1080p vs 60fps

[kupomogli]

Dr.EisDrachenJaeger said:

kupomogli said:

As long as framerate is 30fps with no frame drops then I'm fine with it.

I'd rather a game be 720p with better graphics than worse graphics but able to push 1080p.

So if 720/30 can get us better looking games, I'd take that over 1080/30, 720/60, and 1080/60. 

Sometimes I wonder why people rationalize things this way?

Imo  I consider particle effects to be dumb as hell, but you do know that a 1080p image will always be cleaner. No jaggies is always good.  And they're are a variety of effects you can maintain in 1080p at that res.

Long as you dont have shitty ground textures, and is clean/pretty to look at you're good.(Having good character models is also important) You dont need any more than that. Its better for meshing and interacting with the environemnt as well.

Graphics cards can only move data so fast.  You could move four times the amount of data in a 720p/30fps game than you can in a 1080p/60fps game, making it potentially four times better looking.  Well, not exactly four times because you'd have to take away from the degradation you receive losing 1080p.  The game might also be designed to reduce screen size, so removing 1080p resolution might zoom everything in by two, it'll look the same aside from everything being zoomed in(which I actually don't like in games.)