People these days...

Here is what it boils down to:

If you're simple playing Crysis 2 for the game and not paying close attention to textures and where they cut corners, it will look absolutely stunning. It blows Vanilla Crysis 1 on Very High out of the water. However if you take the time to pay attention to details in Crysis 2, you're suddenly left completely unimpressed. Both games have their advantages graphically. Nothing can match Crysis 2 with lighting and water quality. However Crysis 1 had advantages in draw distance, some textures (some textures in C1 were pretty nasty too...don't get me started on the rocks in that game. They looked like blobs.), and physics.

thats y i play games is to have fun and not judge it by the graphics but by the gameplay

crysis 2 is a console port. But if you want to compare crysis 1 with crysis 2 you can compare with vids.

Ultimately thou crysis 1 with mods completely destroys crysis 2 .

But unlike most trolls I will back it up with vids


crysis 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShIFmR_ixc


crysis 1 with mods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YKsiL9MDo&feature=related

crysis 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_690795&v=HWARo9N21MM&feature=iv

crysis 1 mods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shZzYkpl5Nk&feature=related

No point in arguing with 360 fanboys.

dumbasses

Nothing can match Crysis 2 with lighting and water.

...and the water...you gotta be kidding me. Nice try.

crysis 2 is a console port. But if you want to compare crysis 1 with crysis 2 you can compare with vids.

Ultimately thou crysis 1 with mods completely destroys crysis 2 .

But unlike most trolls I will back it up with vids


crysis 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShIFmR_ixc


crysis 1 with mods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YKsiL9MDo&feature=related

crysis 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_690795&v=HWARo9N21MM&feature=iv

crysis 1 mods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shZzYkpl5Nk&feature=related

those mods are awful the effects on explosions look like ****, and the extreme quality mod the head bobbing is ridiculous. crysis 1 fanboys everywhere. i'll post up my full size screenies of crysis 1 vs crysis 2 a bit later. and if you say C1 looks better after seeing them i reccomend u get your head examined

crysis 2 is a console port. But if you want to compare crysis 1 with crysis 2 you can compare with vids.

Ultimately thou crysis 1 with mods completely destroys crysis 2 .

But unlike most trolls I will back it up with vids


crysis 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShIFmR_ixc


crysis 1 with mods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YKsiL9MDo&feature=related

crysis 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_690795&v=HWARo9N21MM&feature=iv

crysis 1 mods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shZzYkpl5Nk&feature=related

those mods are awful the effects on explosions look like ****, and the extreme quality mod the head bobbing is ridiculous. crysis 1 fanboys everywhere. i'll post up my full size screenies of crysis 1 vs crysis 2 a bit later. and if you say C1 looks better after seeing them i reccomend u get your head examined


I guess your going to open photoshop and work on your photos. Well have fun cause thats the only way you will be able to convince anyone that crysis 2 looks better than crysis 1.

OP must be on drugs

either the best troll in the past few weeks that i've encountered.. or the dumbest, most ridiculous and the most ignorant person i've seen in the past few weeks..

Nothing can match Crysis 2 with lighting and water.

...and the water...you gotta be kidding me. Nice try.

Of course the water? Have you even seen Crysis 2 water? Or are you referring to the junk water that was in Pier 17 in the MP Demo?

The very fact that some of you are posting youtube vids on here to try and compare PC graphics is downright laughable. There's no way in hell you can see real quality through highly compressed videos. Only a 1080p HD video using the highest bit-rate available could even begin to show that. And you sure as hell ain't gonna find that on youtube.

The best way to compare graphics is to post an uncompressed bitmap image with the same resolution as what you're running the game at. It's also a waste of time anyway, no one's going to be changing their opinion.

I've seen ugly textures in every game I've ever played, that includes both crysis and warhead. No game has great looking textures on every object, period.

ORLY? Crysis 2 is better looking then Crysis 1?

