Raise your hand if you've ever looked at a game and thought to yourself, 'This could do with some chromatic aberration'. Anyone with their hand up: put your hand down, further, down to the off switch on your PC, press it, walk away. Your time is up.
I'm not a massive fan of any post-processing effect in games—motion blur is my nemesis, and it's my belief that vignettes are best left to Instagram accounts from 2010—but lately I've been wondering what's actually up with some of these post-processing effects? Why is it that we can add an old-timey film grain to a game when not even films look like that most of the time? Or why is chromatic aberration a thing despite it looking like absolute trash?
