WHEN did FPS become important!!

[Qwark]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

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 in general don't even play nearly enough games to really care all that much about FPS to be honest. Since I cherry pick the few games that I play on yearly basis and mostly those are very cinematic to begin with. I completed 4.5 games this year (hellblade being the .5). One of those being Nier Automata which framerate was unstable as hell.

But in the end for me and many reviewers it is rather simple 60fps doesn't make or break a game for most consumers and if it does those people should go Nintendo and PC. I can't remember the last 60fps game I played that I thought was really great. I think Uncharted 4 and Bloodborne (even with all its  FPS problems) are vastly superior to every PS4 game which happen to play in 60fps.

A stable 60+ fps is of course preferable over 30fps  (more is always better) but for most console games simply not achievable, since the hardware and especially the CPU are rather pathetically weak. I played hellblade uncapped for the most part, but I tought that the blurry 900p was more anoying than the 30fps. Thanks to the fact that the CPU in my Laptop and TV are probably stronger than the one in my PS4. But that's the burden of playing sole on consoles and not playing enough to justify building a 4k HDR pc.