next wave, it was complete chaos having to fend off all enemy types at once. A very challenging climax only ruined by the cheesy ending. Playing this in 2015 on the console port was a breath of fresh air. and I consider Crysis 1 to have the best gameplay arc out of any FPS I have experienced so far!
Heh, I remember how back in 2007 Crysis had been advertised on almost every computer- or gaming-oriented resource I'd been visiting that time, and it really brought my anticipation to highest levels since my PC obviously couldn’t run the game. Read a ton of reviews where critics were praising “the best graphics they've seen”, “Immersive gameplay mechanics (well, they probably used different adjectives as the word “immersive” wasn’t that commonly applied to gaming features)”, etc. So, after something around two years I finally got a new hardware capable of running Crysis at pretty high settings. Yeah, can’t really describe my emotions when I first got my hands on it. But I'm sure able to tell how it felt after a hour of playing. I don't know if my expectations were too high or it was because of amount of decent games I'd played, but Crysis felt to me like a complete disappointment. Sure, the graphics were beyond good but there was nothing behind it. The gameplay was dull, the environment felt too flat and uninspired, the suit features were too clunky to be used for taking advantage of enemies. Overall, the game felt like and very delicious looking donut with it’s fillings made of crap. Since that day, graphics in games became for me the most meaningless factor. But watching your video now, I think, after all these years I should give this game another chance. I see it's not perfect but maybe now I would be able to give it a credit it really deserved. Thank you for it. You are really a white light in some ways, you uncover something hidden from others in the dark. I hope this channel will live and prosper, and more people will come here, cause you make content that really should be seen and rated. Best of luck!
The issue with enemies "adapting" to your play style by using goggles or armor piercing bullets doesn't really factor in that unlike MGSV, the game takes place over a period of 2-3 days. You'd also have to assume that the Koreans somehow have access to enough cloak vision goggles to detect a billion dollar highly confidential secret super suit. Sure, they have chinese knock off suits, but the cloaking might be different. Who knows? it's not really explained, but I'd just assume that it'd be too expensive to pass out to the regular Jeong. In MGSV they started wearing helemts and flak jackets over a longer period of time, and both of those are fairly standard. What could be fun though is if the under utilized MGS3 feature of food and ammo supply dumps were introduced, so if you destroy them the enemy is hungry or they run out of ammo. MGS3 also had hit detection so if you shot an enemy in the leg they'd limp around, or in the arm they wouldn't be able to fire their primary rifle and switch to a sidearm.
Crysis is one of my favorite games of all time. Even though I love Crysis could I never play through it in one go, I simply could not complete the Alien ship mission. I'm sad that there is no new Crysis Game but happy at the same time that it is a complete Trilogy. (Same with Dead Space) Crysis is also the reason why I was that "graphics over everything else" kind of guy for quite some time. My "new Crysis" is Titanfall, sure it doesn't look as good but with the sci-fi setting (which I'm always a fan of), cloak, double jump and the Titans it's the closest you can currently get like Crysis I didn't even know that a Crysis comic exists, yet I knew that Nomad died. But let's be honest that comic is pretty ridiculous at some points. Teleportation? Time travel? Are you serious??? But after watching your video and knowing that there is so much wasted potential in this game makes me a bit sad. Crytek even was my favorite Developer for some time but since they never did something like Crysis again I kind of forgot about them. Well, I'm going to watch the other Crysis videos you made and I hope everyone who reads this has a great day!
Phenomenal video. And here I sat thinking I had already seen all high-quality game review channels (Joseph Anderson etc.). Seems like I was wrong. Also about your last point what the next game pushing the boundaries will be, I immediately thought "Star Citizen". Kind of funny how it is also running on a (highly modified) version of the CryEngine.
Decided to finally play through Crysis on my 4th go thanks to you. I thought I would find the second half easier to accept knowing it probably wouldn't be as good, but now having finished it i have to say the alien spaceship part is the most infuriated and bored I have been in a long time, and everything after is just so dull. I greatly enjoyed the first half up until Kyongs death but personally what made Crysis fun for me was playing it as a stealth shooter, using a sniper scope on the FYS on single-fire with silencer, maximizing cloak usage and such, all that just went out the window with the alien part. I have to thank you either way though, it was a good game and I'm glad I finished it.
Crysis - still the game I used to benchmark my configs :D But seriouslly, I spent 10 000 good hours in Crysis 1 (Single Player mostly, Multiplayer till was alive and the fun Sandbox Editior). And Everytime it feels like a new thing. 46 times I finished the campaign, not to find something new, not because of some mod... simple because I love this game and it will be always there in the top for me
This concludes the definitive review of the crisis series, an important yet controversial milestone of a franchise in FPS history. Congrats to Whitelight for making them.
I remember trying Crysis years ago, hiding in a bush hundreds of metres from any enemies and taking a shot. As soon as I fired once all enemies within a few hundred metre radius immediately knew exactly where I was. The AI didn't seem to support the variety of gameplay options that it appeared to at first glance.
I get sooo sad(by sad I mean sentimental) whenever I see this game because this is the first game that I ever played and I had a blast playing it I have soo many great memories with this game and I really respect it maybe it's not rememberd but in my opinion it's a legend I will never forget it
To this day, few if any games have managed to make a stealth shooter look and feel as good as this. The story and character development were balls. But the first half nailed how it should feel to be techno super soldier. Would be a 10/10 if the dart gun could be used to incapacitate soldiers without drawing attention
Well even if there are many youtubers that have channels similar to yours i feel that you can get to a big number of subs. I legit believe in you because you are not afraid to throw your opinion out there and your reviews are pretty good. I'm not gonna write you a book now , i'm only here to tell you what i think in a short comment. Your editing and overall quality of the video are both great and you even have your own style that is based more on the subjective side of things but with facts and an objective part to back your opinion up , so yeah , great job overall. Give yourself a pat on the back.
