@@triadwarfare unintentionally of course, ain't his fault that the suit copied his mind turned him into the suit AI, then put him in his body when Alcatraz died again.
Even more in the book, Crysis Legion. Alcatraz stopped feeling his heartbeat and breath after the explanation and wanted them to finish him off, but couldn't do anything.
Yes, because they own the Earth before human and Dino, but somehow those seed alien they leave and leaving a roomba to keep house clean and Terraforming. but those roomba just stop working long time ago until human era waking them up, So roomba will whatsapp the house owner a telling their house has a big problem.
The Roomba accidentally landed too hard and ended up upside down. Stupid humanity dug it up, flipped it back over and accidentally hit the reset button.
I feel pretty bad for ol' Alka-seltzer. Imagine getting killed, then getting essentially revived as a super soldier- and then losing your personality and mind anyway.
Yeah I never really liked that... it'd have been cool if the suit retained 'prophet' as a personality but you as Alcatraz remained 'there' as well. could have a bit of fun with suit insulting player, and snarky come-backs. etc. :P
I always heard that the Crysis 2 A.I. was still coded for 'humans open areas' and not 'squidbillies in (wide) linear corridors.' Thus making the aliens look _really_ dumb because none of their flanking code works.
One of my favorite things about this game is the portrayal of the marines. you get the sense that they all know that they are in over their heads, but they all have a job to do, and they are going to do it come hell or high water. My favorite example is after the fight with the first pinger. This platoon as just fought off some insane alien walker tank, and then they hear some strange alien noise in the distance. Every one is quiet for a beat, contemplating whatever new horror is about to be thrown at them. Then the CO gets everyone’s attention with the best line in video game history: “Alright everyone, quit standing around with your dicks in your hands. We’re gonna go find out what’s making that noise, and kick its ass!”
@@billyboleson2830 Halo is definitely more geared towards action movie one liners, but it has its little moments too. But you have to remember that the human-covenant war lasted 27 years, and everything from Reach to the end of 3 took place in the final year. The soldiers in Halo know what the deal is. The marines in crysis 2 were not expecting aliens when they woke up that morning. My favorite smaller bit is during Halo 2, when the scarab takes out the tank, there’s an exchange between a marine and his sergeant The sergeant start off by calling attention to the Chief, “when I asked for reinforcements, I didn’t think they’d send a Spartan” Then the scarab destroys the tank. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, one lone tank isn’t a match for a scarab, but one of the marines looses his cool “You see this look? It’s terror!” The sergeant responds, “Marine, did I give you permission to bitch?” The sergeant saw one of his men start to loose his nerve, even though a SPARTAN just showed up to reinforce them, so he told him to shut it before it could spread and start affecting unit cohesion. He tells everyone to hunker down while the scarab crawls over their position, then says “That thing is really starting to PISS ME OFF. Marines, time to kill us all scarab.” He immediately and visibly directed his anger away from the marine and back at the enemy, refocusing his unit to the task at hand.
im not about military bravado at all, often i dislike it, but there was a real sense of comraderie in crysis 2 with the marines, it gave an air of hopefulness to a very bleak story.
basically the nano suit is a living armor that will keep its host alive regardless of the damage also i always figured the fact you were basically a deadman when you got put in the suit means your brain most likely was damaged and the parts were you lost power and had to restart your heart most likely didn't help so the suit was slowly fixing the damage using the old brain data from its past user
A suit so complex and adaptive that even the host's mind could be repaired with damage. According to the Crysis 3 suit logs, Alcatraz's encoded brain scan was corrupted and placed in permanent storage, with Prophet's AI being the current operating system.
@@raptorjesus5870 makes sense i always figured alcatraz's brain was just to far gone do to how damaged his body was figured the suit decided to replace the brain with a copy of prophet basically deleting alcatraz's from his own body
It's also meant to make its wearer as effective in combat as possible, and its nanogear happens to be able to do nearly every bodily function better than the wearer's own tissues, so it eats and replaces them. The important bit of the host as far as the functioning of a nanosuit entity goes is the central nervous system, makes an excellent wetware CPU. Alcatraz/Prophet theorises in the novel as well that the suit got freaked out/traumatised when Prophet forcibly severed himself from it by dying, so it decided to integrate more completely with its next host so that couldn't happen again.
Hans Zimmer was amazing, but I just now found out that Borislav Slavov was the Music Director and co-composer. Having loved his work on BG3 and D:OS2, it's yet another cause for why the Crysis OST has so much of a place in my heart.
Oh lovely, the Nanosuit is almost like the Berserk suit from Berserk. Because unlike the Berserk suit, it doesn't make you go feral. the Berserk Suit twists your bones and pierces them with metal spikes to keep you upright and fighting, the Nanosuit just cannibalizes you to do that but you keep your faculties.
I'm not sure if it is a proper overwriting or "Alcatraz is Braindead and the Suit with a copy of Prophet is using his bones and meat for internal structure", ya know?
@@TheNorthHawk yes, the suit literally grows into the wounds, replacing the piece missing of the body with more of itself. So the suit has pretty much directly merged with his chest cavity.
According to the novelization, the suit is explicitly pumping Alcatraz full of shitloads of drugs, both to keep him functional, but also to make sure he does what IT wants instead of what he wants
"Alien equivalent of a roomba" That got me. Yeah thank you for clearly explaining that the aliens soldiers were actually just improvised robot exoskeletons with repurposed melted human bio-matter. I'm sure no one is gonna have horrifying thoughts about alien life with that comment. But damn these were the hay day of gaming and no one can tell me otherwise. Humanity first!
That's something I never made the connection about until watching this video. And it's terrifying. It really sucks that we'll never get another entry into the Crysis series *and* Crytek has been shoved into the Russian gaming mines (look up Warface if you want to be sad)
@@BoisegangGaming I already know about Warface and I've already been sad about it. Even as it is I'd like to play it but can't afford it which makes me even more sad since I can't have a bitter sweet memory of Crytek. But yeah it makes sense that most people wouldn't pick up that these are just robots with melted human bio-matter for fuel. Like some kind alien attack car. After all we're all thinking under human norms and capabilities not alien. At the end of the day it honestly makes you wonder what an actual Ceph footsoldier looks like and what kind of weapon it would wield. Regardless we gotta put humanity first, humans have always been a tribal species, we protect our own, hell that's why we still have 195 countries in the world all arguing over who gets the most attention and who gets aid first and gets it last. So between humans and aliens I'm on team humanity and peace with no cost to our humanity.
You'll be glad to hear that the nanogear eventually consumed what was left of his heart and took over circulatory functions, performing them far better than the original organ could have :D Hence there were no defib segments in C3 :P
We should mention the character names. Prophet can be deduced to the guy that gave a bit of a revelation on events while being a figure head looked up to both for inspiration and with malice. Alkatraz is literally the name of an island prison that next to nobody could escape from and would die trying. The fact the MCs name is Alkatraz and he is imprisoned in the suit as the inly thing capable of keeping him alive paints a grimm picture of the body horror reality that the chance of survival and getting out of this flesh suit prison is slim to none.
The alien roomba. Same with C&C Tiberian Sun! The big bad aliens there were just miners sent to collect the seeded Tiberium, using entire planets like farmers use fields. With humanity's "victory" in the end causing the mining personnel to retreat and actually call in the military for the first time. That type of twist is just something special.
Tbh yeah it's one of my favorite ways to show just how outclassed a planetary, pre-interstellar civilization is compared to an actual starfaring species.
Double tap Lockhart after throwing him out the window, it gives you an achievement on Xbox. Also, canonnically, he survived that faceplant and got his own nanosuit, his own codename: Silverback, and started hunting Crysis 1's protagonist, Nomad. Guessing he might be the antagonist in the next game if they follow through with that plotline.
@@RussianAssassin100 Nope. Check out the teaser for Crysis 4, don't wanna spoil it, even if there isn't much to it. Also, to get the datalog in 3 saying he's being hunted by Lockhart, you have to find all the other datalogs first before it reveals it as a hidden one.
@@4T3hM4kr0n I know the one, the tie in taking place after the original game. The same one where the Ceph were displayed to have access to time travel. Either way, same thing that happened to Prophet could have happened to the next guy that put on Nomad's suit if it was recovered, even if granted Nomad only ever wore the N1 and not the N2. Also, again, the datalog very explicitly names Nomad being chased by Lockhart, which granted might be a different member of the Lockhart family, Crysis 2 Lockhart, or even Crysis 2 Lockhart's younger brother that was part of the N1 program and the reason he hated the N2 program. So either we're dealing with the same Nomad, someone else using his callsign and wearing his suit like with Alcatraz, or Nomad became a post-human like Prophet did.
Im pretty sure thats his nephew and not him. He sure as hell is dead, not that it matters to the suit, but there really isnt a plausible way for his body to was recovered, transported and put inside of a suit before prism went kaboom.
