Today's most indulgent video: 3,000 barrels in Crysis [update]
by Ross Miller 
{ Dec 20th 2007 at 2:00AM }
Want to see 3,000 barrels all tumble down at once? Or be blown away in a vortex? This four-minute video might be just what you're looking for. For some reason, watching the barrel de(con)struction makes us want to upgrade our systems and play Crysis more than any trailer released for the game. It's a testament to the ingenuity of the mod community to pique our interests with simple physics tests and, well, construction of entire buildings using explosive barrels. Video embedded after the break; stay tuned at the end when they decide to put the barrels to even better use and blow them up.
Update: "What just happened, Neo?"
"A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it."
"Uh oh. Deja vu. That means they've changed something in the system."
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
gonk @ Dec 20th 2007 2:03AM
wasn't this posted a couple days ago?
here's a better vid anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB8sG4smWbo
Fernando Rocker @ Dec 20th 2007 2:08AM
This was posted already...
Raikage (ROFLBERRY PWNCAKES Defence Force) @ Dec 20th 2007 1:11PM
Thus the Matrix dialogue! :D
Not sure why it's posted again though...
comtar @ Dec 20th 2007 2:12AM
Old news. Now when someone does 5000 barrels and can look into the explosion, let me know.
jopojelly @ Dec 20th 2007 2:14AM
Deja-Vu edition perhaps?
Evan @ Dec 20th 2007 2:14AM
Joystiq double post?
Foetoid @ Dec 20th 2007 2:38AM
Lol mate. Good call. Joystiq double post FTW!
ThornedVenom @ Dec 20th 2007 5:04PM
Joystiq fallen victim of its own posting/reply system? Oh the irony. (:
peepoop @ Dec 20th 2007 2:16AM
WOW!! OLD NEWS IS SO EXCITING!!!
Daxter1985 @ Dec 20th 2007 2:34AM
This same thing was posted on the 16th
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/16/a-very-jenga-esque-crysis-physics-demonstration/
giantenemycrab @ Dec 20th 2007 2:49AM
Now where have I seen this before?
smellytim @ Dec 20th 2007 4:00AM
Today's most three day old video.
t_m @ Dec 20th 2007 4:05AM
next time you post this can you change the music? It burns us...
colin @ Dec 20th 2007 4:28AM
Dear Joystiq readers,
I comment here often, and I figure that if you are reading these comments, it is because you know it is a repeat post. Off topicicity starts now. Look away if you must. Last chance!
I have a question that hopefully might be answered here (civilly). (I had a big paragraph typed but decided not to post it) , but does anyone know where to look for advice for aspiring med school students?
any advice and/or help will be greatly appreciated.
Ethan @ Dec 20th 2007 9:55AM
This is a pretty good community of students, and a lot are medics, but it's based in the UK.
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/
Mekky @ Dec 20th 2007 4:45AM
I'll tell you what's worse than Joystiq posting the same thing twice:
It's readers posting the same comments.
Seriously, what's the big deal?
Foetoid @ Dec 20th 2007 7:50AM
Yeah cause i'm sure everyone laughed at Joystiq for double posting the first time they posted this vid....
Idiot.
benhc911 @ Dec 20th 2007 4:55AM
to you, the reader, and the writers at joystiq, if you wish to triple post, i recommend this vid instead, i found it so much more powerful in its awesomeness http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/crysis-physics-porn-329256.php#c3182244
Raikage (ROFLBERRY PWNCAKES Defence Force) @ Dec 20th 2007 12:50PM
OMG U LYNKD KOTAKU, GIMME TEH BAHNHAYMER!!!
'STICQ4LYFE
benhc911 @ Dec 20th 2007 5:09PM
haha i considered linking direct to the youtube vid, but since gonk and others seem to be spamming those as of late, i was hoping for the credibility that /crysis-physics-porn brought to my post ;P
Ethan @ Dec 20th 2007 9:51AM
Even I've seen this, and I'm not particularly current. Still good, there are bits where I'm convinced Michael Bay would do well to just buy CryENGINE2 and asplode things for an hour or two.
KilgoreTrout XL @ Dec 20th 2007 10:54AM
This isn't the engine rendering all that physics in real-time, is it? Surely this has to be pieced together after the fact.
If not, where the hell did this guy get his PC? the NSA?
mike_p @ Dec 20th 2007 11:00AM
I haven't been around to read the posts... end of term =(
Still, cool lookin' vid.
BananaBoat @ Dec 20th 2007 4:49PM
PIME TARADOX!
DIVIDE BY ZERO!
CANDLEJACK!
See, I'm still here, no ill came of m-
ThornedVenom @ Dec 20th 2007 5:06PM
I hereby declare a new Joystiq rule: if an article needs to be double-posted, make sure it's flamebait.
quickshade @ Dec 20th 2007 6:01PM
Yea someone needs to get a PC that can look into the explosion. Then I'll care.