Crysis is Wilder Than You Remember (Story Explained)
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Crysis is a science fiction action shooter from the devs at Crytek and published by Electronic Arts, released all the way back in 2007. Set in the faraway year of 2020, it focuses on a squad of nanosuit wearing soldiers sent to rescue an archaeological team on the island of Lingshang, recently occupied by North Korean forces.
It's the job of Prophet, Psycho, Aztec, Jester, and Nomad (you) to get down there and get them out, but there's something strange and even alien about this island, something deadly...
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- CHAPTERS -
00:00 - Intro
02:02 - Descent to Lingshan
07:26 - Nomad Forges Ahead
08:30 - The Fall of Jester
11:20 - Some Prophet You Are
12:44 - The Mission Goes On
15:05 - A Healthy Fear of Helicopters
16:26 - Temple? No.
18:30 - Aliens? Yes.
20:19 - Welcome to Earth
21:46 - Escaping Lingshan
24:22 - The Jingoism is off the Charts
26:14 - Technical Issues
27:36 - It's Almost Like You Were Warned About This
29:33 - Crysis is 16 years old
31:34 - Closing Thoughts
35:27 - Outro
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Yes, I have been made aware Crysis is a german game, not an american game.
Sehr gut. Crisis averted. We will call back our troops now
Yeah, but just so you know, it's a German game :9
Can't wait till crysis 4
Dachte das es ein türkisches Studio mit entwickelt hat aber ja egal wer dahinter steckt es ist Baba
I've met at least one of the minds behind it, Crysis comes from Germany but is very much trying to be an American game. The view of an outsider on American culture becomes even more apparent in the second game, where almost all the set pieces and easter eggs are stuff that would stand out to an outsider looking in. Like the vapid political debate show you can witness a few minutes in in one of the shops :)
Fun fact: On max difficulty, human enemies speak Korean to make it more difficult to figure out what they're doing
That's actually really cool!
lmao
i remember mom complaining about the jet engine noises coming form my room...it was all 42 cooling fans running at mach jesus
All for ass I Assume...
The guy speaking Spanish getting the nickname "Aztec" is refreshing. Finally, a game where military nicknames feel real.
and then his character is vanished
this is prior to insane democrats getting their hands on games
@@Under-Kaoz Kinda cringe, bro. We’re just talking games here.
@@WafflesInTheRain and games have become politically correct because it’s offensive to say anything
@@WafflesInTheRainFor real guys getting political over a guy being called "Aztec"
Psycho immediately living up to his name by flagging his whole team. Also, high tech supers soldiers with the most advanced equipment, iron sights.
If it's good enough for Simo Hayha..
FUN FACT: Galaxies are LARGE! for example our own Milky Way is estimeted to be a hefty 100,000 light years across. So it's perfectly feaseable for there to be a star 4M light years away and stll be in the M33 galaxy. Depending also on the star's location and the angle at which the signal has to travel. Most likely the signal will have to relay (spelled bounce) several times to reach it's optimal angle, and the planet system it is trying to reach.
I'm assuming the Ceph are not on the star itself, but...it's the Ceph...so you never know.
Sorry, but fellow space nut.
The sound Nomad makes when they rock hits him is really fitting for the moment to, he just sounds disappointed and slightly annoyed
The biggest sin is killing off Nomad in a comic book and not even mentioning this in the second game
A datafile in Crysis 3 says he survived and is being hunted by CELL during the events of the 3rd game.
@@vrcommandoata5403
Sauce?
@@Cut_Content It should be mentioned on the crysis wiki, not sure if links are allowed in comments. But basically you find a transcript of a conversation a nanosuit operator codenamed Silverback (and referred to as "commander Lockhart", interestingly) has with his handlers when making contact after a long time. They're relieved to hear from him but he cuts through pleasantries to deliver the news that he's found him, he's found Nomad.
Least armored Mi-24:
Tell me about it
“The more we learn about both of these, however, the more horrifying and existentially threatening they become…”
Ahhhh Crysis 2, my love, my darling, I miss thee
I distinctly remember watching my cousin play Crysis and those helicopters frustrated him to no end. The moment you popped out of stealth mode they'd be on you, regardless of how much cover you seemed to be in. In the dense foliage? Hiding behind a shed? Underwater? Screw you, the helicopter was going to find you.
This is probably a throwback to Far Cry 1 where the human enemies can found you from miles away even in the middle of the jungle
Oh play Crysis Warhead. You find out what Psycho was doing on the island the whole time.
and find out that Crysis Warhead is better than Crysis, but doesnt have a remaster
So, they watched Predator, and said "what if it was halo"?
