Cryostasis tech demo (DirectX 10)

[crazy88boss]

I am really hating this game. It runs *soooo* slowly, even though my specs are well above requirements: Phenom 2x4 3ghz, 8200 gigs ram, and I'm using an ATI Radeon 4650. Suggestions, anyone?

[scullyy]

great story imo

[TheMasterKai]

i am playing this now and it suckass. doesn't even make full use of my quad. this game sucks. i mean it.

[Sh1ntuGaming]

Lol, the game isn't made for multi-core support.

[shigshwa]

Lol! Who tapes guns to their arms?

[NAGA2100]

That's 2GB RAM 8GB HDD, Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce 8800 and Vista or XP

[crsh1976]

Perhaps it's me, but I don't see the big deal with these water and glass effects, they're pretty off; the lighting is good tho.

[Kougeru]

no other game has water that actually bounces off objects that move. all water that bounces off objects in other games are pre-rendered animations like the black ooze in RE5, only made to react to chris and sheva's bodies but not things like the knife. from the looks of this video it seems like it's dynamic water..which is hard to do...and really dumb not to support multi-core

[flonga1]

No multi-core? Are they retarded? Wow, fail.

[sharpshooternumber12]

LOL NO SHIT!

[flonga1]

Uh, yeah... That's why I was saying it.

[panzer9191]

Nice tech demonstration! Nice game itself! Just hoping if there's a sequel, the combat system and all will be improved.

[SkellionPowalskiz]

@panzer9191 That's the sort of attitude that destroys a game, let the developers do what they want with the game they created, or else it will end up just like all those EA games I'm hearing of across this video. As soon as fans start thinking that a company should do whatever they want, things start to degrade, but if someone new is introduced to the company and takes charge of everything and puts it into a new direction to meet new fans and expand, the result is the same.

[evilpandaRO]

Eastern-european games have been quite the rage in the past years, considering westerners mostly launched shitfests.

Think about it. King's Bounty, Cryostasis, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Codename: Outbreak, Hard to Be a God, Rage of Mages and a few others.

Compare them to The Elder Scrolls: Fallout 3, Demigod, Prototype, Wheelman etc.

I just think that because of less corporate structures, eastern-european studios nowadays get more freedom of speech in terms of design and storytelling.

[oibootboy]

dont forget witcher :)

[Strike86]

So true.

The western games industry has become so capitalist that it's difficult for any truly original games to make it to the market.

The east has no such problems, however, and this game and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. are prime examples of the creative freedom they enjoy.

[RedSol]

Mirror's Edge? EVE Online? Sins of a Solar Empire?

...Braid?

[Strike86]

Mirror's Edge was somewhat strangled by EA. There were many good ideas in there, they just had to fight against a lot of mainstreamisation (if that's a word) coming from EA. As for the others, I've never played them, but it's not unlikely that great titles do escape from time to time. Generally speaking though, I think what I said above is a fairly accurate representation of how the industry works nowadays.

[RedSol]

You've never played them because you're corporatized yourself o/

[Strike86]

I've never played them because I don't like those sorts of games. I prefer games grounded in reality, not side-scrolling platformers or space odysseys. Buying something you're not interested in to support a cause is all well and good, but there are limits.

[RedSol]

Then don't support the cause and play what you enjoy, regardless of how corporatized it may or may not be? That's what I do.

[Strike86]

It becomes my cause when a game I thought was going to be excellent ends up being published by EA or someone and they end up interfearing with the developer's work.

You can never tell if a game's got soul purely by watching pre-release videos and reading the hype.

In short, big corporate publishers piss me off by attacking a game I was anticipating, I don't attack them out of malice or spite. Don't get me wrong, I play what I want, but I can't stand to see a good idea ruined.

[DarklegionnaireX]

It's the name of the game, really. we can blame it on need for larger market demographics and increased sales. Alot of games get "'dumbed" down in terms of mechanics and other aspects (look at GRAW or Rainbow six vegas series in relation to earlier games in their series to see the simplification in effect). It's a shame but unfortunately those publishers pay the bills so they've got alot of say. Damnation met the same fate with Codemasters.

[SkellionPowalskiz]

@Strike86 So games that pretend to be realistic are better? Realism is good, but what's the point of playing a game if it works just like real life? This game is amazing, no joke, but that doesn't mean it should erase all side-scrollers and whatnot off the face of the Earth, those games were equally good, if you can't accept older games because they are unrealistic or outdated, then your are not a hardcore gamer in my eyes, you should be able to enjoy everything of quality.

