Lower FOV = bigger immersion?

EvaUnit02 on 7/6/2011 at 19:08

Bigger immersion? Nonsense. Games today with narrow-ass FoVs are designed for people playing on consoles, sitting a few metres away from their TV.

gunsmoke on 7/6/2011 at 19:20

I agree with Eva. WTF is Koki smoking again?

Koki on 7/6/2011 at 19:24

I wonder how many people complaining about FOV have 16:10 and 16:9 monitors. I'm on 5:4 and I can get used to pretty much anything. It would make sense that with a wider "window" you'd want more FOV.

But that raises a question why old games had FOV of 90, back when everyone had 4:3 monitors?

Sulphur on 7/6/2011 at 19:26

It's a trollbait thread argument to laugh at later, isn't it obvious?

See, when you lower your FoV, everything's all closer like and rubbing up your screen in much more intimate a fashion, so the deeper you feel you're in the game and

EvaUnit02 on 7/6/2011 at 19:34

Console FPSes had narrow FoVs dating back to at least the Xbox 1 days (eg Halo 1 & 2), so most games still would've been designed for 4:3 SDTVs. So console games shifting to 16:9 by standard with the cuurent gen HD consoles had no effect, it all has to with distance from the screen.

Jason Moyer on 7/6/2011 at 20:38

The low FOV (and how shitty the body awareness was with the FOV hack) is probably the biggest reason I only made it 10 or so hours into Metro 2033. I don't require an enormous FOV, but tunnel vision is horrible.

Ostriig on 7/6/2011 at 21:40

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

For the record, you can (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/935068-metro-2033/53962903) edit the FOV in Metro. Though at ten hours in I doubt you were very far from the end, I don't remember it being a very long game.

Pyrian on 8/6/2011 at 00:06

Tunnel vision FOV just means not being able to tell what's going on. :mad:

steo on 8/6/2011 at 00:22

I like my FOV at about 105 on a 16:9 monitor. I really can't stand games with low FOV, to the extent that I still haven't played more than the first five minutes of Call of Jaurez 2, since there's no FOV hack for it.

henke on 8/6/2011 at 05:49

Hey Koki where is the article you based this thread on? The one with the picture from Lost Coast. I skimmed over it recently too and would like to read it in it's entirety but I can't remember where I saw it(though I'm guessing RPS Sunday Papers, Killscreen, or Wired).

edit: nevermind, (http://designreboot.blogspot.com/2009/03/refrigerator-box.html) found it.