Crysis Remastered - Worthabuy?

[@danielmoore8953]

It's gone from "Can it run Crysis?" to "can I have a midlife crisis?"

[@Matthew_Fog]

Good one

[@Gilmore74]

This old gamer certainly could lol

[@violent_bebop9687]

time for and UPGRADE......

[@dramalexi]

Nah it's still quarter life crisis. Still have to wait for Crisis reremastered.

[@AleK0451]

@@dramalexi mack is definitely at midlife

[@WorthABuyreviews]

Sorry for the lack of content this last 2 weeks, took a few days off to enjoy the last of the summer and was not well for a few days which added up to a couple of weeks out the loop. Got a few vids lined up for next week including Serious Sam 4 which am really looking forward to playing :) So business as usual from now until Christmas :)

[@bunkerbill]

Ah Serious Sam! Yes!

[@krisdeathgungaming9165]

Quite right. We will all be locked down again soon. Take it while you can.

[@Rincewindcl]

You dont need to apologise Mack. Thanks for the quality videos man.

[@That_nigga]

Quality over quantity Mack. If you need to take a break from making content, take one.

[@WorthABuyreviews]

@There will be Changes Yes Medieval Dynasty looks really fun

[@Greybeard101]

True Crysis story. The game was impressive back in 2007. I'd just booted it up and was on the beach in the opening scene. My wife walked in the room and I showed her the graphics. I explained you could interact with everything. At that moment, a turtle was walking by. I duly picked up the turtle. Then I realized I had no idea how to "drop" rather than "throw" to put it down again. I ended up launching this completely harmless turtle across the map and smashing it into a rock! My wife shook her head and walked away :-D Dead turtles aside, it was a great game even with its well known problems. I can't believe they screwed it up a second time.

[@B1itz]

So it's actually just Crysis Re-released ...

[@B1itz]

@@Abhishek-fe3zs no, a remaster suggests some form of improvement over the original

[@B1itz]

@@Abhishek-fe3zs so not just a re-release then?

[@B1itz]

@Dusty Shackleford haha yep, 100% shitty cash grab

[@tillmannfischer]

@@Abhishek-fe3zs Wow, a texture patch. Not like there's been thousands of those, most of which in even better quality, on various mod sites.

[@robdom91]

Basically, it just means it's now time to get the original Crysis again. Maybe I can get up to 10 FPS if I turn everything down, and hang my computer outside the window, for extra cooling.

[@Kajnake]

"Can it run crysis?" 13 years later "Still no"

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Aye can't help to hear that in me head with a Scottish accent.

[@JAnx01]

What an interesting twist!

[@BomimoDK]

more like "well, yes. but actually no."

[@selecks6462]

Plot twist, my PC was never the problem

[@PietKonijn1980]

I laughed so hard after reading this comment, thx! :D

[@TheZealo]

Feels like they released this like this just for the refreshed memes and attention.

[@h1tzzYT]

Its a cash grab, that doesnt even look that impressive with its outdated models and oversaturated color palette

[@phizmeister]

@@h1tzzYT It's a game from 2006 putting to shame most games even today. Saying it doesn't look that impressive shows that you are a stupid muppet.

[@AA-xm7rt]

@@phizmeister i Think hé means the original game was already impressive but it didn't improve it got worse.

[@soheelegb6851]

@@phizmeister the remaster isnt that good for a remaster of crysis since you know every crysis game was the absolute best graphically by the date of release

[@KennyChu]

@@AA-xm7rt Can it run Crysis?

[@somecallmetim42]

I played a couple of levels of the original Cryis yesterday for old times sake and yes you can lean left and right.

[@arnox4554]

Ok, it is pretty damn weird that they removed leaning in the Remastered version, but I'm just gonna say it. You don't need to lean in Crysis. The way the suit modes are designed (at least on normal difficulty) is quite good, and with Speed mode, you can wreck some shit. Fucking hell, the Cloak mode alone is pretty much an "I win" button. If you need leaning to win skirmishes on top of all the other tools you're given in the game, most notably the suit powers of course, I don't think you have any business playing Crysis. This isn't Insurgency Sandstorm. Not that it excuses all the other bullshit that's going on with this game that I quite agree with Mack about though. Fuck the Epic Games Store.

[@arnox4554]

@Boros Vita There is one important thing though that's a huge problem with the original and will always be. No support whatsoever for multiple CPU cores.

