Is Film Grain Good In Games

Consoles should just have an os level feature like nvidias in game overlay thing which lets you set filters color contrast etc.

Is film grain good in games. Grainy film lends a certain feel and credibility to what you re seeing. I think they did a decent job of it in tlou2. My reasoning is that some games and their rendering how their world and models look look too clean and a bit of visual noise on top makes a lot of the scenes seem more coherent. 10 off kontrol freeks.

Last of us resident evil dark souls they all look better with film grain to me. On a game by game basis. Its a style thing its also adds to the feel of a game if done right ive found its in the 50s style games and the noir style as well. Film grain in games is a fine idea on paper but unfortunately a flat filter over the entire screen is not sufficient for good results.

Some games use a good looking grain filter and also only use it to accentuate key moments the mass effect games are not among them. I think fear2 only used film grain in a few spots and it looked. I like film grain in games it looks amazing in tlou2. In the era of digital photography the film stock that give films a slight grain is on the way out except for in videogames when it s being digitally put back in to muddy up monitors.

Use code semscure at checkout. You can make games look like skyward sword throw in a film grain make a black and white mode like ghosts of tsushima etc. Mainly it serves to ape the look of movies but as games have no sensor noise or film grain applying a degree of random noise can help to reduce banding and reduce the appearance of dithering and temporal artefacts so it s not all bad. Be sure to leave a like if this helped you guys out.

Done well it works well done poorly.