Crysis A Decade Later: An LGR Retrospective

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Crysis can still be used as a benchmark on lower end cards today.... If that's not an achievement I don't know what is.

[@vladimir7838]

Budget-Builds Official crysis lags on my gtx570.. but rocks on my 970.. still not a good game from benchm a lowend cards

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Vladimir _: Im sure the RX550 Vs 1030 Crysis test it one I would want to see... Somehow for some reason.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

RWL2012: One of the first videos I was proud to make, the X800 in that PC was also similar to my first real GPU.

[@vladimir7838]

Budget-Builds Official you can make a video about running crysis on minimum recommended specs

[@FenderUsa]

It's very unoptimized, only uses two cores as well IIRC.

[@justvideos3216]

I remember getting Crysis, putting all options to maximum and got 1 frame every 10 seconds ^^

[@vgel]

"i can get 10 spf on crysis" "you mean fps?" "nope"

[@rvh1999]

@@vgel lol 😆😆😆

[@JonahBj]

The way it is meant to be pla.. enjoyed.

[@Filterdissman]

@@vgel 😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@fitmotheyap]

@@JonahBj yep! Tbh crysis still is good i like the shore map it looks nice if you go on it and join the US side and set time to right before a sun set the map looks nice

[@christopherkane4971]

It still looks very decent today in my opinion.

[@chunkylover5367]

Christopher Kane I would go as far as say it looks really good on the highest settings in person. I think it actually looks and plays better than the sequels.... Especially 2.

[@christopherkane4971]

I agree. The sequels suffered from console limitations at the time.

[@chunkylover5367]

Christopher Kane The ol' console-itis.

[@shadwxero]

it really was saddening what they did to Crysis 2

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

It does. Then again CrySis sort of came out around the time we started "hitting the roof" as it were. Of course graphics technology has still come far since CrySis (I'm not gunna say CrySis looks as good as, say, Battlefront 2), but it hasn't come... well, AS far. Compare the 10 year gap between Quake II and CrySis. You went from Quake II, to Half-Life, to Quake III, to Half-Life 2, to CrySis in those 10 years. The leaps we've made since haven't been nearly as drastic. Tech has slowed down a bit more.

[@TheMrDemonized]

To put into perspective. Imagine playing 1997 game in 2007. Look at how extreme was leap from quake and duck nukem to crysis. And now imagine playing 2007 game in 2017. How little in comparison progress is. And some of modern games are actually look worse than 10 years old crysis. This is insane

[@alan138]

Exactly my friend, well said.

[@geronimo5537]

This was exactly what I was thinking through the whole video. Wow its been over ten years and for the most part, games still look the same. But back in 2007 when you looked at 2005 and below games there was major graphical differences.

[@Astronopolis]

I would love a Duck Nukem game

[@k-leb4671]

It's a logarithmic progression. Stuff improved really quickly, but as time has gone on the difference in improvement has vastly decreased and it'll probably be like that forever now. The closer you get to truly realistic graphics, the more minute the improvements.

[@DenverStarkey]

honestly when you compare crisis to newer far cry games or other games that go for that photo-realism look you can see vast differences in the "little" areas. things like volumetric lighting , shadow casting , Subsuface light scattering on skin, all these little advancements add up and quite a few games now outshine crisis easily. also consider that larger ram on video cards have allowed for even larger uncompressed texture files and that alone can crank the fidelity of a game up. every time you double a texture's pixel size you effectively multiply quality of the texture by 4. example 512x512 gives you pixel count of roughly 250 thousand , go to 1024 x1024 and you now have a pixel count of roughly 1 million pixels. you want to see this in effect take a look at a much older game say Doom 3, the first game to use uncompressed textures; it's un compressed textures were at 512x512 pixels (per texture). crisis had uncompressed textures at 1024x1024, that's 4 times the quality in texture. now fast forward to a modern game some High powered games today use 4096x4096 textures, you are looking at 16 times the quality compared to crisis 1 million pixels per texture. you won't see this difference at 1080p though or even in 4k ( because 1080p only outputs around 2 million pixels for the whole image, around 8 million for 4k). for this reason many games still use the more conservative 2048x2048 pixel size. which produces 4 million pixels per texture still 4x the quality of crisis , so a game using this resolution will have a massive difference in fidelity over crisis , especially when you are viewing it on a 4k monitor , or even at 1440p (which is about 3 million pixels on the whole screen). fact is as screen resolutions go up pixel resolutions have to as well. that is where much of a game's fidelity comes into play, because in a 3d game Textures are on every thing, smoke, water, characters , props, they all use textures and the lower qulity the textures , the more it shows when you up the screen resolution. Crysis with just a 1 million pixel size on it's textures clearly becomes less photorealistic even at 1080p because it's texture resolution is only half the screen resolution, compared to newer games whos textures are rendered at 4x the screen resolution of 1080p