There is so much crytek back then copied from others, but in a good way.
Getting remembered at everything you were able to do in this game is insane! Games nowadays doesn't even have a quarter of the content of this game. And also so freaking diverse.
I mean...that probably would be a good fight to watch
@@SilverViper1000 yeah, seemed to be pretty insane for the time.
@@SilverViper1000 Man imagine the Crysis MP would have popped off, we could have a Nanosuit BR, shit could be so wild with Movement and Tech.
At -200°F youre way past the point where CO2 starts to liquify and fall down in the shape of rain or snow....
I was gonna say, that cold and the air is gonna start going through deposition
Real NK super soldiers, are just regular soldiers that have been given ammunition and have had breakfast that morning
the funny thing to me with the whole series is just that after each one it feels it got a complete rewrite
How do you mean? I'm curious
@@khanlusa
At a guess
Speaking to avoid spoiling for other readers, I think some central things about the nature of nanosuit tech hadn't been thought of/locked in yet when the first game was being made, though the later games do a decent job of explaining what was going on in C1 in the context of what they reveal.
There's also how different the Ceph are in the second and third games from in the first, which IS then explained in the third game in terms of how they work.
The large in-universe time gap between 2 and 3 in which LOT happened to change the world and the returning characters' place in it (not all of which is explained directly if you're not reading all the intel items you pick up) could also feel like a big tonal disconnect.
I don't know how much turnover the development team and or creative team had from game to game.
Like I said, I think the lore tying together that the third game does worked, IMO anyway, but I get how someone could feel some disconnect.
@khanlusa IIRC... First game was open plan with flying squid and an ice theme.
Second game was conventional linear game with conventional bipedal enemies, a changed power set, was created primarily for consoles rather than PCs, and didn't really connect very well with the end of the first game.
"Cheap knockoffs" and yet, as I recall, pound for pound, they're about 2-3x stronger than Nomad.
I always felt that, even on easiest difficulty, the game didn't give you enough power in your armour. Nothing lasted long enough to be any fun to me as a kid looking for a power trip - it was a ballbuster of a game from top to bottom.
I always assumed that was because they had actual armor worn over it to compensate for shitty nanofiber performance. Their cloaks were actually dogshit by comparison.
there are config files for every difficulty where u can tweak "everything" to ur likeness. Suit power usage and recharge for example. I one time managed to achieve invulnerability in armor mode and I liked it so much I made a playthrough with it cause it kinda felt intended. You can also make that u can carry all weapons in the game and increase ammo capacity
@@kasperhauser4748 yeah, that's what I did too. Still felt like everything was tougher than it should be, but that could be skill issue.
Theres like rocket launchers littered everywhere, helis arent a problem when you have a rocket launcher
If you play on any difficulty but easy then they arce scarce im not sure if this is the case in the remaster
@@dafawdfgDGOk that might make sense. I also didn't use rockets for pretty much anything else so between hijacked Humvees .50 cals and the rockets I had no issue with most of this, just made sure to identify target ordinance and use cloak to move on target cover-to-cover
@@dafawdfgDG there is 0 change in weapon drops and Ammo between difficulties. Trust me, I've played this campaign at least 20 times, there's rocket launchers everywhere. In fact there's ammo everywhere, you just gotta find it. If there's a heli, there's a rocket launcher somewhere
@@FrozenByFire3Facts
at 22:24 you called Crysis an american game, it was actually developed in germany by Crytek who is also responsible for far cry1
Ah, my bad, I should have double-checked that, thank you! 😅
Ohhh so it’s German, That explains the awkward scene where the semi-autistic sailor says some questionably and borderline harassment stuff…
@@Leonard-nb7jk that's nonsense and would be considered hate speech if you use other nationalities. But we are no protected group for UA-cam so it's fine
@@saschaberger3212 please, it’s not secret that Germans do not know how to talk to women. It’s why German women perceive Italian men as the most desirable nationality
Not to mention Oxygen has a a freezing point of -361.8°F so it's getting close freezing Oxygen in that bubble.
And in Crysis 2 concept art, one page is General Strickland with half of his body are cyborg augmentation. Yep, he survived, at least his brain survived......
Ummm actually he's a major 🤓
@@hmm8445 In that concept art, he had been promote to General. And more than a half of his body had become a cyborg.
So a waste opportunity we didn`t see this idea been in the actual game.
