Crysis Warhead

[Moatilliatta]

Crysis Warhead announced - Rock, Paper, shotgun article

 

The speculatioin was true. Crysis Warhead looks like it will indeed be the next game from Crytek.

 

The official Crysis homepage has updated itself with a new splash screen, showing the, well, bemused look of Crysis NPC Psycho, weilding a gun and apparently staring at my left foot. So let the speculation enter Phase Two.

 

After Crytek

[Slowtrain]

Interesting. I purchased both Farcry and Crysis and enjoyed them both more or less. However, unless there is a little more depth in a new Crytek title, I would be passing on it. I really don't need to play the same game a third time regardless of how splendid it looks.

[newc0253]

Interesting. I purchased both Farcry and Crysis and enjoyed them both more or less.

I enjoyed Farcry more and Crysis a lot less.

 

Farcry was simple. Run around cool island maps with guns and shoot things. It had a plot of some kind that i don't really remember, but the jungle settings were always fun.

 

Crysis was the same in a lot of ways except somehow much less fun and far more boring. Maybe it was just because it was more of the same (plus a supersuit) or maybe because my otherwise respectable computer was only able to run the graphics on medium and on medium, Crysis is not an amazingly-looking state-of-the-art game, it is simply okay but nothing special. Reading the reviews of Crysis, it's hard to see what all the fuss was about (quite literally). It only confirms my opinion that most professional games reviewers are shills and idiots.

 

Although it's no doubt hard for a developer to put so much into a game with such cutting-edge graphics only to see sales collapse due to piracy and what not, i'd have a lot more sympathy but for the fact that i forked out hard-earned cash on what for me was a very average-looking game that was in most other respectives deeply meh.

[Slowtrain]

Interesting. I purchased both Farcry and Crysis and enjoyed them both more or less.

I enjoyed Farcry more and Crysis a lot less.

 

Farcry was simple. Run around cool island maps with guns and shoot things. It had a plot of some kind that i don't really remember, but the jungle settings were always fun.

 

Crysis was the same in a lot of ways except somehow much less fun and far more boring. Maybe it was just because it was more of the same (plus a supersuit) or maybe because my otherwise respectable computer was only able to run the graphics on medium and on medium, Crysis is not an amazingly-looking state-of-the-art game, it is simply okay but nothing special. Reading the reviews of Crysis, it's hard to see what all the fuss was about (quite literally). It only confirms my opinion that most professional games reviewers are shills and idiots.

 

Although it's no doubt hard for a developer to put so much into a game with such cutting-edge graphics only to see sales collapse due to piracy and what not, i'd have a lot more sympathy but for the fact that i forked out hard-earned cash on what for me was a very average-looking game that was in most other respectives deeply meh.

 

I enjoyed them both for different reasons. Farcry was a bit more light-hearted. I loved the mercs as enemies. In Crysis I enjoyed messing about with suit and using it in different ways to cause assorted mayhem. In both cases I found the second halves less fun than the first halves. I think both ganes were remarkably light on anything resenbling a narrative that was in any way compelling.

 

In view of Crytek's recent compaints about the failure of Crysis it wouldn't surprise me to see them drop the system requirements and up the narrative depth of their next game.

[Moatilliatta]

In view of Crytek's recent compaints about the failure of Crysis it wouldn't surprise me to see them drop the system requirements and up the narrative depth of their next game.

Or they might just make a 360 or PS3 version. Which will probably mean that it will have less cutting edge graphics and more gamplay or possibly just less graphics.

[Pidesco]

Crysis sold lots, actually. It just took a while to take off.

[Morgoth]

Crysis was a rather boring experience. I pretty much can do without Warhead.

[Tale]

Crysis was a rather boring experience. I pretty much can do without Warhead.

Excellent! I was waiting for someone to slander it before me. To break the ice a little. And so I wouldn't feel like I started it.

 

Crytek sucks.

Edited June 5, 2008 by Tale

[Morgoth]

Hey that's fine. Freedom of speech and stuff...

 

Crytek has some excellent software engineers, but their designers need a lot to learn. Also, Crytek should hire someone who can write an adequate story. Crysis just had no soul.

[Tale]

That was my complaint about Farcry that caused me to pass on Crysis. Not simply a lack of story, but an overall lack of soul. I felt that they left the design open, but with no respect for how the gameplay elements interact and the result. So many of the fights were just so terribly designed I can only imagine their developers threw monsters on a map, said "THIS IS COOL!" and called it a day.

 

I'd wager they maybe tightened things up for Crysis, but I held no faith they could improve enouhto make something I could consider purchasing.

 

I don't really mean to bring down a thread for people who actually enjoyed the games out of that studio. I apologize for it.

 

I'll be hopeful for Warhead. I'd like to be able to share in finding these games good. Maybe they'll do something in this one that can please me while no alienating their normal fans.

[Moatilliatta]

I haven't played Farcry so no comments on that. Crysis is fun if you can squeeze it out of the not very well developed suit mechanics and it can be a lot of fun for a while if you do that.

Edited June 5, 2008 by Moatilliatta

[Morgoth]

I just read that the Crytek Budapest studio works on Warhead. Well, maybe there's hope it gets more "soul".

[Blodhemn]

I have a good enough setup to run Crysis at "super high" so I enjoyed it. The only thing that really bummed me out was the garbage ending pulled from Halo 2. Whoever decided to end the game on that note should remove themselves from future projects. I thought the game was somewhat boring earlier on and then got fairly good and stayed there. The zero gravity alien environment is indeed the coolest looking thing in FPS history.

 

I liked Farcry a lot less, partly cause I figured out the story the first minute in and also the AI, although tough, used cheap tactics, ie snipers seeing you through rocks and all of the other junk towards the end where you're just a weapon magnet.

[Moatilliatta]

The zero gravity alien environment is indeed the coolest looking thing in FPS history.

For like five seconds, yeah. I wasn't affected much by the enviroment but rather by me being dumb enough that I had just wasted all my bullets on a target that I couldn't hit. Luckily Crysis had ammo in abundance.

[Kaftan Barlast]

Crysis was a good shooter, a really cool techincal achievemnt and I liked it alot. I was looking forward to the sequel even as I was playing the game. And with over a million copies sold, it was an economical success aswell.

 

 

 

Now, Ive heard alot of complaints about it in comparison to FarCry and they all come from people with subpar computers. Im beginning to believe that playing it on low settings doesnt just affect the graphics but impacts the gameplay heavily as well. The physics on my desktop computer are WAY better than on my laptop. I think that accounts for alot of the muttering. The same people also claim you hav to empty half a clip into the head of an enemy just to get him own, while on my computer it takes no more than 2-3rounds center mass to kill an enemy soldier

[Moatilliatta]

My biggest problem with Crysis was that the Koreans wouldn't speak Korean unless I was on the highest difficulty, which is bull**** as I like my game hard not impossible.

I wanted my enemies to talk gibberish.