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People that still accept the laziness of developers not simply improving their engines, but instead just capping it at 30 frames a second, are the cancer ruining gaming

I can understand that. I don't really PC game, so I guess it hasn't really hit me much.

It should.

I don't understand how my friend so happily plays games on his console (for example farcry 3, fallout 3 ect ect). They all run absolutely terrible. I bought Dark Souls for 360 recently, but it runs like a piece of shit. I refuse to touch it until I make a new PC and play that version.

There are some games that run fine on consoles. But they are few and far in between. I'm pretty sure when The Last of Us comes out, it will run like shit. Companies seem to have the mentality that they can squeeze as much out of the console to make their games look better, and completely disregard how well it runs (as long as it's above 15fps most the time <-- seems to be their motto). People give COD flack all the time, but one of the reasons it's so successful is because it's locked at 60fps. The developers actually realized how important that was (as did the guys who made Rage)

Also I was playing Soul Sacrifice on the Vita. It runs at about 30fps when playing single player. The second you take it online with several people, it drops to literally about 10fps. That is unacceptable. If you can't make your game run smoothly in any situation, you should be toning down the graphics until it does.

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I can understand that. I don't really PC game, so I guess it hasn't really hit me much.

Why do people believe the lie that framerates only affect PC gamers?

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It should.

I don't understand how my friend so happily plays games on his console (for example farcry 3, fallout 3 ect ect). They all run absolutely terrible. I bought Dark Souls for 360 recently, but it runs like a piece of shit. I refuse to touch it until I make a new PC and play that version.

Don't bother, it's a piece of crap port that doesn't even work well after the DSFix mod
Especially if you don't have an Xbox360 controller

Was it ported from the console versions?

fml.

I've never had any problems with Fallout 3 on console.

but yeah, now that I have a PC that can run most games at the highest settings, it's a pretty big difference going back to console games. Still, for how much a 360 costs, the performance is pretty damn good. You can drop $150 on a used xbox and run Borderlands 2, good luck doing that with a PC for the same cost.

Well, a PC can give you a whole lot more than any Xbox360.
And in the long run it'll be a whole lot cheaper to build your own PC and play better versions of games than it is to buy consoles and pay subscription models to play bad builds of mediocre games online every month.

Increased price justified by the fact that a PC is multipurpose. And upgradeable. So in the long run, you'll either be spending $100 - $400 on a new graphics card and maybe a new CPU, or dropping $1000 on the next generation of consoles (which may or may not even run games at an acceptable level anyway).

What did the word "sadfa" mean at Fluidanims on the top of the site? I wasn't there back at the time when it was alive and now I'm seeing it through archived pages [The Wayback Machine].

Quote from TheWhiteSmith

Why do people believe the lie that framerates only affect PC gamers?

Technically your right, it doesn't. But I've been content with playing games at 30 fps for a while now. If I played games at 60 fps on my computer regularly, it would probably be one of my larger complaints I bet.

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Technically your right, it doesn't. But I've been content with playing games at 30 fps for a while now. If I played games at 60 fps on my computer regularly, it would probably be one of my larger complaints I bet.

60 fps is a game like Command & Conquer Renegade or Unreal.

My oh so amazingly wise friend told me an amazing fact today:
"The word could can be expanded out from "I could do that" to "I do happen to be probably going to be able to do that.""
She finds this kind of thing interesting, you know, finding out how to rephrase simple words, not sure why, though. Does anyone here?

I had to read the rephrase twice, and it's still trying to process.
What an interesting friend you have.

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My oh so amazingly wise friend told me an amazing fact today:
"The word could can be expanded out from "I could do that" to "I do happen to be probably going to be able to do that.""
She finds this kind of thing interesting, you know, finding out how to rephrase simple words, not sure why, though. Does anyone here?

You and your friend know nothing of the correct usage of grammar.

I suggest you finish high school before playing with it again, you're making a fool of yourself.

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My oh so amazingly wise friend told me an amazing fact today:
"The word could can be expanded out from "I could do that" to "I do happen to be probably going to be able to do that.""
She finds this kind of thing interesting, you know, finding out how to rephrase simple words, not sure why, though. Does anyone here?

Bertrand Russell's writings devote entire chapters to the logical expansion of the word "the". It's great fun. Statements about non-existent objects switch from being true to false depending on how exactly you interpret the "the"s. I did my dissertation on this kind of stuff.

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What did the word "sadfa" mean at Fluidanims on the top of the site? I wasn't there back at the time when it was alive and now I'm seeing it through archived pages [The Wayback Machine].

I remember that. People found out and were like "EASTER EGG" :O
But I think it was the name of the page theme. (the design)