"as it was meant to be played." They don't put quality sliders in games just for shits and giggles.
That may be so, I always crank up the graphics on a game just to see if my card can handle it and it does. The only slider I don't use is AA. It just isn't needed. It's nice, maybe, but not needed. I barely notice it's off. Besides, the speculation for crysis about it being a resource hog was more so that it required an expensive system to play at all period, not just cranked up to the highest settings. Not spending 2000-3000$ on a computer and still enjoying the game to its fullest potential as opposed to doing so and using AA? they cancel each-other out and are therefore meaningless. I play it the way it was meant to be played.