Gotta be honest, i disliked Crysis 2 not because of the story or the gameplay or anything, but because the aliens just weren't as cool (puns) in 2, they were totally inhuman in the first game and the whole energy siphon, dome of absolute zero, weapons that fire frozen air thing was such a cool gimmick, and i was sad to see it traded in for generic humanoids with energy weapons. it just felt like they took a badass original design and discarded it.
it's about adaptation. They were like that in crysis 1 because these were "unadapted" Ceph that had amoken from cryo and their equipment was designed for energy harvesting from things like asteroids (they were essentially "colonial Ceph"). Crysis 2's ceph took note and adapted themselves for combat in an urban territory by mimicking human tactics. Crysis 3's ceph are the newest generation optimized to fight humanity (they went into stasis due to the Alpha Ceph going dormant but then reawakened once again once the Alpha Ceph gets released, which ends up in CELL getting steamrolled)
For me, it's actually a little bit of the opposite. The enemies in Crysis 1 being squiddies and squid walkers makes them a little bit less neat imo than the tentacle-y, hyper-mobile robotic, humanoids. The whole "they absorb energy and they have weaponized the absence of it" is neat, I guess, but visually "flying/swimming/ground-walking tentacle monster" was played out even by 2007 with both War of the Worlds and The Matrix being precursors to the visual appearance.
aside from the frankly violently cringe outdated meme references in it, the novelization of crysis 2 is so fucking good and gave me an even greater appreciation of the game. Also cranks up the body horror to like 50
_"he's a _*_corpse walking_*_ Gould!"_ _"Just _*_another grunt_*_ I'm afraid" . . . "A _*_simple soldier_*_ will not suffice here."_ _"You knew the suits were symbiotic, you knew what they'd do to my men! ...You turned them into _*_dead men walking!"_* _"I turned them into _*_post-human warriors"_*_ . . . "You think we'll defeat them with _*_ordinary human_*_ soldiers? This isn't a war _*_ordinary humans_*_ can win. This is the future. _*_death is an inconvenience_*_ now, nothing more. we are all _*_dead men walking"_*
It's even more haunting to know that Hargreave was right, had we fought the ceph with a nanosuit that did not adapt itself to the ceph's weaponry and biology we wouldn't even have a chance. Hijacking the primary spore regulator wouldn't be possible without exposing our bodies to it, but thanks to Hargreave not only we adapted to ceph's biology their DNA was assimilated into our own and later allowed us to use their weapons, the only thing that had the necessary firepower to destroy the alpha ceph
@@thecommentguy9380 The only thing he nor Rasch accounted for was the 'man' beneath the suit. Just as the nanosuit was capable of learning the ceph's nano-systems, it too was capable of learning from its hosts, and thus overcame the task with not just the right tools, but the willpower to drive it. Hargreave was misguided by believing only himself to be capable, whereas Rasch's reliance on nanotech (and eventual indoctrination from it) also underestimated the human element.
@@AnonEMus-cp2mn true. Throughout the events of Crysis 3, the suit did not fight with its cold calculated super computer it was created with, but rather with the determination of its former bearer. It dreamed of the humanity it never had, and whenever Psycho whined about his weakness, the suit lashed put, scolding him for thinking he is weak because he is human because it was Prophet's humanity that drove it to continue the fight for 23 years. It wanted to be a man more than anything. "We fought. You, me, Jester, Nomad. WE fought, not the god damned nanosuit" There's also the funny part when Claire insisted on calling a machine, it just immediately shotback with an ultimatum by reminding her that her resistance only going anywhere because of it and it will stop working with her if she doesnt call it by its human name
The sad part is when in Warhead we get to know Eagle Team who I am sure all survive given the information Nomad was probably sending during his trip through the structure. So how many more Nanosuit warriors squads there could be.
The game is really genius at what it does. The fact that we are not actually controlling character of Alcatraz, but the suit itself, is scary shit. In every sequence when you had to use defibrillator, game implies that Alcatraz is already dead. The suit is trying to return him to function in order to continue the mission by symbiosis with his body. I always loved that part in second game and how subtle and scary these details are.
The nanogear can do all bodily functions better than the original tissue, it just needs time to eat and replace the flesh! One of its functions is to maximise its host's effectiveness and efficiency in combat, after all! :P
On the plus side-if you can call it that-I’m not dead. And according to the medical diagnostics racing across my field of view, I should be. My back is broken in three places. My larynx is crushed. My femoral artery is torn. There’s more blood in my lungs than air. The list goes on. Nanosuit 2.0’s rattling off diagnostic and wet-repair capabilities like I’ve never seen outside a full-blown VA hospital- and while it’s got me rooted in place like a garden gnome, it’s also pumping me full of antibodies and autocatalytic fibrinogen and a dozen kinds of engineered osteoblasts to knit my bones back together. All things considered,immobilized in a custom-fitted body cast is not a bad place to be right now. Alcatraz does have a sick sense of humor talking about his condition in the novel
The only problem with alcatraz once the suit is helping him is the fact that prophet is a dick and made alcatraz brain take a back seat so he could come back as an AI piloting whats left of alcatraz
Never thought that Alcatraz lost his mind and personnality to prophet. I actuelly thought he said "they call me prophet" to wear the legacy of his previous owner. Well, that's grim
The Legacy of Kain games have some of the best written stories ever put to screen, let alone put to controller. My favorites being Soul Reaver 1 and 2.
Crysis 2 had some changes that may have been a bit of an adjustment for players familiar with the open ended gameplay of its predecessor, but what it did narratively is a huge improvement. The acting has aged all that well, but for the time, this was probably (imo) the closest games got to being a straight-up action movie at the time. The plot has a lot more twists and turns and secrets, and it is overall far more interesting and engaging than the predecessor.
the only issue that peeved me (and still does to some extent) is how the open level and freedom to tackle the objectives that comes with it was pretty much axed in crysis 2. Instead you have the game marking things for you in a crowded arena. I understand in that sense that they attempted to scale down the options to fit within the level design but cramming stuff like that into such a small arena comes off as half assed.
@@4T3hM4kr0n I agree 100%. Crytek tried to give the game a semblance of the gameplay 1 had, but its hard to do that in a linear game. While you are able to tackle the majority of encounters how you wish, relying on the nanosuit's capabilities, it is still a linear sequence of shootouts. Setting it in NYC had its advantages and its my uninformed opinion that Crytek chose NYC because it gave them ample opportunity to flex on the graphical fidelity of the new iteration of the Cry Engine.
Ah yes, the huge narrative improvements such as: painfully one-dimensional copy-paste sci-fi/military tropes instead of characters with nothing memorable about them, a completely predictable "plot" that feels like it was written by chatGPT because of how much it plagiarized every alien/disaster movie from the 90s-early 2000s, plot "twists" that are so telegraphed, they make M. Night Shyamalan films look surprising, taking itself way too seriously in a futile effort to compete with the deluge of modern military shooters (cough Call of Duty cough) that were extremely popular at the time and that's without even mentioning how much less interesting the gameplay is. But yeah, it's a massive improvement in the narrative department!
I hated (HATED) the plot of 2. I'd spent nearly 4 years waiting to go back to the island and find out what happened to Prophet. Instead it's suddenly a completely different story, it left me cold. To a lesser extent they repeated that with 3, but 2 really annoyed me. I also was under the impression that the urban setting was chosen to limit the size of spaces to better fit into the Xbox 360/Playstation 3's VRAM limitations.
Ok, never played any of the crysis games but, isn't the tunguska event as an alien encounter, alien structures buried across the planet and the aliens "coming home" the plot of "Resistance: Fall of Men" series too? Anywat, maybe it is time to play these games now that they won't melt my PC.
Ah, this brings back memories. When Crysis 2 came out I played this game to death, pretty sure I even used up my birthday gifts back then for a better GPU just so I could play it better. Not just the gameplay, or the level designs, or the music where what captivated me. Even the surprisingly deep story and Alcatraz/Prophet's struggles just felt so impactful being all in first person. Hell, what MJOLNIR armor or Samus' armor was to most gamers of a generation was what the Nanosuit 2 was to me, if you get my meaning. You know, I really should play Crysis 2 again. Your video made me feel nostalgic again.
@@khanlusa - Honestly have not read that yet, kind of confused by the direct title similarity between Meghan Douglass' novel and CS Diggle's graphic novel series. I'm pretty sure Diggle is the sci-fi body horror artist and writer and IIRC I heard about that work first with pretty high reviews. Douglass' work looks like it may be good as well though. Paraphrasing from a review it's "Donnor Party in spaaaaace" which seems like a fun premise.
I'll never forget seeing the gameplay trailer featuring the Grand Central Station Pinger fight and the cutscene at 18:00. Really established the tone of the game. Like you *are* a super soldier but you're in the middle of a _War of the Worlds_ scenario.
I HIGHLY recommend anyone who likes the game to read the Novelization; not just does it give a LOT of background information on the setting like the fact that the Amazon is gone, that the world has been wartorn for the past two decades and that massive corporations took over, with PMCs like CELL being paid for normal Law enforcement over Police Forces as they are 'cheaper'. But it also gives you the insights of Alcratraz and his feelings through the events; I LOVE Alcatraz, not just does he feel like a actual USMC trooper but he's genuinely also entertaining. Not to mention he has some fun quirks like being scared of water despite being a marine or him basically insulting everyone around him. Genuinly one of my favorite books.
@@nicholas2153 Nope. I mean its a game-tie in book for a series that's not super big. Not to mention that it was written back in 2013 and again; pretty obscure...so you know. You CAN however read it for free online...just the formatting's kinda crappy on the PDF; my suggestion is to buy a paper-back copy. Its called Crysis legion btw.
The Crysis novels are fucking great. I read them after playing Crysis 3 and I loved the setting and the characters. Sad that they didn't take off like the Halo novels or even the Gears of War novels (another good videogame tie-in series imo).
To answer your question regarding if we used the air friction or ground stomp, yes, specifically grpund stomp. Survive any fall zero damage and kill any normal enemy within 5 meters of your landing. If you wanna have fun you can just hop around power jumping then slamming. Does less damage, bit its funny as all heck
I don't know about the leaving the Husband and Wife behind scene, since Alcatraz is strong enough and fast enough to nab them well before the building fell. The scene goes on a little too long for me to believe there was nothing your character could do to save them.
THANKS for the Crysis Legion love! Dude, that is one of my favorite cosmic horror stuff alongside Half-Life 2 which does something similar. I love that the horror comes from the fact that the Ceph we fight are just goddamn roombas. Just like the Combine Soldiers and Synths, they are just the tip of the iceberg. We do not want to MEET the "real" Ceph and the rest of the Combine at large.
I did like that we eventually do see a little hint of the "real" ceph, while also having a properly set up plausible reason for that to not be the instant lose situation it should be.
