Beware, if you are a PC gamer then this might be a redundant post to you, as this is more a Caveman discovers fire moment for myself.
Now I've never been someone who's detested the 30fps experiences, I've actually loved the filmic like feel they gave when playing select titles and although I enjoyed having more frame rates it was not the be all or end all of my enjoyment with a title. This is also helped by my lifetime gaming mostly being spent on consoles and only using my PC to play the likes of Football Manager and making music.
However that has changed with my recent time spent with Miles Morales on the PS5. I started my playthrough with the fidelity mode and was loving my time with the title, it felt smooth and looked the part with its native resolution and amazing raytracing techniques.
I was an hour or so in when I thought to myself "let's try the performance mode and see what it's about", that was when I was introduced to an entirely new level of immersion in titles. The second I started to just look around me I could see the difference in fluidity, how the crowds bustled through the snow coated concrete sidewalks and how the traffic seemed that more life like as they moved with a newfound motion that can't be seen with 30fps gaming. Then I leapt from the building I was spending my time surveying the city from.
Every second spent in the air was glorious, how I'd swoop down low like a bird of prey to enrage the swarms of traffic that would answer to me by slamming their hands on their wheels to berate me with bibs.
Even the way I would contort in the air as I would gather my momentum only to freefall into the streets below would blow my mind away even after I did it for the hundredth time.
Now maybe I'm gushing too much about such a regular aspect of gaming for many PC users, but I feel this is the start of a golden age for console gaming. The ability to freely choose how you want your experience to be in such noticeable ways is welcomed for myself and has fully converted me into someone who will from now on always prioritize framerate over your bells and whistles you'd get with raytracing and native resolutions.
Tldr: 60fps gaming on consoles becoming commonplace is the lightbulb moment we've needed, even if it has come way too late compared to our PC using brothers and sisters.
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. It hides most of games animations imperfections, which adds to immersion. But having both choices on every game is a must now so one can choose from what suits him/her better.
