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Framerate was always important to an extent. If you had the choice between Doom on the SNES and Doom on the PC, why would you choose the SNES version? If you were a kid at the time, you didn't have much choice so you just stuck with what you had, having Doom on the SNES then cool it was better than having nothing. There was also the novelty of playing in a 3D environments which made up for short comings.

Now a lot of those gamers have grown up, the novelty of 3D gaming has worn off and priorities have simply shifted towards things like performance.



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Qwark said:
Actually it isn't all that important really. If you ask this site which games are the best 8th gen games. Popular answers would be bloodborne, horizon, uncharted 4, zelda botw, witchery 3 etc. You know what all those games have in common besides a high meta they all run in 30fps.

It IS important. Bloodbornes biggest issue wasn't load times, it was frame rate. Having to play Horizon as it occasionally dips was annoying. I couldn't even enjoy The Witcher 3 until I played it on PC - and this was BEFORE I was part of the "PC master race", so I didn't have a basis to go on how much better it would feel with a higher fps. BOTW has multiple areas that make it go down to 20fps. I haven't played enough of Uncharted 4, but the point is frame rate absolutely did affect all of those games. But you're a console player so you wouldn't think that ... 

Frame rate just doesn't affect games enough to end circle jerks. For instance one of my favorite games of all time is Dark Souls on the 360. Now do I wish it ran at 60fps? Yes. Does it not running at that frame rate matter enough to make it significantly worse? In that games case, not really. That doesn't mean it isn't important or that it doesn't affect my enjoyment.



I think it's ironic that the games that are 30 fps are some of the best selling games this year; Zelda Botw, Horizon Zero Dawn, Crash Bandicoot. Really shows that the general consumer really still doesn't care enough to not buy and enjoy the game because of it.



The internet made it more important and yes it matters for me, games like Just cause 3 were horrible to play at moments because of the fps.






When we realized that graphics can't improve much anymore. Resolution bumps are less dramatic. Now there's a preference to have a game be consistent in terms of frame rate, with some people preferring modes for 60 fps too



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I totally agree, threads like this one confuse me. I don't even know how people can tell this isn't 60fps or something like that.

I don't care much about resolution either, but at least it makes sense to me that some people would like detailed graphics (even though I can't see any difference between high resolution and super high resolution).



60fps is a must for many action and fast paced games. 30fps is fine for slower paced ones, but it has to be consistent, and if the fps can be 60fps, then I'd take that over anything else. I'm serious, I'd rather sub-720fps but 60fps, rather than 1080p 30fps.



FPS has always been important. Try going back and playing the GTA games on PS2 with their max 24fps and dips. Today devs have tools and technologies that make 30fps feel great on consoles but on PC 30fps is usually terrible cos of higher resolution, less bloom and maybe other reasons that I don't know.



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Deus Ex (2000) - a game that pushes the boundaries of what the video game medium is capable of to a degree unmatched to this very day.

Since late last gen FPS seems to have been more important.



AngryLittleAlchemist said:
You know what i'm tired of? People making an appeal to the past. "It wasn't important when I was alive! It wasn't important when I was a gamer!" Who gives a fuck.

Something being important recently doesn't make it not important. FPS IS important and if someone decides not to buy a game because of it that's fine.

FPS deniers are cringy as fuck

I sorta agree with this. If a game runs like shit and can barely hit 30fps then that's a good reason not to buy a game but if someone is a console gamer is complaining that a gam isn't 60fps then that's a bad reason not to buy a game because it might not be able to run at 60fps.

This is why PC gaming is superior because most games you can get to run at 60fps.