Why Crysis still looks better than most of todays games?

[Makabb]

a 2007 title that looks as good and sometimes better than todays games ?

 

[Parsifarka]

Because it wasn't released in consoles.

 

[an Administrator]

It does not.

 

[Makabb]

It does not.

Ok show me a game with better graphics.

 

[an Administrator]

GTA V, Uncharted.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

GTA V, Uncharted.

Not sure they do, actually. GTA V comes close, but Uncharted had small environments and was only available on console in resolutions up to 1080p... would be nice to see PC versions of those games, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Makabb]

I doubt this is better, atleast its on par with a 2007 game

 

[Kontra]

First Far Cry still looks the best

 

[sullynathan]

Who cares when the game is shit and Crytek have yet to make a good game? Metro looks better than Crysis and it is still shit.

 

[Gerrard]

Because you're blind.

And speaking of Crytek making new games, I'm surprised they didn't sell out to Microsoft again for Windows 10

 

[Baron Dupek]

First Far Cry still looks the best

is that fan made mission or something? I don't remember these things in vanilla.

 

[Kontra]

Man, thats a photoshop...:D Looks good doesnt it. But yeah there were no Apaches in FC, they looked like Blackhawks.

Anyway the problem with Crysis, besides the sucky AI was- not enough helicopters.

 

[sser]

Witcher 3 is my current 'prettiest' game. Horseback riding through a forest while a storm blows overhead is pretty ridiculous on the muh immersion scale.

Metro 2033 also looks quite pretty, but I never really played it. And the GTA games always look insane once the modders start pumping them up.

Crysis looks good, but it's a bit much to say it still looks better than most games out there. IMO, it's on par with Minecraft and Unity of Command.

 

[Raapys]

Both CPU and GPU progress stalled at around 2006-2007, after the release of the GeForce 8800GT and Intel Q6660. There's been some progress since then, but incremental rather than big jumps like those two were. Add in the facts that this was a PC-exclusive game that pushed hardware requirements for the next two years after release, that you get huge diminishing returns trying to push graphics further, and that all newer high budget graphics games are console titles, and it's not that unreasonable that it's still among the best looking games.

 

[Lyric Suite]

A lot of modern games suck not only in terms of graphical fidelity, but even in the way graphics are utilized, and i don't mean in an aesthetic sense only (though that's a problem too), but in terms of visual vividness and coherence.

A recent example for me was Battlefield 4, a game which i thought could not be faulted graphically (and boy was i wrong). I had the chance of trying this thing a bit when they had the free week about a couple months ago, and i thought the visuals looked like a clusterfuck where graphical effects were thrown in just for the sake of quantity without any concern about the results. And worse yet the game looked like shit. Everything was shiny, blurry, washed out, and fake looking, and the overload of particle effects or what not during combat made it very hard to see anything. There was only an handful of outdoors areas that looked good.

 

[Lyric Suite]

It does not.

Ok show me a game with better graphics.

Kingdom Come.

 

[sullynathan]

Disagree, Battlefield 4 looks great.
Other new games that look better than unmodded crysis, star citizen, Battlefront & Battlefield, Witcher 3.

Because it wasn't released in consoles.

Crysis released on consoles ... later

 

[DosBuster]

For one, that foliage looks very unreal, the terrain too is very flat and basic also the lighting is very unrealistic and since physically-based materials weren't a thing in 2007 everything looks very flat.

 

[Disgruntled]

Vanishing of Ethan Carter is currently on my top rank for best looking 'game'. Thanks to its heavy use of photogrammetry.

Sheer realism aside, Id give it to Alien Isolation for the art direction, attention to detail and atmosphere, that done while being probably the best optimized games ive played in the last decade.
Reasons for the stagnation have been touched on. Consoles fucked us over. Today they are catching up and the major hurdles are things in the distance and dealing with greater numbers of moving objects as well as the cpu power needed to track them.

 

[sullynathan]

First Far Cry still looks the best

This game looks nothing like this and I'm playing this shit right now.

 

[Beowulf]

Vanishing of Ethan Carter is currently on my top rank for best looking 'game'. Thanks to its heavy use of photogrammetry.

Sheer realism aside, Id give it to Alien Isolation for the art direction, attention to detail and atmosphere, that done while being probably the best optimized games ive played in the last decade.
Reasons for the stagnation have been touched on. Consoles fucked us over. Today they are catching up and the major hurdles are things in the distance and dealing with greater numbers of moving objects as well as the cpu power needed to track them.

The biggest difference is the environmental interactivity. In Crysis the foliage reacts to objects, like characters and vehicles moving through it; you can move or destroy a lot of the objects - like palm trees, fences, tables and various clutter.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Alien Isolation both have very "static" environments. Sure they look great, but it's a little disappointing that you can't interact with them - try for example shooting a shotgun in AI at a table with some small objects - nothing will move.
Now compare that to throwing a flashbang or a grenade in SWAT 4 or F.E.A.R. into a room - many things would be destroyed or moved, bottles rattled on the shelves, some fell down etc. It's true for Crysis as well.

For one, that foliage looks very unreal, the terrain too is very flat [...]

With high tessellation it looks a lot better, especially rock outcrops, this screenshot shows something opposite.

 

[Lyric Suite]

First Far Cry still looks the best

This game looks nothing like this and I'm playing this shit right now.

Why are the threes so blurry?

 

[Beowulf]

First Far Cry still looks the best

This game looks nothing like this and I'm playing this shit right now.

Why are the threes so blurry?

It's the highest DOF, you can tweak it in settings.ini

Spoiler

 

[Lyric Suite]

Right, right, and what retard thought that shit looks good?

 

[Beowulf]

Right, right, and what retard thought that shit looks good?

Either its too early for me to understand that kind of sarcasm (or I'm too simple man), or you just failed two [PER] checks.
One not noticing how it's a photoshop, and the second one not noticing when poster explains that it's a photoshop.