Octopus Overlords

Ive finished all of them twice and also dont recall that. Just rememebr to use your suit powers is all I can say. It helps...armor/speed/cloak.

Oh, I know. I just feel that the enemies are so ridiculously overpowered and the weapons under-powered and it constantly remains a struggle. Also, ammo seems to be scarce. I've been trying to conserve ammo by the single bullet setting instead of spraying bullets all the time, otherwise I'd be out in no time, but the aggressive enemies seem to encourage spraying.

I replayed it a couple of years ago. Crysis alternated between amazing fun and incredibly frustrating. They just didn't have any clue about the line between frustration and difficulty.

Yeah, speaking of frustration, I'm now at the part where there's zero gravity, which I'm assuming is a breeding center of some such. Again, many enemies, this time flying ones and too many to deal with the little ammo you do get at that point (Which is after you get your weapons taken away from you). It's definitely a beautiful sight to look at, but the fact that the GPS is down at that moment and the only instruction is that there's a VTOL outside that you need to get to without any idea where to go is disorienting as heck.

Ah. The mountain. I was wondering which game that level was in. I vaguely remember not liking it the first time. It was really tough, to figure out, to move around, and to deal with the enemy. But I liked it a lot more on later play throughs (not that helps you, of course). Good luck is all I can really say.

Yeah, I finally managed to get out, but it was very confusing. Part of the issue is that the game doesn't really give you any adequate cues as to which direction to go in, other than some audio when you've got to the right place. It's pretty much trial and error. I was stuck in that last big bit where parts of it are being electrified and I couldn't figure out what needed doing. Went everywhere that looked like a possible doorway but nothing that would open until I noticed a vent had opened, not sure when or how. It's at once beautiful to look at, but terrible design. Here I was in limbo, unsure what to do. Waiting for something to change maybe? Meanwhile the flying aliens would for sure have me dead.

That level was very unique but I agree it was a navigation hell.

Daehawk wrote: Fri Nov 02, 2018 2:30 pm That level was very unique but I agree it was a navigation hell.

Well said.

Ok, well I finished it. Ultimately, I'm glad I played it, but I'm not sure I'll play the others, unless they offer something different in the sequels. I assume they're more of the same though. Verdict?

Graphically, I think it's a weird game. When it really kicks up the special effects, it looks absolutely beautiful. When it's not though, it looks pretty bland. And you don't really see all much effect use in the first half of the game when you're in the jungle. To use an analogy, it's like a B-Movie that spends all of its budget on special effects leaving no room for much else. It was silky smooth on my 1050Ti, with almost every setting on high, with only a few crashes. Kind of amazing for a game from 2007 being played 11 years later looking this good.

As a shooter, I felt it was very average. Again, I felt the guns were pretty weak, and it tended to fall too much on throwing enemies at you and outnumbering as a form of challenge. And if that wasn't enough, sometimes even endless waves of them. Oy! So, yeah, as a shooter it didn't impress me much.

Something I've been wondering. I've been eyeing the Stalker games. Are they more tactical? I'd be more in favour of something with a slower pace. Crysis got quite a bit hectic at times.

Crysis is a shooter. The Stalkers to me are more survival sim / shooter. Slower. More realistic. Amazing setting. Stalker is a very unique game series. Same as the Metro games tend but I prefer Stalker.

The STALKER series are easily my favorite. As Dae said, more survival than straight shooter. As a ballpark, I generally spend ~40 hours per playthrough. Significantly more than an on-rails shooter.

It's funny you should mention STALKER. I gave in and started a new game a couple days ago. But I'm playing the Lost Alpha mod. It's a stand-alone that doesn't even require the original game be installed. It's got a lot of amazing stuff going for it. Tons of new areas, original areas completely revamped, cars, weapon upgrades, skills, and a whole lot more. Bugs haven't been too bad. The Russian to English translations are a wee bit painful at times. They added a ton of new quests.

Thanks guys. Looks like I'd enjoy Stalker a lot more than Crysis. I'd maybe even enjoy Dishonored for that matter. I'll be waiting for them to go on sale before I get them.

I didn't want to comment while you were playing, but I honestly didn't think that Crysis was a good game. It had some great ideas, but the execution had way, way too many irritations. I think I swore more at that ending carrier fight than at any other game I played.

Playing Zigfrak again. It's... MOTS, and it seems they added more crafting since I've played it last, which is years ago. I can't find my old savegames, so I'm starting over.

