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gravy_train101 t1_j6o8aaq wrote

Reply to comment by Masspoint in Biggest landmarks in video gaming history 1975-2020 by Masspoint

It's really not. You could cut crysis and bioshock and nothing would be lost.

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ResidentPast9518 t1_j6o974p wrote

Halo is good. Halo 3 maybe best of the series. Still halo 3 is not more impactful or important than bioshock or crysis

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gravy_train101 t1_j6oc2a8 wrote

Crysis is literally just a meme. Can't say I've heard anyone talk about gameplay. Just "can it run crysis"

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Masspoint OP t1_j6ocytd wrote

It's actually a pretty good game, and amazing for the time it released in. Have you played the original pc version? or even crysis warhead for that matter.

But again this isn't really about best games, but more what impact they had in in gaming history.

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Masspoint OP t1_j6o9w36 wrote

I'm glad you see it's not about the best games, but more how they stand out for whatever reason.

A lot of people apparently think this is about the best games, they don't see their favourite game in there, which probably had some awards and they downvote, pity, it would be nice to have more of debate what I was missing but also what I haven't missed.

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Masspoint OP t1_j6o96ag wrote

This isn't really about best games of that year, but how they stand out.

If crysis isn't a landmark I don't really know what is. It is the swan song of pc gaming, as in the era they developped popular titles for the pc first. Games like doom, quake and halflife.

It was an amazing swan song in that regard though, since it couldn't run on the x360 and ps3, which were built to compete with pc gaming. It also couldn't run on most pc's, well not very good anyway.

Bioshock is in there mainly for the art direction.

Halo is in there btw , just not halo 3.

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gravy_train101 t1_j6odd6j wrote

"swan song of PC gaming"

You're joking right? PC gaming is going strong.

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Masspoint OP t1_j6oe7l0 wrote

That's not how I meant it, before crysis a lot of games were developped for the pc only, or first for the pc and then ported to the console.

The x360 and ps3 generation changed that, I call it the coup of the consoles. The xbox 360 and ps3 were so strong at the time of release you had to buy a 1500$ pc to match the performance, this while the x360 released at 400$.

Pc games were characterized before that by pushing the technology always forward and the consoles had to follow.

Crysis was actually one of the last games that did that, and the leap in technology was so big, no pc could run it at ultra settings, at least not the real ultra settings, because ultra settings in the menus were still nerfed, because they knew it would take years before any pc would even be able to handle anything stronger.

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