Crysis reinstall: does the graphical powerhouse hold up today? - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50238107]Crysis was one of those games where I'd download the demo and play through it multiple, multiple times, was some good shit. I never played the full version unfortunately[/QUOTE] Get the full version and play it, it's good fun.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;50139741]The thing about Crysis 1 that makes it stand out visually for it's time is folliage. Seriously, before Crysis 1, foliage was far less immersive. Very few games did foliage right and Crysis really did. It's still why that game sticks out in my mind visually. There were no comparable games at the time.[/QUOTE] The foliage, especially with mods, is still better than nearly every game released since. [IMG]http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/gallery/top-10-most-impressive-pc-graphics-mods/crysis_photorealistic_2.jpg[/IMG] It's also a small thing, but I'm still pissed that their rainy wet texture never really caught on. Few games have ever used it and it really adds to environments with rain, to the point that I find them too fake without it nowadays.

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[QUOTE=Tuskin;50238791]Nanosuitninja used to post on FP.[/QUOTE] I think it's this dude [url]https://facepunch.com/member.php?u=435889[/url]

My GTX 770 can run Crysis fine with everything on Very High, 60+ fps. There are some occasional frame drops though, especially around firefight.

[QUOTE=Axznma;50238504]The foliage, especially with mods, is still better than nearly every game released since. [t]http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/gallery/top-10-most-impressive-pc-graphics-mods/crysis_photorealistic_2.jpg[/t] It's also a small thing, but I'm still pissed that their rainy wet texture never really caught on. Few games have ever used it and it really adds to environments with rain, to the point that I find them too fake without it nowadays.[/QUOTE] I noticed the same thing too about the rain. I think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky was the only other game to actually have good looking rain [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-UYXfBVlQ[/media] thinking back to it now, the Arkham series also had incredible rain and you watch snow fall and melt onto batman in arkham city

[QUOTE=paul simon;50238872]I think it's this dude [url]https://facepunch.com/member.php?u=435889[/url][/QUOTE] Yes that is him

I'm depressed that no one ever seemed to make a level for Crysis that was basically a monsoon rain storm in a dense jungle at night. I have longed for so many years to see that... just you, in that dark jungle, so much rain you can barely see. Remember that movie Basic? Yeah, that. I actually reinstalled Crysis a few months ago and fired up some old custom levels, the game is just incredible still. It does NOT feel almost 10 years old.

[QUOTE=Sobek-;50242069]I'm depressed that no one ever seemed to make a level for Crysis that was basically a monsoon rain storm in a dense jungle at night. I have longed for so many years to see that... just you, in that dark jungle, so much rain you can barely see. Remember that movie Basic? Yeah, that. I actually reinstalled Crysis a few months ago and fired up some old custom levels, the game is just incredible still. It does NOT feel almost 10 years old.[/QUOTE] Some of the animations are a bit wonky, but yeah if you showed it to someone who didn't know about it and asked what year it was released they'd say sometime in the paste couple of years.

What I enjoyed about Crysis was the interactivity with the environment. You could shoot trees into pieces, blow up shacks full of furniture and it would all fly into the distance, and you had a suit to do your job to the best degree. It also had an interesting twist to the Koreans, even know their AI wasn't that smart, but the later enemies leave you thinking how difficult the battles with them could become. What killed the multiplayer was GameSpy. That's it.

[QUOTE=pointyface;50239009]I noticed the same thing too about the rain. I think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky was the only other game to actually have good looking rain [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-UYXfBVlQ[/media] thinking back to it now, the Arkham series also had incredible rain and you watch snow fall and melt onto batman in arkham city[/QUOTE] Water streaming, that's a better way to describe it. I forget sometimes how well the atmosphere was in the Stalker series. Funny enough, Dark Souls 2 had it when you encountered the Looking Glass Knight. I believe that specific arena is the only place that has it. I remember getting to that boss for the first time, walking through the fog gate and my eyes were immediately drawn the the walls of the arena. I sprinted right past the knight, toward a wall and said [I]"Oh shit, the walls have water pouring down them! :joy:"[/I] to the hilarity of everyone listening in Mumble. [URL="https://www.ddo.com/en"]DDO[/URL] also had it, although as I recall it was only applied to player characters and not the environment. They removed it many years ago, for some reason. It's really such a simple thing that adds so much, yet is rarely used. After Crysis (the first to do it, or at least do it with any kind of quality, that I know of) I was expecting it to become an industry standard.

[QUOTE=Axznma;50238504]The foliage, especially with mods, is still better than nearly every game released since. [IMG]http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/gallery/top-10-most-impressive-pc-graphics-mods/crysis_photorealistic_2.jpg[/IMG] It's also a small thing, but I'm still pissed that their rainy wet texture never really caught on. Few games have ever used it and it really adds to environments with rain, to the point that I find them too fake without it nowadays.[/QUOTE]is this photoshopped, and if not, what config is that?

Im pretty sure that's a custom map with a custom ToD (time of day) file with that kind of lighting

It's an old photorealistic texture mod.

[QUOTE=SilverDragon619;50242867]What I enjoyed about Crysis was the interactivity with the environment. You could shoot trees into pieces, blow up shacks full of furniture and it would all fly into the distance, and you had a suit to do your job to the best degree. It also had an interesting twist to the Koreans, even know their AI wasn't that smart, but the later enemies leave you thinking how difficult the battles with them could become. What killed the multiplayer was GameSpy. That's it.[/QUOTE] It's still possible to run without gamespy. There's still MechWarrior Living Legends (popular Crysis mod) games running since it's ludicrously easily to spoof the Gamespy system [url]http://forum.mechlivinglegends.net/index.php/topic,20422.0.html[/url] [url]http://forum.mechlivinglegends.net/index.php/topic,20534.0.html[/url] You can still use the server browser and everything.