Somehow, it's not really grabbing me as before. The loot is okay, but it's basically Diablo in space, 10-20 variations on the same weapon, main different in the type of damage in does, how much, and any special perks it conveys on the bearer. One of the more annoying things is you can open too many windows and the stuff got shifted out the side and you have to find a window you don't want any more, close it, to bring things back into clickable areas.

The fighting is... frenetic. I really need to turn the resolution down further as frame rate kinda suffers (which I didn't recall happening before).

Rumpy wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 2:54 pm Thanks guys. Looks like I'd enjoy Stalker a lot more than Crysis. I'd maybe even enjoy Dishonored for that matter. I'll be waiting for them to go on sale before I get them.

Just to reiterate, if you have any interest in STALKER, you don't need to wait for a sale. Grab Lost Alpha and dive in. You definitely don't want to play an un-modded STALKER anyway.

Blackhawk wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:21 pm I didn't want to comment while you were playing, but I honestly didn't think that Crysis was a good game. It had some great ideas, but the execution had way, way too many irritations. I think I swore more at that ending carrier fight than at any other game I played.

Thanks for letting me just experience it, haha. Oh yeah, I can definitely see what you mean and I agree. It at times felt like a tech demo. And like I said, I played it with invulnerability, and I can't imagine players surviving throughout some of the bits the game throws at you. I didn't find them particularly engaging, just frustrating. I think there are far better games that have passed it by and have done more for the genre since. The game still has some performance problems to this day, which is saying something for how badly optimized the game was when it was released. Yet you look at a game like Ryse which also uses the CryEngine and looks absolutely gorgeous with tons of detail and has no performance issues in sight.

TheMix wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:35 pm Just to reiterate, if you have any interest in STALKER, you don't need to wait for a sale. Grab Lost Alpha and dive in. You definitely don't want to play an un-modded STALKER anyway.

Ok, you got a link for that?

Rumpy wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:20 pm

TheMix wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:35 pm Just to reiterate, if you have any interest in STALKER, you don't need to wait for a sale. Grab Lost Alpha and dive in. You definitely don't want to play an un-modded STALKER anyway.

Ok, you got a link for that?

Here y'go: Lost Alpha Developer’s Cut 1.4005 Released!

Anonymous Bosch wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:30 pm

Rumpy wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:20 pm

TheMix wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:35 pm Just to reiterate, if you have any interest in STALKER, you don't need to wait for a sale. Grab Lost Alpha and dive in. You definitely don't want to play an un-modded STALKER anyway.

Ok, you got a link for that?

Here y'go: Lost Alpha Developer’s Cut 1.4005 Released!

Also, I fibbed. I'm running one mod with that. I broke down and added a weight mod. They really limit what you can carry. When I found that it was affecting my enjoyment, I went looking. This one works pretty well. I dialed his initial numbers WAY down. But I've bumped it up some.

One more thing that I've discovered belatedly... you can never have enough money. I'm regretting not putting all my points into barter. For a long time I didn't need money. But I just got the ability to upgrade my artifact detector... and it's like 50k to do it fully. So I'd suggest putting at least a couple points in barter. And then don't buy anything unless you really need to, even if the money is burning a hole in your pocket.

Thanks! Will definitely be checking it out.

Rumpy wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:20 pm

Blackhawk wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:21 pm I didn't want to comment while you were playing, but I honestly didn't think that Crysis was a good game. It had some great ideas, but the execution had way, way too many irritations. I think I swore more at that ending carrier fight than at any other game I played.

Thanks for letting me just experience it, haha.

After the gazillionth game that everyone loved and I hated, and the kerzillionth that everyone hated and I loved, I've learned to keep personal preferences to myself unless someone specifically asks for them. It's too easy to sour a game that someone else might enjoy, especially by pointing out an annoyance that may not have even bothered them before it was mentioned.

Why is the Mass Effect series in my head again already?? I just finished them for the 4th or 5th time just this year I think. I dont need to play them. I know them back and forth. I love 1. I hate they took away my MAKO in 2. I HATE the ending of 3 with a burning passion! But I found a mod to fix that and I live. So no longer a problem.

But 4 or 5 times and once just this year. I should not think of ME for at least 2 years. And no I have zero interest in paying for Andromeda. I mean Id play it for free one day. Perhaps. But I refuse to give them any money for their hate and stupidity.

