It is time to play the game that dared to ask, "What if Far Cry was Good?"

hello friend

I've never actually played this game at above like 20FPS and this is kind of a transcendent experience rn

IT'S GOOD

ppl trying to meme the turkeys in the new far cry and 2007's over here letting you shot-put a chicken through a man's ribcage

Parallax occlusion mapping: STILL RAD AS HECK

honestly this game still looks genuinely fantastic?

at ease, soldier

Violent Videogame

twitter resolution made it kinda hard to see but that's literally blood splattering on the screen because I shot a hat

THERE
IT
IS

Okay so

the drill press

The Drill Press is the reason Crysis is GOTY every single year since 2007

The Drill Press is one of the heaviest props in the game, and for some reason it is marked as carryable

The distance you can throw objects does not depend on their weight

The Drill Press is not affected by walls

The Drill Press is *barely* affected by TRUCKS

The Drill Press is the best thing to ever happen to videogames

Bless every game that really commits to doing AI/physics interaction

this game has legit FORESTS

and at a density that's still unusual 11 years later

DRILL

PRESS

!!!

I cleared the entire harbor section using only the Drill Press

it took all evening lol

The rules are: You can use rockets on helicopters and boats, since you can't hit them with the Drill Press

You can use armor mode to heal while in cover, but not to tank damage. Strength mode only while in combat

This means jeeps are essentially the final boss of this mode. The Drill Press can kill them but it takes 5-10 hits, and the mounted gun kills you in seconds

lots of tense moments dashing out of cover to attack, and then chasing after the Press to retrieve it

Having an incredibly powerful weapon that you have to throw at things to use, and then sprint to wherever it landed while defenseless, is a ridiculously good design for a game tbh

Crysis having full-on volumetric shadows casting through fog in 2007 still blows my mind

I mean in fairness it's not thaaaaat hard of an effect to implement so much as just Very Expensive (i.e. inventing SSAO ranks way higher on the technical mind-blowy scale) but it was still *years* before the effect began showing up in other games

(for those unaware, Crysis also features the first implementation of SSAO, and thus more or less defined the overall look of most of a console generation)

So the first ice level drops to about 45 FPS

My GPU's a 770 which is p old but like..... still six years after the game came out lmao

when the game was new this section was virtually unplayable on my 8800 GT but I forged ahead by dropping the display resolution to like 800x600 lol

Oh wow I forgot what a letdown the last level is. Didn't really notice it at the time but I think it was super rushed? The whole thing's like... really unpolished compared to the rest of the game; lots of setpiece animations with awkward VFX and missing sound effects etc

I think Warhead's ending was pretty fun though?
I played the first sections of both the main game and Warhead a ton, but never the endings bc once the ice shader shows up they both became nearly unplayable on my hardware lol

Haha I was wondering why Crysis sets up a bunch of Plot Mysteries and then ends in a cliffhanger, and Warhead resolves nothing, and then Crysis 2 starts like 20 years later

Apparently there was a *comic book* that finished the actual plot, and also killed the protagonist lmao

Pressing onward, into Crysis Warhead

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