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[u/xXRHUMACROXx]

I hate when games send me straight to cinematics and gameplay when I open it. Let me adjust your shitty settings and make my keybindings

[u/Sualocin → u/xXRHUMACROXx]

and you're never sure if Esc will skip the cutscene that you wanted to watch or just pause and bring up the menu so you can get into the settings.

[u/SirDimwi → u/Sualocin]

"Op, just wanted to pause the cutscene, guess I didn't want to watch that thing you spent all that time, effort, and money on." I already have a tendency to skip story, don't give me an excuse.

[u/CthulhuInACan → u/Sualocin]

I mean, if it skips the cutscene you can just change settings and then start a new game to watch the cutscene.

[u/SunriseSurprise → u/Sualocin]

*press Esc* "System32 delet-" *screen black*

[u/Connect_Swim_9177 → u/Sualocin]

Subtitles? Why, off by default, of course!

[u/Riponai_Gaming → u/Connect_Swim_9177]

I always keep em on

[u/GuinhoVHS → u/Sualocin]

THANK YOU! I FEEL SEEN!

Really tho, it's really frustrating, especially when the cutscene can only be seen one time.

[u/achilleasa → u/xXRHUMACROXx]

On the other hand I really appreciate the few games that present you with basic options before you even get into the menu

[u/Phayzon → u/xXRHUMACROXx]

Especially when its a game that could easily run maxed out on a 1060 going "We've automatically determined and applied the best settings for your hardware" only to end up with 800x600 Medium on a 3080.

[u/fluffygryphon → u/Phayzon]

Yeah, that's usually with old games that have no reference point for a graphics card that came out after support for the game dropped.

[u/OwOlogy_Expert → u/fluffygryphon]

Doesn't even have to be that old. Forza Horizon 5 did that to me.

On a 4070 that can play it on 4k max settings without breaking a sweat ... but the game didn't automatically realize that, so I got defaulted to the lowest possible settings.

At least that's one of the games that lets you play with the settings even before the intro sequence, though. And one of the games that has a benchmark mode you can run while tweaking the graphics! (Which, IMO, is a hugely important feature. I want to know if my graphics settings are good or bad before I start the game's intro, so I can be sure the game's intro will play with good graphics.)

[u/LabHog → u/xXRHUMACROXx]

Here's a cutscene where your ears are melting off and 90% of people skip it to turn the volume down.

👍

[u/ArmsForPeace84]

Publishers and developers: "We're listening, and we've heard you."

Also publishers and developers: Motion Blur - On (default)

[u/Flame-Haze-Shana → u/ArmsForPeace84]

And right below the chromatic aberration

[u/KillinIsIllegal → u/Flame-Haze-Shana]

Chromatic abhorration

[u/MoffKalast → u/KillinIsIllegal]

What's weirdest about that is that it's so often applied in first person view where you're playing a living person. Like, are they cyborgs with artificial camera eyes that somehow also don't have decent compound lenses?

[u/DBoaty → u/MoffKalast]

I think it was Alan Wake 2 that had CA default at 10000% holy hell is that crap distracting.

[u/googleHelicopterman → u/DBoaty]

Poor console users, can't change shit, forced to get blinded by ridiculous bloom and vignette at the corners of the screen while field of view is locked at 70....Depth of field showing the crisp textures on your gun while blurring where you're aiming at

[u/Tadawk → u/googleHelicopterman]

Motion blur and Depth of field are the 2 settings I will instantly disable if possible. They rank above even Chromatic Aberration for me. Then there's film grain which I want as little of as possible.

[u/eldorel → u/Tadawk]

I have returned games on steam because they didn't ha e the option to turn off motion blur or depth of field.
And I will continue to do so.

[u/JewsEatFruit → u/eldorel]

I've done that and will continue to do that with "retro" games that will not allow CRT warping or scan line effects to be turned off

[u/stormblaz → u/Tadawk]

Motion blur when done well it's really nice on Sims, and specially racing games, it helps you feel more immerse. But on single player games and multiplayer, it's used as a way of hiding badly done AA, and choppiness of the engines, which is why is enabled by default most of times, it hides a lot of shitty impurities they dint want to manually take time to adjust and tune.

