I built my first Complete PC build for Crysis I think it had a gforce 8800gtx in it. the demo came with a map maker with the full games assets in it, in theory you could have remade the full game with the demo. The best mod ever and the best mechwarrior game, is Mech Warrior Living ledgends, which was a crysis mod, and its still played today. it has a counterstrike kills+damage = money you use to buy better gear when you respawn. also you mentioned crysis warhead, wasn't that just their multiplayer ? it was a mess online but fun, ran like ass, if you think the single player has issues, try translating all that physics to multiplayer. 1 memory I have from crysis, I ran out of missles for a helicopter fight, I punched a tree down, and into logs, attached c4 to a log, and used strength to throw it at a helicopter to detonate it...worked perfectly.
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It's impressive how good it still looks for its age, but almost as impressive to me is how smoothly it plays. It still feels very modern. Heck of an achievement in gaming history
They aren't kidding when they said Crysis feels ahead of its time. I feel it's rare case of hardware catching up with the game that it still looks modern even today.
killzone 2 was ps1 graphics compared to crysis which was ps4 graphics in the time of ps2 which was why it was the test for the GPU Comps......good days..@@Jackson-bh1jw
Shit optimization, also the graphics are overrated, i mean mediocre. Also 1st game graphics have aged badly. No clue about remaster, games were average at best, not even bare minimum to care about remaster.
@@sal-1337 nah melee altogether. You literally can turn your guy into superman by combining speed then a last min punch with strength enabled. The combos were amazing and i loved lifting your enemy off the ground by their neck.
Crysis wars was one of the most underrated part of the Crysis IP imo. It was so much fun doing PVP with the nano suits. You could get tanks and all kinds of things, so many good memories.
yea .. it was great..It's like everything these days.. crysis did it first..very fun and amazing how it ran smoothly with tanks etc.. The Nuke boob was so cool.
@@simongravel7407 Is is never going to be as great as it was in 2007. Today it would have 2024 graphics in 2024, while back in time it had 2015 graphics in 2007. Also it was a quite tactical and hard game (in Delta difficulty and in multiplayer) which i doubt would fit a modern game.
It was my first FPS that I played as a kid. I will never forget those times. I only had 2 hours daily to play with the PC because my parents were really strick. I used to sneak in to the PC room evey single dawn and play Crysis. I loved every second of it. I had a lot of Lego back then end I built a V-tol without any instructions and I only went from pictures. I still have pictures of it somewhere. Those were the days...
Man, i guess you so looks like me haha. when i was played this game at 2008, just only me the playing person in my High school. nobody didn't know it what this game lol also many times play for my all LEGO Technics!
it still amazes me, how good this game looks. Had the same Experience back in the day with a PC, having only a Geforce 6800...it ran horrible, hahaha. Years later I was able to have the right gear.
Battlefield 2 had been out for a couple years at that point, and lots of mods became available. BF2 will forever be my most favorite game in terms of fun.
I watched this video up until the Story, where I then went and downloaded Crysis Remastered. I played through the game on Veteran difficulty and completed it in ~7.5 hours. I couldn't stop on that cliff hanger though and had to then download Crysis 2 Remastered. I also played through on the hardest difficulty, Post-Human, and completed in ~10.5 hours. Prophet's storyline was pretty intriguing so you know I had to download Crysis 3 Remastered and play on Post-Human once again(~8 hours). I'm blown away by this Trilogy, I don't get why I never played it before, apart from the beginning of a mission from Crysis 2 over a decade ago at a friend's house, as well as the multiplayer with split-screen I believe. I'm now eagerly awaiting Crysis 4, Crytek has made an impressive Trilogy and I'm here for whatever they have in store next! I've come back to finish this video and I also eagerly await your reviews of the next games! Especially Warhead, as I didn't play through that one.
To this day, I have still never been as hyped for a video game like I was for Crysis. When it finally came out I could hardly play it on my PC but I still had a blast. I remember seeing other people on gaming forums that had the 'Can You Run It' benchmark for Crysis as their signature and I would get so jealous that theirs was in the green. Lol
I remember when I played, I'd constantly swap between modes. One of my favorite moves was to get to sprint in speed mode, flip to strength mode mid-stride, jump, and then switch to armor mode mid-air because landing is going to hurt otherwise. You're basically a cannonball at that point.
i remember first reading about crysis at age 13 in 2005 when i was in middle school in a PC Gaming magazine in the school library. I played the game on release but wasn't able to enjoy it with high settings until probably 2010 or later. to say the games graphics were earth shattering at the time is an understatement. I remember it was the first game where a forest or a jungle actually felt immersive. before that forests always felt so sparce and empty and graphics couldn't handle the density of objects and foliage. I know the gameplay wasn't groundbreaking but i loved coordinating complex ambushes and picking guys off one by one. I should revisit it!
@@LamelKendrick I agree, the first one was quite hard and tactical, especially in multiplayer (damage calculation was equal to Delta difficulty, the maximum one)
the MP was neglected. It was basically an open world movement shooter. The mechanics with movement were some of the deepest ever in a shooter. the guns had realistic recoil. Just was too hard to run and lacked official support. After that in Crysis wars they nerfed the animations, recoil, everything that was good about Crysis 1 mp was molded into CoD4 style.@@RiccardoTheBeAst
@@LamelKendrick Nope. At all. There was a sort of conquest/tactical mode that generated complex and very tactical matches, some matches even lasted 5 to 8 hours (yes, they did). A lot of teamwork was required and a combination of infantry, tanks and aircrafts to overcome the enemy. There was day/night cycle and it was even possible to deploy logistic vehicles to allow players to spawn in unexpected positions, radar devices to help teammates detect enemies, cargo VTOL version able to airdrop players (i still remember of us doing a night-time attack with parachutes to conquer a key building) and several other stuff. Crysis MP was one of the most underrated MP ever.
I never had a decent system so played it on low settings when it came out. Whilst I couldn't experience the top notch visuals I still had many hours of fun with it challenging myself to use certain powers and guns in each scenario
I was obsessed with graphics and game engines when I was a teenager, so this game was like the holy grail for me when I learnt about it and it took me ages to finally get my hands on it. I played this easily over 1000 hours on a busted PC with a 512mb vram GPU. I got into modding and map making and because of that I credit this game with getting me into game dev. Just by trial and error, learning how to make maps for this game using its world editor, and playing with other people's mods, I gained probably more understanding of how games are made then my actual university degree I got after.
Sounds like we had pretty similar journeys! I also played around with things like the UDK (Unreal Development Kit) while cool games like the Ball were being made. I have such an appreciation for game development after getting a degree in computer science and working in engineering computer graphics for several years.
I remember picking it up at the local mall on launch day and booting it up on my gaming rig with a heavily overclocked Core 2 Duo E6400 and a 8800GTS 320MB. Good times. Crysis Warhead was even better. If you haven't had a chance to play it, you need to.
I have Warhead on GOG. I'll definitely cover it. I think I'll probably cover the games in this order: 2, Warhead then 3. It'll be many months before I get to all of them, but I'm looking forward to it.
8800GTS was pretty strong at the time and not bad for crysis to play with medium stable fps, I had poor geforce 8500GT 512mb and it was always below 30fps but it was still fun to play.
not to mention Crysis 3 had 3D support. i played it with my 3d TV which i still got. have 3d glasses that made all the loudout changings and the UI to be popping out towards me like i was in the game.
I suspect you might have missed some subtle game mechanics. For example the keyboard shortcuts for activating maximum speed (double tap shift) and strength (double tap space), allowing you to nearly seamlessly do what you were most likely to use those abilities for (sprint/jump). More importantly those abilities also affect weapon handling. Speed speeds up reload and allows you to move and turn fast with heavy weapons. Strength is more useful here, allowing you to move and turn at normal speed with heaving weapons, reducing recoil and reducing weapon sway. This is the mechanic to steady your aim while sniping!!! Can also be used for an accurate burst of minigun fire. Edit: It toke me years to realize these mechanics existed and how useful/fun they could be. The game does not do a great job of helping you discover these aspects of the suits abilities.