I haven't tried Star Citizen, but the one thing that I love about the project is the fact that they're doing exactly the same, balls to the walls let's see what we can do even if it costs a billion and never really works.
About the freeze rays, in both singleplayer and multiplayer... all u have to do is move your mouse left-right-left-right in rapid succession to unfreeze.
I started the franchise with Crysis 2, the Crysis 1 and then the third title. It's sad to see this franchise die, even with Crysis 3 which died at launch and effectively killed any more hope for a new game, but it was also my favourite games of all time, and best in the franchise in my opinion. The franchise had tones of potential and cult value, but Crytek's odd decisions killed this franchise. Here's hope to EA or Crytek reviving or rebooting the franchise in the future!
They DO react to dead bodies, playing on hardest difficulty I'd be half way through clearing out a base and the alarm sounds meaning a patrol has found a corpse
Bunka Fas Ai, which activate alarms or fire flares. In the first outpost in crysis 1, i used a suppressed rifle and sniped a guy when he went behind the house where none of the others could have seen, and they still reacted like I had just launched a rocket at his feet. They might react to bodies, but I havent found much evidence for that because the react to just about everything else like crazy
What's funny : Around 16:30 you throw away some amazing ideas of what the game could have been ... I'm glad custom maps did all of that, they are 90% of my time on this game.
Hey buddy, 15 minutes in and you seem to have completely missed an aspect of crysis that I only discovered in the final third of the game vs the aliens. The game is definitely worth replaying with this in mind: Maximum Strength boosts the power of your gun shots. Im not sure if you played on the hardest difficulty on your first playthrough like I did, but the games three phases (infiltration, all out war, then alien invasion) all taught me very distinct styles of play. I felt forced to adopt and learn how to abuse the suits mechanics if i wanted any chance of surviving. For the aliens in the game it becomes about gaining position with a speed and strength jump (using speed to run forward, switching to strength to jump high (the momentum from speed takes you very far with the strength jump) taking your shots and then switching to armour if needed and otherwise just speed to cover while your energy comes back. You've went over how as the game progresses you end up fluidly switching between and combining aspects of the nanosuits abilities, but you seem to have missed the most powerful combination by not discovering that strength enhances your shots on hardest difficulty. While learning the game I was so reliant on stealth for about the first third until I got more weapons and more comfortable with the mechanics. After that it was combining speed, strength and stealth to take the fight to the soldiers. However the removal of stealth as an option forced new strategies which then you can apply to subsequent playthroughs and become an absolute monster of a soldier. When you are invisible and you break stealth by shooting you lose all energy (or at least down to 20 from memory) however if you turn of stealth into strength you will 1 shot any enemy that isn't in a nano suit, use 10 energy to fire the enhanced shot, and then be able to instantly turn on stealth again. You essentially become predator. This combination is so goddamn broken that all subsequent playthroughs of the game i've heavily limited my use of stealth or else the game becomes far too easy.
I am a master of cloaking, walking to a spot where I have one enemy on sight, aiming for the head, putting maximum armor and taking a shot instantly, cloaking back and repositioning myself for another target. Its just so fun in this game, stealth combined with tactical positioning.
i have to point something out, halfway though the video hes taking about how if you run out of ammo during the alien part of the game you have to restart, prophet gave you a hand held lmg thing that the aliens use, its not bad once you get used to it (it has infinite ammo, but a heat mechanic like lmgs in the game) and then a minute later about the frozen part, if you quickly wiggle your mouse you can break out of it in a split second, the only time itll get you killed is if your being shot at while the freeze beam is coming for you.
I am a fan of Crysis Wars. It is still best multi/online game to me. It is not about AI and there was no physics failure. However, they shutted down the game. I do not know, if you ever played that game, but I do now that if it would show up again, every one of us would uninstall the other multi/online games. It had big maps and we were able to use Vtols, vehicles, TAC tanks. We were setting up teams defending bases and being snipers.. I missed that game so much
Well, back in 2011, my mom's laptop did run it, I don't remember what settings it had, but I certainly remember having to over use the cloak and scope since I only had a trackpad to aim.
Y’all wanna talk about how the official crysis twitter just made a tweet a few hours ago saying RECEIVING DATA after almost 4 years of silence?
One can dream. Let's just hope that when they make a fourth installment it goes back to it's roots and doesn't continue the railroad CoD approach 2 and 3 did.
and now we know it was just a really subpar remake of crysis 1 :c
@@towelie5997 i haven't played crysis 3 but crysis 2 was really good imo, it gets good when you fight the ceph, yeah it was more linear but you still had options
Crysis made me feel very frustrated about today's games. During its time, it was OK for Crysis to be sub-60 fps simply because it looks so god damn beautiful at max settings. Now games like PUBG and a whole lot of others runs like shit even when the graphical setting is set to the lowest dog-shit possible.
Graphics are the least of PUBG’s problems. Jesus Christ there’s a lot of problems with that trash
@@metalc.s3170 I used to be a huge fanboy and used to play that game all the time...but the optimization is trash so I uninstalled and instead got the lite version...it's much beeter and it has a really fun 4v4
Know the comment above is 2 years old but I think its still relevant today and deserves a reply.
Kalsonic that is because even tho hardware is getting faster, programmers are becoming worse and this is effecting software quality, why are they becoming worse? First because of the first fact that PC's are now much faster, so programmers can write much worse and inefficient code and it will still run at a "acceptable" speed, second and very dangerous to the future of programming, because many new programmers don't know how to really code in low level languages, like c/c++, languages that require you to know more about the underworkings of the PC hardware, like memory layout and CPU special code like SIMD, instead this programmers have grown, to code in higher level languages like C# and now not even writing real code but just linking boxes around in visual coding tools, languages and systems that hide from you what the hardware is doing, of course to make your life easier but at the same time they make you write less efficient and slow code.
