"There are a lot of things in this world that perplex me. Among them are scat fetishes, university room numbering and the popularity of Kool-Aid, but nothing has baffled me quite as much as the universal praise that Crysis 2 has gotten.
A first-person shooter from legendary tech demo creat- I mean, developer Crytek, Crysis 2 is obviously a sequel to the first Crysis. Its main hook was putting you in control of a versatile nano-suit and letting loose with its powers in an alien-infested New York, and it was both a critical and commercial success. Sounds like a great game, no?
Unfortunately for me, that ‘no’ is an apt answer. I have no shame in saying that Crysis 2 was, without a doubt, the most boring and thoroughly ‘meh’ shooter I’ve played this generation." (Michael Urban, OnlySP.com)
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1)lackluster story
2)weak gameplay
The multiplayer had a lot of potential had the developers not pursued the COD formula that plagues many games today.
its just another fps like halo or killzone it brought nothing new.story was flat and the gameplay was linear even compared to previous crysis games. while it was a good looking game on consoles and showed a huge leap in tech on pc it was also good looking but so was crysis warhead which some would argue is a better game in almost every respect.
Yeh this was a well written article!
Having played Crysis PC a million times I was SO disappointed to play that crappy corridor of a mess called Crysis 2.
WTF happened to the Sandbox and on the fly changing of gameplay!
Crysis allowed you to go from Stealthy Ninja, to Incredible Hulk to the Flash to Rambo with the flick of a mouse at any time. It was brilliant and allowed so many game play options and re-playability was endless.
Crysis 2 did bore me to sleep and was a let down......Oh It looked good I guess but Graphics aren't everything!
Oh and they totally screwed up the story!
it all comes to people preferences, is not like you are forced to play it lol I actually loved crysis 2 specially at the ending!
come on fanboys give your disagrees! you know truth hurts.
and it's hard to tell whether the story was good or not because it was told poorly.
in general I enjoyed it, never played the original so maybe that's why
Console port and console directed game design is what ruins PC exclusives.
They gimp the game so its able to fit in the consoles limited memory and poor GPUs.
Console ports are ruining the industry.
Arent sequels supposed to build on the original and not take 2 steps back.
why is crysis 1 on pc vids just barrel's being blown up that gets boring pretty fast lol most of the youtube vids is just barrels exploding lol a game many needed to upgrade just to play just to blow up barrels lmao
its the the physics lol
that is one of the most ridiculous things i've ever read on this God forsaken site.
And, IMO, C2 is a very enjoyable game. At least it was on the 360. FTW!
Lol
Blaming this on 'console-ization' is completely missing the point.
Had they took their time and been less creatively bankrupt , they could have kept C2 in the vein of C1 , even if obviously better on pc
Fewer AI routines, worse graphics, smaller scale physics.
Everything that made Crysis 1 stand out on PC was lessened or truncated in the console port. So no, it didn't retain most of its qualities.
"Xbox 360 led the pack, bringing EA $292 million in the past three months. That compared favorably to the PS3 which did $267 million for the firm. But the PC platform actually managed to outperform Sony's console with $276 million."
http://www.computerandvideo...
Explain to me why pc has more survival horror games when you only have the dead space game that was to scare you you?
"EA thinks Dead Space was too scary to be single-player"
http://www.destructoid.com/...
why did Amnesia(indie devs)sell 1.4 million?
"Nearly 1.4 million people have been scared sh*tless."
http://www.ign.com/articles...
Amnesia: Machines For Pigs is coming..
Why do we get this? If not enough money is on pc?
"“Outlast” survival horror game from former Naughty Dog/Ubisoft developers gets first full trailer"
http://gamingeverything.com...
Why did minecraft sell 8million + on pc even when it's so easy to pirate?
http://www.escapistmagazine...
Why was alan wake pirate over 1 million times on xbox and yet profitable on pc in 48 hours?
http://n4g.com/news/944668/...
Were are you hardcore tactical shooters? oh yeah dead long time ago.
PC gamers hate console ports and especially bad ones. But devs won't take pc more serious until we buy the bad ports in the millions? Ok...
pc gamers tend to take less sh!t than console gamer.. Hence devs feeding you a cod experience left and right enjoy.
Yes pc has pirates! lots! But so do consoles and they are growing!
Xbox 360 pirated Games:
1 Dante’s Inferno (1,280,000)
2 Alan Wake (1,140,000)
3 Red Dead Redemption (1,060,000)
wii pirated games
1 Super Mario Galaxy 2 (1,470,000)
2 Wii Party (1,220,000)
Plus used copies..
http://www.gamepolitics.com...
The worse was The witcher 2 being pirated so much on pc :(.
