Is framerate part of graphics or gameplay?

[Legend]

I enjoy 60 fps and higher because it looks cleaner. Never cared about its impacts on gameplay.

In my experience many many other factors have a bigger impact on gameplay. But what do you think? Increase framerate to play better or to look cleaner.

[kitler53]

neither. 

it's a duck measuring contest.  beer doesn't taste better by making hoppier.  food doesn't taste better by making it abnoxiously spicy.  ...but dumb people will swear by it. 

[the-pi-guy]

>Is framerate part of graphics or gameplay?

One of the rare things that affects both.  

>I enjoy 60 fps and higher because it looks cleaner.

Personally I'd say the same.  ~33 ms vs ~16 ms are both fast enough that I don't feel impacted gameplay wise.  


My personal experience is that 15 -> 20 (yes 20) is a much bigger difference than 30 -> 60.  
It must have been Skyrim that I played on my PC before I got a (discrete) graphics card. Below 30 is bad, but below 20 is where it gets unbearably choppy for me.  

30 vs 60, there's a difference but I tend to be happy with 30.  

[Dr. Pezus]

Both. For driving, fps, fighting games, fast paced action games its really important

[Xevross]

As others have said its kind of both. Its a balance for each game whether fps should be a priority, most I would say no, as long as the minimum locked 30 is reached. Racing games and fast paced action games higher fps is much better for more precise control, which is definitely gameplay related. I guess framerate is quite rightly called perfomance most of the time, that describes it best.