Others explained it, has less to do with age, and more whether you are (were) a PC gamer. Crysis came out to huge fanfare due to it's impressive graphics. Howe

Others explained it, has less to do with age, and more whether you are (were) a PC gamer. Crysis came out to huge fanfare due to it's impressive graphics. However even the highest end spec'd PC's had trouble running the game at a stable frame rate at high settings--iirc because the game's engine (cryengine?) was not well optimized. Crysis performance became a benchmark for PC's, and then the joke phrase "But can it run Crysis" started, used seriously when discussing PC hardward specs, and jokingly used for unrelated hardware "This printer has 24bit color?" "But can it run Crysis?"