ramble81 comments on What’s the point of motion blur in modern games? It’s the one setting I seem to have to turn off manually in far too many games. What other settings to you change in most games?

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I grew up with the CRT scan lines and honestly I prefer the hard pixels. Don’t know I think it just triggers the nostalgia better than the muddied lines that look like a bad attempt at upscaling.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Fair play, people's preferences are ultimately a subjective thing

I would say when it's done properly it genuinely looks like the devs have found resolution that doesn't exist in the image

Here's a good example that I think demonstrates it clearly (though this is a real deal CRT in this image versus the kind of filters I'm talking about in this thread, though the goal is the same effect)

(Via https://mastodon.social/@ponysmasher/111025666005999438)

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I give them credit for being able to make the pixel art look much better than was intended, but I think my brain fills in the detail without wanting a filter to do it. Or I have yet to see a filter that is as good as a CRT and I’m not about to go out and buy one to get that experience.

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[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 1 point 10 months ago

You and me both. I remember thinking our TV was cheap or shitty because the images never looked like this:

I went to Radio Shack a handful of times when I was 12 or so trying to buy better coaxial or component cables to “fix the problem,” not really understanding the fundamental issue.

I don’t care how it was intended to look- seeing those blocks pop in HD is so much more satisfying than muddy pixels smeared across a CRT.

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