Crysis Sequel Announced, Still PC Only 86
EA and Crytek have announced a sequel to Crysis , one of the highest rated games of last year. Unfortunately, it seems that still only PC users will be able to celebrate the good news. "In Crysis Warhead, players will don the Nanosuit of Sergeant Sykes, also known as 'Psycho', one of the most memorable characters from Crysis. More brash and aggressive than his Delta Force squadmate Nomad, players will experience Psycho's parallel story during the events of the original game, finding that life on the other side of the island is even more intense and explosive than they ever could have imagined. Luckily, Psycho's Nanosuit is just as capable and he's equipped with an even bigger arsenal of fully customizable weapons and new vehicles, giving players access to the tools they need to dominate any situation. Aside from this new, exciting single player campaign, Crysis Warhead will also feature new multiplayer content."
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This one requires quad, quad-gpu video cards and a quad, 8 core system just to get 30fps at full settings.
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I think you have that wrong. This one requires 4 quad-core video cards and 4 8-core CPUs just to get 30fps at the lowest settings...
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Core2Duo E7200 2.53Ghz $135
GeForce 8800GT $180
2GB DDR2 Corsair ram $50
Asus P5K motherboard $130
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Whoa, that's like $495!
The rest basically won't affect the performance so you can use whatever's lying around. But anyway:
Antec case with a 360W PSU : $80
WD 320gb HDD : $75.
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+$155
As for the game itself, I really enjoyed most of it. Even the alien spaceship/base part was a pretty good change of paces, although it did drag on a little longer than I'd prefer. So I'm looking forward to this, and especially Far Cry 2.
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I guess the Cryengine was a bit overhyped.
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There is no reason why you can't run Crysis at max on any regular resolution (including widescreen)
Or does your PC have 3K allocated like this
150 case (only if your looking for something really extravagant)
300 power supply (Really? no, this should be a touch lower (like 1/2?)
200 Mobo (any decent MOBO)
1000 processor (Top of the line Proc for said Mobo)
1000 4 gb of DDR3 Top speed RAM
150 HDD
600 HDD (assuming twin velociraptors.)
and you forgot to buy a videocard?
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It's an EVGA 8800GTX and like I said, I don't have frame rate issues with other games.
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If you have any wisdom on how to get a greater frame rate in Crysis I'd love to hear it.
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Oh BTW, I got an EVGA 8800GT (no X) and was disappointed that they put a capacitor where they shouldn't have and after market water blocks wouldn't fit it. In fact any sort of full coverage solution probably won't. Definitely buying from another "manufacturer" or whatever nVidia is calling them next time.
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I'll double check everysingle setting I have on, but if your running a high res (like I do, I am either @ 1280 or 16x1200 can't remember, but I'll check tonight) TURN OFF AA. The higher the res, the less AA you need! 800x600 You need it up there. as you increase resolution, decrease AA. so for 1024x768 go down to 4x (or 2x), and 2x (
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$100 case
$180 PSU 750W
$400 mobo X48
$1000 CPU QX9650
$400 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
$200 ($100x2) 500GB HDD SATAII 32MB, raid0
$300 8800GTS (G92)
used dual monitors from previous system
$2380 total without tax/shipping
Runs on 1280x1024 on high for everything except antialiasing. I can run AA at x2 for whole game, or x4 for everything except last scene but I have to set the graphics card to single performance mode or it gets bad, like in Doom3. I'd try higher but my monitor doesn
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Seven months ago I bought one for 950 euros, with which I happily played through Crysis on high settings at a merry 35-40 FPS. Currently, for that much money I could buy a significantly more powerful computer.
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You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
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my $2k system (as of last september. core2 duo e6850, 8800GTS, 2GB ram. likely about $1500 now) runs crysis nicely on high
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The final cost was about 1100 dollars for a dual-core e6600, GTS8800 768, two gigs of RAM, 500 gig SATA drive, motherboard, case, power supply, fans, and a very nice 21" 1680x1050 LCD. It's not a completely top-of-the-line machine (though
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An extremely high-end gaming machine can be put together for $1,000 including a 20" monitor and all required peripherals.
After buying two 9800 GX2's and a motherboard (no processor, no display, no RAM, no peripherals at all) you'd already be over 1,000 USD - with a fully loaded motherboard (3 x 9800 GX2's) you'd be well over 2000 USD after adding 2-4 GB of RAM, A CPU and a PSU... and that's before you even include a display or any peripherals.
Beyond that price-point you begin hemhoraging money for practically no gain.
That's true once you pass about the 3,000 USD mark for a system, not the 1,000 USD mark.
If you are regularly playing games like Call of Duty 4, Crysis or Gears of War on your PC your a
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The best is when people compare it consoles - where you have no choice on quality and it is locked at whatever the devs could get to run.
I guess the take away "winning strategy" from this is just to artificially limit the settings so stupid people don't bitch and give your game a bad reputation. Then 2 years later release a "graphics upgrade patch" that removes the limits
Future-proofing AND idiot mitigation. Win! (Profit???)
It's all perception. People want to think they are running it at "The Best Settings" and feel cheated if they aren't. Because, by God, they are entitled to the best settings no matter what their computer is like. It's just not fair otherwise!
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Not understanding what the fuss is about is fine too - there are a ton of games I play where I have that feeling. I just figure it isn't my kind of game.
