My new PC experience.

I kinda sat there, dumbfounded, watching my After Effects Composition slowly grind to a halt. The computers at school rendered the same animation without thought, but my machine sputtered, as if what I asked it was some terrible atrocity. I watched in horror as each frame rendered in a scream of agony. Literally. The fan sped and made the noise of a car engine.
 
It was time to get a new machine. 
 

That game I've played before.

Forbidden territory

I kinda sat there, dumbfounded, watching my After Effects Composition slowly grind to a halt. The computers at school rendered the same animation without thought, but my machine sputtered, as if what I asked it was some terrible atrocity. I watched in horror as each frame rendered in a scream of agony. Literally. The fan sped and made the noise of a car engine.
 
It was time to get a new machine. 
 

That game I've played before.

Forbidden territory

I fully agree with the hating on Crysis, IMO it doesn't even play itself well as a shooter, graphics aside, it is a very average game. I'm hopefully getting my graphics card tomorrow (or the young men at Centerecom will be SMITED)  and I shall build my new comp.

Play Crysis on Delta difficulty, anything less makes it a joke. Delta forces you to play well and creatively or not survive even a group of five. Add the separate powers on hotkeys so that you don't need to keep opening the menu every time you want to switch between them. You'll love it. Otherwise it's a bland shooter that plays like any other shooter and you can rush in groups of enemies or behind some cover and pick them off one by one. Not great. Also search for tweaked config files, you can make it a lot prettier than the in-game settings allow you to.

" Play Crysis on Delta difficulty, anything less makes it a joke. Delta forces you to play well and creatively or not survive even a group of five. Add the separate powers on hotkeys than require the opening of the menu to switch between them. You'll love it. Otherwise it's a bland shooter that plays like any other shooter and you can rush in groups of enemies and pick them off one by one. Not great. "

I don't like Crysis. I really don't see why it got such high scores from a lot of sites. Granted, the game looks great but it fails in what it's meant to be, a game.

I'm completely unable to spot any kind of anti-aliasing in your pic.

Hey try crysis more than once, the first time most ppl play it like call of duty 4 and hate it. However when you get creative and stuff, the game is fun. How to be creative with crysis?  (might as well ask what sort of rez your running your games at)
 
cloak all the time, play it like a stealth game, grab the koreans on their neck and throw them at each other. 
 
Use speed mode, run past your enemies, past jeeps, shoot out the gas tank, ka-boom. You can flank and you can use hit and run tactics, 
 
Strength mode, guess what you can use strength mode to improve your accuracy and turn your acog scope and rifle into a sniper rifle. By using strength, you don't have any recoil. Try that. Jump to high places or over ppl, jeeps ect. 
 
change your weapon on the fly, try different combos for your weapons, really adds to the gameplay. 
 
If you do that, you will always have the edge on your enemies and really can choose how to take them out. It makes it a bit of a sandbox game and it's fun that way. Also yes crysis on very high is the benchmark because of realism and subtle details, no other game can have the detail crysis has for screenshots. Now try other games like dragon age orgins, resident evil 5 on the pc, ect and rts games if you know how to. Good luck and I hope in time you have alot of fun with pc gaming.

Well congrats on your new pc.  I had fun messing around with crysis and its cool to show off to people but i've never felt compelled to complete it.  I know everyone is throwing games at you that they want you to play but I'm going to throw in some suggestions as well.  I second Dragon Age as being a really good time if you like rpg's.  Also you could check out Sins of a Solar Empire.  Its a really good rts game thats kind of like a tbs.  Overall, have fun.

" Hey try crysis more than once, the first time most ppl play it like call of duty 4 and hate it. However when you get creative and stuff, the game is fun. How to be creative with crysis?  (might as well ask what sort of rez your running your games at)
 

" @vidiot: Yeah I would totally recommend a better monitor because with a higher resolution, you get more pixels on screen and it looks way sharper. I have a pc screenshot thread, there are alot of examples. When you get that one day, you will realise what you were missing. I say 1680X1050 or 1080p is a good enough resolution. It really makes a difference. "

Crysis is pretty fantastic. I haven't played it in awhile, I wonder if they've released that "ultra high" mode yet. Apparently the alpha version had better graphics than the one they sold, so they were going to release the alpha-graphics later when pcs got better.
But no, the writing is bad but it isn't so bad it's glaring. The dialogue is actually pretty fine, obviously no one's going into it thinking it'll be fantastic. I don't see how critiquing the writing is a valid critique cuz, yeah, of course it's sub-par.
But it's a very clean, fun game. I remember when I played multiplayer I'd juggle between fast and strength mode. I'd sprint quickly to people, go strength and punch them, and then they dead. It was hilarious.

