I've been eagerly awaiting Crysis 2 ever since I beat Warhead and finished having fun with it's multiplayer. Months before Crysis 2 was released things were being leaked and things were being said. I ignored it all. I had complete and absolute belief that Crysis 2 would be everything it should be, but after downloading my LE copy on Steam this morning... I am disappointed.

The menu system reeks of consolization and leaves so much out. Giving a PC gamer the preset options of high, very high, and extreme as graphical settings is pure laziness and a major slap in the face to us PC gamers. We even had access to almost everything in the configurations to make our own custom configurations in Crysis and Warhead as well. While I have not had the time to check this for Crysis 2, I have heard many friends tell me you can not and that many options are just not allowed to altered. If your going to make a sequel, then you should at least make sure everything in the sequel is at the very least, as good as everything from the first. Last I checked, Crysis and Crysis Warhead both have great menu systems and in depth customizable settings for the graphical portion of the game. Also, why did the game only ship with Direct X 9 support? Crysis and Crysis Warhead both supported DX9 and 10 right out the box. Crytek has claimed DX11 support will be patched in at a later time, but lately Crytek has even been quiet on that subject.

I have played the majority of the campaign and like it very much. I do enjoy the game as a whole. The servers need fixing bad though. As of right now I can't find any North American servers and the only servers that pop up in my browser are 1,000+ ping.

Crytek, I am a big fan of your development group and am glad you guys are getting in to the console market and having much success with your new engine, but don't forget the very fan base that got you here, PC players. I am not trying to make this post a PC elitist post (I play on all current gen systems and my gaming PC), but there is no other way to put this except, Crytek screwed up and needs to make a decision.

1. Patch the entire menu system so it is the same or extremely similar to the original Crysis menu framework and fix the multiplayer server issues (pings, connecting, disconnecting). If you do this fast and deliver on your promise to adding DX11 support and Cry Engine 3 sandbox editor in a patch later down the road then you will gain the PC communities respect back for the most part.

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2. Don't and suffer a massive backlash of angry fans, bad sales in your future titles, and reputation damage that will be unrecoverable.

If something isn't done about this than you can consider Crysis 2 the last product from Crytek that I will have purchased. I will no longer spend money on your products if you don't fix this sorry excuse for a PC game. As of today March 22, 2011, the game feels more like Crysis 0.5 instead of Crysis 2.

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TLDR: Crytek, change the menus on PC back to the way they were for Crysis and Warhead (especially the graphical settings), add DX11 along with Cry Engine 3 sandbox editor, and fix the server issues with multiplayer or you will lose a ton of respect from the majority of your community.

I feel pretty much the same way. THREE graphics settings? Really? LOL! Might as well only have 3 resolution settings, or an "auto detect" resolution so you can't change it depending on performance.

And honestly the graphics are worse than Crysis 1... I have bought every single Crytek game released. This one might be my last. Honestly of all the developers that have consolized, Bioware and Crytek hurt by far the most.

Yeah, it really hurts to know that a company that I have supported for several years now has decided to turn its back on the very community that created it. You guys had a great reputation for realizing what it meant to be a pc gamer, but with the lack of DX11, and the consolized menu, I can now see that you guys did not create this game for your community, but for the consoles. Did we not keep buying your games at a premium price years after they were released? No other game can boast the success of Crysis, and its all because of the PC gaming community. What were you guys thinking?? No other community would have fully appriciated your guys hard work, and no other system can run your games the way they were meant to be played. Makes me wonder if EA intervened somehow and messed everything up. I really hate EA, they seem to ruin every game they touch.

I feel pretty much the same way. THREE graphics settings? Really? LOL! Might as well only have 3 resolution settings, or an "auto detect" resolution so you can't change it depending on performance.

And honestly the graphics are worse than Crysis 1... I have bought every single Crytek game released. This one might be my last. Honestly of all the developers that have consolized, Bioware and Crytek hurt by far the most.
I totally agree man. Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking like this. After Dragon Age 2 I can see Bioware is clearly going down the wrong road. Crytek still has time to fix this problem though. Whether they do or not will decide whether I support them as a developer anymore. In all honesty, I completely understand that with Crytek moving to consoles we were going to see some stream lined and watered down features in Crysis 2. But I had no idea they were going to take it this far. This game has so much potential on PC and it would kill me inside to see it not used.