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My brother or sister in pixels, this is not the same. I’m not a graphics snob. I still play pixelated, barely discernible nonsense games. When I updated from 30 to 144, it was a whole new world. Now even 60 can feel sluggish. This is not a graphical fidelity argument. It’s input and response time and motion perception. Open your mind, man. Accept the frames.
And that matters for certain games, a lot. But it doesn't functionally matter at all for others. Same as the transition to polygons. My point, which I thought I stated clearly, was not "FPS BAD!!", it was "FPS generally good, but stop acting like it's the single most important factor in modern gaming."
Simply put, if everything was 144fps then it would be easier on the eyes and motions would feel more natural. Even if it's just navigating menus in a pixel style game.
Real life has infinite frames per second. In a world where high fps gaming becomes the norm, a low 24 fps game could be a great art style and win awards for its 'bold art direction'.
Not really. Real life is as many FPS as your eyes can perceive, which is about 60 (though it can vary somewhat between people). See: https://www.healthline.com/health/human-eye-fps#how-many-fps-do-people-see
Yeah, as much as I can give a shit about ray tracing or better shadows or whatever, as a budget gamer, frame rate is really fucking me up. I have a very low end PC so 60 is basically max. Moving back to 30 on the PS4 honestly feels like I'm playing PS2. I had the [mis]fortune of hanging out at a friends house and playing his PC rig with a 40 series card, 240hz monitor, etc, and suffice it to say it took a few days before I could get back to playing on my shit without everything feeling broken.
That's more or less the placebo effect at work, though. Most people cannot see "faster" than 60FPS; the only actual upside of running higher FPS rate is that you don't go below 60 in case the game starts to lag for whatever reason. Now, you may be one of the few who actually see perceive changes better than normal, but for the vast majority, it's more or less just placebo.
You can literally see the difference between 60 and 144 when moving the cursor or a window on your desktop. What are you on about
That's just wrong. I couldn't go back to my 60Hz phone after getting a 120Hz new one. It's far from placebo, and saying otherwise is demonstrably false.