As much as crysis 1 did favour stealth in some ways, it also REALLY let you kickass.
Many MAXIMUM modes have passives, so you can switch to MAXIMUM SPEED, fucking blue blur your way over half a block, killing all of your energy, instantly swap to MAXIMUM POWER, laserbeam a magazine into some dudes chests for a few seconds while you recharge, MAXIMUM SPEED walk behind cover, then cloak your ass to another firing position out of sight.
If your mouse has forward/backward buttons, bind the suit mode-menu to them.
So much fun you can have with the modes. The obstacles you can clear with strength and speed were my favorites, jump a building and reposition to the opposite side puts your enemies really out of position
It's so funny how everyone is crying how Crysis was demanding, when it was, in fact, exactly the opposite. Yes, highes settings could melt your computer, but lowest could be played on potatoes with very good framerates.
Which was my experience. I had a very bad computer, not a gaming rig by any means, yet I could run Crysis without trouble and, even with low graphic settings, it was still enjoyable. I remember the alien ship to be the moment I began experiencing terrible framerate, but once out of it everything returned to normal.
well that actually still means that it was highly demanding if it could melt pcs on high settings
The thing was: Almost NOTHING could run it at high settings. That was the thing, and remember, SLI was also a thing, there were people with 4x GTX's suffering to run this thing. Other than that, to a point, it's one of those "you just had to be there" things. People would throw anything at it to make it run better and it was kind of entertaining and funny. Also, the "average" PC back then was so much comparably worse at everything than the average PC of nowadays, low-end hardware is so much better nowadays.
@@np43478 Well, if you wanna play like that, the game doesn't demand high settings.
@@LoneWanderer905 Yeah, this is why it's incredible that crysis could run so well and look so good on bad PCs back then.
Driving with cloak on. Never thought about this in 15 years, thank you.
Ah yes, PC benchmark (the game)
Okay but Crysis was a chad. Came outta nowhere swinging.
did u notice the frozen solid north korean soldiers (you can find everywhere in the end in the game) still blink?
20:36 "its a miracle you're still alive"
A random boulder about to show a billion dollar piece of military hardware what-for: "and i took offense to that"
It's actually a German game
I just wondered. Crytek was (is?) a german company.
@@mbnhiphopmusik6429 Their hq is still in germany with some support studios in eastern europe. They closed their NA office during the THQ bankruptcy.
Addition: In fact the screen showing the company logo tells us: "Crytek GmbH" short for "Crtyek Gewerkschaft mit begrenzter Haftung", German for "Crytek LLU".
No
I remember when back in the day some people claimed it to be a turkish game because the company owners are of turkish origin.
@11:20 actually, if you play the game on the hardest setting they dont have those lame accents. They just straight up speak korean
It's also mentioned in the tool tips, so pretty weird that she didn't see it
Two tank shells to take down a helicopter? What, are the devs War Thunder players?
As someone who lives in the Philippines, bordera disputes with China is not something new...it is depressing
As someone who has ties in India, border disputes/border encroachment/border terrorism by China is not something new... it is depressing.
I believe it was said somewhere that originally the enemies in the first game were supposed to be China's armed forces (PLA instead of KPA), but they were changed to North Korean for a multitude of reasons. I think at the time they didn't want to risk upsetting the Chinese government. But if you re-contextualise everything North Korean as Chinese in this game, it actually makes a lot more sense. Especially considering the location and the fact that they have their own nanosuits. Though to be fair, Nomad does lampshade that.
Before I watch the video I just wanna comment that I remember when I first played Crysis, I had NO idea what was going on. I was just goin full CLOAK ENGAGED fighting the bad guys then out of no where I’m in some cave floating around killing these fucking huge jelly fish. What the FUK
The shark in the first Crysis game scared the shit out of me.
And annoyed the hell out of me, when you used cheat engines, when it would still follow you around, even when it couldn't kill you, it never went away
🤣
As a Filipino who played the game... (thank GOD for that one local computer shop; now defunct, that had some of the computers able to run the game smoothly), I am upset and offended that the fictional island that's basically in my country's front lawn, *is named in Chinese* . The HECK???
