{"id":12545,"date":"2011-06-23T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"crytek-crysis-2-backfired-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12545-crytek-crysis-2-backfired-a-bit","title":{"rendered":"Crytek: Crysis 2 \u201cbackfired a bit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crytek&rsquo;s decision to develop Crysis 2 with anything less than alien technology imported through a singularity on the time-space continuum was always going to be somewhat controversial with the PC Master Race, but nobody could have expected the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2011\/03\/29\/crysis-2-technical-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\">shocking compromises<\/a> made to bring the game to lower-spec PCs and consoles.<\/p>\n<p>Now, ahead of next week&rsquo;s DirectX 11 game update, even Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli admits they might&rsquo;ve made an oopsie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crysis 1&#8217;s intention was, if I were to play it three years later, it looks great. And it does, actually, it fulfilled that,&rdquo; he tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/35410\/Cryteks_Expensive_Gift_To_Its_HighEnd_Players.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a>. &ldquo;But it made it difficult for entry-level players. So with Crysis 2, we took a different direction, and it backfired a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The DX 11 patch] is much more like a gift to the high-end community,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;And I think gamers will appreciate that. It lifts up Crysis 2 and gives a sneak peak of how PC gaming will evolve in the future, if you support a high-end preference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inb4 Crysis 3 is a console exclusive, because <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">PC development is just too much effort<\/span> of piracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It registers only 32.1m pixels in the 12J, reducing the BSR to a measly 43, with almost negligible ambience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}