Crysis is a good game?

[Avanarius]

http://www.tomshardware.com/crytek-c...video-276.html

For those that don't want to watch the video it basically is just saying that crytek blamed piracy for the game not selling as well as it should have comparing it's 1 million copies sold to halo 3's 5 million +.

I was personally wondering what other people thought of this.

I would be more inclined to say that the specs of the game resulted in the majority decline of sales.

As for the game itself....
Crysis in itself is a good game in my personal opinion, but it's nothing groundbreaking (besides graphics obviously). The storyline was lackluster and lolable, the game was too short, the free range go-anywhere environment was mediocre, the climax sucked, had little to no replay value, and the multiplayer isn't that great.

Overrated or am I just crazy?

[MisterBob]

Massively overrated. A decent FPS at best, but yes, amazing demonstration of a crazy graphics engine. Unfortunately, good graphics != good game, and never will.

[Shuemue]

I have never noticed a single person comment that Crysis was a particularly good game, simply that their PC could run it on X resolution at Y frames per second.

[Senoska]

1440x900 60fps+ 8)

[Epical]

I thought The Club was a better game and all you do is shoot people in a very closed environment.

That being said, <insert Crysis graphics comment about it being the best they've ever seen, etcetcetc>.

[Kooldac]

Pretty decent game, never tried online cause I was too addicted to UT3 at the time. But I would assume it's heavy hardware requirements contributed a lot to it's poor post first week sales.

[Jefe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG5qDeWHNmk

Needs too much powah.

[pirahna1]

I pirated just to make sure I could run the game. But I never ended up buying it cuz it just wasn't that great. The graphics are pretty and all, but the gameplay is crap. Not to mention the AI was terrible. I've yet to get past the tank battle level, totally lost interest in it.

I'd attribute the lack of sales to the same scenario I was in. If you're not sure you can run the game you demo it, then when you realize it sucks, you save your $50 and go out and buy Bioshock/Orange Box instead

[Bartylby]

that video is making me dl the demo just for the sandbox. lol

[Lordwafik]

It's melted a few of my friends machines, their low sales is due to insanely high specs.

[Gulkeeva]

I get an error...
NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS not supproted, run anyway? (blink blakc box, close)

does same on full version, pirated, reinstalled drivers from invidia, beta drivers, directX same error so said screw it

[Hitoshura]

I don't have a top notch PC, but I loved every second of Crysis.

[Yangsing]

Not a particularly entertaining game. Damn pretty though.

[Tekki]

Massively overrated. A decent FPS at best, but yes, amazing demonstration of a crazy graphics engine. Unfortunately, good graphics != good game, and never will.

This is pretty much what it came down to from my perspective on the sales floor. It sold well but too many were turned off by the high end spec requirements. After the initial release rush I can't remember consistently selling it at all...

[Cephius]

Crysis is a game? I thought it was just a benchmark for people who don't like 3dmark06...

Seriously though, it's not a terrible game, there have been FPSs that were far worse and a bigger letdown than Crysis (I'm looking at you, Blacksite: Area 51)

It felt like more of a tech demo for the graphics engine than anything else, but the gameplay wasn't that bad to completely write it off. The suit abilities were pretty cool and it was fun for awhile seeing how many different ways you could kill people or blow things up.

The problem I have with statements like "oh we woulda sold more if people didn't pirate our shit" is that, while it's true, it doesn't hold as much water as the devs would have us believe. Gamers, even pirates, appreciate good games and often will go out of their way to support good games. Good examples of this are Portal (hell I bought it thru steam after already owning it on the 360) and Sins of a Solar Empire that are great games that people went out of their way to show their support for. Companies look at pirates in a completely negative manner, whereas I (and I'm sure many others) just use it to make sure I'm not gonna waste 60 bucks on a game I'll never play. So instead of thinking "oh we woulda sold more if people didn't pirate our games" they should be thinking "if we made a better game maybe people wouldn't pirate our shit"

[Kiro]

I've been replaying Crysis a lot lately, and I have more and more fun everytime. After my.. 9th time(?) replaying the game I JUST found out you can get explosive ammo (Incindiary or something). The game probably didn't sell that well because the requirement to run it are pretty steep. But the game was worth the price I paid for it, for sure.

[Lordwafik]

The best thing to come out of Crysis :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG5qDeWHNmk

[Kisamoo]

Should have made a better multiplayer if they wanted it to sell better.

[Kiro]

If Crysis had an online co-op single player mode that would be fucking amazing. The game would be so much more fun having another nano-suit person to play with.

[Alleya]

Piracy is the go-to scapegoat for game developers who don't want to admit fault on releasing a subpar product. I don't see valve complaining about piracy and yet I can go to the pirate bay and find no less than 20 different torrents for Portal. It's because when you make a good product people will fucking buy it. With the industry cranking the sticker price of games ever higher (what is it now, $65 for a new release console game if you buy it retail?), gamers aren't going to buy every 6 hour long tech demo turd sandwich under the sun. The sooner developers get it through their heads that people want good games and not just games, the better off they'll be.