Yes, I have been made aware Crysis is a german game, not an american game.

Fun fact: On max difficulty, human enemies speak Korean to make it more difficult to figure out what they're doing

i remember mom complaining about the jet engine noises coming form my room...it was all 42 cooling fans running at mach jesus

FUN FACT: Galaxies are LARGE! for example our own Milky Way is estimeted to be a hefty 100,000 light years across. So it's perfectly feaseable for there to be a star 4M light years away and stll be in the M33 galaxy. Depending also on the star's location and the angle at which the signal has to travel. Most likely the signal will have to relay (spelled bounce) several times to reach it's optimal angle, and the planet system it is trying to reach. I'm assuming the Ceph are not on the star itself, but...it's the Ceph...so you never know. Sorry, but fellow space nut.

Psycho immediately living up to his name by flagging his whole team. Also, high tech supers soldiers with the most advanced equipment, iron sights.

The guy speaking Spanish getting the nickname "Aztec" is refreshing. Finally, a game where military nicknames feel real.

The sound Nomad makes when they rock hits him is really fitting for the moment to, he just sounds disappointed and slightly annoyed

The biggest sin is killing off Nomad in a comic book and not even mentioning this in the second game

“The more we learn about both of these, however, the more horrifying and existentially threatening they become…” Ahhhh Crysis 2, my love, my darling, I miss thee

Least armored Mi-24:

I distinctly remember watching my cousin play Crysis and those helicopters frustrated him to no end. The moment you popped out of stealth mode they'd be on you, regardless of how much cover you seemed to be in. In the dense foliage? Hiding behind a shed? Underwater? Screw you, the helicopter was going to find you.

Oh play Crysis Warhead. You find out what Psycho was doing on the island the whole time.

So, they watched Predator, and said "what if it was halo"?

at 22:24 you called Crysis an american game, it was actually developed in germany by Crytek who is also responsible for far cry1

the funny thing to me with the whole series is just that after each one it feels it got a complete rewrite

At -200°F youre way past the point where CO2 starts to liquify and fall down in the shape of rain or snow....

"Cheap knockoffs" and yet, as I recall, pound for pound, they're about 2-3x stronger than Nomad. I always felt that, even on easiest difficulty, the game didn't give you enough power in your armour. Nothing lasted long enough to be any fun to me as a kid looking for a power trip - it was a ballbuster of a game from top to bottom.

My father loved this game and he still says it should get more love in the form of new entries or a movie. I watched him play and remember I loved the first part, up until you escape the island. The whole mystery behind the alien in the jungle and the freezing was so well done. It kept the story interesting and spooky. Once you are on the ship, that magic evaporates and the ending felt unfinished to me.

It's so funny how everyone is crying how Crysis was demanding, when it was, in fact, exactly the opposite. Yes, highes settings could melt your computer, but lowest could be played on potatoes with very good framerates.

Not to mention Oxygen has a a freezing point of -361.8°F so it's getting close freezing Oxygen in that bubble.

Theres like rocket launchers littered everywhere, helis arent a problem when you have a rocket launcher

And in Crysis 2 concept art, one page is General Strickland with half of his body are cyborg augmentation. Yep, he survived, at least his brain survived......

Real NK super soldiers, are just regular soldiers that have been given ammunition and have had breakfast that morning

As someone who lives in the Philippines, bordera disputes with China is not something new...it is depressing

As much as crysis 1 did favour stealth in some ways, it also REALLY let you kickass. Many MAXIMUM modes have passives, so you can switch to MAXIMUM SPEED, fucking blue blur your way over half a block, killing all of your energy, instantly swap to MAXIMUM POWER, laserbeam a magazine into some dudes chests for a few seconds while you recharge, MAXIMUM SPEED walk behind cover, then cloak your ass to another firing position out of sight. If your mouse has forward/backward buttons, bind the suit mode-menu to them.

Driving with cloak on. Never thought about this in 15 years, thank you.

did u notice the frozen solid north korean soldiers (you can find everywhere in the end in the game) still blink?

@11:20 actually, if you play the game on the hardest setting they dont have those lame accents. They just straight up speak korean

As a Filipino who played the game... (thank GOD for that one local computer shop; now defunct, that had some of the computers able to run the game smoothly), I am upset and offended that the fictional island that's basically in my country's front lawn, *is named in Chinese* . The HECK???

Ah yes, PC benchmark (the game)

Okay but Crysis was a chad. Came outta nowhere swinging.

