Crysis not doing very well!!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

According to this:

Hardware geeks fail to bump Crysis sales - The INQUIRER

Perhaps sales will improve in the new year when the graphics cards start dropping in price?!

[j.o.s.h.1408]

nope sales will start to improve when there is a card out tehre that can actualy play the game decently the way its MEANT to be played

[Mblaster]

nope sales will start to improve when there is a card out tehre that can actualy play the game decently the way its MEANT to be played

Yep, I'll be buying Crysis when I upgrade in the new year, still undecided about UT3 at the moment, own and love the rest of the Unreal series, but wasn't impressed with the UT3 demo, and from what I hear not a great deal has changed

[Dorza]

UT3 isn't selling well at the moment either.

Clicky linky.

[shadowmaster]

nope sales will start to improve when there is a card out tehre that can actualy play the game decently the way its MEANT to be played

Agree, no one can really enjoy the game unless they have a reasonably powerful computer.

I can sort of understand why UT3 is not selling anymore- I found the game boring after a couple of weeks, yet I still find UT 2004 more fun after all these years . Maybe UT3 needs some more time to develop (more maps, mods, etc)

[acrobat]

UT3 isn't selling well at the moment either.

Clicky linky.

Good! (I thanked you by mistake btw, but thats ok).

I can sort of understand why UT3 is not selling anymore- I found the game boring after a couple of weeks, yet I still find UT 2004 more fun after all these years .

Yes! Lessons to be learned all over the place. I bet they wont though.. This time next year I'll probably be whinging about Crysis 2, Unreal 25, Gears of War 6 and COD piece 7.

[finlay666]

UT2004 is great, We can still play it in my uni games lab on OLD p4's with aging Quadro graphics cards, so it's doing well still (only 19" regular screens too so it's all 'balanced' as far as hardware goes lol)

UT3....it's ok but looks too dark and moody IMO

Crysis is fun on high with my new setup...but it was a killer on my X1950XT

[noTHINGface]

Surely this is an artefact of November being such a busy month for releases. In November I bought COD4, GOW, UT3, Crysis, Hellgate and Mass Effect.

[kalniel]

I don't believe it

The Witcher is a pretty hardcore title that's marketed to a much smaller demographic than FPS gamers, but it's done really well - retailers have apparently ordered over a million copies worldwide already.

[tony oh]

The new 169.21 nvidia drivers seem to have improved Crysis quite a bit ...not a huge amount but a move in the right direction

[bigbloke]

I think once graphics cards are able to play this game with decent framerates at the best settings this game will sell more.

A lot of people after playing the demo liked the game but were reluctant to shell out because of the performance on their rigs.

[directhex]

I think once graphics cards are able to play this game with decent framerates at the best settings this game will sell more.

A lot of people after playing the demo liked the game but were reluctant to shell out because of the performance on their rigs.

not soon enough, the way game industry sales work

[Jay]

Crysis brings my 8800GT OC2 / Q6600 combo to its knees. All high, no AA, 1680 x 1050, at these settings it runs quite well, any higher and I really feel it.

[kalniel]

not soon enough, the way game industry sales work

Crysis was the top PC game in the Amazon charts last time I checked, so it's still selling.

Number 2 was The Sims

[Ferral]

Way I see it is that granted Crysis looks gorgeous even on medium settings in 800x600 res. Thing is though the game itself I found really poor, when I finished it thought thats it, nothing to draw me back in and play again. Hardly kept my interest at all. Zero G and the frozen areas were quite good must admit but nothing overly ground breaking in the terms of play etc.

In terms of gameplay, visuals and the story itself Bioshock I found to be a far superior title on all levels.

[noTHINGface]

Zero G and the frozen areas were quite good must admit but nothing overly ground breaking in the terms of play etc.

That's interesting to me as I found these levels to be the worst - at this point the game takes on a more on-rails shooter. I've replayed the game a couple of times now, I still enjoy the sandbox aspect of engaging the KPA, trying new paths to the objectives, engaging the bad guys in new ways etc but as soon as the zero G bit shows I quit.

I agree that without the visuals there isn't anything really that new here though - but the visuals sure are pretty