Why Crysis is Legendary

Visually far ahead of its time, Crysis became a legendary PC game when it released in 2007. While it's graphics are often the aspect of the game people remember the most the gameplay was also fantastic. In this Crysis retrospective I breakdown my history with Crysis as well as the games mechanics and story.
Video Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:32 Gameplay
15:09 Story
22:57 Versions and Issues
25:51 Ranking
#crysis #videogames #review

[@VirtualLegacy]

If you have any fun memories of playing Crysis I'd love to hear them.

[@Jaddico]

Only actually used strength mode because his arms look menacing

[@G0ldmoon]

I built my first Complete PC build for Crysis I think it had a gforce 8800gtx in it. the demo came with a map maker with the full games assets in it, in theory you could have remade the full game with the demo. The best mod ever and the best mechwarrior game, is Mech Warrior Living ledgends, which was a crysis mod, and its still played today. it has a counterstrike kills+damage = money you use to buy better gear when you respawn. also you mentioned crysis warhead, wasn't that just their multiplayer ? it was a mess online but fun, ran like ass, if you think the single player has issues, try translating all that physics to multiplayer. 1 memory I have from crysis, I ran out of missles for a helicopter fight, I punched a tree down, and into logs, attached c4 to a log, and used strength to throw it at a helicopter to detonate it...worked perfectly.

[@CoachBobbyFinstock]

I played it on a 3D projector i think on ps3/ps4, was really great in 3D! back then.

[@feetyeet8538]

Jesus is the only way to heaven Being a good person won’t get you there. “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” ‭‭John‬ ‭14‬:‭6‬ ‭ESV Repent from your sin(disobedience to God) and turn to God and follow Him so that you will be saved “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” ‭‭1 John‬ ‭1‬:‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭13‬:‭3‬ ‭ESV/

[@godhalo8582]

Maybe if you had bad memories cause crash or softlock

[@AaronParkerFTW]

It's impressive how good it still looks for its age, but almost as impressive to me is how smoothly it plays. It still feels very modern. Heck of an achievement in gaming history

[@Jackson-bh1jw]

no mention to killzone 2 the one that destroyed everything else.... no playing culture.

[@raydhen8840]

They aren't kidding when they said Crysis feels ahead of its time. I feel it's rare case of hardware catching up with the game that it still looks modern even today.

[@vtelannasv4324]

killzone 2 was ps1 graphics compared to crysis which was ps4 graphics in the time of ps2 which was why it was the test for the GPU Comps......good days..@@Jackson-bh1jw

[@heksogen4788]

It is more of a show how gaming stagnated or even regressed in these 15 years.

[@daurykais]

Shit optimization, also the graphics are overrated, i mean mediocre. Also 1st game graphics have aged badly. No clue about remaster, games were average at best, not even bare minimum to care about remaster.

[@SuperHns]

I also think strength mode in Crysis 1 reduces recoil.

[@oscarfriberg7661]

I’m sure it also reduces the sway, making it easier to snipe enemies

[@cheekibreeki1983]

Its making ur shooting with scope much easier

[@sal-1337]

its not fair to say it reduces recoil, it almost entirely eliminates it. I always play with max strength enabled as my default!

[@irishcoffee8201]

@@sal-1337 nah melee altogether. You literally can turn your guy into superman by combining speed then a last min punch with strength enabled. The combos were amazing and i loved lifting your enemy off the ground by their neck.

[@devostripes5964]

It reduces recoil and weapon sway

[@IAmMoF]

Crysis wars was one of the most underrated part of the Crysis IP imo. It was so much fun doing PVP with the nano suits. You could get tanks and all kinds of things, so many good memories.

[@Eomak]

yea .. it was great..It's like everything these days.. crysis did it first..very fun and amazing how it ran smoothly with tanks etc.. The Nuke boob was so cool.

[@jacktodd3439]

Probably my favorite game ever, love the music and that setting. It was so groundbreaking in 2007 to play this.

[@simongravel7407]

Crysis 4 - which is announced - needs to be a reboot. I want to go back to the jungle with 202X's groundbreaking graphics!

[@RiccardoTheBeAst]

@@simongravel7407 Is is never going to be as great as it was in 2007. Today it would have 2024 graphics in 2024, while back in time it had 2015 graphics in 2007. Also it was a quite tactical and hard game (in Delta difficulty and in multiplayer) which i doubt would fit a modern game.

[@simongravel7407]

@@RiccardoTheBeAst I see things your way too. Crytek will not make the same "mistake" this time around.

