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My memory of Far Cry was much earlier and less kind - there was a few people around the net at the time working for CryTek on several titles (I worked on Silent Space https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/02/10/crytek-to-bring-sile... ) The brothers went to E3 with a demo they were showing us all, but only some of us has the tech to fully run it (I had a GeForce256 I got for free from NVidia because of work I had done wi…
I remember being a kid and wanting to play Far Cry in high quality when it came out. I did not have the money to buy the best graphics card to play it smoothly on high settings. So, I could either play it in low quality with something like 60 FPS or in high quality with something like 15 FPS. Of course, 15 FPS is not enough to play the game properly, but to capture all the beautiful details, I just went with the high…
Same. And 20 years later I'm an aging man but do the exact same thing in Cyberpunk 2077. Despite spending a small fortune on a graphics card, it's still either smooth framerate or the gorgeous path traced environments, because I haven't splurged on the 3090/4080 yet. Nothing has changed.
I remember being a kid and wanting to play Far Cry in high quality when it came out. I did not have the money to buy the best graphics card to play it smoothly on high settings. So, I could either play it in low quality with something like 60 FPS or in high quality with something like 15 FPS. Of course, 15 FPS is not enough to play the game properly, but to capture all the beautiful details, I just went with the high…
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Same. And 20 years later I'm an aging man but do the exact same thing in Cyberpunk 2077. Despite spending a small fortune on a graphics card, it's still either smooth framerate or the gorgeous path traced environments, because I haven't splurged on the 3090/4080 yet. Nothing has changed.
Out of genuine curiosity, what GPU are you running? Friends have recommended Cyberpunk 2077, but I'm only running a 3080. Wondering how many compromises I'll need to make.
Can highly recommend the game.
My memory of Far Cry was much earlier and less kind - there was a few people around the net at the time working for CryTek on several titles (I worked on Silent Space https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/02/10/crytek-to-bring-sile... ) The brothers went to E3 with a demo they were showing us all, but only some of us has the tech to fully run it (I had a GeForce256 I got for free from NVidia because of work I had done wi…
Hey you should turn this tale into a thriller - would definitely read it
I wish CryEngine was more of a thing. I think we need more engines from companies that actually make games with them
Tying the games to the engine allowed them to move fast but at the expense of a truly general purpose engine.
At the time I installed Windows on a free partition on my desktop PC for the sole purpose of playing FarCry. It was great fun. The graphics blew me away. I watched the movie a few years later, it was ... not as good as the game. But movie adaptations of video games almost never are, Postal being a notable exception.
Fun fact, both films were made by one of the worst directors of all time: Uwe Boll
He was a fairly competent producer, if he had gotten a better director on board, things might have worked out differently.
Postal, though, is brilliant, IMHO, because the movie captures the gross, absurd humor of the game perfectly. It's campy, which is what makes it work.