So the nuclear exploding barrel is the "next generation" in cliche videogame design?

stranger

Let me know when a computer can play the game at full settings and when the explosions reaches at least 5 megatons, all without artifacts or lagging.

So call me in 20-40 years?

Codexx

all those artifacts tell me his pc melted.

madhotch

Eh... I prefered the 3000 barrel explosion. It was much cooler looking. And what the hell are you guys complaining about the song for when you have a volume control?

Erwin

I really want to try this out... anyone running it on minimum requirements? What are the specs on your PC?

hooligans

"It was like a thousand suns came into existence and disappeared as quickly" - Oscar Wilde, maybe.

Mecharine

@KeithCourage: You're a bit too sensible for me to be comfortable with...
Basically you're damn right..

Zeouterlimits

@SirCobbins: Wow I didn't even notice that. That's awesome. Next version of Crysis we need deformable terrain though.

Cronus

hehe thats the kind of thing I would do XD

hrabbit

@crapsh00t: "I'm pretty sure that outside of the physical difficulties of making a "nuclear bomb chain-reaction," the actual mechanics of nuclear fission make a chain reaction of separately contained and separated nuclear devices extremely difficult if not impossible"

Maybe each barrel has the inside lined with tannerite, which will detonate an inner shell of tnt, which will then detonate to compress a critical mass of fissionable material, which will compress and detonate a tritium core. So each barrel contains a thermonuclear warhead wrapped up in a shock sensitive trigger.

That's the way I'd destroy the world.

Also, your basic entry level university genetics lab gives you all the tools you need to create a few types of the world's most powerful toxins.

In short, a little imagination and a little education are all you need to know that the world will never be safe from determined madmen.

ThatGuyOverThere

There's so many overlapping explosions that it sort of looks like a sunset in the middle of the plume.

PsycheDiver

Look at: [www.youtube.com] on how people render such things on the Crysis engine.

Because of this, Crysis doesn't output any sound with this option on which is why there is music bgm in every video.

DiabloTerrorGF

@KommissarK:

Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!

How would I not catch that reference? It's my fucking namesake.

Where are the nuclear barrels in Crysis? I didn't see any when I played through the game.

Strangelove

He seriously must have an awesome PC to pull that off. That was astounding.

goombakiller

Nice

swordsmith87

Ugh, Muse.

KirbySS

@ftgf:
"If by "reliability" you mean limits to what you can do then sure."

yep. i do. its a trade off between doing whatever you want, exceeding what the environment was tested for, and staying within the tested boundaries the developers intended. I'm all for exploring etc (see my post about enjoying it), but have become sick of buying games where the first task is getting the thing to work.
Ended up buying orange box on ps3 rather than pc as it would just work without messing around. Its a sad day when you chose the ps3 version over the pc, but i just wanted plug and play fun.

gmc

Ew, Muse.

dipic

just a thought but did anyone consider that perhaps when the video maker set off the barrels the sound it rendered was potentially all choppy because of the overtaxing on the computer... which led the video creator to replace it with a song they liked to spare us the broken sound???

I don't know if it has any basis in reality, but it seems kinda logical to me...

dalethedino

@Psychtaygar:
ummmmmmmmm ya since it came out in Nov you could play on the highest settings. But by "full quality" do you mean console standards or PC standards? Such as 1920x1200 res?
@gmc:
If by "reliability" you mean limits to what you can do then sure.
@baked ham:
Well I'm sure Crytek never designed it for a 1000 barrel explosion but with the sandbox editor you can what ever. Also he probably turned gravity off for the player.

ftgf

I didn't read all the comments, but I didn't notice anybody off hand that seemed unimpressed with this?

There was pretty much nothing realistic about the 1k explosion. It looked pretty ridiculous, and the computer really didn't look like it could handle it, not to mention that the gravity was completely whacky. Maybe I'm just hard to please. I dunno.

The single canister nuke looked really cool though.

baked ham

Should've used "Soldier's Poem" :P

Spiffyness

@Luuey: Indeed.

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Man that was excellent.

Witzbold

@charsuipau: Lawgiver, who knows about the future?

justhesh

That video really should have been set to "The Final Countdown". Then Gob could have come out and danced!