Don't you know, they found a map in their uncle's mother's sister's neighbour's cousin's (twice-removed) basement that proves it's their historic territory 😌
@@Dewkeeper yeah, but even with that, my ancestors have been sailing all over those places long before that "map" was made. Though your comment sounded like Alabama... Jesus christ, man 🤣
There’s something almost poetic about the final boss being so unknowable to the characters that it caused tech issues in recording it
If you want to know what was happened after Crysis 1 with the Raptor team and Nomad you can read Crysis comic
It's relatively short and has some "spooky alien jazz" going on and will make slightly more sense of Crysis 2
iirc Prophet finds ANOTHER alien gun
Something I find really funny is that scientists on the ship were amazed by how Prothet made that human-ceph hybrid gun using fucking nothing and he basically just shrugs
That WON'T be part of a crucial plot point in later games, don't you worry
I always got a distinct impression in the first game that something big and mentally altering had happened to Prophet in the time between him being grabbed and reestablishing contact with Nomad, maybe he'd just put information together and gotten a new understanding of things, maybe he'd been partly mind controlled by the aliens for a bit, maybe he'd explored the ship much more extensively than Nomad, but he seemed very certain about stuff like the nukes being a bad idea and needing to go back into the sphere and he was deliberately not explaining HOW he knew this stuff.
Well. The suits ARE made from Cyph technology.
@@tristanbackup2536 Yeah, I was kinda talking around that coz unsure about spoilers. :P Also knowing that Prophet was aware that part of the mission was about seeing how the Ceph and the suits reacted to each other, I think he managed to successfully interface with the ship or something and got a whole lot of insight into them. He knew that saying "look, I found this out by plugging my brain into the aliens' computer" was probably not going to convince the admiral or govt people to change their plans, though. :P
My father loved this game and he still says it should get more love in the form of new entries or a movie.
I watched him play and remember I loved the first part, up until you escape the island. The whole mystery behind the alien in the jungle and the freezing was so well done. It kept the story interesting and spooky. Once you are on the ship, that magic evaporates and the ending felt unfinished to me.
Nice detail is if you use the jeep with the 50cal that Strickland use to shoot the walker and leave it somewhere else. Strickland will actually use his pistol to shoot the walker
Strickland: Eat Lead Scum! *Gunshots*
*Gulp*
Strickland: Huh... (Looks at the gun) I guess it tastes good😂
Fun fact, I'm Nomad.
Hi Nomad •_•/
Prove it
*_”Bout’ time you showed up!_*
It was always strange to me that they went with "giant ice octopus aliens" when the first half of the game is basically just... The Predator. I definitely expected to see Predator-style enemies with their own cloaking technology and plasma guns and stuff to mirror your supersuit. Instead we got knock-off korean nanosoldiers and the aliens were all helicopter bosses. Definitely felt weird.
2004 to 2013 was the peak of PC gaming it felt like every year people were just rewriting what you can expect in future games. The hardware demands have gone up by a lot since then but actual gameplay and mechanics have not really gotten to the point where you question if you can ever enjoy games from 4 years ago again.
Depends on what kind of games you're playing. With well established genres it's really hard to improve upon but for example soulslikes have massively popped off in the last 5 years. The same with roguelikes. You just gotta explore different genres. Pure rpg doesn't really mean anything anymore. You can rpg in so many different genres.
FPS just has moved on to purely competitive and that sucks but well. What can you do?
I personally agree that the better years of gaming was between 2002 and 2016. There was good stuff elsewhere but these were indeed the golden years where fun and enjoyment was realized. Mass effect 3 was the turning point. Dlc finally crossed a line. That encouraged legislation that then turned games into casinos and playgrounds for social experiments and information gathering. Games in a not so distant past were about campaign and story, multi-player was a bonus. Now it's multi-player with random lobbies of screaming gen z adult children and the rare chance of an actual game with a campaign. I rather watch reruns of family guy for the 1000th time than continue wasting money.
@@Lysis729 As you stated Mass Effect,. We also have games like Vampire The Masquerade that is over 2 decades but we are still waiting for an apple to apples game where we can say the next gen has improved on it to the point where the 1 before it feels rediculas in its attempt. A good example is fallout 2 vs fallout 3. Fallout 2 is a good game but 3 turned it to a far more imercive game. people that started with 3 or 4 has a big issue with going back to fallout 2 thanks to the world of changes they made. fallout 2 is not much older than 3.
@@ErnieZee Well I agree to some point, I do disagree with some of the genres. Some people are hard-struck and likes a specific genre and does not really want any big changes. and that's fine for them. But FPS realism can be improved. Mechanics that take in regard how a real human body would react when shot. Be it bleeding out. going into shock bloodloss. Have armor deflect or absorb and even fall apart. Make guns targetable. What bothers me is many games had at least some of these mechanics but they stopped implementing them as it made it hard to make is into a e-sport clone. What bothers me even more is when the producers tell the devs to use a different engine that is not designed to implement all that was in the previous game. It's messed up but this has caused games to be canceled a lot and is 1 of the big reasons why Duke Nukem took over a decade instead of getting released in 2 years.
