People do have standards, and "solid 30 fps with drops sometimes" is and has been the baseline of those standards for decades now for people who play on consoles.
I don't know about anyone else. But that's a bit insulting to me. Of course people have standard. But it's not always the same as you have. You can't judge other's opinions.
Alternatively, they have standards but frame rates sit so far down the list of things they care about when assessing a game that it's negligible. When frame rates get to the point of Skyrim on PS3 where it was a literal slideshow at launch once your save file got to a certain size, then yeah, I notice it and complain about it. But BotW? Any frame rate complaints sit well below my issues with the the inventory system, lack of story and samey art direction of 100+ shrines, when I didn't even notice the frame rates in comparison. I rarely do, and comparisons to films just don't work for me in interactive media where I'm in it for the immersion, expression and game mechanics, not obsessing over the fidelity. I get that high levels of performance that others can't even see is the highest thing on the list when criticising a game for some, but for me it's only something I notice when it's actively stopping me play it. I'm glad I have a high tolerance for it, I guess.
I love when a thread backfires hahahhaLooking at your post history perhaps you just have a problem with the Switch in general and it's not Zelda which is the problem?
Exactly. I loved OoT. But that was 1998. It's 2021 now. There should be nothing wrong with having higher expectations regarding performance or image quality after 23 years and yet here we are.
When those expectations being met is the exception rather than the norm then yes, maybe you need to adjust them a bit.
Ya, right up there with Outer Wilds. And both run beautifully on PC!
A. Fuck the entire way off with this condescension. Your value systems are not better than anyone else's. Get off your high horse.
For the record, when OoT came out there were 60 fps games already. The framerate was sacrificed in order to create the game envisioned, and going by history, that may have been the best move. BotW is not that different in that sense.
i rmr i saw people feaking out about Mario kart 8 running at 59fps cuz of a bug and they saying how they noticed it and it was "unplayable"
Elitism exists in all sorts of hobbies. From book fans who only read stuff from 50 years ago to movie fans that only watch "classics", these groups exclude and chastise anything that doesn't match their vision of their hobby.
Sure, standards regarding image quality compared to N64/PSone with 240p haven't changed at all. LOL
If that is the truth it means that 99% of all video games age badly
You aren't at all, I think that's very common, it's certainly the way I feel given it rarely makes the list of things I do criticise about games when talking about my impressions of them here. I'd be surprised if I ever had outside of really bad ones, the most recent was The Outer Worlds on Switch.
