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Crysis: That Game Where You Shoot Trees
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Im willing to bet you will run it quite well actually. Overclock everything, especially the CPUs and you should be pretty good.
Are you fucking serious? Of course you can run the game. You have a dual core system, 2Gb of memory, and a fairly modern card. And yet you believe you have to drop 3,000 dollars on a new machine? Why does everyone think they have to run a game at the maximum settings or they can't run it at all? Sure, you may not be able to do it at 1600x1200 with all the fancy graphical options and DX10, but it's still going to look fantastic. One of the developers runs the game on a similar system to yours and they run it at most settings turned on, minus DX10 (which is NOT required to play the game; it still comes with DX9 and still looks absolutely fantastic; DX10 just adds some graphical effects).
It's just graphical effects, as far as I know. They've never said anything other than that. It'll still look great on DX9, obviously much better than any other game out there, but with DX10 it'll just look a little nicer. I don't think it's worth upgrading to Vista just for Crysis, though, considering how buggy that shit is and other such things.
The Story:
Basically something Alien crashes into North Korea, and you're sent in to check it out. Hilarity Ensues.
I congratulate Raere on his impressive reading abilities.
Also, the location isn't North Korea. It's on an island which North Korea took control of after the asteroid landed there.
That a bummer.
Was just going off what the guy told me. Maybe it is an island off of the coastline? I don't know. All in all it sounded, and felt, like Farcry.
Edit: besides, that article is written by someone who clearly is just throwing words around to seem like he knows what he's talking about.
I think Crytek may have changed the plot.
At CES they specifically said you are sent in to recover some missing archaeologists.
So that means they dont know about the Alien asteroid until later in the game, so for the start you are just fighting Koreans to rescue some hostages.
I may be wrong though, but I picked up on it immediately. Cause you know, asteroid hits an island in international waters, America would be all over it in seconds. The only plausible way for the Koreans to get there first is A: Its in Korean waters, or very close or B: The impact wasnt as high profile, and you dont know about it until later.
Sorry to add to the bummer:
Kotaku reports:
You know, this is the second time in so many weeks that 1UP got totally burned on a bogus rumor. Don't they have access to these companies? Can't they get a simple confirm, deny or no comment? I mean, do they do anything but cut-and-paste shit from a popular thread on a gaming forum?
Oh well. Crysis is actually going to be my excuse for a future Windows machine, since I've wanted to get back into PC gaming while doing all my important stuff on the Mac. I figure that setting Crysis as a benchmark when it's released will give me a good idea of what to drop cash on and ensure me at least a few years of solid gaming before the next tech-marvel FPS pops out.
My understanding is that it will, just won't look as good or have some of the flashier effects.
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I'll wait for a whole slew of games that force me to upgrade. Like when HL2, Doom 3 and Far Cry all came out in rapid succession.
Make sure you use crisp Virgin bills to make your purchase, else the PC Gods will be angry and they will strike you down with carpal tunnel!
This is what i look forward to doing when i build myself a new pc, one that can take Crysis and make it look sextacular.
Jesus, Centipeed should just put it in the damn TITLE. Crysis will play on DX9 hardware just fine. It will look just fine, too! Most of the content they've showed until recently has all been DX9 footage. You don't need DX10 and Vista just to play this God damn game. That would be suicide from a financial standpoint. Come on, people, common sense.
The only game that does actually require Vista is Halo 2, I think, but we all know why that is. Most games will not require Vista anytime soon because most consumers, or at least a large portion, will still be on older hardware and XP. PC gaming sees developers trying to maximum profits by maximizing the group of people that can play it.
I know I won't need DX10. But my PC is still running an AGP card. So upgrading means a total overhaul which means I'd probably upgrade right to DX10 since what I have currently probably won't run Crysis in DX9 very well.
Although it's DX9 as well I look at Crysis as a DX10 game, because really that's how it'll look the best. When there are enough games that have DX10 capabilities then I'll upgrade.
Exactly.
Except Crytek. They have stated, every time, that they are sick of having to accomodate the lowest common denominator to maximise profits.
Meaning the only reason Crysis is so graphically superior is because they basically dont give a shit about people with PCs more than a year old and have just pushed the boundaries so far ahead.
Well my reply was more for everyone, since that damn question [or comment] keeps popping up. I'm getting tired of seeing "Crysis is DX10 only?!" Also, you do know Nvidia is releasing 80-180 dollar DX10 8000-series cards? A decent DX10 upgrade probably wouldn't cost you much. In fact, the most expensive part would probably be Vista itself.
Except they've said it'll run on machines two years old at most settings, and will also include a heavy slew of video options. Most PC gamers won't be in the dark.
I'd need a new motherboad, CPU, RAM, Video Card, Powersupply and Vista to get to DX10.
To get what I want to get I'm thinking it would cost me around $1700 to build it myself. God damn Canadian prices.
What with all the tree shooting.