Nachkebia said:
You got everything wrong, my/our complain is not that it lacks different colors, I could not give a shit how colorful the games is, I would love to play black and white games. but what really pisses us of is the stupidly over oranging stuff, if they turned saturation bit down and perhaps made Orange that looks like Sepia, I would be happy.
p.s. I love so called washed out colors that people usually complain
Well, first of all: don't read to much into it, it was mainly a joke.
That said, i can understand not liking the artstyle, the color palette, the graphics and whatnot, tastes are tastes.
What the joke was pointing at was: let's not take a relatively little thing and tranform it into something HUGE.. this happens costantly on gaming forums and it's counterproductive(i'm relatively new on GAF, but i'm guessing it happens over here too).
In my opinion there is no "right palette", i wouldn't like Eraserhead in colors, i wouldn't like Let the Right one in with high contrast and oversaturation, just as i wouldn't like Life acquatic with Steve Zissou, w/o the colorful photography.
So yeah i have my tastes, you got yours, it's fine, but i don't get how a certain art direction would be just bad(as an absolute).
That skyline could use a few more color? Maybe. Let's play the game, let's sink into the atmosphere and see what they are trying to evoke, before saying it's wrong.
Just like the Resident Evil 5 case, where some people modded the game to have primary colors in it(like a SEGA game)-- i thought it ruined the "message" completely, but as i said, you have the freedom to play as you like, just don't assume your tastes are the absolute sample of what an artistic choice should be.(i'm not referring to you specifically, now)
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ANYWAY: They're just colors guys, it will take a week for people to mod them out. :lol