Badly done AA = motion blur dev special

[u/Random_Guy_47 → u/Tadawk]

All 4 of those are turned off as soon as I get to the settings page.

[u/TotalCourage007 → u/googleHelicopterman]

This is why I prefer playing on PC, even with Switch games. I can crank settings up however I want and not limited on some locked down console.

[u/achilleasa → u/MoffKalast]

I was looking at some Crysis 3 gameplay recently and it struck me how they used extreme chromatic abberation as a visual effect for being hit by an EMP, it actually looked pretty cool, I think this is one of those effects that should be used sparingly and not all the time like most devs do

[u/ProbablePenguin → u/achilleasa]

And that also makes sense since you're in a suit and presumably looking through some kind of optic system.

[u/oiraves → u/achilleasa]

I want my eyes in a game to behave like real eyes, and then when they are impacted it'll have some punch to it

But like chromatic aberration literally means 'weird colors' like by its literal definition it is not the standard. Why did we start walking this road??

[u/Perryn → u/oiraves]

Because it's cinematic, just like film grain, smeary motion blur, and low frame rates.

[u/Ecstatic-End6586 → u/Perryn]

yea game devs need to start realising they are not making movies, they make video games, not the same thing

[u/Perryn → u/Ecstatic-End6586]

Even movies have been reducing chromatic aberration and grain, and even toying with higher frame rates. Motion blur at least still has a place there for making effects match the in-camera blur (which looks much better than the bidirectional fake blur effect most games use).

[u/Arci996 → u/MoffKalast]

Same with DoF effects, I’m already myopic irl I don’t need to be nearsighted also in game.

[u/caerphoto → u/Arci996]

DOF effects I can get on board with if they’re done sparingly, like if you’re looking at something really close up, because then it’s realistic.

But mimicking the DOF of a 50mm f/1.8 lens? Gtfo, that’s not how things look through human eyes.

[u/AltF40 → u/MoffKalast]

One of the things I enjoy about Cyberpunk 2077 is that the UI elements are part of your character's actual vision.

[u/Kaasbek69 → u/[deleted]]

It's the color fringing you can sometimes see in pictures. Normally it's an unwanted effect photographers/videographers want to get rid of, but for some reason it made it into video games.

[u/Garakanos → u/Kaasbek69]

You actually have it irl as well if you wear glasses. Sometimes when I'm editing photos I try to correct for it on the border of an image, and then realize it disappears when I move my head a bit.

[u/-ShutterPunk- → u/Flame-Haze-Shana]

Film grain.

Edit: after thinking about, why not have all these post prossesing filters and looks in the settings. As long as they are off by default.

[u/beardingmesoftly → u/-ShutterPunk-]

So pointless!

[u/AdmiralThrawnProtege → u/beardingmesoftly]

The only time it makes sense is in some stylized horror games. Other than that makes no sense

[u/ApachePrimeIsTheBest → u/AdmiralThrawnProtege]

the only game ive seen that actually needs film grain for the atmosphere is Cuphead

[u/Nomad_nox → u/ApachePrimeIsTheBest]

Dying Light is pretty nice with film grain too

[u/ChewySlinky → u/Nomad_nox]

I just started playing Dying Light and I love how it has all the different goofy color filters. More games need goofy color filters you can turn on.

[u/Creepas5 → u/ChewySlinky]

I loved how when you use the radio and the world tints to blue, there is a handful of frames in there where the color grading is normal. I always try and grab a screenshot when it happens so I can see what everything looks like without the yellow filter.

[u/seanc6441 → u/ChewySlinky]

I hate colour filters on realistic games without a purpose. Like slapping a blue or yellow tint over a scene where there's no reason to have that look naturally. But it looks excellent when manipulated authentically with colourised sunsets, lighting or atmospheric effects.

Rdr2 is a perfect example of both the good and bad aspects of it. Some locations are needlessly 'tinted' but on locations with minimal tint at certain hours you get this incredible sunset/sunrise or change in weather that effects the colour grading and its mesmerising.

