Submitted by Shadowolf 217d ago | opinion piece

60fps? Don’t Believe the Hype


Of course this is all subject to artistic interpretation, vision, and the imagination of the developers. They ultimately choose how to make their respective games, all I ask is for developers not to take advantage of the ignorant gamers who fall for the ‘big number’ marketing and also not to give into fanboys who constantly fan the flames of this ignorant 60fps type of thinking. (Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Halo 4, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One)

Prcko  +   218d ago
30 is enough
malokevi  +   218d ago
Quality over quantity.
ShinMaster  +   218d ago


What matters most to me is frame rate consistency.
For example, Ryse http://youtu.be/VzVlVRe9QYI... runs at 30fps but it tends to have drops and people say it looks the best of all E3 games.
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WrAiTh Sp3cTr3  +   218d ago
"30 is enough"
Oh really?





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Kietz  +   217d ago
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ShinMaster  +   217d ago
@ disagrees

60fps is obviously better than 30fps. We know that.
HammadTheBeast  +   218d ago
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Shadowolf  +   218d ago
Yes it does!
SlapHappyJesus  +   217d ago
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Shadowolf  +   218d ago



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Pandamobile  +   218d ago
"higher framerate doesn't make for a better game"

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wishingW3L  +   218d ago
what a joke. /facepalm
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Pandamobile  +   218d ago
Yeah, it's a trade-off due to technical limitations.

Hicken  +   217d ago


30fps IS an artistic choice, and only that.
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SlapHappyJesus  +   217d ago
Sorry, but I have recently got into PC gaming after spending my life playing on consoles.
Games feel and play a lot better at 60. It's as simple as that. Some games are fine hitting under that, but not the majority.
Games, going back from 60, really do feel sluggish and inaccurate.
AgentSmithPS4  +   217d ago
Riddle me this, why can't game makers let people choose in the options menu if they want 60fps or 30fps. Have two options, shiny pretty mode and ok looking fast mode. I remember in left 4 dead on the pc i made things look ugly so my slow pc wouldn't get me killed.
dcj0524  +   217d ago
Exactly. I don't see whats so hard about that.
mmj  +   217d ago
One of the main reasons developers target 30fps is because they don't have to spend as much time on optimisation, plus if they added a 60fps mode then those people running 30fps would be at a disadvantage online.
AznGaara  +   217d ago
As long as games don't dip below 30fps I'm good but honestly I wouldn't go as far as to call it an artistic choice. The Witcher 2's art style is an artistic choice and at 30fps it's beautiful but at 60fps on Ultra it's gorgeous. I personally like the fluidity of 60fps. It' definitely makes it "feel" more like a videogame than a "cinematic" experience and I'm fine with that.
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fsfsxii  +   217d ago
I want to believe.
eman3d  +   217d ago
As a director of visual story telling, which video games are a part of, you have to decide how you want to present your story. Anyone who know anything about movie production understands the effect different frame rates will have on the look of the movie. None of the comments posted in response to this article addresses this fact.

Any movie you watch at a theater is playing at 24 frames per second anything faster then that and a movie will no longer look like a movie. Thus the point of this article- the director and producer of any video game made decides if they want their game to either look more like a movie which is 24fps or like a video which is 60fps. It's an artistic choice as with any visual medium that tells a story.

You guys seem to think a game or system that can not play a game at 60fps is due to limitations, which may be true in some cases, but is not the standard by which all games should strive for because it's an artistic choice.

The easiest example I can think of is the following: As a fan of movies and a fan of video games, my ultimate dream is for video games to look and play exactly like a movie. For me to turn on a game like Spiderman and it looks no different then it's theatrical counterpart, that would be the ultimate standard for a video game. For this to happen, the system would have to play back the game at 30fps (24fps seconds would be the best) It's as simple as that, anything faster and it looks more like recorded video.

If you still can't comprehend this play any of your favorite movie in your blu rey player and set it at 60fps and notice how 'video game like' the movie begins to look, especially if the movie has cg character such as a super hero or creatures. These animated assets no longer look realistic and begin to look like a video game which in not a good thing.

60fps is a product of geek talk and not artist. Most geeks have no clue on theatrical principles and put their focus on amounts of ram and frame rates. They can fix a computer in their sleep but have no clue about story telling, color theory, photography, lighting, etc. Due to the technological advancements video games are now built more and more on the same principles of Hollywood movies. These principles are hard coded rules which include frame rates for cinema vs frame rates for video. If you want your game or movie to look like what's on the big screen at your local theatre then 60fps is NOT what is needed.
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BallsEye  +   217d ago
Gotta correct you there. Halo 5 was announced to run in 60 FPS. E3 dude.
kakashi81  +   217d ago
@shinmaster, how can 60 fps have bad physics??? last time I checked that was apart of having good physics.

I'm sorry, I know the difference between 60fps DMC4 vs 30 DMC reboot.
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BallsEye  +   217d ago

To whoever disagreed. Halo 5 runs in 60 fps and it's a fact. Look it up. Stop disagreeing because you don't want other consoles to have good games, fanboys.
solidboss07  +   217d ago
This gen (PS3/360) 1080p @60fps - not actually 1080p I know - was exceptional, even 720p @30fps was good. Next gen 1080p @60fps will be the standard from decent studios, no reason for software to fail in reaching this target. Launch window games are struggling but a couple of years in and most games of quality will be 1080p @60fps.
Some people seem to believe that as the next gen progresses more and more titles shall be forced back to 1080p @30fps or 720p @60fps but this is the reverse of how things will be moving forwards.
PS4 games at1080p and 60fps, no worries.
BallsEye  +   217d ago
Maybe in the future we will see more 60 FPS games on ps4. So far the one's that were shown are 30 FPS except multiplatforms like battlefield or call of duty. Drive club killzone and infamous sport 30 fps unfortunately.
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Mkai28  +   217d ago
60 frames just make things look and feel better all around.. Boishock has the feature where you can change it from 30fps to 60fps.. There is screen tearing by this, but they give you the option..
60fps is like standard definition to HD.. It's a big difference..
Destrania  +   217d ago
For me it really depends on the game. I think a lot of games are perfect at a solid 30fps like TLoU, God of War, etc. and then some other games are perfect for 60fps like Burnout, etc.
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Hufandpuf  +   217d ago
Lets compare BF3 on consoles to BF3 on PC for a second. I think EVERYONE on console would have loved the game even more if it were running @60fps. Never have I heard someone say that having lower frames is better. For a movie maybe, but a game? no.
eman3d  +   217d ago
Would you guys rather a video game to look exactly like a movie or a great looking video game???

If you were at the movies watching the new Star Wars and during the movie they paused it, handed you a controller, and told you to now play it as a game and there was no difference from the game and the movie- that would be mind blowing and can only be done at 30fps.

If the goal is for a game to look EXACTLY like a cinematic movie then 30fps is a must- if that's the goal. It has NOTHING to do with how fast a cpu is, it's about cinematography.

There's too many computer geeks making comments and are confused about cinematography and technology and don't realize making video games is no different then making a blockbuster movie which is a beautiful thing.
vinniects  +   213d ago
what you just said makes no sense to me. if halfway through a new star wars it switch to a video game it would still be better at 60fps than 30 fps. the human eye can't tell the difference between the two anyway. that's why movies stop at 24 fps does not make sense for a movie to go faster. But 60 fps second response time for controls is way better than 30 fps. you almost made it sound like going from 30 fps to 60 fps was like hitting the fast forward button on a vcr.

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