Now here is something really interesting. Instead of releasing the leaked gameplay trailer, Crytek and Saber decided to listen to everyone’s feedback regarding that trailer. Yeap, that trailer was real, and had PC gameplay footage. And, apparently, Crytek has now delayed the game so it can further improve and polish its graphics.
Here is the official statement that Crytek issued.
We would like to share an important update with you all! pic.twitter.com/ylu0OisDf3
— Crysis (@Crysis) July 1, 2020
Now while this is cool, I strongly suggest tempering your expectations. While the team is working on improving the game’s graphics, it will not offer a full on remake. Therefore, don’t expect visuals similar to the CRYENGINE Tech Demo.
So yeah, Crysis Remastered will not be coming out on July 23rd. There is currently no ETA on when the game will come out. Crytek claims that the game will release after a few weeks, so we’re most likely looking at an August-October release.
Still, it’s at least good news that Crytek has decided to address the game’s criticism. As we’ve showcased in our early graphics comparison, Crysis Remastered looks slightly better than the vanilla version. However, and when you compare it to free mods like Crysis Enhanced Edition, Crysis Remastered looks worse.
It will be interesting to see whether Crytek will indeed improve the game’s graphics so that they can look better than Crysis Enhanced Edition. It will also be interesting to see whether its final version will look better than its initial screenshots.
Stay tuned for more!
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From cashgrab to a delayed cashgrab
That’s for all the people that said the SS were placeholders…suckers.
We did it Reddit, we did it! (?)
They can shove the remaster where light doesnt reach
Turns out it wasn’t, but we all dreamed to be cause that shiet didn’t make any sense.
It made a lot of sense to me in this industry, specially in the current year.
I didn’t want to believe my eyes, but you’re right.
It resumes what the game industry has become.
Yup, they can’t even make proper bullshots…damn i miss the 90’s
So that was indeed the “remaster”.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
These guys need money, but first, they need to show some respect for its costumers.
Good thing all of the internet bashed that crap they showed.
well you can polish that ? it makes no difference in the end…
LoL
wtffffff.whats going on in that studio??
that crap was real then???it takes at least two years to polish then
The only path to redemption is cancelling the console versions. At the very least, ditch the PS4, XB1, and Switch versions and make it PC, PS5, and XBSX exclusive.
Won’t happen, Crysis is a known brand and Crytek wants money.
EA probably owns the rights to them making a new game so they can’t do that.
PS4/Xbox fanboys will eat it up because of the two mediocre sequels and the praise the first game gets from fans.
Switch fanboys will eat it up because they love playing anything as long as it portable, no matter how bad or how badly it runs.
Look at Hunted: Showdown, they made some fast sales with that and once their updates were slowing down and revenue was doing so as well they dumb down the visuals, add some console UI and port it to Xbox
They have every incentive to make the console ports because it will make them money no matter how much people b*tch online, that’s all there is to it, costumers that are uninformed and have no standards aka consumers, have made entertainment what it is today.
That’s the price of going mainstream, that’s the price of internet advertising and datamining.
EA only owns publishing rights for the games they made in the past.
Pretty sure it’s the other way around, they own the publishing rights of any new games.
Why Crytek is selling and advertising the first game without the EA logo
Well I guess you know better than Crytek.
That would be amazing!
I’m not a negative person. But god dam that trailer made it look worse than the original somehow…
Guys i think they are using Xbox 360 port for this remaster. You will not see that awesome level with tornado i bet you.
It isnt
too late sfnx is too mad, he’s probably going on a killing spree of jews tomorrow.
Crytek, dont fck this one!
They had to, is was an appaling effort.
What a twist!
imagine believing a gaming company to do what they say
Good. I just wish they would take even longer than a few weeks and do a proper remake.
I agree, was so crushed it turned out to not be a full remake 🙁 , I just don’t freaking get it.
Did they even watch the UE5 video/demo? If I had a 3D game engine and I was aware of what was going on with UE5, Next Gen on the way, new GPUs on the way, ray tracing and in general where 3D games are at I would juice the heck out of My show case game advertising My current game engine tech.
Just crazy it is not a remake(like RE, FF etc), almost feels like they are insane. On top of that they show that solid ray tracing demo and new CryEngine video which gets My juices to 1000 and they show this instead… Dude I am so disappointed it hurts.