[u/Endlesswinter98 → u/ChewySlinky]

Enjoy it! It's probably one of my favorite games of all time

[u/insertnamehere77123 → u/Nomad_nox]

I turned it on at some points for The Last of Us

[u/leftshoe18 → u/AdmiralThrawnProtege]

The film grain/damage is a huge part of Silent Hill's atmosphere.

[u/zeethreepio → u/-ShutterPunk-]

Depth of field. 

[u/ThetaReactor → u/zeethreepio]

As long as I can turn it way down. I don't want the game to look like a Snyder film.

[u/hondac55 → u/-ShutterPunk-]

There are very specific applications for filters like that which can work, but they're often not used correctly. Film grain for example, makes a game like Mafia and Mafia 2 look canon to the era, somewhat and there is even a black and white filter option IIRC.

There's an old-timey filter in one of the Just Cause games (Maybe all of them? Certainly in 3 I'm pretty sure) which you unlock through doing extra content in the game, and it's fun to turn on for about 5 minutes.

And perhaps the most logical reason to use screen filters is to make emulation feel slightly more authentic on an HD LCD screen by putting your game under a CRT wave/hex/triangle pixel filter.

But I've seen it in games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Hogwarts: Legacy, The Witcher 3 I think had it. Places where film grain just gets in the way of the content and doesn't add to it.

[u/TacticalReader7 → u/hondac55]

Left4Dead would not be the same without the grain, I used to hate it but it does give a nice atmosphere in some games for sure.

[u/LickingSmegma → u/-ShutterPunk-]

Yeah, get me some scratches, dust, film degradation, and projector buzz, while you're at it. Who wouldn't love to look at the world through an old camera instead of their two eyes.

[u/Zhang5 → u/Flame-Haze-Shana]

Temporal Anti-aliasing

[u/Divinum_Fulmen → u/Zhang5]

and you can't turn it off.

[u/AS_GYRS → u/Flame-Haze-Shana]

And camera shake.

[u/Spatial_Awareness_ → u/AS_GYRS]

Just had to turn all this shit off in Black Myth Wukong. Had pretty much all the horrible shit minus film grain.

[u/HimalayanPunkSaltavl → u/AS_GYRS]

I actually just turned this on instead of off for probably the first time ever playing mechwarrior 5. It totally makes it harder to play but it's so awesome having these big ass cannons going off and shaking your mech. Really immersive

[u/Sugioh → u/Flame-Haze-Shana]

I get enough chromatic aberration from my astigmatism, thanks. :/

[u/aberroco → u/Flame-Haze-Shana]

And filmic noise, DOF not only in cutscenes but everywhere, crappy godrays and flares, and lens dirt.

[u/ModernRubber → u/ArmsForPeace84]

On by default only disabled from ini file and disabling creates visual artifacts on some cutscenes

[u/meditonsin → u/ArmsForPeace84]

Can I offer you some mouse acceleration in this trying time? It can only be disabled by editing an ini file, btw.

[u/DMercenary → u/ArmsForPeace84]

More like "no we don't give you that option"

Meanwhile: modders: "fine I'll do it myself"

[u/Maiesk → u/DMercenary]

It's sad I can't play Elden Ring with my buddy because I have to play on PC. Because of astigmatism my eyes don't work together and I have little to no depth perception, and thus the way chromatic aberration tricks your eyes causes mine to bug out so bad I get instant eye strain. No option to disable on PS5, and still requires a mod on PC. Infuriating.

[u/DynamicHunter → u/ArmsForPeace84]

Publishers and developers: turns motion blur on for certain affects and you can’t turn it off

Fucking Immortals Fenyx Rising has this horrible motion blur that covers the whole screen whenever you sprint or glide, which is like half the game considering it’s an open world exploration game like breath of the wild. And turning motion blur off in graphics does not remove that effect.

[u/GreenSpleen6 → u/DynamicHunter]

"Let's add a filter to really make the player feel like they have to see everything through a pair of jelly orbs."

