Amazing advance in game development

[PrinzMegaherz]

DominionsFAN said:
I am just totally amazed. In the past years game developers are making better and better games with awesome graphics, advanced physical engines etc.
I just discovered the game called Crysis. Oblivion was beautiful, but look at these screenshots. I swear this is almost like reality. In a few years, games will be totally "realistic", I am pretty sure about that.

Crisis is from the same german developer game that made Far Cry. It was a great game with very advanced AI and great graphics, but the story was very lame (at least that's what I am thinking). I have no idea whether Far Cry was successful outside of germany.

[Alneyan]

I believe Far Cry has been very successful outside Germany; it certainly is much better known than Anstoss, Realm of Arkania or even Battle Isle and Gothic (among others, of course; these games just happen to be the ones I know best).

[Nerfix]

What is the Crisis about?

[shovah]

i believe cysis is: ufo crashes on some island and the koreans or some1 get there first. they called it crysis jusr to annoy the people they sold far cry to iirc.

[Agrajag]

Far Cry only allows you to save in preset locations* and therefore isn't worth even thinking about.
Its like an FPS that uses keyboard only.

*-I think there's some patch that fixes that, but there's still no excuse for releasing a PC game and not allowing to save anywhere.

[Saber Cherry]

Agrajag said:
Far Cry only allows you to save in preset locations* and therefore isn't worth even thinking about.

I have not yet played Far Cry. My friend considers it to be the best FPS ever, and this cements it. In most games, you can save anywhere, anytime... which massively reduces the challenge and "fear factor". Far Cry does not have "save locations", but rather, it autosaves for you once at each scarce preset "progress point". Not knowing when you will next be saved forces the player to play for real, like in an Ironman mode.

Well, those are his thoughts. From the way I played Halflife and Deus Ex, with overzealous saves, I tend to agree - the ability to save anywhere greatly reduced suspense and adrenaline.

[DominionsFan]

Saber Cherry said:

I have not yet played Far Cry. My friend considers it to be the best FPS ever, and this cements it. In most games, you can save anywhere, anytime... which massively reduces the challenge and "fear factor". Far Cry does not have "save locations", but rather, it autosaves for you once at each scarce preset "progress point". Not knowing when you will next be saved forces the player to play for real, like in an Ironman mode.

Well, those are his thoughts. From the way I played Halflife and Deus Ex, with overzealous saves, I tend to agree - the ability to save anywhere greatly reduced suspense and adrenaline.

Far Cry was nice but it was far from the "best FPS" title. There are much better FPs games with a bit crappier graphics like CoD2 or HL2. Far Cry was a nice step towards the "wow what gfx!" FPS games.