[@005AGIMA]

Ironically whole watching this, KZbin has dropped to 320p on my TV. I can't even run a video about crysis lol

[@doomslayer163]

Yea, but can it can a video about a video that is about running Crysis?? Lol

[@ssssssssssssssssss50]

😂😂😂😂

[@alexas8787]

You need a new graphic card and cpu for TV :) :)

[@ripcord4201]

The game is so advanced even KZbin can't run it

[@vladimirv.g.1436]

You know you're getting old when your teenage favourite game appears on LGR

[@Dorelaxen]

"Due to random pickups." Gets in random pickup.

[@donpdonp]

I thought the same thing at first, but the more likely line is "Due to random hickups."

[@spunkmire2664]

"I see you are trying to run Crysis, can I help you with that?" said clippy

[@rvh1999]

LOL 🤣

[@DarthDoomSlayer64]

"I see you still have Bonsai Buddy, try uninstalling that", said Cortana

[@MaskedGEEK]

I loved how I could put a 10x scope on an assault rifle with a silencer. Hide in a bush, snipe a dude, and watch in glee as his teammates fart about trying to wonder why Matt just decided to chow down on a dirt sandwich, finally after not getting a reply from him they then begin to spread out trying to find out what happened. By that time you could be on a boat sailing past them with a Joker-esque grin on your face. And yeah having a 970 now means I can pump up the settings to as high as the game allows. Glorious.

[@refraggedbean]

I actually just did that I am just taking a break before "onslaught"

[@leanlifter1]

970 is another vram gimmped nVidiot turd.

[@bzqp2]

This "inreference" destroying your parachute is actually a big-ass alien flying right into you. You can actually see it flying towards you from quite a distance.

[@BenniRoR]

I am pretty sure he knows that.

[@TheLazurus]

There's also the CryEngine Sandbox, which is basically "here's all the resources from Crysis. Go nuts." me: *grabs nuke gun and makes gleeful noises as mushroom clouds erupt*

[@Daxter609]

*dies from a random barrel flying into you*

[@refraggedbean]

so Gmod but rather than the source engine it is the cryengine, I now shall CRYengine from joy

[@Enoxix.]

Had to try so many options making it work on my PC back then... Great game though!

[@AluminumDragonRawr]

Wow, they aimed so high when they made this game. Literally higher than was really possible for most people to run (with the settings that make it look good but still function). That's pretty neat.

[@summushieremiasclarkson4700]

You've misspelled aluminium in your profile name.

[@damstachizz]

Not higher than was possible for most people, higher than was possible for ANY people. Hardware didn't exist until after crysis' launch to be able to run it max'd with a solid 60, not even the most insane watercooled, 3-way SLI animals at the time. Check it out: www.anandtech.com/show/2403

[@MirekFe]

UltimateXtreme She didn't misspell it. That's the North American spelling.

[@mazoklug]

Andrew Caca bet that'd be pretty difficult given it's pathetic proportions

[@AluminumDragonRawr]

junzo テル nice one

[@Dee-ub7go]

god, it's incredible how crysis still looks cutting edge 11 years later (to me at least). reinstalling it now lol

[@MrPrajitura]

try 13 years later. It's just a milestone. Kind of like HL2, but more in regards to pushing an engine to it's fullest. Finished the campaign on Delta, I highly recommend the Delta setting, it's just so satisfying to complete the game with no 'hairs and the enemies speaking Korean.

[@override7486]

Crysis 1 is superior to Crysis 2/3 in terms of the engine and graphics. Because it didn't have to be playable on "dumb-downed" consoles., so it's using all PC features, in all PCmasterrace glory. ;)

[@Japanlover79]

I played a bit of it on 360 back in the day.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

it looks VERY old compared to FarCry 4 and later instalments. Still pretty decent, but compared to games from 2018 or later, you've got low poly models, mediocre textures, low quality lighting, and an overall lack of environmental detail. FarCry 3 is graphically very close to Crysis, but that's because it was made for Xbox 360 and never optimized for PC or newer consoles

[@philscomputerlab]

It's been 10 years? Man where did the time go :( I remember playing the demo over, and over. Trying different strategies and having a ton of fun. The full game was great, but I couldn't stand the aliens. I just ran it on a Pentium 4 the other day :D

[@thane_snipes]

I remember this game for getting me interested in PC gaming an eventually leading to me building my first rig. Before I had the money to do so, I played it on my parents' P4 rig as well. Those 5 fps days were the best :)

[@ThePiones]

Time went into porn addiction, video game timesinks, and a useless degree.

