ability to disable motion blur and run noctua fans at 50% rpm for 0 noise top reasons i got back on pc never mind framerate shit
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motion blur and anti aliasing makes all games look like shit
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All I know is I can play Hexen 64 on a quarter sized co-op screen, a game that has a single texture they use for the walls and floor, and feel fine. But I canât play the new dang resident evil
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yeah motion blur doesnât make me ill i just think it looks terrible so i also turn it off everywhere
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i usually donât mind motion blur but when FFXVI launched it had incredibly noticeable, distracting amounts of motion blur that made me feel sick
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camera panning doesnât look great to me at all but very high framerates so I generally like a very small amount of motion blur
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I tend to look around the frame and get really pinpoint focused in games and if the area I want to focus on is out of focus for artistic reason I get a moment of eyestrain before consciously adjusting my focus. Motion blur doesnât usually fall into this category but sometimes the camera moves while Im focused on a object and I feel the blur make my eyes mad.
I dont mind blur from things moving relative to the pov but camera movent blur across fixed objects can be annoying. I think my eyes jump when Im switching focus rather than smoothly wooshing.
There is some sort of camera/eye control fight going on I dont entirely understand. All of the above could prove to be wrong under testing. I dont know why I notice when I notice and dont when I dont.
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when will they make a game with miami vice motion blur
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I think per-object motion blur is fine but making the whole screen blur is overkill and should be avoided at all costs.
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I got Supermassiveâs âThe Quarryâ on sale & im usually pro or indifferent to motion blur but it alternates between fixed cameras and an above-the-hip third person and the third person in particular has motion blur & shallow focus maxed out to a very distracting degree.
Some potential reasons for the effect I thought of while being deeply distracted by it: keeps attention on their heavily detailed character models/modeled interactive objects, allows for more expansive spaces in lower fidelity, maintains horror effect of vague figures shifting in peripheral vision, unconsciously encourages player to move in a more tank-esque way to minimize blur, etc. All cool excuses for an effect that primarily inspired me to think of excuses for its existence
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this is a very funny blog to read 11 years later.
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oh wow miegakure is still truckin along, now with a patreon and discord server
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itâs amazing how miegakure has taken so long to come out that all my interest in the idea of a 4d puzzle game has curdled into pure disdain
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Were these four pencil necked geeks spending an average of $125 per meal, did I do that math right, what the fuck were they eating, in 2012 my idea of a fancy treat was going to IKEA on Fridays for the $2 fish & chips special, I was very fortunate to have a nearby IKEA but not as fortunate as these dweebs, does their catering include drink and drugs at least, Iâm guessing no, it is so hard to imagine these people actually enjoying things, I promise you if I had that much money Iâd at least have some fun, fuck
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they didnât even beat a Dragon Quest game smh
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went back to elden ring multiplayer after a friend came over and showed me how to activate hdr on my tv. itâs still very active around level 40, got summoned all over the place. ran into 2 different sleep builds with awful pun names (Mel OâTonin and Kat Nâap) and saw a part of stormveil i had never seen before despite spending 10s of hours doing pvp there in the past, the part with the banished knight with the version of the armor that has a cape. that was part of a 45 minute co-op session where we fought off 2 invaders and wound around the place killing literally every enemy, unfortunately i died shamefully to the 3rd invader who popped in after i was out of estus. did a good job fighting him for a while, sticking to ranged attacks and consumables, but got greedy and went in for a flame strike to finish him off and got clipped by the final frames of a greatsword r1. should have hung back and kept throwing shit at him. alas
anyway the game looks great with hdr enabled, i highly recommend switching it on
i also beat bloodborne NG while that friend was over, will probably type up some notes about it tomorrow
edit: fuckkk i went back to that area on my character and the banished knight armor (altered) dropped off that night the first time i killed it, i wonder if thatâs a guaranteed drop or if i got insanely lucky
edit 2: actually the armor is boring, the special thing he drops is the hat with the shawl, i couldnât help myself but grind it and it dropped on the 3rd try
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been playing msx1 games again. for as great as the msx2 is just on the sheer virtue of having two metal gear games on it, i find myself loving this little underpowered fucker a little more. this computer had a port of ninja jajamaru thatâs really cool and (mostly) runs better than the nes version.
but whatâs really important is LOOK AT THIS FROG.
there was also a port of the original ninja-kun thatâs really nice despite the obvious visual downgrade
realizing that iâm sick and twisted like harley quinnâs boyfriend and thinking that a visually compromised port of the fairyland story actually looks better than the arcade game. i donât like the colors in that one.
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Still dance dance revolutioning my way to decent shape!
In the meantime, started playing loretta. I like it a lot, it does really interesting things that is making me appreesh games as a medium (again). Like there are these janky little mini games that, I think, is a good way for narrative focused games to incorporate gaminess into their structure. The point isnât necessarily to do well at them, but they work as mechanical metaphors to help the player better understand Lorettaâs interior thoughts. Even though depressed forties/fifties housewife is well trodden territory, the feeling of agency it gives you (thru Loretta) makes it interesting. Idk anything about the developers, but it seems to be a small team which like duh I really appreciate. Not to mention, it looks real good. Thereâs Hopper and Wyeth all over the place which is, I guess, kinda a given with the subject matter. Itâs 10 bucks! Give it a whirl on a rainy day
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Arkanoid: Eternal Battle (PC/Steam)
F2P version (from discount elysium (deals thread 2) - #437 by Grandpa ).
Was surprised couldnât just play with keyboard.
Itâs trying the Tetris 99 approach or whatever, showing you how youâre doing relative to other simultaneous players.
There was one other player and they seemed to drop as soon as actual play started after the initial wait for players, so it was me against 24 or so AIs.
They sure throw in as many graphics FX as they could think of to distract you from being bored.
It just kept going so I quit.
The full version, with 1P modes or something, is on sale for a couple bucks I guess, canât say Iâm tempted, itâs Arkanoid with more eye-ache and no control options apparently.
Oh yeah also the game made my computerâs fan go real noisy constantly; only other game I get that with is Pinball FX. : P
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