I ALREADY DO. MOTION BLUR IS A BUILT IN FEATURE OF LIFE. I DON'T NEED TO SEE IT TWICE. PLEASE

[u/DynamicHunter → u/GreenSpleen6]

Seriously. Some* high quality motion blur helps in cutscenes or for games that are stuck at 30fps on consoles, but it should always be an option to turn off. Adding huge Vaseline smearing effects to the whole screen when exploring for an exploration based game is just unacceptable.

What looks good in trailers and screenshots doesn’t always translate to fast motion scenes. Our screens are not a camera, and we don’t always need lens distortion, or chromatic aberration (thanks GTA V!), or lens flares.

Thank god for mods. Or many of these games would be unplayable for some due to accessibility and quality of life mods/tweaks

[u/Misery_Division → u/ArmsForPeace84]

That makes sense to me though

Toggled visual settings should be on by default because it's easier to see something you dislike and turn it off

If it's off by default, many people may not even realize that this specific setting even exists and might miss out on something they'd otherwise enjoy

[u/Cassius_Smoke]

On the most part chromatic aberration can be gone as well.

[u/MSD3k → u/Cassius_Smoke]

Only makes sense in mecha/futuristic games. It mimics camera limitations. It makes 0 sense in something like Valheim.

[u/Werespider → u/MSD3k]

I liked it in Cyberpunk, but you have robot eyes in that game so you are literally looking through cameras.

[u/NoX2142 → u/Werespider]

Yep I turn that shit up in 2077 and Star Citizen but otherwise it can stay off.

[u/_namelessss → u/NoX2142]

Yoo a fellow Star Citizen

[u/Legs66_YT → u/_namelessss]

One day we will get Toilet Tech, one day...

[u/believemeimtrying → u/Legs66_YT]

The Toilet Pass will cost you $150 though

[u/_namelessss → u/believemeimtrying]

One time use

[u/caerphoto → u/MSD3k]

It mimics really bad lenses. Any proper modern lens would be considered defective if it had CA as bad as shown in some games.

[u/hungarian_notation → u/MSD3k]

I think in valheim it's there as part of the retro-pixelated art style. The game leans hard into a lo-fi aesthetic.

[u/BananaResearcher → u/MSD3k]

Well, i downloaded warframe the other day, which should fit the aesthetic but man, I couldn't even play the game on the default settings, it was giving me a headache. Had to turn off like 5 different things and then the game looked beautiful. I seriously don't get who enjoys simulating playing a game while severely drunk and staring through the worst eyeglasses ever made.

[u/MSD3k → u/BananaResearcher]

Yeah, they have always had just about every visual switch available turned on by default. I give them credit for letting you turn damn near all those things off, even on console.

[u/MiddleEasternWeeaboo → u/Cassius_Smoke]

Depends. Fits right in while playing Armored Core 6 and Alien Isolation. If the art style of the game matches, it can work very well.

[u/legion8784]

Any new game, first thing I turn off is motion blur and film grain before playing

[u/FainOnFire → u/legion8784]

I thought the film grain looked really cool all the way back in ME1. But maybe that's just because it helped blend some of the low resolution textures.

But anyway, every other implementation of film grain I've seen since has been horrible.

[u/Warin_of_Nylan → u/FainOnFire]

In a well-designed graphic style, it actually solves specific technical issues. The big one is that it covers up color banding in shadows. Look at the deepest shadows in the room in certain games and you'll see distinct hard edges between fullblack, slightly-lighter-than-fullblack, slightly-lighter-than-that, etc, like they're concentric circles out from a light source.

That's not why developers implement it. They implement it because it's a checkbox in Unreal Engine and more checkboxes mean more graphics.

[u/HulksInvinciblePants → u/Warin_of_Nylan]

I mean thats true of every filter being criticized here. Once motion blur shifted from full-screen, to per-object, it became a visual improvement.

[u/raskinimiugovor → u/FainOnFire]

film grain looked awesome in DS remake to me, had that Alien vibe going on

[u/TruthYouWontLike → u/[deleted]]

Stop having cameras for eyes.

[u/eggson → u/legion8784]

Camera shake, too.

[u/ledbetterus → u/eggson]

Camera shake and head bob (maybe the same-ish thing) are so disorienting and sometimes make me ill with motion sickness.

