Crysis 3 (PC, PS3, 360)

I'm surprised this didn't have a thread yet. Here are the PC system requirements:

Minimum system requirements for PC

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
• DirectX 11 graphics card with 1Gb Video RAM
• Dual core CPU
• 2GB Memory (3GB on Vista
• Nvidia/Intel example setup: Nvidia GTS 450, Intel Core2 Duo 2.4 Ghz (E6600)
• AMD example setup: AMD Radeon HD5770, AMD Athlon64 X2 2.7 Ghz (5200+)

Recommended system requirements for PC

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
• DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM
• Quad core GPU
• 4GB Memory
• Nvidia/Intel example setup: Nvidia GTX 560, Intel Core i3-530
• AMD example setup: AMD Radeon HD5870, AMD Phenom II X2 565

Hi-performance system requirements for PC

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 •
• Latest DirectX 11 graphics card •
• Latest quad core CPU
• 8GB Memory
• Nvidia/Intel example setup: NVidia GTX 680, Intel Core i7-2600k
• AMD example setup: AMD Radeon HD7970, AMD Bulldozer FX4150

By the time EA decides they want me to buy this, I should have the hi-performance covered.

I want the 670 to go on deep sale on Amazon. This game is a big reason why.

I'm just going to wait until next summer or so to upgrade. This game won't be on Steam for a year anyway, and most of the games that will need that kind of horsepower will be driven by the next console generation, so paying the premium price now just seems stupid.

I'll probably upgrade for Star Citizen!

There's a chance this will show up on Steam since I don't think EA is 100% in charge of the Crysis IP or distribution rights or whatever.

I hear you, but Crysis 2 was the first game that got yanked due to all that DLC nonsense, so CryTek would likely have had to intentionally work around it to avoid a repeat.

I know some don't care for Crysis 2 but I had a very good time with it and I thought it looked great. I plan on finally upgrading my 5 year old Q6600 based pc during the summer when Intel's new "Haswell" chipset is released. Who knows what vid cards will be available then but I'll be ready for Crysis 3 and anything else by summer.

My rig is getting pretty ancient, but a big upgrade is probably out of my price range right now. I might get a used GeForce 460 or something at some point, but if it's not in time, I'll (blasphemy!) go with the console ports.

Crysis 2 was good on Xbox 360. Obviously it didn't have the shine of the PC version but it played the same and looked very good all the same. That's the thing with games these days, a port is a port. I started RE5 on PC and it looks amazing at 1080p, tons of AA, and 60fps but the 360 one looked and played just fine too.

The next round of consoles will be able to handle a game like Crysis 3 extremely well. Maybe not Crysis 5 but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

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Originally Posted by epmode

I'll probably upgrade for Star Citizen!

There's a chance this will show up on Steam since I don't think EA is 100% in charge of the Crysis IP or distribution rights or whatever.

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I'm hoping so, given Crytek is an EA Partner instead of an owned studio ala DICE. This could be why EA didn't put Origin in the Steam version of C2 Max Ed., or even keep it off Steam all the way. Maybe Crytek has some control there. The fact that Steam's C2ME has NO 3rd party DRM is a good sign. If Crysis 3 doesn't go on Steam right away, it's probably just a matter of time with a "Crysis 3 Maximum Edition" in 2014.

My rig is ready for this. I have an i5-2500k @ 4.63 Ghz and 2 GTX 460s (1 gig) in sli. Crysis 2 played as smooth as melted butter on my rig.

Amazon has an amazing preorder deal for Crysis 3. You get a $20 credit, and a free download of Crysis 1.

Getting it for 360 just so I can read all the PC is way cool, consoles are dumb comments.

Ready go!

Consoles aren't dumb. People who buy DX9 versions of DX11 games are.

Love Crysis 1, liked Crysis 2, liked the Crysis 3 MP beta, but am holding off on this game for a few months. I just have too many games to play through.

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Originally Posted by EvilMog

Getting it for 360 just so I can read all the PC is way cool, consoles are dumb comments.

Ready go!

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Getting Argo on VHS just so I can read all the Blu-ray is way cool, analog is dumb comments.

I want a demo so I can see how well I can run this.

Game is good. People should play it.

PC Master Race

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Originally Posted by EvilMog

Getting it for 360 just so I can read all the PC is way cool, consoles are dumb comments.

Ready go!

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You're not even worth a comment you filthy console peasant.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

PC Master Race

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Originally Posted by dave is ok

You're not even worth a comment you filthy console peasant.

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I was inspired.

It's a shame nobody is playing this. It's pretty fucking rad. May be best looking console game to date.

It will be $20 by September.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

It will be $20 by September.

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New games get cheaper when they are no longer new! NO FUCKING WAY BRAH!

You want to know why nobody is playing this, that is why.

Not to mention when it hits Steam it'll be $10.