Anyways, again I agree and need to take a time out LOL 🙂 , fingers crossed they really work on it and more than a few weeks.
OK, how is it a shitshow if they are listening to the community and fixing the game? SMH!!
they based a CRYSIS REMASTER on the god awful console version for Xbox 360 so it would run on Nintendo Switch. then they increased the fidelity on that until it looks roughly as good as the original game, 13 years later. and they actually considered releasing this trash until there was huge backlash. what would you call that?
Even in the apology letter they mentioned they are working on a “console-breaking” standard…that’s almost any AAA game for you standard.
They forgot their roots on PC, they can fuc* off.
“They forgot their roots on PC”
It’s been like that since the original Crysis was released
It’s based on the code of the console port, because that was running on a much newer version of Cryengine, 4 years after the PC release. That version of the game would be an order of magnitude easier to port to the newest Cryengine, without having to redo everything from scratch, since this is just a remaster.
A company with the reputation like Crytek used to be, that made games focus mostly in the visual fidelity has to write a letter as an apology for showcasing screenshots of a remaster that makes the original look even way ahead of its time in that aspect. After 13 years they show that? is a joke.
How is that not a shitshow for you?
The Trailer and screenshots are for the switch version.
Why they will put Switch media on the Microsoft Store?
I don’t know, maybe a mistake, but it’s clear not a PC version… It’s impossible the game looks like that (we talk about Crytek)… the trailer is a pure 720p in minimum to medium, pretty sure 100% it’s a switch thing.
It has to run on current consoles, including Switch…no way they will make a different game on PC. It wasnt profitable for them back in 2007, it won’t be for sure in 2020.
Yeah, we are talking about Crytek…they made Crysis 2 and 3 too.
Crysis 1 & 2 are good games. Play them and don’t compare them to the 1st and your are going to have a blast playing them.
Where i said the contrary? Crysis 1 is a good game, Crysis 2 as a game of its own is fine (you can see the COD influence on it tho), as a Crysis sequel is awful. Crysis 3 tried to go back to the roots of the first one, ends up a hybrid of 1 and 2…i like it still regardless.
The whole series, regardless of what you think about the game part, always bank on visuals (yes, even the sequels are quite an achievment…for consoles)…and what they showned in the SS (Switch or not, i don’t care) for the remaster are simply not cutting it, they admit it themselves this, so.
I dont see how not thinking on the original game while playing the continuation of the story in the sequels is a good justification for enjoying them.
You can’t deny the whole series is just wasted potential the moment they, understandable so for financial reasons, moved to consoles too.
Blame the players for not playing the games on PCs, but on consoles.
Are you dumb? this is CRISIS. A game that still looks better than most games to date. How could you ever make a worse version of it and think that’s ok and then you call it, “listening to feedback”. Are you on CRACK?
No, but you are dumb and a moron.
it doesn’t look better than most games, you’re blinded by nostalgia
Uhm Nope, I never played Crisis !, I have the game and i’m playing it right now. I could never bother to play it because i hate toggled aim and i was never into FPS games back in the day. So no nostalgia there. It’s just a fact that game has water effects, trees and textures that looks better than most games to date.
Bud if you don’t think it looks better then most games you need to open your eyes for the first time.Not only graphically does it look great at 4K to this day.You rarely seen the physics that the game displayed as well.You could shoot trees,car tires,Etc,and they would respond with broken limbs and tires blowing apart.Game was amazing and still is.blinded by nostalgia is what a console person would respond with.
I was talking about the graphics. The geometry (poly count), lighting and textures have long been surpassed by other titles. Physics is a whole different subject, and I agree that it’s still amongst the best…
lol, there’s nothing to fix. it was 4 weeks before the release, they’re not gonna magically do it properly. they’re gonna maybe ask a modder to slap some better textures on it and produce a different trailer, lol
Because they’re heavily advertising what is a barebones console rerelease of a 2007 game and not even doing that right.
To the point that they delay for weeks their gameplay trailer 4 hours before it’s meant to be released.
Also, please shake that head hard enough for it to fall off, maybe then you’ll learn how to type like a human bean.
