Twisted Metal: Black on the PS2 introduced me the possibility that 60fps on console games was possible. Jax and Dexter being another.
2000 gamer: Yes, I can get this game to run in 1024x768!
2024 Gamer: At what FPS?
2000 gamer: No it's an RTS.
But honestly, going from software rendering to 3D acceleration with a 3dfx Voodoo 2 accelerator with a whopping 8 MB RAM made me appreciate FPS. I spent several minutes just switching weapons in Jedi Knight and marveling at how quickly that suddenly went.
I think I played Dawn of war at like 20fps on my old potato of a desktop back in the day
Me in 2024 when a game turns the mouse cursor into a sword
Young me downloading a cool mouse icon and 6 browser search bars.
It's my bonsai buddy. how else would I find good deals on the Internet?
And a bit of malware with it. I specifically remember one of those Runescape cursors had a search bar download with it and it was not secure. 10 year old me didn't care though.
Tried doing that as well
Was confused why I couldn't get it working and why my desktop didn't have a <header> tag
Whats surprising is that a lot of those old games…. ran at 60 FPS.
Did they? I remember being told something like "25FPS is enough for everyone".
People said that but I always thought it's bullshit since you could clearly see a difference between 30 and 60 fps.
You are thinking about “cinematic“. And i would argue that being forced for movies is not because it’s better, but because it’s extended use in films gives the low fps an expected quality for movie watchers. The hobbit suffered from success over this.
Back in the day the fps for games was tied to the, i think it’s hrtz off the power lines, it alternates in 60hz in America. Slightly less in the UK.
I would also accept a pointing gauntlet cursor.
Or green clawed hand
Orcs and Humans
I miss the bloody hand in NESticle. I know it's still there and all, but I don't use it anymore and I haven't seen it elsewhere.
My runelite cursor is a poisoned dragon dagger in 2024.
God I love RuneScape.
If you didn’t know, there is an open source version called 2009scape.
I keep it on a USB and play it at work when I’m on lunch and feeling that age old itch to see numbers go up. 😅
Neat!
I wouldn't even care if a game ran at a consistent sub 30 fps. I just refresh the way I feel about what I'm doing. Like when you switch to black and white television, or music written in a different tonal system, or an Adam Sandler movie. Just relax, turn off the analysis, let your ocular systems rewire some stuff, and suddenly you don't even notice anything weird.
But when the fps is all over the place I can't hang anymore.
I've found personally that even with changing refresh rates, variable refresh rate screens eliminate screen tearing and I'm a lot less likely to notice it.
Umm, the last one applies to any year...
Wish the panels were reversed top & bottom.
- 2000 never changes.
... 2022?
Since at least mid 90s you mean?
My personal favorite that does it.
This game was so fucking cool.
This and THPS kept my Dreamcast plugged in
I wonder how it worked, because you had to move your mouse just like a sword.
need a panel with TFW PC gaming in the 80s-early 90s and you come across a game breaking bug and nothing you can do about it and there's no google to look it up
Is this part of the hedonistic treadmill? Or did we just lose the childlike wonder?
