February game chat: I bet this Valentine was Sonixpected

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Roth: Jul 9, 2016

I like the grainy look of older anime but that's it. I always disable film grain, motion blur, and depth of field whenever I can.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:43

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# ? May 31, 2024 11:19

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge: May 8, 2006; "My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"

I finally finished up RE2 last night, and I don't have anything insightful to say about it right now, but it is incredible.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:50

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

The movie Saving Private Ryan had a really amazing film grain effect that was the result of modifying the camera that was used during filming to give it the intentional effect instead of adding it in during post production. I am sad that later releases and remasters intentionally removed this. Steven Spielberg used that effect again in his remake of War of the Worlds and it looked really good there too.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:50

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

The option to have film grain when they rarely replicate any of the other optical qualities of film (low depth of field, dynamic range, etc) baffled me as some kind of cargo cult thing

it's definitely a little cargo cult especially in games that really highlight the grain, but people have been injecting noise into textures for a subjective improvement in quality for decades at this point. doing it in one pass in screen space is just the easy way to get the same effect

and it that point somebody probably said "oh it's kind of like film grain huh?"

homeless snail fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Feb 7, 2019

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:51

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I am pro (tasteful) motion blur, it's how you get games to look fluid and cinematic without appearing "cheap" at higher framerates. There are good and bad examples of each though.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:54

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

That reminds me, Dreams looks really impressive and people keep saying that none of the look comes from textures...?

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:54

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

That reminds me, Dreams looks really impressive and people keep saying that none of the look comes from textures...?

it doesn't even use polygons (at least up front, until the sdfs get baked into meshes)

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:55

Andrast: Apr 21, 2010

I have no idea why chromatic aberration is a graphics setting in some games

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:57

CrRoMa: Nov 12, 2017; by R. Guyovich

Andrast posted:

I have no idea why chromatic aberration is a graphics setting in some games

Isn't that a level 2 mage spell?

# ? Feb 7, 2019 17:59

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Andrast posted:

I have no idea why chromatic aberration is a graphics setting in some games

Yeah this just sucks and has no reason to exist.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:00

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

Andrast posted:

I have no idea why chromatic aberration is a graphics setting in some games

that one is pure cargo cult, but also comes from a similar place where some people see a subjective improvement in IQ when even bullshit visual "information" is added to the picture. CA is just a really annoying (and extremely cargo cult) way to accomplish it

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:01

Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

i started looking at the patch notes for nioh because cowcaster unceasingly talking about it has finally maybe gotten me to be interested in going back to it, and jesus christ that's a lot of patches.

they even added the ability to play music off a usb drive, lol.

I did also decide to randomly boot up the Wii U a couple days ago though so maybe I can finally go through Wooly World, now that I finally polished off the rest of my Mario Maker bookmarks.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:02

Help Im Alive: Nov 8, 2009

Andrast posted:

I have no idea why chromatic aberration is a graphics setting in some games

I thought it was ok in Max Payne 3 and it kind of made sense there since Max is taking millions of pills

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:04

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Relax Or DIE posted:

Bless your poor performance, EDF games

Could the performance be the work of terrorists?!

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:04

bushisms.txt: May 26, 2004; Scroll, then. There are other posts than these.

I'm the unwashed nerd who played all of me1 agape at all the sfx features. That occlusion poo poo or whatever that has that blue haze can gently caress off though.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:04

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Talking about Nioh is making me want to do a 3rd playthrough. I never did tackle any of the DLC though and I really should since I have it.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:04

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

bushisms.txt posted:

I'm the unwashed nerd who played all of me1 agape at all the sfx features. That occlusion poo poo or whatever that has that blue haze can gently caress off though.

That's lens flare, occlusion is the effect that darkens small corners and crevices.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:06

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge: May 8, 2006; "My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"

I'll admit that I don't actually know what chromatic abberation even is

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:14

Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

I said come in! posted:

Talking about Nioh is making me want to do a 3rd playthrough. I never did tackle any of the DLC though and I really should since I have it.

oh... right... dlc

well, guess that can continue waiting until that's on sale.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:15

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

Relax Or DIE posted:

I'll admit that I don't actually know what chromatic abberation even is

its the color separation that happens at the edge of lenses.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:16

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Relax Or DIE posted:

I'll admit that I don't actually know what chromatic abberation even is

It's a super annoying distortion effect.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:16

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

like this

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:17

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Phantasium posted:

oh... right... dlc

well, guess that can continue waiting until that's on sale.