First time I'm seeing someone talking about that. That was the way to play, you could change all your powers seamlessly. I thought I was the only one that played this way. They killed this feature in the remake and that's the reason I haven't finished it. I remember when I discovered that feature, I've restarted my gameplay and played it on "Post-Human Warrior" and finished it. What a ride it was!
The trailer for crysis 2 and the theme is a masterpiece, it reflect crysis perfect, the lost cause, the hope, the feeling you get playing entering the fallen new york
It ran great on a Radeon X1950 I had in my video editing workstation back then. And it's still damn impressive. The lighting in the alien ship levels? Are you kidding me?
playing crysis multiplayer was a total blast . Switching from suit modes to suit modes with alt key under the thumb felt absolutely like an extension of your virtual body . Cloaked, uncloak right before shooting to save energy, kill, sprint, super jump from top of relief into bushes, crouch cloak , ennemy's looking for you , aim mode, kill, sprint awaaaaaaay ..woah, I'm a living weapon lol I've yet to find a game that makes movements so pleasing while still feeling like you're an actual dude with weight
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!
Im a big fan of the Crysis games, but the change in water FX and the removal of the blur FX was disasterous, but overal i enjoyed the Remasters, the high-res textures and especially the Ray-Tracing FX in Crysis 1. Why theyve kept the original water FX in Crysis 3 is strange (shouldve kept the original water FX in all the games) and the removal of the Crysis 2/3 MP is a shame (i loved the MP). I would love to see the addition of Crysis Warhead to the Remasters though.
Emphasizing the monumentally beautiful graphics was a good choice by Crytek and EA for this game's marketing, but the true strength of Crysis is its gameplay. It's one of the most fun games you can ever play, truly. The amount of times I've replayed this masterpiece comes close to 100, easily.
I loved watching Nanosuitninja, you learn quite a bit of what you could do in the game from him. The best example is when cloaking, learn to quickly switch to armor mode before shooting and afterwards you can switch back to cloak, without having lost energy. You can do it really fast too.
I absolutely love the Crysis series! I first played the game on my brother's laptop and from what I remember it actually played pretty good on low graphic settings. Later I got my own PC on which I was able to play the game on high settings with a playable framerate. I personally can still play the original Crysis without issues. I use the CryMP Client to not only make the multiplayer playable again (despite having no or very few players left) and to avoid the DRM included in the Steam version which makes it impossible to launch. I own pretty much every version, as I have the original PC version, the Xbox 360 port, and the Remaster for Xbox and PC. My pefered way to play the game is still the original PC version, as I have played it so much that I know a lot of little details which make playing it more fun. I'm so glad that Crytek is now making a fourth game, even though I think Crysis 3 had a satisfying ending.
Though its been forever since I first witnessed Crysis 1's high fidelity gameplay as a kid on early RUclips, my first experience playing it in 2015 (console port) made me appreciate just how advanced and refreshing its gameplay was by those and today's standards. My favorite moment was the final objective in Mission 3 where the player must extract a significant distance down river at night with hostile forces present, and the full freedom to employ stealth, speed (by boat or truck), and even ambush (by acquiring the necessary equipment to destroy helicopters and vehicles) to complete it. Only to be faced by a nanosuit kill-team where now the hunter becomes the hunted. Despite all the skills learned from the previous missions, they were an excellent challenge. Near-impossible to spot unless the player carefully searched for the slightest figure or color out of place. If you were detected, you could expect the risk of being sniped easily, and knew it was only a matter of time until multiple nanosuit soldiers would sneak up on your position to ambush you just as unexpectedly. Very few games make you fear an NPC's unpredictability and tenacity to outsmart and outmatch you; the only other game that comes to mind is Far Cry 2 (another Far Cry 1 successor with a modified version of the Cryengine).
The fact that it took until bf 2042 until a game copied the weapon customization on the fly always was unbelievable to me. That plus the nanosuit (with the og layout of course) made crysis my all time favorite shooter. Btw not having made crysis wars 2 as a bf multiplayer alternative is the biggest blunder ever. Power struggle wiped the floor with all other large scale multiplayer modes!
I'm sure the original on pc was a great experience, but I had a great time playing all on xbox 360, and the remaster on ps4 is the same fun I had on xbox 360. Occasionally for the first crysis I felt the game was designed for a mouse aim... but I truly dislike keyboard movement input. So, the legendary crysis is a great, complete trilogy, one that truly shined during the xbod 360 era. And in 2023 its still looking kinda good, plays good. For me, in 2023 I give it a 8/10. At the time of release, 10/10. Really did the series right imo. Every game is unique, and the changes make sense. Story ended up being pretty mind blowing, with a surprise good ending.
I think I replayed it at least 30 times. Mostly concentrating on the early game as I could do whatever I wanted to achieve objectives. don't think I managed max settings but the frame rate doesn't seem to have been an issue. I think I was playing on an 8800gts or gt at the time. Such fun!
A story I fondly tell people (lowkey flex) when Crysis comes up is that I naively bought Crysis Warhead in late 2008 / early 2009 and much like you I was greeted with 5 fps max 7 fps on the home computer but I actually did play through the whole thing, and I think eventually Crysis as well but in late 09 I did get a decent enough PC so the memory is blurred a bit, regardless I could never play a game less than 30 fps typically and considering I was a kid (although why I reckon I was more patient) it is a testament to the gameplay loop while also buying into the romance of it all due to their marketing/box art and stigma.
I was surprisingly (surprising to myself) pulled into the hype of Crysis. I was really into the idea of the frozen tropical paradise. This and Fallout 3 I followed basically daily for updates on for a year until release. I was a fan of Far Cry as a kid. The original. But yeah, some of the last few games I got hyped about. I was a fanboy for Crytek for a while, when the crymod website shutdown though, things kind of changed, which came with Crysis 2. I didn't ever make mods. I think I barely even installed them, but I watched the crysis modding scene closely. I think a lot of those folks just got hired by studios.
I love how this game makes you feel powerful, yet vulnerable with the nano suit. It makes the combat more interesting and makes you think how you use the suits abilities.
Ah man. The memories. Bought it with the first Gears of War for my birthday by saving pocket money for months. I had 8600GT. Not the best or even middle but was able to play with 40-50fps with medium/high settings. Anything higher and the neigherhood would wake up. The gameplay was phenomenal and unlike anything else. And that gameplay is still unique to Crisis trilogy. Unlike the trailer, you're not a super soldier. You're just a normal one with a simple suit for tacking various environments & situations. Simple suit but highly advanced. You had to depend on it for the full game as NPCs could rip you to sheards in seconds even with Armor mode in medium difficulty and hard difficulty was the minimal way to enjoy the game to it's full potential. The AI was quite good for it's time. Covering, Flanking, asking for backups, ganging up on your last location from all directions when they shared your locations with other NPCs etc. And the day/night time cycle was amazing. You couldn't just go gun blazing. Man, now I'm feeling like playing the trilogy again. Let's find the disks. I should have it somewhere. ^_^
I really loved playing this game back in the day when it first came out on PC. I think after a year or so I was able to get a copy for Christmas (along with Oblivion) and played them on my PC that could barely run the game at 720p at maybe 30-40fps on my 1650x1080 TN Panel monitor. I still looked amazing even with graphics set to Medium at a low resolution and framerate, that's how game changing Crysis was, and it didn't help the gameplay was really fun and original for its time too. Even seeing the game now in high framerates with its maxed out settings, it still looks very good for today compared to some games. Some of those lighting and fog and weather affects are so dang good. I still have vivid memories of being inside that alien spaceship for the first time and it blowing my mind with how fluid the aliens moved while trying to fight them. This is a great video and review, brought me down memory lane. I never played much of Crysis 2 or 3, but I bought the Remasters for all 3 games, I stopped playing Crysis 1 Remaster due to all the changes. Maybe I'll go back to it now that it is patched to be more like the original game now. I have tried going back to the original Crysis but on Steam the game has horrible Mouse acceleration and aiming issues where I just can't enjoy the game no matter what I do to try and fix it. If nayone knows a way to to fix the weird mouse issues for the OG version of Crysis let me know. It was one of the only reasons I was excited for a Remaster to come out, to fix all those weird bugs.
