Crysis Remastered arrives on Friday, 18th Sept 2020

[nobodyspecial]

Nobody played it to begin with, are we just making a new benchmark? To me, if it isn't selling a million units there is no point in testing it. The importance of the game is based on how much it is played, not looks. Test what we PLAY and what SELLS. That doesn't mean a test can't look great too, just that you should base game tests on SALES.

Passed on Crysis the first time, won't play the 2nd (any version, and I play shooters, just not crysis). To me it was just a benchmark that was boring to play and there were far better single player experiences. Multiplayer for me has been over for a long time unless it's local. Crysis had terrible sales when released, and any recovery later came from steam sales for .99 probably. It sold 86K units vs. Call of duty 4 game at 1.57m in the same time frame. I would benchmark COD4, not Crysis Crysis 3 sales were so bad they don't even register. Support for all 3 was dropped in months, so no love for their company. Total sales of all Crysis games on all platforms 7.5m. Warhead sold 1/2 as many units on PC as the first one, yet they benchmarked the heck out of it. Nobody played it. No point in benchmarking this game. Remaster POPULAR games, played by millions, or at least the best niche games. Benchmarking games nobody likes proves what? Your gpu is good at games you hate?

[ik9000]

played it, loved it. You don't speak for everyone mate. Has there been a better single player since? I think of Crysis and Warhead as the last single player tbh. Everything since then has been predominantly MP focussed and if it has SP it tends to be a tag-on for training rather than the raison d'aitre.

[Kovoet]

Played it and enjoyed. Not my favourite but would play it again.

[DanceswithUnix]

I didn't get to play Crysis when it first came out as I was busy being a parent with young kids.

I finally got around to playing the original game this weekend as I bought it on a Steam sale a short while ago. Forget remastered, they should just release an update for the original game so it runs on modern systems.

Or perhaps Microsoft should actually make an OS capable of running old software, something they claim but it seems they seldom actually live up to.

Took ages of Googling and trying things before I could get the game to run, using two fixes from two forums. Thankfully Warhead was bundled so I could get the 64 bit launcher (perhaps that wasn't a coincidence) and then I just had to find the magic lines to type into the game's console window when I got to a black screen. Various compatibility modes and running as admin hints didn't help.

Or perhaps I was just the last person on the planet who doesn't know how to run it