*S*T*A*R*F*I*E*L*D* / Starfield

30fps on console.

www.eurogamer.net/starfield-locked-to-30fps-on-console-bethesda-confirms

Predictable for Bethesda, but wank.

I'd be alright with 30fps if they hadn't seemingly made it a twitch shooter.

If there's a VATS style option, that would massively help.

Not 30fps!!

And that’s the thing- someone like Naughty Dog would be able to properly optimise and lock things down- Bethesda with the JankEngine 10.0?

Mind blown.
The nature of the game’s irrelevant, I’m talking about the sort of quality optimisation some studios manage and Bethesda have *always* been weak at. I don’t want to play a 30fps game but I’m especially going to avoid one that hovers in the choppy late twenties to early thirties I suspect this will.

It's gonna be another classic Bethesda launch isn't it. Loads of hype but at least one version will be unplayable, and all with have random crashes and amazing glitches until we're a year in.

I'm so desperate for another proper Bethesda single player that I don't think I'll be able to hold out until they've actually fixed it though.

And I'm a fully paid up member of the 'bought Skyrim on PS3 at launch, only to discover after 50hrs that it was so fundamentally and hilariously broken (it had a sort of degenerative disease) that the only option was to start again on a different platform' club.

Can't be as bad as that again surely?

Imagine playing this when it was originally supposed to come out. Glad it's had extra time.

Well they're only building for PC and Xbox this time so you hope it will give them more focus. Besides I think at the time the Creation Engine was more favourable to 360 than anything else. We'll have to wait and see.

This was always going to be 30fps. Most of the built-for-this-gen console games are going to target that. A few might have CPU headroom for a 40 or 60fps mode but I think that'll be less and less the case over time.

It's a console, at the end of the day. PC will be where the real action is, for those games that get ported.

I fully concur with the sentiment above though: I'm willing to accept a locked 30 if I have to, but if it's a wobbly 30 then they can get fucked.

I’m slightly amazed so many people were expecting this to be 60fps. Not a chance in hell that was ever going to be a thing.

I was misled by the fact that every other action / RPG / shooter I currently have loaded, from Fallout 3 to Destiny 2 (and Origins Odyssey Valhalla Cyberpunk Forza BFV Hell Let Loose Elite No Mans Sky, and even Arma Reforger, which they will probably never even finish) are 60fps, so imagined that was now a benchmark. Clearly not.

I hope it's in HD.

I'm going to sound like an apologist but I don't think every next gen exclusive has been of this scale.

It's doing that openworld blockbuster thing of getting me excited, but in reality I know that once I see the seams of the game, I'll get bored of it :/

I'm in the camp of I wish they would scale back, stick to a size similar to Skyrim or whatever and spend the dev time improving enemy AI, carefully crafting fewer more interesting quests, optimising the performance and fixing the faces. But then you can't really sell a grandiose vision with those.