Man I remember playing this game a ton when I was younger. I loved the destructive environment and messing with cheats. What's so good about older games like these are the modding communities adding new content like movie battles and other mods for star wars jedi academy for instance
I had the honour to play Original Crysis (i still have both Crysis and Crysis Warhead cd versions) on my first custom built pc, with Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2GB DDR3 and 8800 GTX, back in 2007. Incredible. I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E. A PC only game made with PC only graphic engine! What a time! I finished it 4 or 5 times, and played countless battles in multiplayer! It was a tough arcade game, as it had big maps, tactical features and vehicles, short time-to-kill and so on. A masterpiece!
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!
i played and absolutely loved this when i was about 18 with a new e6600 core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 4gb ram, nvidia 7950gt 1gb System with a 7,200rpm WD Blue HDD & 24" widescreen LCD using Win XP sp2. Bought that PC on a payment plan, had to pay back $100 a week for x amount of weeks with a decent amount of interest as a 18yr old with a new full time job. Remains a great memory to this day. These days I'm running a nvme m.2 samsung 980 drive with a gtx1660ti 8gb, 16gb (2x8gb) 2666mhz duel channel ram and a ryzen 5200x 3.6ghz and for the past few years i've been playing mostly Battlefield 4 multiplayer, these specs serve it nicely. such a good game, reminds me a bit of crisis, but were the opposing players are actually smart.. i'm aware my first gen ryzen cpu is bottlenecking my system but for what i use it for it's more than enough.. for now. next upgrade might be a later gen am4 rezen 7 since they're a great price (i have a top of the line x570 am4 board). but so far, battlefield 4 (2014) is the most graphically intensive thing i run on the system and it's more than equipped for the challenge, i've sunk 700hrs into the game so far and it actually feels like the only game i ever need
I remember picking up the game and being so freaking stoked to play it, I had watched the gameplay trailer, (you know the one) probably 1000 times prior to release.
This so damn nostalgic for me man. This was my first ever game i played when i was kid (i think i was 5 or sum) i remember watching my dad play crysis 1 so many times and i never got bored of it. At some point of i was even obsessed with the game and nanosuit LMAO. So yeah thank you dad for showing me this masterpiece of a game. i even finished it like over 26 times in my whole life. Cant wait for crysis 4. btw great video and editing as well, you earned my sub. :)
Oblivion came out in March of 2006, great video! I remember building my first PC with a ATI 4870 and playing Crysis for the first time. I got to play it in 720p at 30fps!
@@FaizanXtremeI had to look up the specs because those cards are ancient by now, but a 4850 and a dual core at 2.4gh should not be enough to run Crysis at 1600*900 maxed with more than 40 FPS. The reputation of this game is there for a reason... people did not have the hardware to run it. I wouldn't be surprised if people ran it at 20FPS and thought it was normal.
This game made me buy a 8800 GTX, one of the greater FPSs ever made. Great video by the way it made me wanna replay the game but with the remastred version.
Had BFG 8800 GTX as well, and a Q6600. Spent more time in the system.cfg to get out max graphics with EdgeAA, SSAO, ColorGrading, HDR, nice water effects, god rays etc. over 30fps on 1280x1024 than actually playing the game :) FUN TIMES.
Awesome to hear the editor spurred you into game development! I grew up gaming all my life and if it wasn't for Timesplitters and Farcry's map editors, I probably would have never got into game development lol
Tip: While aiming down scope for long range, equip Maximum Strength, as this negates recoil and sway at the cost of suit energy. Secondly, don't use C1 Launcher; instead, just drop in DXVK libraries to run the game natively in Vulkan. Not only does this provide superior performance over DX10, but this also fixes every issue for AMD GPUs.
I played it back then with an 8800GT and sometimes I still play it today. Crysis and Crysis Warhead are one of my favorite Games ever. I just like how you can utilize your suit and the environment.
Such a shame Saber Interactive butchered the remaster. Only way to play on PC now, is either Retail PC copy with the 64-bit patch, or the GOG copy which comes with the 64-bit binaries included. For those not in the know; Crysis Remastered is built upon the broken version of Crysis that released on X360/PS3 4 years later using a early build of CryEngine 3. Crysis Remastered is also missing the canonical inclusion of Crysis Warhead; having you play as Psycho through his perspective of the events in Crysis (It's quite literally the best Crysis game in the entire series).
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!
@@Cousinbiddy1 You probably have badly cracked game or bad pc. Game is masterpeice especially the PowerStruggle mode thay does not exist in other games.
A few years ago, Frostbite 3 was considered the best graphics engine, then the RDR 2 graphics engine and now there is a lot of talk about Unreal Engine 5 and how "great" it is supposed to be, but... The Graphics Engine that marked a before and after was the Cryengine 2.0 since compared to what was available at that time it gave *A TRUE QUANTUM LEAP* in visual quality, animations and physics in terms of video games.
I ran Crysis and Crysis 2 on my Alienware Laptop. Intel Core i7-8750H, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GTX 1060, Windows 10. It ran perfectly fine in its highest settings. I didn't get a chance to download or run Crysis 3 on that computer, however, but now I have a 3050Ti and an AMD 8-ore in an Asus TUF laptop with 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD. It should do even better.
I remember Crysis leaving an impression on me. It was during that first cutscene of the briefing when I was watching the characters move and talk and it struck me 'Holy crap... they're moving like they're actual HUMANS!' I don't know if it was my first experience with mocap or not. I can't really remember. But it made the game that much more real to me.
I'd say it was the first game to bridge the gap with offline rendering and usher us in a new era. There truly has never been anything like it since then. (It may be too financially risky.) Crysis had it "all" on a technical level. No other game when it came out and for many years afterward even had as many shaders running at once as it did: object motion blur, screen-space ambient occlusion, depth of field, subsurface scattering, tessellation, parallax occlusion mapping, transparency, post-processing filters, etc. And I never thought it was a tech demo. I very much enjoyed the gameplay, the story was fine for what it was, the physics were a lot of fun, the sound was superb and so was the soundtrack. Crytek announced a new Crysis game and I really hope it's going to be some sort of reboot. I'm longing for a jungle setting!
OG Crysis is one of my most favorite games. I had a 7900 GT that would run it in slideshow mode haha. Then TweakGuides came out with how to run the game with godrays and many other tweaks without needing to tap into DX10. I then upgraded my graphics card to an 8800 GT, by this time Crysis was running great with tweaked cfg graphics files (aside from when the squids got their screentime). I run the game every now and then, loading up user made single player missions as well as playing through the original campaign. Great game, lots of fond memories at the time!
One of my favorite games, I still play it from time to time and is still fun and every time, it reminds me how game graphics have evolved so little. This game to me is the evidence that since Crysis 1 came out in 2007, 4 years after Far Cry 1, games have evolved gradually but slowly, while demanding more and more hardware power, we even need upscaling to play modern games at medium on 700€ plus GPU's! If you plotted the evolution of games graphics in a graph the line that shows graphics evolution since Crysis 1, is almost a slow but steady evolving linear slop, while the line that shows the demand on hardware, is a huge increasing hill (GPU price is also a huge increasing hill...). For example, Alan Wake 2 the current most hyped game that many claim is the new evolution/jump in graphics, it came 4 years after Control and despite obviously looking better than Control, IMO it is not to the level that Far Cry 1 is to Crysis 1, on the graphics evolution scale, these two games are worlds apart ( in gameplay as well) and IMO that was a unique point in history. I don't think we will ever see such fast jump in graphics anymore. And Btw Crysis was hard on the hardware indeed at the time but it didn't needed upscaling (it didn't existed) to run at medium to high settings! Unlike modern games... I recall very well, I was able to play Crysis 1 in 1050p at ~60 fps medium settings, on a Intel i7 Quad Core that I don't recall now the version and a second hand ATI Radeon 9800 XT that I bough for less than 200€, a GPU that if I'm not mistaken, was already 4 years old when I bought it.
played the fist one on a phenom IIx2 550BE paired with a 4850 amd with 512 mb. Had to learn to clean my gpu and repaste it, had to learn about airflow and even tried to put tupperwear with ice on top of the case to drop down even a few degrees. Love it. Finished on Delta too. Crysis 2 had a very good multiplayer, like a COD but a lot faster and crazier (maybe like those futuristic cod bo that came lots of years later)
Some notes on the C1 suit modes Armor also effects the regen of hp & energy if I recall Strength also does recoil control and such Speed effects swap,tac attachment CD and speed of melee
The first crysis is so much better then 2 and 3 and you kinda explore your surroundings more kinda like a open world. Their was a cool mod where you can play a 2 player campaign online.
i got my first pc in 2005/6 (core 2 duo that i upgraded later to amd phenom II 955 and a 8600gt) run crysis at medium in weird resolution haha i loved that game and the multiplayer was really fun and chaotic with those tac NUKES and all the vehicles same here every time i get new hardware i still load up crysis and play through the game + the game still has TONEs of mods and additional campaigns you can play to this day i played crysis 2 and 3 but the OG is still my fav Nice video +1 sub !