This is the reason why AAA developers are going away from dx11 and OpenGL and transitioning to Dx12, Vulkan and Metal, even tho this new graphics API's are much much harder to work with they force you to learn low level knowledge and so make faster games using less hardware power.
Whats wrong with having less than 60 fps?
Instablaster...
Fun fact, enemies deal equal damage across difficulties. Their reaction time and accuracy is what the difficulty affected.
Well yes, but on Delta difficulty you can only survive half the damage than on Normal.
@@howtomundane3109 Because enemies are insanely accurate on that difficulty. They die just as fast as you do if your accuracy is on point.
@@Axetwin You are right in those points. I just wanted to point out that Easy/Normal/Hard only change the Accuracy & Sight of enemies, and wether you can remotely use the vehicle's turrets, as well as your binoculars.
The Delta Force difficulty takes away your crosshair & doubles the damage enemies deal to you.
Thats better design tbh,people really dont know whats good nowdays,they want shit over gold
That's why I love how Crysis deals with difficulty
I personally had no problem with the second alien half of Crysis. I still have all three Crysis games installed and regularly still replay missions from them. Being from a country with a comparatively small player base, the few multiplayer Power Struggle games that I was able to play when it was still up were great fun and its absence from the sequels is a pity. Crysis is something I look back on fondly and wish I could show to more gamers today.
Edit: The Crysis 2 theme still gives me goosebumps, in fact let me find it and listen to it right now.
Apparently it was composed by hans Zimmer so no surprises there
I absolutely love the alien parts of Crysis. It makes the whole campaign so much more enjoyable because it's such a change but it's still super fun. I love linear games and more open games like the start of Crysis so I always loved the way the game went.
My issue with second half is how rushed it feels. Core level while polarizing is one of my favorite ones due to how alien it feels and how game really turns turntables by instead of being the hunter to become hunted as intruder that needs to be dealt with. Unfortunately after that Crysis is becoming a mess that underutilize aliens by making 2 short levels and annoying VTOL section. Warhead despite being shorter and in some ways worse than original brilliantly addresses this issue by fixing level design with AI changes and adding Koreans into mix that makes me wish that if Crysis 1 had the same way of handling aliens as Warhead it would be much better received.
You haven't played crysis if you haven't thrown a frog at a truck with full power mode. Try it.
I had footage of me throwing frogs into the air and watching them float away like helium balloons. Weird physics glitch. I also threw a chicken through a wall. 10/10 game tbh.
I killed a chicken in Crysis yesterday out of curiosity, I have a chicken farm in real life
Don't you know that those things give you warts?
Damn looks like I havent played crysis xD going to try it in the remaster thats installing right now xD
Just clicked on the video, what
I remember to brag about my HP laptop to be able to run crisis 2 on mid settings, now my phone has more processing power, but seeing the foliage moving, destructible buildings and the mechanics of the nano-suit were mind-blowing
Very Incredible production and writing. Definitely subscribing
Crysis 2007 still looks great to this day,
MandoMonge I mean, consoles run Crysis 2 on Low. So yes, a current phone could run the console variant of Crysis 2 if properly compiled and optimized. But the Very High DX11 version of Crysis 2? Nah.
19:27 Fun Fact. NASA bragged abut their ability to *almost* run Crysis at max settings in 2008 using a custom built Cray XT3 Opteron supercomputer. When they did finally manage to run it at full capacity with no demonstrative frame lag it only lasted for 5-10 minutes before a fatal system crash.
So no, even NASA could not run Crysis :D
That's a lie, isnt it
Dennios I searched and couldn't find a yes or no, sooooo
it was a funny fake article from back in the day
Fake article but funny regardless
2007: “Hey i got just got a high end graphics card that can run games beautifully.”
“Yea but can it run Crysis”
2020: “Just got a new graphics card and guess what... it can run Crysis”
“Yea... But can it run Minecraft with ray tracing”
“Yea... But can it run CRYSIS REMASTERED
@@benlamine5297 with raytracing
With regards to the shudden plot shift, i've never totally understood why it baffles people, exactly.
It's very clear that Crysis is basically taking it's cue from PREDATOR. An Elite spec ops team is sent into the jungle to deal with an opposing military force, kicks their butts, and is suddenly side-swipped by an Alien force that completely flips them end over end.
Or for a video game parallel... CONTRA. In a lot of ways CRYSIS is the FPS sandbox version of Contra. Go to an island to fight some terrorists group, come up against aliens hidden within the island.
Does it work? Well, I guess it doesn't for a lot of people... But I absolutely loved it. It does make you feel like a super badass when you go from contending with the Korean forces and then suddenly all bets are off when the aliens start coming in full force. Yes, the mystery is quickly tapped out, but the tension (I felt) ratchets up during the second half. I felt a sense of urgency as I watched more and more and more aliens pouring out of the mountain, until you can literally see tens of thousands of them flying through the air away from the island.
I would *love* to see a game try and tackle an alien invasion in an urban setting like Crysis tackled one in the jungle setting. Really giving the player a sense of perspective from smaller scale at first, to absolutely apocalyptic later on.
Watching the aliens attack the escort ships and sinking them like something out of 20,000 Leagues was such an "Oh, shit" moment.
OpenMawProductions It baffles people because ITS FUCKING ALIENS. Contra was a game far passed, it’s not like it was weighing in people mind. Nor did Contra by any stretch establish the story telling conventions of military games. I’d hope it be obvious as to why.
I thought the same about the Predator reference but the problem is the way you play as your character for the first half suddenly shifts and most of your tactics just don't apply anymore. I guess it depends on the player but for me, I loved how I had to think my way around the first half (and try different tactics by repeating levels) but in the second half it became a generic shooter. I liked the interior of the ship but didn't like the maze like structure so it kinda went down hill there and then again outside.
