Comments on: Crysis Viral: Update

By: Dracko

Dracko — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:35:59 +0000

The cake is a lie!

By: Pyroflame

Pyroflame — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:31:52 +0000

The cake is a lie.

By: Brant

Brant — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:28:38 +0000

Noooooo!

By: The_B

The_B — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:30:45 +0000

“I took this approach to working out which code it was: Oh who gives a shit?”

I felt the same way, and came up with:

“Someone else on the internet.”

As long as someone else does all the hard work, that’ll do me.

By: Sudden Device

Sudden Device — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:54:49 +0000

The quick answer for you, should you not want to follow the poorly planned trail they have created:
DRINK MORE OVALTINE!

By: Chris R

Chris R — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:54:39 +0000

I hate to say it… but the ARG for Halo3, Iris, was a lot more interesting to read and follow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_%28game%29

I’m not a Halo 3 fan at all, and I still found the ARG for it very cool and well planned.

This “ARG” for Crysis is just so lame… they could have done a lot more if they tried a little harder.

By: Seth Tipps

Seth Tipps — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:00:50 +0000

And all they have to do is buy a ranger handbook off amazon for all of 7.99 US. The entire Operations order format is in there, which would have seriously made this thing a bit less stereotypical, and probably could have provided some inspiration as well. Combine that laughably fake document with the voice acting, and you have one lazy marketing department. One that I am, however, quite grateful to for providing me with a good laugh.

By: Garth

Garth — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:32:26 +0000

Hahahhaha, the voice acting in that MP3 is CLASSIC. “Nuuuuuuuuuuu!”

hahahahahaha

By: NotArobot

NotArobot — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:17:30 +0000

Huh, that decoded text looks very familiar. Isn’t that pretty much a word-for-word copy of the “classified” documents you recieved in the mail already? Did they post those text files just in case you didn’t bother to read the printed versions? Or maybe they just got lazy.

I think this is an interesting idea. Just a bit insulting to the recipient’s intelligence, especially if they’ve already played the Beta, or the open demo. This stuff is basically just repeating the setup that we already saw by playing it.

It’d have been nice if this stuff was revealing a bit more to the story. You know, like, something you might not learn from playing it. Backstory, etc. Like they did for Portal at http://www.aperturelaboratories.com.

NAr

By: Kwan

Kwan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:00:59 +0000

Stop mocking ARGs they clearly give me more insight into the game which you can’t get by actually playing it. One must decode laboriously to enjoy Crysis, y’see.

By: Essell

Essell — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:47:14 +0000

///PAY DIRECT ATTENTION: GENERIC NONSENSICAL MILITARY TALK IN CAPITAL LETTERS IS COOL. UNIT OPERATION RED WEAPON CONFLICT GLOBAL WAR MACHO COMMUNICATION SPLINTER SUCCEEDED. FOXTROT TANGO PROJECT ORIGIN WANKY BOB MARLEY BINGO OPERATION END.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:40:30 +0000

Clearly not them, hence ROT-13.