Why (Destiny)

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Friday, April 11, 2014, 15:31 (3888 days ago) @ Revenant1988

Why?

Who cares?

Why should I care?

Why do people give a shit about FPS in gaming?

I just don't get it. It's one of the silliest pissing contests in PC and console gaming.

Oh game X on PS4 is XFPS but less FPS on Wii U [ooooooooooo.jpg]

I don't care.

I just want my games to be fun.

A game can look like "shit" and still be fun.

Look at these graphics! LOOK AT THEM! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE GRAPHICS OMG

\end rant

Sorry.

It is partly an aesthetic thing; smoother motion often just plain looks better.

But it's very much a gameplay discussion. Games with fast game logic and graphics cycles offer a more nuanced view of input and response, and have lower input lag (if we imagine a classically double-buffered case and assume non-graphics costs are negligible, the average time from button press to screen response will be 25ms faster in the 60fps case than the 30fps one; the difference is frequently more extreme in real-world cases).

Or look at it this way: would you still say framerate is irrelevant to fun if someone locked your Xbox to output to something silly low like 10fps? Obviously it will start to seem meaningfully if you push it low enough. Is 30fps high enough that we shouldn't care? It sure isn't high enough that would can't perceive or make use of higher.