The massive CPU limitations were literally the only thing I wanted addressed. Good lord.

@mauriciochacon

3 жыл бұрын

yes i just wanted crysis 1 + dx12 or vulkan + great cpu threading, that was all,

@dlib89

3 жыл бұрын

And the annoyingly strange lod for certain objects. Some pop in right in front of you, and others don't. Despite being same object

@GrandmasterofWin

3 жыл бұрын

@@mauriciochacon ah but you see, crytek only gives a shit about consoles.

@gamerxt333

3 жыл бұрын

They did improve CPU usage, although not enough it seems

@hemangchauhan2864

3 жыл бұрын

*Saber Interactive

It just blows my mind that they thought reworking a stripped-down console port was the correct way to approach a remaster of a game whose reputation is built on being a PC technical showcase. Did they just think that people wouldn't notice all the missing effects? What a joke.

@GrandmasterofWin

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't think this was the best approach. They know better. They did it this way because the PC version of Crysis was too different from the console versions already, so it would have been an entire separate remaster process to do the pc version right. Much cheaper to start at the same foundation for all ports/"remasters". Also, most cross-platform developers try to release an almost identical product across all platforms, I think, to appease Sony and Microsoft. Obviously the PC version could be leagues ahead of the consoles, but for Crytek "passable" is good enough. They probably just hoped no one would notice, or maybe they knew they would get called out, so they released it on Epic to scrape every dollar they could and not have to deal with the open criticism from steam reviews. Absolute corporate trash.

@soraaoixxthebluesky

3 жыл бұрын

GrandmasterofWin It blew my mind thinking that they chose a PowerPC version of the game instead of x86 knowing that current gen console and - of course PC are all based on x86 architecture. Mind blowing.

@weaverquest

3 жыл бұрын

It is only because the console version was on a more updated version of Cry engine so going this route was less work for them. It really isn't that surprising.

@socksonfeet8125

3 жыл бұрын

Yerli got a taste of "dat console money" as we used to say. We knew it was gonna change everything back then, and well we were right. 2020 Yerli is a very different owner from 2004-2007 Yerli.

@1231231232972

3 жыл бұрын

they don't care about hardcore PC auditory like never cause it's open platform, not some never changing box near your big TV on which from selling games , they get much more profit cause casuals keep buying them and there are 100s of millions of them

This remaster needs a remaster

@thel1355

3 жыл бұрын

Is it Crysis: Demastered?

@ad24aug

3 жыл бұрын

@@thel1355 Shut up and take my best comment award

@PartyQuest

3 жыл бұрын

for damn sure.

@pureevil29

3 жыл бұрын

Crysis Reconsolised errrr... "Remastered"!, with most PC features removed and even some campaign sections missing, all that for arguably "improved" graphics while adding no gameplay/multiplayer improvements and introducing 10 times more stuttering than even the already super stuttering original Crysis! Also better Get a 3080 for 40 FPS later (with patches) or regret your purchase NOW! (This is truly Lazy and clearly just a cashgrab!)

@alexreeperbahn7236

3 жыл бұрын

@@ad24aug shut up and take a bit of good humor

When we said we wanted Crysis 1 Remastered, we didn't mean Crysis 1 CPU Thread Blasted.

@Lord_of_Dread

3 жыл бұрын

Or Crysis: Console Edition remastered. That's just fucking lazy

@xentiment6581

3 жыл бұрын

Youd be suprised to see how many people asked for game that would make hardware cry

@V-Jes

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lord_of_Dread that's not lazy when being lazy would be just using the original PC version with few additions and calling it a day, remastering the console port for PC is just moronic and takes more work considering all the downgrades they now have to upgrade.

@Lord_of_Dread

3 жыл бұрын

@@V-Jes well they probably did it because the console port is on a newer version of cry engine, so some of the work to modernise it was already done. My theory anyway

@V-Jes

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lord_of_Dread console port is using cryengine 3 while the remaster is using cryengine 5.6, so no matter which version they port the engine would had been changed anyways.

In summary, we got a Crysis remastered console port.

@v4tv

3 жыл бұрын

Big yikes.

@saricubra2867

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe we will have the mess of something like Sonic Adventure DX again, a PC port from a console port, from a PC port from the original console port. Also, Star Wars's "Special Editions", an "Special Edition" from an "Special Edition", from another one... Crytek wants to copy George Lucas's formula...

@Zinic_

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately. Hopefully those visual problems will be patched out and controls become more responsive.

@gabrieleriva651

3 жыл бұрын

It's the inversion with identical results of when Saber "remade" Halo basing it on the broken PC port.

@rhtr.

3 жыл бұрын

That's why is shit :( How sad :(

Crysis 2007 is so good, it even beats its own future remasters.

@daktaklakpak5059

3 жыл бұрын

Future Past flashpoint Paradoxon...

@shybassboy

3 жыл бұрын

Sad but true.

@xmaverickhunterkx

3 жыл бұрын

Can't remaster perfection.

@4R8YnTH3CH33F

3 жыл бұрын

Bad meme

@bpcgos

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's perfect already, one of its kind... Cannot be make much more better... It's a remaster of 2011 one (a.k.a console Crysis) ,not 2007 we love and adore.

@DigitalFoundry and audience, I was able to speak with one of the higher ups at. Crytek about this remaster. The remaster was to be planed to be the showcase for the Cryengine 6, but because numerous delays, events, mishaps etc. it couldn't be and the management decided mainly because of financial aspects to only do a remaster of the original console version, the paned PC version was canceled, but luckily (?) forced by many original developers. The source did not say how. Unfortunately during the development of the remastered the dev team changed two times and it was partly done by Crytek Istanbul and outsourced, which is the main reason for the differences of the quality and design aspects and why for example the in-game cutscenes in the remastered look so boring in comparison. What was planed for the PC version and in perticular the "Can it run Crysis" settings was canceled too, other projects which are far more important (financially) caused this. So what it is now is basically cheating, they simply used high res shadows, textures etc., increased the number of grass and such, used only one lod preset, add more rays for the software raytracing and some other minor modifications. Planed was a similar thing as showcased in the UE5 tech demo for the PS5 just leveled up for PC, also things like an actual learned ai controlling the npcs, a realistic behaving weather simulation focused heavily on the wind and rain effects, which would have had massive effects on the foliage and other things, software and hardware raytracing combined and much more. So once against Crytek's questionable management ruined something.

@MrRobertVM

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sad, reading this. :/

@asteini4429

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrRobertVM Well it's Crytek, what to expect? I am anyways still amazed that they still are considering what they sanded and how badly they managed the company and not to forget how expensive game development in Germany, Frankfurt, is.

@NighttimeJuneau

11 ай бұрын

Their vision would've been incredible. Crysis always was more of a flag carrier than a mechanically impressive game, could've almost been a sandbox. That's most likely also why everyone likes the first half much more than the last.

I really wanted to be impressed, but due to the missing effects, leaves me really underwelmed. Such a shame :(

@DEVILTAZ35

3 жыл бұрын

Oh well you can still chop down trees with a machine gun so i'm sold lol. The one issue i had with Far cry 5 is non destruction of trees lol

@rohithssj3

3 жыл бұрын

Lol we have the same dp

@jaygopinath1694

3 жыл бұрын

@@DEVILTAZ35 but even the remaster fucks that up as welll aka mod the game is beter than the remaster

Honestly amazed they released it like this. How could they not address the CPU issues? Absolutely misses the mark for me.