Wow. I am an absolutely HUGE fan of Crysis 2, I bought it X many years ago for the Xbox 360 and fell in love with it's, admittedly light, vent-crawling mechanics to the point that I want to find games that have this game's play, but a level design more like the original Deus Ex or Arcane's Prey and Dishonored. I'm so happy I found someone who loves this game as much as I do (more even, I didn't even pick up on any of the Roomba stuff nor did I realize just how borked Alcatraz was, I just thought the suit didn't want him to live without it or something.) and having it be literally one of my favorite writers and TH-camrs is just, brings tear to my heart. Man now I gotta see if I can get Crysis 2 for PC, I suddenly have an itch. Also, as a haver of many kinda spicy Star Wars takes, I cannot wait for May... You're Awesome and keep up the good work! -Izzi
The suit ALSO doesn't want to ever be separated from him, you're right. He theorizes in the novel that prophet taking it off and dying traumatized its... animal intelligence and caused it to be particularly determined to prevent that happening again.
9:19 To answer a question you posed a 7:30. This this right here is the only time I bothered using air stomp the whole game because for whatever reason, air stomp completely negates fall damage.
The Pingers were actually pretty hard, but not as bad as the Helicopters. At least the multiple rocket launchers needed make sense against an alien ground vehicle.
The point I keep missing even after watching some lore wideos on Crysis from time to time, is why did alien terraforming switched from ice hellscape to jungle hellscape?
The ice wasn't actually terraforming, or wasn't only terraforming. The Ceph units that were send to earth and slept until the games DO function best in low temperatures, but the ice sphere was mainly the result of the ship and tech sucking up energy in every form as they woke up and fully activated. The low temperature was just also fortunately comfortable for the "flying squid" type units. That's "stage one" of how they colonise new planets In C2, they've gone to stage two and started producing units that are actually adapted to the environment they're occupying. Often, they do that by mimicking the most successful local organisms/the organisms that have been giving them the most trouble in their colonisation efforts. Remember that the units on earth aren't the actual Ceph, just semi-autonomous probes/caretakers/builders. We're not quite sure what living conditions are ideal for the beings from the Triangulum galaxy that sent them. There's a stage three as well, where if the local organisms prove too much trouble then the probes phone home to have the "True Ceph" come in from Triangulum ahead of schedule and take over the pest control themselves. We see one very briefly at the end of C3, and it's existentially horrifying. :P
I think Crysis was victim of its first success, neither of the games have a specially super creative story but is good enough specially Crysis 2 has a pretty decent story even if people doesn't want to acknowledge it (while Crysis 3's story is as wacky and inconsistent as it gets to be fair), but the gameplay was extremely fun, while I appreciate the freedom of the first Crysis and Warhead, I think that Crysis 2 and specially Crysis 3 have a much more polished gameplay. However people kept complaining that Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 weren't like the original Crysis but with better graphics, making Crysis 2 pretty unpopular and Crysis 3 even more unpopular, to this day there are lots of people who have never play Crysis 2 and 3 just because a bunch of haters on internet say so. For me it was one of the first modern examples of how a toxic fandom can doom a franchise, Crysis isn't in a position as bad as Halo's franchise nowadays, mainly because all the hating have been cool down over the years so much that apparently they are planing to launch another Crysis game, but it is sad to see how the own fans can strangle to death their beloved franchises (like Halo cough cough).
With Halo, it is justified tho. Besides 4, which was okay and had some good story moments, everything else 343 has done has been an absolute mess, with the games only having redeeming qualities inherited from previous titles. Hell, the only good thing they introduced was the grappling hook in Infinite, and that's cheating cus every action game can be improved with either grappling hooks or jetpacks. Don't get me started on the story, even they recognized they blew it on 5, shame they were too incompetent to save themselves in Infinite, AKA "let's just press the reset button on our story"
@@jackmesrel4933 yeah but the downfall started because a lot of people started to Hate Halo 4, aparently Halo 5 had a campaing ready to continue from where Halo 4 ended, but due to all the negative opinions about Halo 4's campaing and everything else (multiplayer, aesthetics, everything...) which for me was not deserved, they rebooted the story hence the mess that Halo 5's campaing is and at the same time Halo infite has another reboot caused by the hated generated by Halo 5, the funny part is that Halo 5 multiplayer is still better than Halo Infinite multiplayer, but Halo infinite campaing is much more decent compared to Halo 5's, however as it is another reboot is still another lore mess, which is terrible for a story driven franchise like Halo, Halo is Halo because the story is interesting and epic, but if that fails everything else goes to shit, and for me Halo fans specially the bungie livers are at least 50% responsable for halo's doom, 25% is 343 fault for being cowards and the last 25% is for the microsoft's ties, who also pressed 343 to reboot everything.
Crysis 2 felt even more badass than the 1st (well better say you feel badass). While 3 seems to be more flexible with upgrades in 2 while you evolve you can literally become as affective as shown in the trailer mowing down enemies. Absolutely loved it
If your asking to be inflicted with suggestions here's my personal list: •The Darksiders series •Vanquish •Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver •Destroy All Humans
The ending notes at the end about how the Ceph who are just motes compared to the greater Alien lurking behind them remind me of one of my favorite sci-fi games ever, Freelancer 2003. The main threat in that game is an alien species that absolutely dominates the pre-established power houses only to be revealed at the end of the game that are just the caretakers of their creators Creations, Absolutely love it when games create such powerful opponents only to reveal that they aren't the true predator in an organic and natural way. Tangent aside, great video and superb review of one of my favorite FPS games that I grew up with.
I mean yeah you eventually buy all of them, but some aren't worth the slot to equip. Though the cloak-tracker suddenly becomes a godsend in that last fight after being worthless the whole game.
Ngl, this has thrown some new light at crysis 2 story for me to look at. I was convinced that my good experience was due to being young when playing it and thus having lower expectations, especially after hearing all these bad opinions years later but now I want to make a new playthrough. Actually if the story was as good, it makes me even more sad that 3 was the last instalment and all the "leaks" regarding new entries were about some battle royal or other >insert currently more-less popular game concept
This Nanosuit, lowkey reminds me Guts' Beserker Armour, it's practically both the same in Crysis and in the manga, I Crysis the suit grows and migrate into open wounds in order to keep the "user" alive and to prevent them from dying and to keep moving on, and in Beserk the manga, the Beserker armour is constantly keeping Guts from dying, so whenever Guts takes damage or breaks a bone the Beserker armour will shoot spike into the bones to keep Guts together, it also prevents him from getting tired and to continue fighting just the same as the nano suit, I like the idea that Alcatraz and Guts share similar outcomes like almost reaching death but whatever they're wearing brings them back for more, even with Alcatraz fighting aliens and humans, Guts fights off Demons and humans and more. I like both of them, but just for the others who might not like this comment I know they share some differences and one has experienced more ❤😊
Can I just say I LOVE your content warning style before videos, I literally wish every channel out there did something similar, its so sleek and informative and takes like no time to let folks know what to expect
WoW. So Your crysis one video was randomly recomended to me after watching some borderlands videos. I really like the style and how the story was recaped with gameplay. Remembering how much fun it was playing crysis. I was instantly drawn towards a recap of crysis II. Now after another great video I cant wait to see cysis 3 being recaped this way. Please continue that great work even though I can, at this point in time, just speak for two of your videos but well done.
I had no clue the Ceph embedded on the planet where the equivalent of the species' gardening tools. That's actually a really really cool way of explaining how we were able to be somewhat on par with them when fighting them.
Yeah, they're semi-autonomous probes meant to build a colony and terraform, then phone home so the owners can open a white hole (wormhole/hypergate thing) and come live in the new colony. The actual Ceph are so advanced that they're effectively incomprehensible Lovecraftian entities. We very briefly glimpse something of them in C3.
I just stumble on your channel with the Crysis 1 video and finished this one having really enjoyed it and looking forward to the Crysis 3 vide. Only to realize this was upload 7 days ago and it's not out yet. I'm going to subscribe and look forward to it releasing while I binge all your other videos.
Stumbled in your chanel by a miracle. Love the humor, love the dedication to bring more information about these series. After this video will go through all your videos!
New to the channel, nice to see Crysis 2 getting more love. Appreciate you outlying the details of Alcatraz and what he's physically going through, never seen anyone give credit to how good that aspect of Crysis 2 storytelling. Pingers are annoying, most of the time I get close the gap from behind, toss 2 C-4 charges to the underbelly and boom. They're usually provided for many encounters.
My core moment I recall from this game is in the early game-firstmission area after going underground and the returning up through the hole and in-game cutscene runs and first-alien is seen and it jumps you and tries to inject something into you. The whole - Nano-Shell Intrusion Detected. Insufficient Common Code- Rejecting. Yup that scene you show right here in the video as well :) That moment was very cool to me, as if the suit was protecting me from, whatever the hell the alien had tried to pierce into me and expose me to.
Tbh, the issue i have with the second game isn't the aliens (i loved the aliens in the first game) but rather the way they've gone from genuinely interesting flying squid creatures in various floating mechs to generic alien footsoldiers. The sequels were definitely hoping to get more of the call of duty crowd onboard - understandably given how well those games do - but something was lost in the process - the thing that made the first game (and warhead) feel really unique.
