CryEngine 3 released; box of tissues not included

Those are from before even Crysis 1 came out.

Who cares? xD

Unreal had its time and it was good. ready for the next-gen though

agreed

Five hundred and ninety nine dollars.

Seriously, though, you're probably going to need a new card. I've seen 1GB ATi and nVidia cards run Crysis at 60FPS, so you shouldn't have to buy the top-of-the-line card to get a good experience with CryEngine 3.

Then you'll need a PC for that, CryEngine 2 has a Sandbox editor with Crysis.

What do you mean? Do people read all the comments?

Or are you asking if people read too much into comments?

1) I swear to god you've copied and pasted this exact reply, nearly word-for-word, in another posted response, elsewhere on joystiq...

2) So, bluray allows for bigger, badder, longer CUTSCENES: it's already been established (by comments by developers, including Carmack, and evidenced by simple visual comparisons of textures from THE BEST QUALITY PS3 exclusives to even the most average console-to-PC ports) that the PS3's graphics memory allocation doesn't allow enough headroom to actually use those oft-vaunted GIGS of additional bluray storage space to stream HIGHER QUALITY TEXTURES into the games...

Uncharted 2? Smoke and mirrors, kid... smoke and mirrors.. oh.. and hype...

Mr. Esc riffing on Seinfeld. I think I like it.

Fantastic post! These consoles are really holding the PC back, but sadly, is where the money is. They cater to the peasants who are greater in number than us PC elite.
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The only thing holding the PC back is piracy. Oh, and development costs that are nearly impossible to recoup unless the game is a mega-smash-hit 10 million seller in the first 30 days. Oh..and stale game development, which rehashes genre after genre worse than EA rehashes Madden games.

PC gaming is dead and you can thank all your WoW brethren for it. Downvote now, but you know in your heart it's true and that's what compels you to click the thumbs down.

We have to give more drastic messages to those PC pirates, tell them things like its your fault that the PC isn't getting Gears of War 2 for instance, etc.

Fuck WoW, fuck these casual games damn it!

@RKN - thanks, and agreed... you're right, sadly, the money is where the audience is, and right now, the audiences is a collection of gits...like this useedems person heh heh heh

@useedems - "Oh, and development costs that are nearly impossible to recoup unless the game is a mega-smash-hit 10 million seller in the first 30 days."

Are you kidding?!? DEVELOPMENT COSTS are what's killing the PC industry?? CD Projekt, Valve and Stardok have all released quality "hardcore" gaming titles on PC in the past year and have had no trouble recouping their losses. Hell, even after an initial poor showing, and much whining and moaning by Crytek, Crysis eventually sold over 1M copies on PC alone and more than made its bank--in fact, the only REAL issue with Crysis's sales was Crytek's utter HUBRIS...but that's a whole 'nother discussion...

Do you realize how much money goes into developing a console game--I mean, apart from nickel and diming like, "MS tax," bluray royalties, SDK support and quality assurance submission?? Do you realize how many 3rd party companies have had to EXTEND development time/spend MORE money in an effort to wrangle the ("intentionally difficult" *Kazuo Hirai) PS3 architecture?? The REASON most games are now MULTIPLATFORM is so the developers can have a better chance of recouping losses/make a profit...

Let's talk numbers, shall we? GTAIV took $100 million to make.. that means the BREAK EVEN point for the game (at $50 a pop) is 2 million sales...right? Well guess what? even as the top selling PS3 game of '08, GTAIV only sold 1.89 million copies on that console--a number which, while wildly astronomical in general terms, means that, if the developer's revenue was based on PS3 sales alone, the developers would have LOST MONEY in '08...Now, I realize a budget like $100M isn't typical for a game, but the point is: ALL high-profile, high-budget games, by their nature, require MASSIVE sales to recoup losses--regardless of platform!

Moreover, (and i'm really sick of having to make this point over and over again, you kids really need to listen [er..or.. uh.. read]) apart from Konami's MGS4, PS3's top exclusives are comin' out of DEV houses that are OWNED by (Naughty Dog, Guerilla, etc) or are given massive subsistence by (Quantic Dream, et. al.) SONY... [MS is guilty of the same shyte, the straight BOUGHT Bungie in the middle of their production of a PC title and turned it into an Xbox project] So, in the console market, unless you're on the Console maker's payroll, or are already a massive development house, you can pretty much forget relying on any single console platform to pay the bills on a game with a good-sized budget...

>> "Oh..and stale game development, which rehashes genre after genre worse than EA rehashes Madden games."

RIiiigghhht... because ALL innovative game development begins on consoles--they've totally got the rehash problem all worked out over there, even as you use MADDEN (of all games!) -- a game that hasn't had a PC release in 2 years! --as the, poorly chosen, subject of your comparative illustration... Cherry, mate...

That said...to be fair, useedems, I don't wholly disagree with you... there ARE problems with PC development: for instance, tech is moving far too fast for developers to keep up-- Although, honestly, that's a "nature of the beast issue," it's ALWAYS been that way... in the old days, companies like Origin and id used to actually EMBRACE such rapid technological shifts... now it seems devs, in general, are fighting just to "stay alive" [or in some cases, remain very comfortable], which, unfortunately, means sticking to "sure fire" sets of parameters: Consoles are SAFE, don't require a much "extra-curricular" product support and, typically, guarantee a potential install base (translation: easy money)...

And, you're right obsessive MMO-ers --and Pirates-- are causing far more than their fair share of headaches for the industry. However, at the end of the day, PC gaming is far from dead (it isn't even dying)--and as long as solid developers continue to push the platform, PC will remain THE ultimate gaming platform...

@ "Colly the Sleepwalker" - The fact that you find, so soporific, a point not the least somniferous is likely due to the fact that you've already slept through requisite courses...Try to stay awake there, my little somnambulist, lest in your slumber, you miss all the important details...