For a number of years back in the day, as new gaming systems and PC GPUs arrived on the market, one question dominated - "fine, but can it run Crysis?". It used to be the ultimate stress test, but as Crysis Remastered proved last year, the humble Switch can run it, which is an impressive thing indeed.
Port masters Saber Interactive have teamed up with Crytek once again to bring us Crysis Remastered Trilogy, which is due on a whole host of platforms - including Switch - in Fall. It's worth noting that Crysis 2 and 3 will also be made available to purchase individually, so if you already bought the first one you won't need to pay out for the trilogy bundle.
The neat thing is that Switch owners will soon have the chance to enjoy the whole series, on a portable no less.
Crysis Remastered Trilogy will give players not familiar with the franchise to be able to play through the whole storyline from the very beginning with this all-in-one bundle.
Players will be transported through, North Korean islands, to New York City where they’ll have to save humanity from a deadly virus, to the finale where they’ll be on a revenge mission to uncover the truth about C.E.L.L.
Do you think you'll suit up with this on Switch?
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You damn right, you got damn right!
I can finally play Crysis 2 & 3 on a toaster!
@AchievingGamer
saber interactive will do the console porting they are know to be reliable and they already have done ports for switch included the porting of the Witcher 3
@HotGoomba
I was hoping for crisis 2-3 specially the last one i never finished on Xbox but now i want to complete it , I really hope EA will awake and do a dead space trilogy for all console and decided to bring it on switch as well
Can we PLEASE get a physical release? I'll honestly take any kind we can get
Edit: Something tells me this will look and play significantly better on Super Switch.
Crysis 1 on switch pretty solid
@HotGoomba ps360 already had it. In other words, always was possible.
Never played this series. The main character does look incredibly bad-ass. That's what's always kind of bugged me about FPS games though. You're character can look cool as hell, but you can't actually see them during gameplay due to the point of view.
One of my favourite game series, 2 & 3 already looked amazing so hopefully they boost it to 4k and include a stable framerate at 60fps. I appreciate I will likely have to play it elsewhere unless the Switch Pro can upscale accordingly.
Yay!!! I'll get them for sure, as long as they're well done (like the first one). More excellent shooters are always welcome on Switch!
@AchievingGamer Crysis 1 on Switch works perfectly well. Why wouldn't the rest of them?
Will 2 &3 be Cloud games for Switch?
Considering Crysis 1 Remastered was fantastic on Switch this is great news to me as I always wanted to play the entire Crysis Trilogy on the go. Now that Switch got the whole Doom series, Borderlands series, BioShock series, and now Crysis series on the go, all we need are the entire Turok, TimeSplitter, Duke Nukem, and Wolfenstein games on the go.
Oh wow I didn’t even know there was a third game 😬
That’s pretty cool!
@Bulborb What's the point of those been on Switch if all they are is cloud based games which are not stable for a portable entry. Switch unlike smartphone doesn't have data connection so playing on the cloud required WiFi and with WiFi you could only play it at one place at a time. These make more sense as download games, even better if they had physical releases.
@Bulborb no. They will be either download only or will be both download and physical
I loved the 2nd and 3rd games. Might just get this on Switch for portability.
@aresius it’s EA. They will never bring dead space to switch
I want to try these out. I hope it runs well on switch
@Ghost_of_Hasashi Timesplitters 1 and 2 would be awesome on Switch!
This is about as close us switch users get to a Battlefield game
That's awesome. Perfect for those like me who never played Crysis.
Will 2 & 3 have the excellent online multiplayer? If not, it’ll be a hard pass for me.
@anoyonmus
if they hate money as well as they hate Nintendo that's their problem
@the_beaver
i loved the second one !!
@aresius just telling you. They won't port it at all. They are still under the impression that switch users don't buy 3rd party games
Great news, now I'm glad I held off buying the first game thus far.
I was thinking about getting Crysis 1 in sale. But I'll wait now and hope for a physical release
I'm playing the first one now. First time I booted it up, I hated it.
While on the toilet this past weekend, I tried it again-- and I AM LOVING IT! Love the skirmishes with all the powers. Really feels like what I used to love about Farcry.
Really excited to see 2 and 3.
@anoyonmus
so they are completely blind and dumb to not see how many third party port sold a lot on switch
I’d love a physical version of this
Smelling some limited run announcement.
