Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey now… Don’t forget camera bob, “lens dirt,” chromatic aberration, and vignette!

  AKA - the video game graphics equivalent of “beer goggles.”

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m okay with a little chromatic aberration and vignette. Camera bob can go straight to hell.

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    • JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m okay with a little chromatic aberration and vignette. Why? It’s literally something that pro camera tools have added in-software fixes for to remove them. Like - if you’re simulating an old JVC vidicon tube camera and wanting to make something specifically look like an image capture device from a specific time, I get it, but otherwise, it just seems like a way to hide the fact that your graphics aren’t quite hitting the realism mark and you think if you obscure it a bit, players will think it looks more “real.”

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      • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m very aware, I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the years removing them from photography projects.

        For vignette, it accomplishes a lot of the same thing in games as it does in photography in general: it is a subtle focus shifter. For some games - like some photos - I enjoy that little bit of extra emphasis on the center of the screen.

        For chromatic abberation, i generally avoid it in photography, but it can be used for effect. I feel like that’s also true to a point in games. Over the top CA feels like trying to watch something without 3d glasses. A little bit on the fringes can give a smidge of retro (and, oddly, futuristic) style for effectively no compute cost. It’s definitely overused though, and I tend to turn it off more often than not.

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m glowering hard at No Man’s Sky’s permanent chromatic aberration effect applied to the top 20% of your viewport at all times, here.

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      • RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s what it’s being used for? I thought it was for horror games. It does look spooky.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Post Processing - Low usually does the trick 😅

    But then it sometimes turns ambient occlusion off too… 😞

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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those two features frequently make me nauseous! Being able to turn them off or at least down is a necessity for me.

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  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    my friends always want to ‘ppay the game the way it was intended’… cool, I’m still disabling all the crap that makes me not see the game properly.

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also fuck Bloom to hell

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  • RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe the amount can go to hell, but bloom itself is more realistic in regards to how light and our eyes work.

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