If baffles people because it basically jerks you away from the mystery hunter plot to useless korean missions. When you get used to that and start getting good missions about koreans, you suddenly get a bad alien plot. Also gameplay kinda sucks after a while.
TheCreatorOfContent Crysis only has you fighting the aliens for the last quarter.
I really wanted Crysis 2 to be a game where you lead a global offensive against the aliens, as seen the thousands of aliens pouring out of lingshan... instead we get to have aliens invade new york while the most heavily armed human group spent their resources not on fighting aliens but hunting you...
14 years later I discovered that there were nanosuit mode shortcuts like double tapping crouch/prone for cloak, double sprint button for speed mode, double jump/melee for strength and double S for armor... the more you know.
I watched this whole video. Then I realized how few views and subs you have. You deserve more man, this was a good video.
Pretty much nailed it. The first half of crysis was the best shooter of all times as far as i am concerned. Its fast, tactical, creative, challenging and fun.
Also, the multiplayer absolutely amazing. Takes a while to get good at, because mastering the movement is just as important as shooting well, but it was the most fun ive ever had online or on lan parties. No one plays it online anymore sadly, but it was great while it lasted.
yah but can this retrospective run Crysis?
Can Crysis Crysis? Crysis
haha
Just found your channel, and I'm watching this on November 13th. It's like you made this video for me and uploaded it at just the right time.
I'm glad I found this channel - I got hours of quality content to watch. YES.
Man i love the way your videos are like a documentary
I honestly loved the Sci-fi alien section and I loved the way you had to try and figure out what to do and at the same time the aliens are learning about you as well, collecting rubbish and stuff. I honestly thought it was a decent and realistic twist from the normal game play and I didn't find it that frustrating.
The aliens afterwards though were a bland point in their own power armour.
Lazy Game Reviews uploaded Crysis retrospective called 10 years later, at exact time as you, it's like literally next to each other in my feed. What a coinsidence!
Both Crysis 1 and Far Cry 1 tried to pull a twist similar to Halo CE's Flood and failed. In Halo, we have the badass shotgun and rocket launcher to deal with the Flood. In Crysis and Far Cry, the new enemies are bullet sponges.
What crysis gave u crap tons of weapons to deal with the new foes.
The cynical part of me says that the change into an action blockbuster was just Electronic Arts meddling. Call of Duty MW was released literally 1 week earlier, and of course EA wanted a piece of that pie.
That said, I liked Crysis on release, but I don't think that I really stopped to appreciate its gameplay back then since I played so many FPS games around that time.
God I fucking hope EA didn't have anything to do with it.
I feel like the decision was more making the game double as a tech demo. The early levels are pretty, big, and show off a lot of the flexibility the engine offers. Then you start to get more linear levels that push the graphics even further and have unique gimmicks. You got stuff like vehicle sections, a zero-g level, a vtol level. The later levels have that frost effect coating everything, lots of scripted events and all the pretty shaders the Ceph bring with them. Then you get to the final boss fight, and it takes place on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the night, so a relatively small area, but I remember that last level looking better than everything else by a fair margin.
Well pretty much Crytek thought they had a moneymaker on there hands like Call of Duty. The difference is you can't go from a crazy openworld game that pushes your computer to it's max (Warhead as well). To a pc/console port that limited the open areas due to the consoles limitations.
Reason why first one sold so well in my opinion was also due to word of mouth (but can your computer run Crysis) Was actually a game that was made for high end pc's pretty amazing actually. EA had nothing to do with it really, Crytek simply thought they had a potentially moneymaker clone on there hand (due to Crysis 1/Warhead sales) they gambled on moving to console, but in doing so alienated the high end pc base.
Those on PC, immediately noticed dumb down graphics/new "open world"
Also one of the first times I can think of other than Half-life/Unreal tournament, where general population did everything in there power to make it even better. Better A.I, longer suit function, higher foliage quality ect.
Been waiting for this Vid, thanks already for the effort will be a joy to watch this
The level inside the alien base was pretty good. I remember being curious due to the unknown nature of the structure and highly cautious due to the flying squids
I forgot Crysis had the ability to lean! Such an important mechanic!
Nice video, very interesting analysis and calm presentation.
also nice thumbnail that drew me in.
Also, the Nuclear Cataclysm mod for Crysis 1 seems like a retelling of the story but without the Aliens. It's well made and story and gameplay wise it works well too. Definitely recommend you to check it out too.
Yay you completed the series. Nice job man!
Warhead's yet to come!
Kinda important to note: the sleep dart was invaluable at taking out enemy nanotech suits, as it would put them down instantly and let you wail away at them until they died. The sleep dart was also a lot of fun for extreme stealth missions.
I never even thought to do that to nano suit enemies
Played Crysis on the hardest difficulty, used the silencers and darts...one the best gaming experiences ever...maybe the best.
They're perfect for taking out enemy nano suite dudes and finishing them off easily.
@@Killerbee_McTitties it's been a decade since i last fought those
You are telling me darts worked?
God.. I spent so much time on them,usually hiding and shooting in weird areas
@@fitmotheyap yeah you can just dart them and unload into their unconcious body... as bad as that sounds.
@@Killerbee_McTitties It took me too long to find this,I swear those guys were the hardest boss fights for me back in the day
@@fitmotheyap well, Crisis is always a fun game to replay. I plan on running through them at some point later this year as well.
Pls pls tell me are you really raycevicks brother pls answer me pleasssssseeee
And Budget Builds-Official's voice double?
Regarding the ending monologue, about games that push the limits, etc. Recently I started playing the new Red Dead Redemption, and perhaps it's just the added perspective of first-person requiring more detail in one of Rockstar's open worlds, but I was pretty impressed at first seeing both that tell-tale expansiveness we've come to expect of Rockstar and all of the intricate detail one would expect from an older Bethesda game. The way mechanics were blended together almost-seamlessly. It was the first time in the entirety of my ownership of an Xbone that I thought to myself, "So this is what this machine can do. This is the future of gaming."