My favorite irony is that when Crysis was released it was called either a next step of gaming or just a tech demo with no substance (by especially old-school or boomer/spinal-cord shooter fans). Which is a real shame as despite of some jankiness this game is still impressive not only graphics but interactivity and being an actual sandbox shooter. Another impressive factor which is extremely underrated is ceph species themselves. It's one of very few moments when aliens portraited as actual aliens: mysterious, very unique design and core level is one of favourite levels due to how alien it feels. For me is the most furiating as how Crysis with S.T.A.L.K.E.R, BioShock and even Mass Effect 1 should be next step of gaming, but thnks to hm... hm.. thanks to enomorous success of CoD4 everything went to a different way and by replaying currently players feel simply how unusual and in some way ahead of time these games feel.
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!!!
My first touch was crysis warhead with a 9800GT. Awesome visuals and gameplay. I loved it and played it through on every difficulty setting. I still own my 9800GT to this day.
Wow, I once saw Guyver in passing during my childhood and have been annoyed that i couldn't ever find the name of the movie I had seen. After 28 years, I can now look it up.
To this day, Crysis 1 remains my favorite game of all time. It began it's journey on GTX 6200GS at 10fps on low to later hardware maxed out. What I've think you missed is the soundtrack. Inon Zur made a masterpiece and while Slavov for the sequels did great, it wasn't as profound as the OG. What I also disagree is on Nomad. While not the most deep character back in 2007 being among many silent protagonists, Nomad standout for being one who is not silent. My man even crack jokes. I think it was a great chemistry between him, Psycho and Prophet. It made kinda sense for Prophet to be the main one down the line, but I've wished (and many more back in 2009 when Crysis 2 was announced) that we would got direct sequel and not time jump. What made Crysis life so long aside from people trying to play it on max was the Sandbox editor which gave birth to some incredible mods one of which was MechWarrior: Living Legends later for Crysis Wars (Warhead MP). To this day I miss Crysis MP. Power Struggle is one of the best FPS multiplayer modes out there. Hope Crysis 4 manage to bring both strengths of Crysis 1/Warhead and Crysis 2/3.
i first played the crysis demo and was blown away just from that! Later I torrented the game and i think it was so much more than i initially believed. Really long and engaging campaign. Yeah like you said 2007 was a damn good year!
2007 was the best year of gaming ever. I look back at those days and I miss it so much. It was also the communities especially the Xbox 360 community that made it glorious.
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!
I spent quite a lot of time playing crysis and crysis warhead. Getting hyped for Crysis 2 and then playing the release probably was my first gaming betrayal. Whatever they were going for, it missed me completely. The freedom of the first installments and the non console interface just felt right. To this day I remember the order of the armour modes.
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!!!
Hi mate, great video, was a lovely trip down nostalgia lane. Thanks for the in depth doco over a beloved game of mine. Keep up the good work. Subbed 👌👌
Its 2024 and Crysis is still the best first-person shooter ever! From graphics to gameplay and style! Keyboard and mouse control is second to none! I have been playing this game since day one and no game today even comes close! The open world is amazing and the AI is the most realistic. Yes there are some spots in the game where frame rates drop it just needs some refinement. This game is an absolute masterpiece! And don't overlook the sound effects, they are incredible!
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!!!
Crysis was the game that lured me to buy an enthusiast pc when I really couldn't afford it. 40 fps on ultra at 1080p! Also pc hardware wasn't very good back then so it lasted about 3 years before it was antiquated. Taught me a lesson though. Better to buy mid-high end and in budget, than to buy the very bleeding edge of performance.
I remember my dad getting me a PC in 2007. and the guy in the store preinstalled Crisis for me. I couldn't believe my eyes how awesome it was. Good times.
Best memory of Crysis was first playthrough I went two-thirds of the way through it not knowing I could equip a suppressor... I was extremely embarrassed of myself to say the least, but got quite a good laugh of it.😅
seriously a lot of AAA games today looks worst than that old Crysis, not to mention lack of features/functions. I think the biggest differences in visual assets is that old Crysis uses more actual photo textures... most games these days are procedural.... you can tell easily what is photo texture, what is procedural - there's the "uncanny valley" problem with artificially generated texture.
If you have any fun memories of playing Crysis I'd love to hear them.
Only actually used strength mode because his arms look menacing
I built my first Complete PC build for Crysis I think it had a gforce 8800gtx in it. the demo came with a map maker with the full games assets in it, in theory you could have remade the full game with the demo. The best mod ever and the best mechwarrior game, is Mech Warrior Living ledgends, which was a crysis mod, and its still played today. it has a counterstrike kills+damage = money you use to buy better gear when you respawn.
also you mentioned crysis warhead, wasn't that just their multiplayer ? it was a mess online but fun, ran like ass, if you think the single player has issues, try translating all that physics to multiplayer.
1 memory I have from crysis, I ran out of missles for a helicopter fight, I punched a tree down, and into logs, attached c4 to a log, and used strength to throw it at a helicopter to detonate it...worked perfectly.
I played it on a 3D projector i think on ps3/ps4, was really great in 3D! back then.
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Maybe if you had bad memories cause crash or softlock
It's impressive how good it still looks for its age, but almost as impressive to me is how smoothly it plays. It still feels very modern. Heck of an achievement in gaming history
no mention to killzone 2 the one that destroyed everything else.... no playing culture.
They aren't kidding when they said Crysis feels ahead of its time. I feel it's rare case of hardware catching up with the game that it still looks modern even today.
killzone 2 was ps1 graphics compared to crysis which was ps4 graphics in the time of ps2 which was why it was the test for the GPU Comps......good days..@@Jackson-bh1jw
It is more of a show how gaming stagnated or even regressed in these 15 years.
Shit optimization, also the graphics are overrated, i mean mediocre. Also 1st game graphics have aged badly. No clue about remaster, games were average at best, not even bare minimum to care about remaster.
The first game that only managed 7 FPS on Ultra, but 20 years later managed 1000 FPS and still looks great 👍
I also think strength mode in Crysis 1 reduces recoil.
I’m sure it also reduces the sway, making it easier to snipe enemies
Its making ur shooting with scope much easier
its not fair to say it reduces recoil, it almost entirely eliminates it. I always play with max strength enabled as my default!
@@sal-1337 nah melee altogether. You literally can turn your guy into superman by combining speed then a last min punch with strength enabled. The combos were amazing and i loved lifting your enemy off the ground by their neck.
It reduces recoil and weapon sway
Crysis wars was one of the most underrated part of the Crysis IP imo. It was so much fun doing PVP with the nano suits. You could get tanks and all kinds of things, so many good memories.
yea .. it was great..It's like everything these days.. crysis did it first..very fun and amazing how it ran smoothly with tanks etc.. The Nuke boob was so cool.
Probably my favorite game ever, love the music and that setting. It was so groundbreaking in 2007 to play this.
Crysis 4 - which is announced - needs to be a reboot. I want to go back to the jungle with 202X's groundbreaking graphics!
@@simongravel7407 Is is never going to be as great as it was in 2007. Today it would have 2024 graphics in 2024, while back in time it had 2015 graphics in 2007. Also it was a quite tactical and hard game (in Delta difficulty and in multiplayer) which i doubt would fit a modern game.