[@madebyai-tl8ow]

i updated pc in 2008 and it was best gaming feelings, maybe playing Mario and MK in childhood was better

[@HeyBalii_EH]

It was my first FPS that I played as a kid. I will never forget those times. I only had 2 hours daily to play with the PC because my parents were really strick. I used to sneak in to the PC room evey single dawn and play Crysis. I loved every second of it. I had a lot of Lego back then end I built a V-tol without any instructions and I only went from pictures. I still have pictures of it somewhere. Those were the days...

[@autothrust330]

Happy memories 🎉

[@Hoyeons7]

Man, i guess you so looks like me haha. when i was played this game at 2008, just only me the playing person in my High school. nobody didn't know it what this game lol also many times play for my all LEGO Technics!

[@SuperHns]

Bro for real 2007 was the best year in gaming. You forgot to mention Mass Effect 1, and many others.

[@VirtualLegacy]

Mass Effect is among my favorite game series of all time. I didn't want to go on for minutes listing off all the bangers though haha.

[@UltimateEnd0]

Supreme Commander & STALKER

[@dive2drive314]

Battlefield 2 had been out for a couple years at that point, and lots of mods became available. BF2 will forever be my most favorite game in terms of fun.

[@Notpoop906]

there's legit too many banger franchises at that time to name them all without sounding long winded lol

[@crazietech1984]

BF4

[@Punisher6791]

Can't wait to hear more about Crysis 4 soon. Crytek did announce they were working on it awhile ago.

[@LamelKendrick]

crysis has been dead since crysis warhead...it was callofdutyized

[@RiccardoTheBeAst]

@@LamelKendrick I agree, the first one was quite hard and tactical, especially in multiplayer (damage calculation was equal to Delta difficulty, the maximum one)

[@LamelKendrick]

the MP was neglected. It was basically an open world movement shooter. The mechanics with movement were some of the deepest ever in a shooter. the guns had realistic recoil. Just was too hard to run and lacked official support. After that in Crysis wars they nerfed the animations, recoil, everything that was good about Crysis 1 mp was molded into CoD4 style.@@RiccardoTheBeAst

[@RiccardoTheBeAst]

@@LamelKendrick Nope. At all. There was a sort of conquest/tactical mode that generated complex and very tactical matches, some matches even lasted 5 to 8 hours (yes, they did). A lot of teamwork was required and a combination of infantry, tanks and aircrafts to overcome the enemy. There was day/night cycle and it was even possible to deploy logistic vehicles to allow players to spawn in unexpected positions, radar devices to help teammates detect enemies, cargo VTOL version able to airdrop players (i still remember of us doing a night-time attack with parachutes to conquer a key building) and several other stuff. Crysis MP was one of the most underrated MP ever.

[@Sean-fj9pn]

The game not just pushed the boundaries of graphics but importantly was actually very fun with clever gameplay innovations and mechanics.

[@MrNelloxx]

it still amazes me, how good this game looks. Had the same Experience back in the day with a PC, having only a Geforce 6800...it ran horrible, hahaha. Years later I was able to have the right gear.

[@VirtualLegacy]

I agree, playing the game maxed out at 4k still feels great today. The visuals hold up so well.

[@Cheiff117]

I remember as a kid watching my dad play this, then I grew up bought all 3 and finished them all ! What a series

[@TyrannoWright]

Seconded. Got to play it myself as well in glorious 10-15 frames per second till my head split open.

[@Chas_Hesse]

I watched this video up until the Story, where I then went and downloaded Crysis Remastered. I played through the game on Veteran difficulty and completed it in ~7.5 hours. I couldn't stop on that cliff hanger though and had to then download Crysis 2 Remastered. I also played through on the hardest difficulty, Post-Human, and completed in ~10.5 hours. Prophet's storyline was pretty intriguing so you know I had to download Crysis 3 Remastered and play on Post-Human once again(~8 hours). I'm blown away by this Trilogy, I don't get why I never played it before, apart from the beginning of a mission from Crysis 2 over a decade ago at a friend's house, as well as the multiplayer with split-screen I believe. I'm now eagerly awaiting Crysis 4, Crytek has made an impressive Trilogy and I'm here for whatever they have in store next! I've come back to finish this video and I also eagerly await your reviews of the next games! Especially Warhead, as I didn't play through that one.

[@romagnolo]

Great video, also great editing. Subscribed!!

[@TheOneAndOnlySame]

playing crysis multiplayer was a total blast . Switching from suit modes to suit modes with alt key under the thumb felt absolutely like an extension of your virtual body . Cloaked, uncloak right before shooting to save energy, kill, sprint, super jump from top of relief into bushes, crouch cloak , ennemy's looking for you , aim mode, kill, sprint awaaaaaaay ..woah, I'm a living weapon lol I've yet to find a game that makes movements so pleasing while still feeling like you're an actual dude with weight

[@blackpete]

Impressive video, thanks for the swig of nostalgia :) I like your approach to videos being quality instead of quantity.

