Which game first dethroned Crysis as the king of graphics?

>lets take away to open roam maps
>lets fuck up the suit powers
>lets focus on the mediocre gunplay
nope
Crysis is at its best when it's a big sandbox to murderfuck Best Koreans in Looney Toon fashion in

crysis warhead

I liked the setting and visuals of crysis 2. The game was okay.

>>lets take away to open roam maps
Hardware at the time couldn't handle open urban environments. Switching to interconnected combat bubbles was the only way to set a Crysis game in a city. Homefront: The Revolution came out 5 years later and required baseline hardware that wasn't available for most gamers in 2011.
>lets fuck up the suit powers
A lot of people didn't like the original nanosuit, viewing it as too fiddly and complicated. I have mixed feelings, but people shouldn't have been so asspained about this one.
>lets focus on the mediocre gunplay
Crysis 2's gunplay is really good. The issue I have is that the Ceph aren't aggressive enough. They should chase you around and force you think on your feet.

Graphics are the cancer killing vidya. Graphics were as good as they ever needed to be back in the 7th generation. Hell, even the 6th generation.

t. boomer

are urban environments that hard? Geometrically its a bunch of grey rectangles vs a shitload of curvy organic trees and foliage.

All of things, graphics is the cancer killing video games. Nice one user.

>are urban environments that hard?
Yes. Highly detailed open urban environments have extremely high VRAM budgets because you need unique textures for everything.
>Geometrically its a bunch of grey rectangles vs a shitload of curvy organic trees and foliage.
Organic trees and foilage can be copy-pasted willy nilly. In order to create a beach scene, you can get away with a handful of textures for the sand, grass, pieces of vegetation, etc. In an urban game with Crysis-level fidelity, you need thousands upon thousands of unique textures for unique assets. Nobody notices if two trees have identical geometry and textures, just rotated. People do notice if two buildings are absolutely identical and sitting next to each other. Crysis 1 has literally one car model. It's a low poly Toyota Hilux. Good luck getting away with ONE MODEL OF CAR in a game set in a city. You need several models with colour variations.

Relatively few developers make sandbox FPS games set in realistic urban environments. Ubisoft make open worlds filled with empty space and outposts. This is way easier, and less resource hungry.

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The graphical hardware we have at hand has peaked, now its just a matter of devs using the tools and resources at their disposal to create the best visual experience for the player. The most detailed or lifelike game will not win at this, the one that gives higher resolution and render speed while still being visually interesting and features a strong art direction will.

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