Eh?
Badly coded?
I'll grant you it's hardly super-slick, less than athletic, not exactly uber-efficient..... but the $DEITY awful performance is at least PARTLY due to it being extremely graphically impressive, I certainly have nothing else that looks better. By all means feel free to reccommend something that looks as good as Crysis that runs at 60FPS on max everything.
If you want BAD coding, remember operation flashpoint, lawks-a-lordy that could barely do double figures on my machine at the time which could eat every other game I ran on it. Installed it again years later on a far upgraded machine, and it was STILL lumpy. My current nemesis (well it was until I recycled its diskspace), is Rainbow 6 vegas. It's on the UE3 engine....UE3 cannot basically be dragged under 60FPS too often on this machine with all the eye candy rammed off the scale.....R6V on the other hand, can barely keep about 30 at reduced res and no AA/AF, it also handles like playing in treacle.
Don't mean to pick a fight or anything, I just think that Crysis DOES deliver at least SOME justification for its crappy framerates in its prettiness. (Not to mention a truly enormous 3d field of play....any other game, those mountains would be bitmaps tacked on to the horizon. But I certainly wouldn't hold it up as a poster child for efficient code monkeying.
While I understand what you mean, I still agree with those that say Crysis is badly optimised.
Look at Fartcry, that's still difficult to run on modern computers. While Crysis does indeed look extremely good, there's other games that look amazing too, most UE3 games look great, Bioshock, UT3, Gears of War, Mass Effect and so on.
They look amazing yet run well too. I'll use a ratio to help get my point across.
With the games I listed above, they have a much higher Graphical Prowess/Performance ratio, much higher than Crysis's.
It's the best looking game out there, but the performance you get compared to what's already out isn't as good as other games.
Rainbow Six games are badly optimised though, they run slow while looking worse than all other UE3 games.
I was very unimpressed when I first saw R6V1 on PS3, I thought it was just the PS3's limited capabilities when it comes to graphics, but I later bought it on PC and while it looks ok, it made me realise the game just looks bad in comparison to the rest of the UE3 games, and runs much worse too.
Though, I didn't have a PS3 at the time, I know it's just a bad looking game. (I do admit I'm impressed with the graphics on some games though.)
