Crysis 2

[crimsonshootingstar]

Its about a month away.

[Clay Pigeon]

Ok.

I'll probably pick it up after I put together my zambezi build

[BigBiker05]

The first one really pissed me off. The game got significantly easier as the game went on. They should of just made a movie instead of a game since that pretty sums it up.

Also, the options in the game were horrible. It was like a baby ate them. Pooped it out. I dog ate the diaper. Then vomited it in a blender. And then the bartender made a very gross mix drink from it.

[Clay Pigeon]

The first one really pissed me off. The game got significantly easier as the game went on. They should of just made a movie instead of a game since that pretty sums it up.

Also, the options in the game were horrible. It was like a baby ate them. Pooped it out. I dog ate the diaper. Then vomited it in a blender. And then the bartender made a very gross mix drink from it.

[crimsonshootingstar]

I'm not quite sure what he is talking about either

[BigBiker05]

Alright, I had a few typos because I was drunk at the time. But the problem is actually I need to go into specifics on the options.

I'm not going to reinstall the game to go into it but pretty much the key control options were done very sloppy and became tedious to do and often times caused me to unbind stuff I didn't want to unbind when trying to bind something else because it grouped keys into groups.

The difficulty options had many cool options. English vs Korean voice overs (hearing what the enemy was saying made it easier). Cross-hair or no cross-hair, and several other. The problem is that these were also grouped. I could not make the game easier or harder without affecting the gameplay.

Not only that, but the AI got very stupid powerful depending on the map location. So I wanted Korean VOs for realism, and a cross-hair for preference. I couldn't do that, so I gave up the cross-hair. The early game became really hard because AI would just shooting through a million trees and kill me while I was stealth. I had to nerf the difficulty. I lost my Korean VOs but got my crosshair. The later game provided better cover and different enemies. The game got super easy so I had to bump up my difficulty A LOT. I got Korean VOs back (even though there wern't many Koreans anymore), but lost my cross-hair.

But it's all cool. The game came free with my graphics card.

VIEW CONTENT:

[crimsonshootingstar]

Alright, I had a few typos because I was drunk at the time. But the problem is actually I need to go into specifics on the options.

I'm not going to reinstall the game to go into it but pretty much the key control options were done very sloppy and became tedious to do and often times caused me to unbind stuff I didn't want to unbind when trying to bind something else because it grouped keys into groups.

The difficulty options had many cool options. English vs Korean voice overs (hearing what the enemy was saying made it easier). Cross-hair or no cross-hair, and several other. The problem is that these were also grouped. I could not make the game easier or harder without affecting the gameplay.

Not only that, but the AI got very stupid powerful depending on the map location. So I wanted Korean VOs for realism, and a cross-hair for preference. I couldn't do that, so I gave up the cross-hair. The early game became really hard because AI would just shooting through a million trees and kill me while I was stealth. I had to nerf the difficulty. I lost my Korean VOs but got my crosshair. The later game provided better cover and different enemies. The game got super easy so I had to bump up my difficulty A LOT. I got Korean VOs back (even though there wern't many Koreans anymore), but lost my cross-hair.

But it's all cool. The game came free with my graphics card.

VIEW CONTENT:

Ahh ok now i get you. I'm not really a difficulty guy I just play every game on normal. As for the controls I never tried to change mine so I never ran into that.

[One_Medic_Army]

Gave the multiplayer demo a go.
definitely not touching that again, makes me remember why I like TF2.

couple comments:
multiplayer is run through gamespy (urgh)
can't get voice chat to work, nobody else seems to use either
you start out as a new player with the crappiest gear and no options, then as you get more skilled you get better stuff, bad combo, it means any new player is subject to getting completely owned for a significant portion of their initial playtime (more than usual) without any option but to die and hope to find another newb to kill.
Beautiful detailed scenery
Really really hard to see your opponents through that scenery (at least for me)
Stealth mode is only good for camping, as you are still visible, especially when moving or if the other guy has his graphics set high. (you do get removed from the radar though)
Easiest thing to do is to either follow a team-mate and try to finish off who kills them, or sit in a corner and kill whoever shows up.