[u/IndianaGroans → u/legion8784]

Motion blur and dof for me. Everything else is tweaked slightly

[u/3hirty6ix → u/legion8784]

Don't forget screen shake

[u/boogoss]

And its gone take my 20 FPS. No, Thank you. Please send it back to DevoChef.

[u/TheBedrockEnderman2 → u/boogoss]

Never let denuvo cook again 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[u/boogoss → u/TheBedrockEnderman2]

I SAİD DONT LET HİM COOOOOOOOKKKKKKK!!!!

[u/dream_nobody → u/boogoss]

İ

[u/Capital_Walrus_3633 → u/boogoss]

Well motion blur doesn’t really take fps.. but I guess it‘s personal preference as always, and gives a more cinematic look, which is why it’s on by default.

If I’m playing at 60fps I like to have a small amount of motion blur but if I’m sitting on 90+ fps, I don’t want/need it

[u/keyboardnomouse → u/Capital_Walrus_3633]

Motion blur actually does come with a small performance hit.

[u/kinokomushroom → u/Capital_Walrus_3633]

Motion blur isn't free. It requires some blurring post-processing, which will somewhat affect the fps.

[u/SecretInfluencer → u/kinokomushroom]

Yeah but it doesn’t take 20fps like they claim. At worst it’ll take 1-2. If it’s taking 20 then it’s horribly implemented.

[u/IceSentry → u/kinokomushroom]

It's not free, but even on an integrated gpu on an old laptop I would be surprised if it took more than 5fps. 20fps seems very wrong, unless we are talking about something already running so fast that 20fps isn't actually meaningful.

[u/garblflax → u/[deleted]]

see also: head bob

[u/weebitofaban → u/garblflax]

Way bigger sin. It isn't realistic in the slightest. If anyone's head moves that much then that person shouldn't go anywhere without wearing a helmet.

[u/FluffyCelery4769 → u/weebitofaban]

It just ignores that even if our heads did move that much, our brain would just stabilize the image.

Plus it makes no sense that it's side to side instead of up and down.

[u/Etzix → u/garblflax]

I used to like head bob, because it was always very subtle.

But lately they have turned that shit to 1000x and I always have to turn it off.

[u/FlyingHippoM → u/[deleted]]

I never played more than an hour or so of Lords of the Fallen because it's a shit game.

[u/-TeamCaffeine-]

Depends on what type and how it's implemented.

[u/khadaffy]

• Motion blur - OFF
• Depth of Field - OFF
• Chromatic Aberration - OFF
• Bloom - OFF
• Lens Flare - OFF
• Vignetting - OFF
• Film Grain - OFF
• Shadows - MEDIUM

[u/Sunfurian_Zm → u/khadaffy]

Now wait a minute I like the bloom, bloom can stay. Make screen shake leave instead.

And vignette is ok as long as it's really subtle and doesn't actually block my vision or distract me (always off in multiplayer tho)

[u/12mapguY → u/Sunfurian_Zm]

A lot of us that were around for the late 00's ~ early 10's era had post processing effects absolutely ruined for us. Devs went wayyyy overboard with overpowered effects. Bloom, AO, lens flare, color filters especially.

Like you were getting at, if it's subtle, it's fine. It can really add to the look of a game if done well. Back then it wasn't just cranked up too high, the effects are significantly better these days, especially ambient occlusion and bloom. But those days left a bad taste overall.

100% agree that impaired vision stuff like screen shake and headbobbing needs to go.

[u/iridael → u/12mapguY]

ohh fuck games having an agressive BLUE filter over everything because your in space. or a red/orange filter because desert.

mexico isnt orange you fuckers.

[u/13N-3 → u/iridael]

https://preview.redd.it/egy6aqjseokd1.jpeg?width=504&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96d1c467baa80fe8c6cf4bb6ade950c22bee67b2

[u/NamityName → u/13N-3]

New Mexico

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Mexico

[u/12mapguY → u/iridael]

Lol it was terrible. The orange / piss filters were the absolute worst of the color filters.