[@dive2drive314]

To this day, I have still never been as hyped for a video game like I was for Crysis. When it finally came out I could hardly play it on my PC but I still had a blast. I remember seeing other people on gaming forums that had the 'Can You Run It' benchmark for Crysis as their signature and I would get so jealous that theirs was in the green. Lol

[@robineuson7225]

I suspect you might have missed some subtle game mechanics. For example the keyboard shortcuts for activating maximum speed (double tap shift) and strength (double tap space), allowing you to nearly seamlessly do what you were most likely to use those abilities for (sprint/jump). More importantly those abilities also affect weapon handling. Speed speeds up reload and allows you to move and turn fast with heavy weapons. Strength is more useful here, allowing you to move and turn at normal speed with heaving weapons, reducing recoil and reducing weapon sway. This is the mechanic to steady your aim while sniping!!! Can also be used for an accurate burst of minigun fire. Edit: It toke me years to realize these mechanics existed and how useful/fun they could be. The game does not do a great job of helping you discover these aspects of the suits abilities.

[@-Flabbergasted-]

First time I'm seeing someone talking about that. That was the way to play, you could change all your powers seamlessly. I thought I was the only one that played this way. They killed this feature in the remake and that's the reason I haven't finished it. I remember when I discovered that feature, I've restarted my gameplay and played it on "Post-Human Warrior" and finished it. What a ride it was!

[@TyrannoWright]

I noticed that while jumping between games. But there is an option added in next to classic suit controls to reenable said shortcuts.

[@humbletrack5448]

such an awesome video! u deserve more recognition my friend ! keep up

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodGeek99]

Great video! Never played this series but it seems fun

[@casedistorted]

I really loved playing this game back in the day when it first came out on PC. I think after a year or so I was able to get a copy for Christmas (along with Oblivion) and played them on my PC that could barely run the game at 720p at maybe 30-40fps on my 1650x1080 TN Panel monitor. I still looked amazing even with graphics set to Medium at a low resolution and framerate, that's how game changing Crysis was, and it didn't help the gameplay was really fun and original for its time too. Even seeing the game now in high framerates with its maxed out settings, it still looks very good for today compared to some games. Some of those lighting and fog and weather affects are so dang good. I still have vivid memories of being inside that alien spaceship for the first time and it blowing my mind with how fluid the aliens moved while trying to fight them. This is a great video and review, brought me down memory lane. I never played much of Crysis 2 or 3, but I bought the Remasters for all 3 games, I stopped playing Crysis 1 Remaster due to all the changes. Maybe I'll go back to it now that it is patched to be more like the original game now. I have tried going back to the original Crysis but on Steam the game has horrible Mouse acceleration and aiming issues where I just can't enjoy the game no matter what I do to try and fix it. If nayone knows a way to to fix the weird mouse issues for the OG version of Crysis let me know. It was one of the only reasons I was excited for a Remaster to come out, to fix all those weird bugs.

[@Taturo]

I loved watching Nanosuitninja, you learn quite a bit of what you could do in the game from him. The best example is when cloaking, learn to quickly switch to armor mode before shooting and afterwards you can switch back to cloak, without having lost energy. You can do it really fast too.

[@VirtualLegacy]

I actually do this a ton! I didn't mention it in the video, but there's one scene where you can see me do it.

[@playnwork]

With the PC original you could also use suit shortcuts to make it pretty easy

[@kingcars]

I remember picking it up at the local mall on launch day and booting it up on my gaming rig with a heavily overclocked Core 2 Duo E6400 and a 8800GTS 320MB. Good times. Crysis Warhead was even better. If you haven't had a chance to play it, you need to.

[@VirtualLegacy]

I have Warhead on GOG. I'll definitely cover it. I think I'll probably cover the games in this order: 2, Warhead then 3. It'll be many months before I get to all of them, but I'm looking forward to it.

[@jacktodd3439]

8800GTS was pretty strong at the time and not bad for crysis to play with medium stable fps, I had poor geforce 8500GT 512mb and it was always below 30fps but it was still fun to play.

[@DavidBrown-mi4ot]

Hi mate, great video, was a lovely trip down nostalgia lane. Thanks for the in depth doco over a beloved game of mine. Keep up the good work. Subbed 👌👌

[@om3g4z3r0]

I love the in-game shots of you talking, if you adjust the lighting to fit the game lightsource direction this might improve a lot.

[@kloakovalimonada]

It ran great on a Radeon X1950 I had in my video editing workstation back then. And it's still damn impressive. The lighting in the alien ship levels? Are you kidding me?

[@xXNeoxeoXx]

The trailer for crysis 2 and the theme is a masterpiece, it reflect crysis perfect, the lost cause, the hope, the feeling you get playing entering the fallen new york

[@TurboCarotte]

The theme ...

