LGR - Crysis Ten Years Later: A Retrospective

I really never understood why it was so famous if noone could play it, for me it is just making it plain wrong. It would be like if I make a game and because I want the best Graphics in the world of games I would use Cycles as Rendering engine. Would I doubt that someday there was a card rendering it smoothly at 60fps per seconds? No I wouldn't but now it would be more like 1/1000 of a frame per second, would look amazing, especially of realistic hair and anything but why through? Why would I make this?

Ezydenias

Poplar AGH! This is a great video. though. From the system requirements to the DRM you cover all the topics I would have.

briandemodulated

i know the 360 can run it and i beat it

Ugh Crysis. I remember overclocking my MacBook Pro to play this game. On medium. At 800x600! Loved the first half, but man it nose dived after the aliens arrived. I forgot about the VTOL stage, but I remember the escort mission (shudder). Did anyone else get that glitch with the final boss where the rocket launcher wouldn't lock on? So, yes, up and down.

I remember trying to play this on my Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT and it was not a smooth experience… But I still wanted to play it so badly so I struggled through my low frame rates.

Terry Lee

I'm still amazed that it took 4 years, before it was graphically dethroned by Battlefield 3! Good times.

Back in the 80s and 90s I would always ask the question: (always in jest) but can it run Space Invaders?

Gary Leigh

I had no idea that this game involved aliens... got bored with it before reaching that point when I tried playing it

I tend to think of Crysis as a component seller. A lot of CPUs (especially Intel chips) and GPUs were purchased to run this one, and the games that followed in its oversized armored bootprints.

Ten years later and I've still never actually played it myself. I probably should at some point... ^_^;

Kris Asick

When I set out to buy a new laptop 10 years ago, I did my best to future-proof it by making sure it could run Crysis on its estimated system specs. In all these years, though, I never once bought or fired up Crysis. I just knew that if I could run it, I could run darn near anything for many years to come. It still does a good job. I wonder if it's fair to say Crysis was as big a system seller that Half-Life was 10 years before that. I haven't thought of upgrading in a while, what is today's big system seller?

People even made some great levels with the included editor. There was one called Resort that was fantastic. And don't forget about the graphical overhauls... there didn't seem to be any fundamental limits to what that engine could handle, either it fit in your RAM or it didn't and crashed.

moosemaimer

I don't want to continue to get old, but I do want to continue watching your videos... Oh, the humanity! Great review/retrospective, Clint... Bring back memories of my college days with my roommates and me bitching about not being able to play it

LJFox

Aye, it's refreshing these days to go back to a game like this where enemies STAY dead

LGR

It's good. Really good. :D

Alyxx the Rat

just two words: "respawning enemies". Something that will ruin every fps for me

I had this running on medium on probably the last good MacBook Pro. 8GB DDR3 ram, GTX 330M 256MB of GDDR3 memory. 2.53Ghz I5-540M dual core /hyper threading. Turbo was 3.07 max. Mid 2010.. The last good MacBook.

You're welcome

LGR

Still had some fun with 2 because of its urban setting, I just really liked the atmosphere and it was worth a couple playthroughs. But yeah, 3 didn't do much for me in retrospect, haven't gone back to it at all.

LGR

frosty the snowman hentai, never thought id be picturing that in my head but here we are. Thanks Clint!

Zachary Outen

Fantastic overview, especially with how it originally ran back in the day with 2007 hardware in mind...curious, do you feel that Crysis 2 and 3 were just kind of meh? I mean they are very pretty games (especially 3) but I think the charm was long gone after Warhead.

Well done, as always, thanks LGR!