Crysis®

When the game first started off it was fun for the first hour or two as after that it got really frustratingly difficult even on easy difficulty. And what's the point of having a stealth ability if it does not work half of the time? as they are going to spot you no matter what somehow and then once they spot you you can't really lose them and this is mostly annoying with the helicopters especially in the near end of the relic level as you are going to get spoted no matter what and you have literal no way to get rid of or to deal with the helicopter that's shooting at you while you run to the end of the level and then there is a sudden difficulty spike which is unfair as th enemies you have to clear out one shots you for the most part becasue of their damage boosting nanosuits and after that everyone just felt like bullet sponges while you are squishy as fuck. And that is not even begining to scratch the surface level of frustration as this game is buggy as fuck as in the assult level near the end after you sink the ship you are supposed to take down the helicopters good luck getting the first one down as it's so high in the sky just circling around your characters head and if you are lucky the rockets would actually hit it. Now the buggeist part is the final level of the game Reckoning as at the boss battle there is a bug that makes oyur frame rate drops to 28-8 frames per second which could also crash your game but thats not the most frustrating part and the part i am talking about is more frustrating than softlocking by forgetting to grab the Tac Canon before going to the main deck for the final boss fights and in the final fight when they say use the Tac canon it will not lock on so you literally can not finish the game if that bug happens. My bet is you probably have to reinstall the game or restart the whole game to fix the bug both of which not good options to have and here is video proof of this bug and what i am talking about https://youtu.be/btF4jVAEUoA

So, in this game you are supposed to be a supersoldier, and in the intro cutscenes we get a display of your suit's powers--super strength, super speed, armor, and cloak. However, all these are very underpowered. Your armor barely protects you from more than a few shots, whereas the Koreans you are fighting are bullet sponges. At times you practically have to magdump on them to score a kill. But they can tear your "armor" to shreds, and kill you quickly. Who is the supersoldier with super armor here? It's not you... Your "cloak" also lasts for a pitifully short amount of time. Alright, so it drains quickly as you move--a little too quickly, but I can accept that. But it drains as you are standing still. Frankly, I think the cloak should regen as you are still. The game progresses very slowly otherwise. Your underpowered "armor" and "cloak" make you less of a super-soldier than the Koreans. You are forced into the worst-implemented guerilla warfare I've ever seen. You have to constantly save because your armor doesn't protect against more than a pipsqueak, and because your cloak lasts for so short a time that it can only get you from Bush A to Bush B, provided that Bush B is a short distance away.

Crysis is more of a joke than a game, a joke that lasted far too long, and it was never funny to begin with. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that a game not being able to run properly on what was top of the line hardware at the time is something to be proud of: for instance, ID games always pushed boundaries on PC gaming not just because of visuals, but because of how well coded they are to work with the kind of technology they're showcasing; Crysis, on the other hand, despite being a supposedly future proof game, was programmed in such a way that didn't account for the how processors actually evolved, so much that this 14 year old game may not be able to hold a steady 60 FPS on modern machines, and that, ironically, is quite the opposite of being "ahead of it's time". As far as I've seen, the remaster actually runs better, because it's the update that Crysis actually should've received, as a patch, years ago, and charging for what's essentially a performance patch is a joke on itself; and no, Crytek didn't realease the source code, so fans can't even fix the original version on their own... But what matters the most is gameplay, and that isn't really good in Crysis, either. The nanosuit abilities last so little at a time, and are so limited, that I don't know what's even the point of them being a mechanic of this game, other than showing the cool distortion effects the camouflage mode has; enemies can spot you from a ridiculous distance that's basically the whole extent of the area, to the point where simply moving from A to B is annoying. Every mechanic Crysis has that were considered major selling points at the time were either done much better in games released before, or refined and made actually fun and enjoyable in games released after. Positives? It looks really good, visually, but since it's a game, you'll spend more time playing it than looking at the landscapes...

I was having a lot of fun with this game, loving the open pretty levels and fun shooting, until the game just kept crashing every time I loaded it up, even after restarting my PC and uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

I dont get the hype. It's pretty, yes. It's also a so so shooter with a shit stealth system.