[@Gr00t]

Dude this is a top quality video, you're criminally underrated and I'm excited to watch you grow. Gonna have to go binge all your other videos now.

[@sam23696]

I was obsessed with graphics and game engines when I was a teenager, so this game was like the holy grail for me when I learnt about it and it took me ages to finally get my hands on it. I played this easily over 1000 hours on a busted PC with a 512mb vram GPU. I got into modding and map making and because of that I credit this game with getting me into game dev. Just by trial and error, learning how to make maps for this game using its world editor, and playing with other people's mods, I gained probably more understanding of how games are made then my actual university degree I got after.

[@VirtualLegacy]

Sounds like we had pretty similar journeys! I also played around with things like the UDK (Unreal Development Kit) while cool games like the Ball were being made. I have such an appreciation for game development after getting a degree in computer science and working in engineering computer graphics for several years.

[@b2dmastersniper]

I remember picking up the game and being so freaking stoked to play it, I had watched the gameplay trailer, (you know the one) probably 1000 times prior to release.

[@lefata]

It's amazing how much attention to detail was put into older games but now we can't even get a correctly working mirror

[@manoz6194]

I never had a decent system so played it on low settings when it came out. Whilst I couldn't experience the top notch visuals I still had many hours of fun with it challenging myself to use certain powers and guns in each scenario

[@luke_fabis]

I remember when I played, I'd constantly swap between modes. One of my favorite moves was to get to sprint in speed mode, flip to strength mode mid-stride, jump, and then switch to armor mode mid-air because landing is going to hurt otherwise. You're basically a cannonball at that point.

[@RafaZEW]

This so damn nostalgic for me man. This was my first ever game i played when i was kid (i think i was 5 or sum) i remember watching my dad play crysis 1 so many times and i never got bored of it. At some point of i was even obsessed with the game and nanosuit LMAO. So yeah thank you dad for showing me this masterpiece of a game. i even finished it like over 26 times in my whole life. Cant wait for crysis 4. btw great video and editing as well, you earned my sub. :)

[@HuWhiteDeath]

Emphasizing the monumentally beautiful graphics was a good choice by Crytek and EA for this game's marketing, but the true strength of Crysis is its gameplay. It's one of the most fun games you can ever play, truly. The amount of times I've replayed this masterpiece comes close to 100, easily.

[@battistaverardi1240]

Exactly!

[@platty7047]

The first game that only managed 7 FPS on Ultra, but 20 years later managed 1000 FPS and still looks great 👍

[@SonCosmo]

your videos are always top quality

[@AzurezApex]

Man I remember playing this game a ton when I was younger. I loved the destructive environment and messing with cheats. What's so good about older games like these are the modding communities adding new content like movie battles and other mods for star wars jedi academy for instance

[@simong1261]

Hope you will make a video on the OG Guild Wars next. Nice work!

[@VirtualLegacy]

I love the original 4 games. Played them a ton with my sister back in the day. I've tried to start making a video on it before, but the project would take a ton of time. I would cover prophecies, factions, nightfall and EOTN in separate vids. It's amazing the servers are still up and running!

[@CJ-jl6hf]

Awesome to hear the editor spurred you into game development! I grew up gaming all my life and if it wasn't for Timesplitters and Farcry's map editors, I probably would have never got into game development lol

[@shudust]

timesplitters fuccc yes

[@SilentForrest-he4qj]

Man. I found a brother! Farcry1 level editor... That was actually the cryengine, not just some level editor. It changed my life man. Totally

[@damsen978]

The remaster was a total miss. They changed the gameplay for the worse, they made the graphics even worse somehow, and haven't even bothered reviving the multiplayer which was desperately needed for Crysis fans. Crysis is a franchise of huge potential that was never taken advantage by any company. They could have also optimized the engine for the game's performance on modern PCs.

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

Meh Crysis 1 was always a game that tried to be too many things at once but could never combine them into a cohesive game. It wants to be an immersive sim, tactical shooter, stealth game, and action game all at the same time and doesn’t do any of these exceptionally well….. also at least the Ceph in the sequels are fun to fight

[@42crazyguy]

​@@MILDMONSTER1234nothing in the sequels is fun to fight after they nerfed the movement to death.

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

@@42crazyguy At least they actually fit the core gameplay (whether or not you like that core gameplay is a different discussion entirely) and don’t change the entire game for the worst, you can still kinda stealth at times against kinda do your own thing on them which is more then what I can say for the squids in the first game (also they just look cooler, making them bipedal and not floating ayy Lmaos was a major plus) funny part is that crytek did the same mistake in farcry 1 with the tri gens but I guess they didn’t learn anything by then

[@xenomorphlover]

I have the remastered trilogy for PS5 and disagree. It runs smooth, looks good and they actually added some kind of raytracing in Crisis 1 which makes the environments even better.