@aresius pretty much
@Nintendo4Sonic same here. I was gonna take Crysis 1 remastered but the trilogy seems to be a better idea.
@Ghost_of_Hasashi what a wonderful comment
@anoyonmus it's incredible, how many Switch games came out physically later. Still glad I waited with Ghostrunner and bought the card version later.
@AchievingGamer Yes, but where is Crysis Warhead expansion for the first game remastered?
I know it was a PC exclusive but how is it that tough for Crytek to release it on modern home consoles when it's a already over a decade and a half old?
@Slowdive Yes, I hope we don't have to rely on a Limited Run games release for this trilogy.
Shut up and take my money
Give me a physical release with all 3 games on the cartridge please. It will be a day one purchase if so. If not I'll just buy a physical copy (hopefully) on PS4 to play on my PS5 thru backwards compatibility. I'd prefer the Switch version though mostly because of gyro controls and portability.
Where are the pre orders now?
I played the first last year on the Switch, I thought it was good, but too short. Maybe 2 and 3 will be longer. I'll wait for a sale to get both.
And now give me The Witcher 1 and 2…
Oh cool. More ports.
Trilogy all on the cart is a definite purchase. Anything else and it's a hard 'wait for 70% off' situation.
This is great news, hopefully other good ports come along, we are still missing Dark Souls 2 & 3! Let's get those on here, too!
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@ConquerStone facts,it needs multiplayer for the switch. It could the best 1st person shooters on the switch until something better comes along.
@Bizzyb maybe limited games will bring them.
Did any of the Crysis have a online multiplayer?
I finally got the first game after years of hearing about and it just did not live up to the hype. I'm not complaining about graphics or performance. The actual gameplay and story. None of it is bad at all. Let me say that, it's not bad at all.
It just doesn't pull me in. It feels generic. The characters are dull, the story is... fine. Just fine. And the gameplay is... fine. Nothing is bad or anything, just nothing impressed me either.
Maybe this game was amazing when it was new or for younger players. Or maybe it was just so hyped for the graphics. But overall, I just didn't get into it.
All the power to ya if you've got nostalgia for it, or just genuinely love the game. That's just not me.
So after finally having played the first game for the first time, I have mixed feelings about this. I kind of enjoyed the first half, hated the second half, while it could have been good were some aspects a bit more clear such as where to go in the zero gravity part, and I didn't enjoy the tank part, and were checkpoints a bit less far apart and late game enemies less bullet spongey (up to the point where the game bugged, I couldn't kill a giant enemy / trigger its next phase, and wasn't sure if I had to keep shooting it or if the game bugged out after shooting it for several minutes non-stop. Upon retrying it did trigger, so I knew it was a bug).
And I hated most of all how some characters were constantly yelling orders and to hurry up, and how some characters were supposed to be "good" or "cool" but I really disliked them. It had me literally "yell" back to shut up, do it themselves, and I stopped at the last boss fight.
So... Are the sequels more of THAT, or more of the actual FUN part?
@Scrubicius I know 3 did
I supported other collections like Bioshock and Borderlands on Switch (and would have supported Mass Effect), so I'll support this.
Poop, now I regret buying Crysis 1. Oh well, no point worrying about things I can't control.
Super Nintendo Switch.
YESSSSSSSS CRYSIS 2 REMASTERED FINALLY
@Richnj if Mass Effect ever came to switch, I would buy it
I only completed Crysis 2 and 3 on Xbox 360. Never liked the first one.
The Mere Fact we get hopefully a Physical on Switch is a Big Deal but from the comments you wouldn't think so. Before it was only PC because of performance only could be had on PC.
@Deepdoop You shouldn't be regretting, they are just bringing Crysis 2 & 3 to Switch to finish up the trilogy. They're not releasing a collection like most thought it was.
pew pew pew BOOOM!! "My gun is bigger than yours !" pew pew
BORING.
@Heavyarms55 Yeah, nowadays, it's hardly impressive anymore, but back then, it was a true showcase, a testament of a powerful PC, which you definitely needed to run the game smoothly, let alone for being able to switch on all the bells and whistles the CryEngine offered.
Back then, there were a couple of titles, each trying to surpass the other in graphical splendor, but maybe in large part because of that, they only had wafer-thin stories. Another one of those games was the first Far Cry game. Like Crysis, it has a story alright, but it isn't exactly triple A movie material, but the games were VERY beautiful and were basically meant to let people's jaws drop to the floor and to have people glued to monitors, gawking at the realistically moving foliage, the realistic water and the beautiful lighting and so on.
