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And yeah, it is PS3 and PC only for now, the 360 version is a ways off >_>
I think this will hurt Crysis team hugely, the only way i see this changing if they port it to consoles, and actually they have no choice. They are losing money in the millions.
Crysis itself wasn't that much of a treat, just completing it this weekend was a bust, I pretty much wanted all those hours invested back because it essentially blew towards the end. My friend is able to run it on his X800XL which is quite a few generations back now, generally those finding they can't run the game are on extremely low-end chips to begin with so there's not much anyone can do there, invest low and expect that to come back at you. It's the way things go now. $50 or even $80 upgrades are often ill made without research and fall short of giving a remotely decent gaming experience.
But it is amazing how many Crysis copies were sold, I expected much less, tbh. For it to surpass UT3 as well...that's quite and achievement. Looks like there's quite a few rich folk that can afford to run Crysis, heh.
I would say you would be best to educate yourself more on pc part costs and what you can do with even say $500
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/$500_gaming_pc_upgrade/
is a great example of it.
See what I heard was this: It would cost about $2,000 to run Crysis at it's full potential. That was heard on G4TV. It's not about 'educating' myself on PC costs/upgrades...just what I heard from another source. So thanks for pointing that out, Mr. Know-it-All.
The full potential of Crysis can already be seen with people using DX10 and DX10.1 cards, cards that cost as low as $170 MSRP, and this is with barely a month of driver development and 0 patches for the game. My friend has an HD2600 he got for $89 and we were able to watch the max settings of the game on it (although with FPS loss because it is only a $89 low/midrange card)
Crysis isn't an impossible title with visuals we could never imagine, it's a game like any other and it's not impossibly priced out of playability. If an $89 card can actually render the game on a single core processor then it's not that amazingly out of grasp for others.
Do you really have to act like a smart-ass with this, Vegita? What the hell's the point? I'm not getting the game, and G4 have their fair share of jokes...that's what I went by, as a joke, lol. I enjoy their 'false hardware hype' because I know that they are joking...if this is how you try to teach those unaware, you aren't doing a great job at it...am I the subject of your displacement?
It's fun that your Uncle works in computers, so do a lot of people, I've been in it for over a decade as well, and it's almost sad to see that most gamers don't have that kind of care about their hardware anymore. They just listen to sub-par sources and do what the trend is for one-liner defense. "I'd play crysis but I'm not rich hahahaha" "oh, if I had a million dollar pc I'd play it" and etc that typically come out when a new PC title hits.
In this case it's true that Crysis was just an EA PR project, Crysis made me want the 5-6hrs of my life back for completing it, if it wasn't for devmode and sandbox I'd say it was almost a total wash after completing it and really that's not saying much. Seeing that it's sold this much so far is kind of amazing with that factor coming into play.
You're not a subject of anything really, you just decided to stick out like a sore thumb and then you proceeded to defend your stance even though your choice of words were flawed at best.
You know that you're more knowledgable with this subject...ffs you work in computers, while I don't. I'm not a big PC gamer, I've never bought extra parts for one, built one from scratch, I only have general knowledge on it.
When someone talks about a product like Crysis, and 99% of the comments are practically the same, what should I go by?
Do you know what I meant by displacement?
My choice of words may have been flawed, but your's wasn't that great, either.
The other end of that are those obsessed with running Crysis at full spec with anti-aliasing and max resolutions. Those people being focused on running the game with 60FPS solid and no lag. That bunch is dangerous in itself given their mass hardware addictions.
The general PC gaming public (those that have lasted through the years for at least 5-10yrs) though ends up being a group that thinks it's going to be a task to get it setup right, but that they can tweak the game to run with great visuals and some hits to performance. While an ever dying group, those are the few that can actually tell people if a game is really going to require a massive overhaul or if the game is all hype and corporate bias to push people into new products they don't need at this point.
Either way those would be the groups that cause trouble, why were you initially even put off? The game sounds like a debt waiting to happen. Who are the people talking about it? New gamers that fear for any title to tell them they need new hardware because they don't want to find out how true the box requirements are.
Those problems are what I meant by the trends. Those users that either have little experience or are convinced that because it says designed for Windows Vista that they need to get Vista to get the most out of it. The users that see "Best played on Alienware" and think they need to upgrade or that their system is garbage because of it.
Regardless though, Crysis has proven to be a flop, it shows some fun visuals and a few other side items but overall it's a waste of time. Anyone who did buy the hype probably does feel burned in upgrading yet again because the game did blow and it probably could have ran well enough on their old setup.
Honestly if my friends HD2600 was a dual core cpu based system instead of a single he'd probably have some decent playability on a system that ran him about $600 total. But that's the breaks.
I think you would have gotten stuck even on the pro reviews to some extent, the game is probably a 7.5 - 8 at best. Seriously at about the halfway point you go "gtfo" and then get punished with a twist in the entire gameplay.