If there's still a cut level, this is going from "waiting for Steam" to "not buying at all"
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Crysis Remastered launching September 18th on PC (ray-tracing, 8K textures and more, EGS exclusive), Xbox One and PS4
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I have no clue why you guys are so attached to that level, it was one of the worst ones, and the game is 10 times better without it.
Eh, it was pretty visually spectacular for the time. I haven't played the game in a decade. Was interested to revisit it.
Oh gosh, I totally forgot these! I remember showing these to friends: "see how far we've gotten?" It somehow still feels like we peaked then and there, with everything being more 'stylized' now, instead of AAA chasing photorealism. (Which I understand)They had very talented artists/level designers/lighting artists back in the day. The art team made a trip to an island to actually prep for the game. This is where all the "famous" Crysis vs. real-world examples came from in 2006 that everyone goshed over.
In CryEngine 2, the default Time Of Day was perfectly dialed in to simulate a real 24 hour cycle. Colorgrading was very naturalistic as well.
I have a feeling the remaster will have filmic colorgrading charts, the SVOGI, new AO and of course the deferred lighting, a newer ToD etc but that might not be dialed in as well anymore towards one goal.
if you look at "cheap" holiday photographs of an area like a jungle island, you will see the typical
natural blown out look without super deep black contrasts.
Will be interesting to see if the SVOGI will artificially darken stuff like that too much.
While I personally skew towards more stylised looks, I can see with how cyclical trends tend to go, and the increasing and improving utilisation of photogrammetry and Megascans libraries becoming easier and taking a ton of the painstaking time and work out of hitting a high level of photoreal fidelity it may see a resurgence in the new generation.
Its crazy seeing how close they were able to get to their references with 06/07 era Realtime tech.
No matter how hard I tried with ini tweaks and mods, I never got the game to look like these engine screenshots hereThey had very talented artists/level designers/lighting artists back in the day. The art team made a trip to an island to actually prep for the game. This is where all the "famous" Crysis vs. real-world examples came from in 2006 that everyone goshed over.
In CryEngine 2, the default Time Of Day was perfectly dialed in to simulate a real 24 hour cycle. Colorgrading was very naturalistic as well.
I have a feeling the remaster will have filmic colorgrading charts, the SVOGI, new AO and of course the deferred lighting, a newer ToD etc but that might not be dialed in as well anymore towards one goal.
The VTOL level may be cut content, but there's a reason when people talk about Crysis or feature gameplay, that basically never show that level. It's not very good.
I'd rather have it than not, but if it had never been in the game in the first place, I'd not think any less of the game.
All this comparing color grading stuff makes me wish more people uploaded HDR footage, cause I doubt I'll be seeing this game with whatever grading the SDR version uses, and in my experience HDR color grading can often differ *massively* from SDR.
Something else to keep in mind, Crysis does a fantastic job of matching the grading of reference photos, which is arguably no more or less accurate to the human eye than matching the grading of a movie. Whatever your preference might be.
I'd rather have it than not, but if it had never been in the game in the first place, I'd not think any less of the game.
All this comparing color grading stuff makes me wish more people uploaded HDR footage, cause I doubt I'll be seeing this game with whatever grading the SDR version uses, and in my experience HDR color grading can often differ *massively* from SDR.
Something else to keep in mind, Crysis does a fantastic job of matching the grading of reference photos, which is arguably no more or less accurate to the human eye than matching the grading of a movie. Whatever your preference might be.
they were probably highly bespoke tweaks that are near impossible to accomplish in the game
Then perhaps what people then are feeling like they are seeing is just good color work then? Because the color of the lighting in Crysis 1 felt so completely real.
They won't advertising something not happening at all. Downgrades, maybe? Sure, downgrades can happen, but not RT missing completely.
Indeed and I wonder whether this is the best Pro/X upgrade yet. Cant wait for Dictator analysis.
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I actually remember that the final game eventually added a yellow colour grading specifically on the very high setting (which you could turn on in high as well from config files ofc) that made it look a lot more stylised than these screenshots.They had very talented artists/level designers/lighting artists back in the day. The art team made a trip to an island to actually prep for the game. This is where all the "famous" Crysis vs. real-world examples came from in 2006 that everyone goshed over.
In CryEngine 2, the default Time Of Day was perfectly dialed in to simulate a real 24 hour cycle. Colorgrading was very naturalistic as well.
I have a feeling the remaster will have filmic colorgrading charts, the SVOGI, new AO and of course the deferred lighting, a newer ToD etc but that might not be dialed in as well anymore towards one goal.
if you look at "cheap" holiday photographs of an area like a jungle island, you will see the typical
natural blown out look without super deep black contrasts.
Will be interesting to see if the SVOGI will artificially darken stuff like that too much.
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Yes please.
Hoping the "Can it Run Crysis" mode actually gives my rig a run for it's money. And not in a "just no optimization effort" way.
Something about the lighting makes the OG still look more "realistic" or maybe natural is word im looking for, Crysis was such a damn good looking game.
I always felt it looked flat compared to their tech previews way back in the day that clearly had better lighting.
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Not sure which episode though.
The first season was pretty good, if I may say so.
I like the console power set-up but it would be good to have the option for PC players. They could even add it on PS4 using the touchpad
Will be worthless to me unless it has the original suit controls and modding support. MP would be nice but I can live without it
This would be a great opportunity to port Warhead, even if it was a standalone port to CE3. Bonkers that they didn't take the opportunity to make a bundle.
Don't worry. All of them are coming back again - WH/2/3. They WANT to sell them separately because $$$
Why CE3? They're on CE5 now. But yes, I agree that Warhead would have been a shoe-in addition. Even though this is a remaster, it still takes a lot of work to port all of Crysis 1 to the latest CryEngine on top of creating new higher resolution arrests and implementing new features that CE5 allows. Instead of spending more money to cover two games, I see they want to see how well this one does before they move on to the others.
Not sure how potential blow back from being an Epic store exclusive will impact this, but I guess time will tell...