Requested a refund from Microsoft for Crysis 2 on Series X. Broken HDR. Settings screen got borked with SDR settings. Big old mess. Needs about 10 updates.
That is literally the only real culprit noted by John, that the HDR is scruffy at best.
And yet that was enough for you to request a refund and write
''Big old mess, Needs about 10 updates.''
Its almost as if the DF video, where hours upon hours of footage were recorded, was recorded in a different universe. The game is quite solid on all platforms, and the scruffy HDR is the one thing they pointed out as actually silly that it still exists.
I mean, all right to you, but the hyperbole here is just unreal. And that's no pun.*
*And i actually played the X360 version of the game. I thoroughly enjoyed the game, despite all the faults that are listed in the video - I was especially pleased to see them include the bridge section which indeed runs at a rather cinematic framerate. Crysis 2 on PS360 was just not optimized, and its kind of ironic that Crysis 3 pushed the boundary even more, yet ran better overall.
These new releases are a far cry (heh) from that and if you ever played the PS360 versions, its so much better. Its literally an impulse buy because of it.
No no, it's BC+ gen 9 aware, whatever the fuck that means.
It means its not a native app, but it runs in GCN+ mode: Meaning the PS5 XSX/S GPU's are treated as if they were GCN GPU's with substantially more cores than what is in the base PS4/Xbox One + Generational refinements.
Its better than just a straight port that does not take advantage of the hardware (There are games that literally just dedicate a GPU block that matches the config of the baseline machine, so for PS4 = 1152 cores), but its also not compiled with the PS5/XSX/S SDK.
I reckon part of this has to do with the fact that these remasters aren't on the latest Cryengine build, but use older builds that are then refactored for the new consoles.
Because that's basically the only way a remaster like this can happen. Completely new build/renderer means a total rework.
Even then the results are quite substantial.