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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 12:10AM (Unverified) said

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12GB? That's just too much.

lol, I should get a computer from the future.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:01AM SneezyPorcupine said

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12GBs isnt that bad considering Orange Box took 15GBs with everything installed. Then again, the Orange Box was 5 games...

And just out of curiosity, these are MINIMUM system requirements rite? Not the recommended?

Also, what is the Skynet plugin supposed to be? I Googled it and got nothing :S
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:05AM SneezyPorcupine said

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Hmm 12GBs isn't that bad considering the Orange Box took up 15GBs... but then again the Orange Box was 5 games.

Also, are these supposed to be the MINIMUM requirements or the Recommended?

And lastly, what is the Skynet Plugin? I googled it and got nothing... =S
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:19AM (Unverified) said

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@SneezyPorcupine: Please tell me you've seen the Terminator series. If not then where the hell have you been all these years? Under a rock?

You should assume that these are the minimum requirements since sites like Wiki say "so and so requirement or faster/higher"
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 8:00AM Obienator said

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My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer. The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn...to pwn them online. ;)
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 12:21AM (Unverified) said

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Joystiq, you make WAY too much fuss over these requirements. That right there is a weaksauce $500 computer. I love you Joystiq but that's really nothing to complain about.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:16AM Vegeta has a ps3 said

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yes because $500 is so not expensive.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 5:11AM bm111 said

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You're forgetting that the game isn't actually playable on those specs.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 11:26AM Slaziman said

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If you want a slideshow at low settings, this should suffice. Or you could get an Xbox 360 for $150 cheaper and buy CoD4, which I assure you will look better than Crysis at that point. And you know, have better gameplay.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 3:54PM (Unverified) said

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COD 4 does not have better gameplay than Crysis. You, tool, have never played Crysis.

And Crysis on medium settings, as a $500 computer could run, would look better than Halo 3. In HD.

There, I said it.
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Posted: Nov 17th 2007 7:09AM bm111 said

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Then again, a lot of things look better than Halo 3. Like, any games with actual art direction.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 12:25AM CubeGuy said

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If it weren't for Vista, my PC could actually run that.

Oh well. I wasn't planning on picking it up in the first place.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 3:54PM (Unverified) said

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Er, you don't need Vista. It actually runs better in DX 9 right now.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 11:52PM CubeGuy said

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I was referring to my having upgraded.

If I was running XP, my system would meet the minimum requirements.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 12:31AM EchoAlpha said

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The recommended video RAM is 640 MB!
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 12:43AM hvnlysoldr said

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Sarah Conoor is so in the past. It's John's wife's future kids that are the threat.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:09AM QuePasa87 said

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"My CPU is a neural-net processor, a learning computer."

I wonder if Arnie's CPU would be up to the job...
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:11AM (Unverified) said

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This is a lot more subtle than how it was a few months ago. A few months ago, it was more blatant and funnier. And you didn't need to know about the Terminator movies to get the joke.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:17AM Vegeta has a ps3 said

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...

Oh I just got it. lol
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:11AM QuePasa87 said

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"My CPU is a neural-net processor, a learning computer."

I wonder if Arnie's CPU would be up to the job...
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:38AM (Unverified) said

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I guess this explains why my dog has been barking at my PC all day..
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 6:37AM (Unverified) said

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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 2:19AM (Unverified) said

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My god Crysis is a beast, installed the demo and it defaulted to lowest settings for everything, and I have a core 2 duo 1.86 with a 4 gig ram, and a geforce 7600 gs 256. By no means a beast of a machine, but not terrible. I turned up the settings just out of curiosity and it pretty much wouldnt move.
I suppose this is where someone comes in and calls me a moron or something along those lines, that I don't know anything about pc's, yada yada. But with all things considered, do any of you think this is at all reasonable just to run these bells and whistles? I love pc gaming, but sheesh, give me a break.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 4:06AM (Unverified) said

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Nope its not reasonable and it irks me when companies do this. Average Joe PC user is going to buy this game when he sees it at Wal-Mart and not enjoy it much playing at 2.3 fps. Much like the original Unreal back in 98.

Ironically enough, Epic has now turned into the good guys, making UT3 run silky smooth even on older hardware (and UE3 looks pretty damn good, even next to Crysis).
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 10:49AM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, my friend has a water cooled, dual core, 8800 GTX packing beast and with all the settings up it ran like a slide show!
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 11:39AM Slaziman said

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Watercooling doesn't increase performance unless you overclock
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 1:42PM (Unverified) said

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Well I know THAT, I was just being descriptive. Oh, and it's overclocked.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 3:55PM (Unverified) said

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Your drivers are probably out of date, and so on and so forth. My friend runs it fine on a 7300.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 3:04AM (Unverified) said

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Downloading the latest forceware drivers didnt work either, still lagging at around 11 fps on at 1024 x 768 with no aa and settings on low
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 7:43PM (Unverified) said

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Are you running on Vista? There's absolutely no way your card should be doing that poor on low. Maybe the core2 is holding you back-- that's a fairly slow clock speed.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 3:58AM (Unverified) said

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I don't know what the big deal is about these requirements. My desktop coincidentally meets the exact minimum requirements for CPU speed, video card, and memory, and it's almost 4 years old already.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 4:08AM (Unverified) said

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Well, part of the big deal is that those requirements, like for most PC games (and virtually all published by EA) are unrealistic. I was reading some benchmarks of the new 8800GT the other day, and a pretty nice pimped out system with an 8600GTS was running the game at 8fps.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 4:34AM (Unverified) said

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exactly thats the problem, they only meet the minimum requirements, which isnt enough for a game like this where its all about the graphics
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 8:45AM DonaldMick said

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When did FutureShop develop a sense of humour?

*screencaps for later*
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 2:25PM ParasiteEvil said

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You know the guy at the top left that answers any questions you have? Ask him "Are you gay?" You have have to get the casing correct but when you do, the answer is hilarious.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 9:12AM (Unverified) said

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Are you kidding me? Does this game suck so bad in story and gameplay that it gets nothing but 'specs' thrown around?

I don't know a single thing about this game and I'm fairly up to date with most PS3/360/PC titles. The only thing I've _ever_ heard mentioned about Crysis is, "You'll be lucky if your computer runs this."

Seriously, how about some information about the game for once like you guys do/did with Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed and Halo 3. You guys covered those games insanely.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 3:58PM (Unverified) said

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I beat it yesterday, after about 15 hours. Single best singleplayer experience I've ever had by a longshot. It didn't have the artsy, intellectual depth of Bioshock, but it was action-movie styled in way that reminded me of Call of Duty and Halo, with slightly more serious, adult character.

I honestly stopped caring about the graphics almost right away, the gameplay itself is fun as hell. It really is something sent back in time from the next-next generation, in both visuals and gameplay.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 3:59PM (Unverified) said

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And just to add on to what you said: I seriously don't think a single PC gamer is on the staff of this site. There is such a serious bias against anything PC related that I've started reading other blogs, which is disheartening, as I used to love Joystiq.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 9:28AM Berzerk said

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I find it entertaining that people are complaining about how Joystiq is mocking Crysis here.

In the acronyms of SlashDot RTFA!

Those requirements are a screencap from the FutureShop website.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 7:12PM (Unverified) said

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That is pretty funny, what another good laugh check out Best Buy requirements list.

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10074190&catid=21138

256MB RAM, 933Mhz Processor, 64MB Video Card and No Vista.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2007 7:46PM (Unverified) said

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Im at a loss for the people who think this post is complaining about requirements and completely unaware of the terminator references. Mybe if it said the matrix they would get it.
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