ive never played any of the (3d) fallout games, but occasionally i read stuff about them and i'm like "wow, looks like i missed out" and then i go look at a screenshot of fallout 3 and the textures are so high contrast, gritty, yet blurry, the lighting so hazy and muddled, the bloom so overwhelming, the hues so lacking, that my eyes can't even parse what's going on or what anything is, and i remember how that aesthetic's takeover of the action genre completely lost me on a whole decade of gaming
i'll admit that i'm completely underinformed on all the games that came out in that period, but in my defense every time i looked over at a game someone was playing, it was always some kind of ruined city. not even a city of peeling painted stucco or sandstone or red brick, only ever a grey city. they'd always be stepping over piles of concrete and rebar. the screen would have decals of blood and dirt splattered over the lens so you were spared from actually seeing most of the graphics
it's a strong aesthetic in its own terms, and i would actually be unhappy if they remade it with a more tasteful, balanced kind of palette. i think it would lose all of its character; the style is worth preserving. this does mean, however, that i will never be able to actually play it. small price to pay though. it's for people who aren't me, the people of 2008, those mysterious creatures whose eyes just work very differently to mine
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