[@arnox4554]

@Boros Vita If you're just playing vanilla, you can definitely get away with one core, but if you want to start piling on community enhanced textures, models, geometry, and effects, then that one little core is going to implode. lol

[@Ricardogs]

@Major Gear buy the Good old games edition, without any drm, plain and simple

[@Ricardogs]

its a 2007 PC game, is a miracle it support xbox 360 gamepad and rumble, i have a original xbox 360 controller and a wireless adapter, it works ok, xbox one controller (third gen with BT) works with rumble, the only problem is the configuration, LT is circle of options of the nano, LB is sprint, RB is ADS and RT is the classic fire, autoaim is light, not so agresive like a call of duty game, the remastered is the port of 360 version, so it has a more "modern button" placement and less setup to nano (no circle of options), strengh is auto, and cloak is one button away (i don't renember if is LB or RB), sprint always full speed and also in auto and placed in L3 (like a call of duty or halo game).

[@rashidhumine]

They really should've made a Remake rather than a Remaster.

[@psyantologist]

Yeah, just beefing up texture res and adding software raytracing (lul? no wonder it runs at low double digit frames) and putting a high-CPU-load copy-protection mechanism on top just doesn't do it justice. They might remove Denuvo once the market settles around it and sales stagnate. That might add a few frames, but not alleviate the other issues. They're a bit too proud of their meme baby to really care for it like the first-born of an epic IP, which it is.

[@sebastianmontoya5158]

AAA Industry: Re-make!? That is to expensive and we have to ACTUALLY work, man. Naha! Put new textures on the fucker, cut some content and sell it as DLC's. Do not forget to hype it and charge as it was band new.

[@sherlockholmes8822]

@wolverine they kind of did make a remake when they messed up the suit functionality

[@lordraptor5042]

Look, at the end of the day, Yall are gonna bitch regardless.

[@Nihtglom]

And they didn't even add multi-core support to the game. The thing runs on a single core, despite there being 12 cores available.

[@irishbloke99]

da fuk? Really

[@FlyboyHelosim]

No wonder it runs like shite.

[@Q-gf8vb]

It was made with the thought we'd be using single and dual cores at outrageous speeds, not having 6, 8, 12, etc. cores. Or so I've heard.

[@WorthABuyreviews]

Very disappointed with this game, whats the point of having to turn off all the stuff that makes this game a viable remaster just to get it to run, you may as well just play the original. So instead of saying turn off this and that, how about "Devs fix your damn game" The recommended specs are well below my own yet it runs so badly, it's time gamers stopped turning stuff off and started refunding games and telling the devs to get their damn house in order. It's not acceptable to release a £27 game that is 13 years old that runs so badly even on a system above the recommended specs. It also has no save game, it's totally checkpoint controlled which am sure was not the case in the original, this proved so frustrating when the game crashes or you get stuck in a hole and need to reload last checkpoint. So yet again, could have been great but turned out poor, how many times do we have to say that in 2020 :(

[@docdoom1987]

Yo, Doom Eternal looked gorgeous and ran great on nearly anything. There's just no excuse after seeing that earlier in the same year.

[@TheLuri89]

Yeah true, no free saving. And yeah i think you could lean in the original one with Q and E, dont understand why this is not included. What do you think about the A.I.? Some korean soldiers are completely lack of A.I. Standing there and they do nothing

[@54syqe]

aaaaaand this is why they took the upfront epic store payout, because they knew the game was fked and people on steam would ask for refunds. Typical modern day developers,

[@Robert048]

@@docdoom1987 Did you just say "Yo" to Mack? He's probably going to want to talk to you about heat and rep, now.

[@emdea]

m8 you were playing with Ray Tracing on... No game runs great with ray tracing on right now. That was the only option you needed to turn off. The SVOGI lighting and all the rest of the effects are fine and they do give you the remaster feel

[@conman698]

This remaster is an absolute crysis.

[@Koozwad]

Climate 'crisis'? Corona 'crisis'? Crysis Remastered is the real crisis.

[@bengejuknowit3048]

For Crysis sake!

[@Row468]

Stop cry sister

[@baddude1337]

Kinda defeats the point of a remaster if they haven't tried to optimise it for modern hardware.

[@grahamt19781]

Agreed

[@grahamt19781]

Agreed

[@TT-lu5gt]

Agreed

[@jakobandersen3944]

Agreed

[@jimmyjab190]

Meh

[@ee9787]

Makes you wonder what they'll call the remastered remastered games in 20 years time

[@mikaxms]

ϻe̷e̷ɖɖɨ Probably just “Remastered”

[@Dutchfalco]

Ultra Remastered Deluxe 2050 Edition

[@deathlyit7273]

XXX: The Right Version

[@carny15]

Definitive Edition

[@keithmccormack6248]

Crisis: The 2040 Money Grab.

