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Originally Posted by PredatorFL
Crysis is all looks and no story - that pretty much sums up Crysis, it is a game you get to see how good your computer is.
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That's exactly the most ignorant and stereotypical excuse that ppl who haven't been able to play it properly, give out.
When they are accused of that like I am accusing you, they always say that they did play it and it did work perfectly but in reality we all know that was not the case for everybody and that only richer ppl were able to do that.
I was able to play crysis maxed out with 40-60 fps 2 months later after it was released when the new videocard models came out.
I have enjoyed crysis as much as any legendary fps game made before it!
It was truly good! It had ambient, it had lots of fun and entertaining gameplay and it's story was presented in a very cinematic way even though I agree it was rather thin, it managed to keep you into the game until the end!
But so what? Why are we even looking so much at the story of crysis? Did duke nukem ever happen to have a cool story and I didn't know about it?
Nobody loves doom, duke nukem or quake for their stories but for the gameplay and graphics!
That's what made fps popular. Graphics first and gameplay second and story mostly never!
Then hollywood fps games started to appear. Games like F.E.A.R or Deus ex, Half life. Games that put more focus on the story than before!
For a fps game, there should be Graphics, Gameplay and cool music and sfx because in the end immersion and ambient are the things that make any game memorable! If you have immersion in a game with a lame ambient you fail. If you have a cool ambient and you fail to immerse people in it you fail again. The idea is to immerse people into a cool ambient to win!
Crysis had imersion because if it's "OMG" graphics, it had a cool ambient in that tropical area with aliens and soldiers roaming everywhere, it had cool gameplay mechanics with that suit, the weapons in the game looked and acted cool and the music was decent, wouldn't say memorable but it wasn't bad!
So why did this game fail at a perception level?
Well it did because of the same reason for which Gta4(another epic game) failed! Because these games were state of the art technology that pushed one's pc to the max and can still do it to this day and lots and lots of people bashed it because they couldn't enjoy it properly at the time of release and even a few years after it's release!
The incredible amounts of frustration crysis and gta4 have both created to people, have spawned a trend where everybody that couldn't play it would post on game forums or game sites and bash these 2 games with the same old stereotypical shit up to the point where they even indoctrinated people that could play this game, that this game is bad!
Even I almost fell for it when everybody was saying it's badly optimized it doesn't have this doesn't have that blah blah blah.
Once I got my gaming rig up and running, I enjoyed crysis at it's real value!