Far Cry 3 GPU and CPU benchmarks [PCGH.de]

[toyota]

AGAIN that is Crysis modded. surely everyone here owns Crysis and has enough sense to fire up the game and take a look for yourself .

 

[AnandThenMan]

I don't see why it matter is Crysis is modded or not. The fact is a modded game that is 5 years old looks better (and plays better honestly) than almost anything new coming out, something very wrong with that.

 

[toyota]

I don't see why it matter is Crysis is modded or not. The fact is a modded game that is 5 years old looks better (and plays better honestly) than almost anything new coming out, something very wrong with that.

um of course it matters directly comparing a modded game to an unmodded game.

 

[DrBoss]

I know i've personally beat this horse to death numerous times in other threads... but I certainly agree with Russian in that the original Crysis is a better looking game.

Image Quality, hands down, is better. The physics engine is better. The water is better. The details with extreme draw distances are better. What Crysis is lacking is all the "fancy" post processing effects developers thrown on top of the image as a convenient way to blur the rough edges all modern games have because they are first and foremost design to run on console hardware.

Modded or not, Crysis looks better than Far Cry 3. I doubt once people really dig into Far Cry 3 that modded versions of it will surpass modded Crysis. Mind you, all these Crysis mods are what... 4 year old? That game is ancient and we haven't seen a clear improvement in PC graphics since then, which is a shame.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Far Cry 3, most enjoyable game i've played since Deux Ex HR... but it's graphics are by no means revolutionary.

*EDIT - By modded Crysis i mean simple playing around with the .ini file to improve draw distance and detail. I am not talking about adding new textures or lighting or whatever.

 

[cmdrdredd]

So...what happened to "graphics don't make a good game" arguments? Lol

Seriously why, just why, does crysis have to be brought up every damn time? I think we know all about crysis by now and don't need it compared to everything under the sun.

 

[DrBoss]

Seriously why, just why, does crysis have to be brought up every damn time?

Probably due to the irony of a 4.5 year old game still being the graphics benchmark (or at least competitive - depending on your opinion).

So...what happened to "graphics don't make a good game" arguments? Lol

Don't get me started on System Shock 2 :sneaky:

 

[cmdrdredd]

Probably due to the irony of a 4.5 year old game still being the graphics benchmark (or at least competitive - depending on your opinion).

Don't get me started on System Shock 2 :sneaky:

Still...I don't think crysis 1 was a great game to begin with. It looked good at the time but the game didn't feel that special as I played through it. Probably because the story was pretty minimal and the characters forgettable.

 

[DrBoss]

the story was pretty minimal and the characters forgettable.

true.
but sometimes I just want to blow the eff out of everything on a tropical island regardless of the reason.

 

[Grooveriding]

The point wasn't what we all feel about Crysis as a fun game or not. It's that a five year old game is still the pinnacle showpiece of what the PC platform can do graphically.

With an entirely new API released since then, piles of DX11 games and exponentially stronger hardware - still Crysis puts the smack down on everything out there.

Modding it or not is really not relevant. You can't mod any other game to look as good as Crysis does. Also, the most impactful modding you can do to Crysis is just tweaking the .ini files to enable further graphic improvements the engine is capable of but was not enabled via in game menus. The game is that much of a powerhouse that you didn't even have access to all it could muster in the game's menus.

 

[Deders]

Still...I don't think crysis 1 was a great game to begin with. It looked good at the time but the game didn't feel that special as I played through it. Probably because the story was pretty minimal and the characters forgettable.

Far Cry wasn't known for it's story or characters, it was the gameplay (and graphics) that were so satisfying. Crysis was it's spiritual successor.

 

[pauldun170]

With latest nvidia beta driver
2700K@stock
GTX570 1.3gb ram @ stock

MSAA@4, HBAO and ultra preset
1920x1200
I'm getting 27fps-34fps (not much difference in FPS between ultra and very high)

1680x1080
Solid mid 30's

 

[moonbogg]

Far Cry 3 does look great (amazing actually), but I do think that it would have been better looking had consoles not been part of the equation. The graphics in Crysis were going for a different look than Far Cry 3's graphics did. Crysis went for realism, and as everyone knows did a pretty good job compared to other games. Far Cry 3 appears to have gone for the more bright colored, surrealistic, almost cartoony kind of look. I don't see the game as having aimed for realistic graphics. It has a specific art style to it, and I personally prefer this kind of bright, almost cartoony look in games rather than the "realistic" attempt. Games, even crysis, fail at their attempts to look realistic. I think games are better when they don't try to do this. A good example is Team Fortress classic. They knew they could't look realistic, so they didn't try. They did a great job with their art style though, just like Far Cry 3 did with theirs. I don't see games looking realistic at all for a very long time. I'll take the bright, surrealistic graphics with a vibrant and varied color palette.

 

[wand3r3r]

FAR CRY 3 VS CRYSIS - BATTLE

Why isn't there a next generation game that looks like this out of the box?
http://www.overclock.net/t/1165090/your-best-skyrim-awesome-pictures/7070#post_18308022

Thanks for that video. Crysis is ironically still quite the work of art even if it is modded. Far cry 3 looks pretty cool and their trailers made it pretty appealing but it's ironic that a game from ~5 years ago is still around and even (possibly) outdoing the latest and greatest.

I think Far cry 3 is taking a page from Borderlands and went a little cartoonish. It looks pretty good overall.