[@chrisphoenix2825]

"It's a first person shooter... you need a high framerate when you play first person shooters..." *Laughs in Arma 3*

[@aidencampbell9120]

Too bad ArmA 3 sucks

[@NoNo-uy2bq]

@@aidencampbell9120 agreed

[@Applewille]

@@aidencampbell9120 Why does it suck? I have thought of buying it for so long time, but haven't for some reason.

[@raresmacovei8382]

For anyone watching this review years later: The Remasters is VASTLY better now. Leaning reimplemented. Classic suit controls reimplemented. VTOL mission reimplemented. Vegetation physics now at proper fps. RT is even better with the Boost option. Performance is VASTLY better. It now in fact runs better than the original game with better visuals. Quick Save/Load can be implemented via console commands. Motion blur still isn't as good as the original's DX10 implementation. The CPU optimization is now divine. The game also now has DLSS2. RT is still only hardware acceleration on RTX cards. Any other card can use RT, but only in software mode.

[@Ramotttholl]

Just what i wanted to hear

[@roflBeck]

They re-added the VTOL mission? Nice, that's good to know.

[@user-if7zm]

For anyone who is interested, leaning is back in the game. A couple of other things too, like classic suit controls and quick throwing grenades.

[@teresazbikowska7094]

Did they optimise it?

[@user-if7zm]

@@teresazbikowska7094 I haven't checked recently.

[@martin_sery]

​@@teresazbikowska7094 Yes, it's playable now.

[@1989ianhunt]

Dev 1: Game is poorly optimised, how can we fix it? Dev 2: Hmmm... add Denuvo? Dev 1: BINGO!

[@SPL1NGYDUDE]

the original had securom

[@domasbaliulis23]

WAT?

[@THELANKANCOMRADE]

It’s demanding. There’s no way around that. Saying it’s unoptimized is just an excuse for your bad pc.

[@overgrownturnip]

@@THELANKANCOMRADE The dude just said in the review that he has some of the best fucking hardware you can have at the moment and it runs badly. Are you dumb?

[@screwball992]

@@overgrownturnip Not only that there are better looking games out there that run far better?

[@AksamRafiz]

Honestly I expected more , this looks like a well done mod .

[@CUSTARDP00DLETK]

not even. Original crysis 1 mods run way better than this shit.

[@markoliimatainen2565]

@@CUSTARDP00DLETK Because this has some cpu effects and this remastered is still sameway bottlenecked by single core performance. Thats why this does run badly on basically every modern computer. Maybe if you have overclocked 9900k, then you might get 60+frames on max settings. Thats why this remastered cant never be a benchmark game as only thing it can actually benchmark is single core performance.

[@AksamRafiz]

@@markoliimatainen2565 you would think they would be ashamed of their lackluster optimization but they had the audacity to provide us a "can it run crysis".

[@michaelwesten4624]

step 1: get a good pc to play all the games on max step 2: run crysis remastered at medium settings step 3: replay old games you know and love

[@The_Slayer-l9c]

I am enjoying Team Fortress 2 significantly more than I have on MW (2019).

[@ishtiak14]

@@The_Slayer-l9c Same.

[@lightskin7627]

@Aaron K the worse MW single player campaign by far is MW3 the best MW game is MW2, 2019 MW Is somewhere in the middle

[@AlphaGarg]

@Aaron K Step 6: Calm down once you realise the PC you bought can get you into a lot of hobbies and jobs that may or may not be related to gaming, unlike the game box with paid online

[@TehDanny]

Too true. I recently bought a decent used graphics card, but I'm just sittin' playin' Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and The Settlers 3.

[@bmbm1]

The fact that this is sold for 30 euros is a legit crime

[@Woupsme]

It's only €20 in Denmark... But I think I'll wait for the Steam release with all the fixes and patches implemented

[@jackoberto01]

@@Woupsme Don't even bother just play the original through GOG (GOG is already 64-Bit version) and you'll have a much better experience The remaster lacks many quality of life features from the original and is built of the inferior console port

[@VRFlightSimGuy]

Your reviews crack me up. You're breath of fresh air thankyou!

[@B10HAZARD.]

Agreed. He's the most honest and down to earth reviewer on youtube.

[@SirEvilestDeath]

It’s not a remaster if features are taken away. It’s a demake.

