Crysis COMPLETE.
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xyzzysqrlSo... okay, let's go to Spoiler Cut Land.
Okay, apparently I stopped playing Crysis for the last post right before The Big Change. The Big Change, I had been assured by the internet, is where the game suddenly stops being fun and everything goes to hell and the seas emit smoke and waterfowl give live birth and so on and so forth.
It's where spider-jellyfish aliens show up. It's where you do zero-gravity segments inside a biomechanical mothership. It's where you fly a plane around and dogfight those slinky-spider things from The Matrix.
This is the BEST GODDAMN PART OF THE GAME, insofar as it is actually a -game- instead of a Korean shooting gallery. (I assume, by the way, that you are playing Crysis to shoot things. If you're really seriously playing this to punch the roof off tin shacks, you want to go back to the start of the game and I will admit I am wrong.) The GAME part, however, gets good here. Then it ends. Oh well.
So I spent 75% of Crysis going "yeah yeah whatever" and 25% going "WAIT, THAT, GIVE ME MORE OF IT." Seriously, the zero-G segment alone made me CRAVE a remake of Descent in this engine. Gwuh. And this is what's condemned as "the worst part of the game"? Why doesn't the internet know what's good for it, as decreed by -I-, the GRAND ARBITER OF ALL TASTE? Yeah whatever.
Uh. Complaints... Yes. For one thing, this game reminded me why I don't play Military Shooters.
"NOMAD, TAKE OUT THAT ANTI-TANK SQUAD IN YOUR TANK."
"NOMAD, FLY A VTOL WITH NO TRAINING."
"NOMAD, PERSONALLY PUNCH OUT THE NORTH KOREAN GENERAL."
"NOMAD, PICK UP MY DRY CLEANING."
At one point I loaded a saved game and four jumbled, garbled "NOMAD DO THIS" messages attempted to play at the same time. Fuck ALL y'all motherfuckers, I'm going SWIMMING. It's PRETTY down there.
The boyfriend had a good laugh when, at what was clearly supposed to be a moving death scene, I sighed with relief "Thank GOODNESS, he DIED, now he'll stop trying to TALK to me."
Then again, for every thing it did wrong, it did something okay. The physics of punching down houses were AMAZING. And this game remembered alterable shotgun chokes EXIST. Hey game developers? We've been able to change the shot spread on those things since 1890 or so. Catch UP.
So... I finished Crysis, as I just finished telling you if you went under the cut.
Then I loaded up Call of the Fireflies, a beautiful puzzle-adventure in... I want to say Myst style, but it's not quite that puzzlesome. If you're the type of person to enjoy slow-paced, meditative, short games about avoiding water, gazing at beautiful snowy landscapes, and getting from point A to point B, and ALSO you own Crysis...
...I want to believe this is a demograph that encompasses more than JUST ME...
...you might enjoy this. I enormously reccomend Call of the Fireflies. Crysis I can take or leave.
Okay, apparently I stopped playing Crysis for the last post right before The Big Change. The Big Change, I had been assured by the internet, is where the game suddenly stops being fun and everything goes to hell and the seas emit smoke and waterfowl give live birth and so on and so forth.
It's where spider-jellyfish aliens show up. It's where you do zero-gravity segments inside a biomechanical mothership. It's where you fly a plane around and dogfight those slinky-spider things from The Matrix.
This is the BEST GODDAMN PART OF THE GAME, insofar as it is actually a -game- instead of a Korean shooting gallery. (I assume, by the way, that you are playing Crysis to shoot things. If you're really seriously playing this to punch the roof off tin shacks, you want to go back to the start of the game and I will admit I am wrong.) The GAME part, however, gets good here. Then it ends. Oh well.
So I spent 75% of Crysis going "yeah yeah whatever" and 25% going "WAIT, THAT, GIVE ME MORE OF IT." Seriously, the zero-G segment alone made me CRAVE a remake of Descent in this engine. Gwuh. And this is what's condemned as "the worst part of the game"? Why doesn't the internet know what's good for it, as decreed by -I-, the GRAND ARBITER OF ALL TASTE? Yeah whatever.
Uh. Complaints... Yes. For one thing, this game reminded me why I don't play Military Shooters.
"NOMAD, TAKE OUT THAT ANTI-TANK SQUAD IN YOUR TANK."
"NOMAD, FLY A VTOL WITH NO TRAINING."
"NOMAD, PERSONALLY PUNCH OUT THE NORTH KOREAN GENERAL."
"NOMAD, PICK UP MY DRY CLEANING."
At one point I loaded a saved game and four jumbled, garbled "NOMAD DO THIS" messages attempted to play at the same time. Fuck ALL y'all motherfuckers, I'm going SWIMMING. It's PRETTY down there.
The boyfriend had a good laugh when, at what was clearly supposed to be a moving death scene, I sighed with relief "Thank GOODNESS, he DIED, now he'll stop trying to TALK to me."
Then again, for every thing it did wrong, it did something okay. The physics of punching down houses were AMAZING. And this game remembered alterable shotgun chokes EXIST. Hey game developers? We've been able to change the shot spread on those things since 1890 or so. Catch UP.
So... I finished Crysis, as I just finished telling you if you went under the cut.
Then I loaded up Call of the Fireflies, a beautiful puzzle-adventure in... I want to say Myst style, but it's not quite that puzzlesome. If you're the type of person to enjoy slow-paced, meditative, short games about avoiding water, gazing at beautiful snowy landscapes, and getting from point A to point B, and ALSO you own Crysis...
...I want to believe this is a demograph that encompasses more than JUST ME...
...you might enjoy this. I enormously reccomend Call of the Fireflies. Crysis I can take or leave.
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