Ratchet and Clank PS4 analysis (DigitalFoundry)

[DivinePaladin]

spemanig said:

HoloDust said:

I don't think they would go with 60fps, no matter how much GPU juice you give them, they would still go with 30fps and better visuals (game looks great, but let's be realistic, that's not Pixar level, let alone ILM with Rango). It's simply design decision, just like, let's say, Zelda@30fps is design decision.

I know it's a design decision. A bad one. Zelda is a seamless, massively open world game on 7th generation-level hardware. It's trading off framerate for a larger more seamless world, something that directly, tangibly, and possitively effects gameplay. It's also already made sacrifices to the aliasing, resolution, and texture quality, is cel-shaded, and uses other means of lowering visial fidelity to achieve this, so there's not much else they could do to the game without making it literally not function. I can respect that design decision, as their hands were tied on that one and they made sacrifices in all areas technically possible to make it work.

If R&C was an open world game on 7th generation-level hardware, I'd be forgiving of 30fps for it too. But it's not. If Zelda isn't 60fps when it's ported to NX, I will be just as critical, because it won't have the alibi on stronger hardware that it currently has on its weaker hardware. PS4 and XBO both ran MGSV at 60fps in an open world. NX should be doing it too with Zelda.

MGSV also had a budget MUCH higher than this AA-at-best game. The movie AND game combined had a $40m budget, which is tiny for either medium - and MGSV alone probably reaches around five times that amount. 

 

A game is only as powerful as its budget dictates, and Insomniac has lived off of small budget games its entire career. 

 

Stop being argumentative and arguing good or bad in a subject that doesn't have black and white. You know better than to hyperbolize. If this developer, who has made successful low budget games for 20 years, can do so better at 30FPS, then who is somebody on the web to dictate it's a bad decision? Come on.