[@5deadspace]

It's kind of pathetic that they intentionally try to break the game for the sake of a 13 year old meme.

[@lwaves]

Just said a similar thing myself. That top setting only exists so they can keep that meme applied to this game.

[@BrotherO4]

Ray tracing is not easy to run. turn it off.

[@darken2417]

I think its okay for a laugh. I don't see a difference if very high was going to be the max setting without the can you run crisis setting. Having the can you run crisis setting theoretically is just an extra setting that people with elite pcs can play on. But I'm sure optimization is lacking making this worse.

[@lwaves]

@@darken2417 From what I've read about the top setting, even the elite PC's with the newest cards can't handle it. It supposedly turns off LOD, so everything is at full quality all the way to the furthest distance. It's ridiculous.

[@darken2417]

@@lwaves I have a potato pc so I just chalk this all up to us needing to "git gud" by upgrading beyond our limits : p (minus the usual optimization issues with new releases including remasters)

[@Juicysilver]

Kinda happy that all these games coming out on the Epic store are turning out kinda shit, means I'm not missing out on anything lol

[@0verWay]

Yeah, cuz they don't have to actually seriously work on the games anymore, given they already got their exclusive money. Good riddance. Let Epic (Fail) Store die.

[@KreKeriS911]

Yeap and year later you can get the game fixed on steam with decent discount.

[@slothz5063]

You all talk like epic store is cancer. Steam takes 30 % revenue, I close my case.

[@AzariusR]

@@slothz5063 Sure, but every other services also charges 30% and Steam do charge lesser if the game sells well. Not to mention Epic engaged in timed exclusivity in PC platform where there shouldn't be anything like it.

[@0verWay]

@@slothz5063 Epic Simp detected.

[@emulation2369]

Guys!! They just wanted to recreate that feeling, like back in the day in 2007! With those freezes and slowdowns 😎

[@umadesume2864]

Yes, totally not an excuse to not work on the game and release an unoptomized piece of shit!

[@johnpatz8395]

Bruh Boi you might want to look up the word “sarcasm.”

[@umadesume2864]

@@johnpatz8395 eh, wait what? I should be saying that to you mate

[@carlgray6764]

they sadly missed the boat ... would have been a great show case of how they have improved visuals/tech, and wowed us all again .. .

[@nfc14g]

A shame they wanted to continue the benchmark test meme instead of optimising.

[@Beastw1ck]

They never fixed the ONE issue that the original had: only utilizing one thread on the CPU. They had one job with this remaster and that was it. Hard pass on this one.

[@jackoberto01]

Tbh they should've remade the game and realesed it with DX12 which is so much better at utilizing multiple threads than DX11

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Didnt they fix that on crysis 2 10 years ago

[@Beastw1ck]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 They did. Different version of CryEngine.

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

@@Beastw1ck and they didn't use that version of the engine because.....

[@Beastw1ck]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 as far as I know you can't just "switch engines". That would be a remake, not a remaster.

[@Plague_Doc22]

It's kind of weird to me that a company would embrace the fact that their original game was an unoptimized shit storm...and then act like its a cool thing.

[@0111-n1w]

It was very well optimized, it's just that the hardware wasn't ready yet for the highest settings.

[@CryoStrider]

@@0111-n1w ...and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself!

[@somnorila9913]

@@0111-n1w And i think this is what happening right now too. It's not about optimization or that they couldn't polish it properly, but rather they made is more as a symbol, embracing the "Can it run Crysis?" thing. So they basically made a playable benchmark and not really a remaster for you to enjoy playing. And i think it's only suited for this game to be this way. As this is its soul, its meaning now. So it will be playable at max settings in a few years in the future when hardware performance will be better. Until then: Can it run Crysis?

[@Plague_Doc22]

@@0111-n1w No it wasn't. It had high requirements but it didnt scale well at all with new gpus and so on. They didnt intend to make a game that was unplayable for the majority at higher settings for years upon years. That's an extremely dumb way of selling a product as it limits the market. They just had a shitty optimized game.

[@0111-n1w]

@@CryoStrider Yes another one, it was so well optimized that they made a version for consoles!!!! I even think that Crytek is one of the best company for optimisation and for coding engines.

[@xlviiK]

If a game is Epic exclusive then it immediately is not worth a buy to me.

[@austinc4029]

Anno 1800 though

[@SilverAru]

@@austinc4029 That is a Uplay game

[@walker2006au]

Because? Just on the bandwagon?

