Didn’t see a thread for it and I feel this needs a thread to post it in.
Bad Dice. Bad.
Fuck that noise, Good Dice. They made a game with a visual aesthetic they are proud of and stuck to it. They didn’t just fuckin cop out to stupid little complaints. I think as a piece of art you create it devalues it to not stand by it and say its good. Personally I like the blue tinge, its not brown or gray so I am ok with it. My guess is they did it so they could have good orange / blue contrast with explosions. Which makes the explosions look more visceral. If it has any impact on game performance however I’d say its ok to allow change but I doubt it does.
I can appreciate them sticking to their guns but
- They pretty much said for sure that they were going to do it and are now going back on their word.
- A good majority of the people playing the game don’t like the filters and gratuitous lens flare (to the point they’re risking bans to take them off) and it apparently raises performance with them off.
The lens flare does annoy me, but it is an interesting idea taken from real life. In war the side facing the sun has a disadvantage. Also yes the first point is true, they said they were going to and they probably should at this point. I just hate it when anyone working in an artistic medium doesn’t have the nerve to stand up for what they produced.
I don’t even play BF3 anymore
i stopped playing when they released premium…then i came back to see what the color grading mod was all about
i honestly am surprised that EA would allow for a console command that disables colorgrading (essentially making the game look more colorful and less “ORANGE-BLUE FILTERED” (Which is a shitty trend pioneered by movie cover art nowadays))
i am also quite baffled to how valve doesnt get this as a hint to make cs:go less foggy/desaturated…or at least unlock the cvars for such a thing to be possible
i guess this is a lesson that orange/blue, and “warish” turd-brown filters etc. do NOT make a game look better
Hopfully people will get the picture that filters and lensflares are just cheap tactics to make somthing look “better” (or its just to mask the flaws in aestetics)
thats why crysis is still regarded as the best graphical game, no filters and that jazz, just clear and pure detail
I refuse to install Origin. So no BF3 for me.
That’s too bad. You missed EA’s screwup (or marketing tactic) where a coupon meant to give one free game under $20 allowed you to add any amount of <=$20 games to your cart and get them.
I regret buying this game too much drm and having to play the game through your browser bye bye Battlefield 3 back to Battlefield 2.
The flares are cool, but
is fucking gorgeous.
The very fact that they’ve decided not to implement something that’s OPTIONAL because too many people might chose it (what the FUCK) is just wrong to the core.
heres a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqnpFkYR3g&feature=plcp
[color=red]I knew it was too good to be true…
DICE also states that they want to “properly advertise” their game with the “unique” blue-orange contrast that is presnet in bf3…
Unique my ass:
Another reason I hate it.
Yeah, but for the record its not like its just bandwagon jumping. The reason its done is because contrast in design helps draw the eye and the most contrasting color to skin tones is usually blue. Although I think battlefield does it because the blue contrasts the explosions not flesh.
Stop fucking defending them.
Plus, I think the main offender here is that they’re not offering the choice because people would CHOSE it. They opted out of adding something that was OPTIONAL.
It doesn’t fucking matter what it is, that’s fucked up.
Fuck, wake island that actually looks like an island instead of some overly filtered garbage?
I would’ve used that if I still played.
Liking the filter or dislike the filter comes down to pure personal preference so you will never win that argument. And again thinking its good of a company to stand by its art or preferring they cop out to some people bitching is also preference so you’ll never win that argument either. I’m just stating my opinion. I think modern games take to much of a “we can patch it later” attitude already. I’d like it if more game devs took pride in what they made and put out on release date. I just think changing things after you put them out in what is supposed to be a finished work is bad. Patches for gameplay balance are a necessary evil because there is only so much in house testing you can do but most other aspects should be fine out the door. George Lucas would argue otherwise but George Lucas is a bitch.
The only thing shitty here in my opinion is saying “Oh we’ll do that” and then not doing it.
well heres some news, blue and orange contrast is the biggest cliché in complementory colors ever
and didnt bf3 advertise itself as “the most realistic shooter ever”
if so, they why the filters?
i dont recall france ever looking to blue-tinted through the eyes of people
Yes, because I care what crap the marketing team slapped on the BF3 box.
Considering the unfiltered game looks a lot more real than the normal one, I really don’t know why the hell didn’t they just patch the damn thing and add a option to turn it On or off. If I look outside there isn’t much blue- Well, there is because the condo is painted blue, but shut up. It’s okay if they stood behind their mostly blue vision of reality, but I think (and a lot of people too, apparently) that the non filtered version looks like a game with good graphics, while the filtered one makes it looks a lot more low-quality, like you have to play it through a VCR with faulty cables.
Then again, Battlefield 3 is only a stepping stone for the next one, so is 4. I wonder when will EA actually commit to the games rather than the franchises.
The whole thing is, it’s not artistic integrity vs the evil criticism of the players, it’s simply turning on an option and allowing the person who bought the fucking game to make a choice.