I'd rather wait for the significantly better experience at 1/6th the cost, but I'm also an adult with patience.

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Originally Posted by EvilMog

May be best looking console game to date.

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Does it have the highest IQ in special ed too?

The Oscar Pestorias award for excellence in the face of adversity (and shooting your girlfriend through a bathroom door) goes to Crysis 3 on Xbox 360 for being the best looking game on seven year old hardware.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

You want to know why nobody is playing this, that is why.

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Pretty much.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

The Oscar Pestorias award for excellence in the face of adversity (and shooting your girlfriend through a bathroom door) goes to Crysis 3 on Xbox 360 for being the best looking game on seven year old hardware.

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:bang:

What's this about EA games being $10 on steam?

I assume he meant that by the time Crysis 3 comes out on Steam with all of the DLC, it'll be cheap like Crysis 2 was after the Origin mess.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

I assume he meant that by the time Crysis 3 comes out on Steam with all of the DLC, it'll be cheap like Crysis 2 was after the Origin mess.

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Correct.

One day this will be on Steam and someday it will be $10 there. That's when I'll play it.

I don't think you guys will have to wait that long. There were roughly 1000 people playing this tonight on the PS3. If the online player counts were anything to be believed.

And that's the end of another game series.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Does it have the highest IQ in special ed too?

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I'm asking you like an adult: Can you please stop this? It's all you ever say when people are talking about a console game. Your time is coming, but the world's just not there yet. None of us need convincing that the PC version of most games is significantly better. We get it. But there's still people out there like me who only have a Macbook Air. Can't do much of shit for gaming on that. The Steambox is coming, and is undoubtedly the future. Just let the angst go for a while.

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Originally Posted by icarusfall

Yoshi, stop being a faggot.

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I started playing this game. Set everything to High (not VH) and locked the FPS to 30 and it doesn't drop lower than that so it's perfect. I think VH even without AA might take things past this card's 1.5GB limit. This game is ridiculously good looking.

I would love to put a serious PC together (like 2 Titans) to get 60 FPS at the VH setting. That would be the best thing ever.

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Originally Posted by icarusfall

I'm asking you like an adult

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I started playing this game. Set everything to High (not VH) and locked the FPS to 30 and it doesn't drop lower than that so it's perfect. I think VH even without AA might take things past this card's 1.5GB limit. This game is ridiculously good looking.

I would love to put a serious PC together (like 2 Titans) to get 60 FPS at the VH setting. That would be the best thing ever.

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I'm pretty sure 2 GTX 680s would do the trick. I fired it up this afternoon and had the game running @45 fps on high with 2X AF. I only have 1024 MB of graphics memory with my 2 GTX 460s, so I'm pretty sure I maxing that out at those settings. Did you download the latest drivers (314.7) from Nvidia? They're supposed to provide a significant boost in performance for this game.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages...nchmark,7.html

They weren't kidding about this game being a system melter. I was playing for about an hour, before quitting. My i5-2500k hit 83 degrees celcius (OC to 4.65 Ghz) and task manager showed all 4 cores hitting 100% and staying in the 90+ usage throughout. I might have to back off my overclock.

I saw the intro to this while wandering around a Play & Trade today.

Crysisman sounds like Grumpy McEmobot. I take it nobody plays this shit for the story.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

I'm pretty sure 2 GTX 680s would do the trick. I fired it up this afternoon and had the game running @45 fps on high with 2X AF. I only have 1024 MB of graphics memory with my 2 GTX 460s, so I'm pretty sure I maxing that out at those settings. Did you download the latest drivers (314.7) from Nvidia? They're supposed to provide a significant boost in performance for this game.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages...nchmark,7.html

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Yeah but High isn't the same as Very High. I didn't really try long enough on that setting to know that it wasn't going to stay at 30 (it would dip into the 20s, although I hear that the beginning is the most demanding part). High works perfectly, and would probably usually stay in the 40s or even 50+ most of the time with no AA. But capping it at 30 works great. Always a constant framerate.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

I saw the intro to this while wandering around a Play & Trade today.

Crysisman sounds like Grumpy McEmobot. I take it nobody plays this shit for the story.

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I don't play any game for the story.

I liked Crysis 1's, but Crysis 2 has one of the worst stories I've ever seen.

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

Yeah but High isn't the same as Very High. I didn't really try long enough on that setting to know that it wasn't going to stay at 30 (it would dip into the 20s, although I hear that the beginning is the most demanding part). High works perfectly, and would probably usually stay in the 40s or even 50+ most of the time with no AA. But capping it at 30 works great. Always a constant framerate.

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It will stay under 1.5 GB, using Very High, FXAA and a resolution of 1920 x 1080, ;)

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages...nchmark,8.html

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

I liked Crysis 1's, but Crysis 2 has one of the worst stories I've ever seen.