The lore explanation is the ceph going from stage to stage and the ones in Crysis 1 being basically in cryo stasis. The gameplay reason is cause people hated fighting the floating squids
So i had a hard time too with the pingers until i learned on normal you can cloak, run up to its back with a jackal you can just pick up, and unload all your ammo into its weak point. Thanks to the fire rate it barely has time to react before it's dead lool
Watching the Crysis 2 trailer, I found myself immediately appreciating that the building repair and maintenance scaffolding that is almost ubiquitous throughout Manhattan is actually shown! It's a physical aspect of the old and too often dilapidated city of NYC that is completely absent from being represented in most past and current mediums. Such scaffolding is seen and walked under most everywhere when one moves through the city in daily life. It's erected for reasons of financial liability, even when a building owner is refusing to do necessary repairs or has left them 'eternally delayed'. The city government will seemingly pounce to require the protection of pedestrians but is radically underpowered to compel the actual vital structural building repairs themselves, in many cases. Even with scaffolding more common than trees in parts of Manhattan, there are sadly news reports of injuries and deaths caused by falling debris from dilapidated buildings on a pretty regular basis. It's almost like such harms could have been expected and prevented. A desensitized public has come to view such incidents without much surprise and they rarely are reported on beyond the local NYC news. A simple intro to the situation: "As you make your way down major streets in New York City, there’s one thing you’ll almost never escape - scaffolding, or what the city of NY calls “sidewalk sheds.” Call it an eyesore, a massive inconvenience, or a way to stay dry during a major downpour, scaffolding is part of the NYC streetscape, and that’s not changing anytime soon. It has many purposes, but the main one is protecting pedestrians from falling construction debris." streeteasy.com/blog/scaffolding-nyc-why-so-much-scaffolding-new-york-city/
When I first played this game as a teenager I didn’t realize how the suit was actually affecting Alcatraz. I thought that he was simply given the suit and left with the mission of a fallen hero. I didn’t realize until this video that a man already out of time is saving the world as a ghost.
"THAT'S RIGHT NATHAN, THE OWNERS ARE BACK! WAKING THE SYSTEMS, FIRING UP THE BOILER, AND NOT MUCH LIKING WHAT THEY FOUND, FESTERING BEHIND THE FRIDGE. CAN YOU BLAME THEM? REEEEALLLLY? 2 was my favorite game in the series, followed by 1. I never finished 3 as I felt it jumped the shark a little... too far.
After watching your review of 1, and now 2, you’ve completely changed my perspective on the Crysis series. I already loved them, but you really pointed out MANY things I never thought about at all. A fantastic analysis along with a soothing voice, and I give this a 10/10. That’s a sub from me, chief.
21:06 holy shit man I can’t even count how many times and how much time I spend playing this game and analyzing its lore and I never think about that! Man this game is so cool I love it so much. Also it might be just me but personally Jacob Hargreave is very underrated and good written character. His dialogues are absolute brilliant, hearing them I feel like I could spend hours discussing with him about aliens
Honestly the big butt makes sense. Person with all that muscle isn't gonna have pancake ass. And then the suit is an extra layer of muscle and stuff on top
Ah yes... the Pinger. The helicopter in the first game was at least an easy enemy.. This thing could de-cloack you with its EMP. And it is always met in a small arena. C4 explosives and rocket launcher to the back worked amazingly against it though.
Ngl you saying remember to take your meds actually just reminded me to take my medication for which I actually need to function! Thank you so much I wish you the best of success!
I just finished the Crysis 1 video and I humbly implore you to do Crysis 3 too since I don't actually have a lot of time to replay the games but second monitor magic makes it possible with these videos :)
A small correction, its not prophet's personality that takes over , it's the suit itself. Prophet did die at the beginning of the game. In the third game its actually said , i think in a lore entry, and by the characters in the story, that only the suit remains, a machine dreaming that they are a man, prophet. And i find that equally fascinating amd horrifying.
17:51 yeah this scene is haunting. Though I kinda wish there was an option or an alternate version where Alcatraz dismounts the vehicle and pulls the couple on board. It's been a long day and everyone is stressed but the strength and speed of the suit should have been enough to save them. Maybe that's cheesy and that's why the scene plays out as is, but still
I played this game on a limb back when it came out, having never touched Crysis 1 and having no clue what the big meme game Crysis 1 was even about, but damn if the story didn’t capture my attention to this day. Love the whole setting. Alien invasion, your character almost dies, you lose all your homies, some dude headshots himself spouting a bunch of stuff that doesn’t make any sense. Wake up and you feel totally alone. You don’t hear or see anyone and your totally alone besides these douchbags in white who, over the course of the game, designate you enemy number 1. For consistently beating them in every encounter, But finally after half way in the game we meet up with the army and start kicking ass with the Marines. Evacing citizens. Sticking it to both CELL and the Cephs. I replayed this game more then I care to admit.
Man as a kid I loved this game. I was cracked on its multiplayer too. This game will always have my favorite fictional firearm’s because they all LOOK REAL and like they can function. (Granted the SCAR and SCARAB in the game were just slightly adjusted HK XM8 rifles)
I had a friend who played Crysis and the other day I reminded her of the helicopters and pingers. I swear I heard a part of her soul die over that voice chat
As I understand it, Peter Watts (the author of the novelization) was also a story consultant. So if you enjoyed the more...existentially nightmarish aspects of the story I heartily recommend his novels, especially the first contact novel Blindsight.
Also about the suits repair systems. It's not that it is going inside the wounds to bond with the user, a simple contact with exposed skin with promote the use to start merging with your skin, the under suit was supposed to stop that, but it failed, and Alcatraz going in a quite literally dead but not dead enough to not be brought back, it started canabilaze the organs and other flesh bits because it was upgrading his body with it's symbiozis, don't forget it's an evolving and self improving suit. Suit alone can regenerate by itself forever, because it can replacet itself by cell division that is gone past of limit of said cell division, which means it will never fail to make another cell of a nanosuit, which in term makes any user a proper immortal.
@@FreckleMcMur thanks for the info. since you are expert i wanna ask. prophet was able to remove his suit easy because he wore undersuit. why it was so hard and needed skinning procedure to get psycho from his suit ? psycho should have that undersuit too right ? and other nanosuit wearers that even died in the removal.
@@HR15DE Because Psycho was running around in his Nanosuit 1.2 for 23 years, that model started bonding with the user's skin by the end of a week even by-passing the undersuit. But, this suit didn't merged with the skin, which enabled CELL to skin people alive. If you to try and skin the only one Nanosuit 2.0, you find that there is no skin under the suit because the suit became said skin.
For some reason i feel there is a small bit of similarity of the ending of Crysis 2 to Black Ops 3 ending. Also you remind me of Brienne of Tarth fron GoT for some odd reason. Nice videos!
Ahhh splendid memories. I also completely forgot about the suits Brazilian butt lift between games
Ayyyyye spiff! Amazed to see you here!
Yooo great to see you here spiff !!
good that you support small creators
Glad you enjoyed it :D (and it's the least the suit could do for Alcatraz after the day he was having)
"General I'm trying to sneak in the cell base but I'm to dummy thicc and the clap of my ass cheeks keeps alerting the guards"
1. Give suit to dying marine
2. Die
3. ???
4. PROPHET
bro... why is that funny.
Step 3: Mentally merge
@@NebLleb it's more of Prophet reformatted Alcatraz's brain and assumed control.
@@triadwarfare unintentionally of course, ain't his fault that the suit copied his mind turned him into the suit AI, then put him in his body when Alcatraz died again.
@@NebLleb 4-5. Fuck up alien's invasion plan and retire on tropical island
Half dead marine using the worlds most advanced wheelchair stops ET Super Covid
"Lieutenant Dan... You got new legs! Magic Legs!"
@@JacopoSkydweller He was a standup kind of guy.
Apparently for the crysis 2 suit design, they painted it on an actor and used that to help create the model. That dude must have been caked up fr.
Oh yeah. Whole bakery there fr.
Is there any video of that on YT? Sounds like it be funny to see.
@@FarSeeker8 not that I can find.
The doctor explaining how Alcatraz is a dead man walking was haunting. Awe and dread at the fearsome power of the suit.
Even more in the book, Crysis Legion.
Alcatraz stopped feeling his heartbeat and breath after the explanation and wanted them to finish him off, but couldn't do anything.
@@NightBeWheat I might read the book cause that sounds interesting.
@@NoBody-qs7op I downloaded a PDF since it wasn't availible where i live.
Good re-telling of Crysis 2, had enough new things to keep it fresh.
@@NightBeWheat The best kinds of novelizations do that. I remember liking the one for Revenge of the Sith.
@@jetex1911 Revenge of the Sith Novelization goes into the scenes they couldn't include in the movie, also highlights just how unstable Anakin was.
You your telling me,
this whole time,
Crysis is just: Humanity VS Stabby the roomba.
Yes, because they own the Earth before human and Dino, but somehow those seed alien they leave and leaving a roomba to keep house clean and Terraforming. but those roomba just stop working long time ago until human era waking them up, So roomba will whatsapp the house owner a telling their house has a big problem.
The Roomba accidentally landed too hard and ended up upside down. Stupid humanity dug it up, flipped it back over and accidentally hit the reset button.
@@sidewalks29 what da fak
@@sidewalks29 Hate it when I leave my house for a few years and an entire alien civilization grows in my greenhouse.
Yep
Pick your poison with these- you are either getting Roombad or ALien Miners whoop your ass
I feel pretty bad for ol' Alka-seltzer. Imagine getting killed, then getting essentially revived as a super soldier- and then losing your personality and mind anyway.
Yeah I never really liked that... it'd have been cool if the suit retained 'prophet' as a personality but you as Alcatraz remained 'there' as well. could have a bit of fun with suit insulting player, and snarky come-backs. etc. :P
@@kinagrill a bit moon knight ish
I always heard that the Crysis 2 A.I. was still coded for 'humans open areas' and not 'squidbillies in (wide) linear corridors.' Thus making the aliens look _really_ dumb because none of their flanking code works.
Emergent… storytelling? The roomba cannot into flank?
Yeah, they still think they're in the jungle, both the ceph and cell troops.
One of my favorite things about this game is the portrayal of the marines. you get the sense that they all know that they are in over their heads, but they all have a job to do, and they are going to do it come hell or high water.
My favorite example is after the fight with the first pinger. This platoon as just fought off some insane alien walker tank, and then they hear some strange alien noise in the distance. Every one is quiet for a beat, contemplating whatever new horror is about to be thrown at them. Then the CO gets everyone’s attention with the best line in video game history:
“Alright everyone, quit standing around with your dicks in your hands. We’re gonna go find out what’s making that noise, and kick its ass!”