@glasss-o-water5186

3 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: they did that on purpose to keep “can it run crysis” the most impactful hit yo performance

@Mart-E12

3 жыл бұрын

It was the main weakness of the original Crysis, they basically only had one job to fix this, everything else is not that important, what a fail

@thingsiplay

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mart-E12 This is not easy to fix. The whole game needs to be rewritten to use multi cores, its a completely different approach to program the game. And as they wanted it to release on console too, they took the already console optimized version.

@nbell5050

3 жыл бұрын

a trash game release from a trash studio that's already known to be going down the toilet. Not paying employees, crunch, stale and out of ideas....yea Cryteck 2020 is != to Cryteck 2006. Hell I'd take Ubisoft and there shi* games any day.

@NPC-ej4ql

3 жыл бұрын

@@thingsiplay Which is lazy to say the least. From a remaster I actually expected them to address the cpu issue of the original Crysis, because that issue's the ONLY aspect that kept me from playing it on modern hardware.

We want a remaster of the PC Original. 2020 got another disappointment.

@happybuggy1582

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a console player and I'm happy that you're disappointed

@chunkylover5367

3 жыл бұрын

@Helm DiDo Remake would be more like Resident Evil 2 Remake... A masterpiece. Remaster is just a bump or re-skin.

@johnbagley8211

3 жыл бұрын

@@happybuggy1582 LOL, 'bout t' trigger sum gamer galz man!

@soraaoixxthebluesky

3 жыл бұрын

Remake!

@TheAandJStudio

3 жыл бұрын

@@happybuggy1582 I'm a pc player and I'm happy your consoles will never be as good as a pc.

I'll stick to the original, thanks. GOG version of course :)

@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716

3 жыл бұрын

K bye then

@kiactus

3 жыл бұрын

meee tooooo

@Syncopia

3 жыл бұрын

After watching the video I conclude... The same thing. I'll take a hard pass on console to PC ports.

@illuminationgaming6762

3 жыл бұрын

Retail version with crack is superior...said no one ever apart from me

@mygaffer

3 жыл бұрын

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 Why does that upset you Gejamugam?

So, basically they took a game that was a technical marvel for its time, created a garbage console port of it, then, some 13 years later, decided to make a PC remaster based off the garbage console port which resulted in the "remastered" version looking significantly worse than the original PC version... Wow.

@kingzor100

3 жыл бұрын

hi you must be blind

@ch0ketv_

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingzor100 ??

@BabaGamerGuy

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingzor100 hi! you must be a fanboy

@goncaloduarte4683

3 жыл бұрын

The game overall looks better, there is just these few things that are worse, but the SVOGI and high res textures alone make it look far better. Ideally they would remake it from the ground up like bluepoint did with Demon's Souls. However I would still hope for better CPU utilization and them to recreate a few things missing from the PC. Could you guys imagine Crisis with full path tracing for future proofing?

@ch0ketv_

3 жыл бұрын

@@goncaloduarte4683 The skin rendering, lack of volumetric lighting, clouds and terrible physics is extremely disappointing since the original version had all those things. I have no doubt that the ray tracing looks great but to base a remaster of a game that was a Tech marvel for it's time off a stripped down console port is just mind blowing... Whyyy???

Btw - HUGE ups to Alex for being transparent and just blunt about this, no bear-hugging to Crytek, he tore it apart in a very non-biased manner. In fact.. you can almost hear his anger and frustration through disappointment.. which is legit. He calls the bullshit out, and more than anyone you could've imagined him giving it the candy-coated pass, but he did the complete opposite which is AWESOME of him. Well done dude. But I disagree on the level cut, that's their PR bullshit for "we were lazy." Besides that.. well done

@chrisrichfield8906

3 жыл бұрын

Yes very professional, he clearly has more passion for the game than anyone at Saber Interactive.

@FeeLtheHertZ

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisrichfield8906 Exactly. They did their thing it some areas, but yeah, basically. That's it in a nano-suite, I mean nutshell.

@Phil_529

3 жыл бұрын

Good or I would've unsubscribed from their Patreon. I get Digital Foundry has a bunch of friends in the industry now and doesn't want to step on peoples toes but honesty and objectivity need to be the priority.

@XgamerdaveX

3 жыл бұрын

Of course.

@MrLokhe

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, I expected him of all people to be critical where it is due, because of his love for the game.

They "remastered" the 7th gen console port? How much do they despise the fans of this game exactly?

@DrMateen36

3 жыл бұрын

Lolz yes. Talk about not learning your lesson!

@B-E-A-U-X

3 жыл бұрын

Not only that but console users don’t have the classic nanosuit mode. I hate the streamlined controls on console. It made sense for the nanosuit 2 on crysis 2, but it doesn’t work for crysis 1. We don’t get the full advantage of the modes that way. Console users can handle a damn mode wheel like doom eternal.

@mutumbasowed3904

3 жыл бұрын

They are just funking with us.

@RealFlicke

3 жыл бұрын

Well the console port was also a port to the Cry Engine 3. Maybe it would have been a much bigger effort to base the Remastered on the original game and start from scratch.

@weaverquest

3 жыл бұрын

@@B-E-A-U-X They could even make it so that you would swipe in different directions on the touchpad of DS4 to activate modes which would be really fast.

It's almost as if this "remaster" is a PC port of the old, downgraded, last generation console port of the PC original. With cut content. Literally the worst of both worlds.

1. The remaster team was console-centric in every way imaginable and did not reference the original PC game adequately, then Crytek's in-house remaster "repair" team didn't have enough time to go back and (comprehensively) tweak Saber's shortcomings, piece by piece. 2. That 2006-2008 Crytek dev team was comprised of some of the industry's absolute top technical talent, a real all star group of uncompromising programmers and engineers, and many of them have since moved on to other developers like Ubisoft, id, and Monolith. 3. Some of the shortcomings we see here are almost embarrassing, in terms of simply missing what made the original shine in those scenarios. Indicative of not enough 'legacy' team members remaining with a clear memory and respect for the minutiae of the PC original.

@TheFly212

3 жыл бұрын

I know the id thing is true, because many of the level artists and lighting devs that worked on Crysis in 2006-2007 were in the credits of DOOM 2016. So... Yep. It's why that game can run at 4K/120 fps on ultra with a RTX 2080 super. Amazing looking game, awesome performance.

@DEVILTAZ35

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest they never once said it was remastering from PC original. People just assumed that is what the focus was. They want to make as much money as possible so of course it's going to be console friendly. It needs a patch or two but it's not that bad even on XBox one X i love it lol

@lostalx

3 жыл бұрын

Crytek's Engine is a masterpiece. I know many hate Crysis 2 and Crysis 3, But to me all of the trilogy including Warhead are not just one of the but the finest of all PC FPS games to date, They were in loss when the first game came only on PC and pushed the goddamned HW to hell. Then EA got the rights and funded them but to push it on Console trash as well, the Crytek team did that and it was a failure of loss in all technological advancements from sandbox of the game to the art, setting of the plot etc. Crysis 3 addressed it to major extent by making the game again with lush foliage and other beautiful art pieces. Past that also they failed, EA funded that Crysis 3 as well, that was old EA anyways. The studio went bankrupt sadly and after Ryse and that C3 only a few AAA games made it, Homefront Revolution and Prey both still look fantastic than many games. The magic of that Cry Engine during those times is something remarkable. That era is gone now, it's all political dogshit in games and MTX with console BR crowd appeasement.