[@martinpetersson4350]

Agree where did the time go? Also in like two years The Matrix is 20 years old. Makes me want to cry, we're getting old man :(

[@damstachizz]

Yep, crysis is an excellent modern military shooter with the entire plot revolving around the least fun parts of it. It also goes unmentioned an alarming amount that the end parts of the game were absolutely pathetically optimized, you'd hit the last level on the carrier and be struggling to get 20fps whereas hitting the beach at the start ran smooth at 60.

[@heymonkey65]

Kadence 5 FPS? Jesus, I hope that's not on the lowest setting if that was the average FPS.

[@8bits59]

"More snow and tentacles than a frosty the snowman hentai." And there's my childhood, ruined.

[@thequanto8555]

Tfw Crysis is so old that LGR does a Retrospective on it.

[@donaldbaird7849]

Minecraft: an LGR Retrospective

[@rdm0108]

You're a true gaming historian and curator. I'm impressed with your content.

[@RemixedVoice]

More snow and tentacles than a frosty the snowman hentai... Dude how is your brain this brilliant 😂

[@satchboogie2058]

Incest is wincest

[@whoevertf]

Indeed, I absolutely lost my shit at that part.

[@whoevertf]

Hail, fellow Joe Satriani fan.

[@adalsev8518]

Needs more futas though.

[@ProstateMassagerConnoisseur]

So, umm, where would one procure this "frosty the snowman hentai" content? I want to make sure I accidentally don't click on it. Asking for a friend ;)

[@Pilotgeek]

6:52 - Maximum strength that chicken. I assure you, it will kill a guy.

[@april5054]

That reminds me of the frogs lmao

[@TheKrazyKat89]

1:35 Man, can you believe only a decade ago we used to call 1.8GB a "huge download"

[@prfo5554]

Can you believe some people in the late 1990's thought we would be using exabytes and zettabytes by now.

[@zit11owner]

PR Fo we hit some physical limits. We need another breakthrough in hardware to move to that level

[@advang4820]

1.8GB for the demo (as stated in the article) is definitely huge for back then, which most video games demo commonly just around 100MB to 500MB at max

[@personguy6517]

I remember thinking "there's no way I could ever fill a 300 gb hard drive" these days I have 2 2tb drives in my PC because I filled the first one.

[@heyyitsultima]

Can you believe people in the early 1990's thought we wouldn't use more than 100MB of storage space and 64MB of RAM?

[@hawyercruz3618]

8:44 Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride

[@intrinia]

I bought a second 8800 GTX to run Crysis with SLI. Then I learned what micro lags are... Was not worth it.

[@RedXIIIable]

I remember some magazine recommending 4 HD3870 cards to run this back in the day. Would love to see how they actually ran

[@deadmetalbr]

@@RedXIIIable Hot!

[@Mirandorl]

Top tip: Decloak, fire, recloak. Stops that silly "firing whilst cloaked depletes your energy" thing and you can recloak immediately.

[@R3GARnator]

Nothing made me happier to be a PC gamer, than running Crysis on mostly high settings.

[@igorthelight]

@Subi_fan Be sure that your CPU single core performance is good :-)

[@CuriousChronicles82275]

This game still is fun to play in 2019. Graphics still hold up nicely.

[@Dizzyfatpigeon]

Stupid question. How the hell did the developers even manage to run the game themselves if top end hardware of the day could barley hit 20fps

[@Pymell]

Dizzyfatpigeon Well, the benchmarks shown in the video used a resolution of 1920x1200 which was quite high back then. I think I used a monitor with a 1280x1024 resolution and that was standard until HD displays were more common due to the PS3 and X360. IIRC I read an interview with a developer that mentioned they targeted 800x600 while developing (which surprised me a lot because that was already on the low end at the time), sadly I‘m not able to find it anymore. The link at the end is a CPU benchmark from 2007 using a 8800 GTX running at 800x600 demonstrating that acceptable framerates were possible with a drop in resolution. www.pcgameshardware.de/Crysis-Spiel-20597/Tests/Crysis-Quad-Core-bis-zu-23-Prozent-schneller-als-Dual-Core-622467/galerie/740297/?fullsize

[@worldofretrogameplay6963]

Raditzlfutz You never answered the question.

[@flambo1500]

he did

[@Dizzyfatpigeon]

Great Reply, thanks for the info!

[@maegnificant]

Dizzyfatpigeon because as a developer, you have access to far higher specs than common in the common market.