One of the best moments and even better in the book
I think it does it better then Halo ever did
@@billyboleson2830 Halo is definitely more geared towards action movie one liners, but it has its little moments too. But you have to remember that the human-covenant war lasted 27 years, and everything from Reach to the end of 3 took place in the final year. The soldiers in Halo know what the deal is. The marines in crysis 2 were not expecting aliens when they woke up that morning.
My favorite smaller bit is during Halo 2, when the scarab takes out the tank, there’s an exchange between a marine and his sergeant
The sergeant start off by calling attention to the Chief, “when I asked for reinforcements, I didn’t think they’d send a Spartan”
Then the scarab destroys the tank. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, one lone tank isn’t a match for a scarab, but one of the marines looses his cool
“You see this look? It’s terror!” The sergeant responds,
“Marine, did I give you permission to bitch?”
The sergeant saw one of his men start to loose his nerve, even though a SPARTAN just showed up to reinforce them, so he told him to shut it before it could spread and start affecting unit cohesion.
He tells everyone to hunker down while the scarab crawls over their position, then says
“That thing is really starting to PISS ME OFF. Marines, time to kill us all scarab.” He immediately and visibly directed his anger away from the marine and back at the enemy, refocusing his unit to the task at hand.
Big Avery Johnson energy
We've all run the simulations. They're tough, but they ain't invincible.
im not about military bravado at all, often i dislike it, but there was a real sense of comraderie in crysis 2 with the marines, it gave an air of hopefulness to a very bleak story.
Alcatraz and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
And the even worse, bad, unfun, not very good, maybe even a little maddening week
(even thousand tequilla shots won't ease that pain)
Starting with a hangover followed by several alien bullets to all over the body.
basically the nano suit is a living armor that will keep its host alive regardless of the damage
also i always figured the fact you were basically a deadman when you got put in the suit means your brain most likely was damaged and the parts were you lost power and had to restart your heart most likely didn't help so the suit was slowly fixing the damage using the old brain data from its past user
A suit so complex and adaptive that even the host's mind could be repaired with damage. According to the Crysis 3 suit logs, Alcatraz's encoded brain scan was corrupted and placed in permanent storage, with Prophet's AI being the current operating system.
@@AnonEMus-cp2mn so if it was just a bit sooner alcatraz's wouldn't still be there and not prophet?
@@qvcybe from where I see it yes. Alcatraz is still in their its just on the back burner.
@@raptorjesus5870 makes sense i always figured alcatraz's brain was just to far gone do to how damaged his body was figured the suit decided to replace the brain with a copy of prophet basically deleting alcatraz's from his own body
It's also meant to make its wearer as effective in combat as possible, and its nanogear happens to be able to do nearly every bodily function better than the wearer's own tissues, so it eats and replaces them. The important bit of the host as far as the functioning of a nanosuit entity goes is the central nervous system, makes an excellent wetware CPU.
Alcatraz/Prophet theorises in the novel as well that the suit got freaked out/traumatised when Prophet forcibly severed himself from it by dying, so it decided to integrate more completely with its next host so that couldn't happen again.
Honestly the best part of Crysis 2 for me? Hans Zimmer being the composer. Great soundtrack for the game, I still remember it fondly.
Still get goosebumps whenever I listen to it
Hans Zimmer was amazing, but I just now found out that Borislav Slavov was the Music Director and co-composer. Having loved his work on BG3 and D:OS2, it's yet another cause for why the Crysis OST has so much of a place in my heart.
So thats why i stil Remember the music
Still doesn't beat Strickland's March but yeah, all around good soundtrack.
Oh lovely, the Nanosuit is almost like the Berserk suit from Berserk. Because unlike the Berserk suit, it doesn't make you go feral. the Berserk Suit twists your bones and pierces them with metal spikes to keep you upright and fighting, the Nanosuit just cannibalizes you to do that but you keep your faculties.
until you're overwritten with a backup of prophet
I'm not sure if it is a proper overwriting or "Alcatraz is Braindead and the Suit with a copy of Prophet is using his bones and meat for internal structure", ya know?
Yeah at this point you are just a brain piloting the suit like a scare crow with meat instead of hay
Its like a brain piloting a scare crow. Instead of sack its suit on the outside. Instead of straw its meat on the inside.
That's actually an excellent way to put it. It does remind me of the Berserker Armour.
Having had flail chest, when I got to that part I had to assume the nanosuit comes equipped with a pain pump loaded with Opana.
It flat-out replaces the nerves with carbon ones that don't snitch.
@@JoshSweetvale Christ, so it doesn't reinforce your ribs which would actually be helpful, it replaces your goddamn pain receptors.
@@TheNorthHawk Replaces them with "They call me... Prophet."
@@TheNorthHawk yes, the suit literally grows into the wounds, replacing the piece missing of the body with more of itself. So the suit has pretty much directly merged with his chest cavity.
According to the novelization, the suit is explicitly pumping Alcatraz full of shitloads of drugs, both to keep him functional, but also to make sure he does what IT wants instead of what he wants
"Alien equivalent of a roomba" That got me. Yeah thank you for clearly explaining that the aliens soldiers were actually just improvised robot exoskeletons with repurposed melted human bio-matter. I'm sure no one is gonna have horrifying thoughts about alien life with that comment. But damn these were the hay day of gaming and no one can tell me otherwise. Humanity first!
Having horrifying thoughts about alien life is for people without super armor. Get back in the fight, soldier
That's something I never made the connection about until watching this video. And it's terrifying.
It really sucks that we'll never get another entry into the Crysis series *and* Crytek has been shoved into the Russian gaming mines (look up Warface if you want to be sad)
@@BoisegangGaming I already know about Warface and I've already been sad about it. Even as it is I'd like to play it but can't afford it which makes me even more sad since I can't have a bitter sweet memory of Crytek.
But yeah it makes sense that most people wouldn't pick up that these are just robots with melted human bio-matter for fuel. Like some kind alien attack car. After all we're all thinking under human norms and capabilities not alien. At the end of the day it honestly makes you wonder what an actual Ceph footsoldier looks like and what kind of weapon it would wield.
Regardless we gotta put humanity first, humans have always been a tribal species, we protect our own, hell that's why we still have 195 countries in the world all arguing over who gets the most attention and who gets aid first and gets it last. So between humans and aliens I'm on team humanity and peace with no cost to our humanity.
"The problem is that Prophet did a fucky wucky"
this and the next line are gold
Man, before this, i had never truly understood The True Magnitude of how much of a Dead Man Walking Alcatraz was and of the defibrillator segments
You'll be glad to hear that the nanogear eventually consumed what was left of his heart and took over circulatory functions, performing them far better than the original organ could have :D Hence there were no defib segments in C3 :P
"Central Park is no longer attached to the ground"
Nature is healing ❤️
We should mention the character names. Prophet can be deduced to the guy that gave a bit of a revelation on events while being a figure head looked up to both for inspiration and with malice.
Alkatraz is literally the name of an island prison that next to nobody could escape from and would die trying. The fact the MCs name is Alkatraz and he is imprisoned in the suit as the inly thing capable of keeping him alive paints a grimm picture of the body horror reality that the chance of survival and getting out of this flesh suit prison is slim to none.
All of Alcatraz's team are codenamed after prisons, just as an interesting aside.
The alien roomba. Same with C&C Tiberian Sun! The big bad aliens there were just miners sent to collect the seeded Tiberium, using entire planets like farmers use fields. With humanity's "victory" in the end causing the mining personnel to retreat and actually call in the military for the first time. That type of twist is just something special.
Tbh yeah it's one of my favorite ways to show just how outclassed a planetary, pre-interstellar civilization is compared to an actual starfaring species.
Double tap Lockhart after throwing him out the window, it gives you an achievement on Xbox. Also, canonnically, he survived that faceplant and got his own nanosuit, his own codename: Silverback, and started hunting Crysis 1's protagonist, Nomad. Guessing he might be the antagonist in the next game if they follow through with that plotline.
Didn't Nomad die on the island?
@@RussianAssassin100 Nope. Check out the teaser for Crysis 4, don't wanna spoil it, even if there isn't much to it. Also, to get the datalog in 3 saying he's being hunted by Lockhart, you have to find all the other datalogs first before it reveals it as a hidden one.
what? Nomad is dead, they killed him in that obscure comic (he took a missile to the chest)
@@4T3hM4kr0n I know the one, the tie in taking place after the original game. The same one where the Ceph were displayed to have access to time travel. Either way, same thing that happened to Prophet could have happened to the next guy that put on Nomad's suit if it was recovered, even if granted Nomad only ever wore the N1 and not the N2. Also, again, the datalog very explicitly names Nomad being chased by Lockhart, which granted might be a different member of the Lockhart family, Crysis 2 Lockhart, or even Crysis 2 Lockhart's younger brother that was part of the N1 program and the reason he hated the N2 program. So either we're dealing with the same Nomad, someone else using his callsign and wearing his suit like with Alcatraz, or Nomad became a post-human like Prophet did.
Im pretty sure thats his nephew and not him. He sure as hell is dead, not that it matters to the suit, but there really isnt a plausible way for his body to was recovered, transported and put inside of a suit before prism went kaboom.
Gotta be honest, i disliked Crysis 2 not because of the story or the gameplay or anything, but because the aliens just weren't as cool (puns) in 2, they were totally inhuman in the first game and the whole energy siphon, dome of absolute zero, weapons that fire frozen air thing was such a cool gimmick, and i was sad to see it traded in for generic humanoids with energy weapons. it just felt like they took a badass original design and discarded it.
2 was my favorite. great multiplayer too.