@griffgames9538

3 жыл бұрын

@@lostalx Warhead was really good, and often gets lost in the mix when it comes to OG PC Crysis history. Warhead had a very tight campaign with some superb encounter set-ups and pacing, it ran better, and it had the satisfying premise of "What was happening in parallel to the events of Crysis on the other side of the island?"

@markss367

3 жыл бұрын

@@lostalx ea had no control over the dev time of the crysis games they only has publishing rights. Also c2 and 3 where good

Remastering the game and basing it off the inferior console port rather than the original version is where they went wrong. Really bizarre way to go about doing it.

@NitinGopinathan

3 жыл бұрын

Just shows that their target market is again consoles - maximum return on investment for them. A heavily single threaded game with a "Can it run Crysis" mode is just a joke. Any game can rival Crysis if you do a bad enough job at optimization 🤷🏽‍♂️

@Innosos

3 жыл бұрын

The console ports are likely to have had the most recent code base and optimizations. All the missing volumetric lights, bad controls and limited physics point to a lack of time, care or competence in my opinion.

@Goober89

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr? That's the most frustrating part about this remaster.

@ishanawate1849

3 жыл бұрын

Not impressed, it's a pretty meh looking title. 13:34 Since Alex shows this room so many times I have to say there are atleast 67 rooms and 93 passages in TLoU2 that look 3 generations ahead in terms of lighting and textures, that to on the base ps4. Bought this on the Epic games store for about 10$ so not disappointed, but quite underwhelmed with how it looks, good gameplay though.

@omarcomming722

3 жыл бұрын

@@NitinGopinathan Except console players mostly don't care about Crysis at all

"Developers didn't like Ascension level, so left it out" - What they really mean is "It was also cut in the X360/PS3 version and we're not going through the hassle of adding it back in" - This launch is an absolute shit show and in particular a middle finger to the PC community. We know why you used the inferior X360/PS3 build. It's obvious it's so you can release it on the Switch as well. I'll stick to the OG version with mods. What could have been an awesome, return to form and a love letter to the fans has turned out to be a buggy, technical train wreck, on all platforms. Kudos to Alex for not wearing rose tinted, Crysis fanboy glasses for this and calling out all the bad stuff on this 'remastered' classic - What a 'Cry-ing' shame.

@Psychos1s

3 жыл бұрын

I support this message 100%. :) What a disappointment!!

@KillSchwill

3 жыл бұрын

Well said. I was pretty excited for this, but was waiting for DF'S full analysis before picking it up. Don't get me wrong some parts do look better. But I can't believe they didn't base this off the original PC version. Leaving out Ascension and the broken crouch button ruins it for me. Maybe I'll get it when it drops down to 5 or 10 bucks. But I could care less about playing it in its inferior state.

@BobsRevenge

3 жыл бұрын

People complained about Ascension a lot when the original released, so it's not completely without basis. It's funny how people went from hating the level to missing it as soon as it was cut for consoles lol

@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716

3 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@RageQuittersUKOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

@@BobsRevenge I actually liked Ascension. I remember it vividly. My PC almost caught fire! :)

So they based the remaster on old console ports and then couldn't even fix the CPU threading issue? JFC...

Crytek: "We don't like the Ascension level". Translation: "This is a cash grab remaster of a cut-down console port, what did you expect?"

@markss367

3 жыл бұрын

The level was cut because player complaints not whatever you think

@blacknova555

3 жыл бұрын

@@markss367 The level was cut because the xbox 360 and PS3 couldn't handle it. This remaster is based on that version of the game.

@markss367

3 жыл бұрын

@@blacknova555 not exactly it was due to player feedback

@blacknova555

3 жыл бұрын

@@markss367 oh I know what they said. I liked the level and would have preferred it to still exist. As many of my friends who care about crysis. I think it was a bullshit excuse.

@markss367

3 жыл бұрын

@@blacknova555 i think the level shoud've been revorked to play better

Amazing breakdown, almost feel like DF spent more time comparing the Original than Saber did during development. There's far too many regressions to call this a remaster.

@Kinos141

3 жыл бұрын

Is demaster a word? It should be a word

@Kavster92

3 жыл бұрын

They just invented the word "Demaster" @Kinos141

@peterwood2633

3 жыл бұрын

Yeh was starting to think this, did Saber think no one was going to notice?! We are the MASTER race

@SpanishArmadaProd

9 ай бұрын

uh they were comparing it to the console versions which is what the remaster is based on not the original....

I don't buy the whole "we didn't like that level" excuse. They just remastered the console version, as it already on a newer version on CryEngine. It being a port of the console version would explain why the character model look so poor. Just a port of a port.

@CaveyMoth

3 жыл бұрын

The character skin textures looked so poor, I'm surprised they didn't leave them out of the remaster, as well. XP

@Chubzdoomer

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. There was nothing wrong with the level aside from its performance issues. It controlled well, was relatively short, and served as a fun little diversion/rollercoaster ride leading up to the finale on the aircraft carrier. For them to completely rip it out, rather than _at least_ try and improve on it (since they claim to despise it) is telling. That's just one of many reasons why this "remaster" is both horrendously disappointing and a complete disservice to the original game.

@parabolee

3 жыл бұрын

Probably true, but who cares? That level was crap.

@campkira

3 жыл бұрын

that level require more code change they just don't bother doing it.. like doing your homework and don't want to hard question...

@Beaut_Beau

3 жыл бұрын

The whole thing just screams lazy cash grab.

LOL 'its a port of the console version". That pretty much tells you everything. SMH.

@RyanBurnsRed

3 жыл бұрын

A port of a port... no wonder they hid it behind Epic on PC. If they released it on Steam they would've gotten their feelings hurt and then some

@ajna3646

3 жыл бұрын

Yy it’s like taking a flac(audio) converting to an mp3 and then trying to concerting to flac again.stoopid

@ashwin.unlead

3 жыл бұрын

@@RyanBurnsRed its not cuz of that lol its all about the money

@Blood-PawWerewolf

3 жыл бұрын

Ryan BurnsRed with Denuvo DRM as the icing on the cake.

@ajna3646

3 жыл бұрын

Ryan BurnsRed no wonder they hide ascension mission

Very disappointing. A cash grab, in the end. Not getting my cash. I’ll stick with the original version thanks.

@pureevil29

3 жыл бұрын

What? no sense by all means ,you should buy Crysis Reconsolised errrr... "Remastered"!, with most PC features removed and even some campaign sections missing, all that for arguably "improved" graphics while adding no gameplay/multiplayer improvements while introducing 10 times more stuttering than even the already super stuttering original Crysis! Also better Get a 3080 for 40 FPS later (with patches) or regret your purchase NOW! (This is truly Lazy and clearly just a cashgrab!)