Then I had to restart a train-mission from a checkpoint and my horse was spawned on the tracks right in front of the locomotive, flattened and I remembered that I was playing a video game. lmao Still a very impressive attempt at pushing the envelope. And I love the irony of an Old Western game being a harbinger of the future.
Rockstar's game design is still very ass backward. If you haven't seen it. NakeyJackey's video on RDR2 is very interesting. Those guys need to decide if they want to do a movie game or an open revolutionary game. Because the only reason they are at the top is because no one else is even attempting of doing it right and proper. RDR2 wouldn't be that hard to beat simply because of it's crippling fault that comes from the contradictory game design.
Ubisoft almost did it but... it's ubisoft. Making decisions that just makes you go : what the fuck? WHY the fuck?
Few thoughts from someone who completed "korean section" of Crysis 1 over 30 times (if not more):
5:12 there is a point to changing other attachments:
-when it comes to optics,reflex sight is for close engagements. Choice between assault scope and sniper scope may seem obvious in favor of sniper scope, but when you take into consideration that assault provides slightly lower magnification and takes less space on screen (so you have more awareness), it's preferable for most medium range encounters (unless you want to go for some super precise shots)
-underbarrel attachments add another firing mode to your weapon, so while normally you can go between full auto and semi in single press, with an attachment going from semi to auto will take 2 presses and in some cases this might be costly.
-sleeping dart is super OP, with a single shot on any part of the body you can take enemy out of fight for decent amount of time, it also works on korean nano soldiers which turns any encounter with them into a joke if you know this. While normally it recharges slowly, but when you switch fire modes it resets and it's ready to fire. Combine it with speed mode to increase rate at which you can do this and you can easily take out entire patrols with just a dart (then finish them off with melee while they sleep),in most cases it is easier and safer than using guns.
What you say is only true when it comes to laser/flashlight. Laser is very usefull and has no drawbacks, while flashlight has very limited utillity, makes enemies detect you easier and negates your clock. Also suppresor doesn't lower damage but it increases damage drop off over range, which is important distinction. Damage reduction is inconsequential in close quarters. It also doesn't effect one shot headshot on standard soldiers.
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Those fences can be jumped over in strength mode, so actually game doesn't force you into specific entry points (and you even say it later on). If you are quick enough you can even do this stealthy by switching into clock mid jump. Even 2'nd level base that is surrounded by minefield can be entered anywhere player wants, all it takes is shooting 2 claymore mines (unlike jumping mines they will always kill you), this will destroy fence and then you can just sprint on SPEED mode past jumping mines. Those fences and walls actually make approach easier since they block line of sight for the enemy.
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Two important notes regarding difficulty. On every difficulty game restricts amount of enemies that can at one time accurately shoot at player. On every difficulty there is "mercy mode". Once player health drops past certain point, enemies give player a short break from hitting him. On one hand if player is unaware of this, barely surviving can feel great. On the other if player know this, it starts feeling very artificial. Enemies will just fail to kill player despite being capable of doing so and this might happen several times in single fight.
7:38
this is scripted, normally they use flares early on (they are slow and must be fired from certain spot, plus if you kill guy even after he shot flare, but didn't put flare pistol away trigger won't activate) or radios (as far as sync between animation and trigger they are exact opposite of flare, trigger happens even before guys starts speaking). There are also 3 exceptions, one of them is semi-bullshit, one is obvious bullshit that can be only avoided by abusing grabing
8:35
AI only "works" if player doesn't use cloak much.Effectivelly using cloak breaks AI.
10:10
SCAR(or FY with fire ammo)+strength mode+sniper scope in practical terms is only slightly weaker than sniper rifle/gauss in 99% of engagements and you can get single silent headshot (or dart).
10:22
ARMOR: is objectively weakest of all modes. It can tank only few shots before running out of energy. And once out of energy you either hide or die. Also 100 points of armor are not equal to 100 points of health, you have 2 times more health. Ironically best use for ARMOR is when you are in cover, as it regenerates energy fastest.
CLOAK: Avoiding damage is cheaper than tanking,so it's better at keeping you alive than ARMOR. While at first drain rate when moving can feel extreme, given how littered with cover enviroment is you can cover pretty long distance (and then quickly regenerate energy with ARMOR). Also while CLOAK will drain all energy when you attack while using it, there is nothing stoping you from quickly switching back and forth while killing enemies.
SPEED:. When sprinting you loose your momentum as soon as you release sprint key. This means that you can't combo it with STRENGTH for longer jumps. Ramming, while fun is very inefficent. Better way is to lauch yourself forward with speed plus jump, switch to STRENGTH and punch a guy. Only time when when ramming is preferable is when it would end up ragdolling enemy into water since it will kill him.
STRENGTH:in theory it should result in one hit melee kill on standard enemies, in pracise it is somewhat inconsistant with armored ones. Most usefull at stabilazing aim, recoil reduciton is nice but it drains energy bit to fast. Throwing objects is fun, but rarely useful. Throwing soldiers into other soldiers is fun, but rarely useful. If you grab a guy and throw him, he will die no matter how far you throw them. But if you punch grabed enemy in any other mode it will still kill him, but it won't cost you energy. Sidenote 1: enemies don't take fall damage. Sidenote 2: grabing and killing by grabing is perfectly silent.
On the topic of suit modes, it would be nice if there was another one just for recharging energy and health. In existing system recharging energy and fighting at the same time only works in SPEED mode, since as long you don't press sprint you won't drain any, while in other modes it is either drain by enemies (ARMOR), or by shooting/melee (STRENGTH).