That is very fair, I do prefer their designs in the first game even if I appreciate there's a reason they appear the way they do in the second.
for a good 6 months after the first one came out me and my friends would yell at each other "Nomad, I'm Hungry" at lunch time XD
it's about adaptation. They were like that in crysis 1 because these were "unadapted" Ceph that had amoken from cryo and their equipment was designed for energy harvesting from things like asteroids (they were essentially "colonial Ceph"). Crysis 2's ceph took note and adapted themselves for combat in an urban territory by mimicking human tactics. Crysis 3's ceph are the newest generation optimized to fight humanity (they went into stasis due to the Alpha Ceph going dormant but then reawakened once again once the Alpha Ceph gets released, which ends up in CELL getting steamrolled)
For me, it's actually a little bit of the opposite. The enemies in Crysis 1 being squiddies and squid walkers makes them a little bit less neat imo than the tentacle-y, hyper-mobile robotic, humanoids. The whole "they absorb energy and they have weaponized the absence of it" is neat, I guess, but visually "flying/swimming/ground-walking tentacle monster" was played out even by 2007 with both War of the Worlds and The Matrix being precursors to the visual appearance.
aside from the frankly violently cringe outdated meme references in it, the novelization of crysis 2 is so fucking good and gave me an even greater appreciation of the game. Also cranks up the body horror to like 50
Agreed. The book was great.
_"he's a _*_corpse walking_*_ Gould!"_
_"Just _*_another grunt_*_ I'm afraid" . . . "A _*_simple soldier_*_ will not suffice here."_
_"You knew the suits were symbiotic, you knew what they'd do to my men! ...You turned them into _*_dead men walking!"_*
_"I turned them into _*_post-human warriors"_*_ . . . "You think we'll defeat them with _*_ordinary human_*_ soldiers? This isn't a war _*_ordinary humans_*_ can win. This is the future. _*_death is an inconvenience_*_ now, nothing more. we are all _*_dead men walking"_*
It's even more haunting to know that Hargreave was right, had we fought the ceph with a nanosuit that did not adapt itself to the ceph's weaponry and biology we wouldn't even have a chance. Hijacking the primary spore regulator wouldn't be possible without exposing our bodies to it, but thanks to Hargreave not only we adapted to ceph's biology their DNA was assimilated into our own and later allowed us to use their weapons, the only thing that had the necessary firepower to destroy the alpha ceph
@@thecommentguy9380 The only thing he nor Rasch accounted for was the 'man' beneath the suit. Just as the nanosuit was capable of learning the ceph's nano-systems, it too was capable of learning from its hosts, and thus overcame the task with not just the right tools, but the willpower to drive it. Hargreave was misguided by believing only himself to be capable, whereas Rasch's reliance on nanotech (and eventual indoctrination from it) also underestimated the human element.
@@AnonEMus-cp2mn true. Throughout the events of Crysis 3, the suit did not fight with its cold calculated super computer it was created with, but rather with the determination of its former bearer. It dreamed of the humanity it never had, and whenever Psycho whined about his weakness, the suit lashed put, scolding him for thinking he is weak because he is human because it was Prophet's humanity that drove it to continue the fight for 23 years. It wanted to be a man more than anything.
"We fought. You, me, Jester, Nomad. WE fought, not the god damned nanosuit"
There's also the funny part when Claire insisted on calling a machine, it just immediately shotback with an ultimatum by reminding her that her resistance only going anywhere because of it and it will stop working with her if she doesnt call it by its human name
Hargreave gets the absolute best lines in the series. Gotta love the magnificent bastard.
The sad part is when in Warhead we get to know Eagle Team who I am sure all survive given the information Nomad was probably sending during his trip through the structure. So how many more Nanosuit warriors squads there could be.
The game is really genius at what it does. The fact that we are not actually controlling character of Alcatraz, but the suit itself, is scary shit. In every sequence when you had to use defibrillator, game implies that Alcatraz is already dead. The suit is trying to return him to function in order to continue the mission by symbiosis with his body. I always loved that part in second game and how subtle and scary these details are.
The nanogear can do all bodily functions better than the original tissue, it just needs time to eat and replace the flesh! One of its functions is to maximise its host's effectiveness and efficiency in combat, after all! :P
On the plus side-if you can call
it that-I’m not dead. And according to
the medical diagnostics racing across my field
of view, I should be. My back is
broken in three places. My larynx
is crushed. My femoral artery is
torn. There’s more blood in my
lungs than air. The list goes on.
Nanosuit 2.0’s rattling off
diagnostic and wet-repair
capabilities like I’ve never seen
outside a full-blown VA hospital-
and while it’s got me rooted in
place like a garden gnome, it’s also
pumping me full of antibodies and
autocatalytic fibrinogen and a
dozen kinds of engineered
osteoblasts to knit my bones back
together. All things considered,immobilized in a custom-fitted body cast is not a bad place to be right now.
Alcatraz does have a sick sense of humor talking about his condition in the novel
The only problem with alcatraz once the suit is helping him is the fact that prophet is a dick and made alcatraz brain take a back seat so he could come back as an AI piloting whats left of alcatraz
Never thought that Alcatraz lost his mind and personnality to prophet. I actuelly thought he said "they call me prophet" to wear the legacy of his previous owner.
Well, that's grim
His "neural file" got damaged during the interface with the last spire, C3 explains, and the suit preserved what it could in a dormant state.
Came for the crysis shenningans. Stayed for the absolute divine levels of sass
My favorite line from the game is when the crisis man says... "it looks like there is a another crisis.. a crisis 2"
Only story from the franchise that could stand on its own if it wasnt a game. Masterpiece.
The Legacy of Kain games have some of the best written stories ever put to screen, let alone put to controller. My favorites being Soul Reaver 1 and 2.
Crysis 2 had some changes that may have been a bit of an adjustment for players familiar with the open ended gameplay of its predecessor, but what it did narratively is a huge improvement. The acting has aged all that well, but for the time, this was probably (imo) the closest games got to being a straight-up action movie at the time. The plot has a lot more twists and turns and secrets, and it is overall far more interesting and engaging than the predecessor.
the only issue that peeved me (and still does to some extent) is how the open level and freedom to tackle the objectives that comes with it was pretty much axed in crysis 2. Instead you have the game marking things for you in a crowded arena. I understand in that sense that they attempted to scale down the options to fit within the level design but cramming stuff like that into such a small arena comes off as half assed.
@@4T3hM4kr0n I agree 100%. Crytek tried to give the game a semblance of the gameplay 1 had, but its hard to do that in a linear game. While you are able to tackle the majority of encounters how you wish, relying on the nanosuit's capabilities, it is still a linear sequence of shootouts. Setting it in NYC had its advantages and its my uninformed opinion that Crytek chose NYC because it gave them ample opportunity to flex on the graphical fidelity of the new iteration of the Cry Engine.
@@trinityknight982 the NYC setting was also for thematic purposes.
Ah yes, the huge narrative improvements such as: painfully one-dimensional copy-paste sci-fi/military tropes instead of characters with nothing memorable about them, a completely predictable "plot" that feels like it was written by chatGPT because of how much it plagiarized every alien/disaster movie from the 90s-early 2000s, plot "twists" that are so telegraphed, they make M. Night Shyamalan films look surprising, taking itself way too seriously in a futile effort to compete with the deluge of modern military shooters (cough Call of Duty cough) that were extremely popular at the time and that's without even mentioning how much less interesting the gameplay is.
But yeah, it's a massive improvement in the narrative department!
I hated (HATED) the plot of 2. I'd spent nearly 4 years waiting to go back to the island and find out what happened to Prophet. Instead it's suddenly a completely different story, it left me cold. To a lesser extent they repeated that with 3, but 2 really annoyed me. I also was under the impression that the urban setting was chosen to limit the size of spaces to better fit into the Xbox 360/Playstation 3's VRAM limitations.
Ok, never played any of the crysis games but, isn't the tunguska event as an alien encounter, alien structures buried across the planet and the aliens "coming home" the plot of "Resistance: Fall of Men" series too?
Anywat, maybe it is time to play these games now that they won't melt my PC.
Correct, thought the chimera feel a Little cartoonish in their looks considering the resistance Lore tries to go full horror
If CELL is based on real PMCs, then that Marine is practically an angel
Hearing your description of what the suit did to Alcatraz was the most beautiful thing ive heard all week
Ah yes...not being alive vírus is a thing to worry about.
Ah, this brings back memories. When Crysis 2 came out I played this game to death, pretty sure I even used up my birthday gifts back then for a better GPU just so I could play it better. Not just the gameplay, or the level designs, or the music where what captivated me. Even the surprisingly deep story and Alcatraz/Prophet's struggles just felt so impactful being all in first person. Hell, what MJOLNIR armor or Samus' armor was to most gamers of a generation was what the Nanosuit 2 was to me, if you get my meaning.
You know, I really should play Crysis 2 again. Your video made me feel nostalgic again.
The novelisation Crysis Legion by Peter Watts is highly recommended.
The fact that the GOAT Hans Zimmer and his protégé Lorne Balfe composed the soundtrack for this game only enhances this epic story
I get the vibe that Khanlusa would like Humanity Lost, assuming they haven't already read it
I have not, and just so it's the right one is it by Meghan Douglass?
@@khanlusa - Honestly have not read that yet, kind of confused by the direct title similarity between Meghan Douglass' novel and CS Diggle's graphic novel series. I'm pretty sure Diggle is the sci-fi body horror artist and writer and IIRC I heard about that work first with pretty high reviews.
Douglass' work looks like it may be good as well though. Paraphrasing from a review it's "Donnor Party in spaaaaace" which seems like a fun premise.
I'll never forget seeing the gameplay trailer featuring the Grand Central Station Pinger fight and the cutscene at 18:00. Really established the tone of the game. Like you *are* a super soldier but you're in the middle of a _War of the Worlds_ scenario.
I HIGHLY recommend anyone who likes the game to read the Novelization; not just does it give a LOT of background information on the setting like the fact that the Amazon is gone, that the world has been wartorn for the past two decades and that massive corporations took over, with PMCs like CELL being paid for normal Law enforcement over Police Forces as they are 'cheaper'. But it also gives you the insights of Alcratraz and his feelings through the events; I LOVE Alcatraz, not just does he feel like a actual USMC trooper but he's genuinely also entertaining. Not to mention he has some fun quirks like being scared of water despite being a marine or him basically insulting everyone around him. Genuinly one of my favorite books.