Don't understand why people dislike the gameplay in Crysis. I love it. It's great fun creeping around in jungles and doing creative and intricate plans to kill some korean dudes. 
Stealth+remote bombs=fun for the whole family.

" Crysis is pretty fantastic. I haven't played it in awhile, I wonder if they've released that "ultra high" mode yet. Apparently the alpha version had better graphics than the one they sold, so they were going to release the alpha-graphics later when pcs got better. But no, the writing is bad but it isn't so bad it's glaring. The dialogue is actually pretty fine, obviously no one's going into it thinking it'll be fantastic. I don't see how critiquing the writing is a valid critique cuz, yeah, of course it's sub-par. "

 Most ppl hyping configs are those who runs it with XP and service packs 3 running it on high settings, that's why they need configs just like how they need configs with oblivion because they are not happy with their limitations. They don't know what is missing and how directX10 is a different api with different graphical settings. Crytek isn't going to release a patch that would enable more higher settings, those settings doesn't exist, rather it was an early build for the trailers. Very high is the highest mode the graphics can go to, there isn't an ultra mode yet. Alot of ppl will tell you their configs looks better, however configs are basically high settings, reconfigured with code. It's better than high settings at least, however it wouldn't look as realistic as very high. You need vista or windows 7 to get very high settings, it's blocked off for those with XP. Ultra settings might be just another one of those configs, I heard of the name. You will be missing stuff like parrellax occultion mapping, which makes the ground look 3d and rocks too, like fake tesstalation. Also the textures would be alot more washed out and dull without it, it's just a dull green for the trees, not highlights, nothing. Soft shadows was also another feature that doesn't exist on high settings or with configs.
 
There was another forum before that disagreed with me, so we put all screenshots of every config vs vista or windows 7's very high. Very high settings won by quite alot of the votes. Also the difference with crysis warhead is everyone can now use the highest setting call enthusist, even if the textures are a total downgrade. My point is there is no such mode higher than very high right now, that is what crysis is suppose to look like.

  In regards to it's visuals, yes it's pretty. Yet at the same time, I feel strange. Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 might not run, or have all the little visual tweaks that Crysis has at once, but there's a part of me that feels like they give this game quite the run for it's money. Perhaps it's unfair to compare a game from 2007 to today, but seeing the over-the-top nature of pointing to Crysis as the benchmark for your PC, I can't seem to shake off this feeling. Don't get me wrong. When you see a vista in Uncharted, you can't run to it. Technically they are built completely differently, and of course are incomparable mechanically. But I still can't shake off the feeling. 

Very high is the highest mode the graphics can go to. Alot of ppl will tell you their configs looks better, however configs are basically high settings, reconfigured with code.

Now Stalker... HELL yes. MrKlorox knows what he is fucking talking about. That is a game I can get behind easily. I hope pripyat turns out to be good, if not though, just get the original and install the complete mod.
Absolutely fucking fantastic.

" @vidiot: Dude. I suggest STALKER Call of Pripyat (English version out in January). It's pretty demanding like Crysis, and some argue which looks better and more cohesive.
 
Without mods Crysis is nothing but graphics -- I prefer gameplay. I've never seen the appeal to Crysis other than for graphical reasons alone. It's Far Cry with prettiness and a power suit that feels like an afterthought. "

I find the Crysis hating a bit strange.   I thought Crysis played absolutely awesomely, it feels really good and it was one of the funnest shooters I had played in awhile.

In regards to it's visuals, yes it's pretty.
Yet at the same time, I feel strange. Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 might not run, or have all the little visual tweaks that Crysis has at once, but there's a part of me that feels like they give this game quite the run for it's money."

Their is a massive community that is still making mods for Crysis here: 
http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?sid=c266386e20854c2f7bf65831dac00a55 
 
I check it every other week, some great single player and multiplayer maps and tonnes of game mods.   I cant wait for the guys making the Mech Warrior mod to finally release it.

" @vidiot said:

In regards to it's visuals, yes it's pretty.
Yet at the same time, I feel strange. Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 might not run, or have all the little visual tweaks that Crysis has at once, but there's a part of me that feels like they give this game quite the run for it's money."

I believe the key factor is: Real-time everything vs. some pre-calculated and baked-in stuff. According to Crytek, Crysis is all-real time all the time where as I'm guessing Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 are not. Everything real-time definitely has it's downsides. :D "

" Their is a massive community that is still making mods for Crysis here: 
http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?sid=c266386e20854c2f7bf65831dac00a55   I check it every other week, some great single player and multiplayer maps and tonnes of game mods.   I cant wait for the guys making the Mech Warrior mod to finally release it. "