Reminds me so much of the creepy sing-song Dead Space trailer

I am so pumped for this game.

I've just watched the whole interview, the story writer doesn't really get the medium of gaming that well, I hope his writing doesn't influence game design to a degree where it would change it. He said something like it's wrong to appeal to the lowest common denomintor for movies, yet avatar suceeded dispite that and so did alot of movies. I don't want obscurity for the game, i'm just saying i'm getting a feeling that the game will be better than warhead, however not better than the first crysis score wise. Multiplayer would be slightly better however I don't trust free radical at all to make it, also the story could easily ruin a game if it's like modern warfare 2 even if the gameplay is similar to the first game. I'm slightly skeptical right now, I hope the different direction was the right one, not just going sideways and slightly backwards, that's what i'm seeing now.   
 
I stand by my statement, watch him mess up the game and make another modern warfare 2. Only time will tell if i'm right or wrong about it.

One of the best trailers I have seen this year. That cover of the Sinatra classic captured the mood perfectly.

I can dig it.

It seems neat and all, but I would love to see this type of game set in a different city....Like Portland,Or. I don't think I have ever seen a game based in there. It's probably because not too many people can identify with it.

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I've just watched the whole interview, the story writer doesn't really get the medium of gaming that well, I hope his writing doesn't influence game design to a degree where it would change it. He said something like it's wrong to appeal to the lowest common denomintor for movies, yet avatar suceeded dispite that and so did alot of movies. I don't want obscurity for the game, i'm just saying i'm getting a feeling that the game will be better than warhead, however not better than the first crysis score wise. Multiplayer would be slightly better however I don't trust free radical at all to make it, also the story could easily ruin a game if it's like modern warfare 2 even if the gameplay is similar to the first game. I'm slightly skeptical right now, I hope the different direction was the right one, not just going sideways and slightly backwards, that's what i'm seeing now.  

"

Thought that was fantastic. Really well done!!

I don't have a gaming PC, so I guess I'll just have to get the 360 game : /

I've just had a "p-zing!" type of moment!
That last guy, Richard Morgan, has now helped me to understand why MW2's story is so damn ludicrous and nonsensical.

Two points 
 
1:I am REALLY fucking excited for this game, but the trailer wasn't so great, i don't like soft songs in action game trailers(except for the Mad World Gears of War trailer). 
 
2: I forgot they were making this game for consoles:( That means they will be dumbing it down for console players who can't seem to understand how to use 4 different types of powers.

Cevat Yerli is the coolest dude in game development.

"

I've just watched the whole interview, the story writer doesn't really get the medium of gaming that well, I hope his writing doesn't influence game design to a degree where it would change it. He said something like it's wrong to appeal to the lowest common denomintor for movies, yet avatar suceeded dispite that and so did alot of movies. I don't want obscurity for the game, i'm just saying i'm getting a feeling that the game will be better than warhead, however not better than the first crysis score wise. Multiplayer would be slightly better however I don't trust free radical at all to make it, also the story could easily ruin a game if it's like modern warfare 2 even if the gameplay is similar to the first game. I'm slightly skeptical right now, I hope the different direction was the right one, not just going sideways and slightly backwards, that's what i'm seeing now.  

"

that trailer was fucking STUPID and SHITTY

awesome interview

OH MAN 
this looks amazing 
 
hope the story is (at least close to) as good as the graphics! 
 
plus the song gave me goosebumps

i like that  Richard Morgan. Seems like he's got a good head on his shoulders.

A creepy rendition of a blatantly symbolic song while the camera pans through a deserted city? Really? 
 
Try harder, next time. 

You know i remember Crysis when they put it on the PC great graphics but the gameplay was not all that great for me. Games can have the most amazing graphics and turn out to be just a mediocre game.

yea that trailer sucked they tried to make it all emotional but failed

Another game in New York? Why couldn't it take place in Shanghai? 

Is it just me or are the graphics pretty awesome..EXCEPT for everyone's faces. They just look so...blech

" @HitmanAgent47 said:

"

I've just watched the whole interview, the story writer doesn't really get the medium of gaming that well, I hope his writing doesn't influence game design to a degree where it would change it. He said something like it's wrong to appeal to the lowest common denomintor for movies, yet avatar suceeded dispite that and so did alot of movies. I don't want obscurity for the game, i'm just saying i'm getting a feeling that the game will be better than warhead, however not better than the first crysis score wise. Multiplayer would be slightly better however I don't trust free radical at all to make it, also the story could easily ruin a game if it's like modern warfare 2 even if the gameplay is similar to the first game. I'm slightly skeptical right now, I hope the different direction was the right one, not just going sideways and slightly backwards, that's what i'm seeing now.  