The complete edition is currently $25 on Steam. If you own the PS4 version, the season pass is $25.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:18

Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

I said come in! posted:

The complete edition is currently $25 on Steam. If you own the PS4 version, the season pass is $25.

Phantasium posted:

well, guess that can continue waiting until that's on sale on PS4

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:20

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Phantasium posted:

I understand! I just felt that the season pass was still worth getting even at full price. :kiddo:

The PC version is also a fantastic port.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:21

Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

Yeah I paid full price for the base game at launch just to not play it so I think I'm going to scrimp a lot with this one.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:24

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

Relax Or DIE posted:

I'll admit that I don't actually know what chromatic abberation even is

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:24

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

Andrast posted:

I have no idea why chromatic aberration is a graphics setting in some games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfa-9aCTYg

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:25

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Do I want to go through the effort of finishing Metal Gear Solid V the Phantom Pain? I never finished this game and I own it on PS4 and PC.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:26

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

I said come in! posted:

Do I want to go through the effort of finishing Metal Gear Solid V the Phantom Pain? I never finished this game and I own it on PS4 and PC.

yes

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:27

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge: May 8, 2006; "My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"

Thanks for the info/examples y'all, it's really helpful!

For no reason I'm going to demand more chromatic aberration, games that are easy to look at or decipherable are for babies

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:37

bushisms.txt: May 26, 2004; Scroll, then. There are other posts than these.

Relax Or DIE posted:

I'll admit that I don't actually know what chromatic abberation even is

Yeah this stuff is poo poo. What's it even for outside of Max Payne's alcoholism?

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:37

Spring Break My Heart: Feb 15, 2012

I said come in! posted:

Do I want to go through the effort of finishing Metal Gear Solid V the Phantom Pain? I never finished this game and I own it on PS4 and PC.

I have to do that too.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:39

Help Im Alive: Nov 8, 2009

bring back DK mode

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:39

PantsBandit: Oct 26, 2007; it is both a monkey and a boombox

I've been wondering lately about Activision/Blizzard. I feel like for a LONG time they had at least one series that was absolutely dominant in its market. WoW, CoD, Overwatch, Destiny. But now they've split from Bungie, interest in Overwatch is dwindling, and it just feels like they don't know how to manage their IPs.

Part of me feels like a year from now Blizzard is going to release some killer app and be back on top again, but then again we're in a really strange lull and that whole company feels like it's lost its way.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:42

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Help Im Alive posted:

bring back DK mode

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:46

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

PantsBandit posted:

I've been wondering lately about Activision/Blizzard. I feel like for a LONG time they had at least one series that was absolutely dominant in its market. WoW, CoD, Overwatch, Destiny. But now they've split from Bungie, interest in Overwatch is dwindling, and it just feels like they don't know how to manage their IPs.

Part of me feels like a year from now Blizzard is going to release some killer app and be back on top again, but then again we're in a really strange lull and that whole company feels like it's lost its way.

For Blizzard, we know they are working on multiple new projects that haven't been announced yet. So it'll be a lot longer than a year. They've abandoned Heroes of the Storm, and Diablo III, both games are apparently in maintenance mode. We know Diablo 3 is no longer being worked on and multiple expansion packs were canceled behind the scenes, their team is working on Diablo 4, and Immortal (mobile lol).

Blizzard could probably just survive off of only updating and working on World of Warcraft if they wanted.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:47

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge: May 8, 2006; "My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"

They'll re-release Warcraft 3 and be on top of the RTS genre soon, at least

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:49

Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

Maybe WoW Classic will be a slam dunk

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:50

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exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Man Warcraft III was so good. Gonna try dusting off the old RTS skills for that one.

# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:50

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