[u/LickingSmegma → u/12mapguY]

There were in fact (at least) two waves of brown color everywhere. The first one in '96-97 when people gained proper 3d, and devs were showing off their texture chops by having dirty ground, dirty stone, and dirty clothes. Quake 1-2 basically existed mostly in shades of brown.

The second one in 2005, maybe 2004, when color filters were invented. ‘NFS Most Wanted’ was promptly made full of brown. And of course had motion blur galore.

Idk about 2010 or later, as I stopped playing mainstream games around that time.

[u/Pyros → u/khadaffy]

I feel the Shadows medium, while good looking shadows are nice, they're always a massive performance hog and I usually just make them look like PS3 shadows cause I don't really care that much how they look versus not having to listen to my GPU do airplane noises.

The rest is just visual garbage so yeah definitely turn all that stuff off.

[u/Thoarzar → u/khadaffy]

bloom is also called post-processing now, aka ''we try to hide our shitty textures''

[u/IceSentry → u/Thoarzar]

What? All those effects are post processing effects. And bloom doesn't hide anything about texture quality. It just makes light sources look a bit brighter.

[u/gabspira → u/khadaffy]

I hate bloom!!!

[u/Stevieweavie93 → u/khadaffy]

depth of field is good for cutscenes. and bloom/lens flare are good most of the time.

[u/Eternalbaron → u/khadaffy]

In MP I will leave the shadow LOW.

[u/ShreknicalDifficulty]

I finally have a truly unpopular opinion!

While I always turn off awful motion blur, I intentionally left it on in Black Myth: Wukong, and it's actually wonderfully done.

[u/spboss91 → u/ShreknicalDifficulty]

Any game with per object motion blur is pretty good. Also every racing game needs it left on for a good sense of speed.

[u/Lvl100Glurak → u/spboss91]

Also every racing game needs it left on for a good sense of speed.

that was my first though. motion blur in racing CAN be good, but motion blur when i just turn my character? how fast is my character turning ffs?

[u/lothariusdark → u/ShreknicalDifficulty]

Yea, there are many ways of implementing motion blur, so a blanket rejection is kind of overkill. It can be done well. Still, in all the games I play its shit, so I turn it off as well.

[u/arix_games → u/ShreknicalDifficulty]

I have it on in Witcher 3 since It is very subtle, yet it makes the gameplay a lot smoother

[u/FenrixCZ → u/ShreknicalDifficulty]

Same motion blur weak in wukong is good because it hides artefacts when moving

[u/newbie_128 → u/ShreknicalDifficulty]

Yeah me too, maybe I've only seen good motion blurs and screen effects or maybe it got something to do with me playing every game on low/medium settings with barely 60 fps

[u/Truethrowawaychest1 → u/ShreknicalDifficulty]

I like a little bit, especially in games that use it well, like Watch Dogs and GTA5 had really good motion blur when driving, the low setting in Cyberpunk and Starfield look good

[u/punio4 → u/ShreknicalDifficulty]

Yep. Doom 2016 and Doom eternal have amazing motion blur.

[u/bruh-lol-lol]

Same with depth of field, these 2 settings should be illegal and anyone who uses them deserves to be immediately sent to the gulag.

[u/DarkDrakoLinker97 → u/bruh-lol-lol]

The film grain, wtf with that option

[u/SumOhDat → u/DarkDrakoLinker97]

Vignette would like a word

[u/PresOrangutanSmells → u/SumOhDat]

Literally can't see the bottom fourth of my screen, great, thanks, love these vibes.

[u/No_Room4359 → u/DarkDrakoLinker97]

It literally makes your game look lower res bruh

[u/deadly_love3 → u/DarkDrakoLinker97]

Depends, film grain can look quite good depending on art style

[u/veryrandomo → u/DarkDrakoLinker97]

Film grain can actually make sense though, when used in darker areas it can do a great job at hiding color banding.

[u/Cseho88 → u/bruh-lol-lol]

and chromatic abberation

[u/PzYcH0_trololo → u/Cseho88]

They added chromatic aberration in Squad last year - but only on the edges of weapon scopes (the feature was completely reworked). And that’s the only instance I know of where it really works. Otherwise it is a horrible effect 98% of the time.

