TotalBiscuit takes over GOG to cut prices on his favorite games

YouTuber TotalBiscuit has partnered with GOG.com to provide discounts on over 30 of his favorite games. The weekend sale runs through July 21.

[Perjoss]

Used to be a huge fan of this guy but he has become such a frame rate elitist now, his videos are just full of whining and very little quality talk about gameplay, design and all the other things that really matter.

A game is rubbish unless its 60+ fps? please can you just climb out of your own *** and pay us a visit back in reality.

[TWB]

I think he is not saying that the game is rubbish because its not 60 FPS. First and foremost, he has said that he's now so used to high framerates that he cant play at sub 60 anymore (which I think is sad but thats his point which I can understand.)

The second reason why he complains about it so much is usually either because the game runs horribly (poorly optimized) or because the developer has introduced a 30 FPS hard lock which is completely ass backwards for PC gaming. He's raisin awareness about this stuff so it wont even remotely become a norm in PC gaming. I have seen a rise in games that are hard locked, thats terrible IMO.

PC gaming is about freedom of choice, restrictions like 30 FPS framelock goes completely against that and arguably makes mouse controls much worse.

*when I play on PC, I usually always aim at 60 FPS, 40 at minimum but I can still stand playing console games at 30 no problem (or in the case of old games, 25 FPS PAL) but when you are used to having mouse which you use to point at stuff which usually follows your movement precisely without huge latencies, then go to play a game at 30 FPS, the movement latency is extremely noticeable and can be distracting depending on the game.

[DragoonsScaleLegends]

It's not arguable that it makes mouse controls worse, it's a fact! I don't like using mouse and keyboard for any games except for games like Minecraft but if it's running lower than 60fps it feels horrible. With a controller 30fps is playable but it still feels much better at 60fps. Destiny is a perfect example, my aim is so off in that game simply because of the laggy feel the controls have at 30fps. COD while it has been a horrible franchise the past couple of years at least they always hit 60fps which is why they are one of the few console developers who understand games should always hit that number. The Last of Us played so much better at 60fps. Even inFamous Second Son at around 45fps felt so much better than 30fps.

[Perjoss]

I totally agree about the mouse look controls not being very good under a 30fps lock but if you look on his Steam curators group you will see a ton of games that are meant to be played with a control pad. Playing a game with a pad at 30fps is perfectly acceptable, this is why you see games like Uncharted and RDR getting insanely high review scores, not to mention being awarded GOTY.

I honestly think he is doing more harm than good, if this kind of thing takes off it might scare some smaller developers from porting their games to PC, I'd much rather play a game at 30 than not play it at all.

If he cannot play games at 30 because he's so used to 60 there is nothing wrong with that at all, but he really is pushing this and trying to convince everyone that his way of playing a game is the only way. He kind of gives PC gamers a bad name because we don not all fall under the elitist masterrace category.

Edit: on topic though, his GoG sale list is actually pretty good.

[TWB]

@The reply to me.

The thing is, framerate does not correlate to studio size most of the time. If the developers tie the game physics to framerate and lock it or just design the game with the basic idea of locking it to 30, its poor game design and should be brought up unless they have a really special reason to do so (animated game, turn base etc. He didnt bother with it too much in his last video because it was turn based.).

This used to be the case with games 20-30 YEARS ago for different reasons (maybe HW and SW limitations of old games and how they were made to the machines) but at this day and age there should be zero reasons for such nonesense. Thats the key point with his 30 FPS lock hate.

Even those that port their games from the mobile phones with 30 FPS lock (which is understandable in moblie enviroment to save power) do a LAZY work if they cannot remove the lock or tied the physics to framerate which leads back to the "stupid design decision" point.

Do you get it now? I think its legit criticism.