I enjoyed the Crysis when it first came come all those moons ago, not on my PC, God no. I didn’t have some huge beast of a computer that could perform like that, but I did have a friend whose parents tried to buy his love with martial goods. A few years later, I bought Crysis 2 on PS3 and if you’ve read my ‘10 Most Crushing Gaming Disappointments of All Time’ article you all know how that turned out for me, and for those who haven’t; I thought the game was a terrible experience to weather through.
Anyway, to the present; for those of you who either don’t know or you don’t actually don’t like gaming and have accidentally stumbled across my article, Crysis 3 is slowly approaching like a ship fall of scurvy ridden sailors. And, I’m here to say before it comes out, that it will be disappointing if you have fallen into the hype machine. So don’t waste your money on Crysis 3 and instead, buy a Tamagotchi or something.
5. The Fans
First on my list for why Crysis 3 will not impress is the fans. Crysis has some unusual fans because they’re the only fanbase I know that has only one point to make, that the Cryengine is incredible. Of course this is true and you would be a fool not to think this, but the reason it’s on my list is because these fans make me not want to buy it at tall. So, if I can’t even summon up the strength to buy Crysis 3 because I don’t want to be affiliated with those individuals, how exactly is it going to impress me?
And, if I don’t, they’ll never leave me be because I’ve played and enjoyed the first Crysis. I fully understand that to criticize anything you have experience it or have some underlining knowledge on the subject. And, now that I think about it, I probably will buy it just so I can actually argue with fans about the faults and issues Crysis 3 will inevitably have.
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I will go with your reason for plot as a dissapointment.Yes,I too and assuming many others were truly shocked finding Alcatraz,and not Nomad as protagonist and that too a muted character.It took several months before the comics came out to bridge the gap excluding Pshyco.And yes at last the famous lines which you stated also mixed up the plot yet again.How can Prophet be alive in 3 when he shot himself in 2? Wish Crytek sorts out all this otherwise the series will just be remembered for graphics and the plot gone awry
I lost hope for Crysis after the second one was so horrible.
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ok you either didnt finish 2 or pay attention at the end of crysis 2 alcatraz says “call me prophet” the suits symbiosis basically rewrote alcatraz’s brain so hes basically prophet
anything is better thin cod an halo time for you kids to grow up !
Yeah, Prophet taking over Alcatraz is a major kick in the balls, although Crysis: Legion makes somewhat tolerable. But in general, Crysis seems to be a franchise where the developers go “Hey, let’s do this with the engine” and then stick a plot on it, rather than come up with a coherent franchise story and pick settings appropriate to that plot.
Crysis 3 will be a massive hit because of how amazing it will look, but hopefully people will see through that and question the story for what it is. Terrible.
Well the plot is realy one of the less important things in a game, first is gameplay, second is AI, third its atmosphere, at least in a FPS, remember that you will play the MP more time than the SP, I can said plot and story is important in Uncharter, or in Tomb Raider or even Alan Wake, but heavy Action gamesare like action movies the story is less if the main character is an badass an is in constant fight, or in interesting setings.
What are you talking about crysis 2 is amazing on PC you awfusly dont know what true gaming is and your just rolling on the internet to get some attention.
Despite inevitable spam I will receive for using an email to post a comment, it will be worth it to offer some rebuttal on a no-name website trying to down a game before its release. Clearly the (so-called) author has done no research on the direction of the trilogy, if any on the games at all. He probably didn’t even finish Crysis (maybe not even Crysis 2).
On the plot:
It was stated many times that New York was chosen for the setting of 2 (and, in turn, 3) because it truly is the hub of the world (I’m sure I’ll get blasted by non-Americans for making this statement, despite Germans making the statement before me). Not only did this afford Crytek with a chance to show off the first authentic (reality based) looking city in a first-person game, but it also meant players could *feel* what the impact of this breakout meant.
On the “gadgets”:
To take another look at your quote “…while I’m talking about crap abilities, your armour, sprint and cloak all use the same energy which is bloody senseless. If you cock up a stealth section because you ran out of juice, you’re not going to be able to flee like a little girl,” you can really appreciate the little girl you seem to be. You start by complaining that the game is too easy when you use stealth (which may be true on the Normal difficulty, but that’s why there were two higher difficulties to play), but then complain that it’s too hard if you don’t plan your stealth based plan of attack correctly? I call BS.
On controls:
I’ve played the game with the both the 360 controller and a KB/M setup. Both felt amazing – truth be told, Crysis 2 felt *too* catered to consoles. Now, to the authors point, it was reported by many that controls on the PS3 were laggy. The game should not have released like that, as it was an amazing experience on the PC, and a great one on the 360 (I’ve read). Maybe if the author could write something decent, someone might pay him enough to shell up for a computer; seeing as how it would take about $1000 or less to play Crysis 2 on max settings, that doesn’t seem too bad.
I guess the last point to squish would be that every game has fans that are obnoxious, so it’s hardly a valid point for saying a game “will inevitably disappoint”. I’m sure I’ll get mine two cents for this comment, but again, it was worth it if only one person sees through the BS and actually tries what looks to be a promising game.
May change my nick name to ‘so-called author’.