It's actually a German game

Fun trivia: The game waas proceeded by a 'preview' version, that only contained the first level up to the frozen boat... And that scene ended with a giant chicken bursting through the boat, the team reacting in shock, and then everything fading to black. NB: IIRC, the game could run perfectly on an i3-2500k and R9-290 on full settings and 1080. If you do want to play this game to its fullest potential, you probably need similar 2013 hardware.

Before I watch the video I just wanna comment that I remember when I first played Crysis, I had NO idea what was going on. I was just goin full CLOAK ENGAGED fighting the bad guys then out of no where I’m in some cave floating around killing these fucking huge jelly fish. What the FUK

2004 to 2013 was the peak of PC gaming it felt like every year people were just rewriting what you can expect in future games. The hardware demands have gone up by a lot since then but actual gameplay and mechanics have not really gotten to the point where you question if you can ever enjoy games from 4 years ago again.

The shark in the first Crysis game scared the shit out of me. And annoyed the hell out of me, when you used cheat engines, when it would still follow you around, even when it couldn't kill you, it never went away 🤣

Two tank shells to take down a helicopter? What, are the devs War Thunder players?

32:55 Me - "It broke the rest of the series."

There’s something almost poetic about the final boss being so unknowable to the characters that it caused tech issues in recording it

The graphics still hold up amazingly

I am surprised people were having trouble with helicopters. You had an on demand invisibility button that was so stupidly overpowered i don't remember the helicopter ever actually firing at me.

Crysis was one of those games that just got lumped into the pile of "adventure shooters" for me and I had no idea it was literally aliens. Between Far Cry, Just Cause, Lost Planet, Resistance, and Killzone those few years in the late 2000s were just absolutely packed with games that spun the shooter genre gameplay into something crazy and I completely missed all of them.

In my opinion, as a fan of alien invasion media, the games are alright with interesting ideas and characters, but there are a lot of missed opportunities, such as the ending of the first game and the setting of Crysis 3.

I always loved the 5-modes of the suit in OG Crysis. The little things, like max strength lowering recoil, or the existence at all of max speed were really nice. 2 and 3 just felt too dumbed down in the gameplay loop afterward.

I wouldn't mind hearing that nano suit fanfic you'd write about.

Very good video, thank you. Also, alien ship segment scared the shit out of me as a child, the trauma was so big that i replayed 2 and 3 game like 10 times more that 1)

I was 13 when i played this on my late uncles PC. He left me there and was suprised when i was up to the final battle in the morning. It was a dls launcher that would fix the crash i remember. Rarely have i experienced a shooter that had me locked in I enjoyed your video and explanation

If you want to know what was happened after Crysis 1 with the Raptor team and Nomad you can read Crysis comic It's relatively short and has some "spooky alien jazz" going on and will make slightly more sense of Crysis 2 iirc Prophet finds ANOTHER alien gun Something I find really funny is that scientists on the ship were amazed by how Prothet made that human-ceph hybrid gun using fucking nothing and he basically just shrugs That WON'T be part of a crucial plot point in later games, don't you worry

Crisis is so good i feel like it was ahead of its time they should remaster/make them

No its EXACTLY as wild as I remember

20:36 "its a miracle you're still alive" A random boulder about to show a billion dollar piece of military hardware what-for: "and i took offense to that"

Im surprised this game franchise hasn't become a tv series by now

This game was everything but hard ,even on a very hard setting. Also,you got eaten by sharks,if swam further into sea.

if you use just speed mode and strength when you need to jump the game is a fun run and gun shooter to blitz enemy's until you get to the aliens.

For some reason nomand never spoke in my game so hearing his voice threw me off

It was always strange to me that they went with "giant ice octopus aliens" when the first half of the game is basically just... The Predator. I definitely expected to see Predator-style enemies with their own cloaking technology and plasma guns and stuff to mirror your supersuit. Instead we got knock-off korean nanosoldiers and the aliens were all helicopter bosses. Definitely felt weird.

I think the external fuel tanks on both the helicopters and tanks were weak points. Some machine gunning would explode them and take down the vehicle health to make them easier to finish off, iirc. Do like your victory dance, though. Also I remember the final boss battle was ~4 FPS on my 2008 rig.

I have randomly found your videos and I am honestly laughing my ass off at everything. You have earned a new sub. You neeeed more subs

Fun fact, I'm Nomad.

Strange. I do not remember helicopters ever being a problem. Two rockets and they're down. Or one if you lead the rocket from top to hit the rotor.

I wasn't cringe, I was depressed

funny how crysis 1 still looks better then 95% of all new games and crysis 3 still miles ahead of 99% of games today

Funny how an Alien race that "absorbs energy" is damaged by kenetic energy weapons. Cause if you absorb the kinetci energy in a bullet, it aint gonna so much anymore. Once again, the special power as casting the bullet spell saves the day. Nice video though.

