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Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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Hear me out. A few games have shader installations that will usually apply any new settings you put down AFTER you restart the game, and a lot of other games have graphics settings that will only apply after you've rebooted the game.

I don't think it would cost developers ANY amount of money or any significant development time to add a "Reboot game" button (or toggle) every time the player presses the quit button, or give the player a prompt every time they change a setting that requires a game restart (like in both PC versions of GTA V).

I also think ANY game should have a "full potato" mode capable of running in older computers with NONE of the fancy graphics stuff that we have access to today, despite having a decent computer now.

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[–] 37 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 11 months 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..."

    ...use things like a specific kind of grain, noise, distortion, aberration, etc. 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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