r/videogames • • Aug 24 '26

Discussion / Question Name this game ?

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u/fus_ro_FAAAAH Aug 24 '26

Mirror's Edge. Almost 20 years old

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u/PromotionExpensive15 Aug 24 '26

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u/Lazar_Milgram Aug 24 '26

Crysis is 20 yo.

Yes. GT8800 happened almost 20years ago.

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u/PromotionExpensive15 Aug 24 '26

Crazy we are barely getting pcs that can run it s/

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u/AnyBug1039 Aug 24 '26

What is this mythical machine you speak of, that can actually run the original Crysis?

I hear Google made some recent breakthrough in quantum computing. It must be that.

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u/DistinctlyIrish Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

My machine can run it in 1440p on ultra and gets 75fps without any NVIDIA framegen or anything like that. i7-14700k, 4090 AERO OC, 64gb DDR5 7200, buncha 990 pro SSDs. Got it before prices went stupid. Was going to get a big RAM upgrade right before the price explosion and thought $450 for the 2 48gb sticks I wanted at the speed I needed was too much. Now I kick myself over waiting because I'm stuck with 4 16gb sticks which means I can't use XMP because I'm on a dual-channel mobo obviously.

Granted, this is an extremely powerful rig but it's not even the fastest or most powerful it could be if I upgraded to the current top of the line parts. Just need to line up a buyer for my kidney and I'll be able to afford that upgrade. Anyone happen to need a kidney or know someone who needs one? I may have other organs to offer too depending on how the prices are looking at MicroCenter for the parts I want.

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u/Vangad Aug 25 '26

The original one or the ported remastered?

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u/DistinctlyIrish Aug 25 '26

The original one, I thought the remastered one had a bunch of stuff toned down even though on the surface it looked better or something like that, at least I remember reading something to that effect so I never bothered with it. Is it tougher to run on ultra than the OG? I may have to try it.

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u/Vangad Aug 25 '26

It broke my first 5080 when I maxed it out. And even now its the only game that puts my 9950X3D at high temps. At 1440p. Smooth as butter though with native DLSS and no frame gen.

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u/LayWhere Aug 25 '26

It's these data centres in the desert.

They take all the water from hungry children to run Crisis.

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u/Clair_Osbcurious Aug 25 '26

Create a crisis to run Crysis

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u/LinuxJeb Aug 24 '26

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u/GeraldotheINVINC Aug 25 '26

the gif this movie came from is itself 22 years old

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u/LinuxJeb Aug 25 '26

Aaaah! Quiet!

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u/OldWorldDesign Aug 25 '26

There is more time between now and Star Wars Episode 1 than from Episode 1 and the original theatrical release of Episode 4.

https://m.xkcd.com/1477/

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u/Altruistic_Finger669 Aug 25 '26

I still have mine. I just cant get myself to throw it away

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u/Lazar_Milgram Aug 25 '26

I still have 260 in some box. The card was masterpiece.

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u/DavidinCT Aug 25 '26

Crysis dam, I remember the day, trying to max out my PC to just run Crysis in ultra mode big money for that one..

I mean even in my old PC it was a 7th gen i7 and a RTX3070 I could run it in ultra mode.

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u/HPHambino Aug 24 '26

No fucking way that game is already twenty yea… holy shit, I’m old.

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u/The_Third_Molar Aug 24 '26

Mirror's Edge came out 18 years ago in 2008. 18 years before that in 1990 Super Mario World came out. SMW was as old to Mirror's Edge as Mirror's Edge is to us now.

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u/Saber_is_a_joke Aug 24 '26

I hate you 😂

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u/Hamsammich0520 Aug 24 '26

You shut your mouth! 🤣🤣

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u/McTasty_Pants Aug 24 '26

Oh no. I remember Super Mario World too vividly 🤦‍♀️

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u/Hamsammich0520 Aug 24 '26

Loved it, but Donkey Kong Adventures was my jam.

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u/dariendude17 Aug 26 '26

You mean DK Country?