Does it have an Audiobook?
@@nicholas2153 Nope. I mean its a game-tie in book for a series that's not super big. Not to mention that it was written back in 2013 and again; pretty obscure...so you know. You CAN however read it for free online...just the formatting's kinda crappy on the PDF; my suggestion is to buy a paper-back copy. Its called Crysis legion btw.
The Crysis novels are fucking great. I read them after playing Crysis 3 and I loved the setting and the characters. Sad that they didn't take off like the Halo novels or even the Gears of War novels (another good videogame tie-in series imo).
"what is your name soldier?"
"they call me... John Crysis"
I like crysis 2 better than 1, it does a lot of things better than crysis 1 and people don’t give it enough credit
To answer your question regarding if we used the air friction or ground stomp, yes, specifically grpund stomp. Survive any fall zero damage and kill any normal enemy within 5 meters of your landing. If you wanna have fun you can just hop around power jumping then slamming. Does less damage, bit its funny as all heck
I don't know about the leaving the Husband and Wife behind scene, since Alcatraz is strong enough and fast enough to nab them well before the building fell. The scene goes on a little too long for me to believe there was nothing your character could do to save them.
THANKS for the Crysis Legion love! Dude, that is one of my favorite cosmic horror stuff alongside Half-Life 2 which does something similar. I love that the horror comes from the fact that the Ceph we fight are just goddamn roombas. Just like the Combine Soldiers and Synths, they are just the tip of the iceberg. We do not want to MEET the "real" Ceph and the rest of the Combine at large.
I did like that we eventually do see a little hint of the "real" ceph, while also having a properly set up plausible reason for that to not be the instant lose situation it should be.
Wow. I am an absolutely HUGE fan of Crysis 2, I bought it X many years ago for the Xbox 360 and fell in love with it's, admittedly light, vent-crawling mechanics to the point that I want to find games that have this game's play, but a level design more like the original Deus Ex or Arcane's Prey and Dishonored. I'm so happy I found someone who loves this game as much as I do (more even, I didn't even pick up on any of the Roomba stuff nor did I realize just how borked Alcatraz was, I just thought the suit didn't want him to live without it or something.) and having it be literally one of my favorite writers and TH-camrs is just, brings tear to my heart.
Man now I gotta see if I can get Crysis 2 for PC, I suddenly have an itch.
Also, as a haver of many kinda spicy Star Wars takes, I cannot wait for May...
You're Awesome and keep up the good work!
-Izzi
But don’t you think the graphics are a bit head of its time prior to PS4 titles like driveclub and the order 1886 and especially uncharted 4
The suit ALSO doesn't want to ever be separated from him, you're right. He theorizes in the novel that prophet taking it off and dying traumatized its... animal intelligence and caused it to be particularly determined to prevent that happening again.
9:19
To answer a question you posed a 7:30. This
this right here is the only time I bothered using air stomp the whole game because for whatever reason, air stomp completely negates fall damage.
The Pingers were actually pretty hard, but not as bad as the Helicopters. At least the multiple rocket launchers needed make sense against an alien ground vehicle.
The point I keep missing even after watching some lore wideos on Crysis from time to time, is why did alien terraforming switched from ice hellscape to jungle hellscape?
The ice wasn't actually terraforming, or wasn't only terraforming. The Ceph units that were send to earth and slept until the games DO function best in low temperatures, but the ice sphere was mainly the result of the ship and tech sucking up energy in every form as they woke up and fully activated. The low temperature was just also fortunately comfortable for the "flying squid" type units. That's "stage one" of how they colonise new planets
In C2, they've gone to stage two and started producing units that are actually adapted to the environment they're occupying. Often, they do that by mimicking the most successful local organisms/the organisms that have been giving them the most trouble in their colonisation efforts. Remember that the units on earth aren't the actual Ceph, just semi-autonomous probes/caretakers/builders. We're not quite sure what living conditions are ideal for the beings from the Triangulum galaxy that sent them.
There's a stage three as well, where if the local organisms prove too much trouble then the probes phone home to have the "True Ceph" come in from Triangulum ahead of schedule and take over the pest control themselves. We see one very briefly at the end of C3, and it's existentially horrifying. :P
I think Crysis was victim of its first success, neither of the games have a specially super creative story but is good enough specially Crysis 2 has a pretty decent story even if people doesn't want to acknowledge it (while Crysis 3's story is as wacky and inconsistent as it gets to be fair), but the gameplay was extremely fun, while I appreciate the freedom of the first Crysis and Warhead, I think that Crysis 2 and specially Crysis 3 have a much more polished gameplay.
However people kept complaining that Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 weren't like the original Crysis but with better graphics, making Crysis 2 pretty unpopular and Crysis 3 even more unpopular, to this day there are lots of people who have never play Crysis 2 and 3 just because a bunch of haters on internet say so.
For me it was one of the first modern examples of how a toxic fandom can doom a franchise, Crysis isn't in a position as bad as Halo's franchise nowadays, mainly because all the hating have been cool down over the years so much that apparently they are planing to launch another Crysis game, but it is sad to see how the own fans can strangle to death their beloved franchises (like Halo cough cough).
People hated c2 because it was optimised to run better
But these same people ignore c1s second half in the disscusion
With Halo, it is justified tho. Besides 4, which was okay and had some good story moments, everything else 343 has done has been an absolute mess, with the games only having redeeming qualities inherited from previous titles. Hell, the only good thing they introduced was the grappling hook in Infinite, and that's cheating cus every action game can be improved with either grappling hooks or jetpacks. Don't get me started on the story, even they recognized they blew it on 5, shame they were too incompetent to save themselves in Infinite, AKA "let's just press the reset button on our story"
@@jackmesrel4933 yeah but the downfall started because a lot of people started to Hate Halo 4, aparently Halo 5 had a campaing ready to continue from where Halo 4 ended, but due to all the negative opinions about Halo 4's campaing and everything else (multiplayer, aesthetics, everything...) which for me was not deserved, they rebooted the story hence the mess that Halo 5's campaing is and at the same time Halo infite has another reboot caused by the hated generated by Halo 5, the funny part is that Halo 5 multiplayer is still better than Halo Infinite multiplayer, but Halo infinite campaing is much more decent compared to Halo 5's, however as it is another reboot is still another lore mess, which is terrible for a story driven franchise like Halo, Halo is Halo because the story is interesting and epic, but if that fails everything else goes to shit, and for me Halo fans specially the bungie livers are at least 50% responsable for halo's doom, 25% is 343 fault for being cowards and the last 25% is for the microsoft's ties, who also pressed 343 to reboot everything.
Crysis 2 felt even more badass than the 1st (well better say you feel badass). While 3 seems to be more flexible with upgrades in 2 while you evolve you can literally become as affective as shown in the trailer mowing down enemies. Absolutely loved it
If your asking to be inflicted with suggestions here's my personal list:
•The Darksiders series
•Vanquish
•Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver
•Destroy All Humans
Lordy it's been a while since I played Destroy All Humans
I almost choked on my drink at "The things we do for cosplay." line. That was gold.
Lucky me, I just saw part 1 yesterday and was looking for part 2
The ending notes at the end about how the Ceph who are just motes compared to the greater Alien lurking behind them remind me of one of my favorite sci-fi games ever, Freelancer 2003. The main threat in that game is an alien species that absolutely dominates the pre-established power houses only to be revealed at the end of the game that are just the caretakers of their creators Creations, Absolutely love it when games create such powerful opponents only to reveal that they aren't the true predator in an organic and natural way. Tangent aside, great video and superb review of one of my favorite FPS games that I grew up with.
God this nostalgia. I played crysis 2 so much as a kid.
The game music is carved into my brain lol
I'm the one, who bought every upgrade in campaign and I can say that Phantom aug was awesome
I mean yeah you eventually buy all of them, but some aren't worth the slot to equip. Though the cloak-tracker suddenly becomes a godsend in that last fight after being worthless the whole game.
Ngl, this has thrown some new light at crysis 2 story for me to look at. I was convinced that my good experience was due to being young when playing it and thus having lower expectations, especially after hearing all these bad opinions years later but now I want to make a new playthrough. Actually if the story was as good, it makes me even more sad that 3 was the last instalment and all the "leaks" regarding new entries were about some battle royal or other >insert currently more-less popular game concept
This Nanosuit, lowkey reminds me Guts' Beserker Armour, it's practically both the same in Crysis and in the manga, I Crysis the suit grows and migrate into open wounds in order to keep the "user" alive and to prevent them from dying and to keep moving on, and in Beserk the manga, the Beserker armour is constantly keeping Guts from dying, so whenever Guts takes damage or breaks a bone the Beserker armour will shoot spike into the bones to keep Guts together, it also prevents him from getting tired and to continue fighting just the same as the nano suit, I like the idea that Alcatraz and Guts share similar outcomes like almost reaching death but whatever they're wearing brings them back for more, even with Alcatraz fighting aliens and humans, Guts fights off Demons and humans and more. I like both of them, but just for the others who might not like this comment I know they share some differences and one has experienced more ❤😊
Crysis 3 was my favourite in the series, still is would love another one but the story wrapped up pretty well in my opinion in three and the dlc
DLC?
your crysis 1 video got my interest, never did play 2 or 3, so this will be exactly what i wanted to see if it was worth going back to.
I love these videos so much. It doesn’t feel as bloated as the other videos nowadays and gets to the point.
Can I just say I LOVE your content warning style before videos, I literally wish every channel out there did something similar, its so sleek and informative and takes like no time to let folks know what to expect
WoW. So Your crysis one video was randomly recomended to me after watching some borderlands videos. I really like the style and how the story was recaped with gameplay. Remembering how much fun it was playing crysis. I was instantly drawn towards a recap of crysis II. Now after another great video I cant wait to see cysis 3 being recaped this way. Please continue that great work even though I can, at this point in time, just speak for two of your videos but well done.
