Crysis Screens

What, you mean Serious Cry 2?












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Doom 3 was supposed to be Doom with better graphics which It wasn't. It was also hyped beyond all imagination. Hows that tie in with the Quake series?

 

Can concur on that - after playing DOD source it's the most realistic looking engine out of all of them. I've only played the HL2 demo but that's a fairly good indication of the whole game from what I have heard. If that's attributed to the textures or the quantum partilser technology or whatever then so be it.

 

we knew it was to be a 3D corridor shooter on a great new engine, with few enemies at once with LOW AI and repetitive color schemes. which is far from doom1 and quite similar to quake 1/2.
Most of the hype was about the 3D engine I think (and yea some "OMFG its DooM !")

with HL2 it's more "OMFG ! half-life! gordon freeman! the crowbar. it will be huge, revolutionary gameplay from physics engine! OMFG the shiny water. human-like AI (faked by scripts in the E3 demo). Valve only cares about its customer!"

 

Well, the D3 engine was certainly hyped a lot, though I don't think the game was to the same extent. Nearly all of the interest in D3 revolved around the graphics.

 

Since when? It is and was always going to be a completely different kind of game.

 

Since the hype?? Oh well I will chkdsk my memory since it's a pretty vivd recollection.

Guys at my work who are 30+ were going gaga over the game 'hype' - not engine, they have little interest in 3D techniques, preordered it and most didn't make the finish because - it wasn't doom... It wasn't the remake of the original using newer technology they had been sold on. If that's not the official marketing line then it was certianly an impression out there. let's clarify it then: Official ID hype, official publisher hype or unchecked/disaluisoned fan hype? if it's the latter then ... what do you want me to do about it ?- doesn't discount that it existed even if it was inadvertant. I brought the game(off one of the guys here) for the 3D engine and still haven't got out of alpha labs .... I didn't follow Doom3's development anywhere near as much as I did FarCry's. For 3D technology reason's and the game play inovations they were said to introduce.

Some of the half Life 2 hype can be contributed to the controversy surrounding the delay surely? That episode alone probably caused more articles and forum flames than the game itself.

 

regarding HL2, what upset me most (graphicly) was stuff like this:

most stuff looked good to great, then you get crap like that 7 polygon "rubble" mesh from the quake1 era. there are a bunch of smaller examples of stuff that didn't quite "fit" with the rest of the world, but that's the most glaring IMHO. that brings me to the other thing i disliked about HL2. they give you all of this freedom to move stuff around, but limit what you can move (there are certain cars you cannot move, and random smaller items that you should be able to move but can't). and there are invisable barriers funneling you into the path that valve wants you to travel. the game's a real paradox. they give you all of this freedom to interact with the world, but at the same time create one of the most linear and limiting games. before anyone things i'm a HL2 hater, i enjoyed playing through the game. it's a good game, but i can't agree with the "OMG it looks so real" crowd.

doom3 and farcry, graphicly, i feel had a more consistant look to them from begining to end. i could pick them apart for gameplay, too, but i think those issues have been well covered.

i often wonder why painkiller isn't brought up more when people talk about newer game engines. on a graphics level it holds it's own against D3, HL2, and FC. in fact, i think the game resembles HL2 on many levels, excluding the obvious art direction.

 

on the hl2 road maps with crashed cars along the road, etc. i flung them all into the sea (took awhile), then i flung everything in the little houses (furniture too) into the sea. then everything around the houses, then everything (garbage) along the road. completely cleaned out most of those maps.

at the bridge house, instead, i created inventory stockpiles of each type of item...gas cans, tires, wood, etc. made stacks in the yard.

i like that best about hl2, but was disappointed in other areas (eg was expecting more free roam, though i don't know why...a favored trend in gaming i guess since gta3?)

anyway recently tried to reinstall hl2 for replay...it failed due to missing module/dll or something. sheesh. steam installed fine though!

 

Then use one of the best features of steam! Have it check the games files to see if you're missing anything. VERY useful since every time a new CS:S patch comes out it doesnt install correctly, or misses key things and I have to do this so it works fine. Once its checked the files it'll download and install any thing you're missing, and this works even if you bought a retail copy of the game.

 

Agreed. Painkiller looked great. My only gripe with it was no noticable use of bump mapping to speak of, resulting in a very flat look similar to HL2 but worse imo. It does have the best looking sky boxes I've seen in any game to date though.

 

i think i tried (do you mean the download thing?) it was going so slow i killed it. does the 'check for updates' (worked for steam updates) work on corrupted games? or just for patches needed to original?.

actually now that i think of it, im doubting the game installed, it errored and died on the last disk.

 

Not totally sure. I opened up Steam, went to the games section, went to the My Games tab, right clicked and went to properties on the game and choose the Local Files tab and clicked on Verify integrity of game cache. Workes for me.

 

you had a corrupted game? i didn't see that option. thanks. i'll check it out!

 

To get back on topic; I really, really, really hope that EA doesn't ruin this game. I am still going through Far Cry, a year and a half after starting it and it's great! Only 2 more levels to go. If I carry on at the rate I am getting through the game I'll be able to move straight onto Crysis.

I must finish Riddick, HL2, Quake 4, FEAR and Serious Sam the 2nd Encounter too!

 

http://zdmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/New_Folder/Crysis_Trailer_wmv_640x360.zip

New stuff from GDC. Thank god R600 and G80 will be here "soon".

 

Looks very impressive! Obviously the game magazine scans were from this trailer.

 

Yeh damn nice!

 

Incredable, what a dense forest. Which gpu was able to do this with this speed?

 

I am more corious in know what would be the minimum and recomended specs, I mean if that dos not run (LQ) in a X1300 they cant sell it and it is incredible that X1300 level card can run a game that complex.