Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 Sales 'Tank'

[eidairaman1]

Well i have a Sapphire board to send off for RMA, and also my main rig is giving me fits upon OS install, not sure if its the mod bios or ram, but it stops during OS install, so im going to probably end up building a new machine or using my old MSI K7N2 Delta-L motherboard. The speeds i was advertising was on the Radeon AIW 9800 Pro

it should run just fine i run it on my rig and with your cpu@2.2ghz it should be even if not better than mine @2ghz

my settings if you want to try them are these (click on it to see full size )

 

[Wile E]

Don't worry no hating here.



Yeah and I respect your decision. Indeed one of the reasons I'm upgrading to a 8800gt is Crysis. The other being that my second rig, with a 6800gt, can't play the games I want as well as I want.
But as I said before, there's a big difference between wanting to play a game at the maximum IQ level posible and what Wile E said, which is to what I responded.





Not trying to attack you Wile. I think that I do catch your point, and that you didn't really think that way, at least not that radical. But since men are judged by their acts and no by their thoughts, I had to reply to your comments.

Anyway, there isn't anything wrong on waiting until you upgrade for playing Crysis or any other game (I have done that, indeed). There is in downplaying a game because you can't max it out, be it intentional or not. And sentences like "if I can't max it out I don't bother", "I'd feel ripped of" and more importantly "I don't feel I'd be getting waht I paid for" do exactly that. Since all games sell for the same, stating that you wouldn't get what you paid for, is clearly downplaying the game. I like making comparisons with cars so here we go:
Imagine that Ferrari starts selling Modena cars with 200HP, with the option to upgrade to the 500+ HP model later. Apart from the motor, all the other parts are the same. If they sell that car for the same price as most other cars (tet's say $20000), you just can't feel you are not getting what you paid for, just because you are not getting the 500HP model. You can't expect to get the great Ferrari at budget prices. At the price, you get the tyres, you get the suspension, you get everything except over the top horsepower, you get the car, you get the Ferrari.

Wile, I don't have anything against your decisions or your thoughts either. But I do have my reservations about what you said, in the way you said. I hope it's all clear this and that there isn't any harm.

@ D.F. again

If you care to read my first post(s) again you would realize that I didn't have anything against you in the first place, I'd have replied to post #48 otherwise. But the post in which you talked about the short film, quoted a post that wasn't about you and just didn't make much sense IMO. The more gratificating thing for Crytek would be the next.
Dec. 2007 : "Ey guys, I have played Crysis at medium settings and I loved it!"
Mid 2008 : "I have played it at max and WHOHOHOHOOOOAAAAA!!! "

See ya!

With your analogy, I just wouldn't buy the 200HP Ferrari. I guess I didn't word myself properly, as yes, I would be getting what I paid for, but at the same time, I would know that things could be so much better. Knowing that it could be even better kinda takes away from it's glory. That's not to say Crysis isn't a good game, I will be buying it, but I'm waiting till I can play it maxed or at least really, reeeeeallly close to maxed in DX10. The Very High XP hack might be acceptable, but I've yet to test it. (Don't have the money to spend on the game, atm, anyway.)

I've done this with every game that pushes the envelope, and will continue to do so, as I just really enjoy being able to see these improvements in all of their glory. (Now if I could just afford that 1920x1200 monitor. lol)

 

[Lopez0101]

Well, you know you could always get the game now, play it and then when you upgrade your rig you could always play it again, but with higher settings. A year or two after a game comes out when the hardware has caught up to the game it's usually fun to play through it again.

 

[cdawall]

Anyway nice OC.
BUT LOL. You changed +86% to +75%?
7800GS Nvidia's stock is 375. 700/375=1,8666666666666666666666666666666666666

lol i did BFG specs them @400 os its 75% in my book

 

[DarkMatter]

With your analogy, I just wouldn't buy the 200HP Ferrari. I guess I didn't word myself properly, as yes, I would be getting what I paid for, but at the same time, I would know that things could be so much better. Knowing that it could be even better kinda takes away from it's glory. That's not to say Crysis isn't a good game, I will be buying it, but I'm waiting till I can play it maxed or at least really, reeeeeallly close to maxed in DX10. The Very High XP hack might be acceptable, but I've yet to test it. (Don't have the money to spend on the game, atm, anyway.)

I've done this with every game that pushes the envelope, and will continue to do so, as I just really enjoy being able to see these improvements in all of their glory. (Now if I could just afford that 1920x1200 monitor. lol)

Now that is a way to explain it. No problem with that, that's ok. With Doom3 I did more or less the same. Well not really, I played a hacked copy with a Geforce 4800 at high settings 800x600. And later I bought the 6800GT and Doom3, so I played it maxed out (Then I worked already so I had the money). Nothing else, it's all said and well, peace.

Humm... I'm just curious now, you wouldn't buy that Ferrari and buy another car, or you wouldn't buy none at all? Nothing to do with the analogy with games. But I exagerated a bit to try to make my point clearer. I thought that Ferrari cheapo would be sooo sweet...

About the monitor: don't buy that, dude!! Stay away from that temptation. Or you will never be able to play Crysis or any other demanding game in the near future , at least if you can't afford a 9800GTX when it comes out.

 

[DarkMatter]

lol i did BFG specs them @400 os its 75% in my book

Yeah, I supposed that, but why didn't you just tell that, instead of correcting it in my own quote?
Anyway stock overclocked cards don't necessarily overclock a lot further than standard ones. They do select the fastest ones for the OC models, but cmon, you know what I mean. You got a nice OC.

 

[cdawall]

Yeah, I supposed that, but why didn't you just tell that, instead of correcting it in my own quote?
Anyway stock overclocked cards don't necessarily overclock a lot further than standard ones. They do select the fastest ones for the OC models, but cmon, you know what I mean. You got a nice OC.

yea thanks it is an insane oc IMO

 

[niko084]

UT3 is cool but I don't see why it would sell huge...

Crysis just needs too much to really run.

 

[Wile E]

Now that is a way to explain it. No problem with that, that's ok. With Doom3 I did more or less the same. Well not really, I played a hacked copy with a Geforce 4800 at high settings 800x600. And later I bought the 6800GT and Doom3, so I played it maxed out (Then I worked already so I had the money). Nothing else, it's all said and well, peace.

Humm... I'm just curious now, you wouldn't buy that Ferrari and buy another car, or you wouldn't buy none at all? Nothing to do with the analogy with games. But I exagerated a bit to try to make my point clearer. I thought that Ferrari cheapo would be sooo sweet...

About the monitor: don't buy that, dude!! Stay away from that temptation. Or you will never be able to play Crysis or any other demanding game in the near future , at least if you can't afford a 9800GTX when it comes out.

Well, if things pan out the way I hope, top gfx cards will be falling in my lap soon, thank you Team Palit.

As far as the Ferrari, I probably would just buy another car. Something a little more "budget tuner" friendly. Or, just buy a cheap used car until I could afford something better than the Ferrari.