"

I agree though I'm not skeptical.  That writer's point of view is pretty green when it comes to the games industry.  If there even is possible a comparison between movies and games (which I sincerely doubt there is), it's more logical to say this is like the mid to late 30s when the studio system really got established.  EA is like MGM and Activision is like Warners of the day with Nintendo, MS and Sony being more like the theatre, film, audio and camera technology production companies who were all competing with eachother as colour films began to come into their own.  Still, it's rather sad that a science fiction writer needs to draw almost impossible parallels between one industry's evolution and another's.  Isn't he meant to have better ideas than the average person?  
 
Also, his lowest common denominator speech is just garbage and just shows how little he knows of the industry he's now working in.  There have been many financially successful games dating well back into the early 80s which did not have simplistic stories such as the Zork series, Planetfall and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy games all of which were text adventures so writing was paramount in their cases.  In more modern times many games have been extremely well written such as Another World, Flashback, Outcast, Half Life, Half Life2 and so on.  All of them doing what's he saying he's doing by creating worlds and then hinting at aspects which are not directly in the worlds of the games themselves.  I think he really needs to do some real research and realise that many people have already done what he has many times over and much more successfully.  He needs to play a Bioware epic before he goes off talking about not appealling to the lowest common denominator because Mass Effect 2 manages to straddle both schools of thought extremely well offering extremely fun pew pew gameplay and high level concept scifi.  Fuck it, I'm gonna email Cervat and tell him what I think of his so called writer. "

I think your missing one of the bigger points he made. The writer needs to be involved in the game making process in order for it to succeed from a strictly narrative prospective. Mass Effect 2 is a great example. Bioware needed to have both the writers and the designers on the same level to really create what they wanted. If you write a script hand it over to a dev and then check back 6 months later it will be a mess! Levels and game play ideas get cut all the time. and what was once a cohesive story is now fragmented and in need of patch work. Mass Effect and Heavy Rain both needed to have the story and game play worked on side by side order to deliver what we have today. The point he is really trying to make, is that story telling in games is always changing and always evolving and if the game play and the narrative can’t sit on the same level the narrative will fall apart, but the game play can still stand on its own. Thus the Porn and Plot reference.

I like how Richard Morgan is being frank about stuff. cool guy

" @Jackel2072:   I didn't miss his point, I just think his point reflects his naivete because narrative in games is not exactly new and if you actually got my point you'd realise that I know what I'm talking about by referencing some of the oldest franchises in gaming history which go back to the days when computer games didn't have anything BUT narrative.  Story telling indeed must change and by able to reflect dynamism in modern games, I just don't think this dude is going to be one of those who'll be able to do so effectively as his gaming experience stretches back less than a decade.  "

The Text Based adventures you speak of are not relevant in this discussion. For he was commenting on the way game stories are perceived today. Im sure the games you mentioned have great stories and were amazing and dazzled the imagination. But, those are not the games of the last decade. Those are not MW2 Halo and just about any other big money maker out there today. He was commenting on the industry of the last 10 years or so. The stories in games today are lacking in some area’s compared to other forums of narrative (its big seller’s any ways). in a nut shell I don’t think him or Crysis 2 will be an amazing work of fiction, but I do think he has the right idea. Im sorry im cutting this short, Maybe another time we can argue the finer points of story in video games but im sleepy. Il say this you do bring up some great points your self. Not everything the man said was rite, but I don’t feel everything he said was wrong either.

So, do you play as Barrett?

wow, i need to go change my pants now.

Trailer failure alert! lol
I'm still looking forward to the PC version of the game, though.

Hey guys! Lets send in helicopters and common infantry dudes to fight the alien robots that can shoot lasers 'n' shit!  Also, why is Mr. Nanosuit sulking around looking at pictures of dead people, when he could have helped the perfectly living helicopter dudes? Some supersoldier. 
  
 
 
Dumb trailer. Looked pretty.

That will DESTROY my computer.