If next gen consoles are like pc then lol say good buy to ur argument.
Pirating is awful for devs but stop pretending console gamers are angles.
It's not just about money it's about who doesn't mind getting taken advantage of.
You realize you buy $60 + tax games with dlc on your disk that you pay to unlock? Is that not insane to you? But guess what at this point you as one person can't do anything about! It's to late since millions buy.
Yes it was ported to consoles, which destoryed many aspects of the first.
Consoles with only 512mb ram limit what can be designed for a video game. This is why ports are designed for the consoles first, then ported to PC.
Consoles are trash, STEAMs HTCP will be the death of them all.
You people are so completely blind with bias its insane, hes 110% correct.
http://www.overclock.net/t/...
Anyways Crysis is just another IP.
http://www.overclock.net/t/...
Crysis 1 > Crysis 2 by a massive amount.
Only the minority have the clearity of version to even notice and realize this. Hype and biased dont make your pov correct.
End of story, fanboy is right.
http://www.overclock.net/t/...
Conclusion
I am sure that I will be flamed and criticized but I was also very excited about Crysis 2. I wanted crysis 2 to blow away the first one, I wanted it to be epic in both gameplay and visually. But I am sorry to say that it just wasn't impressive, the graphics are terrible and dx11 is not going to change that. People that say this is just a demo look when the release is... very soon you think they have time to change how the game looks in just a few weeks? I work with programs like maya and have experience in java, you can't just change things like that in a few weeks. This is the way the game looks end of story. The textures are low res, the lighting sucks, and it is dull and boring with poor detail. Anyone who says crysis 2 looks better is just in denial. Just because crytek says it is going to look better doesn't mean it is, they want you to believe that so you will buy the game so they make money.
That is one of the funniest things I've ever heard a reveiwer say.
Once he started bitching about the stealth being impossible, I gave up reading. I thought the stealth was sweet. I had no problems with it and overall I loved the game. Hell, I actually liked it better than the first game.
This article just struck me as somebody trying to do a written version of a Zero Punctuation, only it was only funny once.
As a huge fan of Crysis 1, it was rather disappointing, but still a fairly enjoyable game.
As for crisis 1, I found it boring in most places. It's not open world. It's just a large island.
Farcry 3 is an openworld, because you can do random things, in a completely random way. And it is much better then crisis 1,2 and probably 3.
Lag!!!
I could even say uncharted 2 and killzone 2 and halo reach, maybe the 360 version looked truly beautiful, cause for all cryteks boasting the ps3 version. Was without question looking like a run of the mill very generic shooter with bland textures and gameplay that was a cure for insomnia.
It might not be as bad as legendary or golden axe, but for all crytek's bragging they could have at least made at bare minimum solid enjoyable gameplay.
It's one of the few games i sent back to gamefly a couple hrs after of starting it.
If the 360 version looks anything like the ps3 version you have odd standards for best looking games or are very generous, cause it looked like generic ass to me.
I don't need uber visuals to enjoy a game, when mag was announced it was ripped apart for it's "ps2" graphics. I had a 160-180(something like that) hrs on it and no other shooter sp and mp combined has come close to near that time frame for me.
Also judging from Crysis3 videos, it probably will not be any better imo
even DNF is better than crysis 2.
I'm guessing allot of people won't be getting into Crysis 3.
Crytek has no idea how to make a fun or at least interesting game.
Looking than killzone 3, so is halo 4
Crysis 2 bored the heck out of me as well. I couldn't even finish it. I would lose focus and just play a fun game instead.
The first person genre is getting old to me anyway... every game looks and plays exactly the same.
The second is a bit more up beat and cool to me. It was more linear, but at least you want running clear across the map to find the next objective.
I've always said it, visuals don't mean everything and being "realistic" will kill certain fun aspects. Overall we are playing a game, not watching a movie, for a reason.
Crysis 2: Set in NYC. Could say more, but this killed it for me as soon as I heard about it. When I did end up getting it, I had hoped it would exceed my low expectations, it didn't.
Crysis kept it simple, which allowed the player to approach an objective their own way. Problem is, there are people who don't like that. Thus, binoculars that highlight the approaches for you.
The story itself is god awful. I literally did not understand what the fuck I was doing until near the ending when I was tasked with stopping the alien outbreak and I don't even think that was the main part of the story lmao
The AI is the worst AI Ive encountered in a video game this gen. Not even exaggerating. They have zero situational awareness and will act as if nothing happened if someone gets shot right in front of them. Turning stealth for 5 seconds means the "threat decided to run away" to them as they will assume lax behavior once you are out of sight for a brief period of time.
I swear the only reason I continued playing was because I didn't want my $20 to go to waste