We're going to have to put up with Crysis for years and years to come if Nvidia's spending budget is anything to go by. The original has been used as a benchmark for testing fancy graphics cards and towers - it looks like the sequel, out soon, will be more of the same.
Nvidia is spending a full $2 million bucks on the marketing machine and including a built in benchmark before the upcoming Crysis 2 launch. It'll have full control over it which means it'll enjoy the brand recognition of being associated with a beautiful looking but essentially bargain bin game.
KitGuru wonders why rival AMD didn't bung more money on the table as it reckons the association of a built in benchmark which shows of the dominance of DX11 is something worth having. But the clear winner, says KitGuru, is EA which pockets the whole $2 million bung for the licence.
What Nvidia will get for its buck is marketing rights - think spreads on banners with the Nvidia logo saying how much Crysis 2 shows off its latest lines of cards. It could be a good move or it could be a total flop - time will tell as it rolls closer to release date.
The original Crysis received rave reviews but we thought it was kind of boring. It's about a bloke in a magic suit.
"For that, it will not only want exclusive marketing rights – nVidia will also want to make sure that Crysis 2 is stressing the right parts of the graphics card."
That sounds like one sided optimalisation - essentially causing the benchmark to be unfair and therefore useless. Unless you'd like to play Crysis 2 a lot, of course, then it may be a good thing.
The original article isn't without flaw though, as it also claims that the game will have PhysX, while the devs already said they made their own physics system.
It's a joke, calm down - we didn't like the first one. Granted it looks phenomenal and still does
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Firstly, did you have trouble using the suit? Or maybe you didn't have a mouse that could middle click. Did you even play the entire gam?
Secondly, Crysis 2 will have scaling for up to 8 cores. The first game has scaling for up to 2 cores. If you open task manager you'll see this. This means the second game can have the same graphics with better performance.
And with a new version of cryenegine there's also bound to be some improvements anyway.
Nvidia spends money on devs and props to them for that. More money to the devs = better games. AMD should do the same. Maybe they do and just don't brag about it though.
My point is that this article is a joke and full of assumptions and generalisations.
Crysis is a shining example of what tech can achieve, could achieve, 3 YEARS ago. Even with better optimization and other technology, It is still the best looking game out there with the exception of racing games (they don't count here!). If you realized what Crysis meant for software technology you would not post this on a tech site, regardless of how much you liked it.
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"bargain bin game".
And with that little gem, this site can be considered a complete joke.
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Yup.
The story of the first game was fine, if you don't like it, then just fuck off :D It's more original than half of today's games stories.
Bargain bin?
I'm no Crysis fanboy, i felt the series was lacking in story and wasn't engaging at all. Nonetheless i can recognise what it achieved in terms of technology and visual effects.
Writer is ignorant and arrogant, end of.