The Real Reason Crysis 2 is Coming to Consoles

[Ashbax]

Well, I dont really care WHY, I just like that it is. It means no more Graphics driver updates and Lots of lag! Hopefully we will still get a good map editor like they did for FC2.

I hope it comes with a Sandbox level editor, like the one in Far Cry 2, but include bots on both sides.

People, stop associating Far Cry 2 with CryTek, and espcially with Crysis. They are two totally different game, made by different companies, using different engines!

Actually, its the same engine, without the lag.

 

[megapenguinx]

Right, and the fact that you needed to upgrade your PC like crazy to play the game in full quality didn't factor in at all? That limits your audience so much...

 

[Nimbus]

Actually, its the same engine, without the lag.

Check your facts before you correct people.

 

[megapenguinx]

Actually, its the same engine, without the lag.

Check your facts before you correct people.

He's right, it's the Dunia engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunia_Engine
Crysis used the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryEngine_2

 

[Slacker2000]

MORE MONEY FOR THE CREATOR!!!! Bwahahaha... ha.

 

[Chaos Marine]

I just hope they dont hamstring the PC version because of the limitations of consoles and their controllers.

Dont worry Crytek have shown their ability to make scalable game engines

It's not that, if you've played the game on Delta you know how gloriously hard the game can be. For me, the harder and more difficult the game, more I tend to like it. Though I do dislike games that give enemies ridiculous health buffs that take away from the realism like requiring ten or twenty head shots to down a soldier. I'm looking at you, Medal of Honour 2 and later. In Crysis, regardless of your gun, a single shot to the head is instant death. Unless they have a helmet but if you get it into their face or you use a shotgun with narrow shot selected, they're dead regardless. Consolified versions of FPS games tend to be more simplistic or come with added cushioning to make up for the inaccuracies of the inadequate controller. Having played L4D on expert on both the 360 and the PC, I can tell you it's painfully bad using the controller.

I seem to be one of the few people who generally did like Crysis and after disabling the SecuRom shit in it, I found it to actually two or three times better than with it enabled. Like going from 14-20 FPS to 40+ FPS.

How? Look for a program called Trashreg.exe, it can be used for removing registry entries with null characters which SecuRom uses to keep itself from being deleted. Then, Start > Run > msconfig > Services/Startup > unclick SecuRom entries, restart and run Trashreg.exe again to make sure. Also use a NOCD crack.

How do I know this? I built my rig myself, it has three optical drives (I thought it would be handy for not needing to change discs as I mainly play two or three games at any given time) and SecuRom would throw hissy fits if I tried to play Crysis or Warhead with them connected up. And that was some digress there.

Back to the topic, my only hopes are that Crytek do not cripple the gameplay and the technology for the sake of the console gamers.

 

[mrpenguinismyhomeboy]

Am I the only one who laughed when they called Crysis a hit FPS?

I did.

Their probably gonna only release it on the PS3 though. I mean I think the PS3 is the only system that has the hard ware they want. And given that it will be one of six games for the PS3, everyone who owns one will probably buy it due to everything else being shit. Except for little big planet.

But Crysis is still shit too, so no real change there

 

[jamesworkshop]

I just hope they dont hamstring the PC version because of the limitations of consoles and their controllers.

Dont worry Crytek have shown their ability to make scalable game engines

It's not that, if you've played the game on Delta you know how gloriously hard the game can be. For me, the harder and more difficult the game, more I tend to like it. Though I do dislike games that give enemies ridiculous health buffs that take away from the realism like requiring ten or twenty head shots to down a soldier. I'm looking at you, Medal of Honour 2 and later. In Crysis, regardless of your gun, a single shot to the head is instant death. Unless they have a helmet but if you get it into their face or you use a shotgun with narrow shot selected, they're dead regardless.

I seem to be one of the few people who generally did like Crysis and after disabling the SecuRom shit in it, I found it to actually two or three times better than with it enabled. Like going from 14-20 FPS to 40+ FPS.

How? Look for a program called Trashreg.exe, it can be used for removing registry entries with null characters which SecuRom uses to keep itself from being deleted. Then, Start > Run > msconfig > Services/Startup > unclick SecuRom entries, restart and run Trashreg.exe again to make sure. Also use a NOCD crack.