[@BanCorporateOwnedHouses]

"If you want to get old with me." How poetic. Great content as always dude.

[@FlintTD]

Crysis multiplayer was my jam back in school! With all of the variability in the strategies that could be employed to capture objectives, it was cool to watch players adapt to enemy team strategies. I spent my longest continuous gaming session on those servers.

[@Zeon081]

it was better then modern battlefield games

[@mr.trueno6022]

Please make a Retrospective of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series!!

[@vadnegru]

It was not so iconic in west, but people in CIS region still come up with crazy and good mods, that keeping the game or just engine alive.

[@filegrabber1]

@@vadnegru I'm from the West (Netherlands) and for me S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is one of the greatest games ever.

[@athaphian]

I'm also from the Netherlands and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is the number 1 franchise in terms of time I spent on it. Literally months of playtime. I have played them all. Still playing Call Of Chernobyl at the moment, it never ends... brilliant series. Also one of the best game engines too, very atmospheric and scary at times.

[@Grandmastergav86]

@@filegrabber1 Agreed, from the UK and I love the series. There's some awesome mods out there.

[@primuspilusfellatus6501]

@@athaphian Mond dicht en artifacts zoeken, stalker

[@Skyggespil]

Fucking hell man... I was event organiser on a national gaming event with Crysis as the main reveal, as a pre-launch thing in a fancy venue. I still feel like it looks amazing, but this makes me feel super old...

[@maxinator317]

Skyggespil which event?

[@luciano_galli]

I have that feeling too, for me it will always be the most impressive game

[@apparentlyretrograde]

OK WTF.. It's 2021, I've never played Crysis or even been remotely interested. NOBODY TOLD ME YOU CAN HOLD AND THROW CHICKENS. This changes everything...

[@sufferingnside]

it still looks better than 90% of AAA games released today it is a testament to the amazing work they put in the cryengine

[@zrobotics]

I know, wasn't the reason people loved red faction the destructible environments? I mean, Just Cause 3 looks pretty good, but considering the entire point of the game is destroying things I would have happily settled for much worse graphics if it would mean destructible environments, and something like PUBG would benefit greatly from the added tactical options. Since we're moving away from linear games, where destructible terrain would cause problems with containing players, why haven't we seen more modern games with destructible terrain? That sounds much more fun than crafting to me, it always looked weird hitting an absolute shanty with a mini-nuke and seeing no damage to the structure at all once the fire went out.

[@vadnegru]

Batlefield is kinda amasing too

[@tomdibernardo1699]

and they didnt sell you 40% of a game and nickel and dime you for the rest. cough cough EA

[@nomercy8989]

One of my favorite games ever. I can replay it indefinitely.

[@djemergency512]

Crysis still looks better than most AAA games coming out these days....

[@MaxonerousX]

Look at any Crytek game now, something like Kingdom Come Deliverance looks way better

[@charlescampuz5812]

Ariok A game doesn’t have to look realistic to look good. It just has to have a pleasing art style.

[@charlescampuz5812]

Ariok I mean realistic graphics can still age well if done right. Look at Half Life 2 for example. It’s definitely a bit dated by now but the game’s visuals are still pleasing to look at.

[@mammedthn]

@@lemmingtonofficial yeah it does. you're just ignorant af. there are lots of tripple A games today that look worse than crysis.

[@__Mr.White__]

You are a liar.

[@Γιάννης-ξ8μ]

Crysis remastered is confirmed Bois. "Can it run crysis" meme is back Update September 2020: "Can it Run Crysis" is the ultra setting after high. Linustechtips tested it with an RTX3080. How many fps? Only 22. IT'S BACK

[@Napoleonic_S]

I mean it's advertised for Nintendo freaking switch as well so, the meme is dead.

[@avatarion]

It's multiplatform. They won't be able to push it as hard.

[@jackandersen1262]

avatarion not necessarily. Crysis 3 always looked better on PC than it’s console brethren.

[@fitmotheyap]

It's not optimised at all sadly.. if they optimised so you can use the full cpu it could work and be nice with 60 fps

[@retrocysper3709]

@@Napoleonic_S F--K THAT NINTENDO F--KING BULLS--T. PC IS THE BEST. SO PC MASTER RACE.

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

"A frosty the snowman hentai" I have checked, it exists. 56 reasults to be exact.

[@igorthelight]

Oh shit! It exists! :-)

[@coolbrotherf127]

I nearly died of laughter the first time I threw a seagull. The animations stop playing so they freeze completely and look hilarious. Also I came across a glitch with a fast moving armored truck that happened to be on top of enemy spawn points and the enemies spawned on of the vehicle and just walked around on top of it completely unaware that they were speeding down the road.