I will be building the ultimate PC as soon as this is released. It's gonna be awesome!

Did they just make the aliens from the last game into humanoid forms?

"I agree though I'm not skeptical.  That writer's point of view is pretty green when it comes to the games industry.  If there even is possible a comparison between movies and games (which I sincerely doubt there is), it's more logical to say this is like the mid to late 30s when the studio system really got established.  EA is like MGM and Activision is like Warners of the day with Nintendo, MS and Sony being more like the theatre, film, audio and camera technology production companies who were all competing with eachother as colour films began to come into their own.  Still, it's rather sad that a science fiction writer needs to draw almost impossible parallels between one industry's evolution and another's.  Isn't he meant to have better ideas than the average person?  
 
Also, his lowest common denominator speech is just garbage and just shows how little he knows of the industry he's now working in.  There have been many financially successful games dating well back into the early 80s which did not have simplistic stories such as the Zork series, Planetfall and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy games all of which were text adventures so writing was paramount in their cases.  In more modern times many games have been extremely well written such as Another World, Flashback, Outcast, Half Life, Half Life2 and so on.  All of them doing what's he saying he's doing by creating worlds and then hinting at aspects which are not directly in the worlds of the games themselves.  I think he really needs to do some real research and realise that many people have already done what he has many times over and much more successfully.  He needs to play a Bioware epic before he goes off talking about not appealling to the lowest common denominator because Mass Effect 2 manages to straddle both schools of thought extremely well offering extremely fun pew pew gameplay and high level concept scifi.  Fuck it, I'm gonna email Cervat and tell him what I think of his so called writer. "

Crysis Dude has muscles on top of his butt muscles.
 
Sir-Mix-A-Lot would approve.

" @SeriouslyNow said:

"I agree though I'm not skeptical.  That writer's point of view is pretty green when it comes to the games industry.  If there even is possible a comparison between movies and games (which I sincerely doubt there is), it's more logical to say this is like the mid to late 30s when the studio system really got established.  EA is like MGM and Activision is like Warners of the day with Nintendo, MS and Sony being more like the theatre, film, audio and camera technology production companies who were all competing with eachother as colour films began to come into their own.  Still, it's rather sad that a science fiction writer needs to draw almost impossible parallels between one industry's evolution and another's.  Isn't he meant to have better ideas than the average person?  
 
Also, his lowest common denominator speech is just garbage and just shows how little he knows of the industry he's now working in.  There have been many financially successful games dating well back into the early 80s which did not have simplistic stories such as the Zork series, Planetfall and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy games all of which were text adventures so writing was paramount in their cases.  In more modern times many games have been extremely well written such as Another World, Flashback, Outcast, Half Life, Half Life2 and so on.  All of them doing what's he saying he's doing by creating worlds and then hinting at aspects which are not directly in the worlds of the games themselves.  I think he really needs to do some real research and realise that many people have already done what he has many times over and much more successfully.  He needs to play a Bioware epic before he goes off talking about not appealling to the lowest common denominator because Mass Effect 2 manages to straddle both schools of thought extremely well offering extremely fun pew pew gameplay and high level concept scifi.  Fuck it, I'm gonna email Cervat and tell him what I think of his so called writer. "

SeriouslyNow makes many good points. You should all agree. I do think you're bein' a little mean, though. I mean, yeah, he's extremely naive, but he's probably goin' into games with the same mindset some of those games' writers had. ...Which is a good thing. My mind kept screaming "Mass Effect" and "Half-Life" the whole way through that interview, but at least the guy's giving this game his all. And yeah, the guy needs to at least stop working for a week and just play through the first Mass Effect. Since he's a science fiction writer, that game should make him orgasm.
 
Other than that... I am Legend? Seriously? That movie was cool, but it was hardly anything that a science fiction writer should be praising. And I really hope Brad asked him to play Mass Effect after that interview ended. "

Im glad Crytek will finally get the mass appreciation they deserve.
 
Atleast now console gamers can give an informed opinion of the game. Nothing annoyed me more than the average comment and perception of "Crysis does have the best graphics but the gameplay and everything else is just average" Wrong!
 
Obviously not everyone loved the originals but I know most shooter fans that actually got to play the originals agree. Crysis and Warhead were damn good games!
 
On a side note, I really hope Psycho is back.

  hmm...new york then    

Sweeeetnesssss