Maybe not really lifelike, but less sterile and not that much like a piece of CG. I'm pretty sure they haven't said anything about being lifelike.
Absolutely agree, it's god damned awful. The word "aberration" in CA should be a hint that it's not desirable.
I've been an avid photographer since the mid 80s and have always bought the best lenses and did everything possible to eliminate it in my shots. Shit's terrible.
I guess its one of those things where you need to see it without to understand how much its ruining the image quality.Chromatic Aberration is the one effect that I find hilarious the reaction about. It's such a subtle thing. In most games that have it, I don't know they do have it until I read people complaining about it.
In the four screenshots in the OP, CA is only obvious in the Bloodborne screen, but I've not noticed it while playing the actual game. I can't see it in the image from the F1 game at all, and it's so minor in the other two games that I had to zoom in and scan the edges of the images to find where it was.
Most of these screenshots looks good and I think to the general populace (the majority of people who buy these games) they would too. And that's all that matters to publishers.
i don't really notice it
Yep, that's chromatic aberration in a nutshell. The little red lines really don't bother me nearly as much as the blur it introduces. People complain about FXAA and say its like smearing vaseline on the screen, but this is several times worse and unlike FXAA, it does provide any sort of benefit.That screenshot to the right makes me think I pulled off my old-fashioned 3D glasses in the day when they used red/blue to make it happen.
Same.It doesn't bother me.
Developers: Do whatever you want
I'll decide based on the final product if I want it or not.
I think CA in Bloodborne is not something you notice while playing because the effect is at the edges where you don't look unless you look at screenshots.
In The Order 1886 it looked fantastic.
I'm of the opinion that most devs that implement dirty screen effects have glasses. Since I wear glasses, those effects seem natural to me.CA and dirt/debris on the camera mudding up the IQ and making everything so hard to fucking see. I'M A HUMAN BEING WITH EYES NOT A FUCKING WALKING TRIPOD WITH A GUN.
And there's no way to turn any of this shit off, I can only think of Payday 2 and Lords of the fallen where you can turn off CA. Dirty lenses and shit effects everywhere else are permanent.
Developers: Do whatever you want
I'll decide based on the final product if I want it or not.
I think CA in Bloodborne is not something you notice while playing because the effect is at the edges where you don't look unless you look at screenshots.
In The Order 1886 it looked fantastic.
Nobody is forcing you to do anything. Don't play it.The CA along with the DoF blight is why I couldn't play The Order for more than 30 minutes without getting an eyestrain headache. There are people stopping playing Bloodborne for similar reasons too. Devs should not be forcing peoples eyes out of focus, it's just stupid.
Do you think it improves the image, though?
Preach.Nobody is forcing you to do anything. Don't play it.
Does that matter? It's an artistic tool if the artists want to put it into their game then that effect represents how they wanted to present their world.
You're talking about 'improving' a totally subjective thing. Like people will argue that Lens flare is a defect inherent to photographic lenses but others will say that's it's totally awesome.
And anyway:
http://www.telescope-optics.net/eye_chromatism.htm
The human eye has a lot of chromatic aberration which our brain has to correct for. So if anything it's more realistic! =D
What am I looking at?
CA is basically colour bleeding at the edges right?
I can't see it in the images in the OP, like at all. Is it really subtle or something?
Implementing a toggle seems like a better compromise than "don't play half of the games this generation".Same.
The way I see it is if you don't hate it that much, don't buy games that have it. It's as simple as that.
I guess its one of those things where you need to see it without to understand how much its ruining the image quality.
I am admittedly becoming more and more sensitive to it, though. It's becoming so prevalent and its becoming so annoying that it's very hard for me to not pick it out immediately and sigh in disappointment.
I understand many people will not notice it, but rest assured, it *is* hurting the clarity of the image.
Nobody is forcing you to do anything. Don't play it.
Developers sure do love to over do it on stuff like this. I remember when I some of them would blind me by overusing bloom years ago.