Adam Jensen said:
I love Crysis 1 and Warhead. A lot of people dismissed that game as just a game with good graphics. Like that means it can't have good gameplay. And it does. Crysis literally has most things that gamers want out of a modern shooter, so dismissing it as a dumb shooter is quite frankly dishonest rambling of a hater. I understand the criticism towards later parts of the game when aliens show up, but I enjoyed those parts as well.
Crysis 2 and 3 suffered from obvious dumbing down for consoles. And yes, that's the correct word to use. The game wasn't streamlined. It wasn't finely tuned and modernized. It was dumbed down. It was turned into something that resembles CoD in almost every aspect.
Okay, I'll bite.
You want to know why I like
Crysis 2 and
3 far more than
1 or
Warhead?
Because they're more functional as actual games.
By which I mean, sure, the gunplay of
Crysis is good. The variety of weapons and firing modes is really awesome, the variety in how suit functions change the gameplay is awesome, even the variety in enemies isn't that bad. But what really lets it down is the AI, the actual combat and the suit power drain, and the pointlessness of the world they created.
You want to play
Crysis like a stealth game? Fuck you, the cloak wears off after one shot, two if you've got a sound suppressor and have toggled single-fire mode. Also, good luck ever getting around the map while cloaked because if you're not crouched or prone then your cloak wears off after about five seconds. Oh yeah, and just to put the cherry on top, we spawn in enemies out of the ether whenever enemies are alerted to your presence. Oh, so hearing that makes you want to go into encounters guns blazing? Fuck you, the armor mode is just the regular health meter from any other first-person shooter, so you'd damn well better be hiding behind cover. Oh yeah, and all of these guys in regular military fatigues can take just the same amount of shots as you if you don't hit them in the head. And if you're incredibly unlucky then getting a headshot won't even kill them in one shot. Oh yeah, and Speed and Power modes are basically useless outside of trying to get around these massive empty maps we've made that have nothing to do in them except for going to the next objective. Oh, and I hope you really love the gorram FY71, because it's the only assault rifle you're going to get any ammo for. Also, good luck with taking out any tanks; you'd best hope you stocked up on RPG ammo. Oh, wait, you can't get more than a few shots per rocket launcher! Hahaha!
Obviously I'm being exaggeratedly abrasive, and I don't want you to take any of that as anything more than overblown and exasperated snark. But
Crysis is another one of those games I've tried to go through multiple times and I can just never get through it, while I've played through
Crysis 2 twice (once on a higher difficulty, which is pretty rare for me to do) and I finished
Crysis 3 pretty much within a week or two after it was released.
I've got nothing against difficult games or even unfair games, but to me
Crysis just seems poorly balanced.