@@RiccardoTheBeAst I see things your way too. Crytek will not make the same "mistake" this time around.
i updated pc in 2008 and it was best gaming feelings, maybe playing Mario and MK in childhood was better
@@simongravel7407I wouldn’t bet on it until it’s out.
It was my first FPS that I played as a kid. I will never forget those times. I only had 2 hours daily to play with the PC because my parents were really strick. I used to sneak in to the PC room evey single dawn and play Crysis. I loved every second of it. I had a lot of Lego back then end I built a V-tol without any instructions and I only went from pictures. I still have pictures of it somewhere. Those were the days...
Happy memories 🎉
Man, i guess you so looks like me haha. when i was played this game at 2008, just only me the playing person in my High school. nobody didn't know it what this game lol
also many times play for my all LEGO Technics!
as a korean, It's impossible to not laugh listening north Korean soldiers' voice. The lines are awkward but also sounds funny. True legend.
I remember as a kid watching my dad play this, then I grew up bought all 3 and finished them all ! What a series
Seconded. Got to play it myself as well in glorious 10-15 frames per second till my head split open.
it still amazes me, how good this game looks. Had the same Experience back in the day with a PC, having only a Geforce 6800...it ran horrible, hahaha. Years later I was able to have the right gear.
I agree, playing the game maxed out at 4k still feels great today. The visuals hold up so well.
Bro for real 2007 was the best year in gaming. You forgot to mention Mass Effect 1, and many others.
Mass Effect is among my favorite game series of all time. I didn't want to go on for minutes listing off all the bangers though haha.
Supreme Commander & STALKER
Battlefield 2 had been out for a couple years at that point, and lots of mods became available. BF2 will forever be my most favorite game in terms of fun.
there's legit too many banger franchises at that time to name them all without sounding long winded lol
BF4
I watched this video up until the Story, where I then went and downloaded Crysis Remastered. I played through the game on Veteran difficulty and completed it in ~7.5 hours. I couldn't stop on that cliff hanger though and had to then download Crysis 2 Remastered. I also played through on the hardest difficulty, Post-Human, and completed in ~10.5 hours. Prophet's storyline was pretty intriguing so you know I had to download Crysis 3 Remastered and play on Post-Human once again(~8 hours).
I'm blown away by this Trilogy, I don't get why I never played it before, apart from the beginning of a mission from Crysis 2 over a decade ago at a friend's house, as well as the multiplayer with split-screen I believe. I'm now eagerly awaiting Crysis 4, Crytek has made an impressive Trilogy and I'm here for whatever they have in store next!
I've come back to finish this video and I also eagerly await your reviews of the next games! Especially Warhead, as I didn't play through that one.
To this day, I have still never been as hyped for a video game like I was for Crysis. When it finally came out I could hardly play it on my PC but I still had a blast. I remember seeing other people on gaming forums that had the 'Can You Run It' benchmark for Crysis as their signature and I would get so jealous that theirs was in the green. Lol
I remember when I played, I'd constantly swap between modes. One of my favorite moves was to get to sprint in speed mode, flip to strength mode mid-stride, jump, and then switch to armor mode mid-air because landing is going to hurt otherwise. You're basically a cannonball at that point.
i remember first reading about crysis at age 13 in 2005 when i was in middle school in a PC Gaming magazine in the school library. I played the game on release but wasn't able to enjoy it with high settings until probably 2010 or later. to say the games graphics were earth shattering at the time is an understatement. I remember it was the first game where a forest or a jungle actually felt immersive. before that forests always felt so sparce and empty and graphics couldn't handle the density of objects and foliage. I know the gameplay wasn't groundbreaking but i loved coordinating complex ambushes and picking guys off one by one. I should revisit it!
The game not just pushed the boundaries of graphics but importantly was actually very fun with clever gameplay innovations and mechanics.
Can't wait to hear more about Crysis 4 soon. Crytek did announce they were working on it awhile ago.
crysis has been dead since crysis warhead...it was callofdutyized
@@LamelKendrick I agree, the first one was quite hard and tactical, especially in multiplayer (damage calculation was equal to Delta difficulty, the maximum one)
the MP was neglected. It was basically an open world movement shooter. The mechanics with movement were some of the deepest ever in a shooter. the guns had realistic recoil. Just was too hard to run and lacked official support. After that in Crysis wars they nerfed the animations, recoil, everything that was good about Crysis 1 mp was molded into CoD4 style.@@RiccardoTheBeAst
@@LamelKendrick Nope. At all. There was a sort of conquest/tactical mode that generated complex and very tactical matches, some matches even lasted 5 to 8 hours (yes, they did). A lot of teamwork was required and a combination of infantry, tanks and aircrafts to overcome the enemy. There was day/night cycle and it was even possible to deploy logistic vehicles to allow players to spawn in unexpected positions, radar devices to help teammates detect enemies, cargo VTOL version able to airdrop players (i still remember of us doing a night-time attack with parachutes to conquer a key building) and several other stuff. Crysis MP was one of the most underrated MP ever.
I never had a decent system so played it on low settings when it came out. Whilst I couldn't experience the top notch visuals I still had many hours of fun with it challenging myself to use certain powers and guns in each scenario
I was obsessed with graphics and game engines when I was a teenager, so this game was like the holy grail for me when I learnt about it and it took me ages to finally get my hands on it. I played this easily over 1000 hours on a busted PC with a 512mb vram GPU. I got into modding and map making and because of that I credit this game with getting me into game dev. Just by trial and error, learning how to make maps for this game using its world editor, and playing with other people's mods, I gained probably more understanding of how games are made then my actual university degree I got after.
Sounds like we had pretty similar journeys! I also played around with things like the UDK (Unreal Development Kit) while cool games like the Ball were being made. I have such an appreciation for game development after getting a degree in computer science and working in engineering computer graphics for several years.
I remember picking it up at the local mall on launch day and booting it up on my gaming rig with a heavily overclocked Core 2 Duo E6400 and a 8800GTS 320MB. Good times. Crysis Warhead was even better. If you haven't had a chance to play it, you need to.
I have Warhead on GOG. I'll definitely cover it. I think I'll probably cover the games in this order: 2, Warhead then 3. It'll be many months before I get to all of them, but I'm looking forward to it.
8800GTS was pretty strong at the time and not bad for crysis to play with medium stable fps, I had poor geforce 8500GT 512mb and it was always below 30fps but it was still fun to play.
not to mention Crysis 3 had 3D support. i played it with my 3d TV which i still got. have 3d glasses that made all the loudout changings and the UI to be popping out towards me like i was in the game.
I suspect you might have missed some subtle game mechanics. For example the keyboard shortcuts for activating maximum speed (double tap shift) and strength (double tap space), allowing you to nearly seamlessly do what you were most likely to use those abilities for (sprint/jump). More importantly those abilities also affect weapon handling.
Speed speeds up reload and allows you to move and turn fast with heavy weapons.
Strength is more useful here, allowing you to move and turn at normal speed with heaving weapons, reducing recoil and reducing weapon sway. This is the mechanic to steady your aim while sniping!!! Can also be used for an accurate burst of minigun fire.
Edit: It toke me years to realize these mechanics existed and how useful/fun they could be. The game does not do a great job of helping you discover these aspects of the suits abilities.
First time I'm seeing someone talking about that. That was the way to play, you could change all your powers seamlessly. I thought I was the only one that played this way. They killed this feature in the remake and that's the reason I haven't finished it.
I remember when I discovered that feature, I've restarted my gameplay and played it on "Post-Human Warrior" and finished it. What a ride it was!
I noticed that while jumping between games. But there is an option added in next to classic suit controls to reenable said shortcuts.
The trailer for crysis 2 and the theme is a masterpiece, it reflect crysis perfect, the lost cause, the hope, the feeling you get playing entering the fallen new york
The theme ...
It ran great on a Radeon X1950 I had in my video editing workstation back then. And it's still damn impressive. The lighting in the alien ship levels? Are you kidding me?
playing crysis multiplayer was a total blast . Switching from suit modes to suit modes with alt key under the thumb felt absolutely like an extension of your virtual body . Cloaked, uncloak right before shooting to save energy, kill, sprint, super jump from top of relief into bushes, crouch cloak , ennemy's looking for you , aim mode, kill, sprint awaaaaaaay ..woah, I'm a living weapon
lol
I've yet to find a game that makes movements so pleasing while still feeling like you're an actual dude with weight
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!
