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They thinks it looks 'real'

It is some what overdone....
BUT
All of those pictures take place is deserts or severely run down settings... What do you want pink and aqua marine?

Don't think Far Cry 2 is too brown tbh ... the colors are just plain perfect in that game on the PS3+plasma combination

Quake I.

'nuff said.

I wouldn't call Far Cry 2 or TF2 dark but the others I agree with

Why so brown? Cause the world is a shitty place.

Games have always looked like this.

It does irk me though, makes everything kinda depressing.

Not all. A lot sure, but there are exceptions. I'd also argue about TF2. Sure a lot of the maps are brown, but there's still a hell of a lot of primary colours floating around.

Last edited by Spidery_Yoda (2009-02-03 11:30:11)

Aside from mood-setting, the truth is that it's easier to make a brown game than to force a system to render miles and miles of luscious vegetation...or model those. As systems and environment modeling applications improve, I'm sure you'll see things balance out, but short of Battlefield Vietnam 2 (green and brown!), I think you're going to see brown, brown and more brown. Also, see Yoda's post.

Also,

r2zoo wrote:

In all fairness, every enviroment has been done to death as it is.  Far Cry 2 was "tasteful" in my opinion, its enviroments were pretty intresting.

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Aries_37 wrote:

Games have always looked like this.

It does irk me though, makes everything kinda depressing.

1) Not really. There's plenty of variety out there, and enough preview material available to keep you away from games with unpleasant color schemes.
2) I think the dank blues and greens of Bioshock were even more depressing than the rust.

I recommend Mirror's Edge, if you want fresh colors.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2009-02-03 23:09:22)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

it's easier to make a brown game than to force a system to render miles and miles of luscious vegetation

But vegetation, luscious or otherwise, just adds greens to the browns.

It's not about modelling detail, it's about colour palette, and it takes no more rendering power to render greens, reds, blues, yellows and pinks, than it does to render browns.

r2zoo wrote:

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

it's easier to make a brown game than to force a system to render miles and miles of luscious vegetation

But vegetation, luscious or otherwise, just adds greens to the browns.

It's not about modelling detail, it's about colour palette, and it takes no more rendering power to render greens, reds, blues, yellows and pinks, than it does to render browns.

Wouldn't matter.  If all these games had jungles or took place in the artic, etc everyone would cry over that.  And while Far Cry 2 is slapped with the brown label, it does have some pretty impressive foilage, especially when on fire

@scorp

First, if you want something to look like an Earthly environment, you need brown...even if you're sick of looking at it in reality. Second, you're right about the processing power, but those greens are usually going on plants, which require way more power to render than a rock or a lumpy mound of dirt. And since there's going to be a lot of them...well, fill in the figures. That's outdoor terrain. For less-realistic environmental colors, go for the cartoony games like Mario.

Also, Zoo is right. Everything's 'overdone' and you can't please everyone. Me, I like the nighttime dankness of Thief II.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2009-02-04 00:06:16)

With FO3 it's kind of expected as it's...well, a nuclear wasteland.

With FC2 it's expected as well as it's...well, Africa.