You know after reading some tidbits of Yahtzee's personal thoughts on some matters I was dead set on giving all of his Zero Punctuation's a five star rating but I was worried. What if a particular video did not warrant five stars? Fortunately, no worries about this video.
Sadly, I heard recently that thanks to A) it needing a super computer to run and the more damaging B) rampant piracy, Crysis has only sold something like 80k copies.
I think the rampant piracy can even partially be blamed on the high spec requirements.
When my last computer ceased to be top of the line, I found myself cautious about buying games. Pretty much nobody allows you to return a PC game, so in the event the game requires a high end PC, there is always the risk that it has the potential to be nothing more than a shiny plastic disc.
(In addition to the fact that anyone with a computer powerful enough to play the game is also going to be adept enough with computers to figure out how to get the game for free).