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[SF Kosmo]

Catching UE5 is gonna be a tall order. This game is likely years away and we'll have a number of UE5 games out by then.

I have no doubt they will do their best to push the envelope, but their timing isn't as opportune as it was when Crysis came out either. UE5 will be established, plus it's a bad time for high end PC gaming, and PC games don't have the same kind of clear advantage over next gen consoles as they did when Crysis 1 came out, due in no small part to the fact fact that high end graphics cards cost as much as a used car.

 

[Abriael_GN]

For all those thinking they've lost all talent go take a look at what they were able to achieve on the turd of hardware known as Xbox One with Ryse Son of Rome. It's staggering what they were able to achieve and that was a launch game.

You do understand that you're talking about a game released 8 years ago to argue that they still have talent today?

 

[Vindicator]

Many of the important people left anyway, to Id Software for example.

 

[Aure]

Absolutely not, Critek is not what it used to be.
Just look at those awful Crysis remasters, that should tell you something.

 

[The Janitor]

I have about as much faith in current Crytek as I have in current DICE.

 

[V4skunk]

Crysis 3 was the best looking game in the ps3 generation alongside Crysis 2007, Crysis 2 and warhead really pushed tech and graphics to a whole new level hope crysis 4 is Next-Gen Only so do you think Crytek can do it again or they lost many talented devs worked on previous games ?

digital foundry - 2013
Where Crysis 3 really shines is on the PC, in which we are presented with a huge leap in graphical quality that gives us a tantalising glimpse of visual accomplishment on next-gen hardware "

The fact that Crysis 3 runs on console at all is a remarkable achievement, with Crytek deploying a wide range of advanced rendering techniques"

Crysis 3 on PC effectively offers a "next-gen now" experience - a preview of the level of technical prowess we should expect in the years to come from the new wave of consoles".

Crysis first released on PC. In 2007, it pushed real time rendering to new heights and spawned the memetic phrase, "but can it run Crysis?". Never had a game released that pushed hardware and engine technology so much, and never has one since."

If it isn't built for pc! Nope.

 

[nani17]

I don't think so.

 

[Black_Stride]

I wouldnt sell CryEngine short just yet.
It can create absolutely stunning visuals.

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I just dont know if it comes out before any other benchmark titles so it never gets a chance to shine because we have already been spoiled by stunning titles.

 

[sncvsrtoip]

Far cry (created by crytek) and crysis 1 were graphics killers, c2 and c3 were for me disappointments, ryse was also top tier looking on premiere, studio is now shadow of their prime time

 

[TxKnight7]

Watch it be cross-gen AND on the SWITCH.

Some say crysis 2 did not look all that wow!
i disagree in that time on PC it was

 

[RJMacready73]

Would these guys even have the very best technical guys still working for them? After the sheet amount of shit that's went on with this company I'd imagine all the top talent has long since left or ar least a good chunk of it, happy to be proven wrong

 

[hlm666]

Didn't a couple of their talented lead programmers head over to id software and then drop out doom 2016? Judging by the technical state of the remasters I'm not sure they filled those shoes.

Edit: memory wasn't 100% looks to be only one, but it was an important one.

Crytek's Lead Graphics Engineer Leaves Company to Work on Doom

Lead CryEngine programmer will now work on the next Doom engine, idTech 6.

www.gamespot.com

 

[Airbus Jr]

Would these guys even have the very best technical guys still working for them? After the sheet amount of shit that's went on with this company I'd imagine all the top talent has long since left or ar least a good chunk of it, happy to be proven wrong

Last crysis game was like 9 years ago right

That was along time ago

Alot has change since then

People come and go all the time at any game company

Or in fact in any kind of company

 

[Sosokrates]

Depends if its crossgen or current gen.

 

[ahtlas7]

I’m sure they’ll include some kind of “insane” mode. Watch your FPS plummet as the game attempts to draw the entire map at once.

 

[TxKnight7]

If it comes out on last gen... probably not.

I don't care if it's the case. I enjoyed the story and the gunfight over the graphics.

Combat is really fun in Crysis 3 hope we can still play with the bow in Crysis 4 the explosive arrows with infinite ammo on pc is just so much fun!

 

[elliot5]

Depends if its crossgen or current gen.

it's likely super early in development so itll be current gen only for sure.

putting crysis 4 on a base xbox one would be a joke in 202X

 

[MadAnon]

I don't think Crysis 2/3 looked all that WOW! Even gameplay wise they didn't have that first Crysis feel. Only first Crysis has ever managed to make my jaw drop and think how far ahead of everything else it looked, felt. I will always have a soft spot for the first Crysis even though many think it's a meh shooter. And I don't agree with it. For me it felt like being in a midst of a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster. It felt like you were really on a frontline of an unfolding alien invasion. Things felt grand and epic. Not a single other game has given me even close to that feeling. Crysis 2 and 3 felt like massive stepback in scale. Didn't really like that narrow, linear, guerrilla style of gameplay.

