The first Crysis game is considered by many as the best part of the series. However, let’s be honest here; Crysis does suffer from a number of optimization issues. After all, the game does not take advantage of more than two CPU cores and as a result of that, a lot of PC gamers can be CPU limited.
In an interview with Rok Erjavec, Technical Director at Crytek, we asked whether the team was interested in a Remaster of the first Crysis game.
As Rok told us, while the team is currently focused on its upcoming VR games (The Climb and Robinson: The Journey), it does not rule out the possibility of going back to the first Crysis game.
“I agree that the first part of the Crysis series is a great game. While we would never rule out going back to it, at the moment we are focused on our current VR projects The Climb and Robinson: The Journey.”
All we have to say is…
Just do it Crytek. Just port the game to the latest version of CRYENGINE, implement new textures via Photogrammetry, improve its lighting system via PBR, and release a brand new graphical showcase for the PC.
Our full interview with Rok will go live later this week, so stay tuned for more!
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This is an article? Of course they would not rule it out. Why would they? Why would anyone actively say “Never!”?
They’ve been saying it for years.
How about they make an original game with a good story. Like Far Cry was.
Far cry didnt have good storty. It was no different to any other standard fps, the story was merely there to keep the play engaged between firefights.
I though Far Cry was good, and it actually had atmosphere something lacking in a lot of new game (which Crysis doesn’t have either).
Oh liked Far Cry gameplay for sure.
If they fix the trigens, I’m all for it. Seriously, the trigens are some of the most broken, unfair and annoying enemies to ever be put in a video game. They pretty much ruined the second half of Far Cry for me.
“some of the most broken, unfair and annoying enemies to ever be put in a video game. ”
Implying the ai in crysis is not like that especially the nanosuit koreans.
I completely forgot about those guys. Also, Crytek has a bad habit of making you have fun in the first half of the game, only to be replaced with frustration in the second half.
Not a fps, but I really liked Ryse, a fun brawler and still one of the best looking games out there.
Haha exactly.
I want new AAA game from them for PC, with super graphics!)
Crysis 3 looks awersome even in 2016
so…they would remaster it…not to make visuals better, but to improve performance and cpu scaling?
I hope thatd be the only thing theyd do.
I want this. Would definitely play it again. AND buy it again. Always loved crytek.
>just optimize the current game with a patch
>Bring back Crysis Wars
and leave it at that.
I hope theyd never port the game to the newer engines, as Crysis 2 and 3 are some if the ugliest games ive laid eyes on. Crysis 1 looks proper 3d and has better/more realistic lighting, wheres C2 and 3 (more so 3) just look flat and cartoony. Then theres the fact that in C1, foliage actually reacts to the players movement and projectiles.
tbh, Id rather they just leave it. Crytek would just screw it up like they did with the series as a whole and only end up consolizing it.
Yu stupid
Oh… wow…, thanks for the interesting conversation, man
No problem man
Can’t you still play Crysis Wars on community servers?
Why shouldnt they port Crysis 1 to the latest CryEngine? The latest version is superior in any way. Crysis 2 and 3 just didn’t fully used all the engines capabilities because they also got released on console. Crysis 1 was released as a PC exclusive. Judging the capabilities of an engine by just a few console games is just stupid.
Everything thats used Cryengine 2+ has been garbage.
*Everything from Crytek that’s used CryEngine 2+ has been garbage.
*cough Kingdom Come cough*
Have you tried Crysis 2 with maldoHD mod ? IMHO lt looks way better than crysis 1
Maldos work is great, but the game looks and plays like something Micheal Bay would make.
no it doesnt. crysis 1 had photorealistic graphics, and directx10, which was the real graphical leap, unlike dx11 which is garbage. The difference between dx9 and dx10 crysis 1 is massive. plus it was a real engine made for pc which didnt use the shortcuts cryengine 2 and 3 use for consoles in order to fake look good.
crysis 1 was and still is one of the best fps to ever come around. too bad mentally chalenged cod fanboys destroyed the series.