Oh, and of course destructible environments, another proof of PC power back then.
Fast forward to today, and it's basically just another first person shooter with a sci-fi theme, but back then, it was one of the first that pulled out all the stops, and also made it fun to play, so if you had it back then, and had the hardware to run it, you were basically playing with the big boys.
Which is also where the whole "but can it run Crysis" meme comes from...
If it's not the 1 game on the cart and 2 on a download code scam I may be receptive.
@AchievingGamer Why you assume they won't work when the first won works great?
Crysis is a great example of how an FPS game SHOULD be made. Don't get me wrong, I love CoD, but I've heard how ridiculously huge their file sizes are now. They don't just make it nearly impossible to port it to the Switch; they also take up so much storage on your console (notably, the PS4) that you don't have any room for other games, even older CoD games for that matter.
@sonicmeerkat They're all digital download. The first one is already on Switch, this is just them announcing the next two similar to how Namco is bringing Dark Souls 2 & 3 to Switch since DS1 is already on Switch.
@anoyonmus
Don't forget, EA allowed other shooters to be brought onto the Switch, like Apex Legends (which runs like garbage) and PvZ:BfN.
I played 2 all the way through on PC and I really enjoyed it.
"Fine, But does it have local and online multiplayer?"
@the_beaver I just finished Crysis Remastered in the last 2 weeks on the Switch, and I did enjoy it, but there were definitely some bugs in it.
At one point, I hit a bug that stopped my progress and I reached out to the devs and asked for help. The solution was super simple, but it did stop my playthrough at the time.
I ran into other random issues as well, so if they tried it early on, before the patches that could by why?
@ThanosReXXX Oh yeah, I know full well how demanding the game was, relative to like 98% of other games from the same era, you really needed to have a top tier machine.
But I think it's that aspect of the game, the graphical focus, that is the reason why I don't think it's aged all that well. Like I said, I don't think it's a bad game at all. But it is all just "fine". There's really nothing special about it anymore, aside from the real world history behind it.
I'm pretty glad most studios don't do that anymore. The push to release absolute monsters of games that push the highest end gaming PCs to their highest limits. Given the tech around these days, that would demand 3000 dollar or more machines. It seems like most PC games these days are targeted at running on 1000-1500 dollar rigs, with settings that can take advantage of stronger hardware if you've got it.
@Bulborb switch pro
What? No Warhead?
Great! YES! Now manifest a physical collection!
Yay! Crysis 3 finally coming to a Nintendo console! (no more lack of business drives :lol:).
Also, I feel this is the perfect chance for Nintendo to show off what new and stronger hardware can do. When they announce it, ask yourself "can it run Crysis Trilogy?" (more like "how does it run" )
Surely they have to make this a physical?
Good news. Yet to have a proper playthrough of my Crysis Switch download. It has formed part of my "backlog library". What I have played so far is quite well put together.
No Physical, no get my money.
Finally, a news to cherish. Now see if we get Dark Souls 2 announcement.
@Heavyarms55 Yeah, completely agreed. I guess back then, it was kind of a case of blow them away with all the pretty graphics and new features, and we'll also sneak in some actual gameplay, so people will still have a fun time exploring and going through the levels. Kind of like a Hollywood blockbuster/action movie: lots of ooh and aah and explosions, little to no story. And people STILL go to see it anyways...
Especially with the first game, that was the case. Even almost two generations of graphics cards later, most PC's were STILL having a hard time running the game on the highest setting and at a good frame rate.
Looking back at that now, most people will probably wonder what the heck they were thinking, because while it was meant to be a graphical showcase to wow both the people that played it as well as the people they showed it to, it actually wasn't very consumer-friendly at ALL.
But anyway, because of that, it has most certainly earned its place in gaming history, and it most definitely secured the CryEngine a place in game development, so in that regard, they more than likely achieved their goals, at least.
@ThanosReXXX Yeah those are all good points.
I'm more forgiving of movies focusing on visuals since the whole point is to watch them. I still want a good story more, but sometimes just pretty junk food is good enough for a movie.
Hopefully there will be a physical release this time. I passed on the first remaster since it was digital only and I still have the original game on disc. Many gamers/collectors still prefer the discs, and cases with artwork.
I can already see how LRG makes physical release and charges the stupid 25 eur for shipping
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