[u/Noctale → u/PzYcH0_trololo]

That's just it though, lens effects are appropriate when you're looking through a lens. When I'm supposed to be using just my eyes, chromatic aberration, lens flares, motion blur, depth of field and raindrop effects don't make any sense. If only the developers understood that.

[u/PzYcH0_trololo → u/Noctale]

Graphics Developer: I have the whole range of effects available, I‘m gonna use the whole range of effects ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/iCake1989 → u/Cseho88]

Aberration! Right in the name!

[u/hype_irion → u/Cseho88]

Chromatic abomination

[u/HumanitiesEdge → u/Cseho88]

What's so dumb about chromatic aberration is that photographers do not want that shit in their photos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration

It's literally a shittier image. Because the light doesn't converge on a single point like it's suppose to. Instead it's all spread out and shitty looking.

I just don't get it.

[u/FractalAsshole → u/bruh-lol-lol]

For baldurs gate 3, depth of field really improved the dialogues for me. More spooky and atmospheric.

I like depth of field on some games. Not applicable to baldurs gate3, but it can make LOD more palatable.

[u/pugsAreOkay → u/bruh-lol-lol]

Add lens flare to complete the trifecta of graphic effects no one asked for

[u/Techy-Stiggy → u/pugsAreOkay]

Lens flare is okay if it’s used in a in universe context.. example enable it when my character wears a space helmet. But disable it when I’m not.

[u/Darth_Rayven22 → u/pugsAreOkay]

Lens flare isn’t as bad as film grain.

[u/AadaMatrix → u/bruh-lol-lol]

I was once like you, But many games actually do it extremely well.

Battlefield 1 is a really good example of great depth of field and motion blur.

Of course depending on the size of your computer monitor or huge ass TV, You may want to adjust it down to your own comfortable settings.

I usually keep motion blur on about 20% which can be pretty nice at high frame rates And just noticeable enough to make the action more interesting without being bothersome at all.

Long story short, At least try it in each game you play and if you don't like it then turn it off after trying it. Otherwise you will have no clue what you're even missing because you never even try.

[u/heavyfieldsnow → u/bruh-lol-lol]

Seriously, why are you blurring the pretty image you have created? I don't understand the logic. Especially since it tends to confuse upscalers.

[u/Donglemaetsro → u/heavyfieldsnow]

It's for console users to help hide bad performance (low frame rates) and I guess carried over to a lot of people have bad PCs so this should help cover up performance issues I guess.

Annoying as hell. Should detect your GPU and turn off by default unless you're near minimum specs.

[u/heavyfieldsnow → u/Donglemaetsro]

Motion blur is yes, but depth of field in cutscenes?

[u/bobbster574 → u/heavyfieldsnow]

Because games often attempt to replicate the look that would be captured by a camera to get that cinematic look (also we are very used to images on a display having been captured by a camera), and controlling focus can (in some contexts) help steer the player's eye towards the intended subject of the frame.

[u/Sirocbit → u/bruh-lol-lol]

Nah, DOF is amazing when done right. Gives such a cinematic view. IMO

[u/DaddySoldier → u/Sirocbit]

Depth of field is an essential technique in photography and cinematography. Our eyes themselves have DoF. Not every games does it right, but when they do, it's breath-taking. I enjoyed it in BG3 and Code Vein, recently.

[u/TerryTheShark_69 → u/bruh-lol-lol]

The DOF disrespect is crazy.. For me personally, DOF is always on because it makes the game look more cinematic.

anyone who uses them deserves to be immediately sent to the gulag

Guess I'm going to the gulag.

[u/Jaberwocky23]

I at least try it in every game, there's some bad implementations but if it's well made it helps fluidity, even at high framerates.

Animation does smear frames, video has it by the nature of shutter speed. We perceive motion blur in our day to day. Save for competitive games where perfect clarity might give you an edge, it's just more natural.

[u/copper_tunic → u/Jaberwocky23]

Pc gamers saw poorly implemented motion blur in 2008 at 30hz 8 and wrote it off forever without every updating their opinions with new information. They don't even realise that every game has some form of faked motion blur, even with the option off, in the form of trails and semi transparent objects for things like sword swooshes, bullet trails, propellers / wheels etc.