@sand2358

3 жыл бұрын

pureevil29 nah it’s just a benchmark you can play if they really did remove features

@happy5642642

3 жыл бұрын

Because it IS a cash grab, Crytek been losing money these few years which several projects of their fall under the radar.

@Turrican60

3 жыл бұрын

@Ricardo Jaye Your specs sound fine for an old game like the original Crysis. If you haven't already done so, install it and play. Worst case scenario? Uninstall, lol ;-)

And this crap was DELAYED? Imagine what state it was before the delay.

@v4tv

3 жыл бұрын

LICHDOM BATTLEMAGE console release state.

@scarface11991

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly at some scenes the Original Crysis just looks so much better.

@B-E-A-U-X

3 жыл бұрын

That was before the 8K textures and the ray tracing. It honestly would have ran better.

@Pyke64

3 жыл бұрын

Before the delay they would've just released the Switch version on PC.

@xicofir3737

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pyke64 And that's the true. At least we got something a little better. From the moment I saw that trailer I new that the game would still be single threaded limited. That and the fact that the neon noir demo was running on DX11.

Did you know that in the original game the smoke from smoke grenades react to the blast from frag grenades? I know. Absolute madness.

13 years later and they still don't know how to take advantage of all the cores and threads

@rockrl98

3 жыл бұрын

cpu core is meant to be 1, thus it's name .-.

Alex talks about this game as if it were his wife's body. He knows every inch of it.

@BabaGamerGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I could too, just give me his wife.

The isn't crysis remastered it's more like crysis disastered.

@Derongarcia

3 жыл бұрын

Crysis: Disaster Report Edition

@DEVILTAZ35

3 жыл бұрын

I've really enjoyed it so far on Xbox One X have more than half the gamerscore of 1000 so far. It slows down at times but it's responsive enough for a console game. As i stated above the real issue was quality mode being too slow and Raytracing mode only working if you don't enable HDR. It's still one of the best games out this year easily.

@campkira

3 жыл бұрын

@@DEVILTAZ35 it just going drive me insane with fps drop and up... for game that so old and just not that fun... by the time they get it working well.. it more like crysis 4 would be out before then...

@adamjames6943

3 жыл бұрын

What did you expect from. Company that tries to not pay its staff and then flee to Istanbul

Absolutely disgusting releasing this with the CPU problems still there lol.....

@jjwilliams410

3 жыл бұрын

And yet somehow this is on the Switch.

@mesicek7

3 жыл бұрын

That's cause they didn't work on the pc version but on the console port of the x360 version. There's a lot of stuff that's missing. Missions, Lean option, music..

@jasonmartinez5116

3 жыл бұрын

@@mesicek7 The other console versions are like that too, I think even the whole remaster is based on the Xbox 360/PS3 port

@PartyQuest

3 жыл бұрын

i finished the game already on live, the performance is still shit like the original i played in the same morning.

@retrosoul8770

3 жыл бұрын

@@mesicek7 I was dumbfounded when he said that, why the heck are they working on the compromised console ports of the game instead of the OG product? Nonsense

This is a near unbelievably detailed breakdown. The definitive review for anyone wanting detailed information on the differences between the “remaster” and the original. Well done and thank you Alex!

I'm going to buy the original on GoG and mod it instead.

@shaunprawn88

3 жыл бұрын

That's definitely the way to go

@eliadbu

3 жыл бұрын

I still have the disc, I wonder if I can mod it.

@reksie7816

3 жыл бұрын

@@eliadbu sure you can

the fact that a 2020 remaster of a game is worse in many ways than a 2007 original is baffling

@gustavrider5561

3 жыл бұрын

Well to be fair 2020 is worse in many ways than 2007.

@SergeiSugaroverdoseShuykov

3 жыл бұрын

@@gustavrider5561 you've made my day, sir

@microsista1413

3 жыл бұрын

@@gustavrider5561 i hope cyberpunk will make it so much better though

@nomercy8989

3 жыл бұрын

@@microsista1413 I thin Cyberpunk will be a huge let down

Why does Maximum Speed make you look like a damn bee? It's like someone slathered him in yellow paint. It's suppose to be very pale yellow, not maximum bee mode.

@campkira

3 жыл бұрын

they made it easy to understand since remater is more kiddy version of not smart people... so they just turn the color up to the max..

@luuketaylor

3 жыл бұрын

buzz buzz - prophet, probably

@tbnzet

3 жыл бұрын

@@campkira If you're going to make snarky remarks and call people "not smart", it would help if you at least could spell correctly yourself...

@aughhaughhaughh

3 жыл бұрын

@@tbnzet midwit

@agentsmith6161

3 жыл бұрын

:)))) so true!

What's the point of remastering an inferior console version?? THIS MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL imo.

@AmBush2048

3 жыл бұрын

They probably had some reason for it. Maybe it was easier to work with since the console port already worked with cryengine three?

@igorthelight

3 жыл бұрын

@@AmBush2048 Yep! Crysis 1 PC - CryEngine 2 Crysis 1 Console - CryEngine 3

@AmBush2048

3 жыл бұрын

@@igorthelight guess they underestimated how bad they downgraded their console releases

Jesus Alex that intro, that is next level DF work

The remastered version is a remaster of the 360 version and not the PC version. That's why you can't lean and why the VTOL mission is missing, as well as some legacy features.

@Jurigag

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, but it's the sam that they didn't add it back..

@mateusbarao1761

3 жыл бұрын

No leaning is a bigger dealbreaker than shitty performance, what were they thinking.

@MELK0R87

3 жыл бұрын

I watched the whole video but must have missed it. Why didn't they use the pc version to remaster?

@lemonscampi

3 жыл бұрын

@@MELK0R87 Probably because the console version of crysis was built on a newer version of cry engine which would have made it easier to "remaster", it just screams laziness to me.

@ZalvaTionZ

3 жыл бұрын

No leaning? That's a bigger dealbreaker than all the graphical downgrades.

Crytek needs to stop taking short cuts. We need the original PC game remastered. Not the 360 / PS Pro version

@DEVILTAZ35

3 жыл бұрын

Good point as it misses the Vtol mission which means even Series X updates won't have that either. I hope that is DLC eventually.

@ManomiiFox

3 жыл бұрын

remake*

@mhnoni

3 жыл бұрын

I kind of lost my hope on Crytek, to be honest.

@Ebalosus

3 жыл бұрын

DEVILTAZ35 I agree, and it would be akin to removing _The Library_ from Halo CE instead of fixing it to make it work. They seem to not want to fix the wonky vehicle handling and physics.

@jaygopinath1694

3 жыл бұрын

its way a money grab they knew it was not fin but crunched it to meet dead line shame

Honestly not impressed with the remaster at all. It's basically another botched console port.

@captainmalcolmreynolds1526

3 жыл бұрын

It looks better than the original crisis

@pferreira1983

3 жыл бұрын

@@captainmalcolmreynolds1526 In some ways worse.

@Xfade81

3 жыл бұрын

@@pferreira1983 Only in a few ways. Mostly skin.

Excellent review. Appreciate the attention to detail in the discrepencies between the versions.

