When you can't discern the edges of platforms, catwalks, and the like because the video game environment is dark, and you've lost all patience because you can't quite make the jump you need to, do not assume the game designers were going for lush blacks, as lovely as they may be aesthetically. Crank up the brightness on your TV!
Oh for the love of science, why didn't I try that sooner? WHY?!
3 years ago on TTaT: Today's thought
What game is it? I have enough trouble with video games as it is!
ReplyDeleteI do not play videogames, ever (except for maybe a two-year period in my life, over 10 years ago, when I was a Super Mario World an Donkey Kong champion!), but I thought this post was absolutely hilarious!
ReplyDeletekilax: Lego Star Wars, episode 3, chapter 5: Ruin of the Jedi. But I'm sure it would've been totally helpful when I was playing Lego Star Wars 2 and got to the point I had black-clad characters on dark backgrounds. I managed to get by on leaps of faith for that game, but I bet it would've been so much easier if I'd turned up the brightness.
ReplyDeleteelisabeth: Happy to entertain. :) I played video games some when I was young and then on stray occasions as an adult but only in the last year or so gotten into it beyond Dance Dance Revolution. The Lego Star Wars games are right up my alley, and I'm looking forward to the Legoized Batman and Indiana Jones games. Still pretty much a novice though.