I'm definitely not a car guy.

I remember Crysis 2 mainly for causing actual hardware damage to my graphics card at the time.

(DX11 bug that typically triggered during the evacuation sequence mid-late game was known to cause it on certain devices and driver ranges back then)

WOW!

I honestly doubt this. There are only very few ways software could actually damage hardware.

It is an extremely rare occurrence, but I have witnessed a similar issue with F.E.A.R.

Going by memory here: weren't there cases where Batman: Arkham Knight and Starcraft 2 had FPS limiters disabled, thereby telling the Graphics cards GIVE IT ALL YOU GOT!!! O_O causing some to essentially overcook themselves?

Tehnically that would be hardware damage caused by software.

Unless I misremember things...

Yeah it can absolutely happen with poorly optimized games, iirc something similar happened with Stalker 2 at launch (apart from the memory leaks, some areas just outright crashed your PC and could damage it)

If that were the case the GPU would throttle itself and shut off before actually taking damage. It might be that some older GPUs still can overheat but todays GPUs should be pretty safe.
Even a crash does not damage the hardware.

Small update regarding this. (Did a bit of research.)
Couldn't find anything specific regarding Arkham Knight, but Starcraft 2...

It had a bug that would force the card to work at 100%.

The thing is... it may not be healthy for them, but cards should be capable of working at 100% for extended periods of time.

The only scenarios where this becomes an issue are:

*The GPU isn't well made.
*There's not adequate cooling. (This mostly affects/affected casual gamers, especially laptop users.)

As to why the GPU's didn't shut off when it reached critical temperatures... dunno, maybe stuff was different 15 years ago... in any case - while this bug did make the 'news' back then - it mostly annoyed and made people raise eyebrows as to why their GPU is working like crazy... in the main menu of all places.

My recalling of GPU's around the globe melting was indeed faulty.

On Crysis 1 Remastered the Motion Blur is tied to the Post Processing Quality setting, and Motion Blur is automatically enabled when it is set on High or Very High.
Disabling Motion Blur with PPQ on High or Very High and restarting the game re-enables Motion Blur. Similarly, the Vehicle Camera (Gunner) setting always resets to its default setting after a game restart.

Crysis 2 Remastered does not seem to be able to sync saved games with the cloud.
After quitting the game on GOG Galaxy the play button is grayed out until a client restart. No files seem to be uploading while the button is grayed out.

Edit:
For Crysis 2 Remastered, going to the Extras page of the game on GOG Galaxy and clicking on the Cloud Saves Backup download button, the game performed a cloud sync and downloaded the files it had just synced. Next time I quit the game, cloud sync worked properly.