Zaide, spot on comment. I never played crysis, but really enjoyed playing Crysis2 on Xbox. Mr. Hunt has no creditability with me because he obviously doesn’t use grammar or spell check when writing is columns. Or he was drunk when he wrote it, OR he is just your typical English d bag.
Yeah, this is a very good rebuttal. Also i’d like to see the author post another article after he’s clocked Crysis 3.
Great points. I especially agree with how the game feels like it’s just gonna be another DLC or a Crysis 2.5. It’s like Crytek didn’t want to make a proper new sequel because they just started 6 new IP’s with EA or something. Also agree how many of the elements from Crysis was thrown out, as if they removed literally everything that made Crysis great and unique, and instead replaced them with COD-inspired / Michael Bay blockbuster rubbish. I guess a lot of the simplification had to be made for the sake of consoles (level design / controls / etc). Yet, they managed to port Crysis 1 onto the console eventually, so I don’t see why. Article would help if it’s written better though and with some of the grammatical mistakes corrected, but otherwise good read.
Damn, should have said ‘Michael Bay blockbuster rubbish’ in my article, that’s a good line. And yeah, I’ve seen a few mistakes; me being bone-idle I guess.
“They call me Prophet”
You hit the nail on the head with the first reason. I remember it clear as day even though I played the game 2 years back. The ending felt like a complete slap on the face for players who were paying even a little bit of attention to the story. I mean really? You just take over the body of the guy and handwave off everything squicky/creepy about it?
Not to mention the worst of them all:
They killed Nomad in a damn comic. Wow. Not to mention how age hasn’t affected Joker at all. He still looks the same as he did in Crysis 1.
I’ll be youtubing out the damn end and wikipedia out the plot. I feel cheated enough going from the marvelous Crysis to Crysis 2.
So they killed Nomad in the comic, how lovely.
Suit powers will take up seperate energy bars in this game.
The game doesnt look like DLC at ALL, you’ve got to be insane at this point to believe that. Sure u can say that when the first trailer came out, but now? Give me a break. It’s using Cryengine 3.5 ffs.
Every video game franchise has a ridiculously annoying fanbase. Just look at GTA.
The game has a crap load of new weapons compared to Crysis 2 and 1. So far it looks like there’s more alien weapons alone than all the weapons in the first game.
The story is decent, and it purposely is made with plot holes to make the player piece everything together. I for one didnt enjoy that style, but it looks like C3 is going to be a bigger improvement in that area. To be honest tho, I dont really care for story in a shooter.
Ello governor, learn spell and grammar check and maybe we can take you more than just the pompous arrogant English Lye me d bag you come across as.
If you think Crysis’ story is terrible, you have obviously never played most games on the market.
I’ve played a fair few, and most are terrible.
in crysis 2 most of the people in the game -except few- dont that prophet was dead due to some virurs and he gave the suit to alcatraz to save nathan gould thats why at the end of the game he says ‘they call me prophet’ coming to the controls it was a bit uncomfortable to play they over comed this problem in crysis 3 coming to the plot crytek told that the would be a big twist because crysis 3 was taken to 20 years after crysis 2 which makes it little bit mor intresting coming to the crysis had a lot of fans and lost some the due to crysis 2 now again crysis 3 will bring them back with more fans now weapons it is not at all similar to tomb raider in crysis 3 we had got 5 alien weaponary and a awsome predeator bow coming to gameplay it would be awsome to use the hunter nanosuit coming to the graphics the best graphics ever created till now coming to the engine cryengine 3 the best engine ever this is more than enough for crysis 3 to become the blockbuster of 13
I also think Crysis 3 is going to be a terrible game, but for other reasons. The points listed in this article are the worst arguments ever, seriously.
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This was an awful read.
Terrible grammar and spelling. I found it difficult to read past the first paragraph. Dont give up your day job
Awful spelling and grammar. Getting through the first paragraph was difficult, the rest impossible.
thats just his opinion dont listen to him
I buy Any crysis game its worth it!!!
people think they know better xd
To be honest, this article sounds more like your bitching about a game/or franchise your particularly bad at. While it does look to have its faults, Crysis 3 seems to have more potential than Crysis 2. I have recently played the beta, and on Multiplayer side, its a vast improvement over what was given in the second game. I’m agreeing with Zaide on this one on the basis that most of your points are easily matched in an argument (as seen above with Zaide), and that the points you picked for the article are pathetic reasons as to why the game could be bad. If you going to slate a game like this in its early stage, then at least pick out decent points. I know Crysis 3 wont live up to the first game.. nothing much can, but it shall easily out do the second. This is not an article. This is someone having a bitch session and needing to express themself.
Tom, if you’re aspiring to be a journalist I suggest you reconsider and take a new direction. Your grasp of grammar and spelling leave a lot to be desired.
Yeah, the long and short of it is I just took on too many article at once. Still, it’s not an excuse to how poorly written it is, so just file this article under. ‘S’ for sh**t.
Idiot!
I think you could have saved both yourself and any one that bothered to read this a ton of time simply having said that you didn’t like previous iterations of the game, and that you don’t expect to like this one (despite the fact that you’ve already confirmed you’re going to purchase it anyway so that you can complain about it more).
By reading this i come to conclusion you are not objective you just don’t like this game ;)