Crysis 2: Why PC Gamers and Console Gamers Win

Shbzshar - 187 days 4 hours ago

seriously... i am super duper happy to get a chance to play their game ... thank you crytek ... this was really one of the best announcement of the week ... it was the first big one ... and it was awesome

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skv007 - 187 days 4 hours ago

because Crysis is an awesome franchise n every1 should be happy to be able to play it.
now only if they port Crysis warhead n Crysis over too :/

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Pandamobile - 187 days 4 hours ago

Fantastic article!

I'm glad my Crysis 2 experience on PC won't be hindered by the lack of power the current gen consoles have.

I'm sure a lot of people that follow Crytek's news could see a console version of the franchise coming after they acquired renowned console-dev company Free Radical.

Can't wait for Crysis 2 :D

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potenquatro - 187 days 4 hours ago

They will get the most out of every platform. But I hate how pc game devs always call conslole versions "dumbed down" or "distilled" like they say in the article. For known hardware reasons, consoles won't have the same grfx. And they tend to slow down the game a little for analog stick use. But overall it's the same thing. Same missions, same everything. COD4 was literally the same on consoles and pc. W/e. I just feel like some in the pc crowd still don't give consoles their credit. I really wanted this game for console, but I guess it's going to have to be on pc with low res again for me. :(

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mrspook21 - 187 days ago

...but will us console owners be getting a more than decent level creator/editor when this ships?

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Tehdaza - 187 days ago

Alt of Pandamobile here (comment limit)

My bad, I was unaware of that. I thought publishing mods for PS3 UT3 was a completely different process.

Also, in my opinion, the Cry Engine level editor is far too complex for a console - It's hard enough on PC. Unless they completely revamp it to be console friendly I don't expect to see an editor on the consoles. It's not like FarCry2's where everything is extremely simple, the Cry Engine editor is how Crytek actually makes the games (including AI programming, lipsyncing, shader architecture, etc)

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Dead_Cell - 187 days ago

PS3-mods are loaded onto a PC by the creator then stripped onto a USB stick and loaded onto downloaders PS3.

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mistajeff - 187 days ago

I really hope they let you pause to select suit powers this time, a la bioshock. holding the middle mouse and pointing around the wheel while getting shot at just didn't feel natural to me. I have a feeling the console versions will have this, but the PC version won't.

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free2game365 - 186 days 23 hours ago

Logic assumes that a formerly PC centric developer would stay pushing high end stuff on the PC, but all real world cases have shown this to not be true in the least bit. Valves games have all looked the same accross each platform and it really shows in many cases, despite TF2's great art style some of the textures look like something suited for a game from 2003 and no amounts of phong shading on models or HDR really hide it, same with Left 4 Dead, some of the textures look worse in that then they do in HL2. Monolith is another example, in 2006 the head of Monolith exclaimed that "to focus on quality, you need to focus on the PC". Quality I guess wasn't the focus of the company as they put out one game that didn't even come out on the PC and another who's PC version was a straight port that had almost no resources to patching and graphically looks worse in many cases (especially texture quality), along with the gameplay being drastically watered down. Epic games is another example. While UT3 was still designed as a game to be played on a mouse and keyboard first, it was largely delayed and ended up shipping with less content than the previous Unreal Tournament game. Along with their large exclusive support for the Xbox 360. This coming from a company who's biggest projects were on the PC years before. As of now it also seems they've abadoned new Unreal Engine support for the PC as new UE3 games still don't support DX10 for Anti-Aliasing capabilities. Infinity Ward as another example shifting support to the Xbox 360 instead of the PC. Call Of Duty 2 for example on the PC had 2-3x higher resolution textures than the Xbox 360 version, while in COD4's case it was pretty obvious it was totally lead on consoles as the PC version had the same blurry low resolution textures from the Xbox 360 release of the game. All of this remains to be proven about Crytek, but honestly after every other developer dropping support for the PC and dumbing down games technically for consoles I don't really have very high hopes about Crysis 2. When it comes down to it, it's likely to be more linear, less open, and less of a technological innovation. PC gamers lose in this.

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HDgamer - 186 days 17 hours ago

More biased fanboys in the gamer zone speaking of games they have never played nor have any real interest in. It's just so funny. Comparing graphics and then making bold claims without any facts presented. In the end gamers are either discussing the gameplay and how fun that game was instead how they compared graphics by counting pixels all night as if they were constantly comparing each other penis length, width, and hardness next to each other.

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hellghan666 - 187 days 4 hours ago

crysis is boring.. :/

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MGOelite - 187 days ago

will the ps3 version be developed seperatly to the 360 version????

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Cacic - 186 days 23 hours ago

Can't wait to buy this now I don't have to trick out my labtop.

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