[@Pendleton115]

Only recently have I played the Crysis franchise. And I was impressed. It was a fantastic franchise! I wish there was a new franchise that could push PC hardware to its limits.

[@theambivalentps2bloke60]

Franchise

[@aserta]

Metro 2033, Metro Last Light, and soon Metro Exodus. Metro 2033 was an actual PC killer, i remember quite a few fellows crying about their fried computers on the forums.

[@Pendleton115]

aserta Absolutely love the metro series... currently reading the novels and I’m pumped for Exodus. But even today my high end machine struggles with pulling 60fps on triple monitors with AA on medium.

[@phinix250]

Star Citizen/Squadron 42 is trying, however, I would recommend waiting until next year before checking it out as hopefully it will have its alpha 3.0 update released and we would have seen a snippet of singleplayer.

[@ScientistDog]

Franchise? Crysis and Crysis Warhead are one game, meanwhile Crysis 2 and 3 has nothing to do with them, just the name. The gameplay, story, enviroment, characters has nothing to do with the original. They went from a very original open game to a very generic linear shotter.

[@quoabell]

mh interesting. I always switched back from stealth mode to armor mode before shooting, to not lose the blue bar entirely. I think, they made it pretty easy with their overlay interface and setting the interaction with it to the middle mouse button by default.

[@uubrmanx]

The real irony is that there are graphical mods to boost the graphics further today! XD

[@startide]

Yup, so you can again experience it at 10 fps :D

[@MatheusSantos-vl4jx]

without graphical mods a GTX1080 can run it smooth on ultra, until you turn 4K on...

[@refraggedbean]

but do they fix screen tearing in some cutscenes (my computer runs the game fine on high/max settings except for the cutscenes where no matter the settings it has screen tearing)

[@purrbox7514]

Screen tearing is due to your monitor / v sync settings.

[@lonestar6709]

Yeah, the mods are tacky. I play in ultra vanilla. it still looks awesome. Everything individually rendered. Consoles still haven't got around to mastering that!

[@DavidBrocekArt]

Thanks for reminding me being so old. To this day I use phrase "The graphics was even better than Crysis" to emhasise some good game graphics. So I didn't even realize it's been so long

[@grantrombostrash3370]

5:57 "You don't really run into invisible walls so much as you do...creative ways to try and limit you from going outside the mission area." *gets Insta-Killed by a rocket out of nowhere* I'm dead

[@VioIetShift]

You get eaten by a shark if you try it when swimming.

[@Misaniovent]

Weren't they supposed to be from the ships?

[@Canthary]

You are actually shoot by the korean ships if you go too far, they even warn you about that. Later on they vaporize you inside the suit because of course, no one can leave the battlefield with this super secret suit on, which is what actually happens to the body of a teammate of your who gets killed previously. man i loved this game

[@W0lfenstrike]

There was also a shark that swallowed you up if you dared to swim out of the island bounds.

[@jameslaidler4259]

Wolfenstrike someone didn't read the conversation.

[@deusexaethera]

Funny to think that in Crysis came out only 10 years after the very first 3D texture-mapped games.

[@SkellaBella1396]

As someone who is not a gamer, has never played a graphically ambitious pc game, and the newest consoles I play are the PS2 and 3DS, that game looks absolutely amazing... I didn't know games could look like that in 2007 and you're telling me that's not as impressive today?? Criminy lmao

[@maxinator317]

Danielle C how are you on this channel if you aren't a gamer?

[@RPGmaster94]

She might be one LGR's The Sims fans.

[@Blackadder75]

'PC Masterrace' is based on this

[@SkellaBella1396]

I like his videos on vintage technology/oddware etc. (:

[@jimstanley_49]

The thing is they _couldn't_ look that good in 2007, as mentioned at the beginning of the video. The graphics were so far ahead of their time the 2007 hardware had trouble even on reduced settings. About the only thing that is dated now is the NPC model (the enemy faces look pretty bad up close.)

[@ChantingInTheDark]

I was blown away by Crysis back in the day. Hadn't seen anything like it.

[@HungrySpinz]

You didn't mention the sandbox engine that came with it in the CD, when I was a kid I spent more hours in it than playing the game, just search for crysis barrels and that was one of the things you could do, you could also make tornadoes, whole levels, create terrain, i guess as the name indicates sandbox, a lot of stuff that you could do. Don't know if this was a common feature in games or not. I know that in far cry 2 there was a sandbox for it also.

