PS3-> everything is sepia filtered and bloomed until nearly unplayable.
I will say that a well executed motion blur is just a chef's kiss type deal, but it's hard to get right and easy to fuck up
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I like DoF as it actually has a purpose in framing a subject. The rest are just lazy attempts at making the game "look better" by just slopping on more and more effects.
Current ray tracing sucks because its all fake AI bullshit.
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I’d add Denuvo to that list. Easily a 10-20% impact.
Now... in fairness...
Chromatic abberation and lense flares, whether you do or don't appreciate how they look (imo they arguably make sense in say CP77 as you have robot eyes)...
... they at least usually don't nuke your performance.
Motion blur, DoF and ray tracing almost always do.
Hairworks? Seems to be a complete roll of the dice between the specific game and your hardware.
I love it when the hair bugs out and covers the whole distance from 0 0 0 to 23944 39393 39
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These settings can be good, but are often overdone. See bloom in the late 2000s/early 2010s.
I always hated bloom, probably because it was overused. As a light touch it can work, but that is rarely how devs used it.
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Also the ubiquitous "realistic" brown filter a la Far Cry 2 and GTA IV. Which was often combined with excessive bloom to absolutely destroy the player's eyes.
At least in Far Cry 2 you are suffering from malaria.
All those features sucked when they first came out, not just bloom.
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Chromatic aberration and Motion blur are the absolute most important to turn off right away for me, but DoF is a close second. I don't mind the other stuff.
I don't understand who decided that introducing the downfalls of film and camera made sense for mimicking the accuracy and realism of the human eye
I don’t think it’s to make it fee realistic, it’s more so to feel like it’s a film that is being shot.
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Don't forget TAA!
Worst fucking AA ever created and it blows my mind when it's the default in a game.