LordMaim

Agreed that the choice of timing was bad but Muse is one of the best bands out there for it genre. Taste is a fine thing and some people tend to think that their taste needs to extend to others...
Do us all a favor and think before you post your short post blasting music you dislike.
Regarding the video I would love to know the graphics cards this thing is running, a similar vid posted a while back only had normal barrels and they crashed a fairly gusty machine.

simmo

Bad song, boring video but the the explosion was awsome :)

Irenicus-the one and only

Jeeeeeesus.

Aethyr

Muse would have not been a bad choice had the person who created the video had any skill.

Starlight was filmed on a cargo ship and it worked.

Time is running out is a great song but I don't think it was the right song.

Had the guy included some dancing robots ala "SuperMassive Black hole" along with those nukes, that would have been awesome.

Before anyone says wtf do i know about muse, i saw them live 4 times last year, at the forum, Irvine amphitheater, San Diego street scene the very next day and caught them at kroqs acoustic christmas. Yes, i spent quite a bit of money.

sovietspartan

@yashichi8bit:
lilu dallas multipass

gmc

"Muse was a bad choice!" - ignorant posters

The song is clearly specifically chosen for this because of the song's themes. Don't believe? Watch the video:

[uk.youtube.com]

Now stop whining about the song/fact you can't afford a computer.

Lemming

The sheer awesomeness of that apocalyptic explosion + Muse = WIN.

Infradead

@homernoy:
Why thank you, good sir.

Cactuar

having not followed crysis, i found the one-barrel explosion beatiful. The 1k barrels killed the engine, but was still cool. It appeals to the "noclip"-loving kid in me. For me one of the reasons to buy pc fps was arsing around in the engine and seeing how to break it. Damned consoles taking away my fun and replacing it with reliability!

gmc

Well I hate FPSes and I'd never care enough to play Crysis, but this and the 3000 barrel video are pretty sweet.

Akanubon

"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"

charsuipau

[uk.youtube.com]

Here. A 3000 barrel explosion.

MadMinstrel

@KommissarK: My thought exactly. You must be over the age of 15. Why can't game videos just use in-game music or sounds? I'm not going to say "why do they always put crappy music in videos" because everyone has a different deffinition of "crap," but if the sound was just left alone, then nobody would be complaining, because there'd be nothing to complain about.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

denki

I think I just witnessed the big bang.

Mikey G

My skin... IT BURNS!

But it's not the nukes. Someone put emo music in this joint, a cruel joke.

Horsefly

@DarkLuigi: You hated Muse?! Instant fail. :P

xeleion

My computer shook and trembled just watching the video.

hey maybe when Pentium 9's out I'll be able to play it.

-HeyWowItsFelipe-

Woah... did the water evaporate?

SirCobbins

need a particle system on body parts :p

Dits

Liked the explotion but hated the song, want to hear the explotion :)

DarkLuigi

About... two thirds into the video, when the explosion starts to fade a bit and come back in at the bottom, the whole thing kind of looks like a Metroid.

Ehhh? EHHHH?

Vorpal

I estimate 1 kiloton a barrel. MEGATON.

Yuki

Artifacting much?

bluesquareapple

Is it TOO much to ask for just ONCE to hear the INGAME noise in these videos and not some crappy music?

TemplaerDude

@KeithCourage: Oh, you need to stop worrying, and love the bomb! [www.youtube.com]

KommissarK

Cool but the thought that we might achieve something similar irl makes me want off this planet :/

KeithCourage

dang that sort of rendering would obliterate my computer.cool

myke

@jkingsowner: Still got a good 30 mins for some SMASH INFO!!

I'm going to Sleep... :)

AntiZERO

I'm pretty sure that outside of the physical difficulties of making a "nuclear bomb chain-reaction," the actual mechanics of nuclear fission make a chain reaction of separately contained and separated nuclear devices extremely difficult if not impossible, in that one bomb is going to destroy the others, not set them off. You'd likely have one nuclear explosion with significantly stronger fallout due to all the extra radioactive particulate.

Stick that in your 8800 GT and smoke it.

crapsh00t

My god. If there's one engine that rivels the Source, it's Crytek's.

