Crytek Boss: "Impossible" For New Consoles to Beat PCs

[JochemHippie]

This comes off as if his desk was atleast half a dozen inches higher during this interview...

But eh, since my own gaming PC has became a little outdated and when I'm looking at the prices off the new videocards I "should" get for it to upgrade it...
I could buy a Console for just that card at this point.

But, I still manage to cut some off my loses on game prices. Yay Steam Sales, but quite honestly. Untill they either bring out that Piston/Steambox thing, I'll just put the graphics down a bit.. >.>

 

[Joccaren]

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Hey hey, whoa. Don't misunderstand. I didn't deny gaming computers. I'm typing on an Alienware as we speak. The notion is that computers CAN be pointed in that direction, not that this is their life goal forever and ever and ever. You following me? One's a modifiable rifle for different ranges and effects, and the other is a sniper rifle for penetration only. They come from different worlds and only after you alter them both ALOT do they resemble each other.

Eh, IMO its more where one is your basic precision rifle, the other is any kind of rifle you want - Old, New, Precision, Automatic, Anti-Materials - ect.
You can get one that resembles the precision rifle fairly easily, though even when you do it'll still come with an easier reload mechanism and multiple firing modes and ammunition types.

Bah, this whole analogy thing never works. Sadly nothing properly compares in comparisons like this.

 

[FalloutJack]

Doink

Well, at least ours make some semblance of sense. The other guy's analogies were TERRIBLE. Decent fellow, but bad view of things.

 

[Hyenatempest]

Earth defense force: insect armageddon.
I have put more time into this game, which looks like an HD remake of an n64 game than all the crysis games put together.
2-player split screen forever.

Same with Borderlands.

(not to say I don't like crysis, just that graphics aren't that important in the long run.)

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Seems fairly obvious but pretty unnecessary to point out. Saying that a console with fixed hardware that retails at several hundred dollars isnt going to have as good graphics as a several thousand dollar PC that you can upgrade...well..of course it wont.

 

[Vault101]

News just in!

Birds fly, grass is green, the sun shines, and consoles can't hold a candle to PCs.

Ah ninja

Gimme a break. Computers are built for a wide variety of functions and do them all well, as per the sum of their parts and programs. (This includes games.) However, consoles are built FOR GAMING. Add all the features you like, such as movies and internet or anything else, but the fact is that they are made to play games, specifically. If your game cannot run on a platform whose life goal is this one thing, them perhaps your game has problems.

In short, get over yourself, dude.

Do you want to have that argument? you like consoles fine... People don't need to get so defensive

 

[Vault101]

Blah blah blah glorious pc gaming master race blah blah consoles suck blah graphics are everything blah blah blah.

That's all I'm hearing from this.

did sombody hurt your feelings?

what he's saying is true, you can;t deny it...now does it matter? well no, aside from the fact the general consensus "well duh" people buy consoles for a number of valid reasons, they are the largest share of the gamespace and the reasoning gaming is as big as it is (for better or worse)

its like cars

a console is your family car, its reliable and does everything you need

a PC is a modded up rot rod...capable of great speed and such...at a higher cost and more chance of break downs

 

[Korolev]

Impossible for consoles to beat really good PCs that are made by people who like to build PCs. That would be more accurate.

Newsflash: Not everyone likes to build PCs. Not everyone has 700 or 800 or 900 dollars to spend on a really, really good PC. Consoles are catering to those people. Nobody expects them to outperform the latest PC hardware.

 

[VeneratedWulfen93]

These threads always degenerate into PC circle jerks. I've known PCs are better for years, I don't need to be constantly beat over the head with it. Its not really as big a deal as people go on about.

When I started playing my PC about a month ago there was no magical epiphany into the truth of gaming nor was there any drooling over steam sales. I played Planetside 2 for 3 hours then went on Borderlands on my 360. I was not shocked or disgusted by my puny console, it was the same as it always has been.

Also some guy before was saying that there is only one elitist on this site and i'd have to disagree. There are around 4 that I have seen.

 

[Freaky Lou]

Some SEVERE butthurt in this thread; people criticizing games they've never played because they're FPS and the leader of their dev team acknowledges the vast superiority of PC as a gaming platform.

If you weren't aware, the original Crysis was a terrific and inventive open-world FPS that allowed for loads of creativity in how one approached a fight---it actually did engage the player's brain. Obviously the only experience a console-only player would have with the series would be from Crysis 2, where everything was dumbed down due to the console limitation.