Dude, the graphics may be awesome and all but this is just a souped up Far Cry. Give me the "poorer" but far more realistic graphics of COD4 anyday. I actually feel like I'm in some craphole Middle Eastern City.
Crysis - again with the aliens. I absolutely hated those missions inside the mountain/alien ship. Sheesh. And I hated the boss level on the aircraft carrier. They're good for a "wow" effect but c'mon man, I want realism not organic alien hooey. I don't understand why any mature adult would choose fake, twitchy fantasy graphics over realistic urban warfare and fighting real life enemies like muslim fanatic nuts.
I got Crysis and COD4 and I liked them both. It's hard to compare both games as both games have pros and cons. A lot of people seem to like COD4 better (or much better) than Crysis... and obviously, you're entitled to your opinion.
However, I don't understand why people say that Crysis is the lamest game ever...really? I like Crysis and found the game quite enjoyable. It's not COD4 but it's still one of the greatest games of 2007 IMO.
So, enjoy COD4 but why bash Crysis in the process?
Message edited by Alex The PC Gamer on 07-18-2008 at 10:11:32 PM
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Yes, you're just jumping on the 'bandwagon of hate' by dissing Crysis. It really is a good game. Perhaps not revolutionary, but very good nonetheless. (And it has awesome graphics to boot!). Was it really necessary for you to start a thread titled "Crysis Totally Lame?"
its like comparing apples to oranges.... don't compare them... they are completely different games... I liked both games... both VERY different styles of gameplay... and I loved the story in both to...
an added bonus to crysis being a good game is... as spuddyt said... is its a benchmark =D
I bought crysis first, then got COD4. Completed COD4 before i finished crysis. That annoyed me.
Crysis was a new experience to me, I could do what i want. The weapons and their feel is much nicer than COD, i thought the weapons were so vaguely thought out, i love the add on menu in crysis. The suit powers are fun, and being able to react with the environment in almost any way is also fun. COD felt VERY linera, almost as if they had to add respawning enemies just to extend the game. How many terrorists can you seriously expect to jump over a fence?
COD graphics are smooth, but obviously not on a par with crysis. Thought storyline on crysis was obvious but not bad, cod4 was confusing but not bad. Generally i think COD is overhyped to the max.
i played Crysis (only the demo) and i bought CoD4. yeah CoD4 was short (very) and yeah i havent played but only 45 mins of a demo. but matter of fact Crysis is still not that great. but thats just me. personally i hate futuristic games(including BF2142) well i take that back i hate all futuristic games except the Unreal series(i grew up on them) and I also heard that there is alot of hacking in Crysis.....BOOOOOOOO!!!!!! i mean who what to be killed by a aimbotter or a waller?(dont get me wrong CoD4 aint much better) not me. this thread is pointless none the less and should be deleted.
Crysis could be considered a benchmark game but in a few years when all the next of the next gen systems come out its still gonna feel like i was playing Wolf 3d on my ol' Tandy T1000. all and all Crysis is not that great. i dont see what all that hype about it is.
"WOW ITS SO LEET THAT MY QX9650 and ATI 4870 WITH VISTA ULTIMATE THAT HAS 4 GIGS RAM ONLY BARELY PUSH IT"
nah ill pass. really to me that gfx look cartoonish and unrealistic. CoD4 is that much better but the all round feel of the game is realistic. the more and more i get tried of it the more and more i play it for some reason. really someone need to put a gun to the CEO's head and make him rape the devs that made Crysis and then take him out back and say 'i luv your game' b4 u shoot him in the head. but hey that my 2 pennies on it.
and to all the bashers, trollers, and w/e else u call yourself stop right there cause your gay ne-way for trying to pick a fight over the internet. point blank period. so quote me sue me or shoot me. i can talk about information logistics(or facts) all day.
Message edited by spook24 on 07-19-2008 at 02:47:41 AM
Personally I hate Crysis with a passion. The graphics are stunning, no doubt about it, and I don't fault the game for making me turn down the settings (even though I did put them up max just for those 3-4 fps of 'oooo shiny' every now and then).
My main problem with it, though, is how it changes in feel from start to finish.
At the start you have this huge open area and it feels like you can go off and explore for a while before coming back to move on with the story which is something I loved. Unfortunately... the areas just got tighter as the game went on almost to the point of being 1-way corridores.
That's what makes me hate it so much, it gets your expectations up so high in the first level that by the time you've finished it you start to think you were wrong in thinking the start was so much more open. Restart the game, it was. Seems almost like they got a totally different level designer in about 1/3 of the way through the game, didn't show him/her a single shot of the earlier levels or tell him/her what the earlier levels were like.
Also in response to spook24
You're going to get hacking whatever game you play. Don't single out a game as bad because there are hackers, otherwise you'll never play a game that has a multiplayer element. Crysis has hackers, CoD4 has hackers, Counterstrike has hackers, in fact Hello Kitty Online probably has hackers too. That's just the nature of the internet, if there's an exploit that can be abused, somebody out there who hates the idea of fair competition, or somebody else just being better at the game, will abuse it as much as possible.
i didn't single out Crysis what i said was 'don't get me wrong CoD4 isn't much better' and there's a Hello Kitty Online? that's news to me i thought it was just a Asian icon thingy(!?!?!?!?!)i don't know much, if anything about MP Crysis and i don't care to neither. like i said ill pass. hacking in game is a given in any PC multi-player based game. i had hack for Conquer Online when i played it a year ago. but that's a whole different story.
Crysis is a good game, its not a perfect 10 - but what game is a perfect 10?
Anyone can pick apart something to find its flaws. If you really want to complain about something in Crysis than complain about the AI - but that is a universal complaint for pretty much any FPS.
I like both cod4 and Crysis (yes it is possible) but I think Crysis should be applauded for its new engine.
I wonder how many times IW will rehash the Quake3 engine?
call of duty sucks you need no skill to play that game its a giant spray fest just point and click and hold the button down until the guy dies. crysis ai and graphics better then any game ive played, especially cod4 i own both and hate cod4, story is good but took me like 6 hours to beat on hard so yeah dont bash crysis cod4 has way more bad things then it
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actually COD4 needs a lot of skill on higher difficulty (or at least the talent of not charging in and expecting bunnyhoppping to work on AI )
for me, crysis did take a Major turn for the worse from the moment zero g started
I agree with OP, Crysis isn't actually that satisfying, but CoD4 is far too short, but much better, but also has a few flaws. Stupid 360 discs crippling games.
I play games for the solid fact that they aren't about real life...Real Life games are for Fat people and alcoholics who just like to sit in all day..insted of actually doing what people do every day.
I have and like both games but i have to say that COD4 is much better. I played through both games multiple times and the playable graphics settings at 1920x1200 with my system (below) are MAX with no AA for COD4 and Mix medium/low for CRYSIS. they are so low for crysis because i want a minimum frame rate of 60fps so i have fluid gameplay. so at the setting required to get those frames COD4 actually has better graphics! (YES Crysis looks much better then COD at MAX with a little AA but 16 FPS isnt playable)
Also Crysis has more glitches then any other game i have played. I mean come on after all these patches i still can throw flower pots into outer space and i get Zombie koreans on quick saves. there are still more but you get the point. I played through COD4 single player many times and never found 1 glitch (although online players have found several).
Crysis may have lived up to its hype if it went through a lot more testing and the graphics engine was a little nicer to high-end rigs.
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