I don't know if you ever played Warthunder. but adding their form of damage system to an FPS or RPG game would be awesome. Not their BS grinding level up system XD
@@STDRACO777 have you heard of escape from tarkov? It has pretty realistic damage model.
32:55
Me - "It broke the rest of the series."
I wouldn't mind hearing that nano suit fanfic you'd write about.
I wasn't cringe, I was depressed
And depression is cringe
@@BenisDD From my perspective it was more along the lines of eternal soul-rending agony periodically fucking over my already shitty life, but sure, it could have been kinda cringe from the outside.
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 So... double-cringe? Nice!
I don't remember much about Crysis. You shoot some aliens and then suddenly there's a bunch of North Koreans or something.
Fun trivia:
The game waas proceeded by a 'preview' version, that only contained the first level up to the frozen boat...
And that scene ended with a giant chicken bursting through the boat, the team reacting in shock, and then everything fading to black.
NB: IIRC, the game could run perfectly on an i3-2500k and R9-290 on full settings and 1080. If you do want to play this game to its fullest potential, you probably need similar 2013 hardware.
How does it do on modern hardware?
No its EXACTLY as wild as I remember
This game was everything but hard ,even on a very hard setting.
Also,you got eaten by sharks,if swam further into sea.
In my opinion, as a fan of alien invasion media, the games are alright with interesting ideas and characters, but there are a lot of missed opportunities, such as the ending of the first game and the setting of Crysis 3.
I was really disappointed when they decided to end the series with, you guessed it!….an alpha alien…the same silver bullet trope in alien media where killing the mama alien somehow causes all of the aliens to die because they are a hive mind but even in real world hives/ant colonies, if a queen dies they just make a new one, it doesn’t kill the hive to be without a queen. 😂
@@gendygoblin8391 Yeah, you’re right. I know it foreshadows in the second game where Hargreave mentioned about an insect hive, but it shows that even all Ceph are still sentient and self-aware as real-life non-reproductives that allows the colony to expand and support the hive, and some have more than one Reproductive castes per hive and even some have a single Non-Reproductive replacing a deceased Reproductive. As long as the game explains that the Alpha Ceph designed his minions and other machinery with self destruct implants that are designed to detonate automatically whenever he dies to prevent reverse engineering from the native population, and he’ll try to detonate one of them remotely whenever his minions rebel against him, that would’ve made more sense.
2 was the best, I didnt really find anything that interesting in 3 besides the ending, that was cool
@@etanb1 I honestly agree with that.
@@gendygoblin8391 Erm, Prophet took out the coordinating node in a network of semi-autonomous gardening tools on a garden planet of no great interest. I don't think there's any indication that the "true ceph" work like that, if we could even comprehend how they work. Prophet DID also kill... something of theirs that was coming to investigate the error messages their tools were transmitting, but that was sheer luck and technology based on theirs. We're probably lucky they seem not to have decided to try and investigate further for now.
funny how crysis 1 still looks better then 95% of all new games and crysis 3 still miles ahead of 99% of games today
I am surprised people were having trouble with helicopters. You had an on demand invisibility button that was so stupidly overpowered i don't remember the helicopter ever actually firing at me.
Funny how an Alien race that "absorbs energy" is damaged by kenetic energy weapons. Cause if you absorb the kinetci energy in a bullet, it aint gonna so much anymore. Once again, the special power as casting the bullet spell saves the day. Nice video though.
To be fair tho it's heavily implied that you're not even fighting the real ceph in the game but their equivalent of "gardening tools" that is all the "ceph" you're fighting throughout the trilogy are the cephs equivalent of autonomous lawnmowers
*spoilers*
If I remember correctly, suit cannot be vaporized with living human wearer inside, only dead one. This is proved in Crysis 3 where they skinned suits of their wearers, sometimes even causing death, since suit is symbiotic after some time. They wore protective layer in version 1 that prevented suit from bonding to the body. Prophet wore this protective layer in the beginning of the Crysis 2. After he kills himself, he sticks Alcatraz inside without protective layer, causing his wounded body and suit to fuse. It is noted during inspection by Lockhart and doctors that suit started growing into Alcatraz' wounds, healing them and replacing what was damaged.