15:58 that anti-air shouldn’t be spinning like that lol

Upon playing the first game blindly, oh so many years ago, I honestly didn't see the alien part coming. It was a weird surprise. A bit out of place to be honest. I was expecting a regular 'future warfare' stuff.

Wait, it doesn't even have 1080p ? Damn.

I don't remember much about Crysis. You shoot some aliens and then suddenly there's a bunch of North Koreans or something.

If I remember correctly there's also a bug in the boss battle where it soft locks requiring you to restart the encounter. The most annoying bug is that EA didn't ship subsequent releases with a 64 bit exe so you couldn't run it on AMD systems (specifically piledriver & bulldozer based CUPs).

We have been developing railguns since the early 2000s btw.

Strickland will vaporize you if you go AWOL in Exodus by going to the VTOL evac site as soon as the mission begins.

Crysis had its REALLY cool moments. It felt like a really good action movie! Loved it!

wait no shot this game actually predicted china taking over an island in philippine sea because of its natural resources 💀

Also helicopters were dirt easy once you figured out that all you needed to do was destroy the tail rotor with either a sniper shot or rocket and it would instantly down the thing.

Nice detail is if you use the jeep with the 50cal that Strickland use to shoot the walker and leave it somewhere else. Strickland will actually use his pistol to shoot the walker Strickland: Eat Lead Scum! *Gunshots* *Gulp* Strickland: Huh... (Looks at the gun) I guess it tastes good😂

Feeling your gaze bearing down on me through my screen and sweating nervously while hearing "obsessed with the nanosuit " and using it as a writing idea. Can..can you read my thoughts..? ...do you have ESPN? 😨

Oh deear lord You just reminded me that few things in fiction I am still writting started as a thing inspired by Crysis- a biological take on the Nanosuit, creatively named Biosuit. I was quite obsessed with both RE and Crysis back then

The sleeping dart attachment was disappointing.

Cloak engaged

The beauty of this game is it's essentially Predator, with a new enemy that has the ability to scare and induce awe in us, while overpowering our heroes as much as the Predator in the original movie. It's nearly a beat-for-beat recreation of the main story drivers of Predator that made that movie so good: * You have a crack team of massive gung-ho US Special Forces soldiers literally rippling with muscles (via the nano suit) and all of the latest high tech weapons tech DARPA can provide * You have the "North Koreans" (cough: originally Chinese) taking the place of the narcos/rebels in the first Predator movie. Technologically and muscularly disadvantaged, they provide easy pickings and fun cannon fodder for our heroes to playfully obliterate * Prophet, like Dillon, knows more than he's letting on to his team, but neither of them knew the true threat they were facing. The CIA lady is closer to the role of Dillon in her role as the outsider and spook, but Prophet fulfills the muscle-bound action hero role that Dillon maintained, so they split the traits a bit between them * Virtually the whole game and its expansion pack sequel content take place within a tropical jungle setting (in fact, this setting theme is largely consistent between all 3 main games, especially 1 and 3) * You have an unknown enemy presence lurking unseen but providing awareness of itself early on through auditory cues, and that presence then starts brutally picking your heroes off unseen one at a time. In fact, the first one is strung up in a tree, representing the Predator's penchant for hiding there and referencing the early scene with the skinned bodies * When the alien does become known, it's an ambush predator, quickly moving in and through your team with superior technology to ambush the soldiers and separate them Later, the game goes a bit different route with the larger sets, veering more into the realm of Aliens when you go underground and take the fight to them, then have all the Marines fighting, losing, and just looking to escape. The game then recreated the Ripley vs the Queen scene when you have your armored power suit and fight the big alien boss on the aircraft carrier at the end. All in all, the presentation and approach was a master class in taking the best elements of classic 80s sci-fi movies that we love deep down, re-telling them in a new way in a new medium, and maintaining that build up and that "flip the script" moment where the badass human forces go from hunters to hunted, making us feel vulnerable and uneasy. Well done, Crytek.

I was honestly impressed by this vid, first one i've seen from you. I like how knowledgeable you are about a lot of the subject matter, not just in the game, but on topics I'm interested in general. Pretty rare to find someone as passionate about this stuff as me lol, esp willing to do research, like when you knew about IRL Gauss rifles that are just coming out. I wonder if you saw the same Forgotten weapons vid i did. Crysis really predicted a lot of future tech to almost the exact year lol.

I don't remeber helicopters being problem at all. What I do remeber is final boss fight no working at all. I was stuck with frozen ship that could not be targeted and spend hours trying to figure out what you even supposed to in this fight.

