I just don’t get it - let’s spend so much money, development and hardware to render the most clean game possible, avoid aliasing and increase detail… And then let’s enable color distortion as if we were vieweing the game through a 1930’s cinema projector. Add in some film grain too! This saves me the effort of covering my monitor with dirt!
Make sure to make those options enabled by default on every game you release too!
Lots of games that I play use it when you’re meant to be looking through a lens, like when you’ve got scuba gear on under water, and you would actually see chromatic aberration IRL. My daughter actually likes a lot of analog horror because a digital screen would just go blank if there were no signal, it wouldn’t have all of the fuzziness and lines that make your brain want to try and “see through” the static and piece together what the image is.
Long story short, you have a shallow perception of the world, and you seem to want your games to be also as shallow. Something causes you to see these effects when they’re on an LCD screen, but not in the real world, and the disconnect bothers you.
Or you just have some narrow perception of the world where you think games only do this in places where it would actually happen. There are literally 3rd person games that have this. But I’m sure uhh, let’s see here… Yeah it’s a camera is following you around and that camera has a lens with poor chromatic abberation. Yup. That’s it.
Get off your fucking high horse.
I was with you until that second paragraph.
After reading your last paragraph, I simply wouldn’t have anything nice to write - so I won’t really reply.
So you wrote a post that basically said “insert nasty thing here”…
If you don’t have anything nice to say, sometimes it’s better to say nothing.
Take your own advice