cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5362703

They’re either pixel-shit or wastelands or some shit.

At times, they seem very grey-ish, like the Dune duology by Denis Velleneuve.

The color palette’s just not doing it for me.

And at times, the gameplay is the same… Remember when Nintendo made games with more gameplay “gimmicks”? I miss those “gimmicks” because they made things interesting, but at least Echoes of Wisdom (the new Zelda game) will have something like that… Even the Indie games can sometimes over-use the Unity engine or Unreal Engine 5.

It may be because I’m depressed, but aside from OMORI, which is also a bit derivative from other RPG Maker games (I still love it), nothing really… Idk, looks interesting?

h a l p

I just had a thread about suggesting me games, but I’m running into the same problem as before.

…I… probably should at least try them, at least some, but I feel like I’ll run out of games that ARE good and then quickly bump into games that ARE bad. I don’t know. Maybe just me. Probably lol

Thoughts? Do you think too many games nowadays look the same or “samey”? Do you think many have this problem?

  • Procapra [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Ever since the Gen 8 consoles came out, there has been this trend of smearing the screen with TAA, post processing, and shader effects that IMO make games look worse. It makes games look blurry, and it can make the colors very flat. Perfect example of this is RDR2. Whole game has an orange tint, this weird grain effect, and the dreaded TAA smearing. I’m the type that also doesn’t like motionblur, DOF, bloom, any of that. I just want to see the textures & models in as great of detail as possible.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      “shader effects”

      R E A L

      I want to say “So true bestie” but that would truly be redundant and hard to take seriously.

      No, but seriously, the post-processing thing is also something I’ve noticed. I guess it’s the… future or something? Seriously, they ALL look the goddamn same and I hate it. And yeah, games look blurry nowadays and flat besides. And yeah, RDR2 is a good example of this, though it’s probably the “better” of the games that we’re thinking of; everything else looks even worse!