The main power I used with the suit was speed. Didn't find the rest anywhere near as useful. The shield was okay but you end up too damn slow. The invisibility thing I actually didn't use all that much. Maybe 5 times the whole time. Speed was awesome though. I didn't use strength much as I figured it only related to fist fights not weapons. Or does it actually make all weapons more powerful? That's cool if it does!

I didn't go prone much either, but i'll try that more if it makes the weapons more accurate. I didn't find them accurate otherwise, I don't know many times I repeatedly shot cunts in the head only to find them still standing. I eventually ditched the submachine gun to return to the FY-71 because the recoil was so bad.

But anyway I've got all the custom maps and mods to play through next, so I'll get more used to it. Playing Crysis through once isn't really enough to know everything about the gameplay - it's a pretty short game. 

Wow almost all 6 pages of Crysis mods on moddb.com are dead.

Any good Crysis single players maps or mods out there to play? 

I'd recommened checking out www.crymod.com for such stuff, but their downloads section is no longer up right now (updating) Might be worth browsing the forums.

If you like adventure/puzzle, The Call of the Fireflies mod isn't bad. Wrote a review for it here. The Worry of Newport is another, Moddb 

I found Crysis 2 had refined a lot of the gameplay stuff, they made the suit-powers easier to maximise their use aswell. And I installed the DirectX11 patch and Hires texture patch (both official patches) yesterday, and there are still crusty stains in my pants. Like W0W!

So have either of you guys played Crysis Warhead yet? I find Warhead to be better than Crysis because of better graphics and more intense battles. And Psycho is a little more charsimatic than Nomad. 

Far Cry - excellent
Crysis - more excellent
Crysis Warhead - installed but not started
Crysis 2 - waiting for price to come down 

The crysis 2 sandbox editor is being released today, which is why Crymod.com is down for maintenance I think.

\o/ 

I enjoyed Warhead but it did feel like a much more "standard" fps, it lacked a lot of the grandeur and open feel of Crysis. A few of the levels felt downright linear in my opinion, and some of the turret sections were tedious. It doe's have some great moments though, the frozen sea area was very cool.

I'm on my 5th (!) playthrough of Crysis 2 now that the dx11 stuff is out, this game is like crack, it's so fucking good! 

http://www.mycrysis.com/download/Crysis_2_ModSDK_1.0.exe

The site is getting hammered so just use that link :) 

I replayed this per Spirit's recommendation. Last time was 15 years ago and I didn't really like it then. This time around I totally enjoyed it, however, and agree with his verdict.

The levels are not very large, but there's lots of potential for exploration and nonlinear progression. Often the way to proceed is not immediately clear, but then you find a way by blowing up a wall or using the jetpack. This was probably all intented but it made me feel smart.
Most of the levels have an insane number of secrets, both marked (=with message/stats, sometimes up to 10) and unmarked, and the way you can create shortcuts and make the map more interconnected by blowing stuff up is pretty cool. Apparently there's TNT in the flame extinguishers.

I now see how this game allows for lots of excellent custom maps. 

I now see how this game allows for lots of excellent custom maps

The best thing about mapping for Duke3D though is the varied and diverse texture set, and the insane number of ways in which you can use them, then throw in some palette changes and spritework. Best vanilla assets I've worked with so far. 

and on top of that, building basic areas is simple like doom. just trace some lines out and boom you've got all kinds of shaped rooms and corridors. 

Including ones that break the laws of physics. Or at least utilise more dimensions than the usual 3. 

/hard-on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2USBm4hMOAw&feature=player_embedded 

Steam Summer Sale starts today.

/hard-on

http://store.steampowered.com/ 

Though as usual the Euro prices/discounts are unfair compared to the other currencies and for Germans many games are unavailable.

I'd love to get the id Super Pack this time. And I'm so going to approach someone of you for another 'gift' deal... ;) 

Am excited, will buy. 

definately 

I'll step aboard this bandwagon! ;) 

And also the commentator guy looks remarkably like czg.

http://www.gamespot.com/shows/now-playing/?event=now_playing_torchlight_ii20110629

czg are you him??? 

how many hours down the drain am I looking at? 

Several hundred maybe? Depends on if you actually beat it and explore.You can beat the main quest pretty easily, but everything else is going to take you quite a while. 

I've been wondering the same thing nitin. I don't want to play it if it's 200 hours - I get sick of a game after 10 hours normally. 

This game is a lot of fun exploring. There's a ton of stuff to do. It's not like the same thing for 20 hours - there really is a huge variety of things to do in the game. 

Floating ! on people's heads :( 

it really depends on what kind of gamer you are. if you stick to the main quest, i think it's over in a few hours. 10 maybe? if you do a few side quests, it can stretch to 15-20ish.
it's only if you start downloading mods and really exploring the entire map that you start to look at 50-100+ hours.
otoh, some of the best moments in the game for me was while exploring. sometimes without even a quest as a goal. just bought the fastest horse and started in a direction. :P
also, there's this great zombie mod that simulates a zombie apocalypse, complete with towns slowly becoming infected and spreading to other towns. the cool thing is that no matter what happens, you can just reset the mod and have everything back to normal when you get bored of it, without loosing your game.