You want Crysis Maximum Edition. Not this Remaster

[MaxxGold]

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This mod makes Crysis Maximum Edition better than the Crysis Remasted games. The Remastered games are just Console Ports of Crysis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdwVNqy8L0&t=3s

Here is a review of Crysis Remasted that tells you all of the important information regarding why you want Crysis: Maximum Edition and not Crysis Remastered.

You can still buy the original Crysis by searching for Crysis Warhead, then selecting CRYSIS MAXIMUM EDITION. You can also buy it from gog, if Crytek decide to pull it from Steam completely. If you're keen on the remaster's visual improvements there's a mod that improves the original's visual fidelity beyond those of the remaster, giving it 4K textures, global illumination, screen-space ambient occlusion, real-time reflections, tessellation, volumetric clouds, and so on.

As many of you know, Crysis Remastered is a PC port of a console port of the original Crysis. Destructibility has been scaled down. Physics are worse. Performance is worse. Quick saves have been removed. Difficulty is lower; enemies do less damage and hit less frequently. The most damning thing about the remaster is that the gameplay has been changed significantly from the original game. Certain suit modes have become tied to actions, such as speed with sprint and jump with strength. Furthermore, you suit mode can't be changed while in vehicles (I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ loved ghosting past enemies—they'd know I was there, but they wouldn't know where in the vehicle I was).

The original Crysis was hard by design. By making you select suit modes on the fly, you had to think when planning out and enacting combat situations. The remaster takes away a lot of this and Crysis plays more like an action game rather than an immersive sim. I died a lot going through the same levels in the original Crysis, but those deaths made me consider the inadequacies of my play style. I breezed through the first thirty minutes of Crysis Remastered without a sweat. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because it is still enjoyable, and there's no fault in enjoying a breezy game. What's unforgivable, however, is that Crytek has tried to hide the original game as much as possible, rewriting the experience of Crysis to conform more with its successors, Crysis 2 and 3. As I said earlier, the first felt like an immersive sim, where you necessarily had to discover new ways of playing the game through experimentation. Mapping suit functions to actions streamlines this process of experimentation, and I think it's an incredibly sad thing to do. The richness of the original game is lost.

You can read more about my thoughts on the original Crysis here, as well as ways to make it perform well on modern PCs.

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Here's a link to the bundle in the Steam store: Crysis® Maximum Edition

It's not pictured, but the bundle also includes the multi player mod "Crysis Wars". Also it appears that you get a special discount for the remastered version of "Crysis Remastered" if you own the non remastered versions.

The "Crysis® Maximum Edition" is periodically on sale for a steep discount. I got it for 7,49€. Just put it on your wish list and get it when the price is down.

[cszolee79]

Original Crysis also supports mods and console settings the remastered does not.
Such as 3rd person view, bullet-time dll mod, lots of weapon mods, maps, etc.

[sadler2010]

Now I am on the fence to get the rest of the remasters, A: I only see a slight fidelity boost over OG Crysis, B: my local only save is corrupted and I can't fall back to a previous one to save my progress, and NO MANUAL OR CLOUD SAVES, no wonder I got it for a Buck Fifty. This was a very lazy Remaster, more like Rebastard using a console version as the basis for a PC remaster is beyond stupid!!!!

[Blade]

Originally posted by sadler2010:

Now I am on the fence to get the rest of the remasters, A: I only see a slight fidelity boost over OG Crysis, B: my local only save is corrupted and I can't fall back to a previous one to save my progress, and NO MANUAL OR CLOUD SAVES, no wonder I got it for a Buck Fifty. This was a very lazy Remaster, more like Rebastard using a console version as the basis for a PC remaster is beyond stupid!!!!

I think the first one is the only one worth getting the remastered version of. It's easily by far the best in the series and the other games aren't quite as immersive or in need of any changes that can't be made by downloading a mod. I used to sit down almost once a day and play through the second game, it's more of a shoot em' up than anything so visuals aren't as important as the first game.