[@damsen978]

They made all vegetation greener which it's not how they look in real life. The newer shader they added on top makes everything look shinier. So not really, they made it look more eyecandy but not more real than the original.@@xenomorphlover

[@SloopJohnB91]

i remember first reading about crysis at age 13 in 2005 when i was in middle school in a PC Gaming magazine in the school library. I played the game on release but wasn't able to enjoy it with high settings until probably 2010 or later. to say the games graphics were earth shattering at the time is an understatement. I remember it was the first game where a forest or a jungle actually felt immersive. before that forests always felt so sparce and empty and graphics couldn't handle the density of objects and foliage. I know the gameplay wasn't groundbreaking but i loved coordinating complex ambushes and picking guys off one by one. I should revisit it!

[@Grechaj]

Great vid, liked and subscribed

[@anticimex1613]

Crysis basically started my love for death metal, because one of those "5000 barrells explosion" videos had a Kalmah song on it (Moon Of My Nights) :D

[@hectormaciasayala1852]

My fav was always Crysis 2 for some reason, and I played Crysis in 2007 when it came out in PC.

[@Shamman_komanch]

I had SOO much fun with the table drill in this game.

[@Moist-Doggy]

i got my first pc in 2005/6 (core 2 duo that i upgraded later to amd phenom II 955 and a 8600gt) run crysis at medium in weird resolution haha i loved that game and the multiplayer was really fun and chaotic with those tac NUKES and all the vehicles same here every time i get new hardware i still load up crysis and play through the game + the game still has TONEs of mods and additional campaigns you can play to this day i played crysis 2 and 3 but the OG is still my fav Nice video +1 sub !

[@Laurentus]

Correction: Oblivion was in 2006. I remember because that was my last year of primary school.

[@VirtualLegacy]

You are correct! I should have double checked.

[@odjiblyat6425]

I had exactly the same experience as you. I spent so many hours in the sandbox... This game shocked me forever

[@anthonybarrett8778]

I think I replayed it at least 30 times. Mostly concentrating on the early game as I could do whatever I wanted to achieve objectives. don't think I managed max settings but the frame rate doesn't seem to have been an issue. I think I was playing on an 8800gts or gt at the time. Such fun!

[@Seskoi]

Ohhh 8800 GTS, memories..! :) I forgot about this one! It was one hell of a performance / price ratio! (At the time powerful GPUs were affordable)

[@devincurrie4145]

Love playing Crysis 2 and 3. Went through both twice. Haven’t tried the first game yet but will soon.

[@HaasTheFirst]

The fact that it took until bf 2042 until a game copied the weapon customization on the fly always was unbelievable to me. That plus the nanosuit (with the og layout of course) made crysis my all time favorite shooter. Btw not having made crysis wars 2 as a bf multiplayer alternative is the biggest blunder ever. Power struggle wiped the floor with all other large scale multiplayer modes!

[@yoice2k]

Played this on my 8800 gt and amd athlon X2 with a box fan to cool my PC. Great job on this video!

[@namemane1139]

Your Video have make my best childhood memory back from Crysis, and can you make a video talk about lost planet 2 ? because that is my favorite game too !

[@VirtualLegacy]

I never played any of the Lost Planet games. It was a series I always wanted to check out!

[@simonriddick]

That's funny the first Video card you show is my old card haha. Wow what a blast from the past. Crazy.

[@noided4230]

good shit. keep it up, bro

[@shinakuma1890]

Didn't strength mode help with the weapon sway when aiming?

[@JuanRodriguez-xl6mp]

i hit the like button and subbed at 2:25 ...well said sir, well said

[@TurokRevolution]

I absolutely love the Crysis series! I first played the game on my brother's laptop and from what I remember it actually played pretty good on low graphic settings. Later I got my own PC on which I was able to play the game on high settings with a playable framerate. I personally can still play the original Crysis without issues. I use the CryMP Client to not only make the multiplayer playable again (despite having no or very few players left) and to avoid the DRM included in the Steam version which makes it impossible to launch. I own pretty much every version, as I have the original PC version, the Xbox 360 port, and the Remaster for Xbox and PC. My pefered way to play the game is still the original PC version, as I have played it so much that I know a lot of little details which make playing it more fun. I'm so glad that Crytek is now making a fourth game, even though I think Crysis 3 had a satisfying ending.