So these screenshots of Halfed texture resolution that are straight from the original crysis only down sized are somehow better?

http://crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=67740

Those screenshots compare full textures from Crysis 1 with the exact same textures that Crytek used with Crysis 2 but Crytek reduced them by 1/2. So how the hell can a game that has a direct 1:1 copy of actual files - 1/2 of the resolution look better? That's like saying 1+1 = -1. Just doesn't make a damn lick of sense.

ooh and /thread. You can't really deny absolute evidence. But in case you do.... Use QuickBMS and look for yourself. Take the Crysis 1 texture file names and do a search in the uncompressed .pak files of Crysis 2. Then open both of the files up in Photoshop or Gimp and see for yourself. If you still deny it then you are a fanboy blindly justifying an obviously failed purchase. The game is good, but anyone who can blindly say 2 looks better even when faced with absolute evidence is just plain **** ignorant. Sorry but that's as polite as I can put it.

Oh yeah, Cryshi.t 2 is so much better than 1. That's why i can shoot through car windows to kill enemies like I did in Crysis 1. Oh wait I can't. And all these invisible walls are just imaginary. They aren't really there. I'm just to dumb to hit the enemy and the hit animations right in front of me aren't really happening because there are no invisible walls.

It's not just about the looks. Crysis 1 has better textures and C2 is better with lightning. So what? The whole engine is still a downgrade and why is that? Because it had to be playable on consoles!

Since Crytek is not releasing hires textures for us... is there anyway that we can use the some if not all textures from orginal Crysis1 and then just replace those textures in Crysis2 ?

Any idea?

I would right away point out how much better the water alone looked in Crysis 1, and I even dare say in Far Cry! That crystal clear water you can dive into and swim under and see the surface, like you were swimming in clear blue waters on a beach. Not in Crysis 2, ugly as hell, dark murky water (I dont think it was done on purpose, but rather to save on system resources...*cough* xbox anyone?).
Textures look good on extreme setting in C2 but only if you turn off MSAA, in which case the textures use the true "extreme" sizes and look incredible, however there is TERRIBLE aliasing! If you turn on anti-aliasing, then your textures seem automatically reduced to "high" or what looks like even "medium" setting! Maybe this will be fixed with an upcoming patch?

Crysis 2 Is full of fun if u think its not good then don't play after playing crysis 1 and crysis 2 i think there are many new things in crysis 2 and i'm enjoying much than crysis 1 .

i always have my games set 2 the highest graphics on my CPU

lol on your CPU. eh? Do you even know what you are talking about? No, you don't, because if you did, you would know that your CPU has nothing to do with rendering gfx in Crysis. (Hint: The there is another device in your compoopoo that renders gfx in Crysis. It ryhms with CPU. Its a _PU)

You would have to know a little bit about this device (make and model) to make sure you could actually play crysis at max settings.

Is crytek paying you to make these statements or something?

I just installed Warhead. Playing 1920x1080 all settings maxed to enthusiast. While the water looks good, and I do miss the destruction a little, the rest of the game isn't as good as a lot of you guys remember. Crysis 2 looks better. A lot better.

My warhead looks and plays way better than crysis 2.

i always have my games set 2 the highest graphics on my CPU

lol on your CPU. eh? Do you even know what you are talking about? No, you don't, because if you did, you would know that your CPU has nothing to do with rendering gfx in Crysis. (Hint: The there is another device in your compoopoo that renders gfx in Crysis. It ryhms with CPU. Its a _PU)

You would have to know a little bit about this device (make and model) to make sure you could actually play crysis at max settings.

Is crytek paying you to make these statements or something?

You obviously have a lot to learn. It turns out you're the one who doesn't know what they're talking about. The acronym CPU usually refers to the Central Processing Unit, however, it has also been used to refer to a "PC". Which is most likely what he's referring to.

And the Central Processing Unit DOES play a huge role in rendering graphics. It doesn't matter how great a video card you have if don't have a CPU powerful enough to handle it.

I am on the same page as the folks who sees Crysis 2 as the better looking of the two games.