By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
SvennoJ on 13 January 2019
Edit Thread
thismeintiel said:
CGI-Quality said:

In gaming, it is far less about preference. The hardware will always be the drawback, especially considering that devs push visuals over frames per second (though this will continue to change). The latter is where the money is. Doesn't mean 30fps magically is more realistic than 60. And what I can tell you ~ real life is far closer to 60 fps than 30. Things aren't choppy in the world I live in. 

Lol, 30 FPS is not choppy.  Let's not use hyperbole to try and win a debate.  There is nothing choppy about a locked in 30 FPS. 

And every game could run at 60 FPS if devs so chose.  Sure, they would have to lower some of the fidelity, but it is possible.  Doom, for example, is still a really good looking game.  And while it is really fun to play, that 60 FPS screams that I am playing a video game.  Things do not move that smoothly across your eyes in the real world.  This is the same reason 48 FPS film failed.  While many people are fine with higher framerates in games, as it is a game, they do not want that in their films where it is supposed to be capturing lifelike images.  So, there is much more to the 30 FPS vs 60 FPS and 24 FPS vs 48 FPS than just HW limitations.  It is most often a preference. If I were making a game that I was aiming at complete realism, there is no way I would want it to run higher than 40 FPS.

It's not more lifelike, it's more dream like, what movies should be. You can do a lot more with exposure and lighting with 24 fps. You can suggest a lot more with 24 fps. You can hide a lot less with 48 fps or 60 fps. Games choose to hide things in the dark to suggest more than there is. That works for movies as well, however a lower frame rate is just as effective.

Games also use all kinds of filters to make it look more 'realistic', especially motion blur. That pretty much contradicts the whole higher frame rate is better. Games try so hard to simulate (bad) cameras, it's not even funny anymore. Bloom, blur, lens flares, chromatic aberration, depth of field,  camera shake, fake HDR, film grain.  Yet without it they look sterile and fake.

Anyway the most important reason is, 24 fps enough to perceive smooth motion while leaving enough room for the brain to add its own interpretation. Movies don't aim for realism, they aim for make belief.