As part of a larger retrospective on Crysis in issue 405 of PC Gamer's print magazine, Crysis director and Crytek founder Cevat Yerli shared his thoughts on the "Can it run Crysis?" meme, as well as what he believes led to this most enduring aspect of the 2007 shooter's legacy.
“I want[ed] to make sure Crysis does not age, that [it] is future proofed, meaning that if I played it three years from now, it should look better than today,” Yerli said. Crysis' highest graphics settings were designed with the hardware of 2010 and beyond in mind, according to Yerli, and to flick them on in 2007 was an act of hubris. “A lot of people tried to maximize Crysis immediately,” he says. “And I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s not why we built the Ultra mode, or Very High’.”