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apart from early section before you get to first fire, prophet excort mission is more about forcing player to defending certain spots, since enemies won't kill him as long as he is near fire. Even if he takes some damage while moving from one fire to the other, you can just go back to the last one and he will be restored to full health
also ammo isn't problem, level has sufficent amount and even if you are wasteful when you meet prophet you get alien gun with infinite ammo
21:08 fun fact: you can see alien before it hits you, but camera cuts to you falling just few meters before actual contact is being made
I've been waiting for this video for a very long time. Thank you.
Back here after the Crysis remastered announcement
Oh man, the visuals, the music, the gameplay - just got a bit blown away by the nostalgia train that hit me. *sniffs*
Thank you so much for this beautiful critique of a game that is - at least to me - the best shooter I've played and something I will forever remember fondly and dearly in my heart.
10 years...the 14 year old me was just gobsmacked at the visual detail, back when I was playing on 1280x1024 with my 8800GTX (which I still have but don't use anymore). Good times, 2007 was a great year.
EDIT: Just read the comic strips along with the SOS New York track from Crysis 2 as musical background. The last frame of Prophet walking off as Nomad lies in the dirt just killed me a little inside. Shame it didn't get the visual representation it deserved. Lots of interesting plot lines in there.
The depth at which this youtuber has gone to within these games has me amazed... excellent job!!
When I built a PC in 2008, my goal was "good enough to run Crysis". I spent literally thousands, and I was able to run the first half of the game with high settings, however the later half required that I turn shit way down if I wanted to see multiple frames per second. I could run literally any other game at max settings w/o framerate issues. Shit was wild af!
This is a great video. I remember that once i beat this game I would play the first half of the game over and over again. Never played the second half again.
Second part allmost fill like a challenge for all the weapon systems on the game. Like they where extremly hard to kill, required good aiming powerfull weapons.
Wait a minute... you are Raycevick's brother or bro (as in friend)? Cuz if it's the former I'm really surprised and not surprised at the same time. Haha.
As for the video - Crysis. This word still carries a weight, all these years later. It's a flawed gem that deserved better, but I'm going to say we could've ended with a much worse deal if Crytek didn't stick to their guns (graphics).
It's also one of my favourite games of all time, just because I was fascinated with it when it was released. The first half of the game was grounded and these graphics were just unreal. It took a good few years for other games to even catch up it (Far Cry 2 in 2008 looked pretty sweet though (by using a little bit of CryEngine code in its Dunia engine actually)).
But yeah, it's been 10 years and weirdly we are where we are and kind a not where we thought we might be when this game came out. Surely 2 whole generations of consoles would've been released by now, right?
Great video again!
Well over a year late, I feel its worth noting that crysis actually gives the aliens away during the intro skydive. Its been a while, but IIRC theres an audio cue from someone asking what the thing is, and if you look around you see a flying ceph loop in from the side to knock you out of the air.
Hopefully the message in this video will reach a developer who is willing to try
Ya, Cevat Yerli was the man!
This was simply a joy to watch, you are amazing sir! Here's a sub for you, you deserve much more
:D
Oh you just made my night!
Glad to hear it!
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God damn Vikings man, not only did they get first to everywhere on Earth, the got to a moon of Jupiter first as well?
Nice.
(Also fun going through your older content Whitelight, as I discovered you recently. Great video even today, but it makes your new content stand out as exceptional even more, nicely done)
All your suffering through Vegas was worth it. ;) Exceptional work.
One of my first memories in which I learned how different Crysis was started when I first approached those two guards on the beach. I had the difficulty switched to "Delta" just to see how it would be. I was at least 30 yards away standing in the open when they spotted me and instantly fired, like switch I watched my body drop in a few shots. I was genuinely surprised at not only the speed in which I was detected and killed, but also the distance which they were able to do so. Even with all of Crysis's perks and faults, it was clearly a different type of FPS and that's why I loved it!
I highly enjoyed the zero-G mission because of how confusing and difficult it was. Crysis had built up my skills with the nano suit, and this mission just flipped everything I ever learned over on its head. If you felt like a rat in a maze, desperate and confused just hoping to survive long enough to find a way out then you'll know exactly what I mean. Even after I got out the remaining missions carried a sense of dread in comparison to the superiority of Act 1. Now I had to fight off the aliens which were much faster and stronger than the soldiers I was used to; not to mention the limited resources available to fight them. I wanted OFF that island because of how much I feared those things, and I treasure that experience because of it.
The final level was reminiscent of watching the final act of Jurassic Park 2, after all that hell you just got out of, it still wasn't over. My first play through I did everything in the wrong order by prioritizing the larger targets before the respawning smaller ones, thus rather than killing off the small ones and focusing on the big ones before the next wave, it was complete chaos having to fend off all enemy types at once. A very challenging climax only ruined by the cheesy ending. Playing this in 2015 on the console port was a breath of fresh air. and I consider Crysis 1 to have the best gameplay arc out of any FPS I have experienced so far!
Wow. Great video man. Love it
Heh, I remember how back in 2007 Crysis had been advertised on almost every computer- or gaming-oriented resource I'd been visiting that time, and it really brought my anticipation to highest levels since my PC obviously couldn’t run the game. Read a ton of reviews where critics were praising “the best graphics they've seen”, “Immersive gameplay mechanics (well, they probably used different adjectives as the word “immersive” wasn’t that commonly applied to gaming features)”, etc.
So, after something around two years I finally got a new hardware capable of running Crysis at pretty high settings. Yeah, can’t really describe my emotions when I first got my hands on it. But I'm sure able to tell how it felt after a hour of playing.
I don't know if my expectations were too high or it was because of amount of decent games I'd played, but Crysis felt to me like a complete disappointment. Sure, the graphics were beyond good but there was nothing behind it. The gameplay was dull, the environment felt too flat and uninspired, the suit features were too clunky to be used for taking advantage of enemies. Overall, the game felt like and very delicious looking donut with it’s fillings made of crap. Since that day, graphics in games became for me the most meaningless factor.
