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[A Serious Man]

So "WoW on a laptop in 2004" mode.

 

[DarkLordMalik]

Good choice. The human eye can only see in 15 fps anyways.

 

[KingSnake]

This happens when you fail to acknowledge a joke post.

 

[EvB]

What a waste of time and money.

Not when a bunch of kids can Play it on their integrated graphics cards or their Parent’s old work laptop!

Cha ching.

 

[LeonSPBR]

.... What??? Who asked for this???

 

[Dr.Tentacle]

Maybe... this is one of the reason why it delayed.....

 

[Dynasty]

What a waste of time and money.

Not really, probably wasnt that hard to implement.

 

[ZombAid82]

Silent cinematic framerate, nice!

FTFY

 

[THe_DeiCiDe]

Bloodborne fans

Getout.gif

 

[IronicSonic]

Drop the resolution, add some fog, and you got a Nintendo 64 nostalgia mode going.

This

 

[takriel]

Who the fuck enjoys playing at 15 fps?

 

[Gaz Pwnage]

I uhhhhh

 

[koutoru]

It's more options, so....whatever, I guess.

 

[RobertRaviolli]

This sounds like Rare didn't pick on the sarcasm

 

[Dunkley]

Blighttown fans

FTFY.

Maybe... this is one of the reason why it delayed.....

Better than being delayed for Denuvo.

 

[Serious Sam]

Perfect for the Switch.

I know you are trolling/shitposting but still I want to point out that Switch right now is a console with the highest ratio of silky smooth 60FPS titles of all current consoles. Digital Foundry calculated that around 70-80% of all Switch games run at 60FPS.

 

[Diprosalic]

Okay.

 

[FelipeMGM]

that does sound a little weird, but hey, this should allow more people to play the game so its actually cool

 

[Ghost Slayer]

144p please

 

[Danneee]

I sense a future where people will claim that the human eye can't see more than 15fps and Neogaf will be full of 30fps warriors.

Edit: they Should have added a 320*240 mode for that genuine pixel art feeling.

 

[TarNaru33]

It's more options, so....whatever, I guess.

Don't be like this, laugh with us lol.

 

[giancarlo123x]

That sounds fucking awful, why?

 

[sirap]

How badly optimized is this game for there to be enough players saying "I'm happy with 15fps"?????

 

[EvB]

Hopefully they’ve optimised the GUI to work on 4K and 540p

 

[Rymuth]

I could see implanting a B/W filter for that old timey Pirate serials.

15 fps is such a specific choice

 

[Nibel]

Bloodborne fans

 

[Alx]

For people who are often on the move with a PC/tablet not designed for gaming, it's better to have a game running fine with lower details than no game at all (or having to fall back on minesweeper and solitaire)

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Rare lost their Xbone dev kits and had to take their N64 ones out of storage.

 

[Kouichi]

Hey more options for weaker PCs. I see no problem with this.

 

[jacobeid]

What the hell?

 

[Pancakes R Us]

If no one talks and barely anyone cares about your game you gotta make your own press

This shit just got real .jpg

I actually forgot all about this game.

 

[DongBeetle]

it's below our Rare certified min spec

Banjo-Tooie and Perfect Dark?

 

[EvB]

15 fps is such a specific choice

Yeah because god forbid you get screen tearing!

 

[Chobel]

A desperate attempt to make it into the news?

.

 

[oldsnakebro]

People wanted 15 FPS?!! Are you kidding me?

 

[ClosingADoor]

It's so kids can play on really crappy PCs I guess. Well, if they want to, whatever, good or them.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Now it sounds like a Rare game.

 

[Dunkley]

Edit: they Should have added a 320*240 mode for that genuine pixel art feeling.

Only if it has N64-like AA and blur passes.

 

[Dark Cloud]

If no one talks and barely anyone cares about your game you gotta make your own press

Damnnnn

 

[Stilton Disco]

This is actually really cool, both from a nostalgia point of view, and because it's incredibly refreshing to see a developer acknowledge the fact that there's more to PC gamers than just the people on high end rigs playing everything on max settings at 4K/120fps.

Quite honestly, something like this may well allow more people to play this in an enjoyably, stable way than there are folks that even own a machine that meets the recommended spec.

So yeah, scoff all you like, but I say well done Rare!

 

[Gambit]

That's awesome. What could benefit the game even more is increased input lag.

 

[KratosEnergyDrink]

Is this some kind of morbid marketing stunt?

Otherwise what are the developer smoking? Obviously not the good stuff...

 

[Bits N Pieces]

A desperate attempt to make it into the news?

Its not exactly a press release or a statement, its a question asked to a dev by some press during a Gamescom interview.

 

[SuperBanana]

I'm going to guess there's some horrendous tearing or fluctuating and the best they could do was lock it at 15 and the "fans" wanted a consistent framerate.

 

[CaviarMeths]

I'm sure there's people out there who don't mind lower frame rates, but nobody who cares enough to actually know what '15fps' means wants to play like that, come on.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Thinking about it maybe that's the resolution the Xbox One base hardware runs the game at and they are setting expectations now.

It's a design choice.

 

[Rymuth]

A desperate attempt to make it into the news?

Any publicity is good publicity. 😎

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

I'm going to guess there's some horrendous tearing or fluctuating and the best they could do was lock it at 15 and the "fans" wanted a consistent framerate.

It runs fine on Xbox so there's no reason to think otherwise on PC.

Because people are obviously too lazy to click the link in OP:

At launch Sea of Thieves will have wide FOVs and will support 4K and 60fps, says the game's executive producer Joe Neat, however those playing on less powerful machines will be considered too.

"We're trying to go as low as possible," explains Neat. "We have an idea of what the minimum specs are but aren't quite ready to reveal them. We've actually been inviting people below our current plan for minimum specs into the technical alpha so we can test a number things on the performance side. This game looks so great regardless of the device you're playing on. Of course it's gonna look great in 4K, 60fps but it also looks great at minimum spec because the art style is purposefully timeless."

 

[Triggerhappytel]

If no one talks and barely anyone cares about your game you gotta make your own press

A desperate attempt to make it into the news?

Yeah, this sounds like throwing out a quote to try and ensure the game gets mentioned in the news.

 

[Jonneh3003]

This is actually really cool, both from a nostalgia point of view, and because it's incredibly refreshing to see a developer acknowledge the fact that there's more to PC gamers than just the people on high end rigs playing everything on max settings at 4K/120fps.

Quite honestly, something like this may well allow more people to play this in an enjoyably, stable way than there are folks that even own a machine that meets the recommended spec.

So yeah, scoff all you like, but I say well done Rare!

Yeah it's harmless and includes as many players as possible