Games that got HDR/Bloom right...

[Zed]

no games got bloom right.

 

[MetalCraze]

ArmA2 does bloom right. But those glitches do happen on very rare occassions. Like in a very small area with lots of dark space which HDR tries to compensate by lighting it up.

 

[Gerrard]

Avalanche engine, most of the time at least.

(or if they did, not without modded cfgs)

You aren't allowed to edit the .cfg anymore?

"Games", not "Modders/tweaks".

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Not having played Reach I must ask, what is going on there?

Joke filters, like the "Next Gen" one in Uncharted 1

So I'm guessing most developers didn't get the joke?

 

[Raghar]

Wasn't HDR just a way how to avoid problems with rounding errors and clamping that produced washed colors after several reflections? Basically without HDR it turned 8 bit per channel into 6 bit, which looks horribly.

 

[Kane]

More often than not it's an annoying effect that makes the ground look like it's on fire or a bright sunny day look like midnight in a forrest, but some games get it right.

List 'em.

 

[baronjohn]

ArmA2 does bloom right. But those glitches do happen on very rare occassions. Like in a very small area with lots of dark space which HDR tries to compensate by lighting it up.

a) it happens all the time
b) every ArmA fag knows the first thing you do when you install arma is disable bloom and blur
c) the sort of ridiculous bloom ArmA renders doesn't happen neither to the natural eye nor film/digital cameras, so it's really just plain BIS incompetence not any sort of deliberate effect
d) it's not a glitch, it's a feature. it's even on promo shots

I can't find it now but there was a hilarous arrowhead promo shot with an afgani woman where EVERYTHING GLOWED. LOL

 

[Destroid]

Wasn't HDR just a way how to avoid problems with rounding errors and clamping that produced washed colors after several reflections? Basically without HDR it turned 8 bit per channel into 6 bit, which looks horribly.

I thought HDR was the effect when you walk from a dark area to a bright area the scene darkens so if you are in a bright spot dark areas look darker and vice versus. Although it mostly just ends up that you can't see shit while looking into dark/light areas, and the adjustment time looks retarded. Or is that bloom?

EDIT: Nope bloom is that retarded glowy effect, why videogames want to appear as if they were shot by camera instead of viewed with the human eye I do not know, it's retarded.

 

[MetalCraze]

a) it happens all the time

I posted quite a number of screenshots proving you wrong over the time

So what's wrong with this screenshot?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Joke filters

You know the industry is fucked when the so-called "joke" filters actually do look exactly like some other game you've played...

Yeah, if someone told me the bright Reach shot was real I would have believed them.

Well, that's sort of the point - it's called "next gen filter" because it makes the game look like the average bloom-happy game.

 

[DalekFlay]

EDIT: Nope bloom is that retarded glowy effect, why videogames want to appear as if they were shot by camera instead of viewed with the human eye I do not know, it's retarded.

If the Xbox 360 generation has taught me anything it's that all game developers want to be movie directors.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

I love how many people there are that never actually played Cryshit (or if they did, not without modded cfgs) and just masturbate to shots made in the editor.

the only way to "play" Crysis.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

hope you all enjoyed this session of "playing" crysis

 

[Jaesun]

I just came in my pants.

 

[ecliptic]

Splinter Cell Double Agent made good use of HDR. When I turned it off I couldn't see Fisher anymore in the tutorial level, since he was in a white room wearing white clothing, lolz.

 

[commie]

Call of Juarez did it well, with great atmospheric HDR.

Far Cry had a very good 'baked sand' effect where it was so bleached that you really 'felt' the heat and the shaded jungle nearby was such a contrast that it gave the corresponding feeling of 'coolness'. The thing is, Far Cry predates HDR/Bloom yet did similar effects far better.

 

[Felix]

Low-res textures

Otherwise look good.

 

[Gerrard]

I love how many people there are that never actually played Cryshit (or if they did, not without modded cfgs) and just masturbate to shots made in the editor.

the only way to "play" Crysis.

Touché.

 

[baronjohn]

Wtf is that? Crysis on xbox? It looks like shit compared to the original.

 

[MetalCraze]

There is no bloom on those screenshots though. HDR itself is, of course, a great rendering technique.

 

[Destroid]

They should really change the way they do foliage, it looks pretty strange when so much of it is clearly floating in the air.

 

[Lothers]

Batman: Arkham Asylum did well.

 

[SharkClub]

Oblivion of course.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

You know, there's something about the above screenshot that bothers me. Is that an important enemy, or a generic lvl 15 thief? Since he's clad in a complete suit of Elven gear, that makes it look like he's important, but he looks out of place.

 

[chzr]

you can see anyone through the bloom?