You're absolutely right. We were all cringe as teenagers. Gods, my early writings are soooooo cringe and not at all infringing on copyrights lmao
It takes practice and cringe is just a sign of growth.
For some reason nomand never spoke in my game so hearing his voice threw me off
You probably got the silent protagonist edition
Strange. I do not remember helicopters ever being a problem. Two rockets and they're down. Or one if you lead the rocket from top to hit the rotor.
I always loved the 5-modes of the suit in OG Crysis. The little things, like max strength lowering recoil, or the existence at all of max speed were really nice. 2 and 3 just felt too dumbed down in the gameplay loop afterward.
The graphics still hold up amazingly
Im surprised this game franchise hasn't become a tv series by now
Don’t ever adapt a game franchise into live action, it will NEVER work
@@user-BadUsername Like Fallout?
@@user-BadUsername an animated show would be good I Believe? Or maybe the problem is how disrespectful most modern adaptions currently are to the source material example*ehem*halo*
@@user-BadUsername never is too strong but it is sooooooo rare.
@@rahulahlmaybe for a casual audience. But it’s like adapting a movie from a book, and anyone who’s read the book can see glaring inconsistent and off tune narrative compared to the original source, looking at you shogun, but I digress. Shogun tv show seems half decent even if they are blaze though the more deeper parts of the story. Can’t have it all
The beauty of this game is it's essentially Predator, with a new enemy that has the ability to scare and induce awe in us, while overpowering our heroes as much as the Predator in the original movie. It's nearly a beat-for-beat recreation of the main story drivers of Predator that made that movie so good:
* You have a crack team of massive gung-ho US Special Forces soldiers literally rippling with muscles (via the nano suit) and all of the latest high tech weapons tech DARPA can provide
* You have the "North Koreans" (cough: originally Chinese) taking the place of the narcos/rebels in the first Predator movie. Technologically and muscularly disadvantaged, they provide easy pickings and fun cannon fodder for our heroes to playfully obliterate
* Prophet, like Dillon, knows more than he's letting on to his team, but neither of them knew the true threat they were facing. The CIA lady is closer to the role of Dillon in her role as the outsider and spook, but Prophet fulfills the muscle-bound action hero role that Dillon maintained, so they split the traits a bit between them
* Virtually the whole game and its expansion pack sequel content take place within a tropical jungle setting (in fact, this setting theme is largely consistent between all 3 main games, especially 1 and 3)
* You have an unknown enemy presence lurking unseen but providing awareness of itself early on through auditory cues, and that presence then starts brutally picking your heroes off unseen one at a time. In fact, the first one is strung up in a tree, representing the Predator's penchant for hiding there and referencing the early scene with the skinned bodies
* When the alien does become known, it's an ambush predator, quickly moving in and through your team with superior technology to ambush the soldiers and separate them
Later, the game goes a bit different route with the larger sets, veering more into the realm of Aliens when you go underground and take the fight to them, then have all the Marines fighting, losing, and just looking to escape. The game then recreated the Ripley vs the Queen scene when you have your armored power suit and fight the big alien boss on the aircraft carrier at the end.
All in all, the presentation and approach was a master class in taking the best elements of classic 80s sci-fi movies that we love deep down, re-telling them in a new way in a new medium, and maintaining that build up and that "flip the script" moment where the badass human forces go from hunters to hunted, making us feel vulnerable and uneasy. Well done, Crytek.
16 year old game has a remaster version that works fine.
Strickland will vaporize you if you go AWOL in Exodus by going to the VTOL evac site as soon as the mission begins.
He is strict about lands 😮
wait no shot this game actually predicted china taking over an island in philippine sea because of its natural resources 💀
God damn CHAINA
Alpha centauri has been a part of China since ancient times.
"Predicted." shit's been going on for a while, folks.
Wait, it doesn't even have 1080p ? Damn.
Its funny that i realised that my video was running at 480p at the moment it was told in the video.
Iirc, by the time 1080 is standard the gamer level was 2k+
1080 was more about tvs
Point being it didn't stay there very long but for consoles
The sleeping dart attachment was disappointing.
Good old firearms are also sleeping darts, and they are far more permament
Also helicopters were dirt easy once you figured out that all you needed to do was destroy the tail rotor with either a sniper shot or rocket and it would instantly down the thing.
We have been developing railguns since the early 2000s btw.
