Comments on: Crysis Week: The Endingening

By: roBurky

roBurky — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:33:38 +0000

I didn’t have your experience with the walky monster, though. When they told me to run, I ran, so I didn’t get to see it up close until the VTOL was taking off.

By: roBurky

roBurky — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:29:57 +0000

The escort mission was awful. I was already annoyed at having all my usual options for fighting taken away, and then prophet kept dying and I didn’t know why. It took me many failures until I realised that the objectives on my map weren’t just waypoints, they were fires that healed prophet, and that when I got a new objective point, I wasn’t supposed to head towards it straight away – that I was supposed to ignore it and hang around until prophet had fully healed.

When the guy is irately screaming at you to hurry up and get him out of there, the right way to be playing that bit isn’t exactly intuitive.

By: The_B

The_B — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:27:29 +0000

I will admit, I hated the escort bit in Bioshock as well.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:59:30 +0000

When I played it through, the AI kept itself in check. The battle beforehand worked fine, Prophet followed me correctly. It was an escort mission where the person I was protecting didn’t just spend the entire time dying or getting in the way, like the one in BioShock.

I hated the tank mission, however, so I guess Tom is just wrong sometimes.

By: The_B

The_B — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:41:31 +0000

Hmm, interesting. Graham said about the escort bit in the review that “It should be frustrating and awful, but it’s actually both nerve wracking and fun” – clearly you think the opposite. Any inidcation as to your wildly different experiences, or should it be just chalked up to a bad experience case with the AI for yourself?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:14:51 +0000

Clearing the ground around the crusher is my favourite bit as well. It’s an enormous amount of force arrayed against you, with all sorts of challenges inside, but you’re given the freedom of scouting it out entirely before you go in, so you can form a Plan.

Mine began with shooting the nanosuit guy with a sniper rifle repeatedly in the face from very far away.

It ended with me decloaking in plain sight of a group of very frightened soldiers who were standing in a carefully choreographed line in front of my minigun.

By: Tom's Work Machine

Tom's Work Machine — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:26:33 +0000

…PLEASE SEND HELP…TOM HAS TIED ME UP…MANAGED TO REACH MODEM…HE IS HOLDING…RANSOM….THREATENS TO INSTALL PLUMBERS DON’T WEAR TIES IF DEMANDS ARE NOT MET…

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:29:49 +0000

Alas, I have not. I just abducted my work machine for the weekend.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:36:58 +0000

When did you upgrade your PC?

By: roBurky

roBurky — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:53:12 +0000

I’ve gotten a bit further than your writeup’s reached so far.
I can say that the levels get huger.

By: The_B

The_B — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:41:12 +0000

John dislikes Futurama? This information makes me sad.

Also – would it not be awesome to mod your character model into Bender?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:01:07 +0000

James: That’s a chance I’m willing to take, dammit!

Jack: I’m playing it on an E6700 with an 8800GTS, 1600×1200 everything on Very High, so it’s not completely unattainable. PS. Loved you in Far Cry, except inasmuch as I didn’t.

Matt: nope. It’s not a lot like anything I’ve played before – Far Cry itself was fairly unusual, and this resembles it only for the tamest, opening level. The game changes in style quite a lot with each new mission, but so far the theme is stealth combat in an incomprehensibly vast freeform landscape.

roBurky: Yeah, boats seemed like a much bigger deal when I thought the demo level had most of the elements of the game.

Craig: this is a good idea, but the cinema PC is blue-screening at the moment. Let me check that the projector works off my laptop.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:03:07 +0000

We should have a “Bender’s Big Score” night. At your house. The only room suitable in out place is John’s, and for some reason he dislikes Futurama.

No, really.

By: roBurky

roBurky — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:29:25 +0000

Boats were dicks in the demo, yes, but they’re nothing compared to this helicopter…

By: Jack Carver

Jack Carver — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:24:44 +0000

Sorry I should have mentioned Nvidia Geforce 9900LN (liquid nitrogen) 2Gb Pyramid card in quad mode (4 cards). Thanks!!!

By: Matt Kibbler

Matt Kibbler — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:59:25 +0000

Am I correct in thinking this is just a shooter, but a bit shinier than most?

By: Jack Carver

Jack Carver — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:31:22 +0000

Ooo-er, get you and your ‘supplies’. Very decadent and very cool I have to admit, still I think i’ll wait for Crysis until the next generation Geforce 9900 2gb Pyramid card becomes available next year.

By: James Lyon

James Lyon — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:13:23 +0000

You eat that lot and you probably will be having a Crysis. In your stomach!

By: The_B

The_B — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:40:41 +0000

WAIT! YOU FORGOT YOUR COPY OF CRYSIS!