[@daniel-san836]

i played and absolutely loved this when i was about 18 with a new e6600 core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 4gb ram, nvidia 7950gt 1gb System with a 7,200rpm WD Blue HDD & 24" widescreen LCD using Win XP sp2. Bought that PC on a payment plan, had to pay back $100 a week for x amount of weeks with a decent amount of interest as a 18yr old with a new full time job. Remains a great memory to this day. These days I'm running a nvme m.2 samsung 980 drive with a gtx1660ti 8gb, 16gb (2x8gb) 2666mhz duel channel ram and a ryzen 5200x 3.6ghz and for the past few years i've been playing mostly Battlefield 4 multiplayer, these specs serve it nicely. such a good game, reminds me a bit of crisis, but were the opposing players are actually smart.. i'm aware my first gen ryzen cpu is bottlenecking my system but for what i use it for it's more than enough.. for now. next upgrade might be a later gen am4 rezen 7 since they're a great price (i have a top of the line x570 am4 board). but so far, battlefield 4 (2014) is the most graphically intensive thing i run on the system and it's more than equipped for the challenge, i've sunk 700hrs into the game so far and it actually feels like the only game i ever need

[@itsthesteve]

Man, this brought me back. The first time I was able to play it was just leagues ahead of what I was used to

[@overtherenowaitthere]

Oblivion came out in March of 2006, great video! I remember building my first PC with a ATI 4870 and playing Crysis for the first time. I got to play it in 720p at 30fps!

[@FaizanXtreme]

You sure? One of my friends had 4850 and he played at High settings 1600*900 at around 45-60 fps He had core 2 duo 2.4 GHz btw

[@EximiusDux]

@@FaizanXtremeI had to look up the specs because those cards are ancient by now, but a 4850 and a dual core at 2.4gh should not be enough to run Crysis at 1600*900 maxed with more than 40 FPS. The reputation of this game is there for a reason... people did not have the hardware to run it. I wouldn't be surprised if people ran it at 20FPS and thought it was normal.

[@FaizanXtreme]

@@EximiusDux I wrote "High" not "Max"

[@EximiusDux]

@@FaizanXtremeMy bad.

[@honorguard7616]

Some notes on the C1 suit modes Armor also effects the regen of hp & energy if I recall Strength also does recoil control and such Speed effects swap,tac attachment CD and speed of melee

[@SuperHns]

correct

[@kennymccormick8295]

It's affects not effects.

[@Kreia.]

to me, this game was legendary and it is still one of my favorite videogames of all time.

[@odjiblyat6425]

Well done, it’s really a very well done video, super detailed and faithful. You cover absolutely all facets of the game. Too much nostalgia!

[@Mrperson662]

There’s an option to switch modes without the wheel. By double tapping down, sprint, ect. It’s not perfect but it’s just that much faster and makes you feel like the play in the trailer

[@throwback19841]

The other big breakthrough with crysis was some time after release when they released a native 64 bit executable for it. I remember several games got a bump from that; counterstrike was another notable one. It was like when i got my first 3dfx card and suddenly my pc looked better than an n64, and then when it got native 64 bit it looked better than everything.

[@fartex1]

i remember spending over 3 hours in crysis 1 the demo to destroy all palmtrees on that beach... that game was amazing back then

[@lopiklop]

I was surprisingly (surprising to myself) pulled into the hype of Crysis. I was really into the idea of the frozen tropical paradise. This and Fallout 3 I followed basically daily for updates on for a year until release. I was a fan of Far Cry as a kid. The original. But yeah, some of the last few games I got hyped about. I was a fanboy for Crytek for a while, when the crymod website shutdown though, things kind of changed, which came with Crysis 2. I didn't ever make mods. I think I barely even installed them, but I watched the crysis modding scene closely. I think a lot of those folks just got hired by studios.

[@livelong_0331]

as a korean, It's impossible to not laugh listening north Korean soldiers' voice. The lines are awkward but also sounds funny. True legend.

[@Bullevue]

11:58 You can use strength mode to compensate for the scoped weapon sway. It will steady your aim substantially. Shooting subtly decreases your power tho

[@thatzaliasguy]

Tip: While aiming down scope for long range, equip Maximum Strength, as this negates recoil and sway at the cost of suit energy. Secondly, don't use C1 Launcher; instead, just drop in DXVK libraries to run the game natively in Vulkan. Not only does this provide superior performance over DX10, but this also fixes every issue for AMD GPUs.

[@alejandrobadia4835]

played the fist one on a phenom IIx2 550BE paired with a 4850 amd with 512 mb. Had to learn to clean my gpu and repaste it, had to learn about airflow and even tried to put tupperwear with ice on top of the case to drop down even a few degrees. Love it. Finished on Delta too. Crysis 2 had a very good multiplayer, like a COD but a lot faster and crazier (maybe like those futuristic cod bo that came lots of years later)

[@rumbazumba3189]

The crysis 1 multiplayer is one of the best multiplayer games ive ever played. Power struggle was a really cool mode.

