@Barighm: though I think I'm gonna like origins because of the rpg elements I have to admit you do have a very good point in your last statement. It makes sense that AC is an assassination simulator. After all you are playing an assassin and that's what the first one was about. You had your targets and you had to assassinate them using various means. It's true it would have made more sense if they developed the assassination and stealth aspects of the games further and polished them to reflect how an assassin should play like. But they chose to go with the popular rpg centric direction which seems to be present in all games now and there are valid reasons for that: player has a feeling of progression and is more involved with the character and the world but sometimes when devs do this i can't help but think it's a bit lazy to just go rpg instead of inventing a new and different way of making players feel more involved while staying consistent with what the game is about. Maybe there is no better way. Don't know.
@rezagtxgamespot: indeed. Ocarina of time ran at 20 fps when it came out according to what I read online. Still a lot of people considered it a great game, even today, because of the gameplay, story, etc. People were not focused on what fps it ran at. For me personally I am more concerned about the gameplay rather than fps or resolution. In terms of importance for me it's; gameplay and story, graphics settings, resolution and fps last. For me gameplay and graphics settings/quality is what immerses me more rather than fps. But of course there are limits and I will not accept to play a game that runs constantly below 30 fps. I trust the devs to provide the right balance of all these things. On pc of course we can balance it ourselves.
60 fps at the cost of graphic details and resolution then. You can optimise all you want the hardware can only handle so much. That's true regardless how powerful your hardware is depending on the game your running and what settings you run it on. So at one point you have to make decisions about what to cut back on. It's always going to be about balancing fps, graphic details and resolution. So if you go all out on fps you will have less power left for graphic details and resolution. So your game will be very smooth (provided you don't have stuttering because of too many assets loading for the cpu, ram or vram to handle) but not look as good as a 30 fps game with higher graphical detail and resolution. So you could end up having a game not looking much better than last gen but run smoother. If you lower resolution too much also to get more fps then your game will look blurry. Then you end up with 60 fps frames of blurry objects. Balance is key I would say. So if optimising means balancing those factors to get the best looking game at a target frame rate then fine but sacrificing everything for the sake of a high frame rate is a bit stupid. You might as well remove shadows and colours and all effects in the game and have bare polygons running at high frame rate at 480p.
@craigtl: Lol i see. I was surprised too when I first read months ago people not liking his acting and I thought the same: that this is the character he's playing. Which makes sense for the character's story too. I did notice though that the show itself, be it the writing, the fight scenes, etc. were a bit more boring to me compared to Daredevil for example. I have two critiques on Finn Jones: that he should put a bit more muscle and lower his body fat percentage (that would make the character cooler in my opinion) and that he practises his martial arts better. I'm saying this because I practise bodybuilding since 2004 and he can definitely look much better physically than now. It should not be hard for these actors to have regular high protein, low calorie meals prepared for them, and do 40 minutes of heavy weight lifting three times per week. Overall in the Iron Fist show, the only character that stood out for me and kept me interested in the show was Ward Meachum, although i hate to admit it because i don't like bad guy characters.
@craigtl: the article mentions that the show is focusing on him still. Personally I watched all of ironfist and did not notice his bad acting, but if that is the case and they cannot replace him then they should at least give him acting lessons.
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