This game don't deserve the 'remastered' tag. The original looks even better in some cases. BTW I can't accept this is a port of the Xbox 360, aka port of a port.

@Yautah

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. I'm really not impressed.. looks kinda basic, especially the objects in the environment.

@Bestwick1983

3 жыл бұрын

Well at least they didn't call it a "remake" I guess

@millrrs

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bestwick1983 Indeed.

@charlyy1337

3 жыл бұрын

Did you guys even watch the analysis? The xbox 360 had ray traced reflections and vogi as well as 8k textures? U are free to turn off vogi, thrn the colors are the same as the original ..

@campersruincod6134

3 жыл бұрын

LaraC9 stop defending bad development.

The remaster even misses a whole mission.

@alexbogl7358

3 жыл бұрын

@@msanchez1680d yes, that one.

@matternicuss

3 жыл бұрын

Such a strange decision too. I actually really liked that mission, even with its problems.

@razvandavid1510

3 жыл бұрын

Which one?

@Chriva

3 жыл бұрын

@@razvandavid1510 ascension. (the one where you fly a VTOL) I get some people don't like it but I really loved it. It adds to the story / buildup before the final boss.

@razvandavid1510

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chriva Well, that's a crying shame. That mission was quite interesting and reminded me of Ace Combat series.

Kudos for the intro, great video!

Excellent analysis pointing technical differences.

12:50 is just me or the old one looks better? The closer vegetation and the village at least.

@Gregoses

3 жыл бұрын

yes it does, the color palette is so realistic in the og game

@technoviking2415

3 жыл бұрын

Its not just you it does look worse even more with mods on the og version

@CHA0SHACKER

3 жыл бұрын

Thats due to the baked shadows in the original which are left out of the new one because they expected to being able to render that in real time at that distance. Sadly that isn’t the case due to the shit performance on higher draw distances

@SerKBer

3 жыл бұрын

Older is better. Always and for everything.

@Gregoses

3 жыл бұрын

@@CHA0SHACKER which shadows are baked in the og? i dont think there are any except maybe terrain

Well, there goes your possibility of getting invited back to the Crytek office. 😁 Seriously though, I'm puzzled why they made so many compromises in a remaster of a game that is known for bringing PCs to their knees.

@DEVILTAZ35

3 жыл бұрын

Well it still does if 3080 can only manage 40 fps in 4k lol

@PaulAlexander-tokyomagic

3 жыл бұрын

I suspect because the remaster was by a different company and crytek were brought in to port the port of the original back to the original platform.

@bricaaron3978

3 жыл бұрын

*"Seriously though, I'm puzzled why they made so many compromises in a remaster of a game that is known for bringing PCs to their knees."* Why are you puzzled? We've known since Crysis 2 that Cevat Yerli is a greedy, dishonest genius. Crysis was both a critical AND financial success, surpassing expectations, and--last time I checked several years ago--selling 7M copies ON PC. But he was butt-hurt that he only got large profits and not ultra-large COD profits, so he wrongly blamed piracy and swore off PC gaming in order to make deliberately mediocre console games. His company paid dearly for his greed. He went from success that any dev would envy to excreting telephone games. You might think that a person would realize his mistake....would see that CDPR flat out proved you wrong about piracy....and maybe set a precedent by becoming the first AAA PC developer since the Great Consolization of 2008. But not Cevat Yerli. Nope...After all, he insisted that Crysis 3 was the best Crysis yet.

@carlosfer2201

3 жыл бұрын

@@DEVILTAZ35 if you saw the video, you would know it's the CPU that (fucking still) limits that. Obviously this is the Dev's fault.

What would we even do without Alex? Seriously, you are blessing to the community.

I'm disappointed by the remaster honestly. Like you Alex, I fell in love with Crysis back in 2007 and it launched a lifetime of interest in hardware, performance, and rendering techniques. The most disappointing thing to me is the lack of volumetrics, which was a HUGE deal back in 2007. SVOGI makes some great improvements to the overall look of a scene, but the implementation is messy. I often find light bleed or weird flickering indoors when standing in certain places and I found it's a screen space effect. The destruction was dumbed down, the sound is constantly glitching, random AI soldiers without weapons spawn in for some reason, the HDR doesn't work right, plants aren't as interactive, the new weapon menu is terrible, and the performance is in no way stable. Why on Earth would you use the xbox 360/PS3 port as a starting point? They had to dumb down and remove soooooooooo many features to get it to even run on those consoles. Anyway, enough complaining, let me contribute something useful. I'm running on an RTX2080 and i7-9700K with 32GB RAM. With this setup, I can easily stay above 60fps in 1440p on all high (RT Off). 4k is not practical with this setup. Ray Tracing in this game adds very little to any scenes, while costing 10% of your performance. I just turned it off since SVOGI isn't dependent on that option. I also found that if I have a browser open with Netflix or something on in the background, it can cause stuttering. Something I haven't seen in other games.

I completely lost it during the intro LOL

@Totone56

3 жыл бұрын

It was golden

@Syncopia

3 жыл бұрын

The church of Crytek :)

@VonDutchNL

3 жыл бұрын

I found it during the intro..

@markss367

3 жыл бұрын

Yo whats up

@Shinkajo

3 жыл бұрын

I don't get it

So, what was the point of this remaster? CPU? Still heavily single threaded Better visuals? Ray tracing make the game stutter, the game is ported from the console version with many visual downgrades

@campkira

3 жыл бұрын

to cover every market... i pass since it not a fun game...

@standupCoding

3 жыл бұрын

And no Acsencion

@bricaaron3978

3 жыл бұрын

​@@campkira *"i pass since it not a fun game..."* That's the fastest way to tell that a person has either never played Crysis (not the pseudo-Crysis 360 version), or is not an FPS fan. I have replayed Crysis every 2 years since 2008, because its movement mechanics and weapon mechanics are still better than any other FPS game I've ever played. Combine that with the absolute freedom to achieve objectives instead of playing Baby Connects the Dots, and you have a solid, thinking-man's First-Person Shooter.

@bricaaron3978

3 жыл бұрын

​@7MGTESupraTurboA *"So don't blame "consoles" because Crysis 1 and Crysis Warhead DO NOT truly use dual core, tri core and never quad core CPUs..."* What? No one ever blamed consoles for CryEngine 2 and Crysis/Warhead not being multithreaded. It has nothing to do with consoles. Talk about a Straw Man. *"Crysis also NEVER used the Nvidia G80 Cuda Cores or Compute Stream Processors nor the Compute Units of AMD Radeon HD GPUs."* What are you _talking_ about? It seems like you're implying that Crysis doesn't take full advantage of GPUs _either,_ which is flat-out nonsense. The first time I ever played Crysis was on my brother's NVIDIA 8500 GT, a miserably weak _low-end_ card. I had zero problems, and loved every second. Several months later I built my first gaming PC with a GTX 260, and fully maxed out the game less than a year after release. Did I get 60 fps? Of _course_ not. 60 fps didn't become an expected standard until after the Great Consolization of 2008, when GPUs kept getting faster, but we kept getting the same 360 ports year after year. If I had been willing to run low settings I _could_ have done 60 fps, but I wanted to run on Ultra. Crysis is an extremely customizable experience with a vast difference in performance between lowest and highest settings. Try the same thing with the typical console port of today, and you'll hardly see any difference in performance between lowest and highest settings.