 

[mortal]

I have my doubts. They have yet to surpass Crysis / Crysis Warhead. The 2nd & 3rd entries were a setback in regards to sandbox design and physics, they overshot the linear aspects imo.

For Crysis to become the darling once again, this forthcoming entry would have to set the bar for sandbox gameplay.
The visuals will be fantastic, I've no doubt, although they'll have to pull off more to garner that sort of praise imo. The landscape has since become more competitive.

 

[Reallink]

I don't think Crysis 2/3 looked all that WOW! Even gameplay wise they didn't have that first Crysis feel. Only first Crysis has ever managed to make my jaw drop and think how far ahead of everything else it looked, felt. I will always have a soft spot for the first Crysis even though many think it's a meh shooter. For me it felt like being in a midst of a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster. Not a single other game has given me even close to that feeling.

Replicating Crysis 1 would mean creating a game that literally wouldn't even run on the just released RTX3050. I had an 8500GT at the time and IIRC it ran Crysis at around 10FPS on High 720p (not even Very High). Dropping everything to Potato mode and lowering resolution barely passed 30FPS. Nothing even approaching Crysis 1 will ever happen again.

 

[Bradamante3D]

No it won't. In order to do that Crysis 4 had to look as good as the Unreal Engine 5 "The Matrix" experience and they simply don't have the budget for all those photogrammetry assets.

 

[TxKnight7]

Would these guys even have the very best technical guys still working for them? After the sheet amount of shit that's went on with this company I'd imagine all the top talent has long since left or ar least a good chunk of it, happy to be proven wrong

Many left crytek after Ryse some of them working on squadron 42 now i think.

 

[Drew1440]

Crysis was well optimized for the time. At the time most people were switching from 1 CPU core to 2 cores.
And the thought at the time was that IPC and clock speeds would rise considerably.

They must have bought into the Pentium 4 Netburst hype with 10Ghz CPU speeds.
Though I wonder how well it runs on today's top end hardware given the IPC improvements.

 

[TxKnight7]

I have my doubts. They have yet to surpass Crysis / Crysis Warhead. The 2nd & 3rd entries were a setback in regards to sandbox design and physics, they overshot the linear aspects imo.

For Crysis to become the darling once again, this forthcoming entry would have to set the bar for sandbox gameplay.
The visuals will be fantastic, I've no doubt, although they'll have to pull off more to garner that sort of praise imo. The landscape has since become more competitive.

They should have kept it pc exclusive

 

[Negotiator101]

No, it wont. Crytek are not what they used to be. This is just marketing PR in hopes of salvaging whatever garbage is left of their team. You wont see any new Crysis game until at least 5-7 years from now.

So before Star Citizen.

 

[Agent Ironside]

What's the point of a new Crysis game if it doesn't? That's the M.O. It doesn't have to be miles above the rest.. but it -should- be the best looking fps when it's released.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Crytek is washed up, sady

 

[Beechos]

Hey why not its not like theres anything mindblowing coming out anytime soon besides maybe hellblade 2 but thats still awhiles away. Everyone seems to think UE5 is the only engine capable of making those type of graphics. There will be plenty of engines capable of UE5 lvl of graphics. They just happen to be the 1st one to show theirs off.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Only the first Crisis game was impressive. I don't think anyone was particularly impressed with 2 or 3.
As for their engine: it lost to Unreal (but so did everyone to be fair).

 

[LordOfChaos]

If you never played other games since Crysis 1, sure.


Crytek devs admit the reason for 'Can run Crysis?' meme was the bad cpu use/multicore from Cryengine 2.

Even if they use the last Cryengine version, the engine inself stopped in time.

They bet on faster single cores as the world was moving to parallel multicores instead and single thread gains became slower to come by.

But that said, Crysis 1 just WAS impressive in 2007. The sequels became less impressive for the time they came out, but in 2007 a single iced over tree might have had more shaders on it than whole scenes in most other games, it did use multicore like shit but the graphics were absolutely impressive for the year too.


As far as OPs question yeah I'd have to mirror everyone else though, it's going to be far harder for company that seems to be stringing along to beat UE5 by the time this is out, they're not in their prime, but I hope this game can help them return to form.

 

[TxKnight7]

No it won't. In order to do that Crysis 4 had to look as good as the Unreal Engine 5 "The Matrix" experience and they simply don't have the budget for all those photogrammetry assets.