[@refraggedbean]

now I need to put the disc back in, and then start a lan party because that sounds awesome

[@greengamerguy623]

I made several mods and maps for the community Uncharted island was my master piece.

[@texaswilliam]

"It's not gonna do anything, but you can do it." And that's all I ask.

[@stcrussman]

Use the affiliate link. DO NOT buy it on Origin.

[@ChozoSR388]

Well, obviously. Origin sucks big, fuzzy donkey balls.

[@GeminiWoods]

Yeah, Steam version is fucked too. Not patched and actually bugged. No bueno.

[@refraggedbean]

the disk copy is also buggy, I got killed by a filing cabinet that I was trying to get to the boat

[@ChozoSR388]

That's what I love about GOG.com; instead of just re-releasing the game as it was initially like STEAM or Origin do, GOG actually take the time to make the game work better with modern hardware, and the user doesn't have to take the time to go out and hunt the components down to do it themselves. While this _does_ (also, why can't KZbin make these damned text modifiers work with punctuation right next to them?), unfortunately, lead to lazy gamers (No offense, Clint), it makes it easier on the people who either don't have the time to hunt all that stuff down, or the people who just don't _want_ to deal with the hassle of hunting it all down, and in most cases, it, as the great Todd Howard once said, just works. GOG really and truly is the far superior game service amongst the three giants, if you will. And then there's the DRM-free aspect...but that's a story for another day...

[@SpearM3064]

They can't *always* make it work, though. Startopia, for example. On modern graphics cards, using Windows 10, the screen likes to go black every couple seconds. It doesn't make the game unplayable, just annoying. And the only solution, which doesn't work for everyone, was found on the GOG message boards... which means that GOG wasn't able to fix it. Now, I'm not slamming GOG at all. I'm just pointing out that even *they* can't always "make the game work better with modern hardware"... and in some cases, they're not legally allowed to. It's one thing to tweak a settings file until it works. It's another thing entirely to reverse-engineer the game code (which is illegal because of the EULA) to try to write a custom patch.

[@moonscar119]

8:35 i LOVE LOVE LOVE you for saying nitrous and not NOS.... made my friggen day

[@doyoulikecocoa6208]

I think it still looks amazing, maybe except the npc models, but still, looks great.

[@YensR]

Absolutely, only the enemy polygon count made me realise that this game is old. But can you believe it! 10 years! In Computer gaming graphics! The developers should be proud of their achievement! Exclamation marks! Sorry, got carried away there.

[@HeretixAevum]

Yeah honestly the foliage and water still look top notch today. In 07 it was staggering.

[@neoqueto]

Yeah this game aged pretty well in terms of graphics, because it was so many years ahead of its time

[@startide]

The textures are on the low end nowadays, but I think there are mods to improve that, so that you can again experience crisis at 10 fps :D

[@im.weasel]

The fact that this came out in 2007 still blows my mind.

[@ShanerTheGrey]

Bro the VTOL is one of the best handling vehicles in any game I've played. Right up there with tribes 2

[@Loundsify]

I don't even remember struggling and I sucked at flying shit on Battlefield games.

[@MrMG43]

4:26 "August 7th, 2020" Typing this at 5am on August 7th, 2020. It's wild to think that this game is 13 years old come this November, and now this "futuristic" game takes place in the year we live in (and the day I'm writing this comment) despite seeming so far away 13 years ago.

[@pizzadudelol]

Now its 17 lol

[@DreetenVeelokeetn]

“More snow and tentacles than a Frosty the Snowman hentai.” There’s your box quote for the inevitable 4K remaster.

[@bugrilyus]

This aged well

[@fitmotheyap]

@@bugrilyus yep..

[@ianmiller6040]

"More cold and tentacles than a Frosty the Snowman hentai." This is why I love LGR. Clint's sense of humor is fantastic.

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Man, can't believe it's been 10 years already! I remember installing the demo as soon as it came out when I was 15 and just being BLOWN away by the graphics, or, at least what my beat-up computer could emulate at the time. I recall the final level chugging like a slideshow even on medium settings D:

[@jonxor]

LGR, you are great at this. I too was brought up in childhood during the 486 era, and I find your perspectives very relatable. Thank you

[@alexb.e7498]

I'm a bit older.. I was given an 80-286 with 5,25" floppy drive before buying my 486 @66MHz

[@greenaidgelal6865]

finished it like 6-7 times, an absolute gem

[@unchainedwiththecapt]

"Look at all the everything" Exactly.

[@cdeepmusic]

2007 man! What a year for gaming that was. Probably never getting another one like it ever again.😢

[@Sodaholic6502]

crysis is already 10 years old i feel like im having a midlife crysis

[@sirhendro]

Don't forget to mention that it has quite realistic audio as well that made the experience even better.