@Brian Ashcraft:
Is that a good comment? Brawl please. Why not a Snake update?

gamadaya

simply amazing... i wonder if any console will ever run it.

npa.189

No Mode 7 = Fail

Zolbrod

Jesus.

otaconnachos

Someone call Steve Guttenberg, cause shit just went down.

justhesh

Anyone else ever get the sense that these spectacle videos are only ever put together so the person has a legitimate excuse for telling the world what's in their Winamp playlist? Seriously, maybe it's time to start flagging these videos whenever they include some completely irrelevant and frankly awful background song.

Asterra

Would have been BETTER if the canister were lined up beside each other in a wavy line across the field, either side by side or exlosion in range of next canister.

AntiZERO

@Cactuar: I like you.

homernoy

oops I just pooped a little

uninterested gamer

I can't begin to understand why they didn't use "It's a Wonderful World" as the soundtrack to this video. I mean, it practically writes itself, guys.

dowingba

Wait, a film clip about nuclear explosions with Muse playing in the background... Why didn't they use Apocalypse Please?

Swifti

@KommissarK: nice stranglove reference

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

wiriamou

It will be nice when this game is a bit older and things like this are doable withing normal game play.

Pretty sick tho. I will admit that I enjoyed the barrel demo a bit more.

Don't get me wrong, super nukes are fun in their own right.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

Big Badda Boom

yashichi8bit

I love Muse, but that was a bad choice. There's even other Muse songs that would have been better. Oh well.

As for the vid... cool? I guess? I think it would have been cooler if you'd managed to crash the game. :P

Thorn

"Similtanius"?????

Oh well, nice "poof".

Snowrunner

@jkingsowner:
Where's my good comment?

Brian Ashcraft

@dunetiger: So I guess my having the speakers turned off saved me from something annoying. Hurrah!

Anyways, about the video...kaboom! That was awesome.

brello

It's Christmas at Ground Zero.

Dudemeister

People put music in because they think it adds flair. In some cases it works and some it doesn't. It sort of works because of the theme of the song and I also love MUSE but this was not so great in terms of a song.

laxdjames

@Psychtaygar:
I will answer that question in 2010

ez054098

I didn't realize they released Crysis for the N64!

dowingba

Clearly the maker of this needed to use "We'll meet again" by Vera Lynn.

KommissarK

Bah, every video from crysis makes me kinda regret going multiconsole and never upgrading my pc. All it can play is minesweeper and mayhaps pangya or nanaca crash on a full moon. Of course those regrets disappear when i boot up one of my consoles, but still.

Cactuar

nice!

V I |Z U $!

wow

EnigmaNemesis

That's decidedly awesome. I gotta say, though, that the ground there has gotta be mighty tough to survive the combined force of 1000 nuclear blasts and come away unscathed.

kylenalepa

dope song, dope explosion.

by-tor2112

@NeoAkira: stated=started

NeoAkira

@jkingsowner:

I concur -- they had new smash videos on GT today, why aren't THOSE up?

Psychtaygar

I wonder if his house survived the explosion of his computer!

Shindokie

Hot damn that's beautiful.

Aiwokote

@Psychtaygar: Agreed

That was very cool, but I feel it could have been better if they timed the video with the song so the 1k explosion stated with the chorus.

NeoAkira

Hmmm, looks like something took a poop during this video -- is it the engine or the host computer that caused those weird artifacts? The world may never know.

topaz420

Why does everyone put lame music to these things? You may be a fan of the band, but that doesn't mean blowing up 1000 nuclear canisters means it's appropriate, like belching at a funeral.

dunetiger

Have they found a computer that can run this game at full quality yet?

Psychtaygar

Where's my daily smash bros update? :*(

jkingsowner

Best part: Muse

Luuey

wtf? how can he run this game so smoothly and not get any frame lag or something?

mrbreakit

@SirCobbins: I have absolutely no idea. It almost looked like the water had somehow gotten wiped out or the rendering got glitched.

NKato

music Sucks, whats the deal with music these days, I mean to say that theres alot of good shit out there what the fucks all this whiny shit? Fuck ppl! expand your minds don't just listen to the shit they force you to. search out originality!....................................
OH yeah!
Man that explosion was SWEET. but that song made me feel like whining.
(BTW Im 25)

crunk

Can we have videos that dont include bad music or annoying music, its never cool and never works out smoothly so can we just stop with these youtube and GT director skills that must include the hip current music that doesnt mesh with the game.

D3Anon