For the Love of Graphics

[Fatal Impurity]

But then you also get your setting that effect's the realism of the presence of colour...afterall a desert hardly has anything at all nevermind a brightly coloured plant or piece of cloth! A good example of this "realism" is Red Faction, this game is set on Mars, thus it is largely red in colour...but that's waht you'd expect of a mining colony on a red planet right?

Oh, it's not just the setting that I'm moaning talking about. I understand your point, when you reach the Chernobyl NPP, the buildings are grey, the sky is overcast, and overall it's a very bleak place.

But I mean, surely there should be some colour in the game. Reactor 3 and 4's cooling tower is still red and white. A burning helicopter is bright orange and yellow. The grass around the sarcophagus is still green. People wear green uniforms.

I can understand the dusty yellow hue of Metal Gear Solid 4, but it can't be all yellow buildings and ground - especially inside the buildings (some art decor please? ). And a yellow sky as well?

Your absolutely right but i mean in times of war the sky is usually filled with sand and a million different chemicals, plus deserty places like the middle east often if not most of the time have sand storm's which can generally make the sky look sandy and yellow...but yeah i would like to see more games with varience with colour. In fact maybe this the exact reason why so many quirky Jap games (such as anime beat em ups/puzzlers etc) are getting more popular outside of Japan (Katamari Damacy is one good example of this) and this is because of the their bright vibrance and large pallette of coulours. It's quite obvious that people are appriciating colour as a component of games much like art does and therefore these games (which before we're considered daft or garish colour wise) are being considered fun visually.

Maybe it's time for the game companies to adopt a new art direction with games, instead of going for the drab "over-realism" they have been doing over the last few years maybe they would be re-introducing colour into games, giving them brilliant colour yet decent graphics like classics like Crono Trigger did in their time!