CES 2007: Crysis

I don't get where you get the idea that console CPUs are weaker but lets not head down that road. Also, what Crytek's CEO said to Gamespot was that they weren't even thinking about next gen consoles at this point. After the game ships for PC they'll consider it. Although I have seen statements like the above from them in the past.

Personally I think saying such things about the next gen consoles is a little silly. "Crysis is too sexy for 360 or PS3" etc. These machines can handle Crysis. Yeah you might have to turn down the visuals some. Yet the game will still be amongst the best looking games on either platform if not the outright best.

I've seen a couple other publications' reports on the CES demo. Most of the videos consist of exactly what you see here. Shooting rockets at that bitch in the helicopter and him dodging them over and over

Sobek the "non realistic smoke" is no doubt always like that for gameplay & performance reasons.

 

From what i'v seen (besides those vids) i only get the feeling that gameplay is no longer fun or challenging at all(having far cry in mind), at least during gunfights with simple 'human' enemies, the nanosuit turns the player to some supersoldier, you'r just playing catch around the enemies that oppose no significant threat to whatever the goal is. If its not the case then whoever plays the game must be playing in 'godmode' just to show off the nanosuit abillities, the game graphics and physics.
I wish the nanosuit was only avaiable later on the game when facing harder allien enemies.

 

Im pretty sure its on god mode. In one of the videos, you hear someone remark that they had died 7 times while they were fighting the heli.

epic

 

DUDE ! I feels sorry for thoose who are playing with consols

 

[Accidental double post]

 

That's probably why you'll note I was talking about a podcast, not Gamespot.

I agree. But the creators told 1up differently. So I guess you should tell them..

They happened to talk about this too. The guy who played it said you have a sort of, skill set, and you allocate certain energy to each skill, and basically if you dont plan it out, you'll end up in the middle of some trouble when your skill energy for whatever skill you're using (say, super strength) runs out, and you'll die. So you have to be tactical. Sounded pretty good.

 

I'm just trying to add to the discussion here. In this case that means giving my take on what Crytek has said to some publications and informing people that they're sending mixed messages. I did not misunderstand what you were talking about nor was I calling Crytek liars. I'm no rendering engine programmer but the idea that Crysis is "too advanced" to be portable seems like something Sony would say.

 

Yeah, ram is a huge issue, GPU to, and specially CPU. Otherwise they could maybe have done a Crysis to the consols (downgraded ofcourse) in 10-25fps.

 

I agree with that, it made the AI look extremely limited to me, but I guess if it was godmode it would make sense.

 

We have only seen gameplay so far against humans correct? I would assume your nanosuit gets a heck of a lot more balanced out when you go into that ice world type place and start fighting against swarms of those tripod like alien thingys.

 

Not quite...

http://incrysis.com/crysis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=225&Itemid=2

 

I don't really think we can judge the games difficulty by watchine a few clips. Most of them even set up in demo maps. I mean, do you honestly think that Crytek would make the game a cakewalk? By saying such things all you're doing is insulting Crytek's intelligence and design skills. Far Cry was very challenging at times even at the default difficulty and I expect the same from Crysis. Sure they're showing the player kick ass in these videos. Would you want to watch videos of the player getting killed over and over?

The lack of memory in console systems relative to PCs has never stopped anyone in the past from making faithful ports of memory guzzling PC games. It will take some adjustments and perhaps some smart streaming but Crysis and any other PC shooter will happily "fit" on the 360 or PS3.

 

Statement from Crytek, taken from Crysis-Online.com:

 

he totally avoided telling us the resolution and aa/af settings, or commenting on the current state of performance!!

 

Dude, he avoided telling us everything.

Well I damn well want to know why. It would certainly shut up every single person constantly complaining about the game stuttering/'lagging' (wish people would stop using 'lag' as a way to describe poor performance...use something that actually makes sense. Like 'chunk' or something, "Man that game is chunking bad!". Otherwise we're all going to think you're saying the pings are bad). I wonder what it could be...perhaps they haven't got an optimised file system in place and all the files are being loaded from some singular compressed archive (zip, rar, younameit), sort of like Doom 3 how extracting the Pak files yielded massive stuttering-relief on most systems.

I want answers...

 

Looks like a Xbox blog wrote up what I was talking about:

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/13/rumorang-crysis-game-for-xbox-360-not-pc-port/

 

The framerate whent to the 10fps only when big amounts of dust flew up infront of the player view. This could act as a proof that Crysis was running at a very high resolutions becouse the pixel fillrate took a heavy hit (dust effects tend to lower fps heavily when on high res, BF2 60fps 1920x1200 but with arty infront it does 15fps).

It seems obvious that the settings are maxxed becouse the videos look incredible but if not then the game will look even better which I tought wasn't possible!

Swaayes video captures show that the game runs well so far with dips here and there except video3 where the game is running bad all the time. This is becouse of either a bug or some service/program using the HDD wilst the game was running. It is obvious becouse video4 is in the same place as video3 but video4 runs fluid almost the entire time.

So all in all I don't think it is necessary for the dev to comment settings becouse it is obviuos that the settings are maxxed out considering the graphics they showed on CES07, one could almost believe this game was meant for the next-next-gen!

 

I would want to watch a player playing intelligently, not hopping high in the air and shooting people while flying thru the air. Landing reloading and shooting the next guy who stands their looking perplexed the whole time. It just isn't impressive. I would much prefer they die, especially if it demonstrates the intelligence of the AI.

If you wnt to demo physics, then do it in a friendly environment. If you want to demo the whole game play it to show the way a player's intelligence can overcome obstacles.