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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Agreed on the “shifting focus” part for vignetting specifically - but everything else… outside of specifically tailoring to fit a particular “aesthetic” I think are crutches that are generally used to obscure an overall graphical presentation in order to work in a similar way to how squinting your eyes works.

        I agree that highly stylized games like “Bodycam…”

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        …use it to create a highly appealing visual aesthetic designed to match an actual low-fidelity police body camera, but Battlefield and CoD have much less excuse in my book.

        The camera aesthetic stuff only makes sense on things like the AC-130 killstreak in CoD where you’re emulating the on-aircraft cameras actually used in the real deal.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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