If we assume that the gasoline could have been ignited before the freeze hit, there's a chance the surrounding area might have been hot enough to not get below the negative temperatures, which would cause the gasoline to freeze

*spoilers* If I remember correctly, suit cannot be vaporized with living human wearer inside, only dead one. This is proved in Crysis 3 where they skinned suits of their wearers, sometimes even causing death, since suit is symbiotic after some time. They wore protective layer in version 1 that prevented suit from bonding to the body. Prophet wore this protective layer in the beginning of the Crysis 2. After he kills himself, he sticks Alcatraz inside without protective layer, causing his wounded body and suit to fuse. It is noted during inspection by Lockhart and doctors that suit started growing into Alcatraz' wounds, healing them and replacing what was damaged.

What did the unnamed science man do wrong? The one the speaker wanted to shove overboard with Wop style Crocs.

Crysis 1 was originally planned to have a much in depth story but development troubles caused the devs to simplify the experience. The game was planned to have some what of mass effect style plot where player actions have an effect on the game. Levels would be more replayable as they would be more like an open world With them changing as the game went on additionaly there where 3 alien levels that the player would go trough. But alot was cut. Now the plot or what was gonna be. There where 4 factions planned Ceph, Nk, US and China. NK intialy would be the enemy of the US but trough half of the game depending on player actions the Koreans and the US would form a truce and band together to fight the aliens with China being the second big bad. The entire third act was cut, when Nomad says ''we are going back'' that was infact only the second act ending The 3rd act was going to be Raptor squad going to fight the aliens and end it there. But this was cut and reused in later games with some adjustments. But i wont spoil what it was as you still didnt play the 3rd game, il comment it on that vid when it comes about EDIT shit it was a long one

16 year old game has a remaster version that works fine.

For me, Crysis 1 never had a sequel, Crysis 2 and 3 are just similar games, but nothing compared to the original.

Love the video, Prophet's voice actor is one of the best ever I was so happy for the 2nd game. ^---^

It has almost been 6 days since this video released, how does it not have thousands of views yet?? I came back to watch till the end, the editing and narration was pretty good

If it helps, you are 100% right about the Galaxy they come from. Both in your corrections to their writting team, and that later it is canonically the very galaxy they reference the Ceph as having come from. Good job!

The Helicopters are so tough because they have localize damage models. The sniper could down a helicopter in only a few shots if you hit the engines or tail rotor.

Damn the graphics still look gorgeous.

Huh, i never had problems with the helicopters. I was more or less using a strategy on every soldier i nicknamed the 'Sleeper Hit' Basically, your fists almost one-shots everything and sends enemies flying. I would activate the cloak, move in while they grouped up, and then go full on dempsey roll each time. Let me tell you, it's a crime the second and third games don't have the same effect when using melee.

Surely someone made a mod that allows it to run well on multi-core CPUs.

One of the few galaxies that u can see with the naked eye too

I remember having to redo that whoooooole run down the moutain while everyone was trying to kill you section because i saved at the boss fight. That sucked. Hard.

In the first unnerving scene, I think the rocks play into that. They look like faces, but not so much that you instantly notice it, JUST enough that it triggers the "someone is watching me" part of your brain even when just scanning the area while moving, you only really notice the faces of you STARE at the rocks, then they are EVERYWHERE.

You remind me of Mandalore. It's the undertone of quiet despair. I like it! EDIT1: When playing Warframe, I often use Mesa. And I play the Novakid theme from Starbound. When the banjo kicks in, I use Mesa's Wristols ultimate, and I growl: "MAXIMUM YEEHAW." 21:40 To be fair, those things are the Ceph equivalent of *leaf blowers.*

I really don't get why people hate on 2 and 3. To me those where the ones who added depth to the world, and don't make me start with the whole novelisation of Crysis 2, in wich the inner monologue of Alcatraz being consumed by the suit and Prophet is amazing. But I don't get why tf Crysis 2 dosen't have any inner dialogue. That could give that game the depth it deserved. And the inner dialogue and interaction with Psycho in 3 is amazing. I hope you bring those elements in your next crysis videos if there are any more.

If I made a review of Crysis it would 98% revolve around the FANTASTIC map editor. I probably spent well over a thousand hours in the cryengine 2 map editor (cryengine 1 was for far cry 1, also spent a few hundred hours in that). Still remember, ctrl+G and you spawn in where the camera in the editor is and can play the map you JUST edited. Want more enemies at once? just click esc and drop in more enemies attached to the spawn trigger of that wave of enemies, takes like ten seconds. Ctrl+G to test it out again INSTANTLY.