Irrational argument is going to obscure any point you do have to make by antagonising other people.

God forbid he have a point.

By the way, I agree with you on the vehicle thing. They always end up feeling like clunky, hard to control humans with a million hit points rather than a tank/plane/helicopter.

Shame it’s not completely spotless, my hatred for vehicles in FPS games was increased even more by the tank and aeroplane sections. At least in the tank mission you could abandon the damn thing easily about halfway through, but no chance of hopping out of the plane I guess…

I really wish this vehicle fad would die soon, I can’t think of a more annoying way to interrupt a perfectly good FPS than to force you to control a large moving bullseye with a clumsy manouverability.

But still. Amazing game.

Crysis is in my top 5 for the year.

now, i think another way to consider this whole thing is to imagine this very unscientific example:

there’s a line that divides two groups of people – one called “piracy” and one called “sales” – i.e. the total number of people who are going to play crysis. what determines where someone who is going to play crysis – regardless of preferred method – is going to land is a combination of many factors. but what we can say concretely is that people who are willing to buy a title value crysis more than those who download it; following that, downloaders value it more than those who choose not to play it entirely. so at the very least sales data tells us just how many of the front-lines folk value the product enough to pay for it outright.

that has nothing to do with merit or taste, of course. most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps, etc etc and so forth.

The only way to actually judge the game and assess its quality is to play it and then decide, not to decide based on sales figures or how well it is marketed.