ok, i think high frame rates of things like 60fps are cheap and make things look awful.
this is obvious for anything on film, but i tihnk its also true for video games. The fact gamers think high frame rates are good is because as a community they're critically terrible at judging what looks good.
@siege well the thing is, watching something and playing something are different things
I prefer watching stuff at normal framerates when it comes to movies and TV and stuff, but with games you are in control of what's going on usually
A higher framerate is closer to what your eyes do, as well as minimizing input lag which is important for certain types of game (especially stuff like twitch shooters - not a fan of them but hey people like them)
But yeah different types of media - games aren't made for *watching*, at least not as their primary function
@hazelnot i disagree, your eyes dont actually do that high a frame rate, a lot is blurred brain filling in the gaps and your eyes dont move in a smooth motion, they continually jump from point to point
@siege I feel like if eyes didn't do the equivalent of a high framerate I would literally be unable to pick up on high framerates on a screen lol
But yeah anyway I respect your opinion to prefer slower framerates but maybe don't paint anyone who disagrees as gamers and objectively in the wrong
You're a cool person but I felt attacked by the post cause I'm a designer and my BA thesis was literally about how much Gamers suck
@hazelnot eyes can see things at higher frame rates when they are looking at a singular point ie a screen. But when they are looking at the real world around them they are not staying still, they are continually moving, repositioning, and objects are moving fast in a dimension that means they blur.
@hazelnot on a screen you can transmit more data to the eyeball than it would normally recognise in the real world, which leads to that uncanny valley feeling
@hazelnot why would you feel attacked if your own thesis was that gamers suck?
@siege cause I also prefer high framerates in games and then you implied that anyone who does is a Gamer who has no sense of aesthetics
@hazelnot fair enough