“oops, sorry you realized this was a cash grabbing product! we will make it look 5% better and delay it and make it cost more to get back at you because we are petty people”
How about paying modders to improve it? They would definitely do a better job than their new neutered team of devs.
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Return for PC gaming again Crytek . You guys are a joke these days. lol
what is the sauce?
You’re putting words in their mouth.
“polishing the game”
“working on a number of things in game”
“make a few more improvements”
Not one word about the graphics. This is important because it’s exactly the kind of legalese marketing departments use to later be able to say “we didn’t mislead anyone, people just assumed we were talking about the graphics”. Don’t extrapolate. You can speculate (your own thoughts) but you must not distort claims made by others.
And who are u to complain ??. Just STFU with your constant insults to authors over here.
Go elsewhere moron.
This is the first time I see your name and I’ve been visiting this site regularly for many years. I didn’t start complaining about the writing until recently. It’s just been too long without any improvement (to be fair the language/grammar is okay in this article, it’s only the content that needs work) and during that time the site went from irrelevant blog to relevant news site in the gaming space. It matters now. Quality matters when you actually have an audience.
So you are here only to complain about all the authors ?? Don’t nitpick small things. Everyone has got their own style of writing…You don’t have the right to insult them in public.
If you are a Grammar n*zi, and an expert in English, then why don’t you submit your own artifices, so we can give it a read ? If you don’t like this site, the articles posted here, then please simple leave.
You are not forced to write any article here. I’ve been visiting this site since 5 years or son. My previous Disqus account was deleted by mistake. had to create a new one.
Wait they actually thought it was fine ??? omg are you f@@king kidding me ???
Single 1 man team can make incredible graphic mods for games like the witcher using AI and an actual company with money and people want to release a half assed upgrade for money. What in the flying f###. that remaster didn’t even look like a great free graphics mod.
they read the comments at DSOGaming how awesome is that !
the owners of one of the most jaw dropping graphics capable engines, and the makers of CRYSIS 3, couldn’t do better than this? this is just super lazy, they probably give the remaster to 1 guy in the studio and called it a day
if you going to remaster a game that raised the bar so high for 3D graphics in 2007, you gotta go all out or don’t bother
lolz
Wait a minute, they were serious about those graphics on that reveal they showed? I thought it was a hoax o a joke.
“We’re still working on a number of things in game, as well as the storefront.”
So it will be Epic Games Store Exclusive and overwhelming amount of the players will get the CODEX version and then Crytek will say PC has 95% piracy rate. It will be like 2007 all over again, good times.
good can’t wait to pirate it ahhhaha
Yep. Funny thing that happend to me yesterday. I was playing Mudrunner with friends then one of them said ” didn’t a sequel got released ?” i was like wut ? But he was right, but it was released in the Epic Store, the game was released months ago and i didn’t even know. So much for more space for indies right.
um it is still an EA property sooo steam it is
It’s not
EA has nothing to do with this!
Crytek always had ownership of Crysis IP, EA holds publishing rights for the released games.
What a paranoid reasoning. Games have done well on EGS before.
Name 3 exclusives of that store that “done well”
1….
2…. HaHA, oh hell i can’t hold my laughter in. BAHAHAHAHA ???
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When crytek will understand we don’t need remastered we already have tons of mods that looks great whqt we need is a remake best way to do it is launch title for ps5 xbsx (pc)
Don’t need a remake either.
Yeh it need a remake you clearly did not play the game the final hours look sh*t
It doesn’t look slightly better at all than the original
It looks substantially worse from bad textures to increased saturation to low LOD and missing foliage.
>Nintendo Switch
Oh, that explains everything.
Every game that release on switch will have sh**ty graphic
Super Mario Odyssey disagrees with you !!!
Super Mario Odyssey disagrees with you !!!
who could see this coming?lol we expected everything but this .but i know they r not stupid(unless the studio has changed completely) they r the guys that brought us that graphics in 2007 .remastering a game is so easy and they could do a lazy remaster at least instead of that crap.cmon they know all this they r just making hype
I bet you most of them are not working at Crytek anymore, a lot of them are working at Cloud Imperium on Star Citizen right now, everything that Crytek did since Crysis Warhead is a joke, the studio itself is a joke, just take a look around, they’re 100% focused on their engine that no one uses anymore and they don’t even know how to remaster their own game
so these guys made crysis 3 and ryse?those games had great graphics bro.but the gameplay is crap but they know how to make beautiful games i guess.
