Horrible dirt on screen, unfocused vision and other BAD effects NEEDS TO BE REMOVED

[v00d00m4n]

Really, whats wrong with game industry nowadays? Did every art director became blind or brain damanged? Lense flares, dirty screens, unfocused blur vision, vignette (corners darkening). bad gamma with washed out colors, and other ugly, unrealistic, immersion braking, eye bleeding effects everywhere!
This crap started in Star Trek by JJ Abrams, lenseflares was ugly and was everywhere, then it was on YOUTUBE, crappy CS Source and COD video montages with Skillex brostep (some still think its a dubstep, but whatever) made by 13 years old kids with no taste and brains became popular several years ago, these vidoes was full of awfull post screen effects such as lense flares, overkill bloom, washed out colors and so... also there was ENB mods for San Andreas and Skyrim, which by default looks good, but kids loved to tweak it to extemes that makes them looks ugly and unrealistic like crap, and this thing also became popular - then it seems like game devs decided to appeal to this 13- years old gamers and started to copy all this ugliness in game.
Few of the worst example of this stupid trend is Battlefiled 3, Syndicate, Hitman Absolution, Metro Last Light, Medalf of Honor 2 2012, Crysis 2, Dead Island (no lenseflares, but really ugly bloom and vignette) and there are more, and what make it even worse - most of them 1st person (keep this in mind, this is important!).

Lets for a second think what all the 1st person games all about? Its about SEEING GAME WORLD WITH YOU OWN EYES like you see it in reality!
One of the most important aspects of 1st person games is IMMERSION and REALISM! And i dont mean that everything you see in game world should be uber realistic, i mean that WHE WAY YOU SEE anything in game world should BE REALISTiC.

Now lets talk about dirt on screen, lenseflare and other crappy effects.
Does they look realistic????? Nooooo!
They called lenselfares and camera dirt for a reason - this is reason that it only sutiable for cameras and their lenses. Camera lenses can get dirty and can show lense flares- your eyes however not camera lenses, they will never get dirty, and you will never see lenseflares. There is very little possiblity however - when your eyes are really wet and aint fully opened them and keeping them unfocused, you can see some little flares, but thats it and you dont play like blind in games, in games your eyes always open and dont even blink for a second.

Dirty cam efffect should not exist in any case in FPS games, eyes aint dirty! It could be ok in some game where char wearing helmet all the time, but yet again in rea life ditry helmet screen obstruct vision, so people tend to clean it up and remove any annoying dirty from vision. No mattter if char in game wearing helmet or not, his vision is always dirty, you cant blink (expect for Alone in Dark 2008 it the only game i remember where you can blink to clear your eyes), cant clean your helmet so its really getting annoying as more as you play.
Same about other effects, such as vignette, unrealistic colors, flares etc.

It looks bad. it looks annoying, it looks unrealistic, its impossible to see anything like this by eyes and in FPS games you play as EYES, not as camer, its not third person game with camera behind shoulders!

In some games there even more stupid thing, such as weird comic overlay in recent crappy Call o Juarez (Btw, Techland, thanks for ruining series completely, 1st 2 games was really good, 3rd was no good, 4 is just awful) and there is no in game options to turn of crap like this.

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No let me speak about Dying Ligh - i was looking forward to buy this game and was thinking about is as true Dead Island 2 (not that riptide lazy done crap), but when i saw screenshots with dirty screen (dirty eyes really ?), washed out brown colors, vignette, extreme bloom and really ugly aura around everything to to unfocus blur (not sure how this effect called reminds me poorly prnted pictures or bad tv screens, where every edge has aura of 2 colors at both sides, i looks like offset of some colors was shifted\displaced and they was printed few pixels left or right wrong) - and this really turns me off from buying ths game.
I will not buy it untill this ugly post effects removed completely or if devs will confirm that where will be GFX option that will allow to turn off all ugly and unreaslitc on screen effects one by one and that there would not be prerendered cut-scenes with such effects that cant be turned off.
And there are many thousands of people who will avoid this game as well for same reason!

Please Techland, stop making your game ugly by post fx, do internet research about what people think of colorgrading, lenseflares, dirty cams, vignette and other effects like this in games - most of people hate them trying to find the way to disable that crap in games and play games with realistc colors and look, and yet you ignoring this and keep asking for troubles and forcing this ugly post fx nobody needs and almost nobody will like, expect for 13 years old tards, but arent this game is 17+ ? Why should you care about 13 years old players if you games for 17+ age group which has better taste and not a good opinion about such effects?

Please, remove it from game until its too late and understand that many many people dont like, especially in 1st person games!

[mike fungus]

In my opinion, I really like the blur, dirt on the screen, and the unfocus. I like all the effects. I believe this is more immersive.

[Artem]

I'm sure they will change the game because you decided that you don't like the way they made their game. Or even better, why aren't you making a game that will be a masterpiece since you are apparently a visionary and know exactly what is needed in videogames?

[LuckyBucky]

dont like it, dont buy it simple as that, i for 1 will be buying it as soon as its out on pc love all those effects and the same in metro last light, graphics in that game are outstanding! you are missing out on great games! i also agree with what A' said you complain about all this stuff then let me see you make a better game that is going to suit every single persons taste! personally i just think your a mor*n!.

[XelaXer Griffin]

game looks cool. i could not care less about the cover, but this style of graphic design is starting to be a bit ove rused

[GreaseMan]

Yeah, he's right. When in real life do people get blurry vision or dirty or look at a blinding light?

[Cousin Billy]

You wanker.

[Luc Alt]

Epic Rant

[chi]

These graphics are fine in my book,and there are always tools like sweet fx and enb tools if you don't like them. The screen splatter effects will likely have options to be toggled if the devs are smart since they are in most modern games. I don't really see what are you getting at. I think we are at the point where even if the graphic utilities that are available to everyone don't help that someone, somewhere will just do a texture overhaul to fix anything broken. And as long as you are willing to read a tutorial and experiment a bit, and they are easy enough to figure out and 99.9% of the time effective to get the style you want, weather it be bright cel shaded graphics with cartoon outlining or gritty realistic environments you can emulate it on your own. I would be more concerned about the overall content and the mod tools that will or will not be available.

[Dark_Sun]

You odviously don't wear glasses.

[Mao Nekomata]

hmm its hard to say oops i'm splaterring zombies with automatics..running through towns....jumping off dust covered obstacles..tripping over wreckage,,,,hey guys stop stop..the lens is dirty..or oops cant fight here gotta move the zombie horde to a new location to fight...realistic has dirt...realistic has blinding lights...realistic has blindspots...

some people just want to whine...compare games to other game..moan abut how this could be better..cry and rage this does not look or play like that....

maybe i have it wrong.....but i havent fought off any zombies today...and yet my glasses are dirty..wipe em off on the shirt smear em off a little..put em back on..i dont have time to get out the glass cleaner and clean em spotless.....god forbid i'm no longer realistic?.....

[Shadow_96-jk]

Hahaha this guy made me laugh :L

[JM_ReDkIO]

yep, epic rant. lol too funny.

[Oishi !]

love it when they make the game more immersive like this with dirt and blur love the new styles and games coming out

[Barko Sharko]

Cry more, it pleases me and gives me a raging hard-on.

[Not Luigi Mangione]

Zombies. Real realistic. This entire essay seems to revolve around "realism" even though that half of the subjects that the games focus on are NOT real.

But please, continue to tell us how hard you're getting from preaching at us that you're not going to buy the game. Opinions; Nobody cares.