Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
> > Crysis really got a bad rap when it came out[1], but it's quite playable
> > on your machine.
> >
> > The catch, of course, is that you can't turn all the settings up to
> > their highest.  It won't look as nice as the marketing screencaps, but
> > it'll still be pretty sweet.
> >
> > [1]They "futureproofed" it by making the highest settings absolutely
> > insane.
>
> ...so it's like the original Halflife? (I.e., when it came out, there
> was hardly a machine in the land that could run it at all detail, but
> today it's a trivial matter for any half-decent GPU.)

Yes, except Halflife was one of the best games ever and Crysis just a bland tech
demo.

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