Crysis is a game that's notoriously difficult to run at max settings, it's become a meme, but apparently you weren't even planning on doing that at launch.
“Can it run Crysis?” This is probably a meme you'd see everywhere in the gaming space from about a decade ago, so prolific in fact that the only thing I know about the game is that it's inherently Hard to run, I don't even know what the story is. But with the progress that has been made since its release 20 years ago in 2007, this is no longer a really valid joke, as the fact is that most computers can now run Crysis. But it turns out that this approach works because the developers behind it want it to be future-proof so that it will always stand the test of time once the hardware gets better.
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As part of a larger review of the game, Crysis director and Crytek founder Cevat Yerli spoke to PC Gamer about the meme and the game's legacy, saying he wanted to “make sure Crysis doesn't age well, [it] is future-proofed, which means if I play it three years from now, it should look better than it does today. “The game's highest graphics settings were designed with hardware you might have had in 2010 and beyond, and while of course people were still trying to boot them back in 2007, a lot of people were trying to max out Crysis right away.” I thought, 'Oh, that's not why we built Ultra mode or Very High mode'. ”
Fortunately, despite the joke's once-popularity, Yearley never took it to heart in any particular way, saying: “There are good and bad aspects of this ambivalent meme, but I actually like it. Last year, Jason [Huang] Nvidia announced a new GPU and they said, 'Yes, it can run Crysis. '” Maybe if you played the game on medium settings in 2007, you could finally know if your device could run Crysis (I can actually imagine it could).
