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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First step after installing a new game: disable Chromatic aberration, lens flare, film grain, motion blur.
Also:
Set FOV to something more inline with my screen and position.
Shitty console ports have this locked in, usually to a very low value that might make sense when you play from the couch but too low when playing in another setup.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand why these games keep including "movie like" features. They're video games, not movies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Even in movies they don't want those things, you know how expensive true apochromatic lenses are? Meanwhile games are adding lens defects in. -_-

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's getting better.

I got a PS5 as my first console in over a decade and most new PS5 games have the options you listed

There's still older ones tho where theres literally just a single toggle or not even that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how are people liking the game? the reviews i've read seem pretty positive so i was hoping to pick this up at some point

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting because I watched the Neon Knight video^[1] on it and was left with zero desire to play it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just be aware that Ubi sneaked Denuvo into the game in a day-1 patch

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ye gods, that is almost as bad as Denuvo.

Ubisoft, what is you doin?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't even know there was another assassins creed game.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've read the other day that they have... 11 Assassin's Creed games incoming or some shit.

11 new Assassin’s Creeds for 2023 and beyond

  • Assassin’s Creed Mirage [single player] (in production) - Oct 12, 2023
  • Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR (in production) - 2023
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Jade [mobile] (in production) - 2023
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Red [single player] (in production) - 2024?
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Hexe [single player] (in production) - 2025/2026?
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Invictus [multiplayer] (pre-production) - 2025/2026?
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Nebula [single-player] (prototype)
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Raid [multiplayer] (prototype)
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Echoes (multiplayer) (prototype)
  • Assassin’s Creed Nexus 2 [VR] (not greenlit yet)
  • Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Remake [single player] (green light)

That's a bit much.
Meanwhile, I've ve been done with this franchise since AC3...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Jesus that far too many. I hadn't really played any AC until AC3 either but last year I got like black flag for cheap on the switch and it wasn't bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you have played an assasins creed game, you already played it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's safe to assume that there's always a new Assassin's Creed game

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh ya so immersive it's like I'm looking at a movie.

UBrain move.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There are effects, like lens flare, shallow focus planes, vignetting, even color misrepresentations, that were kind of side effects of the physics of photography, that have grown into creative tools people deliberately chose for stylistic reasons.

Has anyone with a camera ever deliberately wanted a lens to have chromatic aberration?

[–] jacaw 9 points 1 year ago

Has anyone with a camera ever deliberately wanted a lens to have chromatic aberration?

You said it yourself: these are creative tools people deliberately choose for stylistic reasons. I have a couple junk lenses I use specifically because they have chromatic aberration and other imperfections.

Photography, however, is a very different beast than video games. I will never use chromatic aberration or film grain in a game, despite enjoying those effects in photos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean for some stylistic movies I think yea, fear and loathing in Las Vegas amps it up during the ether binge if I remember right.

But it's not something you should try to emulate in games any more than film grain or something. And it has no place in anything about ancient Egypt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OK, if the goal is a drug trip, I can see it lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Has anyone with a camera ever deliberately wanted a lens to have chromatic aberration?

Only the shallow arty-farty wannabe types, as far as I know. Meanwhile the rest of us spend thousands of dollars trying to remove such effects in our photos.