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this. You guys are true scientists.

It seriously couldn’t even reach 120fps at 720p for your benchmark? That’s unacceptable.

The shock wave effect from explosion in the vegetation we're so cool never seen that in other games before. To bad they removed it

@JlRlK

3 жыл бұрын

How about Far Cry 2?

@Aquiles-WARS

2 жыл бұрын

@@JlRlK Exactly 👍👍👍👍👍👍

TLDR: Even with modern gimmicks, a port of a port isn't as good as the original.

@bpcgos

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah turd is a turd, doesn't matter if put a sprinkle on it

@granolatimes7185

3 жыл бұрын

This is like the 3rd clone in multiplicity.

@threecats8219

3 жыл бұрын

Port of a port. … Probably why they put it on Epic Games Store. Wouldn't dare put it on Steam, haha.

@bentosan

3 жыл бұрын

Can’t polish a turd

@FEWGEE1

3 жыл бұрын

They should have gone for a remake rather than a remaster.

Thanks as always for the comparisons. I used to replay Crysis 1 every time I built a new PC, to see how far I could push it. The most recent time I did, even though certain parts still looked pretty good, I could tell that we had come a long way. I was genuinely excited for the remaster, but after this I think I'll wait and see if the community can make it "Crysis" again. It's not just about the eye candy, but all the little details and what could be done with the engine of the game.

Crysis Reworsened. "Hey, let's pimp up the xbox 360 version of the game a little bit!" What a bunch of morons Crytek have turned into.

Honestly, it doesn't look that amazing. The original crysis still looks good.

@erickh.r.9087

3 жыл бұрын

I still think think the original crysis with mods looks better, specially the palm threes and most vegetation looks more realistic in the old one

@deonduplessis4126

3 жыл бұрын

I'm busy replaying the original, and I completely agree. Crysis didn't need a remaster.

@Cartoonman154

3 жыл бұрын

Just buy the original and mod it.

@DroneCorpse

3 жыл бұрын

Uh yeah that was the takeaway here; did you watch video? Or did you see the title, skim a few seconds to comment?

14:58 The Korean soldier's skin color looks like Data from Star Trek.

@DEVILTAZ35

3 жыл бұрын

haha it so does hey :)

@_Data_

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm. I did not give them permission to use my likeness.

I remember just swimming and looking around in the water when Crysis came out at 7fps thinking it was the most amazing looking sky/clouds and water I've ever seen in my life. Just amazing.

Excellent coverage, thanks!

Wow there are a lot more negatives about this remaster than I thought. How on earth did they not design this around the original PC version? Just the crouch button alone is basically broken.

@chrisrichfield8906

3 жыл бұрын

Ya that crouch thing is a pretty big red flag. like was there nobody on the team that played the original game? It's not like Alex was working on this game for the last year or so, but he still identified that issue immediately. No passion in this project, just throwing in the buzzword features like "8k textures" and "raytracing".

@kimjuanjun7124

3 жыл бұрын

Because consoles suck duh

I don't understand why they made the water worse than the 2007 original, or even worse than Crysis 2 and 3 on PC. It may have better shading, but it's flat. Crysis 2007 used something called FFT (fast fourier transform), where they could easily (and quickly) create "animated" noise-channels for height-maps and normal-maps once or at runtime, allowing the water to have natural looking waves both in 3d (geometry being displaced) and 2d (normal-maps creating more details on the water). In Crysis 2 and 3 they kept some of this but added in a dynamic element to the water surface. Now the player can create ripples in the water by shooting it, stepping/swimming in it, or by throwing stuff into the water. All this while having the 3d waves from the "animated" noise-channels from the FFT and 3d ripples from the interaction by the player, etc. But in Crysis Remastered all that is gone. Why? I can only speculate as to why, but I have a hunch it's gone because of the roots for the version they have "remastered". It's essentially the 2011 console release of Crysis on Xbox 360 and PS3. There the water had to be simplified to it's flat and 2d nature seen in that release. While the interaction with the water is still present, the 3d waves are gone. This was a console specific optimization applied to all Crysis releases, both 2 and 3 also had flat water on consoles. Heck even PC had flat water in Crysis 2 until they patched DX11 support into the game finally. It's not that the latest Cryengine doesn't support the water seen previously on PC, it's just something they either forgot or didn't have time to turn on. Hopefully it's something modders can enable, or something that can be enabled with a simple console setting.

@evo7836

3 жыл бұрын

100% agreed. I knew that the water looked extra flat.

what a fantastic job, Df team!!

Lol dude the intro is so good hahaha you go Alex!!

Between this and Halo CE Anniversary, Saber Interactive really do have a problem with respecting art directions.

@tHeWasTeDYouTh

3 жыл бұрын

I have to defend Saber (even though I don't want to) because MS gave them the broken gearbox PC port from 2003 to remaster. There was no way in hell Saber would even be able to fix all the issues the game has since it is known how broken the Halo game engine is (not to old bungie devs who knew it like the back of their hand but new devs who don't know all the bandaids to fix minor issues). Blame Gearbox and Randy.

@deus_nsf

3 жыл бұрын

@@tHeWasTeDYouTh Oh the problem I was mentionning on Halo CEA wasn't the issues, but the way they made the remastered graphic, that they had control over, and well, just like Crysis Remastered, it turned into an overbright and saturated mess!

@BlindTrustProject

3 жыл бұрын

I second you. They completely botched this port too from an artistic standpoint. When you look at the remaster by bluepoint like SOTC or Dark Souls... Saber are tasteless amateurs.

@BlindTrustProject

3 жыл бұрын

@sgt dornan Yep I meant Demon Souls, thanks to correct me, and yeah my point is that Bluepoint are the standard of how to do it ;-) (Unlike Saber).

Original Crysis for PC looks better in a Lot of aspects ....

Technical issues aside, this game is unfinished and thus not a faithful remaster. I really could not care if they “don’t like” a level, it should be there.

@johnjoe69

3 жыл бұрын

it's they're lame excuse day they were too lazy to remaster the orignal PC version which had the addition level. Since they were remastering the lame console port instead which had to cut the vtol level due to console technical limits. Not because "we didnt like it" as if that matter because it's ehat the fans like, not what they like. I sure as hell loved the vtol level, it was different, a break from all the running and gunning and i got to fly the vtol

@dgtldead

3 жыл бұрын

Actually by that logic, alot of games are unfinished because devs "don't like" a level. Even games that you perceive as complete are missing something that wasn't released.

@johnjoe69

3 жыл бұрын

@@dgtldead its not the same dude, the level was released already part of the game and working fine. It wasnt some scrapped idea or level pre release. Its also obvious its a balant bs lie, because when they ported to 360 they said they had to cut that level because of technical limits. Now 10 years later since they were lazy and remastered the inferior console port and they had to re explain why the level was missing they just said it was cuz they didn't like it. I been playing Crysis since 2007 and followed and read up on the port releases.

