How y'all like this? (Graphics settings revealed)

Whenever I turn off Film Grain in ME2 it just sticks out to me how flat and empty it all looks underneath. It's all about vibes. Film grain = best vibes.

I'm definitely turning off 'chromatic aberration'; I kinda liked film grain in ME1 though.

There's going to be FoV slider, right?

Probably under screen calibration since they said it was going to be in the game.



I like how they have upscaling; then again, EA games have upscaling. So even those who can't hit 1080 or 2160 native can still play in those resolutions without killing their setup.

Isn't FOV a cheat setting that goes against how the devs designed the camera view? :-p
I guess it doesn't matter if it's not a multiplayer competitive game...

Yes, probably at gameplay option settings?

Same. I'm OK with Depth of Field but detest Motion Mlur with a burning passion. Ah well, I'll just turn post-processing off altogether, but it's still annoying.

Otherwise, that's a pretty feature-complete graphical options menu. I'd have liked to see the gameplay options, key rebinds and FoV sliders but this'll do for now.

I'm going to do what I always do. Turn it all to the max and enjoy the game. Motion blur will be off. I hate that. Film grain I'll wait and see how it looks.

The 90s had film grain?

The popularity of chromatic aberration in games is more of a mental aberration. It doesn't seem to be used very accurately, though; because as a photography term it's a fault of the lens where light of different wavelengths get refracted at slightly different angles, and result in a blurry image whose colors look split up and out of focus. Whereas in games they're imitating a f*cked up CRT that can't focus the RGB channels properly, resulting in a similar split up image. I believe the CRT error has another name. (Note that I'm not an expert; in fact I'm an idiot, and this is likely false.)

It looks OK in games where f*cked up CRTs have a thematic role, e.g. Alien Isolation. But anywhere else it's a stupid distortion for the sake of distortion. Though I guess its real purpose is to hide awful textures or sauce up 'cinematic' framerates, to make them look less like a slideshow by blurring the image up a bit.

Previously they were trying make people blind by excessive lens flares and bloom effects; now the challenge is to make people puke, I guess.