Someone please explain to me how the graphics on Crysis 2 svck? Name 1 game that looks better and i will shut my face and never say another word on this forum. And don't say Battlefield 3 because it isnt even out yet.

metro 2033,killzone 3, crysis 1 looks better...

And a Lot of titles look the "same" for general graphics.. pretty much every unreal 3 engine console port that shipped this , and last year Better ? look no further than Crysis 1 or warhead.

WTF are you people talking about... none of those look better than this. What are you playing on high? I just hooked it up to my full HD 52" TV and i have never seen anything that compares to it save the battlefield 3 gameplay videos.

I know Kyle. He's a jerk, we don't get along...hell, he banned my main username after a heated argument about releasing the HD-DVD AACS encryption key. It was on TV and dozens of blogs at the time...but the idiot thought we were exposing him to some legal litigation by talking about it...whatever, he's a tool. But in this case, he is DEAD ON. The graphics look just as good on my old 8800gts as they do on my dual GTX 480 rig. No excuse for that. I won't say they look bad, but Crysis 1 stresses my new setup more than Crysis 2 does. And WTS is up with the cvars being locked? I understand locking them for multiplayer, but if I want to cheat my lilly white a55 off in single player, then let me. The ad campaign says Be Invincible. I can't. You disabled g_godMode = 1

Unprofessional, unconstructive, biased, sloppy and useless "review". Anyone who takes that "review" seriously is an idiot in my book, period.

Couldn't agree more, and a total lack of civility to boot.
Even jokingly suggesting he'd like Cervat TO DIE because he doesn't like a product he's free to ignore is absolutely astonishing. The fact the he's a father is shocking, as his mentality is totally juvenile and frankly extremist.

As someone who owns a PC which plays Crysis 1 at 40 fps, and xbox 360 and a PS3 I've never understood all the mindless biching and ranting from the exclusively PC community. They're so superior they sound a bit like video game Nazi's for want of a better term; assured of their superiority despite everyone else's best judgement.

Maybe I feel more secure because I own all three and have the freedom of choice (having not blown all my budget on hardware that isn't even necessary for most games these days) and these hardware elitists are just bitter and jealous of what's on offer elsewhere and that they don't dictate the entire gaming world's agenda to suit their unrealistically expensive rigs.

My rig cost me about $2000 all in, taking into account depreciation. I absolutely consider myself a hardcoe gamer in that it's my No. 1 hobby and what I spend most of my money on.
In fact I would argue that owning a PS3 and an Xbox 360 as well as a more than capable gaming rig makes me, if anything, more of a hardcoe gamer than any of the PC nazis out there because I could never be satisfied with the offerings of just one machine.

Respond with logical arguments PC fanboys (which until reading the bile of the last few years I once considered myself to be).

for all the crytek fanboys here bloom == good graphics...........they are like primitive primates in their mind shiny = good

After spending a full 30 seconds trying to decipher what your sentence meant, I reckon the only thing primitive there is you argument.

Unprofessional, unconstructive, biased, sloppy and useless "review". Anyone who takes that "review" seriously is an idiot in my book, period.

Couldn't agree more, and a total lack of civility to boot.
Even jokingly suggesting he'd like Cervat TO DIE because he doesn't like a product he's free to ignore is absolutely astonishing. The fact the he's a father is shocking, as his mentality is totally juvenile and frankly extremist.

As someone who owns a PC which plays Crysis 1 at 40 fps, and xbox 360 and a PS3 I've never understood all the mindless biching and ranting from the exclusively PC community. They're so superior they sound a bit like video game Nazi's for want of a better term; assured of their superiority despite everyone else's best judgement.

Maybe I feel more secure because I own all three and have the freedom of choice (having not blown all my budget on hardware that isn't even necessary for most games these days) and these hardware elitists are just bitter and jealous of what's on offer elsewhere and that they don't dictate the entire gaming world's agenda to suit their unrealistically expensive rigs.

My rig cost me about $2000 all in, taking into account depreciation. I absolutely consider myself a hardcoe gamer in that it's my No. 1 hobby and what I spend most of my money on.
In fact I would argue that owning a PS3 and an Xbox 360 as well as a more than capable gaming rig makes me, if anything, more of a hardcoe gamer than any of the PC nazis out there because I could never be satisfied with the offerings of just one machine.

Respond with logical arguments PC fanboys (which until reading the bile of the last few years I once considered myself to be).


Most of them don't *have* any logical arguments.

I've had my own disagreements with Kyle (still a member of [H] despite that, as I don't get caught up in flamewars) - but I keep them civil.

Unlike most of the gripe-artists, I have a pretty darn ordinary PC. That said, Crysis 2 at the defaults is the best-looking shooter at the defaults that I have ever seen.

Usually, when you start a game (and especially a shooter, multiplatform or otherwise), you want to move away from the defaults because the graphics generally blow at the default settings.

So NOT the case with Crysis 2.

The reason I went back and looked at the settings the first time was because I was curious - the load times were smooth, there was no chop, and it was everyting the original Crysis patched up to date *still isn't*.

1024x768, Gamer level of detail (like I said - ordinary hardware), V-sync on (that last is a surprise - it's usually off in a shooter at that resolution).

Did I change any of that? Nope. (Not going to, either - I know my gaming hardware is ordinary.)

The defaults are actually dead-on.

That's one thing that shooters, and especially multiplatform shooters, almost always get wrong.

Gamers that want to get down to playing have a lot to love in Crysis 2. However, the lack of reasons for tweaking are why hardware-enthusiasts (like Kyle) will loathe it.

for all the crytek fanboys here bloom == good graphics...........they are like primitive primates in their mind shiny = good

After spending a full 30 seconds trying to decipher what your sentence meant, I reckon the only thing primitive there is you argument.

You spent a full 30 seconds trying to figure out what he said? REALLY!?

*sigh* Please atleast tell me you can see the irony in calling a guy's 'argument' primitive while yourself taking upwards of 30 seconds to understand a simple sentence.

He's saying that the bloom is used to cover up the bad graphics and that you are confusing lots of shiny bloom for good graphics, when the actual texture work is quite low res, compared to even the original game.