Crysis 3 was average at best, Ryse was sh*t, and guess what ? Judging from how they butchered Crysis Remastered, i don’t think they still know how to make beautiful games
You should try out HUNT. It’s probably one of their best games and they actually focused on making a fun game for once.
Also, a few prominent dev’s have used CE. Arkane used CE for PREY which was pretty damn good and KC:D is decent as well. But yeah, they need to make their engine more friendly for non-Crytek dev’s.
You should try out HUNT. It’s probably one of their best games and they actually focused on making a fun game for once.
Also, a few prominent dev’s have used CE. Arkane used CE for PREY which was pretty damn good and KC:D is decent as well. But yeah, they need to make their engine more friendly for non-Crytek dev’s.
And i wish both of these great games used UE4, especially KCD, there’s Sniper GW3 and Contracts too, but still, it’s less than 5 high profile 3rd party games in an entire generation, it’s very low.
As for Hunt, a friend of mine recommended it to me but i’m not interested in MP games anymore, a true return to form of Crytek for me would be a PC melting SP shooter with sandbox combat mechanics, nothing less
HAHAHA, can’t stop laughing. Poor Crytek, failed to live up to their own name.
Looking forward to this clown from earlier eating humble pie…
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what was that crap?still a mystery to me
I dont think they will be able to fix it, its based on the cry engine 3 version aka ps3/xbox 360 version, and they are just pushing that version as far as possible.
It was evident with the screenshots and trailers, one of the greatest sacrifices of the crysis ps3 and xbox 360 version was the butchered draw distance,less foliage,less objects and of course the graphics being some kind of mixtures of low,medium and even high in some places, the lighting was different and surprisingly this version had godrays/light shaft(in the pc version godrays are only available on a very high graphic setting a dx10 feature but you could enable godrays even without dx10 with this in the ini: r_sunshaft=1)
As for textures its a mixed bag:improved textures in some places like rocks but worst textures in many other place.
And it ran very badly under 20fps in some situation and the neither the ps3 and 360 version hit native 720, the ps3 version was even worst with even lower framerate and resolution than the 360 version, and they cut the level ascension which some said is not a big loss but i loved this level it was nice change and pacing and added more variety to the overall experience.
This is my analysis and why i think crytek are basing this remaster on the dreadful console version after watching the leaked footage, its easier for them to take the cryengine 3 version than to take crysis cryengine 2 version rebuilding it in current cryengine and improve upon it.
we all know crytek are not in a financially good shape,so dont expect a dramatic improvement over what was shown.
So they needed the community to tell them the visuals are total sht? they did not realized this up till now?
This cvar changes “remaster” is done for!!
People seem to forget how things were… Crysis 1 / Warhead. Optimized very poorly and do not scale well with todays hardware. Crysis 2 used insane ammounts of tesselation… It was not till Crysis 3 came out did optimization across various hardware started. Not to mention Crytek nolonger has a publishers money to back them up. And it’s not like Hunt Showdown sold insainly well next to their Crysis series games when they launched.. My expections for this game are pretty low actually.
Crysis Demastered: but can it NOT run Crysis?
i translate for yall :
Sorry for downgrading is so mutch . we will make sure you wont notice it that much next time so our weak a*s consoles can run it
Colour me confused but isnt the whole point to a remaster to spit-polish graphics? Now we are delayed so that they can “improve” the graphics… huh?
Never forget what Disqus did to you, ApeZard.
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I could do the same with reshade
This was shocking to see.I was hoping when I initially saw the video it was fake.But Crytek’s response confirmed it was not.If this is the best at the point of the leaked trailer that the graphic overhaul was at.what is a few weeks going to do.Very sad how far Crytek has fallen.I was discussing on the channel and lots of questions on my Twitch Streams how it’s going to be great.Its Crytek.Now I have to say I do respect there response but considering the issues the company has had you figured this release is extremely important cause I figured a time after the renewed interest that this remastered edition would stir up.We would finally get the next Crysis game.Time will tell
Can’t polish a turd.