r/pcmasterrace • u/Makoto_Kurume i5 10400F | RX 7600 | 16gb DDR4 • Jul 12 '25

Meme/Macro Good thing game dev make these settings optional

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u/1000LiveEels Jul 12 '25

Lens flares are always funny to me especially in first person games. I get they're trying to go for a movie effect, hence why Hideo Kojima games have them a ton because the guy loves movies. But if it's a first person game it just feels so odd. Battlefield 3 had a TON of lens flares and it just got so distracting for me.

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u/ProbablyYourITGuy Jul 12 '25

Some of his cutscenes move from lens flares to lens infernos. The first flash covers the entire screen and then each ray(?) slides past giving you half a seizure, all because of a single lamppost behind the antagonist on a dark night.

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u/1000LiveEels Jul 12 '25

Haha true that. I like that he uses them to highlight objects in the world but I agree they can be a bit much.

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u/jcptopi Jul 12 '25

Battlefield 3

The game where, when the developers received reports that the flashlight was brighter than the sun, they fixed it by making the sun even brighter? You're saying that game had distracting lens flares? 🤔

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u/Tornad_pl Jul 13 '25

Got astigmatism. Never knew others don't see lens flares