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Gaming Do you avoid old games that are only playable in 30fps or less?

I used to not care at all about framerates until I played Dark Souls 2 on the PS3 at 30fps, I reached the Fume Knight and couldn't beat him after a few dozen attempts. Then a couple years later I played the PS4 version at 60fps, fought him again and managed to beat him without struggling nearly as much as I did with the PS3 version. It feels as if doubling the framerate from 30 to 60 also doubles your time to react, even though actions still happen in the same timespan.

For the most part I'll go for a higher framerate if possible, but if a game that I'm interested in only runs at 30fps or lower then I'll just play it that way and probably enjoy it just as much as any higher fps game.
 
When I first started gaming 20fps didn't bother me but when games started running at 30 I couldn't go back to 20. Games running below 30 just feel uncomfortable to play and I can't enjoy them anymore.
 
30 FPS is quite playable. I will always look for a 60 FPS patch, but if there isn't one, it's not gonna stop me from playing a game I like.

I had to play PC games at 30-40 FPS for the longest time because I didn't have a powerful gaming PC. As long as the framerate doesn't drop below 30, it's not that bad.

The bigger problem is games with frequent framerate drops or games that run at 20 FPS (or less), like so many N64 games did. They are kind of tough to enjoy, the framerate becomes a constant distraction/annoyance at that point.
Zelda OoT/MM are so much more enjoyable with a 30 FPS patch. Despite causing a lot of cutscene softlocks, I still rather play them in 30 FPS and toggle it off whenever I encounter a crash.
I played through the entirety of OoT with the Redux patch and 30 FPS turned on for most of the time. I probably encountered 20-30 cutscene softlocks. But the moment I turned it off to pass the cutscene, I immediately wanted to turn it back on again. The extra 10 FPS makes all the difference, even if it sometimes lagged on my Analogue 3D. I couldn't go back to playing it vanilla.
 
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As someone with regular human perception and reflexes; no, 30 fps does not bother me a bit.
 
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I've tried to play ice age game by eurocom, which is hardlocked at 30fps. Sucks ofc, there is framegen build right into GPU drivers nowadays, which is partially solves the issue
 
Taleweaver said:
I don't seek them out nor avoid them. Otherwise said:I don't go checking on that.

I do tend to stretch the aspect ratio a bit for 4:3 games but that's me.
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That just looks awful as you exactly point it out it's being stretched.

Some YouTubers stretch 4:3 videos to 16:9 and they look terrible. Just show it with black bars.
 
4:3 games should always be played in 4:3.

playing NES titles on my 60" 4k with black borders, the screen is still massive compared to the tv's I played those same games on in the 80's and early 90's.

most of us had 16-20" tv's in the bedroom, and the living room "big screen tv's" were usually under 38".

growing up with the early 3D games like stunt race fx, star fox snes, goldeneye, OoT etc., I got used to severe frame dips.

I don't even notice any slowdown in games like Dark Souls 1 & 2 PS3 or ToTK on a Switch 1. They play fine.

I may care more if I gamed on PC with any frequency but I typically play old console games. Most the titles I play are from 1986 to 1999.
 
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Marc_LFD said:
My nitpick with N64 has always been the graphics... They're very, uh, unique. 😅

Still, the games are great.
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the combination of very simple geometry with blurry textures definitely gives that era a unique feel. Zelda OoT is a bunch of square shaped hallways.

It was wild watching home console graphics go from PS1, N64, DC, PS2, GC, Xbox all in under a decade. It was quite a leap. Nothing like the jump from PS3/4/5.
 

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