I loved crysis 1, even gameplay wise, because every encounter with soldiers looked a little bit different each time and besides that game reminded me so much of “predator” movie. Although I still think that crysis 1 looks great (detailed vegetation, realistic colors), assets geometry in this game are mediocre at best even with mods (round objects looks square), and character models are low details now. In crysis 2 they have changed settings from tropical to “urban concrete” jungle, so that game had no longer these tropical realistic look, but engine was improved. Crysis 2 had much better assets, better lighting (penumbra shadows etc.), but game had very flat and console quality textures. But MALDO rebuilded all maps and replaced almost every texture with DX11 in mind, and thanks to his work whole crysis 2 looks now like DX11 tech demo, and even today new games looks flat to me compared to crysis 2. I would want textures like that in every game because tessellation turns flat boring textures into a varied surface.
When it comes to DX10 in crysis 1, every graphic option from DX10 worked in DX9 with moded confing (light shafts, VH details, dx10 LOD, motion blur). In comparison to that DX11 use in crysis 2 is real deal.
DX9 and DX10 has minor differences in Crysis. You can run Crysis on Windows XP (limited to DX9) and have nearly the same graphics. DX10 in Crysis was just to lure people into Vista, that’s it.
I agree it’s still one of the best fps to come, even with its bugs and lackluster optimization.
and crysis 1 has the buggiest ai i have ever seen everything feels fake and artificial in that game.
Anything that gets them to remove that f*cking SecuROM is fine by me.
Ever heard of Denuvo?
We want!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry but Crysis 1 doesn’t need a remaster. It runs well, and it looks gorgeous with some of the mods and tweaks. We need remaster versions of ugly looking/old games.
It does not it has issues with shadows on newer systems it does not utilize more than 2 cores and needs patching with the buggy ai and shooting mechanics.
Ai and shooting mechanics are fine. High rez textures are available on the internet are are better than what Crytek would output anyway.
Ahh i see. I never had or noticed any problems with AI or lag, only on the max settings or well.. with mods. 🙂 Then again, the last time i played C1 was around 2008-9. It could be fun to see it remastered, but it still sucks. So many games need a real remaster, games from the 2001-2004. Oh well, if this makes them money for the next game, i’m game! 🙂
it needs it first of all some textures are bad and it cant use more than 2 cores only around 2 gb of ram and of course even after 3 patches the game is still broken in many way the physic engine is unstable(a cupboard falling over me killed me instantly because i nudged it) the AI as good as it is are sometimes stupid(soldiers tumbling into one another is hilarious but not very realistic and aliens sometimes just stand there doing nothing)
the driving handling is chaotic
apart those few things crysis is still the best crysis only crysis 3 came close but still wasn’t enough for me i just hope that if they remaster it they will remaster along warhead also
Warhead was pretty fun. If they do any remastering, i hope they will add it to the package.
It looks great, but like you said it needs Mods, & it could heavily do with a round of bug fixing.
Besides, Crytek needs the money, & getting a new Crysis that melts GPU’s would shut the Console fanboys up about how “Crysis will never happen again.”
Looks wise it holds it own, but it could use some work compatability wise, and to better take advantage of current hw, it only threaded to 2 cores. I’d imagine w/ today’s hardware and some reworking of the code you could pull off a pretty slick 4k presentation
I would love to see a Crysis one Remaster or at least remake. It would be nice to see that PC still has one of the best looking games out there to this day in better form.
give us proper sequal to Crysis and Crysis Warhead
Proper multithreading plz.
You KNOW this is what they would do. Remake Console-Crysis for PS4 and Xbone, and PC gets a port created out of / after those two versions. You know it. Crytek should just go bankrupt for real, finally. Their last contribution to gaming being a VR walking, uh, I mean “climbing” simulator.
I say they should rule out crysis altogether.
“butcher the gameplay ”
The gameplay was already butchered. Games like far cry 4 and mgs v have far better gameplay than crysis 1.
No, no they dont.
“Far Cry 4”
You lost me right there. Sure, Crysis 2 & 3 do have some gameplay improvements over Crysis 1 (some. Overall, they make a lot of mistakes),but Far Cry 4? ……
hahahahaa, what? gtfo. far cry does not have better gameplay at all. Maybe than crysis 2 and 3, but not crysis 1. the nanosuit is way better in 1, where it actually took some strategix thinking to use, everything else after that was simplified for mindless noobs like you, who love that cod feel of press A and awesome happens.
