@RedRavN said:

I do not feel like crytek abandoned their PC roots because we got a fairly solid port 3

So, it's no longer a pc game, it's a console port. With low quility fmv's. No lean, prone and static enviroments. A wall cover system designed for control pads. Call Of Duty single player designed for consoles.

And you feel they didn't abandone pc gamers? Really? Really? Naw.

@whyareyoucrouchingspock said:

@RedRavN said:

I do not feel like crytek abandoned their PC roots because we got a fairly solid port 3

So, it's no longer a pc game, it's a console port. With low quility fmv's. No lean, prone and static enviroments. A wall cover system designed for control pads. Call Of Duty single player designed for consoles.

And you feel they didn't abandone pc gamers? Really? Really? Naw.

I really didn't mind the static environments because in crysis it was mostly just random shanties that you can blow up. I didn't notice the low quality FMVs until you mentioned it. No lean and prone I can agree with but it is not a deal breaker to me. The cover system I dont have a problem with at all and it helps fill the void left from the lack of lean. Crysis 2 still had some big open areas with lots of tactical options. In crysis 1 it became almost mandatory to use cloak on the higher difficulties to get away from the enemies but in crysis 2 I used a lot more options because the game seemed better balanced to me.

I really don't feel like crytek abandoned the PC market. The game runs in a seperate renderer on PC and still looks amazing in 2012. The game launched stable and more bug free than the original and controlled fine. Although, crysis 2 sort of became a defacto rallying cry for angry PC gamers, I actually think the second game is fairly similar to the first. Hell, its basically the same game but in NYC instead of an island. Also, the aliens were more fun to shoot and were a lot better than the first game, which I always felt took a bit of a dive in the second half. But this is just my opinion and I can understand where your coming from with your opinion at least.

Crysis was a great game. I was going to pick up Crysis 2 when it got cheap. Other games came out while I waited and now I don't care about Crysis 2 or 3. Lose some fans, gain some fans I guess. Hope the consoles treat them well.

@RedRavN:

As a life long PC+Console gamer (Or Console+PC, depends on the month) I never understood the "PC gamer Elitism/Entitlement" but this thread seems to demonstrate it well.

It has been pretty much a fact that if you have a successful PC game, it or its sequels will appear on the current crop of consoles or the generation coming. Deus Ex, HL, Tribes, Battlefield (Hell they wanted to shoehorn 1942 onto the Xbox), Thief, Quake, Starcraft, Daikatana(lol) etc etc all landed on consoles in one form or another. What happened 9 times out of 10? The games got smaller and lots of adjustments were made to make the game work, concessions have to made when going from the never ending button monstrosity of a keyboard to a Dualshock. Sometimes concessions need to be made visually (All the time) sometimes it's just a drop in model, texture and other effects and in some cases it's a reworking of maps. Point is, this has been a fact of life for PC games and will continue to be.

Ghost Recon 1 had some really large maps, it also gave you lots of options to complete your objective and was one of the few games that I enjoyed just as much on the console as I did on the PC (Coop is a hell of a drug). The second game, built from the ground up to be a console game threw all of that out. Replaced with a awful looking, poor playing third person shooter. Getting mad and sending letters changed nothing, Advanced Warfighter still came out.

@PatchRowcester: I think Crysis 2 had some really good qualities to it, but I also think some of it was kind of bad, and overall, the game was pretty disappointing. The one thing I disagree with though is, maybe PC gamer's felt a little bit betrayed because Crytek chose to put the game on console as well, but I can assure you that most of the focus is still PC.

They gave a huge update to that, but the console versions were left cold. Especially the 360 version, people begged for Crytek to fix this one bug that hinders the entire experience, and they never fixed it. It's this nasty grain bug that pops up whenever it wants to. I mean, if you intend on also making a console version, at least give it the attention the PC version got.

I am almost entirely dissatisfied with the game for the most part. I loved the first, and when this came, it just shocked me how much I didn't enjoy it. Here and there I did, but I mostly didn't. I mainly play it on 360, but I have the PC version (though can't play it due to lack of a powerful PC anymore), and I've played it on PS3 for a little while. The PS3 version has its fair share of bugs, but since I didn't finish it, all I can say is it wasn't quite as bad as 360's.

Now, since I've played the 360 version most, my complaints are going to come mostly from that version, but there are aspects that aren't good across all systems. One thing I hate, which is in the 360 version are the few, but major game experience ruining bugs. One of them is the grain bug that just makes the game look really bad, another is the sound bug. It's both sound and music, the music can overlap other tracks, and there are some nasty clipping-like sounds.

And aside from those bugs, there's enemy A.I. that we were promised to be one of the greatest (or the greatest), and what we get is actually one of the worst. That's not even a joke. There are threads of evidence of what could have been, but then we see one guy run around in a circle around another, then eventually trip over the other guy and kill him. Or they just love walking into walls. I disappointingly am not exaggerating over that. The voice acting is not very good for the most part either, it's not even laughably bad, it’s just annoyingly bad.

I mean, I could pretty much go on with a few more huge mistakes. The only thing I pretty much liked was that the soundtrack was pretty good. Also, I mostly agree with you, but I feel like you're lacking a lot. Then again, since you're mostly referring to the PC version, it may not. I am also very cautious about Crysis 3, Crysis 2 really turned me off, and seeing as this is coming out so soon after two, it doesn't seem appealing. I don't know though, I'll probably getting it anyways.

@NTM: I agree that the soundtrack was pretty good, but the game was seriously watered down. I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as the first game.

The AI was just very mediocre, it varied from good to really stupid.

They went from making high quality games to mediocre games really fast.

I actually just noticed that Crysis 2 just showed up on steam. I never played that game at all cuz it didn't look that great and I didn't want to bother with origin, but if it gets about half as expensive as it currently is on Steam (it's $40) I might pick it up.