When for all intensive purposes a game that is released next year could look nicer and play nicer than Crysis.
Why not spend an extra few months developing your game so that it looks beautiful and plays wonderfully on nearly all settings.
Another good example is Far Cry..
We all agree Far Cry is GORGEOUS right?
Well whats the matter with it looking even better in a years time when we'v got more powerful rigs? I loved it when I bought my new pc and installed Far Cry again, started playing it again just because of the eye-candy...
Since when did running properly have anything to do with MAX settings? REALLY? Thats just irrational.
Maybe they should just handicap the engine, so that putting the slider on HIGH is the best graphics the game will aspire to??
Then someone will have to release custom modpacks for it to make it better looking, or theyll have to patch it after a while to make it better looking?
It all ends up the same really, look at how many people still want HL2 high res texture packs etc, source engine gets updated all the time with new graphical advancements that newer technology and faster components offer..
Forgotten all the oblivion threads with people wanting high res textures, better textures, generally better everything?? It hadnt even been out v long.. It looked brilliant, but it wasnt long before quite a few people had hardware that could handle more, and there was demand for better graphics, which 3rd partys answered.