Crysis could use a reboot.

[Guy from the 80's]

I finally gave in to buying Crysis due to a brand new computer and the more I play the more I think the series could use a reboot. The story in itself is ok (poorly executed) but everything else is pretty awful.

-The characters has very little/no charm. (and stupid names. Psycho. Really?)
-Drop all the mumbo jumbo, visions and dead people talking and all of that.
-Nanosuit could use a work over. The one in the first game was better in my opinion, the one in C3 is just too much. Even though it has more "features" it just seem pointless.
-The story, it would benefit from dropping the gung-ho and adapt a more Metro type of atmosphere. The world has been taken over and you just run from checkpoint to checkpoint killing squads of enemies. Theres no real sense of urgency and that ruins the atmosphere.

I quite liked the first game, and I forced myself to liking the second, but I feel the third is very bland and I cant understand why I will complete it.

I feel the game would greatly benefit from a gloomy sci-fi feel.
Any thoughts?

 

[number2301]

I say ditch the lot except for the open style of the first game and the nanosuit. The first game was half ok, it pretty much went to shit when the aliens turned up, but since then, meh. I simply don't think it's strong enough to reboot.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

It could use a proper sequel to the first title. Crytek's pitiful attempt at widening the audience resulted in the making of 2 sequels that have almost nothing to do with the original game. Crysis 1 ended on a goddamn cliffhanger.

 

[Terminate421]

I personally loved the second one more than the first. Im Actually one of those few who enjoyed the alien sections. If I were to make another game, i liked the idea of the nanosuit being an iron lung but also the counter to the alien bio-weapon

 

[Foolery]

I thought the point of the game was running, gunning, and shiny graphics all while being in a cloaking power suit. Plot was about as relevant as the story to the first Doom was.

 

[latiasracer]

I really liked the first one, I thought the story was pretty neat.




Aliens are cool!



If they do make another, FOOOHHHHHHHHHH THE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD Finish the story as it ended on the first one?

 

[Weaver]

I liked the first Crysis MORE after the aliens showed up. Fighting humans got boring.
The first Crysis was the best in the series, IMO. It went really downhill at 2.

 

[krazykidd]

Or you know , the could just make a new IP , with the same theme . But that would require effort right? And we all know in the game industry effort is bad.

 

[Berny Marcus]

I rather they make a game that focused on continuing the story (or lack of one) of the first Crysis game. Bring back Nomad Crytek.

 

[shrekfan246]

I personally loved the second one more than the first. Im Actually one of those few who enjoyed the alien sections. If I were to make another game, i liked the idea of the nanosuit being an iron lung but also the counter to the alien bio-weapon

I feel like I'm in quite the minority when I say that the first Crysis is actually my least favorite in the franchise. All three of the other games (Warhead, 2, and 3) were quite significantly better in my opinion, and 3 is actually my favorite.

For one thing, the nanosuit actually feels like it does something in the titles that follow the first one. In Crysis, you might as well just be a normal guy with the skin of a chameleon for all the actual protection the nanosuit gives you (seriously, why can normal enemies take the same amount of shots as the guy in the high-tech power armor?), and while the AI was certainly more interesting, actually hitting anything after the aliens began showing up was a massive pain in the ass and the lack of ammo for every weapon except what enemies used was just frustrating. And then the openness of the areas was a nice idea, but in practice it just meant a whole lot of trudging from place to place with nothing except more trees in between, or horrible, horrible vehicle sections.

If there's anything that I explicitly don't like about the Crysis games, it's just how bloody short they are. 3 was somehow even shorter than 2 if my memory isn't failing me, and that's despite how much bigger and better-realized the areas were.

But really, the story is a load of tripe. I just like to think of it as being an alternate-universe precursor taking place hundreds of years before Halo. That only makes slightly less sense than the actual plot, in my mind.