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!
Very rarely I find this adds to visuals. But it’s incredibly rare, it really only makes sense if used in specific situations only, specifically when showing something that happened in the past. In those situations, film grain + sepia colors can be used to avoid having to explicitly mention that this is a flashback.
As a general look, all the time? 🤮
There’s at least one puzzle game using film grain with no option to turn it off that initially made me think it’s game engine is broken