Incidentally, I think HL2 was one of them for me. I borrowed it using a friends steam account one time, got bored, and quit part way though. I now own it with the Orange Box bundle, but I'
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Oh no, vanity sizing for geeks has arrived.
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But your options don't end there, technology has advanced. You can get people to run a modified seti@home client to give you the missing cpu cycles to be able to get that performance (2-3k machines could do the trick?), or go to the black market and hire a mid-sized botnet for that task (will have the side effect of reducing global spam too, those machines will not have spare
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Why does everyone hate on the crysis engine when it WORKS FINE FOR MEDIUM SPEC MACHINES, JUST NOT ON MAX SETTINGS.
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I remember reading numerous reviews and forum hype about how Crysis was supposed to be so "open" and less "linear". Sure, the environments create the illusion of openness, but when you get down to it, Crysis was just another "go through each objective one at a time in this exact order" game. Any choice you had was more along the lines of "do I take the beachfront path to reach the village, or do I stick to the road? To
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What's the difference between an Elder Scrolls game and a FPS, anyway? I almost always play Oblivion in first-person view, and if you've equipped a bow and arrows you can shoot people.
And what about Grand Theft Auto? That, likewise, can be first person, and it sure as Hell is a shooter!
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The way I'd heard the game described before I played it, you'd think that your character was plunked down o
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I originally thought the same thing about Farcry, where you have an entire island you can explore. You can explore to a certain extent but there are definite boundaries that guide you in a certain direction.
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Seriously, how "open" can it be? You still have to hit the plot points or the story wont progress.
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Not particularily enthusiac about this. (Score:4, Interesting)
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If Pyscho's story is supposed to involve "life" on the other side of the island, as the release calls it, I have to assume they are talking more about the aliens than the Koreans.
I would think just the opposite. IIRC Nomad and the squad leader were the two mucking around in the ship while Psycho was off doing something else. This says to me more koreans rather than less.
Like you, I found the first half the game much better (and CERTAINLY more replayable) than the second. The second part was fun for about 10 minutes with the whole floaty thing, but that is only novelty value.
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Or you could just not be a douche and say "PC" like everyone else. Leave the specifics for the hardware requirements.
Not saying "PC only" is saying I'm so insecure about myself that I need to arbitrarily use my own terminology because whats popular does not make me stand out. Just like people saying "USian" or "GNU/Linux"
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Or you could just not be a douche and say "PC" like everyone else.
I didn't realise that not saying "PC" made me a douche, but thanks for the insight.
Not saying "PC only" is saying I'm so insecure about myself that I need to arbitrarily use my own terminology because whats popular does not make me stand out.
Saying "Windows" when I mean Windows is drawing attention to myself?
And if I'm feeling insecure you have my assurance I won't reduce myself to ad hominem attacks in a public forum.
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It's not just performance, either. I tried the demo. It ran very nicely on my system and looked fantastic.
Unfortunately, it wasn't fun. Admiring the sunlight filtering through the leaves was very nice, but hardly exciting. Cutting down trees with a machine gun is fun for a few minutes at most. The AI was lacklustre, the plot derivative, the combat uninspired, the chara
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(http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=29356)
This is a big slap in the face to everyone who bought Crysis with high hopes for it's multiplayer aspect and especially those of us working on multiplayer-focused mods for it. Even those who were just hoping to get more improved performance from a future patch - not yours.
EA seemed to pull the same shit with DICE and the Battlefield series, before this. BF2 expansions and then BF2142 were out before major issues with BF2 were ever resolved. Some of the same old BF2 bugs still exist in all of the games on that engine, today. We've once again been sold on continuing support that ended up amounting to nothing but too-few-patches and hosted community forums. At least DICE continued patching BF2. Crytek seemingly wants us to buy Warhead if we want the 'optimized' and presumably less-buggy CryEngine2. Still, given their track record thus far, I imagine many of the issues that plague Crysis will remain in Warhead. Then you can expect the next installment to end support of Warhead, just the same.
The sad thing is that this should, by most PC gaming standards, be an expansion pack, with the core game being updated with the revamped code and assets. The single player campaign is going to be parallel to the Crysis one, you just play a different character. Yet it sounds like it's going to be a full-priced title.
Personally I've despised EA for years and hate supporting them. I bought Crysis with a frown because of this. Now this. At least I know I wasn't delusional when I flamingly urged the Crytek people to sever ties with EA, once Steam went to free e-publishing.
I for one will not support this sort of bullshit. Boycott EA. Everything they touch turns to fail and AIDS!
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This habit of theirs is one reason I passed on BF2142 and simply waited for ETQW to come out.
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If you want quality you have to with a brand like Blizzard which is know to support their products far beyond what is expected.
If you want a product from a company that are only interested in your money and not in your satisfaction go with EA. Sure, they may produce soom good products, but that is because
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The Half-Life series did this several times with Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and arguably Portal as it has ties to that universe indirectly... This doesn't seem to be advancing the main plotline in the same way that a true sequel would, but then again, I think I'm hair splitting here.
Hell, I seem to remember Quake mission packs billing themselves in
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I expect that a game of this calibre should actually be finishable -- not be impossible to complete because of clipping issues with the world terrain and corrupted savegames. Their lack of support on Patch 1.3 is a slap in the face.
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