Quote Originally Posted by Krushnburnz View Post
Well i was just building my rig to play crysis when i noticed this thread lol. Guess i've wasted money on some hardware :|. Prepare to buy Nehalem 2000$ cpu's and quad-sli gtx 280s to be able to at least run this game on high I remember when crysis came out there was no hardware to play it maxxed out, i doubt they've learned anything from that. U're saying they've only sold 3 million copies ? Well i'm somehow doubting there are 3 million computers right now worldwide able to play crysis at highest res+ very high details. I'm not spending money on a game that i will probably never be able to play smoothly @max res +max details without selling a kidney to buy hardware. I somehow consider they should start developing 3d benchmarks instead of games, i guess they would be better at that, or at least start taking some coding lessons from valve...
I'm not sure where your spiel comes from... Coding lessons from valve? It's 2008, and valve still hasn't even figured out what real time unified per-pixel lighting and shadows is, which we've seen done since doom 3!

When HL2 finally came out, it was a generation behind the heavy hitters known as Far Cry and Doom 3 technologically and visually. Some may argue with that, if that wasn't the case then why was it when people imported HL2 maps into the doom 3 engine it looked 10 times better? Meanwhile, they tried Doom 3 and Far cry maps on source, and it looked like crap...

Simple, because HL2 worked so well for older comps because it was in the making for 6+ years! Obviously, it was optimized for older hardware for that reason.

Would you rather crysis look better as time goes on, or would you rather have had the maximum settings in crysis have been medium/high just so you could feel better because you could max it out? Seriously, when doom 3 came out in 2005, you couldn't run Very high without stuttering unless you had a 512mb card, which wasn't a normal thing until the 7800GTX 512mb or X1800XT 512mb, but no one raised nearly the stink people have about crysis...

Personally, I'm glad the game is as hard to max as it is, means I'll have a reason to go back to it next time I upgrade, unlike anything by valve which I haven't played since I beat them in the 5-8 hours each of their titles take.

Also, incase you didn't know...Most gamers play at 1280x1024, and really don't mind if they can't max out a title. They're happy just to be able to play it, and crysis does scale well as you lower the settings.