I had no clue the Ceph embedded on the planet where the equivalent of the species' gardening tools. That's actually a really really cool way of explaining how we were able to be somewhat on par with them when fighting them.
Yeah, they're semi-autonomous probes meant to build a colony and terraform, then phone home so the owners can open a white hole (wormhole/hypergate thing) and come live in the new colony. The actual Ceph are so advanced that they're effectively incomprehensible Lovecraftian entities. We very briefly glimpse something of them in C3.
I just stumble on your channel with the Crysis 1 video and finished this one having really enjoyed it and looking forward to the Crysis 3 vide. Only to realize this was upload 7 days ago and it's not out yet. I'm going to subscribe and look forward to it releasing while I binge all your other videos.
Stumbled in your chanel by a miracle. Love the humor, love the dedication to bring more information about these series. After this video will go through all your videos!
New to the channel, nice to see Crysis 2 getting more love.
Appreciate you outlying the details of Alcatraz and what he's physically going through, never seen anyone give credit to how good that aspect of Crysis 2 storytelling.
Pingers are annoying, most of the time I get close the gap from behind, toss 2 C-4 charges to the underbelly and boom. They're usually provided for many encounters.
man, as soon as i saw you put in music from infamous 2, i got unreasonably thrilled
inFamous 1 & 2 are some of my favourite games of all time and I will eventually do videos on them ✨
I honestly liked the 2nd more than the 1st. And the battle in the cities was just great.
My core moment I recall from this game is in the early game-firstmission area after going underground and the returning up through the hole and in-game cutscene runs and first-alien is seen and it jumps you and tries to inject something into you. The whole - Nano-Shell Intrusion Detected. Insufficient Common Code- Rejecting. Yup that scene you show right here in the video as well :)
That moment was very cool to me, as if the suit was protecting me from, whatever the hell the alien had tried to pierce into me and expose me to.
Tbh, the issue i have with the second game isn't the aliens (i loved the aliens in the first game) but rather the way they've gone from genuinely interesting flying squid creatures in various floating mechs to generic alien footsoldiers.
The sequels were definitely hoping to get more of the call of duty crowd onboard - understandably given how well those games do - but something was lost in the process - the thing that made the first game (and warhead) feel really unique.
The lore explanation is the ceph going from stage to stage and the ones in Crysis 1 being basically in cryo stasis. The gameplay reason is cause people hated fighting the floating squids
So i had a hard time too with the pingers until i learned on normal you can cloak, run up to its back with a jackal you can just pick up, and unload all your ammo into its weak point. Thanks to the fire rate it barely has time to react before it's dead lool
Watching the Crysis 2 trailer, I found myself immediately appreciating that the building repair and maintenance scaffolding that is almost ubiquitous throughout Manhattan is actually shown! It's a physical aspect of the old and too often dilapidated city of NYC that is completely absent from being represented in most past and current mediums. Such scaffolding is seen and walked under most everywhere when one moves through the city in daily life. It's erected for reasons of financial liability, even when a building owner is refusing to do necessary repairs or has left them 'eternally delayed'. The city government will seemingly pounce to require the protection of pedestrians but is radically underpowered to compel the actual vital structural building repairs themselves, in many cases. Even with scaffolding more common than trees in parts of Manhattan, there are sadly news reports of injuries and deaths caused by falling debris from dilapidated buildings on a pretty regular basis. It's almost like such harms could have been expected and prevented. A desensitized public has come to view such incidents without much surprise and they rarely are reported on beyond the local NYC news.
A simple intro to the situation: "As you make your way down major streets in New York City, there’s one thing you’ll almost never escape - scaffolding, or what the city of NY calls “sidewalk sheds.” Call it an eyesore, a massive inconvenience, or a way to stay dry during a major downpour, scaffolding is part of the NYC streetscape, and that’s not changing anytime soon. It has many purposes, but the main one is protecting pedestrians from falling construction debris."
streeteasy.com/blog/scaffolding-nyc-why-so-much-scaffolding-new-york-city/
i do like that in the next game Psycho even brings up the fact of what body, the nano suit, has owner ownership over.
When I first played this game as a teenager I didn’t realize how the suit was actually affecting Alcatraz. I thought that he was simply given the suit and left with the mission of a fallen hero. I didn’t realize until this video that a man already out of time is saving the world as a ghost.
"THAT'S RIGHT NATHAN, THE OWNERS ARE BACK! WAKING THE SYSTEMS, FIRING UP THE BOILER, AND NOT MUCH LIKING WHAT THEY FOUND, FESTERING BEHIND THE FRIDGE. CAN YOU BLAME THEM? REEEEALLLLY?
2 was my favorite game in the series, followed by 1. I never finished 3 as I felt it jumped the shark a little... too far.
After watching your review of 1, and now 2, you’ve completely changed my perspective on the Crysis series. I already loved them, but you really pointed out MANY things I never thought about at all. A fantastic analysis along with a soothing voice, and I give this a 10/10. That’s a sub from me, chief.
21:06 holy shit man I can’t even count how many times and how much time I spend playing this game and analyzing its lore and I never think about that!
Man this game is so cool I love it so much. Also it might be just me but personally Jacob Hargreave is very underrated and good written character. His dialogues are absolute brilliant, hearing them I feel like I could spend hours discussing with him about aliens
He gets all the best lines.
10:35 Aww, don't be such a baby... Ribs grow back!
Honestly the big butt makes sense. Person with all that muscle isn't gonna have pancake ass. And then the suit is an extra layer of muscle and stuff on top
ah nostalgia I remember spamming all my upgrades to Armor and going crazy only to realize that I am not in fact fucking invincible
This is one of the few times watching a video about a game I like made me want to play that game again. Brilliant work!
The Pinger is easy to beat with underbarrel gauss rounds. Figured that out on my first supersoldier playthrough, almost 20 hours in.
Ah yes... the Pinger. The helicopter in the first game was at least an easy enemy.. This thing could de-cloack you with its EMP. And it is always met in a small arena. C4 explosives and rocket launcher to the back worked amazingly against it though.
Thanks lass! Appreciate this video, can't wait for more.
“The Wall” remains one of gaming’s greatest trailers ever.
Please do one of these for Crysis 3 too! This is amazing!
Ngl you saying remember to take your meds actually just reminded me to take my medication for which I actually need to function! Thank you so much I wish you the best of success!
I just finished the Crysis 1 video and I humbly implore you to do Crysis 3 too since I don't actually have a lot of time to replay the games but second monitor magic makes it possible with these videos :)
A small correction, its not prophet's personality that takes over , it's the suit itself. Prophet did die at the beginning of the game.
In the third game its actually said , i think in a lore entry, and by the characters in the story, that only the suit remains, a machine dreaming that they are a man, prophet. And i find that equally fascinating amd horrifying.
17:51 yeah this scene is haunting. Though I kinda wish there was an option or an alternate version where Alcatraz dismounts the vehicle and pulls the couple on board.
It's been a long day and everyone is stressed but the strength and speed of the suit should have been enough to save them.
Maybe that's cheesy and that's why the scene plays out as is, but still
I played this game on a limb back when it came out, having never touched Crysis 1 and having no clue what the big meme game Crysis 1 was even about, but damn if the story didn’t capture my attention to this day. Love the whole setting. Alien invasion, your character almost dies, you lose all your homies, some dude headshots himself spouting a bunch of stuff that doesn’t make any sense. Wake up and you feel totally alone. You don’t hear or see anyone and your totally alone besides these douchbags in white who, over the course of the game, designate you enemy number 1. For consistently beating them in every encounter, But finally after half way in the game we meet up with the army and start kicking ass with the Marines. Evacing citizens. Sticking it to both CELL and the Cephs. I replayed this game more then I care to admit.
Man as a kid I loved this game. I was cracked on its multiplayer too. This game will always have my favorite fictional firearm’s because they all LOOK REAL and like they can function. (Granted the SCAR and SCARAB in the game were just slightly adjusted HK XM8 rifles)
I had a friend who played Crysis and the other day I reminded her of the helicopters and pingers. I swear I heard a part of her soul die over that voice chat
You mentioned Mass Effect, and now i kinda want to see you play through it the way you explain things so amusing and so easy to digest.
As I understand it, Peter Watts (the author of the novelization) was also a story consultant. So if you enjoyed the more...existentially nightmarish aspects of the story I heartily recommend his novels, especially the first contact novel Blindsight.
I don't need you to tell me that, I already know all of this. I based my personality on the Crysis 2/3.
Also about the suits repair systems. It's not that it is going inside the wounds to bond with the user, a simple contact with exposed skin with promote the use to start merging with your skin, the under suit was supposed to stop that, but it failed, and Alcatraz going in a quite literally dead but not dead enough to not be brought back, it started canabilaze the organs and other flesh bits because it was upgrading his body with it's symbiozis, don't forget it's an evolving and self improving suit. Suit alone can regenerate by itself forever, because it can replacet itself by cell division that is gone past of limit of said cell division, which means it will never fail to make another cell of a nanosuit, which in term makes any user a proper immortal.
@@FreckleMcMur thanks for the info. since you are expert i wanna ask. prophet was able to remove his suit easy because he wore undersuit. why it was so hard and needed skinning procedure to get psycho from his suit ? psycho should have that undersuit too right ? and other nanosuit wearers that even died in the removal.
@@HR15DE Because Psycho was running around in his Nanosuit 1.2 for 23 years, that model started bonding with the user's skin by the end of a week even by-passing the undersuit. But, this suit didn't merged with the skin, which enabled CELL to skin people alive. If you to try and skin the only one Nanosuit 2.0, you find that there is no skin under the suit because the suit became said skin.
@@FreckleMcMur thanks man. i love nanosuit so freaking much. its scary tho
For some reason i feel there is a small bit of similarity of the ending of Crysis 2 to Black Ops 3 ending. Also you remind me of Brienne of Tarth fron GoT for some odd reason. Nice videos!