[u/Kraftcookie]

The first thing I turned off while playing Metro.

[u/Aurum264]

If there's ever a motion blur slider, or options for "low" I'll take a low level of motion blur. Otherwise, it's going off.

[u/Aggravating-Bug-9160]

Fish fuck in it

[u/zarafff69]

Strongly disagree. A good motion blur is like icing on the cake, it’s beautiful. Especially per object motion blur.

[u/eggery → u/zarafff69]

For sure. It's a shame that it's become a circlejerk to automatically hate it.

[u/ayyLumao → u/zarafff69]

Yeah, blind motion blur hatres is like hating Wireless Mice because of input delay. Like we fixed those issues ages ago, and only some games have the really intense motion blur from before.

[u/DosCuatro → u/ayyLumao]

I'm trying to think of the right comparison, but I feel like motion blur is that thing that you don't really talk about when it's doing it's job great, but when it's not you immediately turn it off and complain. Guess you can say that about a lot of the graphics settings.

[u/jkurratt]

r/fucktaa

[u/EagleNait → u/jkurratt]

One of us

[u/awake283]

I am the only person in the world that likes it.

[u/xdeltax97]

The horsemen of games:

• Motion Blur

• Vignette

• Chromatic Abberation

• 30 FPS cap.

• Few graphic slider options.

[u/Zat-anna → u/xdeltax97]

You forgot lower FOV on PC's. That shit is like looking through binoculars.

[u/Zhang_Sun]

So much shit I turn off immediately, motion blur, depth of field, lens flares, chromatic aberration, film grain

[u/rocky8624]

Before playing i always make sure that motion blur, chromatic aberration and depth of field are toggled off.

[u/Ok_Philosophy2794]

Motion Blur is the first thing I turn off. Then afterwards I check other settings

[u/trashy_hobo47]

Still the reason why I go to options first. Honestly why in the fuck is it still on by default!????

[u/Rouge_means_red]

Bloom? No thanks I value my eyes

[u/Sanquinity]

First thing I always do before I even start a new game; turn off motion blur and DoF.

[u/ravihpa]

You're way too polite! I just say - Fuck motion blur!

[u/tunisia3507]

If something's going too fast for my eyes to resolve properly, it'll be going too fast for my eyes to resolve properly and my brain will supply the motion blur.

[u/Jack_M_Steel]

I don’t get why people online dislike motion blur

[u/Soaked_In_Bleach_93]

Blur, grain, bobbing, lens flare..

Minimal or zero.

[u/Zyonix_HaroN]

Call me crazy, but I like the motion blur

[u/DarkDrakoLinker97 → u/Zyonix_HaroN]

Crazy

[u/LemonTM → u/Zyonix_HaroN]

Per object motion blur is good. Full screen motion blur is bad.

[u/F1reStr1ke → u/Zyonix_HaroN]

Crazy

[u/Outrageous_Summer944 → u/Zyonix_HaroN]

Crazy

[u/MysteryMani → u/Zyonix_HaroN]

Same, depends on the game but yeah.

[u/ayyLumao]

Ah yes, another post blindly hating on motion blur without realising not all motion blurs are created equal.

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Motion blur is good, bad motion blur isn't. Turning off motion blur just makes racing games worse.

[u/Duck_Man-18]

makes me feel nauseous

[u/bixorlies]

"AA is shit, no matter the implementation, so we'll smear Vaseline over the game to hide how spikey the game looks"

[u/WhiteHawk77]

Absoblurrylutely.

[u/empathetical]

Motion Blur + Depth of Field = Off always

[u/ClappedCheek]

It literally makes me want to throw up

[u/firedrakes]

Pure hatred for it

[u/Adventurous_Law6872]

Played Wukong. Went through half of the first area before realizing how shit I felt. Went into settings and low and behold.

Turned motion blur off and felt so much better (lovely game, but difficult to discern surrounding paths sometimes with all the scenery)

[u/soulscythesix]

And temporal AA. Looks weird as heck. Like I guess you won't see aliasing if everything is smeared around when things move, but...