Correction: Oblivion was in 2006. I remember because that was my last year of primary school.
You are correct! I should have double checked.
Im a big fan of the Crysis games, but the change in water FX and the removal of the blur FX was disasterous, but overal i enjoyed the Remasters, the high-res textures and especially the Ray-Tracing FX in Crysis 1. Why theyve kept the original water FX in Crysis 3 is strange (shouldve kept the original water FX in all the games) and the removal of the Crysis 2/3 MP is a shame (i loved the MP). I would love to see the addition of Crysis Warhead to the Remasters though.
Great video, also great editing. Subscribed!!
Emphasizing the monumentally beautiful graphics was a good choice by Crytek and EA for this game's marketing, but the true strength of Crysis is its gameplay. It's one of the most fun games you can ever play, truly. The amount of times I've replayed this masterpiece comes close to 100, easily.
Exactly!
I loved watching Nanosuitninja, you learn quite a bit of what you could do in the game from him.
The best example is when cloaking, learn to quickly switch to armor mode before shooting and afterwards you can switch back to cloak, without having lost energy.
You can do it really fast too.
I actually do this a ton! I didn't mention it in the video, but there's one scene where you can see me do it.
With the PC original you could also use suit shortcuts to make it pretty easy
to me, this game was legendary and it is still one of my favorite videogames of all time.
I absolutely love the Crysis series!
I first played the game on my brother's laptop and from what I remember it actually played pretty good on low graphic settings.
Later I got my own PC on which I was able to play the game on high settings with a playable framerate.
I personally can still play the original Crysis without issues. I use the CryMP Client to not only make the multiplayer playable again (despite having no or very few players left) and to avoid the DRM included in the Steam version which makes it impossible to launch.
I own pretty much every version, as I have the original PC version, the Xbox 360 port, and the Remaster for Xbox and PC.
My pefered way to play the game is still the original PC version, as I have played it so much that I know a lot of little details which make playing it more fun.
I'm so glad that Crytek is now making a fourth game, even though I think Crysis 3 had a satisfying ending.
It's amazing how much attention to detail was put into older games but now we can't even get a correctly working mirror
Though its been forever since I first witnessed Crysis 1's high fidelity gameplay as a kid on early RUclips, my first experience playing it in 2015 (console port) made me appreciate just how advanced and refreshing its gameplay was by those and today's standards. My favorite moment was the final objective in Mission 3 where the player must extract a significant distance down river at night with hostile forces present, and the full freedom to employ stealth, speed (by boat or truck), and even ambush (by acquiring the necessary equipment to destroy helicopters and vehicles) to complete it. Only to be faced by a nanosuit kill-team where now the hunter becomes the hunted. Despite all the skills learned from the previous missions, they were an excellent challenge. Near-impossible to spot unless the player carefully searched for the slightest figure or color out of place. If you were detected, you could expect the risk of being sniped easily, and knew it was only a matter of time until multiple nanosuit soldiers would sneak up on your position to ambush you just as unexpectedly. Very few games make you fear an NPC's unpredictability and tenacity to outsmart and outmatch you; the only other game that comes to mind is Far Cry 2 (another Far Cry 1 successor with a modified version of the Cryengine).
Crysis basically started my love for death metal, because one of those "5000 barrells explosion" videos had a Kalmah song on it (Moon Of My Nights) :D
The fact that it took until bf 2042 until a game copied the weapon customization on the fly always was unbelievable to me. That plus the nanosuit (with the og layout of course) made crysis my all time favorite shooter.
Btw not having made crysis wars 2 as a bf multiplayer alternative is the biggest blunder ever. Power struggle wiped the floor with all other large scale multiplayer modes!
i remember spending over 3 hours in crysis 1 the demo to destroy all palmtrees on that beach... that game was amazing back then
My fav was always Crysis 2 for some reason, and I played Crysis in 2007 when it came out in PC.
I'm sure the original on pc was a great experience, but I had a great time playing all on xbox 360, and the remaster on ps4 is the same fun I had on xbox 360. Occasionally for the first crysis I felt the game was designed for a mouse aim... but I truly dislike keyboard movement input. So, the legendary crysis is a great, complete trilogy, one that truly shined during the xbod 360 era. And in 2023 its still looking kinda good, plays good. For me, in 2023 I give it a 8/10. At the time of release, 10/10. Really did the series right imo. Every game is unique, and the changes make sense. Story ended up being pretty mind blowing, with a surprise good ending.
The crysis 1 multiplayer is one of the best multiplayer games ive ever played. Power struggle was a really cool mode.
I think I replayed it at least 30 times. Mostly concentrating on the early game as I could do whatever I wanted to achieve objectives.
don't think I managed max settings but the frame rate doesn't seem to have been an issue. I think I was playing on an 8800gts or gt at the time.
Such fun!
Ohhh 8800 GTS, memories..! :) I forgot about this one! It was one hell of a performance / price ratio! (At the time powerful GPUs were affordable)
A story I fondly tell people (lowkey flex) when Crysis comes up is that I naively bought Crysis Warhead in late 2008 / early 2009 and much like you I was greeted with 5 fps max 7 fps on the home computer but I actually did play through the whole thing, and I think eventually Crysis as well but in late 09 I did get a decent enough PC so the memory is blurred a bit, regardless I could never play a game less than 30 fps typically and considering I was a kid (although why I reckon I was more patient) it is a testament to the gameplay loop while also buying into the romance of it all due to their marketing/box art and stigma.
I was surprisingly (surprising to myself) pulled into the hype of Crysis. I was really into the idea of the frozen tropical paradise. This and Fallout 3 I followed basically daily for updates on for a year until release. I was a fan of Far Cry as a kid. The original. But yeah, some of the last few games I got hyped about. I was a fanboy for Crytek for a while, when the crymod website shutdown though, things kind of changed, which came with Crysis 2. I didn't ever make mods. I think I barely even installed them, but I watched the crysis modding scene closely. I think a lot of those folks just got hired by studios.
I love how this game makes you feel powerful, yet vulnerable with the nano suit. It makes the combat more interesting and makes you think how you use the suits abilities.
Ah man. The memories. Bought it with the first Gears of War for my birthday by saving pocket money for months. I had 8600GT. Not the best or even middle but was able to play with 40-50fps with medium/high settings. Anything higher and the neigherhood would wake up.
The gameplay was phenomenal and unlike anything else. And that gameplay is still unique to Crisis trilogy. Unlike the trailer, you're not a super soldier. You're just a normal one with a simple suit for tacking various environments & situations. Simple suit but highly advanced. You had to depend on it for the full game as NPCs could rip you to sheards in seconds even with Armor mode in medium difficulty and hard difficulty was the minimal way to enjoy the game to it's full potential. The AI was quite good for it's time. Covering, Flanking, asking for backups, ganging up on your last location from all directions when they shared your locations with other NPCs etc. And the day/night time cycle was amazing.
You couldn't just go gun blazing. Man, now I'm feeling like playing the trilogy again. Let's find the disks. I should have it somewhere. ^_^
I really loved playing this game back in the day when it first came out on PC. I think after a year or so I was able to get a copy for Christmas (along with Oblivion) and played them on my PC that could barely run the game at 720p at maybe 30-40fps on my 1650x1080 TN Panel monitor. I still looked amazing even with graphics set to Medium at a low resolution and framerate, that's how game changing Crysis was, and it didn't help the gameplay was really fun and original for its time too.
Even seeing the game now in high framerates with its maxed out settings, it still looks very good for today compared to some games. Some of those lighting and fog and weather affects are so dang good.
I still have vivid memories of being inside that alien spaceship for the first time and it blowing my mind with how fluid the aliens moved while trying to fight them.
This is a great video and review, brought me down memory lane. I never played much of Crysis 2 or 3, but I bought the Remasters for all 3 games, I stopped playing Crysis 1 Remaster due to all the changes. Maybe I'll go back to it now that it is patched to be more like the original game now.