[@videogamesareforever]

Ah man. The memories. Bought it with the first Gears of War for my birthday by saving pocket money for months. I had 8600GT. Not the best or even middle but was able to play with 40-50fps with medium/high settings. Anything higher and the neigherhood would wake up. The gameplay was phenomenal and unlike anything else. And that gameplay is still unique to Crisis trilogy. Unlike the trailer, you're not a super soldier. You're just a normal one with a simple suit for tacking various environments & situations. Simple suit but highly advanced. You had to depend on it for the full game as NPCs could rip you to sheards in seconds even with Armor mode in medium difficulty and hard difficulty was the minimal way to enjoy the game to it's full potential. The AI was quite good for it's time. Covering, Flanking, asking for backups, ganging up on your last location from all directions when they shared your locations with other NPCs etc. And the day/night time cycle was amazing. You couldn't just go gun blazing. Man, now I'm feeling like playing the trilogy again. Let's find the disks. I should have it somewhere. ^_^

[@DeadByDeath]

Wow, I once saw Guyver in passing during my childhood and have been annoyed that i couldn't ever find the name of the movie I had seen. After 28 years, I can now look it up.

[@livingthedream0527]

A story I fondly tell people (lowkey flex) when Crysis comes up is that I naively bought Crysis Warhead in late 2008 / early 2009 and much like you I was greeted with 5 fps max 7 fps on the home computer but I actually did play through the whole thing, and I think eventually Crysis as well but in late 09 I did get a decent enough PC so the memory is blurred a bit, regardless I could never play a game less than 30 fps typically and considering I was a kid (although why I reckon I was more patient) it is a testament to the gameplay loop while also buying into the romance of it all due to their marketing/box art and stigma.

[@brute9867]

i first played the crysis demo and was blown away just from that! Later I torrented the game and i think it was so much more than i initially believed. Really long and engaging campaign. Yeah like you said 2007 was a damn good year!

[@MrJakeros]

Not a bad analysis/review. Have a sub.

[@te0nani]

I played it back then with an 8800GT and sometimes I still play it today. Crysis and Crysis Warhead are one of my favorite Games ever. I just like how you can utilize your suit and the environment.

[@JasonBhoy7]

I can always go back to Crysis and be amazed. Love the difficulty aswell; I never play it the same way twice. This and half-life are the only 'old shooters' that I can go back and play and feel like its a new game. Just started another install of it as I'm watching this. My favourite out of the Crysis series is the third one and I've still yet to finish it. I could never afford crysis let alone the pc to play it so Crysis 3 on ps3(?) was my first foray into it. So when I finally got to play Crysis on PC, I was amazed that they could make a game like that so long ago.

[@gamersoul1773]

Wel said . Nostalgia. Always wanted to play it on highest settings. Finally can, and still amazing 😊

[@HaasTheFirst]

Just imagine this: A crysis battle royal game! Nanosuit, destructible objects and buildings and even vehicles. Would be awesome I think.

[@pepbizmo]

Im a big fan of the Crysis games, but the change in water FX and the removal of the blur FX was disasterous, but overal i enjoyed the Remasters, the high-res textures and especially the Ray-Tracing FX in Crysis 1. Why theyve kept the original water FX in Crysis 3 is strange (shouldve kept the original water FX in all the games) and the removal of the Crysis 2/3 MP is a shame (i loved the MP). I would love to see the addition of Crysis Warhead to the Remasters though.

[@RiccardoTheBeAst]

I had the honour to play Original Crysis (i still have both Crysis and Crysis Warhead cd versions) on my first custom built pc, with Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2GB DDR3 and 8800 GTX, back in 2007. Incredible. I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E. A PC only game made with PC only graphic engine! What a time! I finished it 4 or 5 times, and played countless battles in multiplayer! It was a tough arcade game, as it had big maps, tactical features and vehicles, short time-to-kill and so on. A masterpiece!

[@Jaddico]

2007: " SLI BRO, BRO BRO BRO BRO SLI SLI BRO BRBROBROBRO 8800gt 8800gt BROBROBRO ANTI ALIASING BROBROBROBRO 1080 60fps" 2023: " lol whats an SLI?" *LAUGHS IN RAYTRACING*

[@VirtualLegacy]

Oh my that brings me back. I only ever briefly ran SLI with 970s. Also dedicated PhysX cards haha things of the past.

[@Jaddico]

@@VirtualLegacy Crazy what GPUS push out now, its a shame you can only really appreciatte the scope when its insanely scaled up in Res quality rather than the technological requirements (RTX)

[@TyrannoWright]

2032: What's a GPU?

[@rubenlopez3364]

Crysis 3 had a great multiplayer im glad I was able to get some matches in before it went offline, the non suit and suit modes made it fresh I specially remember the “Infected” clone where one dude has the Nano Suit and picks off the No suit guys with a bow to get more allies

[@Hakkurio]

Game looks amazing, is this remastered edition or OG ? Anyway, I need to install and play it. Years ago since last time!