Actually 7th of March 1903 the Norwegian Kristian Birkeland demonstrated the first electromagnetic gun. It exploded in a spectacular fashion (still launching the projectile a long distance indeed), but just a week later he met Sam Eyde who said he needed the largest electric arc possible to make nitrogen fertilizer. "Coming right up" Kristian Birkeland said, ish.
Its safe to assume someone somewhere have been working on railguns ever since. Not just the same someone somewhere all this time. And many of them probably on a shoestring budget (or even no budget, as many theoretical physicists and electrical engineers have done extensive work on paper).
"cloak engaged" is carved in the wrinkles of my brain.
_Yes._
Also, (for me at least) the electronics noise when the predator mech flips its cloak, in Hawken.
What did the unnamed science man do wrong? The one the speaker wanted to shove overboard with Wop style Crocs.
Hitting on someone in a work environment is generally ill-advised for a number of reasons not least of which being they're put on the spot RE whether to reject you or not because if they reject you they have to deal with potential weirdness going forward at best and unhinged stalker sabotage for the next 10 years or getting murdered at worst.
@@khanlusa I wouldn't even put it that far. It just seems like an idle thought you would hear in a break room in any white collar or blue collar workplace from both men and women, normally out of earshot of the topic of conversation and ends just as quickly as it begins.
@@strykertron232 yea didn't think that comment was that bad, just a product of 2007 culture. I thought she reacted strongly to it because it was implying something a lot worse, but then i realized he was just saying he'd hit on her basically, which isn't all that weird in workplaces in 2007. Today it's considered weird, unfortunately, but back then it was normal to meet your spouse at work. Now, we live in HR world, and since work used to be the #1 place to meet your partner, now that it doesn't happen, they're trying to make it so we all die alone lol.
poor thing couldn’t even make an appreciation without being moralized.
Free the Science Man
@@khanlusa but he didn't even say it to her? He lamented he was not an age appropriate partner to another, third party, man. I think appreciating another is a low bar for capital punishment, especially of such barbarous nature.
Crisis is so good i feel like it was ahead of its time they should remaster/make them
They did though? Look it up
Crysis 2 was peak to me
Starting off with human enemies and then suddenly everything starting to escalate got me good
Gasoline will absolutely still burn as long as oxygen is present no matter the temperature or state of matter it is in.
if you use just speed mode and strength when you need to jump the game is a fun run and gun shooter to blitz enemy's until you get to the aliens.
I think the external fuel tanks on both the helicopters and tanks were weak points. Some machine gunning would explode them and take down the vehicle health to make them easier to finish off, iirc. Do like your victory dance, though.
Also I remember the final boss battle was ~4 FPS on my 2008 rig.
Crysis was one of those games that just got lumped into the pile of "adventure shooters" for me and I had no idea it was literally aliens.
Between Far Cry, Just Cause, Lost Planet, Resistance, and Killzone those few years in the late 2000s were just absolutely packed with games that spun the shooter genre gameplay into something crazy and I completely missed all of them.
My introduction to Crysis was my friend asking if I remember the scene in Predator where they are all firing into the trees and all the trunks and foliage are being reduced to confetti, before proceeding to shoot down a bunch of trees in Crysis.
I was impressed.
Likewise; I saw the foliage damage, & on Very High settings the ability to _nudge foliage out of the way with one's gunbarrel,_ & I immediately wanted to play the game, just to see how much object damage there was.
The first time I got a good feel for that directional menu, I stealthed alongside the trail until right on top of a couple guys, flipped to strength to jump over one & fling them at the other. I felt _pumped._
Only other time I recall feeling that much of a rush from a game, was the first time I played Burnout on a 10'×7' screen, & felt as much as saw the lens push when hitting the boost (which BTW, one's eye does do to increase distance vision, when one's focus on the pavement moves farther ahead at high speed).
Crysis not only made my high end gaming machine actually _use_ its extra features, but was fun to play, as well.
I have approximately zero memory of the story, though... I don't think I ever played a game for the story: Total Annihilation > Warcraft.
I, somehow, got invitation to closed MP betatest and was surprised by how actually well optimized the game was, for my old PC it ran smooth on humble low-medium settings with stable fps. And yeah, spent so much time playing MP with other testers, never reporting anything, just having a blast 😅
Then the demo got released before the launch with the entirety of first level up to a frozen boat part, I replayed it countless times, playing with physics, trees, oil barrels spilling when shot, etc.
Damn, what a time, can't recall being excited that much for a game - and not just from PR material, but from the actual gameplay I could try. I feel so old now...