“The gameplay was already butchered.”
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IF they do it, it has to be the new bar, the new benchmark of graphics. It has to look 10x better than anything else.
It has to look so photorealistic, and use so many advanced techniques that even SLI 980s struggle with 1080p/60 on the highest settings.
People have to ask once again ‘Can it run Crysis?’. Except this time it won’t be bc it can only use 2 cores.
Maximum Unlikeliness.
EA owns the Publishing rights, that’s it. Crytek still has development control. I think EA’d be open to a simple Remaster though, they’d probably have already pushed out a Crysis “4” if they had control of the IP.
This game don´t need to be remastered. It looks better than 90% games today.
You must play some bad looking games then.
I play 90% AAA games when released 🙂
It is the best fps ! The return of the father of fps! It deserves the succes it has
That would be Doom or Quake.
Crysis 2/3 looks like a cartoon thanks to CE3, leave Crysis 1 as it is, it looks better despite being “technologically outdated” when compared to the sequels.
Please no, just leave it alone. Crytek doesn’t have a clue on what made the first one good.
……………. ugh,,,,,,,,,,,………….. “pc” gaymen journalisim……. this is why we need gamer gate….
I’d love to see a ton of games redone with the latest cryengine – Jedi Academy, Jedi Knights, Halo, Call of Duty Airborne, Bioshock
Oh great another remaster just what the industry needs. Has everyone run out of ideas or something?
Oh, pretty please.
how about crysis 4 or another new IP crytek? remaster? gosh this is what crytek is good at?
They really dumped it on Crysis 2, that’s when the scaled back the engine to specifically cater to the 360 and ps3, it was obvious all around that Crysis 1 looked better. They somewhat made up for it in Crysis 3, looks wise at least, not sure about the gameplay gave up on around an hr in. But the bow was fun
Crysis 2 in DX11 with MaldoHDv4 looks quite a bit better than Crysis 1.
Crysis was developed as a PC game first and foremost. What are you talking about? It got ported to consoles over 5 years later.
It was crippled and butchered to hell and back because Crysis can’t make a great game since the original FC.
He means making the two following games with consoles in mind, they were much linear & on rails, the original that was put on consoles wasn’t even using the same engine because the 360/PS3 couldn’t handle it.
give me all 3 in a set remastered!
” let’s be honest here; Crysis does suffer from a number of optimization issues”
No it does not.
“Performance issues”, more like. The ice level cuts your performance in half and it doesn’t even look good. Framerates in Crysis were all over the place from one level to the next. It was a tremendously “optimized” game, considering what it did on what kind of hardware! And yet at the same time it is an appropriate view that the game had “performance issues” nonetheless. It would be very hard to get through the game on pre-2010 hardware without experiencing some ridiculous drops in framerate, or entire sections that perform badly.
Nope. What you are saying just isn’t true . There aren’t spikes or wild variations in framerate. Finished my yearly run again last year on a 560 Ti 1 GB with an FX 6300 clocked to 4.5 GHz. I locked the game to 35 fps, set everything to max 1080p, 4xAA and it was the smoothest 35 fps experience ever.
“I locked the game to 35 fps”
That’s absolutely disgusting, keep your perversions to yourself.
Some people prefer consistent framerates, you know ? I don’t want bad visuals or highly inconsistent framerate.
>I don’t want bad visuals
35 fps = bad visuals
Crysis Remastered would again draw attention for PC gamers from distant and dormant states I think. I would almost wonder if pc gamers lost interest in the franchise at the comparison of the first and second game. Frankly, the engine demands on even current hardware is worth checking out in-and-of-itself. Crysis used to be the benchmark for PC gamers, WELLLLL beyond it’s time…. The gameplay was exceptionally well envisioned (if not well executed). I remember replaying several maps and only stopping because the game would crash. But beyond that, the story was phenomenal as well. It was a true blockbuster, worthy of a high-budget recapturing of the legacy.