[@jason4275]

Crysis is proof that video games can be push to the limits, buts its the industry game hardware companies like Sony and Microsoft, holding them back.

[@greggreg2458]

jason4275 Sad but true.

[@FinalLuigi]

No, the consumers are what's holding the industry back. Make a cutting edge game for PC, no one can play it, so no one buys it. Make a game that looks like shit and can run anything, and now everyone buys it. But why limit yourself to just PC when you can also get the game on consoles, and dip into that gigantic userbase?

[@refraggedbean]

do both, make it able to run lower spec but give options to run god spec

[@FinalLuigi]

Problem; the good spec is almost always aimed at the strongest console, so whatever the PS4 can do, the PC will do on max.

[@saywhat9158]

+Annoyed Armos You mean all those poor consumers whom some how find a way to afford $400 iPhones? People always find a way to buy things that make them happy.

[@vivyella6027]

I don't really like this genre of games, but your review is great. ^^ And the world looks totally vibrant somehow! Interesting how the graphics changed, if I think of Tomb Raider it's kind of similar. Always liked those worlds. So much fun things to see and do!

[@formdusktilldeath]

Seeing this gave me a midlife... crysis.

[@mikeymaiku]

2:07 i finished this game in the teens for frames. My am2 dual core with 9600gt worked hard for this to happen

[@furlockfurli2719]

When they still made games, and not copying maps.

[@retrocysper3709]

Agreed.

[@111455]

7:55 you just took out a flock of seagulls with a freaking tree, you're my new role model!

[@goustune]

If only crysis 2 wasn't also made for console... The game would probably have been visually awesome.

[@BenniRoR]

Blaming the consoles is just cheap. Crysis 3 was also released on consoles and still looked gorgeous. No console downgrade justifies the linear levels, bad AI and lack of graphical development that plagued Crysis 2. They fixed all of this in Crysis 3, but by then the damage was already done and people were so disappointed with Crysis 2 that Crysis 3 barely restored the former glory of the Crysis brand. The real fault for Crysis 2 lies within the creative choices made by developer Crytek. They wanted a game more similar to the by then very popular CoD games. Linear story and linear levels, small scale multiplayer matches. CoD: MW2 sold incredibly well and Crytek tried to jump the "CoD train", but they totally missed. They should have kept the old formular of Crysis 1 with the enormous story missions and huge multiplayer battles similar to how the multiplayer of Battlefield once was.

[@ytanonymity3585]

The piracy was what Crytek made a decision like that.

[@BenniRoR]

@@ytanonymity3585 I don't know how piracy would influence that, but I am open to any explanation.

[@ytanonymity3585]

@@BenniRoR I mean the piracy was what ruining their business for PC gaming

[@BenniRoR]

@@ytanonymity3585 Oh, okay. Yeah, it makes sense, but ruining the game doesn't fix the issue. But unfortunately it is much too late now.

[@LightTheUnicorn]

I genuinely didn’t know Crysis had aliens in it. I very much need to get around to playing this thing... Superb as always LGR!

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

This is a much more interesting video than the Sims 4 Cats and Dogs one imo.

[@JarJarBinks4ever]

Incorrect

[@md_vandenberg]

apples oranges comparing

[@RadJordy]

Hey Clint, great video as usual! Early to mid 2000s pc games are weird and wonderful. I'd love to see you cover the original Prey and it's history. And of course my dream suggestions of anything Indiana Jones or Dark Forces 2. I can dream, hm? Keep it up!

[@mk1k]

I’m fluent in korean. Does that negate delta mode’s difficutly? I don’t know since I haven’t played crysis lol.

[@igorthelight]

Than will help :-)

[@BloodyBobJr]

I can still remember some of open ended combat this game had. You had so many options in a fight, my favorite I ever did was plant a ton of c4 on a truck and drive it full speed at some outpost full of soldier, jump out and stealth and remote detonate the c4. So damn cool you could do stuff like that

[@RydalS]

Yeah it still looks amazing.

[@cuthalion4281]

Man, this video reminds me how much I used to love Crysis. I love games that mix a linear campaign with a somewhat open world, and the sandbox elements in Crysis are immensely fun to play around with. And the quick weapon customization system is just brilliant. It's a pity they made the sequels more linear.

[@interstellartravel]

"There are a lot of options to optionally optionate" Hahahahahaha, priceless!

[@PortgazHyde]

The only Crysis related video that i would watch. Its funny why my cousin dislike it when his favourite youtuber catchphrase is 'Can it run Crysis'.

