SubJeff on 2/6/2009 at 07:02
Why have I been brought into this? :mad::mad:
Seriously though, I agree with dethtoll about the tech from the future thing (I don't know that I can agree that CryTek make "bad" games).
Shadowcat on 2/6/2009 at 07:29
Requiring tech from the future at higher detail settings is an awesome move that all developers should make (at least as far as they can without biting big chunks out of their budgets).
Artificial restrictions, based purely on the limits of the technology of the day, suck.
Crytech's only mistake was not hiding the highest settings inside a config file prefixed by comments along the lines of "This will make the game unplayable. Don't use it." Obviously they presumed that people would just use a detail level that worked for their machine, rather than maxing everything out and then complaining that it didn't run well.
Maximum viewing distance is a classic example of something which could be significantly increased with relative ease during a 3D game's development, but which is often restricted for performance reasons (usually with some kind of crappy fog effect) which become laughable within a few short years.
june gloom on 2/6/2009 at 07:34
Considering that at least a few of those threads with that particular wonderfully passive-aggressive tag either feature only a single (and often innocuous) post by myself or were actually tagged with it
before I posted in it, no, you still haven't made your point.
And anyway Crysis sucked no matter what detail setting it was on.
henke on 2/6/2009 at 07:52
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Neither. I'm referring to the fact that Crytek makes bad games, period. They make a game that required technology from the
future to run at anything near medium, it's not even a very
good game, nobody buys it except Koki, and then they cry about piracy? What did they fucking expect?
Eh... and from that short press release you deducted that they haven't learned any lessons and that their next game will be bad and require technology from the future and they will complain about piracy after it gets released?
I'm probably not as good at reading between the lines as you are, but my guess is that if it's being developed to run on Xbox360 hardware it'll run on most gaming PCs as well.
june gloom on 2/6/2009 at 08:52
Quote Posted by henke
Eh... and from that short press release you deducted that they haven't learned any lessons and that their next game will be bad and require technology from the future and they will complain about piracy after it gets released?
I'm probably not as good at reading between the lines as you are, but my guess is that if it's being developed to run on Xbox360 hardware it'll run on most gaming PCs as well.
They didn't even learn their fucking lesson from FarCry. So no, I have no hopes. Crytek is one of the more overrated developers.
Malleus on 2/6/2009 at 09:14
Crysis 2, huh? Sounds good. Crysis and Warhead were awesome, looking forward to part two.
Koki on 2/6/2009 at 09:14
About as funny(and accurate) as any other Stolen Pixels comic.
242 on 2/6/2009 at 10:24
Quote:
Crytek is building Crysis 2 on their new state-of-the-art multiplatform game development solution CryENGINE 3 for the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the PC.
Which is a downgraded CryENGINE 2 :bored:
Not much sense anymore in buying new videocards or CPUs before new gen consoles are released, as it seems that PC exclusive AAA games totally vanished.