All in all, not my cup of tea, and I'd rather play counterstrike, at least there the other guys don't start the game with an Arctic Warfare Magnum and best armor.

On the plus side, it looked beautiful, even on minimum settings (playing on my laptop here).

[crimsonshootingstar]

One week away. I'm getting impatient. Especially with all of these new trailers and the demo I played very briefly ( Seriously TF2 and this community aside online multiplayer is $@#%) My new system is online and ready to rock with its twin 5770s , 8 gigs ddr3, and hot new amd processor. Why cant time move faster. In the mean time I continue to punish myself with DA2. Anyone else chomping at the bit?

[Pseudo]

Downloaded the demo, played a few times...seems pretty fun. I didn't play the first one, but now that my build can run it at mid-high settings, I'll probably pick it up.

[crimsonshootingstar]

Single player trailer I just saw on kotaku I felt i needed to share this looks beautiful.

[Araris]

As a die hard defender of the first Crysis game and Crysis Warhead, this game is an udder disappointment on every level to me.

1) The original Crysis was built ground up for DX10 at the time, Crysis 2 launches exclusively with DX9. How can I, in good conscious, support a product that is a step backwards on the technology front. They've claimed to be releasing a DX11 patch down the road however that means absolutely nothing since a game has to be build ground up to fully incorporate features like Tessellation to there fullest extent. To me, a company like DICE, with Battlefield 3, is infinitely more "worship-able" than Crytek.

2) This game is so console-ized that I'm ready to scream at every person that purchased a X360 or PS3 (I bought a PS3) for ruining PC gaming. The damn title screen says "Push Start to Continue" are you freaking kidding me, I may not be as old as some of the villuns here but I'm pretty sure keyboards never had a start button. Along with the change brightness settings saying "Adjust your TV to.....". Then to add insult to injury I'm stuck playing 6v6 player games when Crysis Wars had 32 player and Battlefield 3 will have 64 player.

3) The original Crysis was only famous for its graphics, they've stripped that down so much that what's left is a figuratively cheap, albeit $60 game, that is a disappointment compared to its predecessors. Also, the first Crysis was $50 and Warhead was $40. Part of the wonder of the first Crysis was always trying to find a computer rig that would be able to max it, it pushed the drive for updating graphics cards and increasing graphics in other PC games. Now I'm sitting on SLI GTX 580s here, the first Crysis runs worse than Crysis 2, but it's hardly because of optimization, the texture work is stunning in Crysis and Warhead....I'm not sure textures even exist in Crysis 2.

End rant, I can go further but I'm about to throw my fist through the monitor.

You can compare the video you posted to how most people play Crysis nowadays (with the EQM mod).

[One_Medic_Army]

Are you playing the multiplayer, or the "leaked" beta?
Just saying the multiplayer is not the single player.

Crimson and I are not buying this for the multiplayer, as it looks like crap, and from playing the beta is crap, and full of the types you expect to see on XboX live tea-bagging your corpse and chugging brewskies at their frat house.

[Clay Pigeon]

Wait, you play as alien scum in crysis 2?

DO NOT WANT

[Araris]

No, I was basing my judgments off the Official Demo, I support Crytek infinitely more than I do people that tried the leaked version of the game. I play Crysis games more for the single player than multiplayer as well. If you look at the game as if made by another company, then it's a resounding success, however it's similar to how some people here feel about Dragon Age 2 and Bioware. Coming from the company that made it, they've been extremely disappointed. I will most likely end up picking up Crysis 2 once Crytek get's their head out of their....they are by far one of the most arrogant companies I've ever seen. Cevat Yerli, their CEO, is one of the largest "over-hypers" in the entire industry, on the lines of Peter Molyneux. I just want them to admit to making the PC version worse than they could have should it have been PC only, I generally don't wish bad luck on a game company, but I honestly hope that Crysis 2 flops hard on every platform (besides the PC), so they realize what happens when they decide to not give a crud about the technology available to them.