I have tried going back to the original Crysis but on Steam the game has horrible Mouse acceleration and aiming issues where I just can't enjoy the game no matter what I do to try and fix it. If nayone knows a way to to fix the weird mouse issues for the OG version of Crysis let me know. It was one of the only reasons I was excited for a Remaster to come out, to fix all those weird bugs.
Man I remember playing this game a ton when I was younger. I loved the destructive environment and messing with cheats. What's so good about older games like these are the modding communities adding new content like movie battles and other mods for star wars jedi academy for instance
I had the honour to play Original Crysis (i still have both Crysis and Crysis Warhead cd versions) on my first custom built pc, with Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2GB DDR3 and 8800 GTX, back in 2007. Incredible. I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E. A PC only game made with PC only graphic engine! What a time! I finished it 4 or 5 times, and played countless battles in multiplayer! It was a tough arcade game, as it had big maps, tactical features and vehicles, short time-to-kill and so on. A masterpiece!
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!
i played and absolutely loved this when i was about 18 with a new e6600 core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 4gb ram, nvidia 7950gt 1gb System with a 7,200rpm WD Blue HDD & 24" widescreen LCD using Win XP sp2. Bought that PC on a payment plan, had to pay back $100 a week for x amount of weeks with a decent amount of interest as a 18yr old with a new full time job. Remains a great memory to this day. These days I'm running a nvme m.2 samsung 980 drive with a gtx1660ti 8gb, 16gb (2x8gb) 2666mhz duel channel ram and a ryzen 5200x 3.6ghz and for the past few years i've been playing mostly Battlefield 4 multiplayer, these specs serve it nicely. such a good game, reminds me a bit of crisis, but were the opposing players are actually smart.. i'm aware my first gen ryzen cpu is bottlenecking my system but for what i use it for it's more than enough.. for now. next upgrade might be a later gen am4 rezen 7 since they're a great price (i have a top of the line x570 am4 board). but so far, battlefield 4 (2014) is the most graphically intensive thing i run on the system and it's more than equipped for the challenge, i've sunk 700hrs into the game so far and it actually feels like the only game i ever need
I remember picking up the game and being so freaking stoked to play it, I had watched the gameplay trailer, (you know the one) probably 1000 times prior to release.
This so damn nostalgic for me man. This was my first ever game i played when i was kid (i think i was 5 or sum) i remember watching my dad play crysis 1 so many times and i never got bored of it. At some point of i was even obsessed with the game and nanosuit LMAO. So yeah thank you dad for showing me this masterpiece of a game. i even finished it like over 26 times in my whole life. Cant wait for crysis 4.
btw great video and editing as well, you earned my sub. :)
it is insane how it still look great compared to some 2024 of games today
Oblivion came out in March of 2006, great video! I remember building my first PC with a ATI 4870 and playing Crysis for the first time. I got to play it in 720p at 30fps!
You sure? One of my friends had 4850 and he played at High settings 1600*900 at around 45-60 fps
He had core 2 duo 2.4 GHz btw
@@FaizanXtremeI had to look up the specs because those cards are ancient by now, but a 4850 and a dual core at 2.4gh should not be enough to run Crysis at 1600*900 maxed with more than 40 FPS. The reputation of this game is there for a reason... people did not have the hardware to run it. I wouldn't be surprised if people ran it at 20FPS and thought it was normal.
@@EximiusDux I wrote "High" not "Max"
@@FaizanXtremeMy bad.
This game made me buy a 8800 GTX, one of the greater FPSs ever made.
Great video by the way it made me wanna replay the game but with the remastred version.
I upgraded many times to the latest released card over many years and was disappointed each time when it came to Crysis.
Had BFG 8800 GTX as well, and a Q6600. Spent more time in the system.cfg to get out max graphics with EdgeAA, SSAO, ColorGrading, HDR, nice water effects, god rays etc. over 30fps on 1280x1024 than actually playing the game :) FUN TIMES.
Played 1 after 2 and 3and this is an entirely different and thoroughly awesome experience.
Great review bro 👍
Wel said . Nostalgia. Always wanted to play it on highest settings. Finally can, and still amazing 😊
Awesome to hear the editor spurred you into game development! I grew up gaming all my life and if it wasn't for Timesplitters and Farcry's map editors, I probably would have never got into game development lol
timesplitters fuccc yes
Man. I found a brother! Farcry1 level editor... That was actually the cryengine, not just some level editor. It changed my life man. Totally
Tip: While aiming down scope for long range, equip Maximum Strength, as this negates recoil and sway at the cost of suit energy. Secondly, don't use C1 Launcher; instead, just drop in DXVK libraries to run the game natively in Vulkan. Not only does this provide superior performance over DX10, but this also fixes every issue for AMD GPUs.
I played it back then with an 8800GT and sometimes I still play it today. Crysis and Crysis Warhead are one of my favorite Games ever. I just like how you can utilize your suit and the environment.
Such a shame Saber Interactive butchered the remaster. Only way to play on PC now, is either Retail PC copy with the 64-bit patch, or the GOG copy which comes with the 64-bit binaries included. For those not in the know; Crysis Remastered is built upon the broken version of Crysis that released on X360/PS3 4 years later using a early build of CryEngine 3. Crysis Remastered is also missing the canonical inclusion of Crysis Warhead; having you play as Psycho through his perspective of the events in Crysis (It's quite literally the best Crysis game in the entire series).
such an awesome video! u deserve more recognition my friend ! keep up
Notice half those games were NEW IPs or sequels with real changes? WE NEED THAT AGAIN
Crysis was so good, that even in 2024 it still looks beautiful! 17 years since original release, 20 years from development start.
This games Multiplayer is one of the most fun in gaming.
Crysis had one of the best multiplayer modes and that was: "POWER STRUGGLE" everything was perfect. No other game made this and that is just sad.
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!
@@Cousinbiddy1 You probably have badly cracked game or bad pc. Game is masterpeice especially the PowerStruggle mode thay does not exist in other games.
@@DevilsRockContract I’m playing on my switch on digital not a cartridge or cd
A few years ago, Frostbite 3 was considered the best graphics engine, then the RDR 2 graphics engine and now there is a lot of talk about Unreal Engine 5 and how "great" it is supposed to be, but...
The Graphics Engine that marked a before and after was the Cryengine 2.0 since compared to what was available at that time it gave *A TRUE QUANTUM LEAP* in visual quality, animations and physics in terms of video games.
I ran Crysis and Crysis 2 on my Alienware Laptop.
Intel Core i7-8750H, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GTX 1060, Windows 10.
It ran perfectly fine in its highest settings.
I didn't get a chance to download or run Crysis 3 on that computer, however, but now I have a 3050Ti and an AMD 8-ore in an Asus TUF laptop with 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD. It should do even better.
Dude this is a top quality video, you're criminally underrated and I'm excited to watch you grow. Gonna have to go binge all your other videos now.
I remember Crysis leaving an impression on me. It was during that first cutscene of the briefing when I was watching the characters move and talk and it struck me 'Holy crap... they're moving like they're actual HUMANS!'
I don't know if it was my first experience with mocap or not. I can't really remember. But it made the game that much more real to me.
I'd say it was the first game to bridge the gap with offline rendering and usher us in a new era. There truly has never been anything like it since then. (It may be too financially risky.) Crysis had it "all" on a technical level. No other game when it came out and for many years afterward even had as many shaders running at once as it did: object motion blur, screen-space ambient occlusion, depth of field, subsurface scattering, tessellation, parallax occlusion mapping, transparency, post-processing filters, etc.
And I never thought it was a tech demo. I very much enjoyed the gameplay, the story was fine for what it was, the physics were a lot of fun, the sound was superb and so was the soundtrack. Crytek announced a new Crysis game and I really hope it's going to be some sort of reboot. I'm longing for a jungle setting!
OG Crysis is one of my most favorite games. I had a 7900 GT that would run it in slideshow mode haha. Then TweakGuides came out with how to run the game with godrays and many other tweaks without needing to tap into DX10. I then upgraded my graphics card to an 8800 GT, by this time Crysis was running great with tweaked cfg graphics files (aside from when the squids got their screentime). I run the game every now and then, loading up user made single player missions as well as playing through the original campaign. Great game, lots of fond memories at the time!
