

Battlefield 3 looked and sounded better than Call of Duty, but CoD’s gameplay prevailed, and a big part of why was that Call of Duty’s performance helped make it more enjoyable for a lot of people. After all, it’s a rare sight to see an MP action game release without a 60fps mode today, and that’s a trend that Call of Duty spet into motion way back on 360 when even casual players who didn’t know the terminology would openly wonder why other shooters never felt as ‘smooth’ to play (a common refrain that all but evaporated when Halo, Battlefield, and almost every other competitor made the jump to 60fps last generation). I think there's been far too much insults thrown around in general in these type of threads that it makes me hardly want to participate.Ĭlick to shrink.I don’t think the facts support the notion that performance simply doesn’t matter today. And there's been games where the performance is so bad that I don't even want to play it, but you won't catch me looking down on people who don't mind it either. For multi-plats I tend to go for higher performing one. This also means that while the game can be rough at first, ports and remasters can really bring it back to life, and at that point I'm glad they decided to push things to their limits on the original, weaker hardware.Ħ0fps and above make everything better, I agree with that. As it turns out, that scope is what got me hooked on those games.


Either way, I was able to get used to it because I know that the PS3 just wasn't that capable all things considered, and the bad performance is often the trade off they had to make in order to achieve the scope they wanted. I recently went back to a few PS3 games that I remember loving, but the performance on some of them was a massive surprise, it felt like a fluctuating 25fps. I think that context matters a lot in how I decide to judge a games' performance. And I wasn't bothered by its performance, I was mostly impressed that a game like this was able to run on a tablet that's a few years old now.

When I played through Breath of the Wild for the first time about a year ago, I enjoyed it more than any console Zelda I'd ever played.