@dgtldead

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnjoe69 That doesn't change anything I said, nor you playing crysis since 2007. MANY games have content cut on re-releases. Mass Effect 1's dlc isn't in its remaster, does that mean its an unfinished game? Not necessarily. They may have their reasons, but the game is still very much playable. I'd understand more if the whole alien ship was missing and you wound up on top of the mountain with snow with no clue as to why, since that ties more into the story.

@johnjoe69

3 жыл бұрын

@@dgtldead Mass Effect Remaster is 3 games, of course the dlc doesn't fit. And im stating what they originally said when they ported the game to consoles and this "remaster" is based on that console port. It would have been extra work to start from the pc version, which is obviously they did not want to do, because it would've taken more effort. The new consoles are more than capable of running Crysis in it's full uncompressed best version with added retouches and enhancements. Mass Effect was already a console game so there is no superior verion they could have based the game off. You made a bad comparison.

You are a consummate professional, good sir. Thanks for the in depth review as always. This single threading issue is my biggest problem by far. They could literally have changed NOTHING graphically or gameplay wise about the 'remaster' and simply rebuilt the Engine's CPU structure from the ground up [no easy task, I grant you] complete with proper multithreading support (which they demonstrated with Crysis 3 a mere 6 years later!) and I would have brought the remaster easily. Amateur hour from Crytek on this score.

Its amazing. 13 years later and they can not pull of the same magic trick twice. Its like how we today could not build the St. Peter's Basilica but people back then could do it.

@igorthelight

3 жыл бұрын

Look at Crysis 3 and Hunt: Showdown Both from Crytek Both look great and run... ok.

This is such a disappointment on so many levels.....

@diegomasotti7517

3 жыл бұрын

Even on the one they left out

@Lenderz

3 жыл бұрын

Not on the Ascension level.

@saricubra2867

3 жыл бұрын

Removing the Ascension level due to bad level design is BS and simply an excuse because they used the flawed console ports as the mold, Crysis as a whole has good continuity and the level design still aged very well, you explore water, air and ground in the original but not in the remaster?

@Lenderz

3 жыл бұрын

Star masterc because it is a console port and it wasn’t in the console version, putting it back in would have taken effort.

@frankdux6930

3 жыл бұрын

@@saricubra2867 truly disappointing that they kept that level out, and the fact the game STILL under utilizes CPU cores processing.

Very detailed and on point review, thanks :)

Well done very in depth review. Very impressed.

The "Can it run Crysis" mode is just a stupid joke. Every game on the planet could simply make a setting without LODs.

@Deliveredmean42

3 жыл бұрын

But they haven't, don't they? There's always the limiting factor the devs want to apply in their game, where it is for consoles or not.

@FourthExile

3 жыл бұрын

what does LOD stand for?

@rorykeane3367

3 жыл бұрын

FrenchMercenary it’s a trick developers use to save memory bandwidth in a game by having very low polygon objects/textures in the distance instead of using the fully detailed asset. When you walk toward these low polygon LODs, the engine will “call in” the higher quality asset, and when handled well the player won’t even notice it happening. “Can it run crysis” mode eliminates LODs, meaning objects and scenery in the distance retain all of the texture quality/shadow quality they would as if you were standing right next to them. Personally I think it’s neat, but it’s an easy way to cripple any game on any system.

@Crowbar

3 жыл бұрын

@@FourthExile LOD stands for "Level of Detail"

@Crowbar

3 жыл бұрын

@@rorykeane3367 "Can it run Crysis" is just pointless, because you don't notice the difference anyway.

modded original crysis is still the best way to play.

@glenwaldrop8166

3 жыл бұрын

Did you have to do a dozen work arounds to get yours to work? Mine gives me trouble on every machine I own.

That Ctrl crouching thing is that it works when taping the button(that means that a press and a consequent key release have to be registered) instead of just calling the crouch code when the the button starts being pushed

DF should make more videos like this one. Nice intro.

Can't say I'm too impressed with it. It's got the performance of a cutting edge graphical game like Metro Exodus, but with last-last gen graphics.

@arutzuki2491

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Crysis 3 looks better

@theanimerapper6351

3 жыл бұрын

Yea metro performs pretty good actually lol

@Xshinobi2k8

3 жыл бұрын

I mean it is a remaster of an almost 13 year old game, it isn't a remake.

@technoviking2415

3 жыл бұрын

My advice use mods for me there better and free

@magikarp2063

3 жыл бұрын

Metro performs way better too.

God tier intro lmao. I love this channel

@nickmotsarsky4382

3 жыл бұрын

The Crysis schtick is getting kind of old with Alex.

@sourcehopper4302

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickmotsarsky4382 Nah Nick, that intro skit was absolute gold in my opinion.

@peterGchaves

3 жыл бұрын

Same!! I always loved all the professionalism of this channel, but i really appreciate how they make an exception on Crysis related videos with intros like this 😂😂😂

@andrewreames7080

3 жыл бұрын

I guess you could say there were a lot of bespoke effects in the intro.

@jimmyhopkins1

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap you are still alive I used to watch your terrible generic gameplay vids when I was like 10

Incredibly amazing, in depth testing done. I hope Crytek sees your video and if they release in time the patches to address the issues pointed here, this version is definitly worth buying. In the meantime I would not recommend it. Also should still note that the game is currently restricted to a particular game library platform and not others, such as Origin as EA wasn't publishing this but it will feel wrong if they don't add it on Origin after being available in 1 platform for a year. I have all my Crysis games on Origin and it is silly having one on another. Great work on the video!!

Nobody can analyze a game like you, thank you for your work, this was so in-depth.

So, in conclusion, Crysis 1 is still better looking than most modern games, even its own remaster in some aspects.

@ThereIsOnlyOneRandom

3 жыл бұрын

is what? BETTER LOOKING? ofc crisis 1 got some great features but the mechanics and overall graphic is just outdated lol, ton of details but with rubbish graphic quality.

@ishanawate1849

3 жыл бұрын

Not impressed, it's a pretty meh looking title. 13:34 Since Alex shows this room so many times I have to say there are atleast 67 rooms and 93 passages in TLoU2 that look 3 generations ahead in terms of lighting and textures, that too on the base ps4. Bought this on the Epic games store for about 10$ so not disappointed, but quite underwhelmed with how it looks, good gameplay though.

@pnchtz6357

3 жыл бұрын

yea but actually no

@soraaoixxthebluesky

3 жыл бұрын

No. The texture alone looks terrible.

@omarcomming722

3 жыл бұрын

No but it runs worse than most modern games I'll give it that

40minutes? I would expect nothing less from Alex and his love of Crysis. Well done sir! I'm still putting the final touches on my own breakdown

@mrbazooka6635

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Nick! What do think about the remaster? I personally am not fond of the new art direction.

@ionseven

3 жыл бұрын

Alex is a corporate shill. Fans are not happy with this obvious cash grab. EDIT: There's nothing to "breakdown."

@woodbyte

3 жыл бұрын

@@ionseven Have you actually watched it? Pretty harsh for a cash grab.

@coldrunhershel604

3 жыл бұрын

@@ionseven if there's nothing to breakdown for you, then why are you here commenting?

@SivanandRavi90

3 жыл бұрын

Hey @Nick930 love your history of video game franchises series.. keep up the good work.