[@hardcorehardware361]

@@walker2006au For me I don't like their store its buggy also no reviews? Another thing is their business practices, I don't know about you but I take issue with Games being locked to one launcher like the new Medal of Honour VR being locked to the oculus quest 2. Its anti consumer and gives us less choice imo. BUT That is my OPINION!

[@walker2006au]

@@hardcorehardware361 fair enough. I prefer professional reviews and there is always metacritic. Steam is full or review bombs by SJWs. They pay independent devs more then other DRMs and in a cut throat industry without regulations and high suicide rates. More money to devs and the little people the better. At the end of the day the game works and I enjoy it 🤷

[@romandoo]

Just to clarify for you Mack, the original game also had an option to bind the nanosuit modes to any key you want and you can lean. Played the OG game just now to make sure.

[@gtabro1337]

I'd like to Imagine Mack's hell is playing Crysis Remastered... on the Nintendo Switch - inferior graphics - console controls - less buttons I would pay to see that.

[@AleK0451]

hell is sitting on a couch around a nintendo switch with only nintendo fanboys next to you and the only game is smash bros

[@sol7967]

@@AleK0451 Imagine the smell.....

[@DarkDarcek]

Bloody Epic store..bah

[@fatknacker46]

Another game that deserves the Epic Shite Store. Partners in grime...

[@pilouuuu]

Let's hope it gets released on Steam in 2021 in a decent state.

[@jamessalvatore7054]

immediately no buy.

[@akooma3694]

piratebay..bah

[@reaper378]

Darcek BlueEyes I’ve not seen steam giving loads of games away ...

[@Mazing78]

The reason you get frame drops next to the water is because the game actually uses GPU tears to render it.

[@nurion1114]

I am deeply disappointed he didn't sing "the hymn" when he said you can't bind weapons due to the console design.

[@synthpotato]

This game doesn't even look that good, Red Dead Redemption 2 looks way better and that runs amazingly on a 2080

[@_synt3rax_437]

Only after getting patched because it run like a pile of shit on launch day and weeks later XD

[@stilo2703]

This game looks no better than battlefield 4 which came out in 2013

[@mesicek7]

RDR 2 is a new game while this is just a REMASTER. If it was a REBOOT it would be built up from scratch. All they did was just add some eye candy and resolution upscale not to mention removing some stuff that was in the original game

[@synthpotato]

@@_synt3rax_437 not gonna deny that, That launch experience was oof, works well now tho

[@synthpotato]

@@mesicek7 that's the thing, it shouldn't run this badly at all considering it's a bad remaster

[@Pauldnis2006]

It doesn't come with the vtol/plane level called "Ascension". So it is exactly like the Xbox 360/PS3 version in that regard.

[@screwball992]

Plot Twist: The game is actually a port of the console version hence no leaning left or right 🤣

[@jackoberto01]

@@screwball992 It actually is 😂

[@CorDharel]

Man this year gets 1000 remasters

[@baldbutton1983]

Damn shame, I was looking forward to this...

[@gladiatorscoops]

I think the devs haven't heard of occlusion culling for all of that dense vegetation.

[@Python_Bacon]

A 2080 should be running this above 100 FPS.

[@valkir293]

Not with raytracing on it won't.

[@kilerkg]

The original even looks better in a lot of ways, hardly a remaster

[@Christian-oi7sd]

@Vanargand yeah lol more like re tarded

[@callmemim3007]

Can it run badly optimized game? would be more appropriate setting name

[@shimigami92dk]

original game had different icons when you pick up weapons. this one just have one for all weapons

[@mrmarc4074]

Crytek games, whilst fun are always poorly optimized. Unfortunately this is mistaken for a measurement of PCs capabilities. At least now hardware is powerful enough to expose this crap.

[@RadiantNova159]

@PiousCoding its from 2007 it is over a decade old

[@RadiantNova159]

@PiousCoding its from 2007 it is over a decade old

[@gtabro1337]

No so sure about this, I had a decent - just decent - laptop when Crysis 3 was out and I managed to play it smoothly at High settings.

[@Edmundostudios]

Didn’t play the first game back in the day but I could easily max out Crysis 2 on a gtx 770 and Crysis 3 looked amazing even at low settings.

[@endyy6671]

the true crisis experience, having to run on lower settings to enjoy the game... i remember my mom had bought it for me as a gift back in 2007 and my computer couldn't even run past the menu given the game's demands.. three years later i had a laptop which allowed me to enjoy the game only on the lowest settings. It's a stellar game though (before the aliens show up), i must have replayed the first few levels a hundred times.

