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JackHandy 15 hours ago
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Dante9 said:
Chrkeller said:

As a PC gamer 60 fps is acceptable but very lacking.  120 fps cruches 60 fps and is my default.  Console gamers can keep not caring, but 120 fps will be the next big thing for them, they just dont know it yet.  

It will be funny watching the diminishing returns crowd get super excited about the S2 pro or S3.  

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I also find it dumb when console gamers claim diminishing returns when their hardware cant even do basic ray tracing well, when path tracing is a huge jump.  

Look, I don't even know what framerate I'm running in games, your holy numbers don't mean anything to me. And I don't play FPS games, so it matters even less. Sure, there have been games sometimes that actually felt a little stiff to operate, I guess that meant the framerate was bad. I haven't really experienced that kind of slowness since the PS3, so it's not an issue for me and I bet it's not an issue for most console gamers.

It seems to be true that people perceive this kind of thing differently, some are more sensitive to framerate than others. We might be in the opposite ends of the spectrum. Or I would have to have both versions running in front of me at the same time to see the difference. Every platform is so good nowadays. You watch Digital Foundry comparison videos and it mostly feels like geeks nitpicking over random pixels.

Can we just say that PC gamers are happy, console gamers are happy, everybody is happy and leave it at that? Maybe I missed what the original spat was about here, sorry if that's the case.

I use to make the same claims and have the same opinions about frame rates... until my kid wanted me to download Fall Guys for my Switch 1 so we could play together. I was new to the game, which didn't help, but you would have thought I was a new gamer period. I sucked so bad at it. Like, eye-brow-raisingly bad. I had no idea why until I decided to download it and play it on my PS5. The difference was night and day, and I'm not talking about visuals. The doubling of the frame rate literally doubled my skills, if not tripled them. Just from the frame rates being added.

So I am now a believer. I will still play retro games with low frame rates, but modern ones? I look for the versions with the highest rates. Anything else is just handicapping me.