Hindsight is 20/20. The same way someone who has never played a ps4/xbox one won't care/notice the lack of FPS/etc.
[Update 2] How/why are console gamers satisfied with 30 fps?
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I got a better question, how are they satisfied with over priced lackluster games that are mostly interactive film with shallow mechanics and lacking depth all around?
FPS is the telegraphed dick size insecurity of the gaming community. Any time someone cares a little too much about their FPS, I assume they care a little too much about their car and their gun collection as well.
Having swapped to PC gaming after I had a fucking disastrous experience with the 360's DLC, here's why people who use consoles probably don't care:
-It's harder to tell the FPS difference from a couch looking at a TV 10+ feet away than it is to tell the differences from a monitor only a few feet away.
-No console game outside of a fighter is ever going to really require such precise input that the difference in frames would give you some massive competitive edge.
-Most people experience games through consoles, so it's rare to even see a game run at a native 60 FPS, so you just naturally acclimate to 30 as time goes on.
-Most people probably just don't care.
I do think it's cheap that with the dick stroking they did with the new consoles they still can't muster more than 900p and 30 FPS, but I'm not gonna sit here and laugh at people who use consoles. Consoles are fun for their own sets of games and in a party space are unrivaled. The longer you PC game, the easier it is to tell the differences in FPS and, for me personally, it does effect my fun when my game starts to chop and lag on my monitor 2 feet away from my face. Still, on a console? Who cares?
-It's harder to tell the FPS difference from a couch looking at a TV 10+ feet away than it is to tell the differences from a monitor only a few feet away.
-No console game outside of a fighter is ever going to really require such precise input that the difference in frames would give you some massive competitive edge.
-Most people experience games through consoles, so it's rare to even see a game run at a native 60 FPS, so you just naturally acclimate to 30 as time goes on.
-Most people probably just don't care.
I do think it's cheap that with the dick stroking they did with the new consoles they still can't muster more than 900p and 30 FPS, but I'm not gonna sit here and laugh at people who use consoles. Consoles are fun for their own sets of games and in a party space are unrivaled. The longer you PC game, the easier it is to tell the differences in FPS and, for me personally, it does effect my fun when my game starts to chop and lag on my monitor 2 feet away from my face. Still, on a console? Who cares?
in the car game all I see is a little bit of motion blur and a dude that's dressed like a Power Ranger driving. Luckily he's the green ranger so we all know he's the best! I don't see how a miniscule amount of motion blur will make a disadvantage in my enjoyment/playability of a gameGundam GP01 said:
in the third one with the bouncing block... I don't really play bouncing block games but I can't tell the difference between 30 or 60... I guess 60 fps is faster but how does that affect a game? I've played every Mario game since the NES and never had any problems measuring jump distances or the speed I was going at... this doesn't change anything
the other link doesn't work
the only time FPS matter is in fighting games and I think shooters (I don't play shooters so I can't really say) anyways this only affects when the game allows for different FPS in multiplayer games. So that you end up with an advantage or disadvantage based on FPS, most games though lock the fps at 30 now a days so this doesn't really affect anybody anymore
also I think the biggest reason I can enjoy a console game is because the game is fun. FPS, graphics, etc. matter little if the game is crap. Just look at all the old Mega Man games, those are really cool and great games that are still enjoyable today, and they run at like 15 fps
... I couldn't tell a difference between the videos in any of those links. The 30 and 60 consistently looked identical.Gundam GP01 said:
Just sayin'.
OT: Why don't I care? Because I don't play games that require reaction times equal to 1/60th of a second. The most recent game I played (on a console or otherwise) was Child of Light. Which is TURN BASED.
I also play a lot of games on PC. Turn based or "real time with pause for commands" RPGs.
Thus I am perfectly happy with 30fps.
I have my PS3 hooked up to an old tube style TV. No HD graphics to see things in the distance, 30fps from the console, and I still regularly get top of the lobby or close in FPS games on it. So, really, the frames per second and special graphics mean nothing if you have skill at the game...
The human eye does not have a framerate or a resolution. This whole "your eyes can't see higher than X" is complete nonsense.
30 FPS is fine enough for me, unless it's a fighting game. If fighter run on 30 FPS it's unplayable, otherwise I don't give a damn.
After recently getting a 144hz G-sync monitor.
The idea of playing games at at least 40-100 FPS lower, just seems laughable.
I guess the problem with consoles is you simply don't get a say in the matter.
It's 30FPS, or nothing. So, I suppose most are "Satisfied" because they simply can't choose.
The idea of playing games at at least 40-100 FPS lower, just seems laughable.
I guess the problem with consoles is you simply don't get a say in the matter.
It's 30FPS, or nothing. So, I suppose most are "Satisfied" because they simply can't choose.
I've played many a game going from 30-60fps and honestly I'm fine with either, hell I still play C&C Kane's Wrath and Red Alert 3 on PC (originally 360) and on all platforms those two games are locked at 30 and it's never once bothered me, the only time I've been bothered is when I had a lower end PC years back and wasn't able to run games on bare minimum back then so the FPS would diver from 30 to 12fps and only then did it bother me but apart from that small experience I'm totally fine with 30fps.
Also like some have said it only seems to be PC people that start these threads, there's no changing their opinion, why try to change people like me who are fine with either?, you don't really gain anything at all from this and I certainly don't either, it feels like a "I'm right you're just plain wrong" type of discussion, why must we keep having those if they go nowhere?.
Also like some have said it only seems to be PC people that start these threads, there's no changing their opinion, why try to change people like me who are fine with either?, you don't really gain anything at all from this and I certainly don't either, it feels like a "I'm right you're just plain wrong" type of discussion, why must we keep having those if they go nowhere?.