But watching your video now, I think, after all these years I should give this game another chance. I see it's not perfect but maybe now I would be able to give it a credit it really deserved. Thank you for it. You are really a white light in some ways, you uncover something hidden from others in the dark. I hope this channel will live and prosper, and more people will come here, cause you make content that really should be seen and rated.
Best of luck!
That's the best compliment I've ever received, thank you very much!
If only youtube had more comments like this. People dishing praise where it's deserved rather than hating where it isn't
If only crytek team had some good writers. Clearly their programmers were cutting edge and probably still are.
The issue with enemies "adapting" to your play style by using goggles or armor piercing bullets doesn't really factor in that unlike MGSV, the game takes place over a period of 2-3 days.
You'd also have to assume that the Koreans somehow have access to enough cloak vision goggles to detect a billion dollar highly confidential secret super suit. Sure, they have chinese knock off suits, but the cloaking might be different. Who knows? it's not really explained, but I'd just assume that it'd be too expensive to pass out to the regular Jeong.
In MGSV they started wearing helemts and flak jackets over a longer period of time, and both of those are fairly standard.
What could be fun though is if the under utilized MGS3 feature of food and ammo supply dumps were introduced, so if you destroy them the enemy is hungry or they run out of ammo. MGS3 also had hit detection so if you shot an enemy in the leg they'd limp around, or in the arm they wouldn't be able to fire their primary rifle and switch to a sidearm.
Crysis is one of my favorite games of all time.
Even though I love Crysis could I never play through it in one go, I simply could not complete the Alien ship mission.
I'm sad that there is no new Crysis Game but happy at the same time that it is a complete Trilogy. (Same with Dead Space)
Crysis is also the reason why I was that "graphics over everything else" kind of guy for quite some time.
My "new Crysis" is Titanfall, sure it doesn't look as good but with the sci-fi setting (which I'm always a fan of), cloak, double jump and the Titans it's the closest you can currently get like Crysis
I didn't even know that a Crysis comic exists, yet I knew that Nomad died. But let's be honest that comic is pretty ridiculous at some points. Teleportation? Time travel? Are you serious???
But after watching your video and knowing that there is so much wasted potential in this game makes me a bit sad.
Crytek even was my favorite Developer for some time but since they never did something like Crysis again I kind of forgot about them.
Well, I'm going to watch the other Crysis videos you made and I hope everyone who reads this has a great day!
Phenomenal video. And here I sat thinking I had already seen all high-quality game review channels (Joseph Anderson etc.). Seems like I was wrong. Also about your last point what the next game pushing the boundaries will be, I immediately thought "Star Citizen". Kind of funny how it is also running on a (highly modified) version of the CryEngine.
Decided to finally play through Crysis on my 4th go thanks to you. I thought I would find the second half easier to accept knowing it probably wouldn't be as good, but now having finished it i have to say the alien spaceship part is the most infuriated and bored I have been in a long time, and everything after is just so dull. I greatly enjoyed the first half up until Kyongs death but personally what made Crysis fun for me was playing it as a stealth shooter, using a sniper scope on the FYS on single-fire with silencer, maximizing cloak usage and such, all that just went out the window with the alien part. I have to thank you either way though, it was a good game and I'm glad I finished it.
Your videos deserve a lot more views, Keep it up man!
I liked alien part too, if you dig deep to the lore at following games and collect the collectibles it starts to make sense
Crysis - still the game I used to benchmark my configs :D
But seriouslly, I spent 10 000 good hours in Crysis 1 (Single Player mostly, Multiplayer till was alive and the fun Sandbox Editior). And Everytime it feels like a new thing. 46 times I finished the campaign, not to find something new, not because of some mod... simple because I love this game and it will be always there in the top for me
This concludes the definitive review of the crisis series, an important yet controversial milestone of a franchise in FPS history. Congrats to Whitelight for making them.
Because of the Crysis+3D+Sound Card with optical connection in the Home Theater sound System,I invested around 5K USD2010 on the PC(2010)
Very good and fun video to watch. Subbed
I remember trying Crysis years ago, hiding in a bush hundreds of metres from any enemies and taking a shot. As soon as I fired once all enemies within a few hundred metre radius immediately knew exactly where I was. The AI didn't seem to support the variety of gameplay options that it appeared to at first glance.
Fantastic video mate, subbed :D
Thats was the most awesome analisys of Crysis that I've seen!
Dude. You sell games well. I want to go buy Prototype and Crisis now. You got my like and subscribe.
eerie stuff here is that i found this channel with this vid on November 13th
I'm never going to forget how proud I was when I could run crysis almost on high back in 2007
Im here because Crysis Remastered is coming
You just got a new sub.
I love this game as much as you do I enjoyed this video as much as the warhead one.
I get sooo sad(by sad I mean sentimental) whenever I see this game because this is the first game that I ever played and I had a blast playing it I have soo many great memories with this game and I really respect it maybe it's not rememberd but in my opinion it's a legend I will never forget it
'Crysis 4 is a stuff of dreams'
*Well, sometimes dreams come true.*
HB! Crysis! 10 years since it released fucking masterpiece!
To this day, few if any games have managed to make a stealth shooter look and feel as good as this. The story and character development were balls. But the first half nailed how it should feel to be techno super soldier. Would be a 10/10 if the dart gun could be used to incapacitate soldiers without drawing attention
want a use for the tactical attachment? use it on nanosuit soldiers and you can easily finish them off.
Crysis was so impressive that 10 years later it still looks good
Well even if there are many youtubers that have channels similar to yours i feel that you can get to a big number of subs. I legit believe in you because you are not afraid to throw your opinion out there and your reviews are pretty good. I'm not gonna write you a book now , i'm only here to tell you what i think in a short comment. Your editing and overall quality of the video are both great and you even have your own style that is based more on the subjective side of things but with facts and an objective part to back your opinion up , so yeah , great job overall. Give yourself a pat on the back.
