So, I bought an Asus VN247H (1ms G2G) and colors etc are good, but there's one tiny problem.
Obviously, the reason I bought this monitor was the rather cheap price and the low response rate (1ms G2G). I play a lot of MMO's and when you move the camera or you you simply strafe right/left (which makes the camera go right/left), you usually notice some kind of blur/trailing on most monitors. In most games, it isn't that bad, but the camera tends to move slow in mmorpgs's, so you have more time to notice details in the background when you pan the camera.
Example: my previous monitor was a Dell U2312HM IPS and everytime the camera moved, I felt like the background pixels were bothering me. Like they weren't catching up the action quick enough. The only thing that doesn't get messed up is your own character, but that's because he's always in the middle, so the pixels don't have to shift as much. Anyway, the monitor was bothering me because of that and I figured it was the higher response rate that caused it.
I sold it and got me the Asus VN247H. First few days were good, but then I started to notice a different form of blur/ghosting. Stuff doesn't trail as much as the dell, but there's some kind of... double vision when I pan the camera. It's like npc's and objects in the background have some kind of ghost in them, but it doesn't leave their body entirely. And for some reason, my eyes tend to focus on this effect... a lot. It's bothering me to the point I can't enjoy my games and it breaks my immersion every time. Mind you, I have no clue why this bothers me so much. I keep thinking I buy bad monitors or something. Or that my room is haunted with ghosting lol.
It sounds stupid, but I only started to notice this effect when we moved to our new house. I owned an Acer 24" sbmii or something in our previous house and I never had any problems back then. It kinda started after I was gaming on a samsung D5000 tv in our new house on the ps3. I don't know the full extent of it, but most ps3 games are 30 fps, and the effect is even worse on 30 fps. And then I started to notice it on 30fps games on my Vita (moving the camera left/right on Zero Escape for example) as well.
I'm kinda wondering if there's something wrong with my eyes. I really don't know a single person that notices this stuff as much as I do. I can't even find any threads about this problem or anything. Sure, I've seen people talking 'bout motion blur and response rates etc etc but that doesn't keep them from gaming on their monitors.
I feel like I'm too obsessed with this stuff, but at the same time.. I can't ignore it when I try to game. I've been thinking about buying yet another monitor, but I'm pretty sure I'll still notice the problem on that monitor as well. So yeah, why did I only notice this since about a year ago and why does it bother me so much? :<