It really bothers me that basically everybody forgot Crysis, hell, even the fandom is inactive for 1.5 years already

Crysis 4 is coming and everybody’s talking about how it’s going to destroy GPUs, but only real fans talk about how it’ll turn out to be gameplay and story-wise

If you haven’t played all the Crysises yet, I highly suggest you pirate it on fitgirl repack buy them and kick your PC’s ass experience something genuinely different and fun

Crysis could’ve been a popular FPS, if the first game :

1. Wasn’t hard to run, it is possible that Crysis could’ve been a very well optimized game because Far Cry 2 exist ( uses the same engine with a few modifications, nowadays you can run it on intel hd )

2. Had a better marketing other than ” ooooohhh shiny graphics ! ”

3. Wasn’t so fucking hard itself, seriously are you a super soldier or some weakling who can’t take more than 5 hits from a low-quality assault rifle made in north korea if he doesn’t have armor mode on

4. Wasn’t in the wrong time, where everyone got enough of 4:3 and switched to 16:10 ( which is VERY intensive ), where graphics card don’t even have a gigabyte of VRAM yet and where CPU manufacturers started leaning more towards multi-core CPUs rather than high clock speeds

I bet it would sell like crazy if it was well optimized, has better marketing, was actually a balanced game and was released in the right time.

Then Crysis 2 happened, long story short, Crytek messed up thinking that following the COD formula will attract people instead of doing more of the same amazing stuff and fixing what was wrong with the first game in the first place, and ended up both souring fans of the OG game, and not impressing newcomers who were already used, and probably got enough of COD.

Many people thought that this was the end for Crysis, they had made an unfaithful sequel and there’s no coming back from it.

But then Crysis 3 came out, nobody played it, but the few who did were in for a short MASTERPIECE of a game

Crytek practically redeemed half of themselves by fixing most of the things that was wrong with this series, but ended up creating a game that was way too short and ultimately, a wasted potential

At this rate, if Crysis 4 doesn’t get delayed, or worse, outright cancelled, they will fix everything wrong with the series and make the best FPS of all time, but that’s one very big IF, for now, I’ll just wait and see…

( And I don’t like the looks of what they’re teasing, it looks like the bad ending of the last game is the canon one, but maybe they’re just messing with us )