I played Crysis 2 weeks ago on my 6850 at 1920x1200 4xaa 16xaf enthusiast/VH, and there's no question that it's has higher res textures, but the environment seems dead in comparison to Skyrim.
Taking everything into consideration, Skyrim looks better to me, Skyrim has massive waterfalls that have a degree of realism that 2 dimensional Crysis never did.
Crysis environments are also quite basic now, in fact, take away the high res glory, and they're very unimaginative.
Crysis 2 I'll give you that.
But Crysis 1?
You sure you and I are thinking of the same thing?
No matter how much much I tweaked Skyrim it would never look as good as that.
Sorry for thread hijacking guys.
But Crysis is still easily one of the best looking games out there.
Every time I get a new GPU I boot up Crysis just to see how far I can push the engine : ] if it had multi-core support Cryengine 2 would easily be my favourite XD
I mean skyrim is detailed dont' get me wrong, there is a lot to it.
But it doesn't look as good as Crysis ( or a lot of other games) by a long shot.
Infact when I first loaded up Skyrim I was disappointed at the graphics, it's taken a lot of tweaking and mod downloading to even get it close to looking graphically impressive.