Huh, i never had problems with the helicopters. I was more or less using a strategy on every soldier i nicknamed the 'Sleeper Hit'
Basically, your fists almost one-shots everything and sends enemies flying. I would activate the cloak, move in while they grouped up, and then go full on dempsey roll each time.
Let me tell you, it's a crime the second and third games don't have the same effect when using melee.
15:58 that anti-air shouldn’t be spinning like that lol
I was 13 when i played this on my late uncles PC.
He left me there and was suprised when i was up to the final battle in the morning.
It was a dls launcher that would fix the crash i remember. Rarely have i experienced a shooter that had me locked in
I enjoyed your video and explanation
I played this when i was ten (2 years after release).... Not a game for a ten year old. still one of my favorite lore obsessions of all time. xD
Not gonna lie, I always loved the story structure. Starts as seemingly regular mission, but quickly you realize there is more to it than meets the eye. Escalation from silent spec ops to full out war, only for alien ship segment to be a game changer. True enough, last levels were kinda lackluster, but mission on frozen island still provided great contrast to early part of the game.
Upon playing the first game blindly, oh so many years ago, I honestly didn't see the alien part coming. It was a weird surprise. A bit out of place to be honest. I was expecting a regular 'future warfare' stuff.
I don't remeber helicopters being problem at all. What I do remeber is final boss fight no working at all. I was stuck with frozen ship that could not be targeted and spend hours trying to figure out what you even supposed to in this fight.
As I recall, you could force higher resolutions by making modifications to an ini file. You could also "adjust" the power limits and regen times for the various nano suit powers by modifying other ini files. Strength mode was the most amusing, as you could send the koreans into orbit by grabbing them and throwing them, lol. Also you could make speed mode faster with a longer duration to make some of the travelling less tedious. Making vehicles slower than running. If I recall, upping the game to a modern resolution made it look worlds better, but the look on the koreans faces when you grabbed them and added them to the korean space program was priceless.
For me, Crysis 1 never had a sequel, Crysis 2 and 3 are just similar games, but nothing compared to the original.
They totally thought the PC's of the future would be all pentiums with single core running at 7-8 GHz!
If I made a review of Crysis it would 98% revolve around the FANTASTIC map editor. I probably spent well over a thousand hours in the cryengine 2 map editor (cryengine 1 was for far cry 1, also spent a few hundred hours in that). Still remember, ctrl+G and you spawn in where the camera in the editor is and can play the map you JUST edited. Want more enemies at once? just click esc and drop in more enemies attached to the spawn trigger of that wave of enemies, takes like ten seconds. Ctrl+G to test it out again INSTANTLY.
Very good video, thank you. Also, alien ship segment scared the shit out of me as a child, the trauma was so big that i replayed 2 and 3 game like 10 times more that 1)
Oh I feel that, just for the Dead Space games. I can finish 2 and 3 just fine, but after the military ship section I cannot progress, the twitcher enemies freak me out too much
Omg same i literaly just replayed it and finished it after not being able to when i was 7 cause i was way to scared 😂
If we assume that the gasoline could have been ignited before the freeze hit, there's a chance the surrounding area might have been hot enough to not get below the negative temperatures, which would cause the gasoline to freeze
Negative 200 degrees Fahrenheit is very, very cold, but 450 Fahrenheit is also very very hot
Crysis had its REALLY cool moments. It felt like a really good action movie! Loved it!
Oh yes, F.E.A.R. 2 background music.
Ah, I see you are a man of culture 😌
If I remember correctly there's also a bug in the boss battle where it soft locks requiring you to restart the encounter.
The most annoying bug is that EA didn't ship subsequent releases with a 64 bit exe so you couldn't run it on AMD systems (specifically piledriver & bulldozer based CUPs).
I once had an isee where the boss straight up didn't spawn. Had to restart the mission
Cloak engaged
The Helicopters are so tough because they have localize damage models. The sniper could down a helicopter in only a few shots if you hit the engines or tail rotor.
I have randomly found your videos and I am honestly laughing my ass off at everything. You have earned a new sub. You neeeed more subs
Lol, the best part is that I found your video when I was down and when I watched it. It was such a serotonin dump. Thank you.
Damn the graphics still look gorgeous.
that aztec scene gave me ightmares as a kid
you call it a helicopter, we call the Hind a Tank with a rotor !
Feeling your gaze bearing down on me through my screen and sweating nervously while hearing "obsessed with the nanosuit " and using it as a writing idea.
Can..can you read my thoughts..?
...do you have ESPN? 😨