Comments on: What’s next? www.dontcrysisformeargentina.com?

By: Chemix

Chemix — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:10:48 +0000

Cry: Bullets
Cry: Blood
Cry: Me a River
Cry: Me an Ocean
Cry: Till the Last Man Falls
War Cry
Crylons: BSG on an island, like LOST, but more to the point
Crybaby: Armageddon
Cry: BLOODY PIIIIIRATES!
Cry: Just fuckin cry
Cry: Iron Tears
Cry 2: Lead Tears
Cry 3: Realistically Rendered Water Tears
Cry 3: Even Better Tears
Cry 4: FUCKING AWESOME TEARS!
Cry 5: Over Your Purchase/ A.K.A. TRUE CRY- Streets of Panama

By: Erlam

Erlam — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:26:46 +0000

Crysis of Faith: Belfast Alight?

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:21:45 +0000

RPS, you never fail me. In reading this site, I’m constantly punched in the brain by the iron fist of unabashed punnage. And I must be a masochist, because I love it.

PS: Jesus Crysis made me LOL for what in retrospect seems like an unreasonable amount of time.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:49:21 +0000

Yes, “trilogies in the making” are generally frustrating and annoying to have to live through–much less wait for, when you’ve played part 1 of 3 and are a few years too early for part 2 of 3.

And Xenosaga was particularly absurd, as well as tragic. If they’d been a bit more reasonable with the pacing, and the ambition, they wouldn’t have had to squeeze three or four games’ worth of plot downtime as the backstory for the effective end of their series.

By: jbrandt

jbrandt — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:04:33 +0000

…and you have no idea if people will have no idea it’s supposed to be a trilogy and will get to the end of the game expecting some kind of closure, only to be shocked when the game abruptly ends without even the courtesy of a “To be continued…” caption, leaving them saying “Wait, what?”

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:28:46 +0000

The better reason to have a proper ending, even in a “trilogy” can be seen with Beyond Good and Evil. Okay, so apparently there’s now a sequel underway, but only a few weeks ago, we’d been waiting years with no sequel in sight. Or Shenmue. It’s looking quite unlikely that there will ever be another one of those. Or Xenosaga, which admittedly did manage to squeeze out a trilogy, but was originally envisioned as being six (!) games long.

Simply put, you have no idea going in whether your game will do well enough to make a sequel financially viable. You have no idea if key members of the team will still be there. You have no idea if the *company* will still be there. Etc.

By: John P (Katsumoto)

John P (Katsumoto) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:22:38 +0000

At the start of Crysis 2 will the alien menace be wiped out, then Korea declare war on the USA, leading to a small-scale conflict over a series of islands threatening to break into an out-right nuclear war, a la Operation Flashpoint? That would be good.

By: Saflo

Saflo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:35 +0000

I think it’s about time we stop accepting “It’s meant to be part of a trilogy” as an excuse for bad endings. Get your shit together and make a self-contained game or stop charging full price for each installment.

And while I’m at it, why do they always – always – have to be trilogies?

By: Ging

Ging — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:02:05 +0000

jbrandt: Crysis was always envisaged as a trilogy, a full scale episodic jobby, which is (partly) why it’s missing a “proper” ending.

By: jbrandt

jbrandt — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:53:21 +0000

Perhaps one of those is the missing ending to Crysis.

…ha, fat chance.

By: Taxman

Taxman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:18:15 +0000

malkav11 funny you should mention that but I thought Crysis played better with a Xbox 360 gamepad than with keyboard/mouse. The controls for the suit just felt better suited (pun intended) with the kind of gameplay that was in Crysis.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:05:10 +0000

Ahem. To actually discuss things, for a moment…

I know I’m a dirty traitor for saying this, and everything, but I like the console version of Far Cry better. Why? Because the stealth is easier to pursue, there are traps, and you get superpowers. (The inability to aim is a minor sacrifice in comparison to traps and superpowers.) If they were to make similar additions to a console Crysis, I’d be all over it. Though I suppose it’d be trickier, as Crysis already has the superpowers.