Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age' ...

Today, games aren't measured by Crysis. Any modern recitation of the meme is a byproduct of old, automatic habits, like reaching down from an armrest to scratch a dog that has long since passed.

I’m old enough to remember the whole “But can it run Crysis?” meme before it even could have been called a meme — though granted, I was a console gamer at the time, so it was more on the ...

Crysis was such an infamously hard game to run at its max settings it became a meme, but apparently you weren't even meant to do so at release.

Crysis Remastered has the ultimate graphics preset. Named after the 'Can it Run Crysis?' meme, the new preset cranks up all of the game's individual visual settings to their highest possible degree.

The 13-year-old “can it run Crysis?” meme is coming back to haunt the series–because it sure seems like the Xbox One X can’t.

memes. Crysis Remastered is due to launch in just over a week, and the developers want you to know that even now, 13 years later, the shooter stands ready to melt your PC.

Those well-versed in the history of Crysis will recognize the name as a meme. When Crysis first launched in 2007 it was renowned for requiring high system requirements in order to run well.

Crysis was always intended as a trilogy, so once it concluded in 2013 the team was ready to move on. With the studio’s ambitions to expand and self-publish, this was the most prolific period in ...

“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.

The entire 'can it run Crysis' thing became a meme until really, only recently when games like Control and Flight Simulator were released and really began to strain even $2499 graphics cards like ...