Why are we more concerned with colors than performance and scaling?

[Vengeanze]

the colours in that second pic is waaayy off. Doesn't look real at all.

[Redroach]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

As a previous poster already said:
Wtf? Those landscape colors surely put me off! Come on, I mean.. brown trees? Call me nuts, but aren't trees supposed to be green (dark green, not "lime green", of course!)? Also, what's with the houses? Bright white, I'll get a sunburn in front of my screen! Same goes for the snow.... I mean, come on, snow isn't THAT white!
Certainly NOT playable for me, however awesome the game behind it may be!!!!111oneone

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Redroach

As a previous poster already said:
Wtf? Those landscape colors surely put me off! Come on, I mean.. brown trees? Call me nuts, but aren't trees supposed to be green (dark green, not "lime green", of course!)? Also, what's with the houses? Bright white, I'll get a sunburn in front of my screen! Same goes for the snow.... I mean, come on, snow isn't THAT white!
Certainly NOT playable for me, however awesome the game behind it may be!!!!111oneone

Lol

Well the Pyrenees image is about scalability not so much the Autumn colours.

[addman]

Originally Posted by Redroach

I'm concerned about the people concerned with colors (and the priority of sounds, for that matter, as well). I still try to figure out why... is it really THAT funny to roar over the deck with your freshly-painted Me109, swooping over ground which is 107% more realistically-colored now, all the while not being able to do sheikh with your wingmen or get vectored to bogeys/home base on request.
I mean, how long does the fun derived from new colors last? I'll never get that.
But, as you'll all want to hear my psychological insight: Maybe some individuals here are envious of the techies that are personally acquainted with every rivet on their plane types, yet they can't keep pace - so they get pseudo-obsessive about the things they know: video game colors and modes...

No, really, I think people are somehow "grey-biased" due to WWII footage. In the Beta patch thread, there's a screenshot showing a red handle in the Me109 pit, shown "before" and "after". People clearly preferred the screen with a gray-red handle instead of the bright-red one. How or why Me109's builders would have mixed some red-grey paint together instead of using the bright red color for a handle that should be easy to find at all times, is waaaaay beyond me.

That sums it up pretty well for me. I like authenticity but if fundamental parts like A.I, comms and sounds aren't working who gives a rats *ss about which shade of which colour something is?! It's like the old FIFA vs PES debate, I prefer PES because I like the gameplay much better than FIFA even if Rooneys ears are perfectly modeled in FIFA. This is a personal preference, still I don't get the really fetish like reactions of some people about some kind of totally irrelevant details.

[raaaid]

i bet 100 internetsthat eventually will end up with pink skies like all media

really makes you wonder

[addman]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Colors were different back then, the world itself was black and white before the 1920s, and as color got introduced to the world in the 30s, they were pale things, which started to sharpen from the 40s and 50s to the colors we have today.

Old film is actually color film, but recording a world of two colors (black and white) before the 30s!

HA!! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!! To think people were laughing at me as a kid when after watching a b/w movie asking if the world was in b/w before.

[Ailantd]

Because I don´t want ugly pitch black gauges at midday.