How do I know this? I built my rig myself, it has three optical drives (I thought it would be handy for not needing to change discs as I mainly play two or three games at any given time) and SecuRom would throw hissy fits if I tried to play Crysis or Warhead with them connected up. And that was some digress there.

Back to the topic, my only hopes are that Crytek do not cripple the gameplay and the technology for the sake of the console gamers.

Hey im actually playing crysis on Delta ATM and the fact is that Cryengine 3 is multiplatform not just ported aside from that crysis automatically maps the 360 controller so its not like the game doesn't work with controllers.
My gameplay issues is that crysis is a very messy game, trees and buildings collapse, Big Explosions its easy to make a game look good but the videos so far contain no action/no A.i I don't see 360/PS3 handling all that in such an open enviroment.
My guess is that Crytek won't keep the same game across all versions probably be about 90% similar maybe the PC version might contain more vegetation or exploding barrels in the same scene.
One thing I will be interested in is that not every 360 has a hardrive aside from that the PC version is going to get the best experience due to having access to quicksave and quickload plus it looks like EA are dropping Securom anyway due to The Sims 3

 

[jamesworkshop]

Am I the only one who laughed when they called Crysis a hit FPS?

I did.

Their probably gonna only release it on the PS3 though. I mean I think the PS3 is the only system that has the hard ware they want. And given that it will be one of six games for the PS3, everyone who owns one will probably buy it due to everything else being shit. Except for little big planet.

But Crysis is still shit too, so no real change there

Crytek are ahead on 360 programing than the PS3 due to similar architexture PS3 has the advantage due to that everyone has a hardrive whereas 360 is going to have to be optional

 

[Asehujiko]

So they are now covering themselves up for dumping a piece of tech demo shovelware onto people's consoles by saying "whiny brats made us do it"?

 

[rohit9891]

It's fine with me as long as they don't ditch crysis 2 for PC...even though I probably won't be able to run it in my comp anyway.

 

[jamesworkshop]

It's fine with me as long as they don't ditch crysis 2 for PC...even though I probably won't be able to run it in my comp anyway.

Dont worry this is Crytek I don't think they could live for long without 2GB of ram to work with.
The real news isn't crysis 2 but the multiplatform Cryengine 3, a multiplatform engine capable of real-time engine editing across every platform, hell even I can use the sandbox editor And I stack shelves for a living.

 

[jamesworkshop]

So they are now covering themselves up for dumping a piece of tech demo shovelware onto people's consoles by saying "whiny brats made us do it"?

Wait a min look at Crytek's work their first game was farcry then the second was crysis they don't produce shovelware, shovelware is Terminator salvation

 

[Drakulla]

So they can make some money.

 

[jamesworkshop]

So they can make some money.

i'm guessing a bit of glee knowing that they are going to show sony + microsoft how to program for their own consoles

 

[D_987]

Nothing like some intensive videogame development to put a smile on the face of a child - or shut him up, as the case may be. Crysis 2 hasn't been given a release target but it sounds like Yerli and the team have bought themselves a little peace and quiet, at least for awhile.

Wait, are you suggesting that we send children to a game development studio and make them work on the games as punishment?

Awesome!

How do you think E.T was created?

 

[randommaster]

Nothing like some intensive videogame development to put a smile on the face of a child - or shut him up, as the case may be. Crysis 2 hasn't been given a release target but it sounds like Yerli and the team have bought themselves a little peace and quiet, at least for awhile.

Wait, are you suggesting that we send children to a game development studio and make them work on the games as punishment?

Awesome!

How do you think E.T was created?

Drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

 

[Asehujiko]

So they are now covering themselves up for dumping a piece of tech demo shovelware onto people's consoles by saying "whiny brats made us do it"?

Wait a min look at Crytek's work their first game was farcry then the second was crysis they don't produce shovelware, shovelware is Terminator salvation

Crytek already announced that the console versions are going to be dumbed down and the PC games were average at best when it comes to gameplay. Average game - depth = shovelware.

 

[comadorcrack]

God I hate console gamers. ¬.¬ First they steal Half-Life, then they take FEAR, now Crysis... when will it end !