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Whatever Happened to Color?
TrustyGamer has a point. Photorealism is a good thing, but can it really be an escape from reality — especially for ostensibly lighthearted fare — when the color palette it draws on represents the depressing color scheme of our own worlds? Increasingly, that seems to be the case in every title, including EA's Skate, which "look(s) like shots from a heroin game where you have to skate to get your next fix."
"Nowadays, all screenshots basically look like they are from the same post-apocalyptic World War III nuclear fallout nightmare," smakus writes. He finds games to be stress-causing and not stress-relieving because of the dreary, gritty environments we're subjected to, compared to grim titles like Doom and Duke Nukem that dealt death largely in primary colors.
Next-gen "realistic" games (i.e. non-cartoon protagonists or action) with lively, bright colors? I can think of Bully, although the winter months stretch of that game started getting me in a funk. TF2 has cartoons in a real environment. And there's Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but that's probably outside the scope of the writer's argument. I'm sure all of you can think of more.
Like I said, I am color-blind as a bat, and so asking my opinion of a color is almost beyond useless. But it is a good question regarding design: What is ultimately the reason people will buy a game — realism or fun? — and how should that govern the rest of the game's look, feel, sound, story, etc?
I Miss Color [TrustyGamer]
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DS Lite Color Adapters
As much as you don't want to believe it, a part of you wants one of these. Deep inside everyone is a little obsessive-compulsive that will spend any amount of money to make everything look "perfect". To make matters worse, not so deep-inside many people is the urge to buy things online out of sheer laziness and the love of getting packages in the mail. More » -
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The Evolution of Nintendo Colors
ColourLovers started off as a website where you could put colors together and share them with other people who love color combinations online. Now it's grown into a monster of a site with even a blog. In this week's posting, there's an interesting article about Nintendo and the history of their hues. Starting with the Color TV Game-6 and finishing up at the Wii, Ruecian shows examples of how Nintendo's color pallette evolved with time and technology. Even if you don't have patience to read a whole article concentrating on colors, just looking at the timeline of images shows the different attitudes Nintendo has had over the years - being strong and saturated in the N-64 days and now becoming friendly and demure with today's Wii. Fascinating read. More » -
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Pink, Blue and Silver PSPs Hitting Japan
Sony Computer Entertainment today announced that they would be bringing three new colors to Japan's PSPs. Pink, blue and silver will join the white and black PSPs already being sold there. Prices will remain unchanged. The pink hits on Nov. 22, silver on Dec. 14 and blue on Dec. 22. Now to see if anyone has the berries to export them. More » -
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Like the Model T Ford, The PS3 Comes Only In Black
A last year's E3, Sony rolled out the PLAYSTATION 3 in three colors: Black, white and silver. Two of those console colors have since vanished, and we've been flowed with pics of the black PS3. But, what about the others? I want silver! More » -
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Pearly Pink Pics
I still have no interest. But at least now I can say I looked at it before forming a final opinion. More »
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