AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Actually, that didn't prove "his" point. Nothing in that reply stated or even hinted at me caring about frame-rate or resolution. So it didn't prove anything. The point of the reply was "of course a developer would say that, they're selling a product". Which .... is true. If he said the opposite he wouldn't be doing his job, but of course he never really had to state that in the first place. I also don't think his point is very valid. Don't get me wrong, fun will always be more important than resolution, graphical quality and framerate. But using that quote to excuse problems in those areas isn't good, especially when DooM is a game that actually benefits from a high framerate. Proving a point doesn't always give it credence, either. If he says that, and someone responds to him and says "framerate and resolution are important for x,y, and z reasons" it doesn't matter how well thought-out those counter-points are, his point would still be proven, since it was essentially "people care about framerate and resolution" and not something that automatically makes you correct if your point is proven. It's just an observation that causes the developer disappointment, not some undeniable strong argument. If his point is that people shouldn't care about frame rate or resolution, then my reply, or the many other replies in the thread have not proven his point since it has not been shown that they don't matter. But again, my comment didn't prove his point in any scenario. The point is that of course a developer would say that, duh. |
"I’m bummed some gamers focus on framerate or resolution, and don’t focus on, ‘Is it fun?’ or ‘Does gameplay feel good?'"
Outside of mentioning fun once, all you've gone on about is framerate and resolution. You still haven't addressed his point- "‘Is it fun?’ or ‘Does gameplay feel good?'" The overwhelming consensus being that it delivers on the core Doom experience.
Whatever your point was meant to be (not that anyone asked), you still have only focused on writing waffle about framerate and resolution, and haven't actually addressed if the game is a worthy port of Doom (just because it benefits from high framerate, doesn't mean it's a different game without it).
Your original smartass comment, while maybe correct, was unnecessary and still didn't make any mention on if the game delivered the core Doom experience.
So yes, you are now pretty much a caricature of what he was describing.
And no, I don't bear a grudge against you. But you keep saying these things, and I keep having to write these responses I don't want to write.