[@NobleStoneUK]

The developers seemingly revelling in the fact that their game is completely un optimised by adding 'can it run Crysis' setting. Rather than gloat about it they should be ashamed.

[@CoffeeConnected]

That just exemplifies hubris. It sounds like they put that joke in there at the start of development in full confidence that they'd nail the performance issues by the time they'd completed the project. If they thought that they could afford to slip an ironic joke in there to highlight the original's performance problems, and you still can't play the remaster properly on the lower settings, not only is it a remaster fail it's also a joke fail.

[@fl4shblade]

"The “Can it Run Crysis?” setting is designed as a future-proofed benchmark. It includes unlimited view distances, no LOD changes, and more detailed shadows, which will strain every last bit of performance from your hardware, and indeed, future hardware. We hope PC gamers around the world will love this opportunity to play a game that will push hardware technology to its limits, including experiencing ray tracing in Crysis."

[@jackoberto01]

@@fl4shblade The problem with it though is how bad the engine is at utilizing multiple threads this remaster is just as outdated as the original was ahead of it's time And the lack of DX12 (which has been out for 5 years now) just absolutely destroys the thought of any future proofing

[@fl4shblade]

@@jackoberto01 actually i have to retract this statement. it has come to my knowledge that this remaster is not even based on the pc version. it is some frankenstein between the pc 2006 demo and the xbox version. it will never be able to run better because it will never be able to use more than 8 gb of vram and there is nothing they can do about it because the pc source code is gone!

[@Lukyz69]

FYI that "Can it Run Crysis" setting disables LoD, so every texture and model in the game, regardless of how visible or how far from the player it is, gets rendered at it's highest quality. It's just f*cked up setting to melt your PC and I think kind of a joke from the developers it's not meant to by played on.

[@AntonisMatakos]

It's been more than 10 years that I've played through Crysis and I still remember every scene and fight Mack showed in his video review!! I can hardly believe it but I suppose that's the mark of a great game!

[@GeorgeC-S]

I still want crysis to be the benchmark of whether your pc was good or not those were the good days

[@TalesOfWar]

This is still a poorly optimised tech demo of a "game" I see. There are much better looking, better running games around now.

[@jackoberto01]

@Boros Vita If you want less hastle get the game on GOG where it's already patched to 64-Bit and use a Windowed Borderless program (I use Windowed Borderless Gaming) to be able to tab out without crashing the game

[@Ulysses313131]

There's talk that the remastered is based of the 360/PS3 port which explains the no lean, missing VTOL mission, etc.

[@mickles1975]

"Denuvo" Do not want.

[@darkram13]

Thank you for being honest enough to Thumb Down a game that you love. These problems are unacceptable for a 13 year old that has REMASTERED plastered on it

[@Reindeer911]

Ooooh yeah, I remember when Crysis 1 was released, going down to the local department store @ 4a on Black Friday because they were having a huge sale at the time and greedily picked up a copy. There were a few bugs, but nothing game breaking at least until I got to the town where I was supposed to meet back up with Psycho. That was where the game broke for me. Interesting because I had a middling to hot AMD processor that was actually handling the game better than people who put together top end systems specifically to handle Crysis maxed out. Went to EA's tech site to find out what was going on and if any patches were in the works. That was when I got treated so poorly by one of their techs that to this day I absolutely refuse to buy any new releases or pre-releases of ANY game unless it has a healthy discount, and EA in particular a minimum 6 mo waiting period AND on sale. In short the tech I talked to basically said "The game works fine for me so you must be an idiot"! Apparently I wasn't the only one he was doing that too either. Told him to go fuck himself, that I ran a successful IT contracting service, and that EA needed to toss his happy ass to the curb right then and there. Turned out then the game was poorly optimized (where have we heard that before) and not ready for prime time. Interestingly I had a similar problem when EA released Star Wars TOR a couple of years later.

[@RideHaste]

You are right about leaning. Crysis 1 had lean anywhere, Crysis 2 had an arguable more fluid leans around cover.

[@JokerPoker5RP]

Denuvo literally drops frames by 30 in any game I played that had it. Once you Crack the game and play without denuvo, most games run better

[@JB.zero.zero.1]

yep - mostly

[@luketerrell5037]

06:07 seeing how badass you look in the nano suit in the reflection of the weapon crates... worth the slideshow 🤷‍♂️👌

[@Ch35h1r3C47]

Crysis, the game so intensive you can't even run it on hardware 13 years later. They must have had supercomputers in their studios, or they were from the future or something

[@johnwest5957]

They made bad design decisions assuming future hardware would be compatible. Like insane clockspeeds for CPU, when they put Crysis on the 360 and PS3 they fixed that.