[@VirtualLegacy]

It's a mix of footage, but primarily just from the OG. I tried to just keep the remastered footage to the end when I specifically talked about it.

[@Nanogrip]

OG Crysis is one of my most favorite games. I had a 7900 GT that would run it in slideshow mode haha. Then TweakGuides came out with how to run the game with godrays and many other tweaks without needing to tap into DX10. I then upgraded my graphics card to an 8800 GT, by this time Crysis was running great with tweaked cfg graphics files (aside from when the squids got their screentime). I run the game every now and then, loading up user made single player missions as well as playing through the original campaign. Great game, lots of fond memories at the time!

[@CarrotM15]

Ran this on a GTX GT220 back in the day. Played on lowest of low settings & still had a blast. Choppy, but a blast.

[@lorrewatkins5925]

NanoSuit V3-4 is the best version full complete, and Hell Yea I Loved the attachments on the fly !

[@Xcerptshow]

16:30 Did Nomad move on to Ghost Recon(Wildlands and Breakpoint)?

[@Argoon1981]

One of my favorite games, I still play it from time to time and is still fun and every time, it reminds me how game graphics have evolved so little. This game to me is the evidence that since Crysis 1 came out in 2007, 4 years after Far Cry 1, games have evolved gradually but slowly, while demanding more and more hardware power, we even need upscaling to play modern games at medium on 700€ plus GPU's! If you plotted the evolution of games graphics in a graph the line that shows graphics evolution since Crysis 1, is almost a slow but steady evolving linear slop, while the line that shows the demand on hardware, is a huge increasing hill (GPU price is also a huge increasing hill...). For example, Alan Wake 2 the current most hyped game that many claim is the new evolution/jump in graphics, it came 4 years after Control and despite obviously looking better than Control, IMO it is not to the level that Far Cry 1 is to Crysis 1, on the graphics evolution scale, these two games are worlds apart ( in gameplay as well) and IMO that was a unique point in history. I don't think we will ever see such fast jump in graphics anymore. And Btw Crysis was hard on the hardware indeed at the time but it didn't needed upscaling (it didn't existed) to run at medium to high settings! Unlike modern games... I recall very well, I was able to play Crysis 1 in 1050p at ~60 fps medium settings, on a Intel i7 Quad Core that I don't recall now the version and a second hand ATI Radeon 9800 XT that I bough for less than 200€, a GPU that if I'm not mistaken, was already 4 years old when I bought it.

[@JunkandCraft]

I remember watching my dad play on his beast of a computer in 2007. Time flies lol

[@isaiaslafon9329]

I am trying to play Crysis Warhead and I having some unresolvable issues, the game not crash, but the visual graphics had weird issue if you move quality on shadows, shaders or textures that one cancell the other making it light look weird, also the distance close up of object sometimes change to an object that doesn't match.

[@simongravel7407]

I'd say it was the first game to bridge the gap with offline rendering and usher us in a new era. There truly has never been anything like it since then. (It may be too financially risky.) Crysis had it "all" on a technical level. No other game when it came out and for many years afterward even had as many shaders running at once as it did: object motion blur, screen-space ambient occlusion, depth of field, subsurface scattering, tessellation, parallax occlusion mapping, transparency, post-processing filters, etc. And I never thought it was a tech demo. I very much enjoyed the gameplay, the story was fine for what it was, the physics were a lot of fun, the sound was superb and so was the soundtrack. Crytek announced a new Crysis game and I really hope it's going to be some sort of reboot. I'm longing for a jungle setting!

[@mickbrandt5588]

not to mention Crysis 3 had 3D support. i played it with my 3d TV which i still got. have 3d glasses that made all the loudout changings and the UI to be popping out towards me like i was in the game.

[@muckymcfly]

My core 2 duo enjoyed this game hahaha, still got my box version somewhere. Might also have to re-play Warhead, totally forgot about that game.

[@Postal268]

After watching this I just went and dug through my old box of games I hadn't opened since 2013 and found my copy of Crysis still in there, complete with the Alienware ad and all lol I'm super curious how well my 3070ti will run it so I think I'll load this on my PC next chance I get. I didn't pick the game up until around 2009 since I didn't have a true gaming PC until then and I think I was rocking a ATI HD4890 and I wish I could remember my FPS but I do remember it did indeed run Crysis, I also can't remember what settings though

[@babysaleem1]

bro has a masters degree in yapology, i liked and subbed

[@someonespotatohmm9513]

Played trough crysis and warhead once (warhead was in a better state stability whise and looked a bit better from what I recal). But most my playtime was a mod called Mech warior living legends. Amazing times!