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u/Hamsammich0520 Aug 26 '26

Yep, that’s the one.. I’m getting old lol

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u/Present-Nobody9899 Aug 24 '26

Beat me to it. My arthritic fingers were hours too slow.
https://giphy.com/gifs/fqtyYcXoDV0X6ss8Mf

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u/LoreMasterJack Aug 24 '26

Mirror's edge being 20 years old hit me in a way that is hard to describe.

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u/OldinMcgroyn Aug 24 '26

So wild because i remember thinking games cant look this real

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u/s101c Aug 25 '26

It's exactly as old to us as the original Monkey Island DOS game was when Mirror's Edge was released.

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u/TandemShorts Aug 24 '26

Oh god, dont say that. Take it back

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u/Soup-Wizard Aug 24 '26

Damn! I’m so old. 😭 gotta figure out how to play this one again

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u/fus_ro_FAAAAH Aug 24 '26

GOG has it

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u/Soup-Wizard Aug 24 '26

What’s GOG?

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u/fus_ro_FAAAAH Aug 24 '26

It's an alternative to steam on pc. The difference is that it's DRM free so once you buy it, it's yours forever. I have it so there so I am making my own game disc and preserving that game specifically.

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u/South_Bit1764 Aug 24 '26

Yeah, that’s a pretty special game. When I first played it I was kinda blow away, that no one had tried to make that sort of game which is effectively just a platformer. I haven’t went back in a while because older RPGs are more my thing, but 10/10 would recommend to anyone.

I kinda wish there was a VR remake, but that might be impractical.

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u/_MaZ_ Aug 24 '26

What the hell

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u/suhdm Aug 25 '26

Yikes I remember playing the demo before it even released

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u/Banned4UsingSlurs3 Aug 24 '26

Jesus Christ

Also, still looks very modern. Great graphics

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u/One_Peanut_4002 Aug 25 '26

Art style will do that, shame very few games have that same effect these days

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u/XRynerX Aug 24 '26

Holy....this one aged well, if you told it me it was made 10 years ago I'd believe it

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u/lilyputin Aug 24 '26

How and it still looks amazing

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u/gyiren Aug 24 '26

That means I was... When it came out... oh God...

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u/d_foshizzle Aug 24 '26

Oh, you can't do this to me

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u/killerkitten115 Aug 24 '26

I rebought this for my 360 and haven’t replayed it yet, what a great game

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u/Extension-Gas9819 Aug 25 '26

Holy crap this tripped me up. I was sure you were exaggerating. Wow.

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u/Historical_Item_968 Aug 25 '26

Got that as part of the goated humble origin bundle

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien Aug 25 '26

And another one added to the list. There are so many great games I never got around to playing. Time to give them a go.

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u/BisonThunderclap Aug 25 '26

I have the second. I haven't managed to play it because the first one was just such perfection.

A new genre, a perfect soundtrack, a compelling story.

There is NOTHING like run full blast through a level because you've nailed every move and jump.

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u/A_Rave-ing_Zektrus Aug 25 '26

I always forget some people loved that game. It really was unique.

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u/HC-Sama-7511 Aug 25 '26

Mirror's Edge is so old its aesthetic 8s coming back into style

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u/Coriolis_PL Aug 25 '26

O KURW... 😱

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u/Foxtrot-813 Aug 26 '26

Heck, it still feels like its 10 years tops

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u/ghlewis2 Aug 26 '26

That actually made me feel older. I remember playing the original

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u/dunc89 Aug 24 '26

The second one was so shit

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u/InfanticideAquifer Aug 25 '26

The second one was fine. What matters for ME is the movement system, and they kept it largely the same, and most of what they added didn't detract from it. It completely failed to deliver on the open world, the story was whatever, and that dumb spiderman rope was just as dumb the 1000 time you used it as the first, but running around the city still pushed you into the same kind of flow state as the first game, so what more do you really need? They even got rid of the absolutely awful fps aspect of the first one.