[@markdonoghue501]

7:10 expert level camping Mack. 😂 Great review as always sir. 🙂👍

[@Xighor]

Fanboys excuse will be "it's Crysis it's supposed to be hard to run"

[@majorgear1021]

A year later....have they fixed the bugs?

[@brandonmccann15]

did u buy if so did they fix the bugs

[@majorgear1021]

@@brandonmccann15 I haven’t bought it.

[@brandonmccann15]

@@majorgear1021 oh i see have u got the original?

[@majorgear1021]

@@brandonmccann15 yes . But it doesn’t have full controller support on PC, so i’m interested in the remake

[@brandonmccann15]

@@majorgear1021 oh i see well thank u for talking to me

[@valkash7441]

oh my god, they managed to botch the remaster... Thanks for the review

[@nfsfreelancer]

Lazy animation for reloading AK 6:40, it looks like mag is pinched out of gun...

[@WhyAreYouGhe]

Why did I know the second he said "epic store", that this is going to be a shitshow of a game? Dodging reviews like its their job, great start. Sad to see such a legendary game get the "we need money, here have this re-release of our old game" type of treatment.

[@johnpatz8395]

Derrick Hayden I’m not one to defend Epic, but I have to be honest and point out that Steam isn’t exactly known for only releasing high quality games to it’s store.

[@WhyAreYouGhe]

@@johnpatz8395 You missed the point entirely. On steam you have USER reviews. If game is dogshit you can SEE THAT FOR YOURSELF. And don't let moronic streamers like cohcarnage, who say that steam is just a place to reviewbomb, tell you otherwise, steam reviews are a blessing for the consumers. Even if some of them are just memes (funny ones at that) you will always find very long a thought-out review at the top of any game.

[@johnpatz8395]

Derrick Hayden my point is, Steam and it’s actions have been the target of hate from gamers far years, but as soon as Epic announced their store, the hate immediately shifted and many started viewing Steam as the Holy Messiah of gamers. I’m not a fan of Epic, but do you actually think they release a higher percentage of crap them Steam, a store known for years to be overloaded with asset flips, abandon ware and outright scams?

[@WhyAreYouGhe]

@@johnpatz8395 Why would you care about the quality of the games there if you (and probably 99.9999% of people) aren't going to buy it? Because you KNOW its an asset flip etc. from the reviews... I have no love for steam, but the hate towards Epic is justified. They just care about making shady deals with devs (like the ones marketing their game on steam only sell exclusively on epic)to sell their broken games with no fear of users warning people. Besides...why are you comparing Steam game numbers, which are in the tens of thousands, with epic who has maybe hundreds? Obviously Steam is going to have more crap on it just by being so popular. And also in the past years they really cleaned up the store, I haven't seen asset flips/scams for a very long time in my recommended. Competition is good and god knows steam needs some, but Epic store care only about their reputation/ties with developers and treats consumers like dirt.

[@brettbloodyhell2707]

its strange that a game this old is still so demanding on graphics cards

[@NaRiCo94]

Mack when are you gonna do a Game Pass vid 👍🏻

[@Koozwad]

One of the things I don't get in the Crysis games is that while invisible your shadow is still cast on the ground yet enemies don't even react to that.

[@tekton4044]

I actually think Crysis 2 looks more impressive than this.

[@Legion849]

Crysis 2 released in 2009 and still looks better than this lazy cash grab. They knew if it was on Steam it would flop hard so that's why it's an Epic exclusive.

[@jackoberto01]

Yes cause this is basically Crysis 2007 with very small improvements

[@JoshMC2000]

@@Legion849 honestly Crysis 3 still looks dam good when put next to games relased in recent years

[@MegaPainLove]

Did you try disabling ray tracing? That’s by far the most taxing setting that can be disabled while still maintaining high visual quality.

[@masterman3178]

What may have once been great, looks generic as hell now

[@lwaves]

The only reason that top setting exists is so they can keep that meme going. They don't want Flight Sim or any other game taking it from them. I've heard it takes away LOD, so that it shows all textures and geometry at full, even those in the furthest distance. No hardware will be running that at a decent framerate, at least not until this remaster is considered ancient.

[@Legion849]

They saw RDR2 took the spotlight then Flight Simulator so Saber Interactive was told to 'remaster' this game

[@PnlBtr]

This is honestly the greatest review ever. I'm dying. So funny. Wish I could like twice. Can't wait for the memes.

