What was the appeal of the piss filter?
Kino
It's called color grading and it's good, it's just that everyone used the same color back then because of market trends. Because people complained so much about it however, we now have games with no consistent color palette or color grading at all, just splash random colors here, splash random colors there. Now nothing has a consistent theme or atmosphere to it.
>>738353534Born in 1999, when I first saw the Xbox 360 the games looked photorealistic. I feel like that was the reason why the filter was so prevalent because if you remove it they look like PS2 games.
>>738353534Dev of the time lived their whole childhood in smog infested cities and they tried to mimick realismsame reason why chink games are now stroboscopes
In all those examples it's supposed to make it feel like you're in a shithole. A warzone, a crime-ridden city with tons of street racers, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and then there's also New York.
>>738353534Knee jerk reaction against the overuse of colorful bloom at the start of the 00's.>What if bloom... but brown (because reality is brown)
>>738353534make certain lightening and shadows options easier to process for consoles I think? It's also why it was done primarily by what was at the time state of the art graphics games, never anything stylized or ugly.
>>738353534There was no appeal, they just copied movies and wanted to make their games more like movies.
>>738353736faggot
>>738353534somewhat hides abysmally bad graphics
>>738353534Made the games feel super serious and gritty (at the time)
>>738353534It's nostalgic
>>738355419Signing your posts is not board culture.
>>738353992mgs3 + 4 had the piss bloom in every outdoor scene, not just shithole battlefield levels. It was a lazy trend games adopted to look realistic and now there's a generation of kids pretending it was a careful consideration of artistic direction. So dishonest.
>>738353534Uniform colour tone works as psuedo-AA, it was cooked up for the the interim period between MSAA and good post-process AA when deferred rendering became popular and killed MSAA
>>738353534Eternal sunsets
>>7383535347th gen was so ass
>>738355741Nigger 4 had plenty of cool colour grading, shit the fuck up
i always hated this fucking ugly filter why does it even exist
>>738353534It was a misguided attempt to make games seem more mature by mimicking movies. Films were infected with this shit at the same time.
>>738353534Pseudo photo realism trend but it just ended up looking like shit.Only enjoyed by zoomer historical revisionists. Which is the vast majority of /v/ nowadays
>>738353534For some reason, many games of that era were set in Mexico.
>>738355705That's not how you use that epic comeback you retard
>>738353736The filter was also made popular by movies of the time period, namely Black Hawk Down.I still prefer the brown and bloom era to the purple reign.Look at this gay shit.
>>738359597>but i still prefer itAnd you should be executed zoompigswine.
>>738353736>>738353534Real answer Hi res 720+ screens revealed how shitty the 7th generation actually looked, and devs tried all sorts of tricks to mask the lack of AA/AF, draw distance, ect. You're focused on the piss filter instead of actually how shitty and low res everything is
>>738353736Saw old movies and they're so beautifulNow Jewlywood makes everything look either green, blue or piss
>>738360602Yeah pretty much. It could hide the flaws in the graphics. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/art/why-quot-next-gen-games-quot-went-gray-brown-and-grey-
>>738353534The only game I particularly liked it in was Deus Ex HR.
>>738353534They tried to be movies when movies were already bad.