But the matrix is not a full game just a tech demo don't think we will see a full game like this anytime soon

many devs can make a short tech demo that could even surpass it.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Crysis 3 on PC is still one of the best looking games.

 

[TxKnight7]

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[TxKnight7]

interesting

 

[Umbasaborne]

I dont know..can modern crytek afford a budget like that now?

 

[StateofMajora]

Hope so.

Also, I would like for it to be either a crysis 2 esque design, or crysis warhead.

 

[MikeM]

Will it be properly multithreaded?

 

[DukeNukem00]

I dont know..can modern crytek afford a budget like that now?

Nope. Crysis 3 was an extremely expensive game, nearly 70 million dollars. EA as publisher. 1st party games could only dream about budgets like that in 2011. I'm sure it will be an extremely pretty game, but its not gonna have the polish and shine the previous Crysis games had.

 

[StateofMajora]

Will it be properly multithreaded?

We will get that on cryengine 17.

 

[TxKnight7]

Absolutely not, Critek is not what it used to be.
Just look at those awful Crysis remasters, that should tell you something.

Crysis 2 remaster is really good the other 2 not so much

 

[ClosBSAS]

I'm sorry are those img supposed to be mindblowing or something?!

Lol on max graphics crysis 3 looks better than the last of us 2...both linear games with jungly levels of whackness

 

[ClosBSAS]

Also let's not forget hunt showdown, that shit on PC with 3d audio is amazing. All the details.

They are a ver capable studio, they just did it wrong after warhead. Going after the cod cloud cost them

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Crysis and Crysis 3 are games that you build a new rig for.
I can't imagine how Crysis 4 will look or what it will require with today's tech.

 

[Chris_Rivera]

We will get that on cryengine 17.

Believe it or not, but they finally…after a year, added multicore to the remaster. https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crysis-remastered-now-runs-81-faster-than-its-launch-version/

I don’t know if this was crytec or the Sabre team. I don’t think anyone has high hopes for Crysis 4, but you know it will push things graphically.

 

[StateofMajora]

Believe it or not, but they finally…after a year, added multicore to the remaster. https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crysis-remastered-now-runs-81-faster-than-its-launch-version/

I don’t know if this was crytec or the Sabre team. I don’t think anyone has high hopes for Crysis 4, but you know it will push things graphically.

Too bad the remasters suck... Ruined the art in all of them. I have all 4 original games though.

 

[xRosaX]

A part of me would love to see Crysis return to set new visual benchmarks, however the studio Crytek isnt quite what it used to be back in its prime. The studio has shutdown so many divisions and lost key members...it makes me cautious. Loved to be surprised but cautious.

 

[WitchHunter]

Crysis 3 was the best looking game in the ps3 generation alongside Crysis 2007, Crysis 2 and warhead really pushed tech and graphics to a whole new level hope crysis 4 is Next-Gen Only so do you think Crytek can do it again or they lost many talented devs worked on previous games ?

digital foundry - 2013
Where Crysis 3 really shines is on the PC, in which we are presented with a huge leap in graphical quality that gives us a tantalising glimpse of visual accomplishment on next-gen hardware "

The fact that Crysis 3 runs on console at all is a remarkable achievement, with Crytek deploying a wide range of advanced rendering techniques"

Crysis 3 on PC effectively offers a "next-gen now" experience - a preview of the level of technical prowess we should expect in the years to come from the new wave of consoles".

Crysis first released on PC. In 2007, it pushed real time rendering to new heights and spawned the memetic phrase, "but can it run Crysis?". Never had a game released that pushed hardware and engine technology so much, and never has one since."

Please, create a mother fucking picture viewer for the forum.

 

[Chris_Rivera]

Too bad the remasters suck... Ruined the art in all of them. I have all 4 original games though.

What was done to the art in the remasters?

 

[StateofMajora]

What was done to the art in the remasters?

Lighting looks wrong, volumetrics are broken. Generally the newer colors don't fit in, and I miss things like the lens flares on every particle on crysis 2 for example. Crysis 3 is barely a technical improvement at all, so the art changes are head scratching in that one as well.

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

Crysis 3 is overrated. It's a great looking PS3 era game, nothing more. Ryse destroyed Crysis 3.

Crysis 4 could be great looking but Crytek isnt what it used to be. The fact that their announcement trailer had no footage gives me no hope. If they had the best graphics of all time they wouldve shown them instead of hiding behind a logo.

Why hasn't MS patched Ryse for 4k on Series X? Anyone else think its bullshit that games like that and Sunset Overdrivery have never been patched?

We're still sooo far behind the PC with BC ..