[@xzs432]

have the issues mentioned in the video been fixed yet, it's been 4 years. i have ea play from gamepass and i started crysis 2 remastered and it looks just slightly better than the hd mod for the original version of crysis 2, the remaster seems to have just slightly better textures and slightly better lighting with ray tracing in preformance mode and everything else set to very high.

[@lklice221]

Your a legend mate I buy every game you say is good

[@TheKiller500000]

The original crysis did infact let you bind the suit modes to individual keys

[@shredman59]

It’s a faithful remaster. It runs just as badly now as it did back then. LOL

[@jackoberto01]

In that aspect yes but the gameplay has somehow become worse

[@igorthelight]

Advice from 2007: decloak before you want to shoot - you will not loose all your energy that way.

[@swiftsabre2305]

Doesn’t even look that much better what the hell.

[@Tclans]

Wasn’t Mouse3 a hold button in the original!?

[@jizzwizard6939]

Trump 2020

[@richardhewit215]

You are 100% correct about leaning in the original. You also had the option to lie prone as well as a normal crouch.

[@RadiantNova159]

You can prone in this one too

[@richardhewit215]

@@RadiantNova159 Thing is, back in '07, mine ran great and I can't even remember what chip and card i had.

[@balasar9753]

I've heard of the problems this remaster has before i went and watched your video. I for sure wanted to hear your take on this and i'm glad i did. thanks for the great videos as always!

[@DaraM73]

There’s a chap on YT, Foresty Forest, does mountain climbing in Canada, and even he, while musing on the beauty and majesty of the pristine nature before him stated “...and if a god created this view or it’s all a giant computer program, the question is, can it run Crysis?”

[@Lord_of_Dread]

The thing is with the original, is that the devs place their bets on CPU clock speeds increasing exponentially in the near future. It was meant to scale with clock speed. What happened instead was that IPC (instructions per cycle) got better in combination with higher core counts and multithreading. That was a perfectly understandable gamble. Today though? The devs know what the landscape is like today, so not optimising it properly was a choice. It's not as if the highest graphical settings look particularly incredible either, if there's some future tech going on (like full blown raytracing of every kind, some new particle effects or whatever) then fair enough, but that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm not sure the top settings are meant to scale with time and new hardware like the original, moreso that they just made it poorly optimised so it can be used to benchmark. Which would be fine if that was clearly communicated as the intent.

[@G0LD3NF1RE]

It running bad is a feature added for nostalgia, takes you back to the good ol' Crysis days. :^>

[@finegamingconnoisseur]

You just saved me $44 Mack, not going anywhere near this 'remaster' that reminded me of Warcraft 3: Reforged. Also, at 05:42 , the fire particles looked like something from a '90s game... Honestly, I think I'll stick with the old Crysis.

[@TR1PLE_6]

"Let's read the words, the words of the Epic Store" I just fucking lost it!

[@MrRasslor]

'crysis eyes out'

[@doltBmB]

You could bind suit controls in the original too, and it wouldn't crash doing it.

[@Ray-sk8hz]

This makes me feel better that its not even on steam yet.

[@Ytnzy250]

Is it worth a buy in September 2021? 🙏

[@paft]

Mac, you'll be surprised to know this is kind of a console port. "On July 22, 2020, a tech analysis published by Digital Foundry, based on the Switch version, revealed that Remastered is not based on the PC version of the original Crysis, but off the inferior Playstation 3/Xbox 360 adaptation."

[@0111-n1w]

You DID run Crysis! Woooow!

[@tammushican4823]

Nope, he barely did

[@JohnMarshall-NI]

When you have nerfed the settings to the point where it runs 'adequately', does it even look better than the original on it's highest settings?

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Man, I remember spending hours on the Demo back when it brought my rig to it's knee's in the Summer of 2007. It had a huge modding scene, too! My steam hours count out to around 350+ and christ knows how many on the non-steam release.

[@InconsistentTechDad]

I didn't have a PC that could run this maxed at 1080p until the pc standard was creeping above 1080p lol.

[@BK-ug7vn]

It's not unoptimized. This remaster is hard to run because it has Crytek's very new software Raytracing feature which I think can only be seen on the water surfaces in the game and has a huge performance hit. Set that setting to low and it will run a lot better!!!

[@VikCachat]

How does it run with everything maxed but with ray tracing off?

[@vormina9808]

"It runs like a f*** asthmatic hippo that's just been shot with buckshot up the azz." Priceless. LMAO