Hatred - "a proven classic"? It is a twisted abomination of a game and it's been a right decision to keep it away from GOG.

LMAO. 'Technically sound' means almost nothing, with regards to the quality of a game. How many absolute classics I could mention that are not 'technically sound'? Let's see ... Morrowind, Bloodlines, Fallout New Vegas ... all had long lists of bugs, yet people loved them anyway. Metal Gear Solid is a pretty poor PC port by most standards, but it is an all-time classic game that deserves to be on GOG.

Hmm ... maybe GOG should have turned those down as well, since they are not 'technically sound'?

Maybe not, but technical aspects are a lot more objective than "quality of a game".

Watch the included videos for this game on the store page and you'll see that it's not locked at 30FPS!

Rawr... Let the HATRED flow through you

I had this wishlisted on Steam. I watched it closely on launch, and read all of the disappointment due to the optimization issues, even on high-end rigs. Perhaps some of the bugs have been worked out, maybe not. Nevertheless, I appreciate the behind-the-scenes work to get this title here. Good work GOG!

You can go above 60fps. BUT, the game seems to be optomized for 30fps. Depending on your rig if you go above 30fps you could run into crashes or weird in-game effects like being sped up or drifting. Doesn't even seem to matter if your rig is top of the line or not - if the game doesn't like your system you will have problems. I tried looking around to see if these issues were patched yet and the best answer I got was buy the game and see if it works on your system and refund it if it doesn't. Unhelpful since it can take Gog weeks to issue a refund.

OK, point taken. I actually came across a thread dedicated to Connect (sort of), which indicates that there was just one game on Connect this year. You can make your own conclusion about the future of connect (or lack thereof)
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_whats_up_with_gog_connect_thread

Ok so it would appear that while it is technically possible to go over 30fps (or even 60 fps), the game physics or mechanism may still rely on the game running at 30fps. Not the first time this kind of issue has popped up with console-to-pc ports...

I admit it feels kinda weird if a modern AAA PC game would be "restricted" to 30fps, but if the gameplay is fine at such framerate, I'll be fine... Sure it doesn't feel as smooth as 60fps or over, but I can generally get over it.

E.g. I used to play Team Fortress 2 (a high-speed online shooter) on two PCs side by side where on one of them it ran at 60 fps and on the other only at 30 fps (with vsync). While I could feel the difference, it wasn't a big problem.

I disagree and here is why.

Persistence of Vision can allow the illusion of motion at as low as 12 FPS. Animation, early black and white film are at that speed. If you imagine old Charly Chaplin videos, how staccato the movement was.

Modern films are at 24fps, Pause an action scene and you'll see blur, and its that motion blur that allows or brains to be tricked with faster moving objects. Capture at 240fps and use every 10th frame, the film looks like it was shot at 12fps.

Which brings us to computer games.
Motion blur is an artificial effect added after the frame is rendered. Smoothing the transition between frames. And personally it is the first thing I disable in any game. For me and a many others it makes the game feel "elastic", there is still the effect of movement in the seconds after you stop.

This is heightened by my second point, the controller. On consoles the view/camera pans due to the controller input opposed to mouse. On PC, its more of a "flick", rapid movement with a sudden stop.

There is a significant difference in play style between k+m and controller. That plus removing motion blur will make 30fps noticeable and for many nauseating.

Sure I could play it as originally designed, on a controller, and visually it would be fine, but i'd spend the entire game just looking/shooting at the sky or ground.

It's nice having HZD on here on GOG. I already own the PS4 version though, and there other games delayed purchasing. Hopefully, people here will enjoy it.

Hi.
Yes, at some point, reaching your mature life, you have to accept that you are responsible for your ignorance and that you mustn’t demand/expect from others to pat you in the back and tell you it's ok forever, much to the contrary, since it can create issues beyond your singular/individual logic.
Cheers.

That was the ancient age old-timer. Try to keep up and educate yourself with the industry's modern practises.
XD

You get it... Also you saw what I did there.

Lol. Good job throwing around childish ad-hominems at anyone that doesn't agree with your opinion. It saves you the trouble of having to have any actual arguments or address any of my points.