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Oh it continues.

Well, I can't finish the game I guess. After beating the boss at the end, I guess I am supposed to do something but can no longer control my character. It seems that a lot of people with the console and PC releases have all kinds of issues near the end of the game.

What a pile of shit.

I found out I was one action away from the ending...why not just make that part of the ending? It's stupid, I saw it on Youtube. Anyway, this game is the most amazing thing I ever saw, graphics-wise. On home platforms, I am not sure of the top ten biggest graphical leaps since Doom. This one is on the same level of the original Unreal, where it just stomped everything else out there to dust and you felt like you went into the future.

Karma for supporting Origin imo

Sounds like me playing the first Crysis. I managed to beat it but that final aircraft carrier battle was filled with all kinds of glitchy, floating enemies that couldn't properly interact with the world and were falling through the ground. I think I had to reload the last battle a couple times because the boss kept not working right.

The Polygon review really deterred me in its claims of this taking some of the crappier elements of Crysis 1 and 2 and ending up with an ultimately uninspiring "playground." Of course, it looks great.

I'm interested in it almost more from a "How good is my PC, actually?" perspective than a "Damn, Crysis games are so fun, I can't wait to play this one" one.

Admittedly, I really, really liked Crysis 1 (first half especially, though I appreciated the variety in the second half) and Crysis 2 was okay (but not enticing enough for me to bother finishing). So I'd probably enjoy it, I guess.

Full High & FXAA at 1920 x 1200 has worked fine for me so far with a GTX 580 (1346 MB, vs. my card's 1536). I don't plan on pushing it to Very High though, at least until I have a 680 or something higher. Not for awhile- by the time I plan on getting a new $500 graphics card, I may well be choosing from the 800 series. Gotta get a bit more mileage out of the 580 after what I spent on it.

While neither C2 nor C3 exactly capture everything from the first (the KPA in 1 will literally tear the place apart to find you), C3 does bring back some of the sandbox feel from part 1- there are some fairly good sized subsections within a stage. Even if there are 7 stages, they seem quite a bit larger than C2's. Hacking CELL security turrets can be fun, but this seems better as a tool to distract the enemy than to take out a few with their own weapon. The turret gets trashed quickly.

Polygon does complain about the bow. Easy workaround: just play with the other weapons or stick to using special arrow types only. At least the special arrow types are severely limited to a max of three in stock for each, and the bow loses its range advantage against a DSG-1. One thing I truly hate is having to give up the REX C4 charges if I wanted the JAW launcher. Crysis 2 allows keeping both.

C3 has some of the elements from the first two games (good and bad) with some new stuff. At least the nano catalyst powerups can be made stronger by doing some task (regenerate a certain amount of energy, kill a number of enemies, etc).

Finished it. Had to restart the very end a few times to a glitch that wouldn't let me use my guns. The first game is still the best.

The level design in this is really contrived and linear. I always felt like that complaint about the second game was overstated and there was still plenty of room for freedom, but here that seems to be less true. Cloaking seems to be way unbalanced, too. Recharges in like 2 seconds and lasts for like 30.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

The level design in this is really contrived and linear. I always felt like that complaint about the second game was overstated and there was still plenty of room for freedom, but here that seems to be less true. Cloaking seems to be way unbalanced, too. Recharges in like 2 seconds and lasts for like 30.

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Comparing 3 to the first game, I have to agree about cloaking. It's not just the recharging, but there is nearly no penalty against your Energy meter for using the bow or a silenced weapon. Taking 1/3 to 1/2 the bar for an arrow or silenced shot done under cloak would be fine. So would taking the whole bar for a loud shot. C1's energy gauge does take more time to fill up.

C3 seems to switch between linear sections and wide open areas (but nothing like C1's).

I'm in the early part of the 4th mission, and hope some more Ceph and some enemy armor vehicles show up soon. Can't wait to try out the thermite arrows.
Hopefully Crysis 4 can follow the first game more closely, given that it'll likely have the next-gen systems in mind.

Crysis 1 and Warhead would be good to see on GOG about now. Crytek has Far Cry on there now, and Electronic Arts has some of its older titles up. A DRM-free release (or at least pulling SecuROM out of the Steam version) would generate a mad rush of sales.

I doubt there will be a fourth. This is a monster budget game that sold like shit on release week. Crysis is finished.

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Originally Posted by gameoverDude

C3 seems to switch between linear sections and wide open areas (but nothing like C1's).

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But it's not about the physical size of the areas for me. C1 and C2's areas were both designed to give the player a good deal of freedom in how he dealt with a situation, but C3's aren't really.

I agree with Frog. Crysis 1's open nature is overstated, it's a linear game that just happens to give you lots of different ways to accomplish an objective. Crysis 2 was much the same for most of the game.