[Zeanu]

Braid's art. Mirror's Edge is overrated and not even that fantastic in many aspects. EVE Online? Brilliant, but nothing out of the extraordinary. What about Sins of a Solar Empire?

[DarklegionnaireX]

By sheer proxy of being "brillian" makes Eve Online extraordinary. It's beautiful, and technically impressive, with the most impressive and immersive Economy ever presented in any game, period. To the level there are major colleges and universities that use the game as a teaching device for Business and Economics courses. I agree with you though about Mirror's Edge. Technically the lighting algorithm they used was very impressive, but outside of that, pretty lackluster and certainly overrated.

[Kougeru]

Sins is a great game that is patched pretty often, but often the games last forever. It's mostly for hardcore ppl IMO

[SkellionPowalskiz]

@Zeanu Braid is pretentious and overrated to hell and back, Shadow of the Colossus is art.

[sharpshooternumber12]

good point

there are some western games that hell change games though :S

btw i no west is like america and yeh but

what countries classify as east?

[beanz52]

Such a shame that without a high budget, like the western games industry has, most of these so called creative freedom games, tend to end up bugged and unplayable anyway.

[SkellionPowalskiz]

@beanz52 Russians are badasses, of course they make better games than us.

[AGRACUTA]

Real time water always seems to spend too long floating in the air, its like watching water move in slow motion.

[nikomas1]

Imagine these water effects, in bioshock!

[mintydog06]

Looks great, though a little low Frames at times.

[Darkgod171990]

I think it is unusual for a game to be developed in Ukraine, looks epic though.

[KEOBand]

That's because you know pretty much nothing about Europe like every real American :) We do live here and we have PC's too, you know.

[Darkgod171990]

I understand, but most games are usually developed in bigger countries U.S., Japan, etc. No understatement to Europe, but rather unusual to come from Ukraine.

[mintydog06]

Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl was developed in Ukraine, that was a great game.

[Darkgod171990]

That was a very... very good game.

[tehdaza]

Crytek also has a studio in the Ukraine

[Arthounot]

@KEOBand America against Europe, don't you hate it.

Holland here, by the way.

[TheMrVogue]

@KEOBand Hey, not all Americans are ignorant, just a large portion... :P, Anyone who thinks there aren't PC's in Europe is one helluva daft moron

[SkellionPowalskiz]

@KEOBand Are they all hypersensitive too?

[triFeral]

I made a mistake buying this game.

I'm running

6800GS

2GB Ram

250GB HDD

Acer 20-inch Flatscreen

2.3GHz Processor.

Running on Low LOW LOW.

[happyguy49]

im just sad that the North American release of the game has been kicked back. i believe it is already out in Russia. my hope is that it would be as awesome as STALKER...

[xXFatalSinzXx]

Im in Canada and i own the game. So far its alright. Im only about maybe 10 mins through or so. Its a neat game so far...i can't say its the best yet because i haven't seen anything yet.

Im running:

9800GTX OC+ 512MB

4GB RAM

770GB HDD

22' HANNS-G FLATSCREEN

2.6GHZ Processor

Running on Maximum.

[happyguy49]

!! on max?  thats nice.. the engine would seem to be alot better optimized than STALKER's X-ray engine then. playing Clear Sky on max, i get slowdowns.. even though my rig is pretty decent also;

4gigs ram,

2.4 ghz dual core

ati 4850

i usually run 1920 by 1200 on a 24" dell 2407 though so that probably taxes it a bit

[xXFatalSinzXx]

Havent gotten any slowdowns yet. Running on max FPS as well.

[MattTheKid123]

that happens to me as well

8 GHz Ram

2.1 GHz Dual Core

nVidia 9600 or 8600 (not sure)

[Omicron91]

8 Ghz of ram?

[MattTheKid123]

Megabytes srry :S..... i think im not totally sure

[1543V]

very nice indeed

[BangTango]

holyshit that is nice

[Educationey]

I love how even the dev's computer is slow with this game.

[sveitadurgur]

Lunacy, Absolute LUNACY

[DOUBLESH0CK]

wow. ... didn't know they could do that kind of stuff yet, looks incredible.

[abrarhayat]

man the games working slow,what GPu is being used?

[PrivatePancake]

its in slo-mo

[frankillerato95]

this is MATRIX! of a john woo movie :D

[happyguy49]

why is there no audio until the very end? this being a demo it didnt have to be procedural audio.. lol i thought my browser settings were effed up

[w33nDK]

Its a tech demo. It's only to show what the game looks like.

[Gamegeneral]

*Drools*

I REALLY want this game.

That is some good work on the developers part.

3 mins of a dude walking around and i'm set to buy.

That is salesmenship.