[@NickJaime]

I just remember reading it crushing ppls PC'S, so I waited a few year's until I got a PC good enough to play it with high enough settings and fps.

[@TheWhiteBamba]

And then it still wouldn't run properly.

[@FPS.Games.Archiv]

Once upon a time, a long time ago, when I saw the trailer for Crysis and could not believe what I saw there. Incredible graphics that my brain could not handle paired with this physics !!! In the trailer you saw how you could disassemble trees and houses ... how the trees fell down ... WOW !!! Then it was time, Cryisis appeared and I had it ... but no falling trees or destructible houses !!! My PC was too weak, AHHHHH. Cryisis was one of the few games that bought me new hardware. The game was great, I really liked it and considering how old it is, it still looks brilliant. In addition, there are really good HiRes mods that make the whole thing a little nicer

[@fz8691]

HoFPG Hall of First Person Games I ran it on lowest graphics and I coild still destriy trees

[@NxCmp]

If you look off to your far left you will see one of the aliens fly into your squad on the way down

[@Schnyger]

I had a pretty modest rig when this came out, and it could run it at a level that still looked and played impressively. The top settings may have been unreachable, but I would say it was reasonably optimized.

[@LegionOfEclaires]

10 years later and it still looks good.

[@tyr8338]

I`ve finished all Crysis games from oldest to newest and they all are alot of fun, Crysis 1 and Warhead still look descent and are a lot of fun to play.

[@alan138]

Yeah, i mean i have played them some years ago several times, and now after this video i'm starting to want more xD maybe i search the dvd and played them again shit xD they are way better than any modern shooter like cod or bf.

[@tylerkulchinsky2167]

Man, now I just want to play the first few levels of Crysis and Warhead again

[@ipKonfig]

Really enjoy this channel!

[@MonsterHunter267]

So Crysis goes from taking on an army of humans to taking on aliens....So FPS Contra?

[@screwthenet]

Goinh back and rewatching everything from 10 years up till now I need to regardin Crysis and what could play it. Just more proof that everythings been half as powerful as it should have been tech wise for so many years beyond the last 10. Good vid.

[@screwthenet]

Plus just look at how what some small number of our species can achieve and have access to, vs what the overwhelming majority cannot have. That a company with the tech of the late 2000s could make a game that was still hard for most anyone to run over 5 years later...just screams Tech CRAWL! lol

[@delsarcade]

Great video. Would love to see a similar video done for Half-Life 2's small "Lost Coast" campaign on modern hardware.

[@Narcan885]

Why? Lost coast was basically a super short tech demo. And it uses the same engine its used in episode 2, so its got nothing different from the main games

[@addieeeson]

Best review I’ve seen for this game.

[@Molo9000]

I found Far Cry to be far more impressive in 2004 than Crysis was in 2007. The market was saturated with a lot of high quality shooters and we had already played STALKER, Prey, FEAR, Call of Juarez and Bioshock. TF2 had also just come out. Crysis would have been forgotten quickly if it wasn't for the hardware-torturing graphics.

[@DavoidJohnson]

Clint, you're seriously on form with this episode.

[@Bonezy1001]

But can crysis run doom?

[@refraggedbean]

You could probably mod crysis to run doom, but I don't think you can do the other way around

[@U014B]

Doom mod for Crysis when?

[@ravenousphere]

dammit i wanna see that happen!

[@InfernalMonsoon]

Rule666: If it exists, Doom runs on it. Heck a modder even got the entirety of The Ultimate Doom to run on Doom 3's PDA of all things!

[@_HatsuneMikuYT]

i think you mean, can doom run crysis

[@dsilvermane0]

I can't believe it's already 10 years old. And still looks this good!

[@rizkynovianto9187]

Adapt Engage Dominate

[@mattgodden8943]

I still honestly love this game. The play style was SO nice and varied.

[@yxiv]

Damn I remember pushing Crysis on 8600GT and Intel Core2 Duo 2,5GHz machine back in 2008.This game was unbelievably realistic back in time.

[@ScientistDog]

I played on a 8600GT first too, with Medium graphics and Medium difficult, and it was meh. Then I replayed (and finished) with a 3850 in High settings (though the snow part was laggy) and Delta difficult, and it was one of the best gaming experiences I had in my life!.

[@Loundsify]

I also played with an 8600GT :) what a shit purchase that was lol. Bought a 4850 512MB a year later.

[@thecriticallyilldrinker6214]

The reason for the "needless" intro, sir... is FUCK YEAH ! THAT BE AWSOMES !

[@jasong6501]

crysis is still one of my favorite fps games of all time.