The intro was amazing

The recommended optimal settings worked VERY well

So yeah, a spruced up port of a PC juggernaut's 360 version. Jesus. Imagine if Ridley Scott remastered Blade Runner Final Cut from the VHS release? 8:50 Look at how the character in front is stiff and barely moving in the Remastered version, while in the original she's lively and gesticulating with her umbrella. At a guess, the full original animation from the PC couldn't fit into the Xbox 360 RAM so they just dropped it completely when they did the console port. And now the Remaster lets us enjoy that stiff, mannequin-like old-gen animation that was outdated back when it was new.

@RyanBurnsRed

3 жыл бұрын

In this case it would be like Blade Runner originally being released for blu-ray, then get downgraded severely for VHS, then being remastered from the VHS version for blu-ray... for $30 and worse performance than the original

@Totone56

3 жыл бұрын

@@RyanBurnsRed Spot on

@pechugaslarou3433

3 жыл бұрын

if the amount of the check were large, I'm afraid ridley would have no problem doing so. He already did it with Alien's 'director's cut' (which was not 'director's' but a Fox grabcash that he agreed to call that for payment)

What a HUGE let down this new remaster was.

The part about res scaling with the speech bubbles... Omg I love it. Kills me

You gain so much respect, even after visiting Crysis HQ and loving the game you can stay honest and objecive about what is right and what is really wrong, I see almost everyone praising the thing without going deeper. I didn't even know this remastered was based on the xbox 360/Ps3 release, that explains a lot (like ascension missing ._. ). Very good job from tech perspective and for being transparent we really appreciate it.

Honestly there are so many things that just look straight up worse in the remastered or feel downgraded. The whole colour grading is completely off and overdone just look at the island shot the greens and blues look horrible like Far Cry 1, vegetation physics/interactions aren't nearly as good, indirect lighting is often completely broken, volumetric lights either missing or broken, tesselation looks worse than in Crysis 3 and certrain textures just float above the tesselation, no volumetric cloud i mean come on it was one of the most defining features of Crysis and it even removes gameplay features and content. In some cases the PS3 and 360 version even has better looking lighting and volumetrics. The remastered is basicly just an excuse to release it on all consoles again. All they had to do is just try to implement proper multicore and multi threading support to the original. I wish the whole "can it run crysis?" meme was never a thing because 99% of people don't even know why it runs so badly, the fact that the developers even embrace it is even worse while still having bad multi core support. If you have a good PC just buy the original Crysis and it will look better even without mods.

@barbosa40

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, original Crysis looks better in manu ways

@lupinder2058

3 жыл бұрын

Problem is level design. Graphics are fine. Level design effecting visual a lot.

@spire000

3 жыл бұрын

You described so many details.

@5000Seabass

3 жыл бұрын

The remastered graphics are lot more detailed from a technical stand point, your opinion is yours alone and is objectively wrong. However, fuckin A this game has always been an unoptimized mess lmao

@festive5476

3 жыл бұрын

Original crysis with ray-tracing would have been GODLY, but the visuals without RT are still extremely good

This is EVERYTHING I could have wanted from a DF overview of Crysis Remastered! Such a good job! This remaster is such a technical mess and really needs a lot more work

Great video, very comprehensive

Thanks you DF for very detailed and thorough review.

Yes - this really is a 4K video, but once again, KZread's encoders are running slowly. Watch now for the information, but to see this video at its best, check back later for full 4K resolution and improved 1080p60 image quality.

@mayman4255

3 жыл бұрын

I watch on 360p 😂

@MysteryD

3 жыл бұрын

You guys should know by now that the solution to this is to upload, then leave the video unlisted while KZread processes the video. Then make public approx 2 hours later.

@SayakMajumder

3 жыл бұрын

Finally ... been waiting for the Avengers analysis video too.

@producerevan88

3 жыл бұрын

I feel y'all, but every week we have this happen and someone gives you the solution. DO NOT release the video before it is done processing in 4k.. I'm still not sure why you guy's have an issue when others don't ie LTT, MKBHD even someone like greg salazar. I dunno, sort it out mates 🤘🤗

@meowforjasper2838

3 жыл бұрын

@@MysteryD This is just me assuming, but I think they would rather just put the video out quicker because they know a large amount of their audience cares about the information more than what resolution the video is in. They probably also assume that we are capable of making the decision to come back later if 4k resolution is that big of a deal.

Joke of ther Year 2020, Crysis Remastered

@nomercy8989

3 жыл бұрын

I think that title still belongs to Warcraft 3 Reforged but yeah. This shit is a runner up

@koushikneriyanuri5420

3 жыл бұрын

@@nomercy8989 lmaoo

It boggles the mind to think about how much _easy_ profit Yerli could have made if he simply took Crysis and CryEngine 2.0 (the last PC engine Crytek made), re-coded it to be as multi-threaded as possible, added any algorithmic optimizations from the last 10+ years, and then enhanced the crud out of it--physics, AI, and visuals. The game is already _made._ It wouldn't have taken him more than $2M USD _max_ and a year or less to do it, and it's nonsense to think he wouldn't have sold a bare minimum of 500K copies at $40 USD each. Even at that bare minimum, assuming an average gross of $20 per copy, that's $8M gross profit on $10M in revenue. I have my boxed copy of Crysis sitting right here, and I'd be glad to pay for a solid, honest *PC product* like that, and to also show the industry that there is a market for AAA-level PC games.

Awesome stuff!

So they based this off on the console version of the game rather then the PC one, cut content out by removing the ascension mission, worsened certain designs like the aliens and the nano suit, and released the game in a poorly optimized state. No wonder crytek is aways having money problems. How can they expect to win over clients with this?

@trblemayker5157

3 жыл бұрын

They took the money and bailed on making a proper product.

@Mart-E12

3 жыл бұрын

My disappointment is immesureable and my day is ruined, seriously

@geraltschmeralt7495

3 жыл бұрын

The content already got cut for the console version. Doesn't make it better but Sabre didn't remove it themselves.

@amiththomas3884

3 жыл бұрын

+ downgrades in particle lighting and physics... geez. That's so disappointing. No more exposions affecting vegetation ? what ?

@amiththomas3884

3 жыл бұрын

@Keelan That's a myth. Tesselated water was shown only in wireframe mode. If you weren't in wireframe, it wasn't rendering, hence not incurring any performance cost.

Everyone should download the Crysis Enhanced mod for the original game on ModDB. Better than Cryteks garbage remaster for PC. The mod adds 4K/8K textures, retains the original colorgrading and time of day settings while adding TAA and a bunch of other visual improvements.

@ultimatewick

3 жыл бұрын

@Subi_fan Sounds like someone doesn't know how to use sharpening either with the Nvidia control panel or something like Reshade. TAA with sharpening is perfectly fine.

@danwarb1

3 жыл бұрын

@Subi_fan You should learn more about TAA.

@zedus4042

2 ай бұрын

It's probably great overall but listing a TAA as an improvement is really not it, TAA sucks big time...

what annoyed me the most about the remaster was when youre in max strength mode you grenade throws are the same in armor mode. In OG crysis it would go so much further with less of an arc. It was a lot of fun to use it tactically

Just finished the video. Great work DF. See you in 10 years when Crysis PC Remastered comes out.