Last thought...Anthem ...no. Destiny + Tribes. Loved Tribes but Bioware sucks and this game looks lame. That is all. May Bioware pass away quickly and leave lasting good memories and stop making us have nightmares of them now days.

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:07 am After the gazillionth game that everyone loved and I hated, and the kerzillionth that everyone hated and I loved, I've learned to keep personal preferences to myself unless someone specifically asks for them. It's too easy to sour a game that someone else might enjoy, especially by pointing out an annoyance that may not have even bothered them before it was mentioned.

Yeah, I'm kind of like that myself, I guess. Even so, I appreciate your input after I was done with it

Rumpy wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:20 pm It at times felt like a tech demo.

Wasn't it almost exactly that? They were marketing CryEngine not the actual game. I am pretty sure I own it somewhere, but have never played it.

Here is what Borderlands originally looked like without its iconic cartoon-ish visuals/style



As much as I like the Borderlands cel-shaded art style, I've always wished I could play the version of the game we glimpsed in the original reveal trailer, so it was cool to stumble onto this article/video.

coopasonic wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:56 am

Rumpy wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:20 pm It at times felt like a tech demo.

Wasn't it almost exactly that? They were marketing CryEngine not the actual game. I am pretty sure I own it somewhere, but have never played it.

It was used in benchmarking tools for a while, so I could see that. Although part of me wonders if the fact that it was poorly optimized was an incentive to sell more hardware. The version of the engine in Crysis performs more poorly compared to the one in Ryse on the same machine, for instance.

Max Peck wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:33 pm Here is what Borderlands originally looked like without its iconic cartoon-ish visuals/style



As much as I like the Borderlands cel-shaded art style, I've always wished I could play the version of the game we glimpsed in the original reveal trailer, so it was cool to stumble onto this article/video.

the Halo influence is much more pronounced here (for those who forgot, Gearbox was the studio that ported the Xbox version of Halo back to PC)

Spam is the best game of all time!

I remember the pre shading stuff. Thought it looked wonderful. Guess they thought either they couldn't compete looks wise or wanted to be different. When they changed I thought they were nuts. But when I got it and played I loved it so went with it.

It turned me off when I first saw it, but after a while? Having that look helped set the tone for the series. I'm not sure they could have pulled off stuff like Tiny Tina or even CL4P-TP and TK Baja with a gritty, realistic look.

And we have enough gritty, realistic looking shooters.

And we have enough gritty, realistic looking shooters.

That

Bought a couple games recently, trying them out.

Tried Bombshell, 3rd person thing. Graphics was so good that despite turning everything to minimum, it STILL won't run on an old machine at a decent clip. ARGH.

Never played Comanche 4, it runs fine on my system, but the age of the game also shows (minimal wide-screen support and all that) But it's pretty.

Truck Mechanic Simulator 2015 is basically the same thing as Car Mechanical Simulator 2015 albeit with big rigs. Interface is not as smooth As you have click to bring up menu rather than having key shortcuts to switch between condition, assembly, and disassembly modes. And parts order screen is not sorted by type. OTOH, at least all trucks use the same parts, rather than different vendors have different parts. It's not really grabbing my interest though.

I don't know what it is but XCOM 2 is just not grabbing me like XCOM 1.
Perhaps it's too controlling or the silly limited scientists and engineers.
I don't know.

Happy N7 Day!

Casey Hudson wrote:It means coming into the studio every day, dreaming about what the next great Mass Effect game will be.

Don't toy with me, man.

Max Peck wrote:Happy N7 Day!

Casey Hudson wrote:It means coming into the studio every day, dreaming about what the next great Mass Effect game will be.

Don't toy with me, man.

Mass Effect Online. The MMO you didn't know you wanted.

I never played ME Andromeda, probably because it wasn't available on Steam. Am I missing something?

N7 and Bioware are dead to me.

He says as he plays his second consecutive Dragon Age game and waxes poetic about how he can't get Mass Effect out of his head.

jztemple2 wrote: Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:05 pm I never played ME Andromeda, probably because it wasn't available on Steam. Am I missing something?

I enjoyed the time I spent with it.

It's available on Origin Access Basic, so for $5 you could play it (and any of the other 150 games in the library) for a month.

Blackhawk wrote:He says as he plays his second consecutive Dragon Age game and waxes poetic about how he can't get Mass Effect out of his head.

Heh

Ya 'OLD' Bioware. Not the hate and stupid filled company it has become.