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Originally Posted by EvilMog

I doubt there will be a fourth. This is a monster budget game that sold like shit on release week. Crysis is finished.

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Probably.

Crytek is going pure free to play anyway. This game apparently cost them 66 million to make.

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Originally Posted by AaronChance

Crytek is going pure free to play anyway. This game apparently cost them 66 million to make.

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After Homefront 2 and Ryse (360/Kinect) are released to retail, that's it.
It's been said that C3 is a wrap on the story, but not the franchise- and that there will be an F2P Crysis game. Crysis Wars II sounds likelier than a true sequel.

I have no idea where the 66 million dollars went. The game is gorgeous, but gorgeous doesn't necessarily equal money

Have you ever sat through the credits for a Crytek game? At least 400,000 people work for them, across 3 different planets.

Yeah but what did they do? There are 3 enemies and 7 levels

I enjoyed the game, don't get me wrong. It was a fine length for me, and I'd definitely go through it again if they nerf the bow (even though the bow is awesome). But 66 million for dev and marketing? Nah.

Oh yeah, I did not go through the credits seeing as how it won't let me finish the last 30 seconds of meaningless gameplay.

399,700 of them were in charge of managing and coordinating the remaining 300.

Seriously, though, part of the reason development costs spiral out of control is because when a team gets to be a certain size, the need for management goes way up and most of your team isn't actually working directly on the game anymore.

Crytek is basically in the process of going stupidly insane. Between free-to-play and always-online single player, they can just die now.

James

I don't give a damn about always online. I am always online.

Bullshit. You don't give a damn about always online until something happens that knocks you offline. Maybe it won't be whatever Blizzard or Crytek has in mind for their next games, but it will happen sooner or later. Then you can wonder why on earth you'd put up with this idiocy.

James

I'm less concerned about my connection and more concerned about theirs. Always online works both ways. Ubisoft and Blizzard have both shown themselves to be incapable of maintaining the nearly-100% uptime that I demand if they want me to pay $60 for a game, and I see no reason why Crytek would be able to manage it either. There's also the question of continuing support. What happens if they go out of business or simply decide that it isn't worthwhile maintaining the servers anymore?

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What happens if they go out of business or simply decide that it isn't worthwhile maintaining the servers anymore?

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And that is the real problem that many people overlook. As someone who goes back to play old games somewhat often, single-player games which require a connection are fucking awful.

Authentication is okay with me because it'll get hacked. The only future proofing I actually worry about are the ones that stream game info like Diablo 3.

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Originally Posted by gameoverDude

After Homefront 2 and Ryse (360/Kinect) are released to retail, that's it.
It's been said that C3 is a wrap on the story, but not the franchise- and that there will be an F2P Crysis game. Crysis Wars II sounds likelier than a true sequel.

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Ryse is neither Kinect or 360.

Are you talking about the statement which could be insinuated as it possibly moving to 720?

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

Are you talking about the statement which could be insinuated as it possibly moving to 720?

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Let's just say that I am pretty sure its a launch game for Durango.

I'm completely against always-online or "connected" requirements for single player, and I DON'T care about MP. Farewell to Crytek after HF2 and Ryse. Hopefully we may see a team of former Crytek developers breaking away to work on a new FPS franchise which gets launched to Steam with no 3rd-party DRM.

Diablo 3 is the best example against always-online SP. What if Blizzard's servers go down for good (out of business, Blizzard ceasing support, etc.) and leave you with jack for your $60?

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What if Blizzard's servers go down for good (out of business, Blizzard ceasing support, etc.)

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If I really, truly cared? I'd get a second PC.

p.s. I'm not saying that it's okay to have more streaming games, just that there are in fact ways to run any online-only game offline in your own home. Shit, you can do it for MMOs that aren't even technically out yet.

Those private servers are pretty awful compared to the real thing.

Blizzard making Diablo 3 online-only was for Blizzard's benefit only. Decisions like that are why we have crap like Windows 8.

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Originally Posted by epmode

Those private servers are pretty awful compared to the real thing.

Blizzard making Diablo 3 online-only was for Blizzard's benefit only. Decisions like that are why we have crap like Windows 8.

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For D3 I'd go with the PS3 version instead, whenever that comes out. The always-online requirement is a bit easier to take for a console version IF the real money auction house stays in. OTOH there's no excuse for what Capcom did with PS3 Final Fight Double Impact, since that case is strictly for DRM.

The latest Nvidia drivers(314.22) have really improved the performance of this game. Even with my VRAM limited (1 GB) GTX 460s, I'm now able to run this game on high settings with 2X AF and FXAA. I ran through the first level with those settings, and didn't see the fps drop below 38. Maybe I can hold out on a GTX 670 for a little longer.

Just checked. Apparently I hadn't updated my drivers since October. Whoops. Amazing how quickly time goes by...

James