Man, this brought me back. The first time I was able to play it was just leagues ahead of what I was used to
One of my favorite games, I still play it from time to time and is still fun and every time, it reminds me how game graphics have evolved so little.
This game to me is the evidence that since Crysis 1 came out in 2007, 4 years after Far Cry 1, games have evolved gradually but slowly, while demanding more and more hardware power, we even need upscaling to play modern games at medium on 700€ plus GPU's!
If you plotted the evolution of games graphics in a graph the line that shows graphics evolution since Crysis 1, is almost a slow but steady evolving linear slop, while the line that shows the demand on hardware, is a huge increasing hill (GPU price is also a huge increasing hill...).
For example, Alan Wake 2 the current most hyped game that many claim is the new evolution/jump in graphics, it came 4 years after Control and despite obviously looking better than Control, IMO it is not to the level that Far Cry 1 is to Crysis 1, on the graphics evolution scale, these two games are worlds apart ( in gameplay as well) and IMO that was a unique point in history.
I don't think we will ever see such fast jump in graphics anymore.
And Btw Crysis was hard on the hardware indeed at the time but it didn't needed upscaling (it didn't existed) to run at medium to high settings! Unlike modern games...
I recall very well, I was able to play Crysis 1 in 1050p at ~60 fps medium settings, on a Intel i7 Quad Core that I don't recall now the version and a second hand ATI Radeon 9800 XT that I bough for less than 200€, a GPU that if I'm not mistaken, was already 4 years old when I bought it.
played the fist one on a phenom IIx2 550BE paired with a 4850 amd with 512 mb. Had to learn to clean my gpu and repaste it, had to learn about airflow and even tried to put tupperwear with ice on top of the case to drop down even a few degrees. Love it. Finished on Delta too.
Crysis 2 had a very good multiplayer, like a COD but a lot faster and crazier (maybe like those futuristic cod bo that came lots of years later)
Some notes on the C1 suit modes
Armor also effects the regen of hp & energy if I recall
Strength also does recoil control and such
Speed effects swap,tac attachment CD and speed of melee
correct
It's affects not effects.
The first crysis is so much better then 2 and 3 and you kinda explore your surroundings more kinda like a open world. Their was a cool mod where you can play a 2 player campaign online.
i got my first pc in 2005/6 (core 2 duo that i upgraded later to amd phenom II 955 and a 8600gt) run crysis at medium in weird resolution haha
i loved that game and the multiplayer was really fun and chaotic with those tac NUKES and all the vehicles
same here every time i get new hardware i still load up crysis and play through the game
+ the game still has TONEs of mods and additional campaigns you can play to this day
i played crysis 2 and 3 but the OG is still my fav
Nice video +1 sub !
My favorite irony is that when Crysis was released it was called either a next step of gaming or just a tech demo with no substance (by especially old-school or boomer/spinal-cord shooter fans). Which is a real shame as despite of some jankiness this game is still impressive not only graphics but interactivity and being an actual sandbox shooter. Another impressive factor which is extremely underrated is ceph species themselves. It's one of very few moments when aliens portraited as actual aliens: mysterious, very unique design and core level is one of favourite levels due to how alien it feels. For me is the most furiating as how Crysis with S.T.A.L.K.E.R, BioShock and even Mass Effect 1 should be next step of gaming, but thnks to hm... hm.. thanks to enomorous success of CoD4 everything went to a different way and by replaying currently players feel simply how unusual and in some way ahead of time these games feel.
well said
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!!!
I had exactly the same experience as you. I spent so many hours in the sandbox... This game shocked me forever
My first touch was crysis warhead with a 9800GT. Awesome visuals and gameplay. I loved it and played it through on every difficulty setting. I still own my 9800GT to this day.
Wow, I once saw Guyver in passing during my childhood and have been annoyed that i couldn't ever find the name of the movie I had seen. After 28 years, I can now look it up.
Impressive video, thanks for the swig of nostalgia :)
I like your approach to videos being quality instead of quantity.
To this day, Crysis 1 remains my favorite game of all time. It began it's journey on GTX 6200GS at 10fps on low to later hardware maxed out. What I've think you missed is the soundtrack. Inon Zur made a masterpiece and while Slavov for the sequels did great, it wasn't as profound as the OG. What I also disagree is on Nomad. While not the most deep character back in 2007 being among many silent protagonists, Nomad standout for being one who is not silent. My man even crack jokes. I think it was a great chemistry between him, Psycho and Prophet. It made kinda sense for Prophet to be the main one down the line, but I've wished (and many more back in 2009 when Crysis 2 was announced) that we would got direct sequel and not time jump. What made Crysis life so long aside from people trying to play it on max was the Sandbox editor which gave birth to some incredible mods one of which was MechWarrior: Living Legends later for Crysis Wars (Warhead MP). To this day I miss Crysis MP. Power Struggle is one of the best FPS multiplayer modes out there. Hope Crysis 4 manage to bring both strengths of Crysis 1/Warhead and Crysis 2/3.
That's funny the first Video card you show is my old card haha. Wow what a blast from the past. Crazy.
your videos are always top quality
Crysis was one of the best single player games I've ever experienced.
i first played the crysis demo and was blown away just from that! Later I torrented the game and i think it was so much more than i initially believed. Really long and engaging campaign. Yeah like you said 2007 was a damn good year!
2007 was the best year of gaming ever. I look back at those days and I miss it so much. It was also the communities especially the Xbox 360 community that made it glorious.
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!
I spent quite a lot of time playing crysis and crysis warhead. Getting hyped for Crysis 2 and then playing the release probably was my first gaming betrayal. Whatever they were going for, it missed me completely. The freedom of the first installments and the non console interface just felt right. To this day I remember the order of the armour modes.
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!!!
i love how the game set the hard mode for enemies to speak pure korean
Love playing Crysis 2 and 3. Went through both twice. Haven’t tried the first game yet but will soon.
This game was 10 years ahead of its time. I remember my laptop graphics IC blown while experimenting to run on higher settings.
Hi mate, great video, was a lovely trip down nostalgia lane. Thanks for the in depth doco over a beloved game of mine. Keep up the good work. Subbed 👌👌
Its 2024 and Crysis is still the best first-person shooter ever! From graphics to gameplay and style! Keyboard and mouse control is second to none! I have been playing this game since day one and no game today even comes close! The open world is amazing and the AI is the most realistic. Yes there are some spots in the game where frame rates drop it just needs some refinement. This game is an absolute masterpiece! And don't overlook the sound effects, they are incredible!
This game sucks as shit 💩, it’s a shame because I enjoy this game a lot but the game has full of bugs and freezes enemies and many times and I barely couldn’t pass the missions because of some of the constant blue aliens enemies freezes , and I couldn’t even beat the game at all because when I destroyed all the blue enemies , I heard there is supposed to be a scene where I enter the plane for a short while but it won’t open ,because the game is completely broken , such a shame , how can u guys says it’s a good game when it’s impossible and a hassle to even beat this game since it has full of bugs!!!!
@@Cousinbiddy1 nah I have no issues at all, you probably need a more powerful system to play the game correctly
@@battistaverardi1240 this is bullshit
Just imagine this:
A crysis battle royal game!
Nanosuit, destructible objects and buildings and even vehicles. Would be awesome I think.
Crysis was the game that lured me to buy an enthusiast pc when I really couldn't afford it. 40 fps on ultra at 1080p! Also pc hardware wasn't very good back then so it lasted about 3 years before it was antiquated. Taught me a lesson though. Better to buy mid-high end and in budget, than to buy the very bleeding edge of performance.
I remember my dad getting me a PC in 2007. and the guy in the store preinstalled Crisis for me. I couldn't believe my eyes how awesome it was. Good times.
Best memory of Crysis was first playthrough I went two-thirds of the way through it not knowing I could equip a suppressor... I was extremely embarrassed of myself to say the least, but got quite a good laugh of it.😅
seriously a lot of AAA games today looks worst than that old Crysis, not to mention lack of features/functions.
I think the biggest differences in visual assets is that old Crysis uses more actual photo textures... most games these days are procedural....
you can tell easily what is photo texture, what is procedural - there's the "uncanny valley" problem with artificially generated texture.
I had SOO much fun with the table drill in this game.