I haven't tried Star Citizen, but the one thing that I love about the project is the fact that they're doing exactly the same, balls to the walls let's see what we can do even if it costs a billion and never really works.
no restricition on base aproach, you can easily jump above any fence or wall anywhere!
I'm still baffled as to why no one ever tried to emulate the first half of Crysis' gameplay loop. It was immensely fun!
About the freeze rays, in both singleplayer and multiplayer... all u have to do is move your mouse left-right-left-right in rapid succession to unfreeze.
remastered is coming , I'm so hyped
If nobody was able to run the game at Maximum settings with 60 FPS, then how did the makers test the game?
10 years later for a game that was 10 years ahead of its time
I just hated the ending where you can miss the weapon you need to defeat the alien ship. The TAC.
12 years late but I recently decided to play crysis for the first time and oh man i love it! So much fun that I just got 2 and 3.
I started the franchise with Crysis 2, the Crysis 1 and then the third title. It's sad to see this franchise die, even with Crysis 3 which died at launch and effectively killed any more hope for a new game, but it was also my favourite games of all time, and best in the franchise in my opinion. The franchise had tones of potential and cult value, but Crytek's odd decisions killed this franchise. Here's hope to EA or Crytek reviving or rebooting the franchise in the future!
Yeah, I went through the same as you. 2,1,3. If 3 was your favorite, don't watch my video on it haha. It's not very positive.
I've watched all of your Crysis videos, they're really well made and informative, also made me think differently about each game in the series.
I could watch these videos all day
Holly shit...not even 1k subs yet...You´ll make it big for sure.
They DO react to dead bodies, playing on hardest difficulty I'd be half way through clearing out a base and the alarm sounds meaning a patrol has found a corpse
They react to bullet impact noises with alarm sounds. They're exceedingly sensitive to just about every noise.
the AI or the alarms ?
Bunka Fas Ai, which activate alarms or fire flares. In the first outpost in crysis 1, i used a suppressed rifle and sniped a guy when he went behind the house where none of the others could have seen, and they still reacted like I had just launched a rocket at his feet.
They might react to bodies, but I havent found much evidence for that because the react to just about everything else like crazy
I've managed to play through the (vs humans parts...) game on hardest difficulty without activating any alarms / super stealth !
What's funny : Around 16:30 you throw away some amazing ideas of what the game could have been ... I'm glad custom maps did all of that, they are 90% of my time on this game.
Hey buddy, 15 minutes in and you seem to have completely missed an aspect of crysis that I only discovered in the final third of the game vs the aliens. The game is definitely worth replaying with this in mind:
Maximum Strength boosts the power of your gun shots.
Im not sure if you played on the hardest difficulty on your first playthrough like I did, but the games three phases (infiltration, all out war, then alien invasion) all taught me very distinct styles of play. I felt forced to adopt and learn how to abuse the suits mechanics if i wanted any chance of surviving.
For the aliens in the game it becomes about gaining position with a speed and strength jump (using speed to run forward, switching to strength to jump high (the momentum from speed takes you very far with the strength jump) taking your shots and then switching to armour if needed and otherwise just speed to cover while your energy comes back.
You've went over how as the game progresses you end up fluidly switching between and combining aspects of the nanosuits abilities, but you seem to have missed the most powerful combination by not discovering that strength enhances your shots on hardest difficulty.
While learning the game I was so reliant on stealth for about the first third until I got more weapons and more comfortable with the mechanics. After that it was combining speed, strength and stealth to take the fight to the soldiers.
However the removal of stealth as an option forced new strategies which then you can apply to subsequent playthroughs and become an absolute monster of a soldier.
When you are invisible and you break stealth by shooting you lose all energy (or at least down to 20 from memory) however if you turn of stealth into strength you will 1 shot any enemy that isn't in a nano suit, use 10 energy to fire the enhanced shot, and then be able to instantly turn on stealth again. You essentially become predator. This combination is so goddamn broken that all subsequent playthroughs of the game i've heavily limited my use of stealth or else the game becomes far too easy.
Oh yeah also: awesome content. Subbed.
And fuck that freeze beam.
I am a master of cloaking, walking to a spot where I have one enemy on sight, aiming for the head, putting maximum armor and taking a shot instantly, cloaking back and repositioning myself for another target. Its just so fun in this game, stealth combined with tactical positioning.
This IP should've stayed PC exclusive.
Nice vid mate,keep it up!
I have to say. Watching the gameplay was painful. But I'm happy to see someone seeing Crysis as more than the tech demo most people said it was.
Hey White, what are your thoughts on Crysis getting a remaster?
i have to point something out, halfway though the video hes taking about how if you run out of ammo during the alien part of the game you have to restart, prophet gave you a hand held lmg thing that the aliens use, its not bad once you get used to it (it has infinite ammo, but a heat mechanic like lmgs in the game) and then a minute later about the frozen part, if you quickly wiggle your mouse you can break out of it in a split second, the only time itll get you killed is if your being shot at while the freeze beam is coming for you.
Is the soundtrack played in the background during 7:05 from crysis 1 or 2
I am a fan of Crysis Wars. It is still best multi/online game to me. It is not about AI and there was no physics failure. However, they shutted down the game. I do not know, if you ever played that game, but I do now that if it would show up again, every one of us would uninstall the other multi/online games. It had big maps and we were able to use Vtols, vehicles, TAC tanks. We were setting up teams defending bases and being snipers.. I missed that game so much
You Sir need much more subs. You produce excellent content.
Great video, very entertaining
Good work my friend
Looks like we got another analytical star here!
Well, back in 2011, my mom's laptop did run it, I don't remember what settings it had, but I certainly remember having to over use the cloak and scope since I only had a trackpad to aim.
fun fact: if you aim down sights while in strength mode, your dot is less shaking and it gives you more precise shots